Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1927, Page 49

dlesA C.DPILL. with her husband Senator Dall. at the Burlington for the winter. ARENCE HARR (s EEWING- il she 18 Social Program in Capital Outlined for ComingSeason Brief Egt VMéost Brilliant Calendar Of State Functions at White HO“SC Already Announced—First to Occur Evening of December 1. 1t s BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. HE President and Mrs. Coolidge have laid the foundation for what \ashington socicty will be one of the briefest and most bril- ons of its annals in issuing from the White House thus early the calendar of state entertainments for 1927-28. As in former tration, all of the events except the New Year day years of thi reception fall o: tions to start Sunday, the oii admin HE first dinner party of the seri just one hour late: » fiicial reception w o'clock in the forenoon to 1 Thursday, with 8 o'clock for the dinner parties and recep- T, The first day of the year falling on I be held Monday, January 2, from 11 p.m. is the traditional cabinet dinner the night of December 1, and the diplomatic reception, most brilliant of White House entertainments, falls on December 8. A week later the din- \ mer to the diplomatic corps will be given, and then the President and Mrs. Coolidge will “recess” from the series until the New Year day reception. The first state recepiion for 1928 after that of New reception Januar falling on Thursday, | to the congressional reception the House coming t anuary 26 Year day will be the in honor of the judiciary, the Supreme Court dinner The night of February 2 is given over . with the dinner in honor of the Speaker of he night of Thursday, February 9, and the big Army and Navy reception, always the largest and last of the series, Thursday, February 16. I the meantime the President and Mrs. Coolidge are far from idle in an official social way. They held receptions for both the delegates to the Red Cross conference and the radiotelegraphic conference, whi h . which met here last week. Then the President frequently entertains breakfast parties, and Mrs. Coolidge Teg She has not yet begun eives small groups of her more personal friends. her charming little receptions by appointment, such as she holds during the more official season. Then there are almost always house guests being entertained in the Mansion, and last week two of the former ncighbors of t! he P resi 4 ent and Mrs. Coolidge from N were with them for a short time. # b RERR ERHAPS never before has a social season started so carly as thig Autumn, when the visit of forei really large ball which Howard will give the the nigh gn ships will set things going. The Ambassador of Great Britail d Lad b t of October 18 and which el s will be preceded by numerous dinner parties will quite establish the little season. THIS week will be made a particular from the Japanese warships, between Annapolis, where the Asam Capital. where the important ev 1y notable one by the visit of officers th entertainment for them divided a and the Iwata will anchor, and the ent will be the dinner at the Willard tomor- row night. with the Japanese Ambassador as host State and the Secretary of the Navy among 'lhc"'gucas':g sha WED?\ESI)A\_’ was a particularly busy day for the two big groups of ! delegates visiting Washington—that for the Red Cross conference and that for the radiotelegraphic conference, Mrs. Hoover’s charmingly ar- ranged tea for the former visitors and the reception given by the Secre- tary of State for the latter group being almost enough cabinet entertain- ing for a whole week. There was a decidedly mannish atmosphere to the reception in the Pan-American Union Building, but more because Mrs. Kellogg, who has a delightful way of meeting strangers, was absent, and the Secretary was assi sted by a ¢ ate Department official. Engagements to In Autumn Schedule Mrs. Violet V. the engagement of Parks Mre. Karl E. Park take place October 22 Christian Church, at § evening. Mr. and Mrs. Willia mons of 1 Lexington York City, have announced gagement of their d Wed her in F Warfield announces daughter, Thelma Virginia, to Wellman White of this city, son of Mr. The wedding will | rk View and which is attached to the Swedish legation in Paris. Mr. and Mrs. F. Bendheim announce [the betrothal . of their daughter, Helene Babbette, to Mr. Stanford E. Abel of this city. Mrs. Thomas. R. Marshall Honor Guest at Dinner o'clo e el Nrs Thomas R. Marshall, widow of “vhe former Vice President who Vshor Dar.