Evening star., 1935-01-30

members Of the family and
i close friends at dinner this
evening in celebration of the
Presidents birthday anniversary. A
cake with only 81 candles. tradition
in the Roosevelt family, will grace the
table. After the dinner Mrs. Roosevelt
will attend the official ball in cele-
bration of the Presidents birthday
which will be given at the Shoreham
for the benefit of the youthful vic
Tins of infantile paralysis and for
research on the desease. She will be
accompanied by her daughter, Mrs.
John Boettiger; her son and daughter
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt;
Miss Marguerite LELAND and Mrs.
Malvina Schneider At the table with
Mrs. Roosevelt and her party will be
Mrs. John r. Williams, chairman OF
the ball; Mr.. Raymond T. Baker,
chairman of the Executive Committee;
the Ambassador of France and Nine.
de Laboulaye, the Assistant Secretary
of the Navy and Mrs. Henry Latrobe
Roosevelt, Col Edward NJ Watson
and Capt. Wilson Brown, military and
naval aides to the President.
Prior to the arrival of Mrs. Roose-
welt and her party at the hotel, all
Of the program in the lounge will take
place in the center Of the floor, there
by keeping clear the steps and the
passageway from the entrance of the
hotel to the main dining room. Dur
ing the singing in the lounge, incom-
ing guests will be diverted to the
dining room entrance.
Immediately following the arrival of
Mrs Roosevelt, Miss Hawkes. young
pupils will do their two dance num-
bers, a polka and a minuet. There
after, the program will be continued
in the dining room, to be repeated
from the steps of the lounge.
The singing numbers will be given
from the stage in the lounge and from
the stage in the dining room.
The present plan of entertainment
Is as follows:
Phil Baker, accordionist, will act
as master of ceremonies. Other art
lists to appear will be Rubinoff with
his violin, Eddie Cantor, who is COM
ing down from New York as the chief
attraction of the floor show; Nan
johnson, who will sing group Of
songs (she has been patient at the
Warm Springs Sanitarium, also sang
at the White House last year,; a
Russian group from the Club Troika,
featuring Boris Yourloff, CosSack
sword dancer; also the ball room
dance team, Frederick and Barbara,
from the Shoreham floor show.
A guard of honor, 100 soldiers, sail
ors and Marines, will form an aisle
through which Mrs. Roosevelt and her
official party will pass to the honor
table in the main ball room, escorted
by White House aides. At the steps
leading into the ball room, Mrs. VIII
liamS, Admiral Grayson and Col. Wat
son will greet the party. Other White
House aides will escort members of
the cabinet, diplomats and other high
ranking officials to their tables.
The Secretary of State and Mrs
Cordell Hull will have at their table
the Attorney General and Mrs. Homer
S. Cummings, the Secretary Of Com
merce and Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson and Assistant Sec
retary of State R. Walton Moore
The Secretary of the Navy and MIS-.
Claude A. Swanson will have at their
table Senator and Mrs. Peter Goe,et
Gerry and Senator and Mrs. Key Pitt
man.
The Minister of the Union of South
Africa and Mrs. Close and the Chief
of Naval Operations and Mrs. William
H. Standley will entertain parties.
Justice and Mrs. Lawrence Groner
will have at their table former Attor-
ney General and Mrs. A. Mitchell Pal
mer and Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm Nc
Conihe.
The Minister of Austria and Nine.
Prochnik will be guests of Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Mark Bristol.
With the Special Assistant to the
Secretary OF State and Mrs. James
Clement Dunn will be Mr.. and Mrs.
Lammot Belin and Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip Coffin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert v. Fleming
will have with them Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Disler, former Commissioner
and Mrs. Sidney Tahaferro and Mr..
and Mrs. John S. Crosby.
Among others who will have table
parties will be the Ambassador of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
and Nine. Troyanovsky. The Ambas-
sador of Brazil and Sonora de Aranha,
the Ambassador of Belgium and
Countess van der Straten-Ponthoz,
Representative and Mrs. Burnham,
the commercial secretary of the British
Embassy and Mrs. Leander McCor-
mick -GOodhart, the Assistant Secre-
tary of State and Mrs Wilbur J. Carr,
Princess Boncompagni, Mrs. Frederick
Dec. Faust, Mr.. and Mrs. Reeve LeiS,
Capt. and Mrs. w. W. Gailbraith, Ad-
miral and Mrs. Richardson, Prince
and Princess de Ligne, the Misses
Patten, Mr.. and Mrs. Copley Amory,
Mrs. Franklin K. Lane, jr.; Mrs.
Kenna ElkinS, Mr.. Henry L. Doherty,
Lady Lister Kay, Mrs. William Bev-
erly Mason, Miss Mary Hewitt Myers,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Taylor, Mr.. and
Mrs Beale r. Howard, Mrs. Herbert
j. Slocum, Mr.. Frank Jelleff, Canon
Anson Phelps Stokes, Mrs. Oscar
Jarecki, Mrs. Joseph Letter, the Chevy
Chase School for Girls, Capt. H. Bark
ley, Mr.. Clayton Wright, Mr.. Ad
WhiteSide of New York.
Mrs. Roosevelt attended the last of
Mrs. Townsend's morning musicales
this season, which was given this
morning at the Mayflower. Accom-
panying Mrs. Roosevelt were Sonora
de Calderon, wife of the Ambassador
Of Spain; Mrs. Homer S. Cummings,