Evening star., 1934-05-20
BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT.

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One of the greatest thrills the Presi-
dent will have in a dozen moons, if
the program is carried out, is his re-
view of the United States Navy Fleet,
miles off Ambrose Light on May 81.
Some features of the review are planned
by the BaysWater Art Center of New
York and it is intended that President
Roosevelt shall witness the review
from the U. S. S. Indianapolis. The
warships will steam past the Presi-
dents reviewing ship in a single
column at a speed of Is knots.
Two hundred naval planes will take
off from the U. S. S. airplane car
riers Lexington and Saratoga, flying
in formation with the fleet. The
naval review will be the largest and
most imposing ever held in Atlantic
waters. For many days debutanteS
dressed as middies have been selling
tickets for the cruise on the Virginia,
In the best of Fifth avenue stores.
The night of the cruise naval ball
will be held and there is a hope the
President will attend.
When Mrs. Roosevelt expressed her
self in print a few days ago giving
her ideas on entertaining-Saying it
matters but little what one has, but
it is really ones self that matters,
gathering about ones self those who
wish to see real people without regard
to anything except enjoyable rela-
tionship and real personality, she
struck the keynote that made her
garden tea Thursday delightful sue
cess. 1t was not just fluffy-ruft1es
party. though the fluff was there in
pretty late Spring finery but it was
the meeting of women freed from the
thralldom of mere social formality
and in the shade of historic trees
planted by Thomas Jefferson and other
early Presidents, discussing their work
in the world.
While Mrs Roosevelt's intended gar
den party of Monday got off to bad
start and the thousand and more in
vited guests were entertained within
doors while lightning flashed thunder
rolled and rain poured without, there
was a happy and interesting scene
within the mansion. Tea, punch, cakes
and sandwiches broke the ice as some
thing to eat always does, and those
who had arrived and departed in auto
mobiles of every conceivable sort went
away laughing and declaring never
was there a better or friendlier White
House gathering. 1t was just an "at
home" planned to take place on the
wide, sweeping lawn where such a
afternoon.
White House luncheons and dinners
of last week were particularly inter-
esting, while the program for this week
looms just as full and of equal i'm
portance. Late in the week the Presl-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt sent out cards
to members of the press for Thursday
evening at O'Clock, following prece-
dent established during the first year
of the Presidents administration. The
following afternoon there will be the
annual garden party for veterans OF
the World War in hospitals IN ana
near Washington There will be loads
of ice cream at this party for like a
drove of small boys they love it SO that
one helping is never enough. The
President will be with Mrs Roosevelt
on both these occasions.
Enacted at the Capitol today will
be an impressive ceremony to mark
the one hundredth anniversary of the
death of Gen. Lafayette, the friend
to America during the troublesome
days of achieving her freedom from
the British yoke. Only yesterday tea
was served to me in an old luster-
ware cup-without a handle-brought
from Kentucky and bearing the le-
gend "One of the cups used in the
Governors Mansion. on the visit of
Lafayette to Kentucky and when
Desha was Governor In the homes
of many old families in Virginia and
perhaps other States as well are
drinking cups OF china bearing a
portrait of Lafayette and a fitting
legend as to his service to this coun-
try. while other pieces of pottery
bearing a portrait and legend le-
main as reminders of the generals
last visit in America.
The Women's Democratic Club will
burst forth this week with a vertiable
blare of trumpets when Wednesday