|iS VISiting Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, LA guest of Judge and red T cChord last evening at dinner, at the Willard Hotel. There aughter, Mi Katharine Corbin Parsons, to Mr. were 12 guests in the company, all of T- | whom atiended the theater. Hugo Wistrand, son of Mr. and Mrs, | Who! Hige " Wistrand, " of " Noroping, | . Miss ~ Margaret McChord Boyle, Sweden. Announcement was made | (2UEhter of Judge and Mrs. McChord, simultaneously in _London, Paris, | 148 closed her house at Watch Hills, i PR iy R. T and is at the Willard Hotel for Miss Parsons is the voungest| ter. Henry Clark Corbin, U ®econd wife was Mi: of Washington, tended Miss Walker”: ‘bury, Conn., 2 Vassar Col and at that college she the Phi Beta Ka A graduation from Vas the School of Architect bia University and she year at the Sorbonne Parsons iz an accomplished lingui 11| Miss Schuyler Dunlop speaking French, jan, and at pre the Swedish language. Mr. Wistrand was ghe University of Upy n 1918, He also foll at L'Ecole des & als the Univer the latt Jaw in 19 diplomatic ser he has been detailed at the legations of Berne, Paris, Co Berlin. . roval Swedish from 1923 to 19 leg: and §s secretary to the ministry of foreign | affairs in Stockholm The marriage will in Mr. Wistrand was secretaty ion S. A, Parsons W tur in P: owed P. penhagen in 1 at pre take place | aris some time January ;.mm will safl from New York late 4n December to be present sorriag- of her daughter, which prob @bly will take place in the church at e Lieut. Gen. whose Edythe Patten School in_ Sims- t t Colum ndied for o M ent she is stud aduated from | in Sweden and was admitted to the Swedish bar | dena, a course iences Politiques and | mus; y of 3 er he was created a doctor of Later he entered ice of his country and t t M [t | . | Women's Press Club Will Honor Hawaii's Governor The Governor of Hawaii, Mr. Wal- lace R. Farrington, will be the honor uest tomorrow of the Women's Na- tional Press Club at its weekly lunch- con, at the Women's University Club, {1634 1 street. it ng | In Debutante Group | Miss Schuyler Dunlop, daughter of Dr. and Al ohn Dunlop of Pasa- if., will be among the debu- of this season. She is studying the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, but will spend the greater part of the Winter with her aunt, Mrs. Richard Douglas Simms, at 2231 Bancroft. tante At he [ " Miss Hodge, Visitor, Dinner Party Guest Miss Mary A. Lindsley of the Grace Do Hotel ve a beautifully ap- pointed but_informal dinner party at the Grace Dodge Hotel last evening in honor of Miss Bertha Hodge of Denver, Colo., national secretary of the Woman's Grecters’ Association, which is in ¢ *1 in Washington, to the | London | he he Pretty Dances Mark Social Festivities In Winter's Program Friday Evening Club and| Club Boheme Offer Spe- cial Attractions—Debu- tantes Listed for Honors. Adding a brilliant note to the dancing events of the Winter is the series to be given by Washington's most fashionable private organization of the group nature, the Friday Eve- ning Dancing Class, which is cele- brating its seventh anniversary. The dancing class was organized and met in the ballroom of Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, on Massachusetts avenue, but soon outgrew its elegant environs and changed to the Willard, where it will continue to meet throughout this sea- son. The committee met at the home of Senatdr and Mrs, W, H. King Fri- day and selected as the date for their first dance Friday evening, Decemler 16, in the red room at the Willard. The second dance falls on January 13, with the others of the series on - ruary 3, March 2, March 30 and April 20. The last event of the series is a dinner dance more elaborate and more brilliant than the others, and May 11 has been chosen as the date for the event. The opening dance of the Club Bo- heme this Winter, which will meet in the Le Club Boheme room at the Carlton Hotel, will be given Novem- ber 2, and the other dates announced by the committee in charge, which in- cludes reveral of the season's debu- tantes, for the dances of the club are November 16 and 30, January 4 and 18, February 1 and 21 and March 14 and 28, Miss Frances Montague Hill, debu- tante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phillips