Evening star., 1932-02-23

are house guests of Senator and Mrs
| Bratton.
Mrs. Owen Entertains.
Representative Ruth Bryan Owen hac
with her in her box Mr.. and Mrs
Maxim Karolik.
Gov. Pollard of Virginia, with his SON.
in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs
of Mrs. Robert Hollister Chapman.
Mrs. S. Walter Washington, Miss
Jane Washington Willis and Mr. and
Miss Annie B. Jennings was in the
box of the regents of Mount Vernon
Ladies Association
Mrs. Adolph Ladenburg sat with
members Of the Order Of the cincin-
natl.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Gouveneur Mossi
of New York and the Duchesse de
Richelieu were in box.
Colonial Danes Of America Box.
Mrs. DeCoursey Fales, president oi
the Colonial Danes of America, sat In
the box of that association with MRS
]. Wilmer Biddle, president of the Phila-
delphia chapter, and Mrs. James Fran
els Sullivan of Philadelphia; Mrs. Henry
Benkhead, Mrs. r. TAFT Mackenzie, and
Miss Van Rensselaer, of New York; Mr.
and Mrs. Bruce Cotton, Mr. and Mrs
TunStall Smith, Miss Gardiner Prin-
cess Raspoi di Poggio Suasa, Mrs
Frank Anderson and Mrs. Guy Castle.
Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd, mother Of
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U. S. N.
occupied a box and a group Of Other
Virginians were her guests.
The Misses Howry were hostesSes al
dinner before the ball, the company 60
ing later to the box of Mrs. Ralph
Worthington.
DR.. and Mrs. Augustus Thorndike,
Mrs. John Lowell and Miss Susan
Amory of Boston occupied a box.
Whar.cn Peppers There.
Former Senator and Mrs. George
Wharton Pepper of Philadelphia were
and MTs sehoeId also of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Dallas Sixon OF
Philadelphia were in the box with Miss
Lambert0n.
Mrs. Edward c. Walker and Gen. and
Mrs. Andre Brewster occupied box.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Graves MatheI
attended, the latter going as her an
cestresS, the Right Hon. Maria Temple
daughter of Sir Richard Temple, baro-
net, who was commissioner of Bucking-
hamshire, and wife of Rev. DR.. Richard
West, preacher to the House of Com
mons Mrs. Mather'S costume was OF
yellow brocade with old family lace and
her hair was dressed in the style OF
Queen Anne. Mr.. Mather wore the cos
tune OF his ancestor, Rev. Richard
Mather Of Boston, whose portrait in his
pastoral role was the subject of the
first wood cut made in this country
Aside from being one of the most in
fiuential OF the coloniStS of his day, he
was the author of the first book pub
lished in the United States-the Bay
Psalm Book.
Guests in their box included Mrs
John Bigelow and Mrs. Joseph Colt
Bloodgood, representing their Colonial
ancestors; Miss Winifred Holt Blood
good as her ancestress, the Right Hon
Henrietta Gotham, daughter of Lord
Gotham of the period of 1870; Mrs.
George F. Becker as her ancestress
Anne Arundel. wife of Lord Calvert
founder of Baltimore; Miss Eleanor
Houston of Philadelphia wearing a
copy of the costume worn by her an
cestress, Charlotte Chambers of Cham
bersburg, Pa, when she visited Mrs.
Washington in Philadelphia in 1892,
and Viscountess de la Morlaix as her
ancestress of the same name, who was
guillotined in the French Revolution.
Others in Box.
Others in their box were Mr.. L. G..
van Hoorn, counselor of legation of the
Netherlands, as his ancestor, the Bur-
gomeister of Amsterdam; Mr.. Andrew
Sapieha of the Polish embassy, Judge
John Barton Payne, Mr.. Joseph Holt
Bloodgood as his ancestor, Lord Cob
ham; Comdr Robert z. Emmet, Mr..
Henry Page, Mr.. Walter Lewis and Mr..
Poultney, all of Baltimore; Mr.. Hugh
Barbour Hutchinson as his ancestor,
Gen. Steele of Washington's staff, and
Mr.. Gordon Sheen as his ancestor,