Evening star., 1937-12-12
White House
Frolic Held
Last Night
Gridiron Widows
Give Program
At Fete.
Continued From First P,se.)

June Rhodes of New York and Mis-
Aayris CLANCY, well-known dancer.
Mrs. Roosevelt's Skh
on the Record; but-
Strictly of the record" was Mrs.
RoseveltS skit, in which she was as
sisted by the cabinet hostesses, but
the widows gave their consent to a
little publicity" in fact, sent out .
press release, q part OF which follows:
Another innovation was Q pay little
souvenir folder in color announcing
the publication of new book,
'Flighty.' Its author. 1t was insinuated.
was Eleanor st. Vitus Ny Day. Sam
Piles Of the volume. illustrated by
sketches, were presented in nursery
rhyme rs follows:
Hi, diddle. diddle.
The cat and the fiddle,
The COW jumped over the moon.
The moon laughed and laughed and
said, you're too late
Eleanor passed here at noon"
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn,
The sleeps in the meadow, the cows
in the corn.
But thinking of fences, and speaking
OF sheep,
When, if ever, does Eleanor sleep?
The Gridiron widows part of the
program was directed by Mrs g.
Gould Lincoln, wife of the president
Of the Gridiron Club, assisted by Mn.
Byron Price, Mrs. Raymond Clapper,
Mrs. Walker S. Buel. Mrs. James
Lloyd Wright, Mrs. George R. Holmes,
Mrs. Raymond P. Brandt, Mrs Lewis
Wood, Mrs. Uric Bell and Mrs. J.
Harry Cunningham.
In the Mrs. Roosevelt skit there
was not only one Eleanor Roosevelt,
but eight extremely lively First Ladies.
Each Mrs. Roosevelt did q special
song and dance to the tune of Here
We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
The Mrs. Roosevelt who was the pre-
miere danseuse was Mrs. Jay G. Hay
den. She led her septuplets in Flea
nor Roosevelt masks and of architec-
tural similarity through the days Of
the week as children still do in their
kindergarten songs. However, the
Eleanor Roosevelt activities, as dis
covered by Gridiron widows, were of
the rare variety not yet practiced by
the First Lady. Monday was the day
she stayed in her bed, Tuesday was
the day she lacquered her nails Other
days were assigned entirely to such
ultrafeminine and un-Rooseveltian
occupations as poker and bridge, tint
ing her hair. darning the socks and
just sitting and thinking. The high
spot of the week was the day COM
pletely devoted to Franklin, my lord
Taking part in the Roosevelt skit
were Mrs. Richard Wilson, Mrs.
FRANKLIN Waltman. jr.: Mrs. Edwin
w. Gableman, Mrs. Lewis Wood, Mrs
William F. Raymond, Mrs. George T.
Durno and Mrs. Arthur B. Pierce.
Fair Weather" as Cabinet
Ladies Get Together.
The Senate Ladies at their weekly
meeting looked astonishingly like the
wives of certain gentlemen who save
the Nation almost daily at the Capt.
tol. They were Mrs. John Nance Gar
ner. played by Mrs. Arthur J. Sin
mott; Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg, Mrs.
Albert L. Warner; Mrs. William E..
Borah. Mrs j. Fred Essary: Mrs. Al
ben w. Barkley, Mrs H. Tudor Nor
sell: Mrs. Bennett Champ Clark, Mrs.
Thomas w. Brahany; Mrs. j. Hamilton
Lewis, Mrs. Arthur S. Henning; Mrs.
Key Pittman, Mrs. Harold Brayman:
Mrs. William G. McAdoo, Mrs. Erwin
D. CAnham, and Mrs. Claude Pepper,
Mrs. Robert B. Smith. The Marine
Band, led by Mr.. w. P. Santelman,
chanted this Washington version of
the Stein Song from The Prince
of Pilsen':
Its Always fair weather
When Senate Ladies get together
With food on the table
And scandal in the air.
Mrs. Garner, flurried from the
extra effort of getting the Vice Presi-
dents shirt ready for lunch with
one Of those foreign diplomats, greeted
her old friend, Mimosa Pittman, who
had hurried in after the gruelling or
deal of changing the diets of her nine