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NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1938

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Plunges Into Her 'First Job'

Wife of Colonel Is New Co-Directory of Arden Galleries.
Mrs. Charles Suydam Cutting Reporting Writing a Book.

By PATRICIA COFFIN.

No "first job" ever enthused anyone more than does Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.'s, initial plunge into the business world. The former Eleanor Alexander has turned the full force of her energetic and vivacious personality into the running of the well-known Arden Galleries of which she is the new co-director. She was as excited as a girl at her first party on opening day this week as she received the scores of friends and visitors who viewed the exhibition of contemporary sculpture, which is the gallery's current show.

Mrs. Roosevelt, who is in mourning for her mother, was attired in a chic all-black ensemble and topped her attractively graying curls with a saucy Suzy hat. Mrs. Charles Suydam Cutting assisted her in receiving, and various friends obliged by pouring tea and coffee, the only beverages served at this "arty" reception.

Colonel Roosevelt seems very interested in his wife's artistic business venture. He lingered longest over the animal sculptures by Cornelia Van Auken Chapin and Wheeler Williams. The beamish expression on the latter's face, incidentally, is due to the very recent arrival of a small baby girl in the Williams family.

Daphne Bull, in a cinnamon and gray Creed suit, Robin Hood hat and her hair down again, paused to admire Boris Lovet-Lorski's larger-than-life-size bust of the late Chaliapin, which was created from sketches of the great singer after his death. Mrs. Calvin Bullock came in with her talented daughter-in-law, Mrs. Hugh Bullock, who wore a provocative white feather hat. Mrs. Paul D. Cravath was also among those who congratulated Mrs. Roosevelt, as were the Ralph Seward Allens, Mrs. Truman H. Talley, Angels McCosker, Edith Derby, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Richard Derby, and many others.

Kendall Mussey is Mrs. Roosevelt's co-director. Mrs. James C. Rogerson, for years head of the Arden Galleries, died last June.

Mrs. Roosevelt, who commutes into town every day now from the ancestral Roosevelt estate at Oyster Bay, is one of the outstanding needlework authorities in this country. She first became interested in the Arden Galleries when and exhibition of her own exquisite handiwork was shown there last year. Incidentally, the first and last persons to sign the register at opening day were Gracie Allen and Helen Hayes, respectively.

The Arden Reopens

Reopening today with its first show under its new associate directors, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Kendall Mussey, the Arden Gallery is exhibiting diversified work by more than a score of sculptors. The roster of exhibitors includes the names of George W. Blodgett, Cornelia Van A. Chapin, Gaetano Cecere, Nathaniel Choate, Anthony de Francisci, Marshall Fredericks. Gleb Derujinski, Waylande Gregory, Malvina Hoffman, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Sylvia Shaw Judson, Henry Kreis, Boris Lovet-Lorski, Edward McCartan, Paul Manship, Carl Milles, Marion Sanford, Albert Stewart, Heinz Warneke, Sidney Waugh and Wheeler Williams. The exhibition will continue until Nov. 5. 
H.D.

N.Y. TIMES-OCT 12TH.