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News and Gossip of People and Events in Washington
In Washington
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Artk/ uMdX —
[ More and more is Washington becoming a center for noted
artists and this winter has been exceptional in that it has
brought several who are outstanding in the art world, not-
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MRS. JAMES J. DAVIS
Yesterday afternoon, a distinguished company was enter
tained at tea in Mr. Kiss’ studio at the Mayflower, the
guests being especially invited by Mgr. James H. Ryan,
rector of the Catholic'University, for a private showing of
the portrait Mr. Kiss is now painting.
The portrait of this well-known and popular church digni
tary is not only a portrait, but a picture as well. It is a strik
ing emphasis of a forceful character and notable personality,
which the artist portrays with dash and technically perfect
, vigor. The strength and power of line and color composition
' is arresting. The personal element in the artist’s style comes
’ forward brilliantly in this portrait. In addition, the quality
is its foremost claim to rank.
Though not quite completed, Mgr. Ryan desired to show it
to his friends, and among the many well-known members of
! the Diplomatic Corps, the clergy and the smart set in Wash
ington who were present were the Most Rev. P. Fumasoni
' Biondi, apostolic delegate; Very Rev. Paul Marella. cura
' tor of apostolic delegation, and the Very Rev. W. Coleman
NVvills, president of Georgetown University.
Diplomats Among Those Present
The diplomatic group present included the Minister of
the Irish Free State and Mrs. Michael Mac White, the Minis
’ ter of Nicaragua and Senora Maria de Sacasa and Senorita
Maria Sacasa, the Minister of Egypt, Scsostris Sidarouss
Pasha; the Minister of Yugoslavia, Dr. Leonide Pitamic; the
Minister of Bolivia and Senora de Abelli. Justice and Mrs.
Pierce Butler. Count Alberto Marchetti di Muriaglio, coun
selor of the Italian Embassy; Signor Eugenio Bonardelli,
secretary of the Italian Embassy; Herr Ernst W. Meyer,
first secretary of the German Embassy; Mr. Bojidar P.
’ Stoianovitch, secretary of the Yugoslavian Legation; Sena-
I tor and Mrs. James J. Davis, Senator and Mrs. Robert D.
’ Carey and Miss Sara Darlington Carey, Senator and Mrs.
I James E. Watson. Mrs. George Cabot-Lodge, Miss Josephine
• , Patten. Miss Helen Patten. Mr. and Mrs. James Clement
1 Dunn. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Treadwell, Miss Anna Randolph.
Miss Mary Randolph. Mrs. Kingman Brewster. Mrs. Samuel
, E. Allen. Miss Allen. Mrs. Ralph Worthington. Mrs. Eugene
1 L. Vidal, Mrs. E. J. Dawley. Mrs. Samuel K. Martin 3d,
Senator and Mrs. Felix Hebert, Mrs. Donna Harter, Mrs. Ru
dolph Gunther, Mrs. Elonzo Tyner. Mrs. J. T. Wailes. Mrs.
) |W. L. Dunlop, jr., Mr. Bernard Heffernan, and Mr. Martin
' Porkay, the noted art connoisseur.
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Mrs. Hoover in N. Y.
Mrs. Hoover left last night
for New York to attend the
eleventh anniversary luncheon
of the Woman’s National Re
publican Club, held at the
Waldorf-Astoria, today. She
will return to the Capital to
morrow.
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The British ambassador, Sir
Ronald Lindsay, will go to New
York today to join Lady Lind
say, who arrived in that city
Thursday. Shortly after their
return to the Capital, the latter
■will leave for the South, where
she will spend part of the
winter.
♦ * *
The ambassador of Chile,
Don Miguel Cruchaga, enter
tained informally at dinner last
evening at the embassy, guests
in honor of his brother-in-law,
Senor Don Jorge Matte, who is
en route from Europe to his
home in Chile.
* ♦ ♦
The Minister of Finland. Mr.
