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The Washington times., 1932-10-12
/ATONs ISSUED BY MRS. DUNLOP FOR ACKEY BALL OCTOBER
Social Notes

Mrs. David Roberts. of Bir-
mingham, Ala, is passing a few
days at the Dodge accompanied
by Mrs. Ernest r. Gaylor, Of
Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. r. Dempsey,
of Los Angeles. Calf, are in
Washington for a short time
and while here are at the Ward
man Park Hotel.
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The Army and Navy chap
ters Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution are COM
pleting plans for a card party
to be given in the gold room
Of the Wardman Park Hotel
Tuesday, october 18. Mrs.
George M. Grimes is in charge
Of the arrangements committee.
The National Association of
Women Lawyers held a dinner
last evening at the Carlton
Hotel. The company numbered
one hundred, and Mrs. Lucien
Greathouse was in charge of
the arrangements.
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Judge and Mrs. Orville Smith,
OF Cleveland, have returned to
Washington and are established
in their apartment at Wardman
Park Hotel. Mrs. George B.
Harris, of Cleveland, is their
guest.
Mrs. John Lowell, of Boston,
is at the Carlton for a short
stay while attending a meeting
Of the executive committee of
the National Society of the Co
lonial Danes of America.
Others at the Carlton for this
meeting include Mrs. Holmes
Forsyth, of Chicago; Mrs. Chris
topher Ward, of Greenville, Del;
Mrs. Frederick A. Packard, of
Philadelphia, and Mrs. William
S. Manning, of Jacksonville,
Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Tuska.
of New York city, are at the
Carlton for a few days. Mr..
Tuska is here to attend the
meeting of the American Bar
Association.
Mrs. James Craven, of Phila-
delphia, is at the Hotel Har-
rington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward w.
Vail have come from their
home in Upper Montclair, N. j.,
for a few days, and they are
at Wardman Park Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. R. Bourne
and Miss Esther Bourne, of
this city, are at the Chalfonte-
Haddon Hall, in Atlantic City,
for a brief visit.
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Mr.. Kingman Brewster enter
tained at a game dinner given
at the Woodmont Rod and
Gun Club, Woodmont, Nd,
last evening, for a party of 20
attorneys attending the meet
ings of the American Bar
Association.
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capital 'iI;''1 Man>to
Wed Friday

The marriage of Senorita Co.
rita Marquez-BustilloS, daugh-
ter of DR.. Victorino Marquee
Bustillos, of Caracas. Venezuela,
former president of the Re
public of Venezuela, and the
late Sonora Marquez-Bustillos,
to DR.. Aage H. Hansen, of this
city and New York, will take
place Friday afternoon at
Clover Drive, the home of Mr..
and Mrs. George Devendorf in
Great Neck, L. I.
The bridal attendants will in
clude Mrs. George DeVendorf,
Mrs. Silas McBee and Mrs.
Frederick Augustus Cuneo. ME-
George Devendorf, an old friend
of the family of the bride-to-be,
will be best man for DR.. Han
sen. There will be many dis
tinguished guests at the recep-
ton, which will follow the cere-
mony.
On their return from a we'd
ding trip, DR.. Hansen and his
prospective bride will live at 145
East Fifty-second Street, New
York city.
Senorita Marquez-Bustillos is
descendant of Juan Pimentel,
royal governor of Venezuela in
1877, and Juan Pacheco Maldo-
nado. who held the same office
10 years later. both of whom
were among the Spanish Con-
quistadors of the New World.
DR.. Hansen is a descendant
of the Bollvig- Hansen family of
Copenhagen and Praest Die,
Denmark. He served during
the World War on the head
quarters staff of the Seventy
seventh and Ninety-seventh Di-
visions. Later he was an aide
to Major General GoethalS, in
whose service be was promoted
to the rank of captain.
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Luncheon Friday

The members of the faculty
and alumni of Georgetown Uni
versity Law School will enter
tain at luncheon on Friday,
October IA, at the Cosmos
Club, in honor of a group Of
delegates to the American Bar
Association meeting who at
tended the university.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Pound,
of Watertown, Mass, are at the
Mayflower while the former is
here attending the sessions Of
the American Bar Association.
Mr.. Pound is dean of the Har-
ward Law School and was a
member of the National Com
mission on Law Observance and
Enforcement.
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At White House

