Evening star., 1934-01-14
Tables Will Be Used
Instead of Boxes at
Ball for President
Delightful Innovation Orisi-
mated BY Mrs. Dousherty
to Save for Fund.

A delightful feature Of the arrange
nents now being completed tor the
birthday ball for the President on Tues
day night, January 80, at the shorehau1
Hotel here, will be the use Of tables"
instead of boxes, where hostesses may
entertain their guests and friends
throughout the program and the dane
ins. The idea, unique in the history of
local balls, was originated by MRS. Jonn
Allan Dougherty, in consultation with
members of her committee. and was en-
Williams, Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer, Mrs.
Hugh johnson, Mrs Mark Bristol, Mrs
F1ed Britten and Mrs. Kenneth, S1Mp-
xon. who thereupon become the liable"
Committee, charged with the duty OF
selling tables to hostesses who desire q
place to sta highly glorified reserved
seat" idea-while enjoying the enter
tatnment and the dancing. To quote
Mrs. Dougherty herself, instead OF
spending the money to build and deco
rate boxes as is the usual custom at big
halls. we shall be able to save that
money for the permanent enoo"inen'
OF Warm Springs Foundation.
The Table" Committee makes 1t clear
that reserving table-even at $1,000.
which has already been so generously
done by Mrs. Ray Baker.does not m
clude supper or any refreshments what.
soever. 1t merely gives the hostess at
the table the privilege Of having q
permanent abiding place" for her
guests, and in case she may desire to
entertain them at at supper; ~ nx fine sne may o'
The idea Is distinctly new and appear.
ing, and it may even be that tables will
be at q premium very soon, for any or
all Of these adequate reasons. Plans for
the ball are going rapidly forward. and
following the meeting of the Ban Com.
n,ittee Thursday many dellghtfui ana
unusual features are now unoer way
which will make this birthday ball
more than brilliant and exciting event
from many points OF view.
The Ambassador Of Spain, Senor Don
Juan Francisco de Cardenas, and Sonora
de Cardenas have accepted the invita-
ton of the committee as patron and
patroness for the event, as have very
large number of foreign Ambassadors
and Ministers to the United States and
many prominent officials in the United
States Government, as we'll as leaders
in residential society at large.
Included in the list of notable patrons
and patronesses are Mr.. and Mrs. Blair
Banister, the Commissioner and Mrs.
George E. Allen. Mrs. Charles J. Bell,
the Solicitor General and Mrs. James
c. Biggs Representative and Mrs. Sol
Bloom, Miss Mabel Boardman, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Burnham. the Assistant
Secretary of State and Mrs. Wilbur
Carr, Senator and Mrs Marcus Coolidge,
Mr.. and Mrs. William s. Culbertson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter j. Cummings, the
Assistant Secretary of Commerce and
Mrs. Dickinson. Mr.. and Mrs. Tracy
Dows, Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Ellis. Repre-
sentative and Mrs Hamilton Fish, jr.;
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert v. Fleming, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward E. Gam, Mrs. Gibson
Fahnestock, Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. M.
Robert Guggenheim, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Sumner Hamlin, Mrs. Alvin T.
Hert, Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Hitchcock,
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins. Mr. and Mrs.
Alanson B. Houghton. Comdr and Mrs.
Hagen, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Bruce
Howe, Miss Katherine Judge, Mrs.
Virginia Jenckes, Mrs. Florence P. Kahn.
DR.. and Mrs. Hans Kinder, Senator
and Mrs William H. King.
Also Judge and Mrs. Wilton Lambert,
Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, Senator and
Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo.. Mr.. and
Mrs. Malcolm McConihe, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Maclean, Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph
Caspar Miller, the Assistant Secretary
of Commerce, Mr. Ewing Y. Mitchell;
the Assistant Secretary Of State, Mr..
Robert Walton Moore; Col. James A.
Moss, U. S. A; Mrs, Evelyn Walsh Nc
Lean, Rev. DR.. Coleman Nevis, S. j.;
Mrs. Eleanor NJ Patterson, Gen. and
Mrs. William Mitchell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Reed, Miss Janet Richards, the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Henry D. Roosevelt, DR.. Leo S.
Rowe, Mrs. Charles c. Rumsey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Mcclellan Ritter, Mrs. Edward
Shouse, Mr.. and Mrs. Huston Thomp-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend,
the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
and Mrs. Rexford G. Tugwell, Senator
David I. Walsh. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Warren, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt
and distinguished officers of the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps and their wives