I L. Astrom. will be the guest of
honor, at the Diplomatic Sun
day Evening Salon, to be given
by the Bureau of Commercial
Economics, tomorrow evening,
at the Shoreham. Motion pic
tures of Finland will be shown
on this occasion, and Dr. Niilo
| Idman. Counselor of the Lega
; tion, will speak. The salons
are open only to members of
the Bureau of Commercial
Economics and its guests. Mem
bership cards must be presented
at the door.
♦ * ♦
Guests Depart
Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Bel
knap, son-in law arid daughter
of the Secretary of Commerce
and Mrs. Robert Patterson La
mont, returned yesterday to
their home in New York. Mrs.
Belknap has been the guest of
(Secretary and Mrs. Lamont
since before Christmas. Mr. Bel
knap making several brief visits
here in that time. •
♦ ♦ *
The Assistant Postmaster
General. Mr. W. Irving Glover,
left yesterday for Newport
, flews, ¥«., to witness the
able among them, Mr. Rodolphe Kiss,
who is a native of Hungary, where
he has been acclaimed one of its great
est artists since his first success
as a youth, in painting portraits
of the famous personages of that coun
try. Mr. Kiss came to the United
States last year, following a stay of
five years in South America, where his
work met with conspicuous acclaim,
as he painted the portraits of a num
ber of the most outstanding figures in
political and social life.
On his arrival in this country. Mr.
Kiss went to California, where he
painted many well-known personages,
among them Mrs. William Gibbs Mc-
Adoo, Mrs. Seily Mudd, Mrs. Betty Sho
nard and Miss Katherine Wright.
launching of the steamer St.
John. He will return tomorrow.
♦ ♦ ♦
Leaving for Cuba
The assistant naval attache
of the Italian embassy, Lieut.
Nobile Figarolo dei Conti di Gro
pello, and Nobil Orietta Fi
garolo dei Conti di Gropello
will leave Washington tomorrow
evening for Cuba, where they
•will make a lengthy stay.
♦ * »
The Attache of the British
Embassy and Mrs. Harold H.
Sims will entertain at dinner
on Tuesday evening in honor
of Mr. and Mrs. S. Pinckney
Tuck.
.* * ♦
The Secretary of the Ruman
ian Legation and Mme. Popo
vici will entertain, at a buffet
supper, tomorrow evening, in
their apartment, at the Shore
ham.
♦ ♦ *
Luncheon Yesterday
The First Secretary of the
Costa Rican Legation. Mr.
Fernando Piza, entertained at
luncheon yesterday at the May
flower for Miss Collette d’Ar
ville, who sang the role of Car
men with the Cosmopolitan
Grand Opera Company at the
National Theater.
* ♦ ♦
Honduran Luncheon
The representatives of the
Honduran Commission now in
this country, gave a luncheon
yesterday at Wardman Park
Hotel. Among those present
were Mr. and Mrs. Miguel Paz,
Mr. Felix C. Salozar and Mr.
Mariano Vasquez, the chief of
the delegation, covers being
laid for 20.
♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. James Irving Steel enter
tained at a luncheon today at
the Carlton in honor of Mrs. J.
W. Lyman, of Kansas City,
who is a guest at the May
flower. The other guests were
Mrs. Arthur D. Hyde. Mrs.
James Wickersham, of Alaska;
Baroness Von Below. Mrs.
Charles Alger, and Mrs. John
Gardner Ladd, of Wesley
Heights.-*'
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A NOTABLE COMPANY attended the tea given yesterday afternoon by Mgr. James
H. Ryan, rector of the Catholic University, in the studio of Mr. Rodolphe Kiss, at
the Mayflower, when the portrait shown above was exhibited for the first time.
Mgr. Ryan and Mr. Kiss are pictured with the portrait.
Peruvian Envoy
Ranking Guest
The Ambassador of Italy and
Nobil Donna Antonietta de
Martino will entertain at din
ner, this evening, at the
Embassy, when the Ambassador
of Peru. Senor Don Manuel de
Freyre Santander, will be the
ranking guest.