Hill, has been added to th committee of debutantes, cards for a tea October 22 at the ( St. Marks in compliment to the debu- tantes of this and last season. The hoard of lady managers of George Washington Upiversity Hos- pital_has selected February 22 for the benefit to aid the hospital. . Embassy to Pay Honor To Japanese Admiral Admiral O. Magano, who is in com- mand of the two Japanese cruisers bearing the 1927 class of the Japanese Naval Academy which will put in at | Annapolis next week, and the other officers accompanying him will be the guests in whose honor a reception will be given by the Japanese embassy on Monday in the Chinese room of the Mayflower. The Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Willlam R. Castle, jr., and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, Mr. Edward P. Warner, will be present, ¥ Med CrAIL, wife of Representative Joe Crail of Califoynia, a charming new official Rostess. HARRISEEWING: Many American Women Preside in Legation Homes in Washington Wives of Four Ministers Head List in Notable Class Included in Diplo- matic Circle. \ For the first time in many years, no American is the chatelaine of an em- bassy in Washington, yet never were there so many young and attractive daughters of the Republic in the lega- tions, four being the wives of minis- ters and the others married to diplo- mats of lesser rank. The minister from Hungary, Count Szechenyi, married Miss Gladys Van- derbilt, and the eldest of his three daughters 1s expected to make her entrance into the social world this Winter. The minister from Guatemala, Senor Sanchez-Latour, married in Washington in 1920, Mrs. Lillian Hall T r L. G. Prochnik, s charge d'affaires for five years before he was promoted to the rank of Austrian minister, had been consul-general of the dual empire of Austro-Hungary in the mnorthwest, and in 1912 he married Miss Gretchen James of St. Paul. M. J. H. Van n, envoy from Queen Wilhel- s realm, has an American wife. It happens also that the wives of two of that legation staff are daughters of u Sam, and this is precisely the case also 1n the Hungarian legation. Mme. Van Royen, who was married almost a quarter of a century ago, was the daughter of the late Robert J. Winthrop of Boston, and she is the sister of former Gov. Beekman Win- throi” of Porto Rico, who was later Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Baroness van Boetzelaer von Ooster- haut, wife of the secretary was for- merly Miss Ethel Carver Litchfield, of Pittsburgh, and she is the daughter of a_distinguished physician of the Berk- shires, now resident in the Pennsyl- nia city. Jonkheer Richard van chulylenburch brought a charming oung bride to the legation of the »therlands in the early Spring, a for- (Continued on Sixth Page.) —_— Sponsor Tea to Welcome Pan-American Visitors Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Freling- huysen Dumont will entertain at tea Tuesday in the palm court of the Mayflower in compliment to the dele- gates to th ePan-American Commis- sion on the simplification and stand- ] ardization of consular procedure and their wives. These sessions will begin Monday at the Pan-American Union and will continue for two weeks, the official governing board of the Pan- American Union entertaining in honor of*the delegates at luncheon on Mon- day. Mr. and Mrs. Dumont will be assisted in recelving their guests Tuesday by Mr. Henry Chalmers of the Foreign Tariffs Division of the Department of Commerce, and Chalmers, porsera "THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. . OCTOBER 9. 1927—PART 27 SPENORA_ de PEREZ, witiFranzes, Tatis ands Mew%uente wife and childven of the Commercial Attache of the Cubarn - Embagsya YNDERWOOD- o “ e 4 ws MRs.Roy Q. HENRY, whote husband, Maj Henyy is stationed at the Aymy Way C pares gilege. . aee Washington Society Folk Plan for Winter Season General and Special Notes Relating to Cabinet Families and Others Prominent in Official Circle. The Secretary of State, Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, will be_joined the latter part of the week by Mrs. Kellogg, who has been spending some time in their home in St. Paul. The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Curtis Dwight Wilbur, who are spending today cruising down the Potomac aboard the Sylph, are ex- pected to return tomorrow morning. They have as their guests the Attor- ney