Evening star., 1934-12-29
SOCIETY
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt Hosts
at Dinner Dance This Evening for
Party of Young People.

day In honor of Miss Stelita Staple
ton. debutante daughter of Mrs. Dan
iel G. Stapleton.
Senator-elect Theodore G. Bilbo has
returned to Washington, coming here
from Poplarville, Miss. and is in his
apartment at the Wardman Park
Hotel.
Representative and Mrs. Robert Low
Bacon will close their home at West
bury, N. Y, and come to Washington
and open their house at 1901 F street
Representative-elec Elmer r. Ryan
Of st. Paul, Mimi, with Mrs. Ryan,
arrived in Washington yesterday
morning and they are now established
In their apartment at the Wardman
Park Hotel for the coming congress
sional session.
The United States Minister to the
Union of South Africa. Mr.. Ralph j
Totten, has been joined at the May
flower by his mother, Mrs. James B
Totten. who will accompany him te
New York today and sail with him or
January for Cape Town.
Mrs. Totten returned to the United
States with her son early in Novem-
ber and since then has been visiting
her other son, Mr.. j. E. Totten. and
his wife in Detroit, and has spent sew
eral weeks at her former home in
Nashville, Tenn.
Mr.. Totten and his mother spend
six months of each year in Cape Town
and the remaining portion in Pretoria
depending on which place the Parlia-
ment Is in session.
The vice chairman Of the Federal
Power Commission and Mrs. Basil
Manly were hosts at dinner on Friday
evening in honor of Mr.. Frederick R.
Bay Of New York. The guests were
Mr.. Bay, Senator and Mrs. Edward
P. Costigan, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury. Miss Josephine Roche;
Assistant Secretary of the Interior,
Oscar L. Chapman; Mr.. and Mrs.
Lowell Mellett, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Blair and Mrs. Laura Bradley.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Spaulding Flannery
entertained at dinner last evening
for Miss Katherine Brown, debutante
daughter of Col and Mrs Wrisley
Brown. Their guests included Miss
Fontaine Flannery, Miss Virginia
Flannery, Miss Peggy Glide. guest of
Miss Brown from California; Miss
Sidney Beall. Miss Marbury Beall.
Mr.. Robert Parsons, Mr.. Oliver Gasch,
Mr.. Lindsay Moss. Mr.. Stanley Hunt
ingdon, Mr.. Arthur Meigs, Mr.. Charles
Mckenney, Mr.. Emery Wilbur and
Mr.. Asa Phillips.
Miss Helen Hendrick McKenna
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Royal T.
McKenna, made her Washington de-
but at dance given for her and her
young friends last evening at the
Mayflower by her grandmother. Mrs
David S. Hendrick.
Preceding the dance Mr.. and Mrs
McKenna entertained at dinner for
their daughter, her house guests, Miss
Florence Betty Hess and Miss Patti
from Vassar, Miss Joyce Blaikie OF
Englewood, N. j.. and Miss Nancy
Nussboum of New Rochelle, N. Y; also
for the young ladies assisting Miss
McKenna and the members Of the
Floor Committee. Mr.. and Mrs Nc
Kenna were also hosts at dinner In
honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred j. Fisher
of Detroit, who came to Washington
especially for their daughters debut
Dinner was served in the presidential
dining room Of the hotel.
Guests at the ball were received in
the Chinese room, and dancing fol-
lowed in the grand ball room. Poin-
settiaS and stevia in large white bowls
were used on the dinner table, and
poinsettias and other Christmas greens
were used for room decorations A
supper in the presidential dining room
was served in the early morning.
Miss McKennd wore gown of white
chiffon studded with brilliants and
made with a very long train. She
carried bouquet of very large gar
denias. Mrs. McKenna was dressed
in black velvet trimmed with black
sequins, and Mrs. Hendrick wore
black velvet and lace.
Assisting Miss McKenna last eve
ming were Miss Valerie Prochnik, Miss
Christine B. Long, Miss Ruth Sewers,
Miss Louise Myers, Miss Dorothy
Marlatt, Miss Katherine Meyer, Miss
Ruth Ellen Patton, Miss Stellita Staple
ton, Miss Emlen Davies, Miss Martha
Davidge, Miss Diane Rowland, Miss
Frida Frazer, Miss Jane Esther Platt,
Miss Emily Maddox, Miss Estherbelle
McHarg, Miss Moss Lee Love, Miss
Fontaine Flannery, Miss Marguerite
Du Pont Lee, Miss Mary Ann Nc
Farland, Miss Emily Moore and Miss
Virginia Rodgers.
In group of Baltimore girls as
sisting we're Miss Patti Edmonston,
Miss Frences Pine, Miss Elizabeth
Treide, Miss Adelaide Birckhead and
Miss Helen Knox.
On the Floor Committee were: Mr..
Daniel Cox Fahey,. Lieut.. Fletcher
Cole, U. S. A.; Lieut.. Frederick Cole
man. U. S. A.; Mr.. William Du Bose
Sheldon. Mr.. Murray Preston,
Mr.. Henry c. Rowland, Mr..
A1OllhoN Vain, IAl 1tdso-
ter, Baron Hans Won Dreyhausen. Mr..
Rudolph Kaufman, Mr.. Camp STAN
ley Huntington, Mr.. Stanley F. Reed,
jr.; Mr.. Malcolm Matheson, jr.; Mr..
Philip Bateson. Mr. Cole Mcfarland,
Mr.. William Bell, Mr.. Blair Bolles,
Midshipman Charles E. Foust, Mr.. A.
L. Luttrell, Mr.. Randolph Leigh, jr..
and Mr.. william Laird Dunlop, Sd.
Others on the same committee from
Baltimore were: DR.. Henry Cotton,
Mr.. Charles H. Edmonston, Mr.. Jona-
than Pine, Mr.. George Treide, Mr.. j.
Edward Tyler, Sd. and Mr.. William
Pearce.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Parsons Erwin
were hosts at dinner last evening at
the Mayfower, entertaining in honor
of their niecee, Miss Betty Ann Erwin
of Oak Park, ILL.,, who attends Mount
Holyoke College, and Miss Mola Du-
gan of Baton Rouge, La, a student at
the University of Louisiana. Miss
Frances Porcher, a cousin OF the host
ess, was also in the company of 16
present. Miss Porcher Is from Florida
and attends Bryn Mawr.
The Assistant Secretary of the