The President received the
French ambassador, Mr.. Paul
Claudel, at the White House to-
day, when the latter presented
Mr.. Paul Reynaud, member OF
the French chamber of deputies,
who is here to attend the meet
ing of the American Bar Asso-
citation.
The Marquis of Reading paid
a call on the President today at
the White House, and he was
accompanied by the minister
plenipot entiary and charge
d'affaires of Great Britain, Mr..
F. D. G. Osborne. The marquis
is here attending the meeting OF
the American Bar Association,
and will be present at the cor
nerstone laying of the Supreme
Court Building tomorrow. He is
a former chief justice OF Great
Britain.
Mrs. Hoover paid an informal
call on the members of the Sew
ing Society at the Friends meet.
ing house this morning, and
later she received the members
of the international legal so
rority, Kappa Beta Pi, at the
White House. The group IN
cluded Judge Mary B. Gross
man, of Cleveland, and Judge
Genevieve R. Cline, of Warren
Ohio.
On Saturday, the members OF
the sorority will entertain at
luncheon at the ColllngWood
tea house in honor of these two
distinguished women J url s. S,
when Mrs. Helena D. Reed will
preside.
The retiring ambassador OF
Italy, Mobile Giacomo de Mar
tino was the guest in whose
honor Representative and Mrs.
Sol Bloom, of New York, and
their daughter, Miss Vera Bloom
entertained at dinner last eve
ming at their residence IN
Wyoming Avenue.
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The Minister of Egypt, Sesos-
iris Sidarouss Pasha, enter
tanned the members of the
Legation staff at luncheon yes
terday, in further celebration
of the anniversary of the acces-
sion of King Fuad to the
throne of Egypt.
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Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Davis
have arrived at the Capital and
are at the Carlton for a few
days. Mr.. Davis will make an
address tomorrow at the corner
stone laying of the Supreme
Court Building.
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PrenuptiaI Event

Miss Helen Mark, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Mark,
entertained at a Jack and
Jill' shower last evening, in
honor of Miss Elizabeth Edison
and the Rev. H. Fairfield Butt
Sd, whose marriage will take
place Saturday.
The other guests included
the members of the wedding
party, and Miss Kate Ridgeway,
of Pasadena, Calf, who is visit
ing her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. William A. Roden-
berg; Mr.. Robert Rodenberg,
Mr.. Henry Seay, and Lieut..
Raymond Weller.
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Party
Today at Club
international News Photo

Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone,
wife of the Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court, and the
ladies of the Washington
hostesses committee gave a
luncheon at the Chevy Chase
Club today in honor of the
women accompanying the dele
gates to the American Be- AS
sociation meeting. The guests
numbered several hundred.
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read as follows:
"Dat air Tackey Ball will be
tackier than ebber this year, and will
be gibben on Saturday, Oct the
twenty-Second, in the garden CT the
Mayflour at elebben of the clock.
"Sponsorad by dem gals on de
shelf in onner of the debbudandees
of the season"
Members of the younger set will be
busy from now until the night of the
ball, salvaging odd raiment from the
family attics in order to outdo each
other in "tackey" apparel. This IS
one of the most delightful debutante
events of the year, when informallty
reigns supreme and originality is dis
played not only in the costumes worn,
but in the party itself.
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Tea Hosts TODAY

The Charge d'Affaires of the
Polish Legation and Nine. So
koloWska will entertain at tea
this afternoon at their residence
in TWenty-fourth Street.
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Mr.. Paul Reynaud, of France,
will be the guest of honor at a
luncheon to be given tomorrow
at the Carlton by a group of
those associated with him last
year at the Coleman Exposition
in Paris.
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Reception Tonight

Mr.. Guy A. Thompson, of
st. Louis, national president of
the American Bar Association,
will entertain at a reception
this evening at the MayfloWer,
in honor of the delegates at
tending the meeting of the
American Bar Association.
Mr.. Thompson will be as
sisted in receiving by his
daughters, Mrs. Cabane Smith
and Mrs. William Borders, who
Joined him here yesterday,
coming from their homes in
st. Louis.
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Hosts Tomorrow

Mr.. and Mrs. David H.
Blair have issued Invitations
for a dinner to be given in
the Florentine room of Ward
man Park Hotel tomorrow
evening for about so members
who are attending the Amer
lean Bar Association meeting
in Washington this week.
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Mr.. and Mrs. James P.
Ferrall, of Larchmont, New
York, are spending few days
at the Dodge.
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Back From EuroDe

