Evening star., 1935-01-20
BY SALLIE v. HI. PICKETT.

In addition to the state dinner to the
diplomatic corps Thursday night, the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt have but
few engagements of strictly social ma
ture, and while society in general and
at large rushes madly about on its
round of calling-with cabinet calls
of major importance-Mrs. Roosevelt
will stay within the mansion and this
week will open the portals to hundreds
of woman visitors. Tomorrow another
of those gigantic entertainments for
which the White House has become
famous with the Roosevelt adminlstra-
ton will take place when Mrs. Roose-
velt's guests at buffet luncheon will
number about 800, selected from the
Chautauoua Woman's Club.
Event with so brilliant an event as
the diplomatic reception, so pleasant an
event as the Supreme Court reception
and so splendid an affair as the diplo-
matte dinner this week to think about,
the Presidents birthday balls all over
the country are paramount in impor-
tance. Looming up from every section
of the country are descriptions glow
ing and growing in brilliancy of balls
that read like a trail of royal events
instead of benefits for the Roosevelt
Warm Springs Foundation.
In Washington the Roosevelt birth
day ball is rolling up interest and
splendor with the passing of each day.
Mrs John r. Williams is chairman
in Washington for the ball the night
of January 80 and the entire city
seems falling in her wake to make it
even a greater success than that OF
last year. With Sonora de Calderon,
wife of the Spanish Ambassador, lead
ing the list of diplomatic women and
others of the corps joining her as
patronesseS, the cabinet women lined
UP in the same capacity and a Demo-
cratic Senate and House behind the
whole movement, the ball cannot fail
to be a magnificent credit to Wash
1ngton.
Difficult to handle but having the
charm of differing from all other balls
in arrangement, the supper feature
will take place Of the boxes usually
selected as the best means of paying
the expenses of so large an event.
Mrs. Reeve Lewis is chairman of the
Table Committee, and remembering
the arrangement of last year, one
must know that this Is the most i'm
nf "a
cially are out-of-town people clamor-
ing for tables IN the main room and
others are content with tables in any
of the various rooms that will be open
for the evening Just what the ar
rangements are remains to be an
nounced, but it is certain there will
be many surprises and that Mrs.
RooSevelt-who does not care for the
term First Lady-will figure as the
central attraction just as she did last
year.
On Thursday Mrs. Roosevelt will
preface her appearance at the diplo-
matte reception by taking luncheon
with Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, the
dainty wife of the Secretary of the
Navy. Arriving at the White House
as guests, perhaps over Sunday, are
Mrs. Gait and Mrs. Pennebacker, all
In readiness for the activities of the
League for the Cause and Cure of War.
And again, Mrs. Roosevelt has ac-
eepted the invitation of the Women's
National Press Club to attend the
annual stunt party and dinner on
March 5 at the willard, when for the
second time she will sit by and hear
the New Deal mirthfully panned. Mrs.
Garner. wife Of the Vice President,