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NEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY
Passing of Time-Honored Charity Ball
Deplored; Thrift Shop to Offerßargains
Children’s Hospital Ball
Has Been Gala Event |
for Over Thirty Years
No Charity Ball this sea
son! That’s rather discon
certing news. With the num
ber of benefit balls in
creased from three a winter
to somewhere in the neigh
borhood of three a week,
interest in this form of en
tertaining has rather waned,
but for 30 years or more
the ball benefit of
the Children’s Hospital has
• remained THE Charity Ball
and nothing could dim its
luster. It could ’always
boast the attendance of the
President and the First
Lady of the Land and it al
ways brought out the most
brilliant company of any
fete for charity.
Community Chest
Now, however, the Board of
the Children’s Hospital has de
cided to affiliate with the Com
munity Chest and will abide by
the rule to make no separate
appeal for funds. Moreover, the
Children’s Hospital is to share
with other children’s charities
in the proceeds of the proposed
Inaugural Charity Ball, to be
held on the night of March 4
provided President-elect Hoo
ver decides against having an
official inaugural ball. And the
hospital is affiliated with the
Child Welfare Society, the
Children’s Country Home, and
the Parental Clinic of Colum
bia Hospital as a beneficiary of
the Thrift Shop, which is to be
opened soon at 504 Tenth St.—
a sort of glorified rummage
sale on a permanent basis.
Co-ordination
So the Children’s Hospital will
probably be able to worry along
very comfortably until the Com
munity Chest organizes its drive
for funds and arranges for dis
bursements to the phil
anthropic -organizations which
have joined in this move to co
ordinate the philanthropic activi
ties of the 1 Capital. Some of
- the other groups will not be
in such a happy situation, for
the Community Chest wifi of
necessity be some time in getting
under way and it will presuma
bly be necessary for many of the
organizations to raise funds to
bridge the gap.
-The decrease in the number of
Insistent and persistent demands
for aid. which will come when
the Community Chest gets into
action, will be welcome. But the
Charity Ball will be missed, as it
has been a social milestone for
years.
In the old days, when the ball
was given at the Arlington Hotel,
now swept away by the march of
progress, the little group of or
ganizers used to make the
chicken salad for the party with
their own’fair hands. Now their
daughters’ daughters are mem
bers of the women's board of the
hospital and its president is Mrs.
Frederick H. Brooke. whose
mother, the late Mrs. A. E.
Bates, filled the same post for
many years. Mrs. Stanley Rine
hart <Mary Roberts Rinehart)
was the chairman of the ball
committee for a year or two and
Mrs. James F. Curtis held that
important position last year.
W'hen the largest sum ever raised
at the ball was turned into the
coffers of the hospital.
* ♦ ♦
The Thrift Shop
The inaugural charity ball—if
any—is to be under the chairman
ship of Mrs. John Allan Dough
erty. She, too, is chairman of the
joint committee for the Thrift
Shop, having first sponsored the
idea in Washington and laid most
of the ground work for >ts prom
ised successful career.
,Those who have patronized the
'annual rummage sales of the Child
Welfare Society, of which the
Thrift Shop is an outgrowth, know
the appeal to bargain hunters.
Paris gowns, worn once or twice,
enchanting negligees, old bits of
tapestry, rare china and occa
sional pieces of antique furniture
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MME. GONZALO ZALDUMBIDE, wife of the new
Minister of Ecuador, and one of the charming women of
the diplomatic group, who will be guests at the White
House dinner tonight. Mme. Zaldumbide is winning rec
ognition as one of the beauties of the corps.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
To Give Recital For'
Smith College Club
Much interest is evidenced in
the character sketches which are
to be presented by Cornelia Otis
Skinner under the auspices of the
Smith College Club of Washing
ton for the benefit of their
scholarship fund, on December 15
at Memorial Continental Hall.
Among those who have taken
tickets are Mrs. Breckinridge
Long, Mrs. Luke Wilson, Mrs.
John B. Larner, Mrs. David St.
Pierre Gaillard. Mrs. R. M. Kauff
mann, Mrs. Alexander Wother
spoon, Mrs. Heni y Parsons Erwin,
and Mrs. William Chapin Hunt
ington. Tickets may be had at
Mrs. Wilson Greene’s Concert
Bureau.
♦ ♦ ♦
Senator Hugo L. Black arrived
in Washington yesterday, and has
again taken an apartment at the
Wardman park Hotel for the
season. Mrs. Black and their two
small sons, Hugo, jr., and Stirling,
will remain at their home in
Birmingham until after the Christ
mas holidays.
♦ * ♦
Home From Europe
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blake
Dewey, jr.. who spent last night
in W’ashington at the Mayflower,
are now en- route to Rye, N. Y.,
to visit Mr. and Mrs. Lew Wal
lace. They will remain East until
after the Yale-Harvard football
game and will then go to Chicago.
Mrs. Dewey is the former Miss
Gwendoline Ffoulke Smith, of
Washington. They were married
in Paris on September 18.
♦ ♦ *
Admiral and Mrs. Edward
Eberle have as their guest. Miss
Meta Thompson, who has recently
returned from Europe. She will
pass the winter in Philadelphia.
♦ * *
Mrs. William Wheatley, who
has been abroad for several
months, has returned to Washing
ton and opened her house for the
winter. She will be at home on
December 1 after 4 o'clock. No
cards have been sent out.
» * ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Taylor
McKnew will entertain for their
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Starling
McKnew, at a tea dance at the
Mayflower on December 14. in
honor of two of the season's deb
utantes, Miss Elizabeth Powell
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The President and Mrs. Cool
idge will be hosts tonight at
the annual diplomatic dinnef at
the White House, their guests
being the chiefs of foreign n#is
sibns and their wives. A music
program will follow the dinner.
Last evening the President and
Mrs. Coolidge, with Mrs. Frank
W. Stearns, who Is visiting at
the White House, attended the
presentation of “Rosalie” at the
National Theater.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Minister of Sweden and
Mme. Bostrom entertained at
dinner last night in honor of the
attache of the legation, Alexis
Aminoff and Mme. Amlnoff.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Minister of Canada and
Mrs. Vincent Massey have issued
Invitation* for a reception in
honor of the visiting British jour
nalists tomorrow afternoon from
4:80 until 6:30 o’clock. '
* ♦ ♦
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Henry
H. Rousseau- will be the guests of
Judge and Mrs. William H. Jack
son. of New York, at tea this
afternoon in the palm court of
the Mayflower. Mr. and Mrs.
Stokeley Morgan and Wglter Pen
field will also be present.
* ♦ *
Virginia Breakfast
Miss Mary A. Lindsley enter
tained at an old-time Virginia
breakfast party today at the
Grace Dodge Hotel, when the
dishes served were not only cook
ed in old Virginia fashion but
were composed of ingredients
from that State, famous for its
good food. The guests were all
the deans of the schools of home
economics in the Land Grant Col
leges which are now holding a
convention in this city. Each
college sent three delegates to the
convention. The guests, number
ing about 30, included Dr. Mar
garet Justin, dean of the Kansas
Land Grant College; Dean Ava B.
Milam, of Oregon; Dean Finney,
of Nebraska; Dean Helen Whitti
more, of Rhode Island; Dean Jean
Kreuger. of Michigan, and Dean
Anna LacLeod, of Syracuse Uni
versity.
* * *
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entertained a small company at
the supper dance at the Club
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THURSDAY.pJOVEMBER 22, 1928