Evening star., 1933-02-07

TIVE President and Mrs. Hoover viii
entertain at the dinner this eve-
ming at the White House tr
i honor of the Vice President, Mr.
Charles Curtis.
Mrs. Hoover was the honor guest al
luncheon today of Mrs. Roy D. Chaplin
wife Of the Secretary of Commerce
The other guests were wives OF the
members of the cabinet.
The Vice President was the honor
guest at dinner last evening OF the
Secretary of Labor and Mrs. William
N. Doak, who entertained in their home,
Notre Mid, on the Fairfax road. The
other guests were, in addition to the
honor guests brother-in-law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Everett Gam,
the Minister of Czechoslovakia and
Mime. Veverka, Senator Simeon D. Fess,
the assistant to the Secretary of Labor,
Mr.. w. N. Smelser; Mrs. James w.
Good, Mrs Robert Paterson Lamont,
Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose and Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman.
Secretary and Mrs. Stimson
Hosts at Dinner This Evening.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Henry L. Stimson will be hosts at din
ner this evening at their estate
Woodley.
The Ambassador of Germany and
Frau Won Prittwitz und Gaffron have
sent out cards for a small dance Fri
day evening at 10 O'Clock in the en-
bassy.
The Ambassador Of Belgium and
Mime. May will entertain at dinner this
evening in the embassy.
The Ambassador of Brazil and Senhora
de Lima E. Silva entertained at lunch
con today in the embassy
The Ambassador of Italy, Signor Au-
rusto Rosso, left Washington last eve
ming to spend short time In Pniia-
delphia.
The Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. Ogden L. Mills will be the guests
in whose honor Senator and Mrs. w.
Warren Barbour will entertain at din
ner this evening. Senator and Mrs.
Barbour have as their houseguests MI MI:
Hills. N. j..
Mrs. walter F. Brown, wife of the
Postmaster General, will be at home to-
morrow afternoon in her apartment IN
the Shoreham from to o'clock.
Mrs. Wilbur. wife of the Secretary
of the Interior will have assisting her
at her home tomorrow afternoon, Mrs.
porter II. Dale. Mrs. Arthur H Vanden-
berg. Mrs. Daniel o. Hasting and Mrs.
Warren r. Austin.
Nine. Prochnik, wlie OF the Minister
Of Austria, will entertain at smau
tea this afternoon.
Nine. veverka, wife of the Minister
of Czechoslovakia, and Mrs. Davis. wiIe
of Senator James j. Davis, were the
ranking guests at the luncheon given
Yesterday by Mrs. Thomas w. Philips,
jr.. in her home on Sixteenth street
In compliment to her house guest, Mrs.
Allan Cowperthwaite of New YORK.
Senator and Mrs. Tasker L. Oddie
have leased their house at 2123 Leroy
place to Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Hugh
Drum who will come to washington
shortly. Gen. Drum has been appoint
ed deputy chief of staff.
Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom
will entertain at dinner Sunday evening
in honor of the retiring counselor OF
the Czechoslovakisn legation and Nine.
Skalicky.
Mrs. William r. Castle, jr., wife of
the Undersecretary Of State, enter
tanned at luncheon today in her home
on s street.
Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean has closed
her house on Massachusetts, avenue and
has taken an apartment at 1785 Massa-
chusetts avenue for the remainder OF
the season.
Miss Helen Walker and Miss Evelyn
Walker entertained company OF IL
at luncheon today in honor cf Miss
Teresa Saul whose engagement to Mr..
w. Gwynn Gardiner, jr, was recently
announced.
Many Dinner Parties
Precede Musical Sketch.
Several prominent women who are
sponsoring the first performance of the
musical sketch Music Gossip After the
Opera" in the Washington Club, at 17th
and K streets northwest. tonight will
entertain at dinner and will take their
guests to the performance Among the
hostesses are Mrs. William Wheatley,
Mrs. Gerrit Miller, jr., and Mrs. Charles
Colfax Long.
The scene of the musical sketch Is
laid in the late 80s. Particularly well
known in the National Capital at that
time was the gay Anna de Koven, wife
Of Reginald, who wrote Robin Hood"
and conducted one of our first Wash
1ngton symphony orchestras. She was
the daughter of Representative Henry
Farwell, who first came to Congress
from Chicago, when his daughter was
"a short-skirted child as she put it in
her delightful book of memoirs. Both
the FarweIls and the De Kovens played
important parts in Washington social
life from time to time 1t Is interest