Evening star., 1932-07-22
SOCIETY
Nice President Curtis With Others Promii-
nent in Society to Attend Motion
Picture Premiere.

will sing several solos, accompanied by
Mr.. Harry Woodward at the piano.
The naval aide to the President and
Mrs Walter Newhall Vernon will enter
tain at the dinner dance tonight at the
Shoreham for Miss Elvira johnson and
her fiance, Mr.. Charles Burke Elbrick.
Capt and Mrs Henry Martin Jensen
entertained at dinner last evening at
the Army, Navy Country Club. when
their guests were Comdr and Mrs Leon
w. McGrath and Capt and Mrs.
George S. Bryan of the Naval Academy
at Annapolis; Capt. and Mrs Edward
Washburn and Capt. and Mrs. Roland
Brainard.
Lieut.. and Mrs. William H. Barks-
dale, jr., have come from Schof1eld
Barracks, Hawaii, and are guests of
the formers parents, Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Barksdale, in Washington,
en- route to Lieut.. Barksdale's new post
at Fort Ethan Allan, VT.
Judge and Mrs Ernest H. Van FOSSan
closed their apartment. in Wardman
Park Hotel, for the Summer and left
Yesterday for their farm in Ohio, where
they will spend the next few months.
They will return to Washington in the
early Fall.
Mr. James Clement Dunn, chief of
the Division of International Confer
ence of the State Department, arrived
today in New York on the Paris, from
Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. West to Celebrate
CoII
Former District Commissioner and
Mrs Henry Litchfield West will cele-
brate the 50th anniversary OF their we'd
ding Monday evening when they will
dine informally with their son and
daughters at the Columbia Country Club.
Mrs. Morgan StinemetZ, formerly Miss
Marion West. motored to Washington
from New York with her sister, Mrs.
Orville B. Drown, formerly Miss Minnie
West, and will be joined today by Mr..
Stinemetz and their son, Henry L. w.
Stinemetz Mr.. and Mrs Stinemetz and
their son will remain with Mrs. Drown
for week or 10 days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon E. West, son
and daughter -in-law Of the former
Commissioner and Mrs West who also
live in Washington, will be in the COM
pany at dinner Monday.
Mr.. John Barrett. former United
States Ambassador to Argentina and
former director general of the Pan
Summer in his country home, at Graf
ton, VT, has gone to Ottawa for the
Imperial Economic Conference.
Former Senator George Wharton
Pepper has returned to his home in
Philadelphia after spending a few days
at the Hotel Gramercy Park in New
York.
Miss Elizabeth Bostick Elmore will
arrive today from her home in Alabama
to visit her SiSter-in-law Mrs. Elmore.
wife of Capt. Willett Elmore. who is
on duty in Nicaragua.
Mrs Elmore will entertain at lunch
con followed by bridge Wednesday aft
ernoon at the ArmvNavy Country
Cluo for her guest, who will remain
several weeks.
Miss Louise Spencer has as her guest
in the Summer home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry B. Spencer, at Mar
ragansett, r. l., Miss Katharine Wilkins.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Will
kinS.
Miss Janet Richards, accompanied
by Miss Cornelia Grams, sailed for Eu-
rope today on the MinneWaska. They
will stop first in England to attend the
Shakespearean plays given during Au-
gust in the new Shakespearean Thea
ter. at Statford-on-A Avon. and in Sep
tember Miss Richards expects to attend
the annual sessions of the League of
Nations at Geneva. followed by visit
to Rome, and returning the last of Oc-
tober Last night Miss Richards was
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Cowles Pomeroy at their country place,
near Hopewell, N. j.. stopping over to
meet at dinner the historian Mr.. Her.
bert Adams Gibbons and Mrs. Glib
bons and Senor Gonzales Of Nicaragua.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis j. Pettijohn en-
tertained at the dinner dance on the
terrace last evening, when
their guests were Mr.. and Mrs. j. H.
Leasure of Wichita, Kans.; Mr.. and