Evening star., 1932-03-06

The trustees of the Corcoran Art
Gallery were hosts last evening to
1000 especially invited guests who had
been hidden to enjoy the preview Of the
historical loan exhibition sponsored by
the United States George Washington
Bicentennial Commission. The collec-
ton is hung in the fourth gallery at
the rear of the third floor.
The brilliant assemblage Of guests
entered the gallery through an avenue
of palms and ferns, passing up the
grand stairway where tall cedars
marked the entrance to the circular
gallery. The United States Marine
Orchestra. stationed in the main cor
ridor behind a screen of palms, played
a program of music during the evening,
alternating with smaller orchestra
placed at the foot of the second flight
of stairs
Although guests came and went all
evening, hundreds were seen to linger
about the gallery discussing the un-
precedented collection Of historical por-
traits. Many of the owners who have
loaned their priceless art possessions for
this occasion were present last evening.
Invited to attend were the President
and Mrs. Hoover, the Vice President,
Mr. Curtis, and Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Everett Gam; the members of the
cabinet, the diplomatic corps, the men,
berS of Congress, members Of resi-
Dental society and many from Army
and Navy circles.
Among those in the company last
evening were Attorney General and
Mrs. Mitchell and Postmaster General
and Mrs. Brown, who went to the re-
ception after the cabinet officers at
tended the dinner which the White
House correspondents gave in honor
Of the President. Others at the recep-
ton were Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Pierce
Butler, the Bishop of Washington. Rt.
Rev. and Mrs. James z. Freeman; the
associate director of the United States
George Washington Bicentennial Com
mission, Representative Sol Bloom and
Mrs Bloom, Mr. and Mrs. George Abel,
Mrs. Charles E. Acker. Mrs. James Lee
Ackerson, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F.
Adams, Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Adams,
Mr. Anthony C.. Addison, Mr.. j. Dain-
gerfield Addison, Mrs. Thomas D. Addi-
son, Mrs. Theodore P. wilkinson, Capt.
and Mrs. Graham M. Adee, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clyde B. Aitchison, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Bruce Aitchison, jr., Mrs. Charles Stuart
Alden, DR.. and Mrs. Charles w. Allen,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Allen, Mrs. Henry
1. AlIcIl, MI. anu MID. oA1cAinodA &
Allen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grosvenor Hyde Backus,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jennings Bailey, Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Baird, jr., Mrs. Brooke M.
Baker, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles s. Baker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gibbs L. Baker, Mr.. and
Mrs Alvin B. Barber, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Arthur Barnard, Mrs. George
Barnett. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bartlett,
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Beale, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. E. Wagstaffe Bateson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Truxtun Beale, Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Dent Beall, Mrs. George F. Becker,
Mr. and Mrs. F. Lammot Belin. Capt.
and Mrs. John B. Bellinger, DR.. and
Mrs. Marcus M. Benjamin. Mrs M. de
Clare Berry. Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest P.
BicknelI, Mr.. and Mrs G. Beale Bloom
er. Mr.. and Mrs Richard w. Boiling,
Mrs. Margaret McC. Boyle. Mrs Joseph
H. Bradley, Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Brown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moncure Burke, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward B. Burling.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vinton Chaplin, Mr..
William D. Cheatham, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Jeffries Chewing Mr.. and Mrs.
Melville D. Church, Mr.. and Mrs. Brice
Clagett, Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Clark,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Freeman Clark,
Miss Helen Clark, Capt. and Mrs.
Abram Claude, Mrs. sydney A. Cloman,
MT. anu R1IS. ID, SONAu cAAJ &sAoJ'
Gen. and Mrs Frank w. Coe, Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Edgar T. Collins, Mr.. Eben
F.. Comins, Miss Anna G. Connolly,
Miss Eleanor M Connolly, Mai. Gen.
and Mrs. William D. Connor, Mr.. and
Mrs. Anthony WAYNE Cook, Mrs. Henry
Clark Corbin. Col and Mrs. Spencer
Cosby, DR. A Barklie Coulter, Mrs. Greed
F. Cox Mrs. De Frees Critten. Mr.. and
Mrs. Oscar T. Crosby, Mr.. and Mrs.
Whitman Cross, Miss Mary Alsop Cry
der, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Curtis,
Mr. and Mrs. Victor N. Cushman.
DR.. and Mrs. Virginius Dabney, Mr..
and Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty, Miss
Maude L. Davidge, Mr. and Mrs. Ban
croft Davis. D.. and Mrs. Daniel Davis,
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Joel Davis, Mr..
and Mrs. Frederic A. Delano, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter D. Denegre, Mr.. and Mrs.
William F. Dennis, Brig. Gen. and Mrs
Daniel B. Devore, Mr.. and Mrs. Eldred
c. Dickinson, Mrs. John Allen Dough-
erty. Mrs. Donald Downs, Mr.. and Mrs
Charles D. Dreyton, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
RoZier Dulany. jr.; Capt. and Mrs.
Arthur W. Dunbar, the Rev. and Mrs.
Edward Slater Dunlap. Mr.. and Mrs. P.
H Hill Dunn, Mr.. and Mrs. r. Gordon
Dunthorne.
Capt. and Mrs. John r. Edie. Mrs.
Elizabeth Edison, Mrs. Kenna Elkfns,
Mrs. Milton c. Elliott. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wade H Ellis, Mr.. William Phelps Emo,
Miss Helen Amory Ernst, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Parsons Erwin, Mr. and Mrs.