Evening star., 1934-04-24

"HE President and Mrs. Roose'
welt will entertain at dinnel
this evening at the White
L House, followed by a program
of music to which additiona
guests have been invited. The Presi.
dent and First Lady had few guests
at dinner with them last evening.
Mrs Roosevelt will accompany the
President to the exhibit of subsistence
farms projects in the Commerce
Building at 5 o'clock today and later
In the afternoon she will attend the
public works of art project exhibition
at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The
First Lady attended a session of the
Convention of International Associa-
ton of Nurses this morning.
Mrs. Roosevelt will 60 to New York
Thursday to speak at the opening OF
q new building in the New York In
firmary for Women and Children at
the invitation of DR.. L'ESperance
well known woman physician. In
the evening Mrs. Roosevelt will speak
at dinner given by the advertisers
to the publishers at the invitation OF
Mrs. Ogden Reid, wife of the publish
er Of the Herald Tribune. She will
return to Washington at midnight.
Friday Mrs. Roosevelt will attend
the luncheon of the national board of
the Woman's Trade Union Board
and In the afternoon will be guest
at the fete at the Y. w. c. A. Mem
bers of the graduating class of Tod
hunter School will spend the week
end in Washington, some of them be-
ing guests at the White House and
Mrs. Roosevelt's time will be devoted
to the visitors. She will, however,
attend a meeting at the Girl Scouts
Little House Saturday and will also
attend tea given later by the Colo
nial Danes.
Following Mrs. Roosevelt's visit to
the Corcoran Gallery yesterday, was
that of large group of Senators and
Representatives who saw the exhibi-
tion Of drawings, etchings and paint
ings by the P. w. A. artists.
The pictures in the exhibition now
bears the names of the members of
Congress who particularly admire the
canvases. This choosing" is in ad-
dlt1on to the selection of the best 81
pictures made by President Roosevelt.
Dance at British Embassy
For Miss Davis and Mr.. Makins.
The Ambassador of Great Britain
and Lady Lindsay will entertain at
"a dance this evening in the embassy
In honor of Miss Alice Davis, daugh-
ter of the former Secretary of War,
Mr.. Dwight F. Davis, and her fiance,
Mr.. Roger Makins, second secretary
of the British embassy.
The Ambassador of Germany, Herr
Hans Luther, will be the guest in
whose honor the Minister of China
and Nine. SEE vii entertain at dinner
this evening.
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes is among the
patronesses for the Mayday carnival
which the Newspaper Women's Club
will give Tuesday, May 1, in the audi
torium of the National Press Club.
Among the other patronesses are Lady
Lindsay, Nine. May. Sonora de Espil,
Sonora de Cardenas, Nine. de Labou-
laye, Nine. Saito, Nine. Peter, Nine.
Simopoulos. Nine. Bostrom, Nine.
Bachke. Nine. Veverka, Nine. Wad-
sted, Sonora de Alfaro, wife of the
Minister of Panama; Sonora de Finot,
Mime. SEE, Princess Damras, Nine.
Djalal, Mrs. James j. Davis, Mrs. j.
Ryan Duffy, Mrs. Arthur Mullen and
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, assistant land
commissioner
Booths, where rare and historic
articles as we'll as new and unusual
things will be sold, will be presided
over by members of the club, each
with a corps of assistants not limited
to the membership Of the organiza-
ton. The carnival will begin at
O'Clock and continue through the eve
ming.
A spelling bee will take place during
the evening, the teams being women
In official circles of Washington
against a team Of members Of the
club. Among the judges will be Mrs.
Homer S. Cummings, Mrs. Robert Low
Bacon, Mrs Charles Cary Rumsay,
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mrs. Sallie
v. H. Pickett and Mrs. Eugene Meyer.
Mrs Daniel c. Roper, wife of the
Secretary of Commerce. will receive
tomorrow afternoon in her home on
Woodland drive for the last time this
season.
Mrs. Roper was guest of honor at q
luncheon at the Shoreham today
given by Mrs Adrien F. Busick Bridge
was played after the luncheon. The
guests included Mrs o. Max Gardner,
Mrs. Garland S. Ferguson, jr.; Mrs.
Park Trammell, Mrs. Redfield Vose,
Mrs. Edward Allen Keys, Mrs. Absa-
lom Waller. Mrs. Edward Banks Glib
son, Mrs. Thomas Moran, Mrs. Ogil-
vie Shumate, Mrs. w. Grayson Orme.
Mrs. Robert E. Healy. Mrs. Luther
Frierson, Mrs. Frank Lyon. Mrs
Franklin D. Jones, Mrs. w. H S.
Stevens. Mrs. w. E. Stroud, Mrs
Thomas H. Baker, Mrs. Alvin S. Mad
dox, Mrs. Charles Keefer. Mrs. Estelle
w. Douglas, Mrs. Robert Gates and
Mrs. Benjamin D. Hill.
The Secretary OF Labor. Miss
Frances Perkins, will receive tomorrow
home.
The Minister of Sweden and Nine.
Bostrom will entertain at dinner this
evening in honor Of the Ambassador
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics and Nine Troyanovsky.
The Minister Of Czechoslovakia and
Nine. Veverka will entertain at dinner
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