Miss Alice A. briggs has re-
turned to her apartment at the
Shoreham, after spending the
summer abroad, during which
she visited in England and on
the Continent.
While in London. Miss briggs
attended one of the royal gar
den parties at Buckingham
Palace, and she later went to
Italy, where she attended the
Biennial Exposition of Art, and
was a member of the party
which welcomed the Crown
Prince of italy and the Princess
of Piedmont, when they visited
the American pavilion there.
The royal visitors we're accom-
panied by Count Volpi di
Misurati, president of the ex-
position, and by Senator Gug-
lielmo Marconi and Signora
Marconi.
Miss briggs spent some time
in Paris just prior to returning
To this country.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Cooke will
entertain at a tea this afternoon
from 4 to 6 o'clock, at their res
idence in Wyoming Avenue, in
honor of the delegates to the
meeting of the American Bar
Association and the ladies &C.
companying them.
Assisting Mrs. Cooke at the
tea table will be Mrs. Harlan
FiSke Stone, Mrs. Owen j. Rob-
erts, Mrs. James Grafton Rogers,
Mrs. John Lord O'Brian, Mrs.
George E. Hamilton, Mrs. Frank
Hogan, Mrs. J. Harry Covington,
and Mrs. Spaulding Flannery.
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Wedding Today

Miss Myrtle Elizabeth Brown,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. D.
Waldo Brown, of Falls Church,
Va, will become the bride of
Mr.. George L. Marshall, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert M. Marsh
all, of this city, at the Friends
Meeting House here today.
Miss Brown is a graduate of
George School in Pennsylvania,
and is a member of the Lambda
Sigma Kappa Sorority, Delta
Chapter.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A.
Bowman are at the Carlton
while in Washington attend
ing the meeting of the Amer
lean Bar Association. Mr..
Bowman is District Attorney
of the city of Milwaukee.
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This Years Party Predicted To Be
'Tackier' Than Ever. Attics
Ransacked for Costumes
By DOLLY CAMERON

The coorfu "Tackey" Ball. feature of each season in
Washington will again be given this under the direc
which were sent out yesterday are decidedly original
They printed strips of brown wrapping paper and
The Washington times., 1932-10-12
Going to New York

Mr.. George Aubrey Hastings,
Extension Director of the White
House Conference on Child
Health and Protection, accom-
panied by Mrs. Hastings, will
leave tomorrow to attend a
meeting of the New York City
Federation of Women's Clubs
devoted to the White House
Conference program for chill
dren. From New York he goes
to Boston to address the BoS-
ton Home and School Associ-
alton and the Massachusetts,
Organization for Public Health
Nursing.
Mrs. Sarah R. Peffer, of
Carlisle, Pa, is staying at the
Harrington for a few days,
while in the city.
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To Entertain Tonight
Mr.. and Mrs. William P.
MacCracken, jr., will entertain
at the first of a series of three
dinners which they will give
in honor of the delegates to
the meeting of the American
Bar Association this evening at
Wardman Park.
eel, Mr.. and Mrs. Zach Spear
ing, Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond T.
Garrity. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
M. Willis, Miss Minnie B. Holm,
Mr.. Andrew M. Hood, Mr.. Harry
M. Bralove, Mr.. and Mrs. B. H.
Gruver and Mr.. Henry S. Rade-
macher.
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The simmer last wear was typical of the unusual char
acer of this ball The guests were seated at small tdole'
lighted bv candles burning in cobwebbed Dotues' Nar
coornd raos and ribbons hung from the chandeliers and
newspaper were tied about the lights overhead.
Wooden boxes used in lieu OF chars and the supper
was largely made up of "hotdog served from large IRON
nots Keos of noao salad from which the guests helped
Themselves strong coffee in stout mugs and dougus. g
These latter proved be only appetlzng but conVee
as we'll as thew could carried about one finger until
eaten. - ~ l.,
Prizes will be awarded for the tackies costumes worn by
both men and girls we'll for the best dancers present
Holidays To Be Cay With Debutante Parties
The THANKSGIVING Christmas holidays Will be gay Win
debutante events and being announced daily 1r
looming out parties members of the group OF young
women social prominence who will be presented mere S
season. number of the buds taking part in the round
of entertaining going this week for members OF the Aer
can Bar Association, who meeting at the May1oWer
Three weddings of Importance will take place IN WASH
npon next Saturday: Miss Anne SOuhard arner daughter
of Mrs John Larne will be married to Mr. James Huston
Smpson Cox son the former Interstate Commerce CON-
Mrs Frederick Irving Cox IN the presence OF
company of relatives and friends
Miss Elizabeth Edson daughter of Mrs Bessie Edison and
granddaughter of John Joy Edson will become the bride
Of the Rev. H. Fairfield Butt 3d. of Portsmouth, va on the
day. The ceremony will take place IN the Church OF
the City and will be followed by reception at@te
Edison home Sixteenth Street. large wedding party Will
attend Edison Mr. Butt and many prenupta events
honor Of the young couple during this
week.
The third wedding of Saturday. will be that of Miss Mary
Elizabeth Ackr daughter Mrs Charles E. Acker and Mr.
Daniel Partridge 3d. which will take place Saturday evening"
at 2O1 Foxha Rd Miss Acker will have several attendants
she will be marriage by her brother Mr. Ernest
Acker, of Poughkeepse n. Y.
Evening star., 1932-01-24

