Evening star., 1935-02-23
Dinner Party Tonight
At Italian Embassy.

Dinner Party Tonight
At Italian Embassy.
The Ambassador of Italy, Signor
Augusta RoSso, will entertain at din
ner this evening in honor of the
Speaker of the House and Mrs. Joseph
w. Byrns.
The Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes were hosts at
dinner last evening. entertaining at
the Sulgrave Club in honor of the
British Ambassador. Sir Ronald
Lindsay. Others in the company
were the Italian Ambassador, Signor
Augusta Rosso; the Secretary of War
and Mrs. George H. Dern, Mrs. Claude
A. Swanson, wife of the Secretary
of the Navy; the Minister of Den
mark and Nine. WadSted, Senator
and Mrs. Key Pittman, Senator and
Mrs. James hamilton Lewis, Repre-
sentative Florence p Kahn; Repre-
sentative Isabella Greenway, Assist
ant Secretary of the Interior, Mr..
Oscar L. Chapman; Mr.. and Mrs.
Adolph CaSpar Miller, Mr.. and Mrs
Bruce Kremer, Mrs. Eleanor Pat
terson, Mr. Frederic A. Delano and
Mrs. Clinton Hazard, sister of Sec
retary Ickes, who is their house guest
The Minister of Rumania, NJ
Charles A. Davila, will entertain at
dinner this evening in honor of the
Chief Justice and Mrs. Charles Evans
Hughes.
The Minister of the Union of South
Africa and Mrs. Close were the guests
in whose honor Mrs. ElonZo Tyner
entertained at dinner last evening at
the Shoreham. Among the guests
was Mrs. Wilfred Mann, daughter Of
the Minister and Mrs. Close.
Miss Ida Guffey and Miss Paulette
Guffey, sisters of Senator Joseph F.
Guffey, will be at home Thursday
afternoon from 4:30 until $50 o'clock
at the Carlton, when they will be as
sisted in receiving by Mrs. George
Earle, wife of the Governor of Penn
sylvania, and Mrs Anthony J. Drexel
Biddle of Philadelphia.
OF interest in diplomatic circles Is
the marriage of DR.. Gustave Struve,
third secretary of the German en-
bassy, to Miss Elinor Halstead Casten-
dyk, daughter of Mrs Christian Cast
endyk of Honolulu and the late Mr..
Castendyk. which will take place this
afternoon at 4 o'clock in Stanford,
Calf
The Commissioner of Customs and
Mrs. James H. Moyle have closed their
apartment at the Shoreham while they
are making trip through the South.
They expect to be away several weeks
and will visit in Miami and New Or
leans.
Gen. and Mrs. John A. Johnston
entertained small company at din
ner last evening.
Capt. Floyd T. Gillespie, U. S. A.,
and Mrs. Gillespie have arrived in
Washington from Fort Monmouth, N.
j., and will spend a few days at the
Martinique before going to their new
station, Fort Sheridan, III.
Lieut.. Comdr and Mrs Clifton A.
Sprague of the Naval Air Station at
Norfolk, Va, are over Sunday guests
of Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald at 240o
Sixteenth street northwest
Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, daughter of
the Assistant Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, will
be hostess at cocktail party this
afternoon in honor of Miss Patience
Mccormick -Goodhart, whose marriage
to Mr. James Mcmillan Gibson will
take place March 2.
Lieut. and Mrs. w. P. Whelihan of
Fort Bragg, N. c., are at the Dodge.
Mrs. Read, widow of Gen. George
W. Read, U. S. A., is spending a few
days at the Martinique.
Marriage of Miss Leighty
To Mr.. Childress Today.
The marriage of Miss Dorothy Lee
Leighty. daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
Clyde E. Leighty of Lyon Village, to
Mr.. Cecil ChildreSs of New York, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel H. Childress
of Richmond, Va, will take place this
afternoon at o'clock in the home of
the brides parents in Lyon Village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Demarest Lloyd will
entertain at dinner this evening and
with their guests will later attend the
dance which Capt. william D.
Thomas, U. S. N, and Mrs. Thomas
will give at GreyStone, the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ar1nat, which
they have leased.
Capt. and Mrs. Thomas will be
hosts at dinner before the dance.
Mrs. Emerson Howe will entertain
at tea this afternoon in her apart
ment at 2101 Connecticut avenue
Those who will assist Mrs. Howe will
be Sonora de Alfaro, wife of the Min
lister of Panama; Mrs. William E.
Borah, Nine. Sokolowska, Mrs. j.
Crawford Biggs, Mrs. Harry Norment
and Mrs. Parker w. West.
Mr.. and Mrs Dickinson c. Dufield
Of Hartford, Conn, who are visiting
the latter's brother-in-law and sister,
Brig. Gep. Herman Schulz, U. S. A.,
and Mrs Schulz, will be the guests
of honor at breakfast tomorrow
morning in the Colonial room at
Wardman Park Hotel given by MIR.
and Mrs. Bernard Gallagher. Mrs.
Dufheld is a Washingtonian and will
be remembered as Miss Alice Louise
Edison.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jeffries
Chewing, jr., are in New York. where
they are spending few days at the
Savoy-PlaZa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold A. Lafount
have visiting them for few days at
the Wardman Park Hotel Mr.. and
Mrs. H. G.. Colby of South
Orange, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlos del Mar re-
turned yesterday to the Capital after
three-week visit in Palm Beach and
Miami Beach, Fla
Mr.. and Mrs. William North Stur-
tevant, son-in-law and daughter of
Mrs. del Mar, will entertain at a cock
tail party this afternoon In their home