* * *
The Chief Justice and Mrs.
Charles Evans Hughes will be
the guests of honor, at a din
ner, to be given this evening,
by the Minister of Switzerland
and Mme. Peter, when the
guests will number 18.
* * *
Mrs. Imbrie Tea
Hostess Monday
Mrs. Robert Whitney Imbrie
will entertain at a tea Monday
afternoon at her home, 1016
Sixteenth St., in honor of the
diplomatic corps of Latin Amer
ica, who are in the capital, and
the various commissions, in
cluding the Bolivian-Paraguayan
Conference.
Assisting Mrs. Imbrie, at the
tea tables, will be Senora de
Puig Casauranc, wife of the
Mexican ambassador; Senora
de Recinos, Senora and Senorita
de Sacasa, wife and daughter
of the Nicaraguan minister;
Senora de Arcaya, wife of the
Venezuelan minister; Senora
de Baron, wife of the counselor
of the Cuban embassy; Senora
Ynsfran, wife of the Paraguyan
charge d’affaires; Mrs. William
F. Notz, wife of the dean of
the School of Foreign Service
of Georgetown University; Mrs.
Franklin Adams, Mrs. Herbert
Corey, Mrs. A. L. P. Johnson,
Senora Diez Medina, Senora de
Finot, and Senora de Soler,
their husbands being members
of the Bolivia-Paraguyan Con
ference.
♦ * *
To Fete Governor
The Governor of Panama
Canal and Mrs. Harry Burgess
will be ,the guests of honor of
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Dennis
at a tea Friday afternoon,
January 15. from 4 to 6 o’clock,
at their home on R St.
Mrs. Burgess was the honor
guest at luncheon yesterday of
Mrs. Edward H. Conger. The
other guests were Senora de
Alfara, wife of the Minister of
Panama; Senora de Sacasa,
wife of the Minister of Nica
ragua; Senora de Chevalier,
wife of the secretary of the
Panama legation, and Mrs.
Short, wife of Col. Walter
Short, U. S. A.
* * *
Mr. Elliott Roosevelt, son of
Governor and Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, of New York, will
entertain his ushers at dinner
today at his apartment at 49
East Sixty-fifth St,, New York.
The marriage of Mr. Roose
velt and Miss Elizabeth Brown
ing Donner, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Donner,'
of Camp Woods. Villanova, will
take place on Saturday, Janu
ary 16.
* ♦ ♦
Major and Mrs. Parker West
will entertain at a tea tomor
row afternoon for the new Sur
geon General of the Army and
Mrs. Robert U. Patterson.
Social Notes
Mrs. Hughes, wife of the
Chief Justice, will not be “at
home’’ on Monday.
♦ * *
Mrs. Hutchinson I. Cone, who
was formerly Miss Julia Mat
tes, will join Admiral Cone in
their home on Massachusetts
Avenue, next week, after a visit
to her mother in Champaign,
111. Mrs. Cone is the niece of
the late Senator Wiliam B. Mc-
Kinley of Illinois, for whom she
acted as hostess during his of
ficial life.
♦ ♦ ♦
Mrs. Oran L. Haverly enter
tained at a luncheon fol
lowed by bridge, today. Her
guests included Mrs. Robert W.
Montgomery, Mrs. Harry R.
Perry, Mrs. Hughes Oliphant,
Mrs. Louis T. McFadden. Mrs.
Thomas Gill. Mrs. Ray Spear,
Mrs. Frank T, Eddingfield. Miss
McDuffie and Mrs. C. C.
Griggs.
* ♦ ♦
Mrs. William G. Wheeler, who
makes her home at the Shore
ham, entertained at luncheon
there today, this being the
second of a series of luncheons
she is giving throughout the
winter.
Washington Fashions
On a recent trip to New
York, we saw a marvelous new
fabric, imported, soft, practical,
and smart. We’ve been watch
ing for it ever since in Wash
ington. One dress appeared in
a sports department, but it is
not a sports-like fabric, so we
were not satisfied, but now one
of the Washington stores has
several dresses of it, street
types, which is what it is in
tended for. And the surpris
ing thing is that they were in
expensive, the whole group at
sls. which is much less than we
thought it could be bought for.
