Evening star., 1933-02-15
SOCIETY
President and Mrs. Hoover Give Annual
Dinner to Supreme Court-Mrs.
Hoover Entertained Today.

TIME President and Mrs. Hoover
entertained at dinner last eve
ming at the White House In
i honor of the members Of the
United States Supreme Court
and their wives. The dinner was the
next to the last on the official program
the dinner to the Speaker OF the House
next Tuesday being the last OF the
series of state dinners this season. TWO
more receptions will be given before the
season at the Executive Mansion closes,
one, Saturday. February IS, and the
last, Saturday. February 25.
The White House was brilliantly iln-
minated last evening and quantities OF
Spring flowers were used throughout
the state rooms. AS the guests were
Band Orchestra played, and during the
service Of the dinner the soft echo of
the music from the marble foyer could
be heard in the state dining room. The
table was never more exquisitely laid,
the famous gold service being used.
California fruits filled the graceful COM
potes and the combination of Laddie
Carnations, Baby Primula and Adam
tum Fern was unusually artistic. Cof-
fee for the gentlemen was served in
the Presidents study, the ladies in the
company going to the Blue Room.
The honor guests were the Chief
Justice and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes,
Mr.. Justice James Clark McReynolds,
Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Pierce Butler, Mr.
Justice and Mrs Harlan Fiske Stone,
Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Owen ]. Roberts
and Mr.. Justice Benjamin N. Cardoza.
Invited to meet them were the Attorney
General and Mrs William De Witt
atet
Summers Of Washington, Representative
Leonidas c. Dyer and Mrs. Dyer,
Representative Florence p. kahn,
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers,
the solicitor general, Thomas Day
Thacher, and Mrs. Thacher: Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, Mr.. Monte Appel
Of the Department Of Justice and Mrs.
Appel, Mr. Charles D. Lawrence of the
Department of Justice and Mrs. Law
renee, Judge Logan Morris of the Board
Of Tax Appeals and Mrs. Morris, Judge
Annabel Matthews, Judge Wilson Nc
Carthy and Mrs. Mccarthy, the former
Secretary Of the Interior, Mr.. James A.
Garfield; the former Assistant Secretary
Of Commerce for Air and Mrs. William
P. MacCracken, jr.; former solicitor
general and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes,
jr.; former assistant to the Attorney
General, Col. William j. Donovan, and
Mrs. Donovan; Gen. Nathan w. Mac
Chesney and Mrs. acCheslley, MIR. and
Mrs. Arch w. Shaw of Chicago, the
former assistant to the Attorney Cen
eral, John Lord O'Brian of Buffalo. and
Mrs. OBrian; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert A..
Taft of Cincinnati. son and daughter
in-law of the late Chief Justice William
Howard Taft.
The chairman of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation and Mrs. Atlee
Pomerene Of cleveland, Mrs. Alvin T.
Hert of Louisville, vice chairman Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden Reid, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel M. Greer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dunlevy Milbank, Mr.. and Mrs. r. Louis
Slade, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Taylor, Mr..
and Mrs. John J. Watson and Mr. Alan
Fox, all of New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. William K. jackson of
Boston, former Senator George Whar-
ton Pepper of Philadelphia and Mrs.
Pepper, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Hanna of
Cleveland, Judge Mary O'Toole Of
Washington, former Assistant Attorney
General Mrs. Mabel Walker WILLIE
brandt, Mr.. Henry NJ Robinson of Cali
fornia, house guest of Mr.. Hoover: Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore G. Joslin and the
Presidents aides, Capt. Walter N. Yer
nou, u. S. NJ, and Col. Campbell B.
Hodges, q. S. A.; Mrs. Vernon, and
Lieut.. Frederick B. Butler, U. S. A.,
and Mrs. Butler the latter one of Mrs
Hoovers secretaries.
Mrs. Hoover was the honor guest of
the .Women's National Press Club at
luncheon today at the Willard. The
company at the luncheon was limited to
the members Of the club.