Evening star., 1935-05-07
%HE President will have as his
overnight guests at the White
House Friday, Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd

House Friday, Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
will give the annual garden party to
the disabled veterans in service hos
pitals in and near Washington on
the afternoon Of May Is.
May is the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt will have as guests over
night, the Governor of New York
end Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman for
whom they will entertain at dinner
that night.
Mrs. Roosevelt was the honor guest
at the luncheon today Of the Seventy
second Club, composed Of the wives
OF members of the Seventy-second
Congress. Mrs. Brent Spence is presi-
dent of the club and Mrs. Wesley Dis
ney is secretary.
Mrs. Roosevelt will receive the
members Of the District Federation of
Music Clubs at the White House this
afternoon and later will receive the
National League of Women Voters.
The cabinet hostesses will meet with
Mrs. Roosevelt tomorrow ut 1890
O'Clock preceding the large luncheon
the Presidents wife will give at the
White House. Following the luncheon
Mrs. Roosevelt will leave Washington
to be 'off the record" until the mid
die of next week. She will return
to the Capital either TUESDAY, night
or early Wednesday. On Wednesday
with the cabinet hostess. Mrs. Roose-
velt will entertain at picnic on the
White House lawn for the members of
the Senate Ladies Luncheon Club.
Mrs. John Nance Garner, wife of the
Vice President, is president Of the
club.
DR.. Louise Stanley, chief of the
Bureau Of Home Economics. attended
Mrs. Roosevelt's press conference this
morning, and told Of one of the new
projects of her department. Mrs.
Roosevelt will hold her next press
conference Wednesday morning, May
IS.
Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife Of the Secre-
tary Of State, will entertain a small
company at tea this afternoon in her
apartment at the Carlton Hotel, for
Mrs. David Coker of South Carolina,
who is visiting her parents, the Secre-
tary of Commerce and Mrs. Daniel G.
Roper.
Owing to wet weather, the gar
den party at the British Embassy
in honor of the Kings silver jubilee
Is postponed until Friday, May IT,
from 4 until o'clock. The invita-
tions already issued will be good for
May IT, weather permitting, and Sir
Ronald and Lady Lindsay hooe that
all who have been invited will be
able to come on that day. No further
invitati tions will be issued.
The Ambassador Of Spain and
Senora de Calderon entertained at
the first of series Of dinner parties
last evening in the embassy.
The retiring first secretary Of the
Cuban Embassy. DR.. Vincente valdes-
Rodriguez, has left for Havana. where
he will spend month before going
to Mexico to take up his duties as
first secretary of the embassy there.
Sonora de Valdes- Rodriguez will re-
main in Washington until later In the
season.
DR.. Pedro Rodriguez-Capote has
arrived in the city to take up his
duties as first secretary of the Mex
ican Embassy. Sonora de Rodriguez
Capote will join him here later in
the year.
Mrs. Trammell, wife of Senator
Park Trammell, was the guest in
whose honor Mrs. william H. Stand
ley, wife of the chief of naval opera
tions, entertained at luncheon today.
Mrs. Disney. wife of Representative
Wesley E. Disney, has as her guest
Mrs. B. v. Emery of Tulsa, Okla.
Senor DR.. Jose Manuel Lara, sec
retary of the Cuban Embassy and
Sonora de Lara, with their family. are
again in their apartment at the Ward
man Park Hotel. Sonora de Lara
and their two children. Mercedes and
Fernando, spent a few months in
Florida.
Former Secretary Of the Interior
DR.. Hubert Work of Englewood Colo,
is spending a week or 10 days in
Washington at the Mayflower, accom-
panied by Mrs. Work, the former Mrs.
Ethel Reed Gano of Colorado Be-
fore returning West, they win 60 to
Philadelphia and New York and also
spend q few days IN Atlantic City.
DR.. Work was chairman Of the Re-
publican National Committee from
1928 to 1929.
The former Undersecretary Uf State
and Mrs. Frank L. Polk of New York
City are passing a short time at the
Carlton.
The former assistant to the Attor-
ney General and Mrs. John Lord
O'Brian Of Buffalo, N. Y, are at the
Wardman Park Hotel, where they have
taken q suite for short visit.
Judge and Mrs. Wilbur Turner,