Evening star., 1941-11-08

and Nine. OumanSky, vile OF lIle
laden with whole surgeons, hams,
turkeys and salads with quantities
of sandwiches. ices and cakes, as
we'll as completely stocked bars were
set up not only in the dining room
and ballroom but on each OF the two
upper floors There was, OF course,
the inevitable caviar in generous
amounts, which did not last as long
as the crowd.
Guests Are Greeted by Hosts
In 18th Street Drawing Room.
The Charge dAffaires and Nine.
Gromyko received the guests in the
large and luxuriously furnished
drawing room which overlooks Six
teenth street. The hostess was
dressed In a soft shade OF brown
crepe skirt, long and gracefully
harine, with lace bodice in paler
shade. Nine. Oumansky, for whom
the party was a farewell fete, wore
an orchid velvet gown harmonizing
with her necklace of square ame-
thysts set in old gold. She has set
no time to leave Washington, for
the retiring Ambassador may return
here for brief stay before turning
over the affairs of the Soviet Union
to M. Maxim Litvinoff, newly ap-
pointed envoy.
The many tables and mantels IN
the various rooms held vases nlled
with flowers, their beauty somewhat
submerged for the numerous guests.
The center of the dining room table
was taken up by very large birth
dav cake surrounded by the sys-
bols of the Soviet Union, the star
and hammer and sickle.
japanese and Chinese
Ambassadors Present.
The japanese Ambassador, Ad-
miral Kichisaburo Nomura, was IN
the vast throng; also the Chinese
Ambassador, DR.. HUI Shin, and a
generous number from the British
Embassy staff. but His Britannia
Maiestys Ambassador and Lady
Halifax were absent, both being out
OF town.
Short fur Jackets were popular
among the feminine guests who Kept
their wraps rather than check them
and add to the delay by deposltlng
and retrieving them. The fact that
onlv one of the doors Of the Embassy
was opened until we'll after 6 O'Clock
added to the jam on the steps
Guests were still arriving at the
closing hour of 7, several wearing
evening clothes and dinner coats,
hr1t the hosts, exhausted, retired to
their own quarters at that hour.
Mrs. Wallace wore a short 1ur
Jacket over her trinity tailored black
suit, her small black hat having
red rose on top, and Mrs. Hull was
in a gray costume. Others from the
cabinet circle at the party we're
the ATTORNEY General and Mrs.
Francis Biddle, the Secretary OF
Agriculture and Mrs. CLAUDE WICK
ard and the Secretary OF Commerce
and Mrs. Jesse H. Jones.
The Turkish Ambassador and
Nine. Ertegun were there, as were
the Belgian Ambassador, Count ROD
ert van der Straten-Ponthoz, ana
his daughter, Mile. Betty van Ger
straten Ponthoz; the Mexican Am
bassador and Sonora de Castillo ma
terra. the Chilean Ambassador ana
Senora de Michels and their daugh-
ter, Senorita Christina Miches, ana
the Cuban Ambassador and Sonora
de Concheso.
The dean of ministers, the SWed-
fsh envoy, NJ. Wolmar Bostrom, &C
companied by Nine. Bostrom, stayed
only a short time. Others among
the heads of legations at the party
were the South African Minister ana
Mrs. Close. the Norwegian Minister
and Nine. Munthe de Morgensterne,
the Czecho-Slovak Minister ana
Nine. Hurban, accompanied by the
Prime Minister of their government,
M. Jan Masaryk; the Egyptian Min
lister and Nine Hassan, and the
Luxembourg Minister and Nine. le
Calais.
Undersecretaries Of State
And Commerce in ThrOng.
The Undersecretart of State and
Mrs. Sumner Welles and the Under
secretary of Commerce and Mrs.
Wayne Chatfield-T Taylor attended
the reception, Mrs. Welles wearing
a light brown crepe frock under her
long cape of mink fur and with 1t
a brown hat matching the fur, a
very becoming cotume to her blond
coloring. Mr.. and Mrs Edward r.
Stettinius, jr.; DR.. and Mrs. Stanley
x, Hornbeck, the Deputy Commls-
sioner of Internal Revenue and Mrs.
Eldon P. King, the Assistant Secre-
tarv of State and Mrs. Adolf A.
Berle, jr.; Mr.. and Mrs. James
Lawrence Houghteling, DR.. and Mrs.
Herbert Feis, the Military Attache
of the Cuban Embassy and Sonora
de Munilla, Mrs. Neitah King, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Burke, Judge and
Mrs Clarence Norton Goodwin, the
former art curator of the Capitol,
DR.. Charles E. Fairman, who retired
last week after many years OF serv-
ice. and Mrs. Fairman: Mr.. Lyle
Smith, Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomo,
commandant of the Marine CORPS
the Civil Service Commissioner. Mrs.
Lucille Foster McMillin: Justice ana
Mrs Justin Miller and Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Morris.