General, Mr. Sargent. and Mrs. Louise Gibbs of Los Angeles. The Secretary of Labor, Mr. James J. Davis, is spending the week end in San Francisco. The Secretary is making a tour of the West and will probably return to Washington Octo- ber 17. Senator and Mrs. Tasker L. Oddie have come to Washington for the sea- son and are at their residence, 2123 Leroy place. They spent the Summer at their home in Reno. Nev., and visited in California. The Assistant Attorney General and Mrs. George R. Farnum, who arrived yesterday on the George Washington after a month’s trip to Spain and France, are expected to return to ‘Washington tomorrow. They will re- sumel residence at the Wardman Park Hotel. Admiral and Mrs. Edward W. Eberle will go to Annapolis Wednesday, where the admiral will be entertained at luncheon aboard the Osama, the Japanese training ship, and Mrs. Eberle will be the guest at luncheon of Mrs. Louis M. Nulton, wife of the superintendent of the Naval Academy. Admiral and Mrs. Eberle and Ad- miral and Mrs. Nulton will be among the guests at the reception aboard the Osama later in the day. i Senator Marconi, who arrived in fork Friday, accompanied by S Marconi, will come to Wash- ington the first of the week. Senator Marconi and his bride were met in New York upon their arrival by the naval attache of the Italian embassy, Comdr. Alberto Lais. Mrs. Charles P. Summerall, wife of the chief of staff, U. S. A., returned to Washington last evening after pass- ing a few days with her son and daughter-in-aw, Lieut. and Mr Charles P. Summerall, Jr., at Fo Hoyle, Md. Maj. Summerall, who is making an Inspection tour of the West, is mot expected back in Washington until the end of the month. Maj. Gen. John A. Hull and Mrs. Hull ‘have as a guest at their_home on Massachusetts avenue Mrs. Heni Martin of Oklahoma City, Okla. Mr Martin has been in Washington for several days and will leave the mid- dle of the week for her home in the West. Col. and Mrs, Arthur O'Brien have as their guests for a few weeks the latter’s son and daughter-inlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roebling. Mr, and Mrs. Roebling have given up their house on Tracy place and will make their home in New Jersey this Winter. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Merrill will re- turn to Washington at the end of the week from Prides Crossing, wherc they spent the Summer. Mr. B. T. Meredith, former Secre- tary of Agriculture, accompanied by Mrs. Meredith, is at the Carlton for about a week, Mrs. Robert Hinckley is again in her_home on Sixteenth street for the 77 (Coptinued on Sixth Page) hose Ip ( S —_— WPERW 00D M1SS ELIZABETH . PARKER, arents Mrand Mrst Chaunceyé: Rrkey ave announced. her engagemen to My Gc,otgc, Locke Howesof R.I. Notable Events Scheduled In Local Diplomatic Circle Honor Entertainments Proposed by Ambassadors for Visiting Navy Officers From Great Britain and Japan. The Ambassador of Great Britain and Lady Isabella Howard and their son, Francis Howard, will return to Washington tomorrow, from Roslyn, Long Island, where they went to be guests over the week end of Mr. and Mrs, ‘holas Brady at their coun- try home, Inisfad. The Ambassador and Lady Howard will give a ball Tuesday evening, Oc- tober 18, for several hundred guests who are asked to meet Admiral Si Walter Cowan, Bt, K. C. B, D. 8. O, M. V. O., who will arrive Monday, Oc- tober 17, aboard H. M. S. Calcutta. The Ambassador of Argentina, Senor Honorio Pueyrredon, will return to- morrow from New York, where he went to bid bon voyage to Senora de Pueyrredon_and their son-in-law and daughters, Dr. and Senora de Centeno land Senorita Julia Pueyrredon, who sailed vesterday for their home in the Argentine. ; The Ambassador of Japan, Mr. Mat- sudaira, will be host at dinner tomor- row evening at the Willard in honor of the officers of the Asama and the Iwata, the Japanese battleships which will be at Annapolis this week. In the afternoon the Ambassador will give a reception at the embassy on K street for about 200 guests, who have been asked to meet the visitors. The Ambassador of Spain and Senora de Padilla and their family will arrive at New York Sunday, October aboard the Manual Arnos, on vhich they sailed September 29. The charge d'affaires, Senor do Amoedo, accompanied by the attache, Senor Don Ramon Padillo, son of the Ambassador, and_Senora de Padilla, will go to New York at the