Evening star., 1934-05-28
SOCIETY
President Roosevelt Entertaining Min
lister to Canada and Mrs. Robbins
at White House.
at White House.

novsky were among the several hun
dred guests Of the Assistant Secretary
of State, Mr. r. Walton Moore, and
his sisters, the Misses Moore, who
gave the second reception of May in
their country home at Fairfax. Va.
Mr.. Moore and his sisters received
to the guests, and many took advan-
tage Of the sunshine in the late after
noon to wander on the soft green
grass and admire the quantities of
early Summer flowers. Others in the
company yesterday were the Minister
of Denmark, Mr.. Otto Wadsted; the
Secretary of Commerce, Mrs. Roper
and Miss Roper; Senator and Mrs.
Morris Sheppard, Senator Costigan.
who is native of Virginia, and
Mrs. CoStigan; Representative and
Mrs. Samuel B. Hill, Representative
and Mrs. Ross Collins, Representative
and Mrs. j. L. Milligan, Representa-
tive and Mrs. William j. Sears, Rep
resentative Sol Bloom and Miss
Bloom, Representative Henry B. Stea-
gall, Representative and Mrs. Charles
A. Eaton, Representative and Mrs.
w. w. Hastings, Representative and
Mrs. jeff Busby, Representative and
Mrs. Colgate w. Darden, the Assist
ant Secretary of State and Mrs. Will
bur j. Carr, the solicitor general and
Mrs. j. Crawford Biggs, the secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution and
Mrs. G. G. Abbot, DR.. L. S. Rowe.
director of the Pan-American Union;
Mrs. Lucille Foster Mcmillan, civil
service commissioner; DR.. and Mrs.
John G. Merriam, Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff
ford K. Bergman and Miss Florence
Bergman and Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad
H. Syme.
Nine. SEE, wife of the Minister of
China. assisted at the charmingly ap-
pointed tea Saturday afternoon given
by the military attache of the Chinese
legation and Mrs. Chow. The tea was
in the nature of a housewarming, the
party being the first to be given at
the new home of Col. and Mrs. Chow
at 5315 Sixteenth street.
Summer flowers were used in the
house. There were about one hun
dred guests, including foreign military
and naval attaches of the embassies
and legations in Washington and
few officers of the United States Army
and Navy.
Mrs. Chow wore a becoming gown
OF pale pink chiffon, made on long
lines. Also assisting at the tea table
were Mrs. Charles Burnett, Mrs. Wal
ter Smith and Frau Won Boetticher,
wife OF the military attache of the
Germany embassy.
The Minister of China, DR.. Sao-Ke
Alfred SEE, was host at luncheon YES
terday in honor of the director of the
National Library of Peiping, Mr.. Tung
Ii Yuen. Others in the company
were the librarian of Congress, DR..
Herbert Putnam: DR.. C. J. Abbott,
secretary of the Smithsonian Institu-
tlon; DR.. Waldo G. Leland, secretary
OF the American Council of Learned
Societies; Mr.. William A. Slade, di-
rector of the Folger Shakespearean
Library; DR.. Walter T. Swingle. DR..
Lawrence c. Coleman. director of the
American Association of Museums:
DR.. j. Franklin Jameson, DR.. VILLAIN
Alexander Hammond, Col. Lawrence
Martin. DR.. Henry Eldridge Bourne.
Mrs. John T. Vance, DR.. Victor Selden
Clark, DR.. J. A. L. Waddell Of New
York. Mr. Carl Engle, director of the
music division of the Library of Con-
gress; Mr.. F. w. Ashby, Mr.. Martin
A. Roberts, Mr.. David J. Haykin. Mr.
Mortimer Graves Mr.. Carroll Ken
worthy and the counselor of the lega-
ton, DR.. Yung Kwai.
Miss Betsy Dern, daughter of the
Secretary of War and Mrs. Dern. was
hostess at supper last evening in COM
pllment to Miss Beatrice Patton.
daughter of Col. and Mrs. George s.
Patton. and her fiance, Lieut.. John
Knight Waters, whose marriage will
take place June 81. Miss Dern re-
celved her guests in the drawing room.
Where quantities of Summer flowers
from Highwood's gardens were used
and in the dining where the
guests were seated at one long ta-
BILE, the center of which had a clus-
ter OF mock orange blossoms. Miss
Dern wore a becoming gown of pink
and blue fowered chiffon.
COL and Mrs. Patton left today for
Dobbs Ferry to attend the graduation
OF their daughter, Miss Ruth Ellen