historical characters using hair tonic and collar
buttons; he would have felt more at ease in
periWg and ruff1ed stock-or laurel wreath
and a toga.
He reminded himself that even the illustrious
figures of the past were not always statuesque
They had to dress and undress; no doubt they
mislaid things and pattered about the house Ell
deshabille, muttering end fussing over trifies.
This was consoling thought
But it was in his conversation that Mr.. Odd
leigh was most conscious of his shortcomings.
He realized that he 'idn't talk the way his
torical character should talk. Future genera
tions of school children might study the pres
ent cellophane age, just they studied the
stone age and the bronze age But it seemed
unlikely that they would be obliged to
memoriZe quotations from Oddleigh
The great men of the past were always able
to meet a crisis with well-turned phrase.
Probably they rehearsed the phrase beforehand
they were too polished to be extemporaneous
but they always sprang them at just the right
moment. In Mr. Oddleigh's uneventful life
there were few crises, and when they did occur
he was usually too excited to say anything at all
What need is bigger and better back
talk" observed Mr.. Oddleigh one morning at
breakfast Here we are, living IN the greatest
era of all times. More is happening today
Evening star., 1932-01-24

OMERODY must have given gentle Clio
shot in the The Muse OF HIS
tory has exchanged her flowing robes
for a Chanel frock, her Grecian coli
i fure has been permanently waved, and
the other muses. whispering that
she has had her face lifted
"Anyhow." said Thalia recently you can't
tell me that her complexion is her own Shes
been stealing my stuff! The last time saw
her she was covered with local color an Llcl
thick It's diSgraceful!'
Herodotus would never recognize the OLD girl
now Her disciples no longer spend their hVeS
peering at palimpsests and deciphering Nero
glyphics on tombstoneS; they hover over the
news tickers instead. The Model T historian,
the absent minded professor with his long white
beard thick-lensed bifocals and shiny alpaca
coat has been replaced by breezy individual
who is blend of popular novelist radio an
nouncer and police reporter.
In the nineteenth century writers OF history
never undertook to record an event before II
had receded into the mists of time and ac-
ouired a certain Corotlike vaguenesS. They
waited for at least decade or two, until the
period under consideration was pleasantly
blurred by distance. This was known as get
ting the proper perspective" Then, when the
outlines of the scene were softened into IN
distinctness and all the facts were fairly fuzzy,
they set to work.
There was nothing that an old-fashioned his
torian liked better than fuzzy fact. 1t offered
an opportunity for conjecture, invention and
unlimited theorizing. 1t gave him chance to
exercise his imagination and often led to
lengthy controversies in the correspondence COL
urnns of weekly journals of opinion-which was
good publicity, even If he happened to be
wrong.
But-d during the World War the attention of
historians diverted to the immediate pres
ent; they found it impossible to concentrate
upon the squabbles of the Guelphs and Ghibel-
lines the love life of the early Etruscans
when the face of the world was being altered
before their own myopic eyes, Writers who
formerly scorned anything less than an con
found themselves swamped by the developments
of a single decade. The scope of the historian
dwindled from centuries to semesters, and read
srs experienced the unaccustomed thrill of dis
covering their own activities recorded in pom
Evening star., 1932-01-24
The Muse of History Has Had Her Face
Liffed, and the old Fashioned Historian
Has Been Replaced by Co. Gehers N/h0
Rush Events Into Print almost Before
They're Through Happening.
BY WEARE HOLBROOK

