Evening star., 1934-03-11
Yesterdays snow will not discourage

Yesterdays snow will not discourage
society in completing its plans fol-
Easter, now only three weeks off, and
Spring, which is only 10 days off
Weddings and entertainments are
listed for Easter week. and a little
later the many parties in connection
with the annual Congress of the N. S.
D. A. R.. which will open April 16
Easter week will start with the dance
which Mrs Frederic A Keep and heI
sister. Miss Mabel Boardman, will give
for their niece, Miss Louise Crane
daughter of Mrs. Crane and the late
Senator Winthrop Murray Crane. and
every day thereafter will be filled with
parties. The last day of Easter week
Saturday. is already chosen for a
number of weddings in Washington
though as yet no Washington bride
has announced the choice of Easter
Monday.
The advent of Spring passes un-
noticed In these recent years, though
not too long ago it was the day of
celebration at the Persian legation,
the day marking the advent of the
Persian New Year, which the head of
the legation. Minister or charge
d'affaires, observed with fitting festiv-
1ty. More recently large reception
has been given March Is to celebrate
the birthday anniversary of the pres
ent Shah.
The Minister and Nine. Djalal will
follow this custom and have issued in
vitations for reception Thursday eve
ming, which will be the first large
party they have given since coming
to Washington in the Summer. The
Minister and Nine Djalal were not
settled in the present legation until
the early Winter, moving from the
house OF Mrs. l. T. Mann, on Sixteenth
street, to the home of the late Mrs.
Francois Berger Moran, on Massachu-
setts avenue
Concert Today.
This week might well be called
symphony orchestra" week. 1t opens
this afternoon with a concert by the
National Symphony Orchestra. DR..
Hans Kinder. conductor Many
teams" of prominent women in So
ciety are pushing campaign for the
completion of the fund for next sea-
sons work. Mrs. Lewis w. Douglas,
wife of the director of the budget,
entertained many Of these teams at
luncheon Friday and Mrs. James
Clement Dunn, wife of the chief of
protocol and conferences for the State
Department. will be hostess next Fri
day to the teams The goal is high,
but the fund has already reached the
halfway mark and will be completed
through the tireless efforts of these
hostesses by Easter.
Mrs. Roosevelt is expected to re-
turn from Puerto Rico the latter part
of the week in time to celebrate with
the President the twenty-ninth ami
versary of their wedding Saturday.
The celebration will be a double one,
for their youngest son, John, will
come from his studies at Groton to
celebrate his birthday anniversary,
which falls March 13. Mrs. Roosevelt
will be the honor guest Monday eve
ming. March 10. of the Women's Ma
tional Press Club at its annual stunt"
party in the ball room of the Willard.
Prominent Women Invited.
The cabinet hostesses. wives of AM
bassadors and many other women dis
tinguished for their own or their
husbands attainments will also be at
the honor table for this merrymaking
of the chroniclers of the doings Of
themselves, their husbands, or both.
These parties had their inception at
a supper party given the club by Mrs
Alvin T. Hert eight or nine years ago,
when at her urging everybody pres
ent did stunt The impromptu
program was so successful the club
has since given one such party each
year. with Mrs. Hert always invited
to be an honor guest.