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womans country i^iud.Mrs. Roosevelt Will Visit Gadsby Tavern This Week For Rare Furniture DisplayCards Are Issued for Another Moonlight Concert on Esplanade of the Pan-American Union.BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT.Mrs. Roosevelt’s return to the White Souse this week will open lor her another busy program of well-doing with perhaps a few events of unofficial nature thrown in. However, even the #ocial entertaining at the White House, tio matter how informal, carries with It an essence of good deeds, and for the evening party she gave in honor of Newspaper writers who “cover” the White House. Mrs. Roosevelt bought from the farm women of the Wayside Market in Maryland more than 50 fresh, fcomemake cakes to accompany the delicious frozen creams and ices that graced the state dining table that night, fluffy in texture and with frosting Ithick and as good as a French confection. the cakes did Maryland women froud.!■ ^J Among the delightful things that gwalt Mrs. Roosevelt this week will be tier visit to historic Gadsby’s Tavern, An Alexandria, when, on the afternoon pf Wednesday, there will be a private (Hew of rare Colonial furniture, a description of which will be broadcast Jrith woman of note speaking. This furniture is from the famous historic {collection from Michie’s Tavern on the Monticello hillside, assembled by Mrs. M^nderson, one of the greatest authorities on Colonial lore in the Old Dominion. Hepplewhite and Chippendale run | riot in the pieces shown and one may mell imagine the delight of Mrs. Roosevelt in making this trip. Friday and thereafter for some time, if not lor always, the collection will be thrown open for public Inspection, the proceeds Used to pay off the debt on the old tavern.With cards out for another moonlight concert on the esplanade of the Pan-American Union, society is still j singing tne praises of Dr. Rowe and his assistant. Dr. Gil Borges, for the management of the event of last week, Ivoted to be one of the most deligr.tiui programs of pan-American music ever given there. And while the great artist-•urgeon played hide and go seek with the uncertain weather of the evening. And dodged wind and rain and carried ©ff the program with glory, society with an Instinct for fun was completely drenched at the charity fete in the garden of Mrs. Joseph Letter's home on Dupont circle.Fleeing from the wrath of the storm and carrying their wares with them, the entire fete, with all its attractions, was given shelter within the mansion. Where the beautiful Mary Leiter was married to Lord Curzon, and the equally charming and more vivacious Daisy latter vu married to the Karl of Suffolk, society girls sold dances to the waitine swain for so much nar aJust to show that when Mrs. John R. Williams takes over the management of a thing it is a certain success, the fete, fair or whatever one might call it, won out over the elements and the Thrift Shop, which sustains institutions for the welfare of children, made money.More kind was the weather that fa-favored the Democrat - Republican ball game for the benefit of the unemployed and the amusement of society folk yesterday. With Congress nearing a close and every man at the Capitol deeply submerged in work, they yet took time for practice, and while there was fun for those who bought tickets, peanuts and colored lemonade, there was some good work by the teams and money made for the needy.When a “little cabinet” member becomes engaged it is a matter of deepest concern, and when it is to the gifted daughter of a Senator who is a prime social favorite besides it Is doubly interesting. and Assistant Secretary of War Woodring and Miss Helen Coolldge, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Marcus Coolidge of Massachusetts, bear away the palm for having given the season in Washington its most charming surprise. Close upon this engagement is l one to be announced from London of the daughter of a diplomat who long held a post in Washington to a man in this city. With an American mother, , it is not strange that the favorite of | the diplomatic colony here should | choose to wed one of her mother’s j countrymen.■There is anything but a forlorn hope shown In the Republican card parties tomorrow in the National Capital Republican Club even though the party is not now in power, for several hundred card enthusiasts have enrolled for the game with Mrs. Ruth Harsha Mac-Kenzie constantly answering the phone at the club house on Sixteenth street at Scott circle for further reservations, j There will be two sittings for the card party, the first one at 2 o’clock and the other at 8, with almost an equal division of players for the two parties.Among the hostesses and those taking tables are : Mrs. Gann, whose magnificent work during the recent campaign would rightfully entitle her to a place in a cabinet, since the Democrats have broken the ice; Mrs. Patrick J. Hurley, Mrs. William N. Doak and a number of 1 other women in and out of political life who worked for the party. «-Mr. and Mrs. Ellis at Home At Rippon Lodge TodayMr. and Mrs. Wade H. Ellis are spending the week end at their Vir-1 ginia country place, Rippon Lodge, on J the Richmond Highway, and will bej at home there informally this after-1YMvm I
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Evening Star
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Sun, Jun 11, 1933
Page 30
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