Evening star., 1934-04-26
SOCIETY
Mrs. Roosevelt Is Spending Short Time
in New York-Expected Back
Tomorrow Morning

AE RS. ROOSEVELT has gone to
M New York where she will
V speak today at the opening
4 L Of new building in the
New York Infirmary for
Women and Children. She will also
deliver an address at the dinner given
by the advertisers to the publishers,
at the Waldorf tonight, and is ex-
pected to leave for Washington at
midnight.
Mrs. Roosevelt was given an astro-
logical reason for her preference for
blue in her costumes yesterday when
Miss Beatrice Townsend of New York
demonstrated color-aura at the Sui
grave Club. The demonstration and
fashion show with an exhibit of VAL
Kill furniture was for the benefit OF
the Thrift Shop, the proceeds from
which are divided between the five
baby charities of the District, the
Children's Convalescent c o Mt r y
Home, the Children's Hospital, the
Child Welfare, the Baby Clinic at Co.
Children's Hospital Fund. Mrs. John
u. w lllldIllS lS Va IliC SoP-
ply Committee and arranged the
benefit yesterday. Mrs. Roosevelt
rarely appears without blue some
where about her gown or hat or the
accessories Of her costume. Miss
Townsend tells her blue is the color
of her astrological sign, Libra. and
she went further yesterday and told
her Of her positive, or good, charac-
teristics and omitted the negative or
not such good, characteristics.
The models represented each Of the
u signs of the Zodiac and wore a
gown in the color of the sign they
represented. There was more than
the one show. Mrs Roosevelt arriv-
ing in time for the o'clock per-
formance and stopping after the pro-
gram to view the exhibit of Waikiki
furniture.
The only bit of blue worn by Mrs.
Roosevelt yesterday was blouse, the
tie about the neck showing slightly
above the brown coat, quite long and
moderately fitted to the figure. The
narrow collar and shallow cuffs were
of brown and beige checked material
and she wore a low-crowned, narrow
brimmed brown straw hat with a
narrow band of brown ribbon edged
with white snugly about the base OF
the crown and crossed in the back
where the brim fitted down closely
over her hair.
Among others in the company when
Mrs. Roosevelt was there were Mrs.
Cordell Hull, in long black coat over
her gown and wearing a modified
sailor hat of rough black straw; Nine
May, all in black, her coat having
sleeves full at the top and with in
serts of broadtail fur. which also
formed the collar of the coat.
Her black hat was close fitting and
q stiff bit of ribbon stood erect In
the center Of the crown. Nine. de
Laboulaye with her younger daughter
were there to see the older daughter,
Mile. Marie Therese de Laboulaye,
model for Libra, Mrs. Roosevelt's sign.
Nine. de Laboulaye wore dark blue
suit with blouse of lighter shade and
a close-ftting turban of blue with
fine stripes Of black satin. Her daugh-
ter was in gray coat with a Leg
horn hat. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson had
a knitted gown of Eleanor blue with
which she wore a long coat of Anna
blue and a wide -brimmed dark blue
straw hat. Among others in the COM
pany were Mrs. Henry Latrobe Roose-
welt, Mrs. Mark L. Bristol, Mrs. Arthur
Macarthur. Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, Mrs
Edwards Shouse, Mrs. Walter R. Tuck
erman, Mrs. James Francis Sullivan,
Mrs. Robert Vedder Fleming, Mrs. Sid
ney F. Taliaferro. Mrs Evelyn Walsh
Mclean and her daughter. Miss Emily
Mclean.