Evening star., 1937-12-08
WhiteHouse
TOHave BUSY
Yule Season
Parties Announced
For Younger Set
Of Family.
By MARGARET HART.

Reprinted From Yesterdays Late Editions.
TINE social program at the Ex-
ecutive Mansion during the
holiday season will boast two
gay parties for the younger
members of the family of the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt.
On December 80 the Chief Execu-
tive and Mrs. Roosevelt will entertain
about 400 young people at dance
for their younger son, Mr.. John
Roosevelt, and his fiancee, Miss Anne
Lindsay Clark, daughter of Mrs. F.
Haven Clark of Boston. Mr.. John
Roosevelt will join his parents at the
White House about December 81 and
Miss Clark will arrive at the mansion
the day after Christmas Mr.. Franklin
Roosevelt, jr.. and his bride, the for
mer Miss Ethel du Pont, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene du Pont, will
come to the White House Christmas
eve to remain overnight, but will leave
to have Christmas dinner with Mr.
and Mrs. du Pont. They will return
to the White House for the dance on
the 30th.
Little Miss Sarah Delano Roosevelt,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Roosevelt, will share honors with her
young cousin, William Donner Roose-
welt, son of Mr.. Elliott Roosevelt and
the former Miss Elizabeth B. Donner,
at Christmas party December 27 at
the White House. Young Bill" as
he Is called by the family, will be ac-
companied to the White House by his
mother, who is now Mrs. Curtin
Winsor, and Mr.. Winsor, arriving the
day of the children's party.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
have planned to have two Christmas
dinners at the mansion, one at the
luncheon hour, when their grand
children will be with them, and one
in the evening for the groWn-up men,
bers of their family. Also at the White
House will be Mr.. and Mrs. John
Roosevelt, the Presidents mother, Mrs.
James Roosevelt, and his sister-in-law
Mrs. James Roosevelt Roosevelt; Mr..
Harry Hopkins and his daughter, Miss
Diana Hopkins.
Traditions in the family of the Pres
ident and Mrs. Roosevelt will be
carried out on Christmas eve, with
the President reading to the family
group Charles Dickens Christmas
Carol" and later stockings will be
hung on the upper floor of the man
sion. AS has been the custom in
recent years, the stockings will be
emptied and presents opened in the
Presidents bedroom early Christmas
morning. There will be two Christmas
trees at the mansion, one in the east
room and the other the family tree
upstairs.
Mrs. Roosevelt has an unusually
crowded program in the days pre-
ceding the holiday, for in addition
to the two trees at the mansion Mrs.
Roosevelt will assist in trimming two
other trees, one at the Women's Trade
Union League in New York and the
other at her home at Hyde Park for
the staff of the Roosevelt estate. The
tree at the Trade Union League will
be decorated December 18 and on De-
cember 20 Mrs. Roosevelt will be
present at the Christmas party there.
The Hyde Park tree will be trimmed
December 10.
Thursday morning, December %, at
$50 o'clock, at the Capitol Theater,
Mrs. Roosevelt will assist in dis
tributing baskets to the less fortunate,
under the auspices Of the Central
Union Mission.
Socially, the Presidents wife
throughout the next few weeks will
be equally as busy as she is in the
role of assisting in making Christmas
for others. This afternoon Mrs.
Roosevelt will entertain at two teas,
and earlier in the day she entertained
the cabinet hostesses at luncheon,
when plans for the official at-homes Of
this group were discussed. Mrs.
Roosevelt held her weekly press con-
ference this morning. when several
representatives of foreign periodicals
were present. Among them was Mrs.
Waka Yamada Of the Shufo No Tomo,
which is known as the Ladies' Home
journal of Japan. Mrs. Yamada, who