New Crepe Weave
This new fabric is called bil
lowee crepe, probably because
it is so soft, yet with a decided
and exaggerated creped sur
face. It is as rough as ros
hanara. and so comes in the
vogue for rough fabrics, but it
is sheer and soft, of pure dye
silk, and closely woven of fine
threads, so that It has a fine
look.
As beige is a color that is
destined for spring favor, we
selected a beige dress for
sketching. It is a beautiful
grayish, neutral beige, and is
trimmed in rich chocolate
brown. The plastron front is
stiched almost to the neckline,
where it is loose, and extends
into the scarf that makes a
band around the neck and ties
in a bow. The belt is beige,
with a brown section in front,
and it buttons simply. The
skirt is partly bias, partly
straight, so that it hangs
closely, giving the long narrow
silhouette so smart now. The
waistline has the new high
look.
For further Information
about this dress, or for fashion
or shopping news, write Miss
Laville. enclosing a self-ad
dressed. stamped envelope, or
call District 5280.
T/ie National Daily
New Ambassador
Os Spain Named
The appointment of Senor
Don Juan Cardenas as Ambas
sador of Spain to the United
States will bring to Washington
one who has served his country
previously in the Capital and
his return, with Senora de
Cardenas will be an event of
great interest here. Senor
Cardenas will succeed Senor
Don Salvador de Madariaga,
who -since his appointment in
the early summer, has spent
but a few weeks in Washing
ton. Senor Madariaga has been
transferred to Paris.
Senor Cardenas first came to
Washington in 1917 as first
secretary of the Spanish Em
bassy and when he left in 1923
he was serving as counselor
It was here that he met and
married Mlle. Lucienne Nano,
sister of the present counselor
of the Rumanian Legation. He
has since served his country in
Rumania, and at the home
office in Madrid. At present
he is Minister to Japan.
By Wilma La Ville
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SATURDAY—JANUARY 9—1932
Late Happenings
In World of
Music
Three compositions will be
given their premire by the Phila
delphia Orchestra at Constitution
Hall Tuesday evening. They are
the first symphony of Nikolai
Lapatnikoff; Milhaud’s “Concerto
for Instruments of Percussion,”
and Strawinsky’s “Concerto in D
for Violin and Orchestra.” This
will be played by Samuel Dush
kin. Othere numbers will be
Mossolov’s “Iron Foundry” and
“Pictures at an Exposition,” by
Moussorgsky.
Lutheran Choir
The famous St. Olaf Lutheran
Choir of 80 voices will be heard
at Constitution Hall Wednesday
night. These singers come from
Northfield, Minn. They sing all
their numbers without accompani
ment.
New Organ
The new organ at Western Pres
byterian Church will be dedica
ted Tuesday evening. The dedi
catory recital will be played by
Charlotte Klein. The works of
two local composers, Walter H.
Nash and Frances Nielson, will
be featured.
The Interstate Male Chorus,
under the direction of Clyde B.
Aitchison, will give the first con
cert of the twelfth season Jan
uary 21. at Memorial Continental
Hall. Helen Donofrio, soprano,
will be the guest artist.
Benefit Concert
Under the leadership of Mme.
Amelia Conti, former harpist of
the Chicago Civic Opera, and
now a resident of the Capital,
plans are being formulated for a
concert to be given for the
benefit of poor children of Porto
Rico. The concert will be held
January 24 at the Mayflower.
D. C. Orchestra
The National Symphony Or
chestra of Washington, D. C.,
Hans Kindler, conductor, offers
one concert only during the cur
rent week—its fourth concert for
children and young people at
Central High School Auditorium
next Thursday afternoon, at 4
p. m.
