Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-09
Roosevelt and King Pledge
Friendship at State Dinner
Eighty Guests, Mostly High Government
Officials, Participate in Toast

Coon Creek Girls, who sang folk
songs of the mountains to their
own accompaniment. Then these
young ladies from Pinchem- Tight
Hollow, KY, proceeded to play the
tunes for the Soco Gap square,
dance team with Sam L. Queen CALL
ing the figures while the young peo-
pie stamped, whirled and swung
through their dances.
Marian Anderson, whose last ap-
pearance in Washington followed a
controversy which made her White
House concert even more significant,
sang My Souls Been Anchored in
the Lord, T" "Trampin and the song
she has long been identified with
because of the special beauty she
puts into its rendition, Schu0erts
AVA Maria"
The only imported number on
Lawrence Tibbett's program was
Relationships The Pilgrim Song"
His mighty baritone, otherwise, was
lifted to the works OF two American
composers, "Slyvia's Hair Is Like the
Night" by Obey Speaks and "If Love
Hath Entered the Heart" by Joseph
Marx.
Kate Smith, Washington's leading
contribution to the jazz, and later,
the swing era, sang a favorite of
President Roosevelt's and Incl
dentally the song which won her
fame, when the Moon Comes Over
the Mountain" Her other brief
numbers were These Foolish
Things" and "Macushla."
The guests at the dinner included
those accompanying their majesties,
the Governor General of Canada,
the Right Hon. w. L. Mackenzie
King; the British Ambassador and
the Hon. Lady Lindsay; the two
ladies in waiting to the Queen, the
Lady Nunburnholme and the Lady
Katharine Seymour; the Earl of FL
don and the Earl of Arilie, his mai
esty's aides, Alan Lascelles, who had
much to do with the arrangements
for this all-important visit; Surg.
Capt. Henry White, ROYAL Navy;
George F. Steward, liaison officer
during the tour; Capt. Michael
Adeane, 1t. Col the Hon. Piers w.
Leigh and Comdr. E. M. c. Abel
Smith, Royal Navy, aides to his
majesty, and Mr.. A. D. P. Heeney.
Other guests on the list as issued
by the State Department were the
Vice President and Mrs John Nance
Garner, who broke their rule of not
dining out; Mrs. Charles Evans
Hughes, wife of the Chief Justice of
the United States: Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, widow of the wartime Presi-
dent, who was guest at Bucking-
ham Palace during the late Presi-
dent Wilson's trip abroad at the time
of the peace conference at Versailles;
the Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives and Mrs.
William B. Bankhead; the Secretary
of State and Mrs. Cordell Hull. the
Minister of the Union of South
Africa and Mrs Ralph w. Close,
Lady Marler, wife of the Canadian
Minister; the Secretary of the Treas
ury and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr.;
the Secretary of War and Mrs.
Harry H. Woodring, the Attorney
General, Mr.. Frank Murphy; the
Postmaster General and Mrs. James
A. Farley, Mrs. Claude A. Swanson,
wife of the Secretary of the Navy;
the Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, the Secretary
OF Agriculture and Mrs. Henry "A.
Wallace, Secretary of Commerce
Harry L. Hopkins, Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins: Sena-
tor Key Pittman, the President
pro tempore of the Senate, who
also is chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee of the
the Senate and Mrs Pittman: Sem
ator William E. Borah, member Of
that committee. and Mrs. Borah;
Representative Sol Bloom, a mem
Der of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs of the House, and Mrs.
Bloom; Mrs. Sam D. Reynolds. wife
of the chairman of that committee;
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers,
also a member of the Foreign At
fairs Committee; the U. S. Army
Chief of Staff, Gen. Maln Craig,
and Mrs. Craig; the Chief of Naval
Operations, Admiral William D.
Leahy, and Mrs. Leahy: the Mai.
Gen. Commandant of the Marine
Corps and Mrs. Thomas Holcombe:
the Secretary to the President and
Mrs. Stephen T. Early. Brig. Gen.
Edwin M. Watson. Military Aide and
Secretary to the President, and Mrs.
Watson; the Assistant Secretary of
State and Mrs. Sumner Welles, Mai.
Gen. Hugh A. Drum, Rear Admiral
James o. Richardson. Chief of the
Bureau of Navigation; the Surgeon
General U. S. NJ Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Ross T. Mcintyre, Capt. Daniel
j. Callaghan, the Presidents Naval
Aide; the Chief of Protocol of the
State Department, George T. Sum-
merlin; Miss Marguerite LIE Hand,
the Presidents secretary; Frederic
A. Delano. the Presidents uncle:
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Parish, uncle
and aunt of Mrs. Roosevelt: her
brother, G. Hall Roosevelt; the sons
and daughters-in-law of the hosts,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Roosevelt, I'd ::
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt and
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, jr., and Miss Malvina C..
Thompson and Mrs. James M.
Helm, secretaries to Mrs. Roosevelt.