Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
%HE PRESIDENT and Mrs. Hoover
assembled an unusually inter-
esting company at the White
House last evening when they

T@HE PRESIDENT ana MIS- hoover
assembled an unusually inter-
esting company at the White
House last evening when they
gave the annual dinner of State
in honor of the Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court and Mrs. Charles Evans
Hughes. The musical which followed
was also OF more than usual charm and
interest and the open fires and many
flowers used throughout the state
suite took away much OF the onnclaI
severity of the mansion. Red carna-
tions, marguerite daisies ana maloen-
hair fern were used as table decora-
ton
The guests to meet the Chief Justice
and Mrs. Hughes were Associate Justice
VanDevanter, Associate Justice Mickey
nolds, Associate Justice and Mrs. Butler,
Associate Justice and Mrs. Stone, ana
Associate Justice and Mrs. Roberts,
whose first Supreme Court dinner II
was: the Attorney General and MRS.
william, Dewitt Mitchell, Senator and
Mrs. Henry F. Ashurst, Senator and
Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, Representa-
tive Hatton w Summers OF Texas;
REPRESENTATIVE Florence P. Kahn OF
California. Representative Edith Nourse
Rogers of MaSSa chusetts, Solicitor Cen
eral and Mrs. Thomas D. Thatcher, AS
sistant to the Attorney General and
Mrs. John Lord O'Brien, Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury and Mrs waiter
E. Hope, Former Attorney General and
Mrs. George w. Wickersham, the Chlef
Justice of the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts and Mrs Arthur B. Rugg,
Judge and Mrs. Frederick E. Crane,
Judge Frank H. Hiscock OF Syracuse,
N. Y, and Mrs. Hiscock; former Solic-
itor General and Mrs. Charles Evans
Hughes, IT.; Mr.. Roland W. Boyer, UNI
f,rac HNYr1V1nicci former
Assistant Attorney General and Mrs.
William ]. Donovan, former Assistant
ATTORNEY General Mabel Walker Willie
brandt. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Clark,
Mr.. and Mrs Nathan L. Miller, Mr.. and
Mrs Elihu Root, jr.; Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert A. Taft, Mr.. John Richardson,
and Capt Russell Train and Col.
Campbell B. Hodges, naval and mill
tary aides respectively, to the President.
Additional guests were asked for the
musicale which followed the dinner,
when the program was given by Miss
Mildred billing, harpiSt, and Mr. Alex
ander Kisselburgh, baritone, Mr.. Arthur
Bergh playing the accompaniment for
Mr.. Kisselburgh. Miss billing opened
the program with Pierne's "Impromptu
Caprice" Bach's "Bourree" and labels
"Am Springbrunnen." Mr.. Kissel-
burgh sang the aria "Ombra Mai Fu,'
arrangement of the old Surry, England,
song, Some Rival; 20 du Mein
Holder Abenstern" from Wagners
"Tannhauser," and when Dull Care, )"
an old English ballad arranged by
Leveridge. Miss billings second num-
Der included Chopin's Prelude in C
Minor" and "Valse. Opus "a, No. u; lie
Bon Petit Roi d'Yvetot," an old French
folk song, and H. Renie's 'Legende,"
written after the poem Les Elfes," by
Leconte de Isle. Mr. KiSselburgh
closed the program with a group of
songs in English, including Wilfrid
Sanderson's IAN Even Song" THE
Fate Ct the Film Flam," by Arthur
Bergh, the accompanist: Blanche Ebert
SeaVer's Just for Today" md Eric
Coates Stone Cracker John"
Mrs. Hoover, accompanied by her two
grandchildren, Peggy Anne and Her
bert, Sd, and Mrs. Stark McMullin will
attend the drill at Fort Myer this after
noon.
Mrs. Hoover will be the guest Of
honor of the Congressional Club at its
annual breakfast Thursday, February IL,
in the willard. for which invitations
have been issued.
Vice President to be Feted
At South African Legation.
The Vice President, Mr.. Charles Cur
It's, will be the guest of honor at dinner
this evening Of the Minister OF South
Africa and Mrs. Louw.