Evening star., 1933-08-20
Ball Is Leading Event
Of'Old White Week at
White Sulphur Springs
Mr.. and Mrs. James Roose-
welt and Assistant Treas
ury Secretary to Attend.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. Va,
August 19-AssiStant Secretary Of the
Treasury, Mr. Lawrence Wood Robert.
jr, and Mr. James Roosevelt. son of
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, are
expected to attend the "Old White"
ball Friday at the Greenbrier, which
will be the outstanding event Of "Old
White" week The glories of the "Old
White are revived each year in this
annual Old White week, when each
day something of the famous affairs of
years ago are reproduced. Festivities
will open Monday with the Old White
gold tournament and will close Sunday
with the Travellers Round-Robin Ten
MS tournament for Juniors. White
Sulphur Springs was established as a
mountain resort in 1778 and the Sum-
mer White House was there during the
administrations Of five of the early
Presidents of the country. The Presi-
dents cottage. built in 1885. will be the
scene Monday. August %. of bridge
tea, which will open the annual Robert
E. Lee week. The cottage, decorated
with historical muralS, and housing a
museum collection of relics. was opened
and dedicated last year. Hostesses for
Monday afternoon will include Mrs.
Byrne, Mrs. Vaught, Miss Name and
Miss Jean Hinsdale.
Gov. H G. Kunp of West Virginia
and Mrs. Kump will be among Cover
nors of Southern States and their wives
who will obeerve Robert E. Lee week at
the White August 28 to September 2.
Mrs. W. Z. r. Byrne Of Charleston,
w. Va, president general OF the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, and
Miss Anne V, Manne, president of the
Virginia division of the U. D. c., of
Petersburg, Va, will be among the
guests of honor Others invited are
Mr. Percy H. Johnson, president of the
New York Southern Society; Mrs.
johnson and their daughter; Mr.
Arthur M. McCrillis. president general
OF the National Society, Sons of the
American Revolution. of Providence,
R. l.; DR.. George Boiling Lee of New
York. grandson of Robert E. Lee; Mai.
Gen. John Vernon Bouvier. general
president of the Sons of the American
Revolution. of New York; Mr.. Stuart
G; Gibboney. president of the Month
cello Foundation. and Mrs Gibboney;
Mrs. Charles D. Lanier. president of the
Robert E. Lee Foundation; Senator
Carter Glass. and Mrs. William Vought,
'tSS SClICI dl. VdllOIldl Do
clety OF the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
An outstanding feature of this me-
mortal week established last year to
perpetuate the memory of one of the
greatest Americans of his day. and
some of the history and traditions of
the South, will be the observation on
August 80 as Stratford day. in memory
OF the birthplace of "Marse Robert"
Stratford Hall, at Stratford-o the
Potomac. Built by the first native-bor
Governor of Virginia. this was the
original home of the Lee family. An
unusual example of early Colonial ar
chitecture. and one of Americas s signifi-
cant historical monuments. it is to be
restored. furnished and dedicated as
rational shrine. somewhat after the
ma nner of Mount Vernon
A program of song pictures of the
South has been arranged for the eve
n;ng. when Lillian Britt Heinsohn and
Nell Britt Tabor. sopranos, in costumes,
viii give program OF ballads and
Plantation melodies Of 1860 Mr.. John
Powell has been asked to give several
I ano numbers as part of the program.
end DR.. Francis Pendleton Gaines,
president Of Washington and Lee Uni
|e-sity. Of which Gen. Lee was presi-
cent from 1865 to 1870, is expected to
gre an address.
A gay COS party is planned for the
e.ening of August 20. This will be
a dinner dance in the garden terrace
of the Greenbrier under the direction
Of Mrs. George w. Crawford. Carlos
Restiro will serenade with songs and
accordion during dinner. Patrons and
patronesses are Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Waters Taft, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph S.
House. Mrs. Thomas T. Gaunt. Mrs.
Robert N. Warmack, Mr.. and Mrs. Her.
bert Ballantine, Mr.. and Mrs. John B.
Kitchen. Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
Crawford of New York and Pittsburgh,
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Payne of Harris
burg. Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Bruce of
Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stuart
McVeigh of Cincinnati Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Holden of Alexandria. Mr.. and
Mrs. A. B. Dewey of Chicago and Mr..
and Mrs. John W. Grant and Thomas
B. Paine of Atlanta.