Evening star., 1935-01-22


Senator and Mrs. McNary.
The Italian Ambassador, Signor Au-
. euSto Rosso, will be the guest OF honor
at a dinner given this evening by
Senator and Mrs. Charles McNary in
the Chinese room of the Mayflower
Hotel. There will be 46 guests.
The Ambassador of Japan, Mr.
Hirosi Saito, has left for Athens. Ga.
where he will speak at the University
of Georgia. He will return to Wash
ington Thursday.
Nine. Prochnik, wife of the Min
lister of Austria, entertained at a
luncheon today in honor Of their
debutante daughter, Miss Valerie
Prochnik. Covers were laid for 10
girls.
Nine. Peter, wife of the Minister Of
Switzerland, was hostess at luncheon
today, when covers were laid for IL.
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife Of the
Secretary of the Interior. was the
ranking guest at the luncheon Mrs.
Adrien F. Busick gave today at the
Shoreham.
Among others present were Mrs.
Farllee Branch, wife of the Assistant
Postmaster General; Mrs. John Gar
land Pollard and Mrs. o. Max Gard
ner.
Senator and Mrs. Wallace H. White
will entertain at a dinner tonight in
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some friends from Maine. Covers will
be laid for ID.
Mrs. Copeland, wife OF Senator
Royal S. Copeland of New York, had
friends lunching with her yesterday
at the Carlton.
Mrs. Bingham. wife of former Sen
ator Hiram Bingham, has Cancelled
her DAYS at home, having been called
to Florida by the illness of her mother,
Mrs. Alfred Mitchell, who is at Miami.
Representative and Mrs. Edward C..
Moran, jr., of Maine, entertained IN
honor of Gov. Louis j. Brann, who IS
a guest of the Mayfower Hotel Satur-
day evening at their apartment at the
Hay-Adams House.
Mrs. Moran, jr., is giving a tea this
afternoon in honor of the wives OF
the new members of Congress from
Maine, Mrs Ralph o. Brewster and
Mrs. Simon Hamlin, at her apartment
at the Hay-Adams House Mrs. Wal
lace White, jr.; Mrs. Edward R. Burke,
and Mrs. Ernest Gruening will pour.
The guest list will include many of the
wives of members of the Seventy-thlrd
Congress.
The secretary of the Persian Lega-
ton, Hussein Khan Novab, returned
this morning from a brief stay in New
York, where he was at the Waldorf
Astoria.
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend will en-
tertain at luncheon tomorrow at the
Mayfower in compliment to Nine.
Lea Luboshutz, violinist, and Robert
Casadesus. pianist, following the con-
cert at the hotel.
Lieut.. Gen. Friedrich Won Boetticher,
military attache of the Germany En-
bassy, entertained informally at
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The air attache of the British En-
tassy and Mrs. Reid have left Wash
ington for Panama and are spending
q few days with Mr.. and Mrs. Grover
C. Looming at Manana Point near
Palm Beach en- route.
Secretary Perkins Guest at
Banquet In Barclay Hall.
Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary of
Labor, will be the honor guest and
speaker at a dinner given by the
Washington branch, American AsSo-
citation of University Women, at
Barclay Hall, auditorium of the Y.
w. C. A., Friday, at 7 o'clock. Due
to the limited capacity of the club
dining room, the affair will not be
held at the club house. Miss Perkins
subject will be Economic Security
Mrs. Howard G. Nichols, president of
Washington branch. will preside, and
Judge Fay Bentley will present the
speaker. After the nineteenth the
reservations will be open to guests
sponsored by club members.
Federal Trade Commissioner and
Mrs. Ewin L. Davis have as their
guests the formers brother -in-law and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. O. F. Goetz OF
Nashville, Tenn. Mr.. and Mrs. Goetz
are en- route to New York to visit Mrs
Goetz's brother and sister-in-law, the