derous volumes, if they were the doings OF
ancient Greeks or Romans.
AS the products of contemporary research
poured rom the presses the average man
realized that he himself was making history;
he was participating in events which were en-
balmed in hfeless prose almost before they had
tranSpired. He was able to obtain, in book
form, detailed resumes of the middle l92Os the
late 1920S and even the early 1930s. At this
very moment he may be cutting the pages of a
portly quarto entitled THE Fabulous Fort
night" containing a complete story of the first
two weeks of January, 1882, with notes, refer
ences and a croSs-indeX
And with all our historians concentrating
on the present and writing with one eye on
the clock instead of on the calendar. it is
not surprising that We have grown self-con-
scious. We have a feeling that our everyday
lives are frought with significance; for all
we know, the schoolbo-s Of the future may
have to add January "a, 1882, to their list of
dates to be remembered or written on the cuff.
THERE was a subtle change in MIR. Oddleigh's
behavior as soon as we finished reading
recent contemporary history entitled Day Be-
fore Yesterday" The book mentioned several
men whom Mr.. Oddleigh knew personally; it
also described the great slump of october, 1929,
in which he had been one of the principal
slumpees.
And few weeks later, when he read an
other current chronicle called Nineteen Thirty
and After" his manner became distinctly
lofty. He had been an eye witness to many
of the soul-shaking events portrayed in its
pages In fact, he as much a part Of world
history as TaIeyrand or Julius Caesar He
on the spot where things were happening.
But as he looked at his reflection in the
shaving mirror, he found it difficult to con-
vince himself that he really a historical
character. His wispy hair, anointed with bay
rum, seemed incongruous and the collar button
cleaning beneath his adams apple struck a
jarring note. Somehow he couldn't picture
The Washington times., 1932-11-23
GOV. ROOSEVELT I
MEETS CRONY

Two men who have faced and
conquered a common enemy met
last night at the National Press
Club dinner for President-elect
Roosevelt.
They were Roosevelt and Wells
Hawks, veteran press agent of the
Ringing Brothers Circus and. like
Roosevelt, a victim of infantile
paralysis.
The two are old friends. Hawks
was naval lieutenant in charge
of the Navy Press Bureau when
Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary.
Both suffered attacks of infantile
paralysis since those days in
Washington and both have made
almost miraculous recoverieS.
Hawks. who has regained the
use of his typewriting fingers, is
writing the story of his varied
career, which he expects off the
presses in February and which has
been tentatively called elephants,
BattleShipS and Stars" He is
president emeritus of the Theatri-
cal Press Repre- e ntativeS of
America, honorary head of the
Circus Fans Association and a
life member of the Friars Club Of
New York
The Washington times., 1932-11-23

School. East Washington Center
will give group of plays Friday
evening, followed by a dance, and
there will be a dance recital in
Central High auditorium Satur-
day, all in connection with the
holiday.
The District chapter and roll call
headquarters of the American Red
Cross will be closed all day tomor-
row.
So, too, will all the branches of
the public library as we'll as the
central library, but the Congress
sional Library will be open from
2 to 10 p. m. The central public
library will be closed Friday at l
p. m. and open all day Saturday,
but the branches will be open
Friday and close Saturday at l
p. m.
The annual Pan-American mass
at st. Patrick's Catholic Church
is scheduled for IL a. m. with
representatives of South and
central American countries IN
attendance.
Bishop Freeman, of Washington
Cathedral, will address employees
of the Government Printing Of
flee at $3.50 p. m.
Open house is to be held for
the needy of the city by the
Volunteers of America. Central
Union Mission will distribute 200
baskets of food at 2 p. m. today
to the needy and is prepared to
feed 500 men tomorrow.
Representative Sol Bloom, as
sociate director of the United
States Bicentennial Commission,
will speak at Joint services at
the Jewish Community Center.
The Washington times., 1932-11-23
OIL ART EXHIBIT
BEG|NSDEC,3

The thirteenth annual exhibi-
tion of contemporary American
oil paintings at the Corcoran Gal
lery of Art will begin with a
private view Saturday, December
3, at 9 p. m. The following day,
and until Sunday, January Is, it
will be open to the public.
The gallery will be closed De-
cember 25 and 26. Monday, jan
uary 2, it will be open only from
2 to 5 p. m. Several thousand
invitations have been extended
for the private view.
The exhibit contains 345 paint
ings by 281 artists. Prizes amount
ing to $1,000, from the Clark be-
quest, have been awarded as fol-
lows: $4,000 and gold medal to
George Luks for painting, g.,
Woman With Black Cat;;" $1,5OO
and silver medal to John R.
Grabach, Spring Planting" ST.
900 and bronze medal to David
Silvetta, Thornton Nye OF
Wytheville," and $500 and hon
orable mention to N. C. Wyeth,
I'm a Dream, I Meet General
WASHINGTON"
The Washington times., 1932-11-23
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