Evening star., 1934-07-01
Washington Socialites
Shun European Travel,
But Sea Has Strong Lure
Shore Resorts More Than Ever Popular This
Season-Inland Resorts, However,
Claim Most Attention.

| dition OF the White House reminds
one very much of those strenuous
days of the Theodore Roosevelt ad-
ministration, when he, as the first
President in many administrations,
had the courage to defy the fearful
and even insipid barrage of criti-
cism and had the mansion restored.
The executive Offices are once more
within the Presidents house, but in
stead of being on the second floor
next door to the private library and
bed chambers as of old, are in the
east room and corridors where clerks
will have comfortable working places
while the executive Offices undergo
necessary changes.
When society sat thrilled with the
strains of the Stephen Foster melo-
dies at the Pan-American concert
Tuesday night, nothing more touched
and pleased them than the strains of
My Old Kentucky Home" sung or
hummed from one end of the Continent
to the other. Good fellowship between
the Americas, great and small, was
given as the reason for the distribu-
tion of the medley, copies Of which will
find their way all over the Americas.
This brings us around to the fact
that Mrs Roosevelt might both see
and hear my Old Kentucky Home"
if she finds it possible to accept an
invitation to the Sesquicentennial OF
Nelson County, KY, october 6. Bards-
town has long been the mecca for
motorists and Wednesday, July 4, will
be the annual forest song festival,
when not only the old song will be
sung, but the old home where genera
ton after generation Of Rowans have
lived, will be inspected This annual
event will lead tunefully up to the
real celebration.
Attorney General and Mrs. Cum
mings have gotten Summertime
dinner parties to point of perfection
which few other hosts in the Capital
have even attained. Their all-Summer
series seldom includes more than 10
guests, the invitations generally given
over the phone, and the arrange
ments are ideal. Their place, Ruth
ven. setting high on the bluffs Of
Tilden street, has a charming porch
overlooking the grounds and far
| away. There two tables are set, each
accommodating six, and with the host
at one table and the hostess at the
other, conversation is often passed
back and forth, and the cooling
breezes make it possible to sit out and
yet enjoy complete privacy. Another
feature of the dinners Is the well
adapted menu, everything prepared
by the efficient chef right in their
own kitchen.
Two as peerless hosts, who always
entertain their guests alfresco when
weather permits, are Representative
and Mrs. Sol Bloom, who, however,
use a console table for their small
parties. When they occupied Hem
lock Hedge, the home of Former
Postmaster General and Mrs. Harry
New, they always had the table ar
ranged on the porch overlooking the
grounds, and later, in their own home
at 1928 wyoming avenue, they fol-
lowed the same custom.
The Fourth of July has already
exacted its toll of cabinet and other
officials and the diplomatic corps
from society, and scarce indeed will
be the 'personages" one meets until
the end of this week, at least, and
perhaps not for weeks to come.
Distinguished visitors will find the
Capital deadly dull place so far as
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