Evening star., 1934-11-25
Mrs. Townsend's Morning
Musicales Begin Dec. 10

Mrs. Roosevelt is expected to at
te the first Of Mrs. Lawrence Town
sends Wednesday morning musicales,
December 10, when Miss Katharine
Meisle, contralto, and Mr.. Richard
Crooks, tenor, of the Metropolitan
Opera Co., will give the program
in the ball room of the Mayfower at
ll:15 o'clock. Mrs. Townsend has ar
ranged a series of Wednesday morn
ing musicales through the midsea-
son for some years, starting in
the ball room of Rauscher's, which
occupied the site of the La Sale Apart
ment House. Each year the interest
in these musicales has increased,
necessitating a larger place, until Mrs.
Townsend moved them to the May
flower.
Oficial diplomatic and residential
society is well represented at each
of these musicales and many hoSteSses
who entertain at luncheon, following
the program in the presidential din
ing room Of the Mayflower. In ad-
dition to Mrs. Roosevelt, boxholders
and subscribers include the Ambas-
sador Of Italy, Signor Agusto RosSo'
Nine. de Laboulaye, wife OF the Am
bassador of France; the Ambassador
of Germany, Herr Hans Luther; the
Ambassador of Japan and Nine. Salto'
Mrs. Roberts, wife of Associate JUS
tice Owen j. Roberts; the Minister
of Canada and Mrs. Herridge, the
Minister OF Panama and Sonora de
Alfaro, the Minister Of Hungary ana
Nine. Pelenyi, the Minister OF NOR
way and Nine Munthe de Morgen-
stierne, Mrs Couzens, wife OF Sena-
tor James CouZens; Mrs. Barbour
wife of Senator w. Warren Barbour;
Representative and Mrs. Chester c.
Bolton, the Undersecretary OF the
Treasury and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson
Coolidge, Assistant Secretary OF Ntate
and Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr, Assistant
Secretary of State and Mrs. B. Sumner
Welles, the chief of protocol OF the
State Department and Mrs. James
Clement Dunn, Countess de Leusse'
former United States Ambassador 10
Argentina and Mrs. Robert WOODS
Bliss, former United States Ambassa-
dor to the Court of st. James and Mrs.
Alanson B. Houghton, former Unlted
States Ambassador to Spain and Mrs.
Irwin B. Laughlin. Mrs. Hugh G. wal
lace. widow of the former United States
Ambassador to France; Mrs. William
S. CulbertSon, wife of former Unlteo
States Ambassador to Chile; former
United States Minister to Uruguay,
Mr.. U. Grant Smith; Mrs. Hiram
Bingham, Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew'
Mrs Thomas w. Phillips. jr.; Mrs.
Charles Cary RumSey Mrs, Kieth Mer~
riIl. Mrs. r. S. Reynolds Hit, Mrs.
Hennen Jennings, Mrs. William Cor
coran Eustis. Mrs. Alvin T. Hert. Mrs,
Tracy Dows. Mrs. Charles Carroll
Glover. jr.: Mrs. Daniel c. Stapleton'
Mrs. Eugene Roberts. whose parents
the Minister of Hungary TO Great
Britain and Countess SzechenW were
boxholders for the season, while the
Minister represented his government
in Washington for many years Mrs.
John F. wilkins, Mrs Joseph Letter,
Mrs Frederick S. Coolidge. Mrs. Can
tacuzene Grant, Mrs. Thomas Bell
Sweeney. Mrs. Ord Preston, Mrs.
Charles Warren, Mrs. George Hewitt
Myers, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, Mrs.
Henry Parsons Erwin, Mrs. DAVID 81.
Pierre Gaillard. Mrs. j. U. Guider,
Mrs. Wallace Chiswell, Mrs. Wade H.
Ellis, Mrs. Harry Huse. Miss Alice
Clapp, the Misses Davis, daughters
of former Secretary Of War. Mr..
Dwight F. Davis: Mrs. Adolph Caspar
Miller, Mrs. Stokes -Halkett, Mrs.
Henry Alvah Strong, Mrs. Oscar
Jarecki, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose.
Mrs. James J. Lyon, Mrs. Walter r.
Tuckerman, Mrs. George c. Thorpe,
Mrs. J. Ellwood Jones, Mrs. Daniel
C. Devore, Mrs. Mary Stewart, Mrs.
Sherman Flint. Mrs. Sidney A. Clo-
man. Mrs. Mahlon Pitney. Mrs. George
T. Marye. Mrs. Powell Clayton. Mrs.
Demarest Lloyd, Mrs Malcolm Mathe-
son. Mrs. Ralph Worthington. Mrs.
Wrisley Brown. Mr.. William Phelps
Emo and Mrs. Alfred Pembroke Thorn,
A number from New York will come
for the musicales, including Mrs. Otto
H. Kahn. Mrs. Henry l.. Doherty,
Mrs. Franklin S. Terry, whose daugh-
ter. Mrs. William Harris, was formerly
Miss Lillian Emerson, and IS max
ing a name for herself in Say When"
a musical comedy in which she is
appearing with Harry Richman in New
York; Mr.. and Mrs. Randolph San
TIM and Mrs. George Mesta. who d.
vides her Winters between New York
and Washington.