Mr. Kindler will personally con
duct the fourth concert for chil
dren and young people which
will open with the Chopin-
Glazounov Polonaise —a number
played for the first time in
Washington at last Thursday’s
symphony concert —and which
will include Bach’s Choral, two
excerpts from Grieg’s “Peer
Gynt” suite—Ase’s Death and
Anitra’s Dance—Chabrier’s Es
pana” and an old French folk
song. “Au Clair de la Lune”
which the audience will sing, ac
companied by the orchestra.
Gigli to Sing
Beniamino Gigli, leading tenor
of the Metropolitan Grand Opera
Company, assisted by Jacqueline
Salomons, violinist, is announced
for an appearance in concert at
Constitution Hall on Tuesday
afternoon, January 19, at 4:30
o’clock.
Gigli will be assisted at the
piano by Miguel Sandoval.
Two Washington Girls
Given Dancing Jobs
Two Washington girls, mem
bers of the Fox Theater Fanchon
and Marco Free Dancing School,
have succeeding in obtaining
stage recognition and left last
night as members of Fanchon and
Marco’s “Three Big Figures”
Idea, which played the Fox last
week.
The girls are Buelah Hunter, re
siding at Clifton Terrace, and
Lillie Fay, of 2116 Eighteenth St.
N. W. Both of these girls were
trained in stage dancing by
Helene Kearney, instructor of the
Fox dancing school and were also
members of the cast of the
Washington Revue presented at
the Fox several months ago.
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‘Compromised’ Is
New Movie at'Met’
Offered for the current week
at Warner Brothers’ Metropolitan
Theater, beginning today, is a
screen program
which features
First National’s
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screen for the y:
first time. *- *
"Compromised”
tells a powerful
and heart
touching story y
of a young" «
wife, the victim * «
of a marriage hose hobart
of convenience with the son of a
wealthy manufacturer, who meets
her while learning the business
from the ground up in his father’s
factory.
The cast supporting Ben Lyon
and Rose Hobart includes Claude
Glllingwater, Delmar Watson, 4-
year-old boy wonder; Juliette
Compton, Bert Raoch, Emma
Dunn, Adele Watson, and Virginia
Sale.
The short subject program will
include a Tom Howard-Vitaphone
comedy, "The Unemployed Ghost”;
Edgar Bergen in a Vitaphone
short. "Free and Easy.” and the
latest Issue of the Paramount
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appear in “Forbidden,” which has a world premiere
on the screen of the Earle Theater this week.
Hard Luck Trails
Some Films in
The Making
By HARRISON CARROLL
(Copyright. 1931, by King Features
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Jan. 9.
Old timers in Hollywood are shak
ing their heads over the recent
epidemic of “jinx” pictures—films
which are delayed by a series of
mishaps or tragedies.
Connie Bennett’s “Lady With a
Past” was the first. The death
of Robert Williams threw the pro
duction into a turmoil. Para
mount’s “The Miracle Man” is
the second. It has been hit by
illness and by the death of Ty
rone Power,
Now, they’re putting the “jinx”
on R. K. O.'s “The Lost Squad
ron.” Six writers have worked on
this story. Production has been
stopped once. The original super
visor. Myles Connolly, left R. K.
O. Then Roger Manning, the
technical director, was seriously
burned in a fire .which destroyed
his apartment. Director Paul
Sloan took sick and had to be re
placed by George Archainbaud.
Two of the principals in the pic
ture were changed. Then Camera
man Eddie Cronjager was stricken
with appendicitis. On top of this,
the rains held up the production.
Several days ago, an airplane,
which was being photographed in
the water, started to sink too
soon. They hooked a tugboat
onto it, but the tug promptly
went on the rocks.
And now, to cap the climax,
Richard Dix is almost forced to
his bed by a severe cold.
Any. or all, of these pictures
may turn out to be hits. But they
explain why producers turn gray.
So This is Hollywood
One of the best Hollywood
stories now going the rounds is
about the newcomer from the
stage who was invited to a party
in Beverly Hills. Arriving, he
found the home of the host to
be one of those rambling Spanish
mansions. But he couldn’t locate
the entrance. During the course
of his wanderings, he finally came
up to the kitchen door. Inside,
he saw a man.
