Evening star., 1935-05-18

oxfords to match. Mrs. Dern wore
a fingertip length coat of pale gold
silk and a -brimmed hat turned
up at the back.
Among those who wore truly lovely
garden or afternoon gowns was Mrs.
Henry Mprgenthau, jr, who arrived
early with the Secretary Of the
Treasury and remained late. Her
gown was of black and white figured
chiffon, made on graceful lines the
skirt quite long and flowing. With
medium size hat of black straw
trimmed at the front with q black
and white flower, smart black and
white bag and other accessories to
correspond Mrs. Morgenthau was a
striking figure. She wore also q hand
some scarf of deep bands of pointed
fox. Mrs. Emil Hurja, the petite wife
of the vice chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee, was an
other in a typical garden frock, her
dress being of pale green and off,
white figured chiffon with motifs of
bright green ribbon on the bodice
and along the lower part of the full
skirt. She wore an off-white straw
hat, which like her bag. carried out
the color scheme of her costumes.
r EPRE SENTATIVE EDITH
~ NOURSE ROGERS and Repre-
sentative Florence P. Kahn were
among the feminine members of the
house at the party. Representative
Rogers wore a cardinal red crepe
gown made with a hip-length cape
and her shiny straw sailor hat trim
med with narrow band of flowers
to match her gown. Mrs. Rogers is
scarcely ever without a flower of
some kind and at the function yeSter-
day she had attached to her hand
bag cluster of white gardenias.
Secretary of Commerce and Mrs.
Daniel c. Roper were accompanied
to the party by their daughter, Miss
Grace Roper, who wore a coral red
sport costume with white accessories.
Mrs. Roper was in blue and white
figured silk, with a blue hat with a
narrow brim.
Mrs. Keyes. wife of Senator Henry
Wilder Keyes of New Hampshire had
under 'her wing" the new members
OF the Congressional set from her
State, including Mrs. Brown, wife of
Senator Fred H Brown and Mrs.
Rogers, wife of Representative Will
lam N. Rogers. Mrs. Keyes wore a
pearl grey afternoon gown, a turban
OF flowers to match and a chinchilla
scarf. Mrs Brown was in a gown
OF blue lace made with a Jacket,
and she wore dark blue straw hat,
slippers and gloves to match. About
her shoulders she wore two hand
some sable scarfs. Mrs. Rogers was
in an afternoon gown of pastel fig
ured chiffon, made with a flowing
skirt and the neckline caught at the
front by a large flower of the same
material.
MRS. JAMES ]. DAVIS, wife of the
Senator from Pennsylvania, in a
becoming gown Of yellow chiffon with
picture hat of yellow straw, laugh
ingly pointing out that the Davis
children were watching the party
from the roof. The Davis home ad-
joins the embassy grounds, and
prizes of the grounds are their spread
ing locust trees and In passing Mrs.
Davis called attention to the trees
now in full bloom.
Representative and Mrs. Herman
Koppiemann were among the Con-
greSSional guests, Mrs. Kopplemann
in an afternoon gown of black fig
ures in flowers Of soft blues and rose.
Her hat was picture model of black
straw and she wore a black fox scarf.
Representative and Mrs Sol Bloom
had with them their daughter, Miss
Vera Bloom, who had on a Spring.
like costume of blue figured silk. Her
hat was of blue straw with a cluster
of red and blue flowers at the i'm
mediate front of the narrow brim
A striking figure was Countess van
der Straten-Ponthoz, wife of the Bel
gian Ambassador, her costume of
black and white fiowered chiffon and
her hat with a generous brim was
of black straw
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, in fig
ured crepe with a floppy brimmed
hat among the early arrivals who left