Evening star., 1933-11-16

T%HE President and Mrs. Roosevelt
will entertain at dinner this
evening in the White House in
Il honor of the members OF the
cabinet and their wives The
dinner is the first Of the annual series
of State functions at the mansion, and
following the custom in other admin
1strations, a program of music will fol-
low the dinner for which additional
guests have been invited.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
-have among their guests at the Execu-
tive mansion Mr.. and Mrs. Basil O'Con-
nor.
3 Mrs Roosevelt has taken box for
the benefit concert to be given Friday,
December 8, in Carnegie Hall in New
York for the benefit of the Georgia
Warm Springs Foundations. Mrs. Vim
cent AStor Is chairman of the commit
tee arranging the benefit, and Mrs.
Roosevelt is honorary chairman. Mr..
Richard Crooks, tenor of the Metro
politan Opera Co.; Mr.. Albert Spauld-
ing, violinist; the two-piano team OF
Guy Maier and Lee Pattison and the
National Orchestral Association are Civ
ing their services for the concert.
The event is part of a national CAM
paign for funds to carry on the work
of the foundation, which is devoted
to the care of sufferers from infantile
paralysis. President Roosevelt is chair
man of the board Of trustees The
concert proceeds will 60 to extend the
research and educational work OF the
foundation, to provide additional funds
for charity patients and facilities for
vocational training for sufferers. Among
sothers who have taken boxes for the
eevent are the Secretary Of the Treas
Jury, Mr.. William H. Woodin, and the
Postmaster General, Mr. James A.
Farley.
Mrs Roosevelt attended the concert
sof the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Mr.. Serge KoussevitSky, conductor, yes
sterday afternoon in Constitution Hall.
Her guests in her box were Mrs. Charles
zFairweather and Miss Marguerite Far
well and Miss Barbara Farwell, nieces
-of Mrs. Roosevelt, who are guests at
the White House, and Mrs. Marguerite
lie Hand Others in the audience were
the Ambassador of Argentina and
Sonora de Espil, the Minister Of Switz-
serland and Nine Peter. Nine. Sokolow-
ska, wife of the charge d'affaires OF
ePoland; Mrs. Lewis w. Douglas, wife
zof the director of the budget; Capt.
and Mrs. Hayne Ellis, Mrs. Lee P. War
sren, Mrs. william r. Castle, jr., wife
Mabel Bcardman, Mrs. Archibald Hop
.kins, Mrs. John Biddle, MIR. and Mrs.
Eugene Roberts, Mrs. Chauncey G.
Parker, jr.; Mrs. Samuel A. Kimberley,
Mrs. Charles Parker Stone and Mrs.
Kelly of Boston.
Yesterday Mrs. Roosevelt was pre-
sented with hand-woven white wool ma
terial for a dress made by one of the
mountaineers at the Settlement School
maintained by the Pi Beta Phi fra
ernity in the Smoky Mountain region
of Gatlinburg, Tenn. Mrs. Roosevelt
has shown interest in the work and
attended the exhibit now on view In the
Corcoran Gallery of Art under the aus
pices Of the American Federation Of
Arts. The material presented to Mrs.
Roosevelt was woven by Maggie Parton,
one of the 40 women weavers, and the
presentation was made by Mrs. Stowell
C. Stebbins Of Pittsburgh, assistant to
the national president of the Pi Beta
Phi. She was accompanied to the
White House by Miss Mary Katharine
sLutz, editor of the fraternity magazine
the Arrow: Mrs. Reginald w. Geare
president of the Washington Alumnae
Club; Mrs George Ober, vice president,
ana Miss Jean Kirkwood, president of
the active chapter at George Washing
toe University.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge is a member of
the fraternity, having been initiated
into the University of Vermont Chapter,
and her portrait made in the White
House by Howard Chandler Christy was
presented to the White House in 1924
by the chapter.