Evening star., 1934-01-25

Miss Nancy Mumma, Miss VILLA CAL
lagher. Mrs. Dorothy r. Mclean. Miss
Lula Purcell. Mrs. Merritt o. Chance
and Miss Jessie Dell.
Continually increasing interest, and
constantly mounting enthusiasm mark
the last-minute preparations for the
birthday ball Of the President Tuesday
night at the Shoreham, beginning at
10 o'clock and continuing to the "wee
sma'" hours Wednesday morning
The announcement that Eddie Du-
chin's orchestra from the Central Park
Casino in New York City, and the
Boys Harmonica Band of Philadelphia,
have accepted the invitation to come
for the event and are paying their own
dancing set in this brilliant ball. For
music lovers, the fact that DR.. Hans
Kinder and the Nstional Symphony
Orchestra will be heard In q half hour
Of concert, adds q thrill never known
before In the history Of balls in the
Capital City.
The demand for tickets has become
SO insistent at the Washington Com
mittee headquarters that special head
quarters in several of the popular
hotels were established yesterday, in
cluding the Hotel Mayhower, where
Mrs. Matthew Dick was in charge, and
today Mrs. Carey H. Brown will render
a like service.
Impossible as It Is to keep in touch
with all the ticket buyers Mrs. John
r. Williams Committee on Tables is
still receiving requests to add table
hosts and hostesses to her list, and to
GATE this has been possible but the
zero hour for table reservations is
rapidly approaching and then there
will be the still available general ad-
mission tickets to the ball to obtain.
Final meeting has been held of many
important committees for the Shore
ham ball and last-minute arrangtments
are being rushed by Mrs. John Allan
Dougherty. general chairman, and Mr..
Ray Baker, chairman Of arrangements
for the birthday ball.
Recent additions to the list Of patrons
and patronesses include Baron and
Baroness Won Redlich and Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth M. Simpson. The Washing
ton Board of Trade officials have taken
additional seats for the table which
they have reserved.
The Presidents birthday anniversary
will be celebrated at the Hebrew Home
for the Aged Tuesday night. January
80. by the Ladies Auxiliary of the
home. Mrs. Elias Gelman will be
hostess for the evening and an at
tractlve program has been arranged.
Funds will be raised by disposing of
raffla baskets made by the inmates of
the home to be sent to the Warm
Springs Sanatorium National Fund.
The public is welcome.
nr Caorra y,,, x A.,
can University left this morning for
Harrisburg, Pa, to lecture this evening
on Engineering Projects in Ancient
Egypt" before the Engineer Society of
Pennsylvania.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. simonds of Port
land. Me, are spending a few DAYS at
the Dodge.
Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Carlisle who are
visiting the States, having come from
Fairbanks, Alaska. expect to be In the
city for some time and are at the
Willard.
Leading lovers of art in Washington
are taking a tremendous interest in this
seasons Bal Boheme of the Arts Club
OF washington, which will take place
atop the Hotel Willard on Shrove Tues
day evening, February l3, beginning at
10 O'Clock and continuing unabated
until 6 o'clock the following morning.
The Circus" theme in both settings
and costumes, and the pageant and side
show likewise, have taken the imagina-
tion by storm, for the fashioned
circus is almost thing of the past and
this plan OF the Arts Club savors of a
revival Of the real American days of
long ago"
Among the many patrons of the ball
are four outstanding museum directors
OF the National Capital, Mr.. C. Powell
Minnegerode of the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Mr.. Duncan Phillips of the Phillips
Memorial Gallery, Mr.. c. Law Watkins,
who Is assistant director of the Phillips
Gallery, and Mr.. Frederick A. Whiting,
who is president of the American Fed
Grafton OF Art. who will occupy a box
at the Bal with their wives. and will
entertain at dinner before the event.
Nine. Peter, wife Of the Minister Of
Switzerland, is a patroness for this sea-
sons Bal, and other we'll known men
and women of Washington's official and
social circles who are on the list are
Senator and Mrs. James Hamilton
Lewis, Representative and Mrs. Sol
Bloom, Miss May Adams, Mrs. William
Corcoran Eustis, Mrs. Guy Despard
Gof, Col. and Mrs. M Robert Guggen-
helm, Mrs. Rudolph Max Kaufman,
Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, Mrs Horace
G. Mcfarland. Mr.. and Mrs Howe
Totten. Brig. Gen. William E. Horton,
and Mai. Gen George Owen Squier
Preparations are under way in earnest