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tertain at the supper dance at the
Congressional Country Club, in COM
plinnent to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Matteson Of Columbia, S. c., and Mrs.
r. L. Dodson of Ridgeway, s. c., who
are guests Of Representative and Mrs.
Allard H. Gasque.
Mrs. James E. Jones was hostess
at a bridge tea yesterday afternoon,
entertaining in her home on Thirty
fourth street, in compliment to Mrs.
F. A. Porter Of Norfolk, Va, who Is
visiting her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and MIS-. Lawrence Proctor. Mrs.
Porter will return to her home
Wednesday.
Solicitor and Mrs. Thacher
Law Institute Tea May 4.
The present Solicitor General and
Mrs. Thomas Day Thacher have issued
cards for a tea from 5 to Z o'clock the
afternoon Of Thursday, May 4. at 1647
Thirtieth street, Georgetown, in honor
Of the members and guests OF the
American Law Institute, meeting here
next week.
! The newly nominated solicitor gen.
eral, Mr.. James Crawford Biggs Of
| Raleigh, N c., is now in Washington,
but has not yet qualified as solicitor
general or assumed that Office Judge
Biggs is stopping at the MayhoWer and
will be joined there soon by Mrs. Biggs.
Former Attorney General and Mrs. A.
Mitchell Palmer entertained 80 guests
at dinner last evening at the Sulgrave
| Club The entire dinner party after
ward went to the Mask and Wig show at
the Belasco Theater as the guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. L. Stauffer Oliver Of Phila-
delphia Pa Mr. Oliver was for long
time president Of the Mask and Wig Club.
The guests included: Mr.. Justice and
Mrs. Owen j. Roberts, Attorney Gen
eral and Mrs Homer s. Cummings, the
Secretary of War and Mrs. George H.
Dern, D. Lawrence Groner. judge Court
of Appeals; Senator and Mrs. Alben w.
Barkley, Representative and Mrs. Fred
A. Britten, Former Senator and Mrs.
G. M. hitchcock, Assistant Secretary Of
| War and Miss Woodring, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter D. Denegre. Mr.. and Mrs. NAL
colin s. McConihe, Mrs. Edwards Shouse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Helvering, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Stauffer Oliver, DR.. and Mrs.
Henry Arnstein, Acting Commissioner
Internal Revenue and Mrs. Pressly
Balridge and former Representative and
Mrs. Swager Sherley.
Mr.. and Mrs. william E. Leonard Of
Newton, Mass, have announced the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss Veda
Mae Leonard. to DR.. Victor Rochette of
Concord, N. H.
Miss Leonard is the popular house
director of the Episcopal Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospital of this city, and has
many friends here as well as In her
home town.
DR.. Rochette is q member Of the med
ical staff of the State Hospital of Con-
cord, N. H.
The wedding will take place in the
early Fall.
| Mr.. William J. McEvoy, local executive
of the Pan-American Airways, few to
Camden, N. j., yesterday to board the
S. S. Washington. He will be guest on
the three days trial trip Of the new
ship from Camden to New York City.
and will return to Washington by plane
late Sunday afternoon.
Many distinguished persons have sig
nified their intention Of attending the
recital by Reno Bolognini, Argentine
violinist, at the Carlton Hotel tomor-
row at o'clock Mr.. Bolognini Is being
presented by the International Art
Forum under the patronage of the
Argentine Ambassador.
| Mr.. Bolognini is we'll known in New
York, where he Is assistant concert
master of the New York Philharmonic
Symphony, and in Chicago. where he
was concert master Of the Chicago
Symphony. This will be his first ap-
pearance in Washington as soloist,
and he is playing an unusual program.
which will include two Argentine COM
positions to be rendered for the first
time In the United States.
The young lady ushers are: Miss
Mary de Ia Mesta Allen, Mrs. Lyman
B. Nebeker, Miss Margaret Louise
Louise Wheless, Miss 10 Carter and
Miss Mimi Vicarino.
The headmistress Of the Madeira
School, Mrs. David Laforest Wing, has
issued invitations to a tea Saturday,
May s, from 4 to z o'clock at Green
| way on the Old Georgetown-Leesburg
pike in Fairfax County, Virginia, be-
| tween Langley and Great Falls. Guests
are invited to view the dogwood, which
| will be at its best next week end. The
| landscaping Of the grounds around the
school center has kept the native trees
and shrubbery and the hillstdes are
| white with bloom.
| The May senior dance at the Wes-
lev Heights Club will be given on May
| when Mrs. Cecil ]. Wilkinson Will be
in charge Of arrangements. Assisting
| hostesses will be Mrs. Winfree E. john
son, Mrs. Arthur E. Doweu, jr., and
Mrs. Carl w. Mitman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Watson v. Shelton
and children, Martha and Vivian OF