Music: White House Tunes

Every winter when there are youngsters in the President's family the First Lady gives a holiday party for her children at the White House. Such parties, with dancing in the big East Room and refreshments in the State dining room, are always the No. 1 social events of the Christmas-New Year's week for Washington's young blades and merry maidens. The President is generally on hand to beam benignly upon the offspring of Administration bigwigs as they frisk around in tails and trains at the scene of their parents' highest social triumph. The...

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