end of the week to meet them. The Ambassador of Cuba and Senora de Ferrara, who sailed Wednesday aboard the Majestic from France, are expected to arrive in New York Wed- nesday, after spending the late Sum- mer in Europe. The Ambassador was a member of the Cuban delegation to sesions of the League of Nations in Geneva, and gith Senora de Ferrara spent a montf at 'St. Jean de Luz. They have been in Paris since the clos- ing of the sessions of the League. The newly appointed Ambassador of Belgium, Prince de Ligne, accompanied ¢ Princess de Ligne and their daugh- ter, Princess Elizabeth de Ligne, are expected to arrive in New York at the end of this week aboard the Bel- genland, having sailed Friday for this country. The Minister of Denmark, Mr. Con- stantin Brun, will return tomorrow from a short visit in New York. The Minister of China and Mme. Sze entertained at dinner last evening in the legation for the delegates from | China to the international radiotele- graph conference. The Minister of the Irish Free State, Mr. Timothy Smiddy, who went to Toronto last week to be present at the centenary celebration of the Univer- sity of Toronto, will address the Cana- dian Club of that city tomorrow, and will go to Rochester, N. Y., Wednes- day to speak before the Chamber of Commerce. He is expected to return to his apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel the latter part of the week. Mrs. Smiddy and their daughters, the Misses Pearl, Cecil and Ethna, who have been passing the Summer on the coast of Normandy, have returned to Ireland for a brief viglt before sailing for the United States the latter part of this month. The Minister of Greece and Mme. Simopoulos are moving from 1838 Con- necticut avenue to the house at 2139 R street, which they have leased for the Winter. The Minister of Honduras, Senor Don Luis Bogran, was joined yester- by Senora de Bogran and her sis- Senorita Rosinda Fortin, who at Falls in New York. The Minister of Egypt and Mme. Samy will give a large reception this evening in the new legation at Fif- teenth and Chapin streets in celebra- tion of the tenth anniversary of the accession to the throne of King Fouad I of Egypt. They will be assisted by members of the legation staff and Mme. Samy's mother, Mme. Charoui. The Minister of Poland, M. Jan Ciechanowski, is expected to go to New York at the end of the week to meet Mme. Ciechanowska, who sailed Friday for this country. The Minister of Sweden and Mme. Bostrom will be among the passengers the Grisholm_sailing from for New York Tuesday, ter, have been for 10 and for several day The Minister of Venezuela and Senora de Grisanti entertained a small company at luncheon yesterday in compliment to Senor Romero Sanchez of Venezuela, who is spending a few days in Washington. The Minister of Albania, Mr. Faik Konitza, will return the first of this week from New York, where he went to see the Dowager Countess of Car- narvon sail Friday aboard the Majes- tic for England. The countess will later go to Albania, where she spends a portion of each year. The Minister of Canada and Mrs. Vincent Massey will return the first of this week from Canada, where they went to attend the centenary of the University of Toronto, and are mak- ing a short visit in Ottawa. The Minister will be host at lunch- eon Thursday, October 20, in honor of Admiral Sir Walter Cowan, Bt., K.C.B,D. 8.0, MV, 0. The Minister of the Netherlands and Mme. Van Royen, who have been at Beverly, Mass., since early Summer, will return to Washington Wednes- day. They are passing a few days in New York at the Barclay. The charge d'affaires of Germany and Mme. Kiep entertained at lunch- eon at the Wardman Park Hotel Fri- day in honor of the German delega- tion to the International Radio Con- ference. Dr. Kiep will entertain at luncheon Tuesday and again Wednes- day for the other members of the German delegation. Dr. and Mme. Kiep have as_their guest in their apartment at the Ward- man Park Hotel the latter's mother, Mme. Elsa Alves of Berlin, who joine ed them during the Summer Man- chester. Mme, Kiep's sister, Mlle. Elsa Alves, has returned to Berlin to be with her: father during her mother’s wvisit in this country. The charge daffaires of Hungary and Mme. Pelenyl have returned to Washington from Williamstown, Mass., where they spent the Summer. The counselor of the British embas- (Continyed on SIath Fased B2,