Somewhat embarrassed, he said:
"Pardon, but could you direct me
to the entrance.”
The man also looked embar
rassed. “Sorry,” he said, “but
I'm a stranger here myself.”
Do You Know
That Helen Twelvetrees and
Charles Ray appeared together
during the rather brief engage
ment of the play, "Ten"?
Ben Lyon Was Flier
For U. S. During War
Ben Lyon, featured with Rose
Hobart in “Compromised,” the
First National production at War
ner Brothers’ Metropolitan The
ater, possesses a War Department
commission ranking him as a sec
ond lieutenant in the Thirty-sec
ond Pursuit Group of the U. S.
Air Forces.
To secure this distinction he
not only had to pile up a record
of many hours in the air. but
was compelled to pass a series
of written and physical exami
natios covering everything con
nected with planes and t flying.
“Smiling Through’’
As Musical, Jan. 18
They’ve up and made a musical
play out of "Smiling Through,”
which Jane Cowl starred in after
helping to author it.
Vincent Youmans has composed
the tunes for the new adaptation,
which is by Brian Hooker, who
made the finest translation yet of
“Cyrano de Bergerac,” that In
which Walter Hampden starred.
Vince also is the producer of the
new "Smiling Through,” which
comes to the National, January
18. with Norma Terris, Ada May.
Charles Winninger and Tom Pow
ers, last seen here as the king in
the Guild production of “The Ap
ple Cart."
Thursday will be seat day.
Attractions Due
Next in D. C.
Theaters
Duke Ellington and his famous
orchestra, and Marian Marsh, in
her first starring vehicle, “Under
Eighteen,” a Warner Brothers
and Vitaphone production, will
share stage and 1 screen honors at
Warner Brothers’ Earle Theater
for the week beginning Saturday,
January 16.
For the week beginning Satur
day, January 16. Warner Brothers'
Metropolitan Theater will present
“The Mad Parade/’ a Paramount
pictue.
"The Mad Parade” is a story
of women whose emotions were
unleashed under unusual circum
stances. It tells of the love feud
of two girls, both loving the same
man. The picture is crammed
with punch scenes and is said to
reveal women in all their emo
tional intensity when confronted
by momentous problems.
The large cast of favorites in
clude Evelyn Brent, Irene Rich,
Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman,
Marceline Day and June Clyde.
James Dunn and Sally Eilers, in
“Dance Team.” will be the next
screen attraction at the Fox Thea
ter, opening January 15.
The R. K. O. vaudeville program
to be featured next week, begin
ning Saturday, January 16, at R.
K. O. Keith’s Theater, will have
two headliners, Koran, a mystic
who has proven sensationally suc
cessful in all his experiments in
the theaters throughout the
country; and Charles King, the
musical comedy star of the stage
who went to Hollywood and with
his performance in “The Broad
way Melody” started the vogue of
screen musical comedies.
Others scheduled for the com
ing week include the Diamond
Boys, who have just completed an
extended engagment at the Pal
ace Theater, New York City.
On the screen Edna Mae Oliver
will be seen in “Ladies of the
Jury,” and R.K. O. Radio Comedy.
Gloria Swanson’s latest produc
tion, “Tonight or Never.” will be
seen beginning next Friday at
Loew’s Palace Theater. This pic
ture is hailed as being the best
Swanson vehicle to have been
produced since “The Trespasser.”
Frederic March will be seen at
Loew’s Columbia following the
current “Private Lives.” in his
first starring picture, “Dr. Jeckyl
and Mr. Hyde.”
Likes to Fly
Frank Borzage, Fox director,
calls that day a disappointment
that has not permitted him at
least an hour of airplaning
either In early morning or early
evening.
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NORMA TERRIS, star of
Vincent Youman’s musical
comedy, "Smiling Through.”
which comes to the National
Theater January 18.