Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1928, Page 59

Part 3—16 Pages DONNA ANNA DOMVILLE-MASCIA, ‘Wife of the secretary of the Italian embassy, and their son Yolande. Harris & Ewing. Society Forces of Capital Combine in Paying Honor To Visitors From Abroad Interparliamentary Parleys Draw Thrung of Dele- gates—Young Folk Facing Gay Season. White House Program Unsettled. ‘BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. HE President and 8. Coolidge may find their well planned|. social program upset unléss thecondition of Mrs. Goodhue, the mother of Mrs. Coolidge, improves. There yet remain a number of the most important features of the Winter’s social roster and Tuesday they expect to dine with the Secretary of War and Mrs. Davis. TH‘E Attorney General and Mrs. Sargent and the Secretary of In- terior.and Mrs. West will entertain their dinner companies in honor of the President and Mrs. Coolidge at the Willard Hotel, the first event to be January 8, and the latter dinner on January 29. At both of these dinners the chef, who long served the Chief Executive and the First Lady of the Land while they were residents in the hotel, will see that their favorite menu is given; even to the small detail of confections this care will be given. PLANS at the embassy of Great Britain are almost-as uncertain as those at the White House, with fluctuating news of the condition of the King constantly drifting in over the cable. However, the Am- bassador and Lady Isabella Howard were guests at dinner last night of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, jr.; when.they also had the Ambassa- dor of France and Mme. Claudel in their company of more than 20. However, each acceptance from the embassy is tentative, and the death of the-King would throw a large number of diplomats into mourning. - ANOTHER occasion of the week to call together the social fo;ces of the Capital is the musical in the Pan-American Union Build- ing Tuesday evening, in honor of the delegates to the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation, and to which the chiefs of the diplomatic missions from 48 nations have been invited. The company will be one of the most important ever to gather in the beautiful building. Invitations and tickets have been issued to the capacity of the Hall of Nations. Dyla Josetti, the Brazilian pianist, and Ennio Bolognini, the Argentine cellist, are to have supporting parts, with Mme. Sofia del Campo, the Chilean soprano, the star of | the evening. It is hoped the guests will gather promptly. THXS week will be a gay one socially, the younger members of so- ciety centering their chief efforts on the Society Circus to be given by the Junior League. This affair is to furnish a constant stream of effervescent fun through the afternoon and evening of ‘Wednesday, the scene of action being in the basement of the Washington Audi- torium. NOTHING speaks louder for the success of the circus than the men’s floor committee, of which Mr. Ogden L. Mills is honorary chair- man, and Mr. Charles Carroll Morgan, chairman. Associated with trem are: Senator Walter E. Edge; Mr. Walter F. Chappell, Mr. John F. Dryden, Mr. David Edward Fifiley, Mr. William J. Flather, jr.; Capt. J. P. Godfrey, Mr. Warwick-E. Montgomery, Mr. E. Brooke Lee, Mr. Drew Pearson, Mr. Armstead Peter, 3d; Mr. Robert Ransdall, Maj. Al- van Sandeford, Mr. Robert Scotten, Mr. Nathan B. Scott, 2d; Mr. Charles P. Stone, jr.; Mr. Benjamin Warder Thoron, Signor Leonardo! Vitetti and Comdr. Theodore S. Wilkinson. AMONG the boxholders for the children’s special matinee perform- ance in the afternoon are: Mrs. Walter Edge, Mrs. George Hewett Myers, Mrs. Irwin Laughlin, Mrs. McCook Knox, Mrs. Walter R. Tuck- erman, Mrs. F. Trubee Davison, Mrs. Ridgley Hunt, Mrs. C. C. Glover, Mrs. Stokes Halkett, Mrs. Donald McKnew and Mrs. Robert Ransdale. There are a few boxes left for this performance and Miss Virginia | Hunt is in charge of tickets. 'HE boxholders for the evening performance are: Secretary Mellon, | Mrs. George C. Thorpe, who will have as her guests the Minister from Austria and Mme. Prochnik; Mrs. Joseph Leiter, Mrs. John Gib- bons, Mrs. Rutherford Stuyvesant, Mrs. John A. Johnston, Mrs. Isaac T. Mann, Mrs. J. Harry Covington, Mrs. Leander McCormick-Goodhart, Mrs. Duncan Phillips, Mrs. S. J. Henry, Mrs. Alfred Thom, Mrs. Fred- erick H. Brooke, who will have the Minister of Rumania as her guest; Mrs. William Flather, jr.; Mrs. Paul Bastedo, ‘Mrs. Eldridge Jordan, Mrs. Malcolm McConihe, Mrs. J. H.- Town, Mrs. Grosvenor Backus, Mrs. Clarence Williams, Mrs. Frank S. Hight, Miss Louise King, Mrs. C. R. Kurtz and others. Mr. J. R. McKee Renews Old-Time Associations My, James Robert McKee of Green- wich, Conn., and New York, spent a part of last week in Washington renew- ing some old acquaintances, and made @ visit to the White House, where he and his family spent much time during the administration of Mrs: McKee's father, the late President Denjamin Harrison. He also spent some time in the grounds of the mansion and located the trees planted in the north grounds near the east walk by his daughter, Mrs. Mary Lodge McKee Reisinger, when just beginning to walk, and his son, ‘Benjamin Harrison McKee, now of Paris, better known to the public as “Baby McKee.” The trees are the first oaks planted in the grounds and were brought from Indiana, Mr. McKee returned last night to his home, Berkeley Lodge, on North street in Greenwich, where Mrs. Reisinger and .her two small girls make their home with him and Mrs. McKee. Mrs. Mc- Kee, who acted as mistress of the White House during the last year of her father's administration during the ill- ness and after the death of her mother, returned recently from a two months’ visit to her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison Mc- Kee, and their young daughter, Miss Patricia McKee, in Paris. 'SOCIETY SECTION The Sunday Star, WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDA MISS PEGGY TYNER, Daughter of Mrs. Elonzo Tyner, a popular debutante of this season. 2 MLLE. JEANNE'CRETZIANO, Daughter of the Minister of Rumania and chatelaine of the legations Harrls & Ewing, Cabinet Members and Others Are Planning For Holiday Season Absences From City Ex- pecte& at Yuledde—Prep- atations Under Way for Celebrations — Personal Notes. ‘The Becreurr of Commerce and Mrs. William Fairfield Whiting will leave the latter part of the week for their home at Holyoke, Mass., to spend Christmas. ‘The Secretary of Labor and Mrs. James J. Davis will return tomorrow from Pittsburgh, where they are spend- ing Sunday. Secretary Davis has been in Chlcngo and joined Mrs. Davis in Pittsburgh for today. Representative Edgar R. Kiess will leave for a short trip to Florida imme- diately after Chris accompani Y MORNING, DECEMBER 16, 1928. MRS. HETHERINGTON, Wife of Wing Comdr T. G. Hetherington of the British embassy. Underwood. ! President and Mrs. Coolidge Listed for Honor_ Dinners Members of Cabinet Announce Dates for Their|Senators Hastings of Dela- Entertainment—Qther Notable Social Funec- tions 1in Capital Calendar. ‘The President and Mrs. Coolidge will e the guests of honor at dinner Tues- day evening of the Secretary of War and Mrs. Dwight F. Davis, ‘The Attorney General and Mrs, Sar- gent will give their dinner to the Presi- dent and Mrs. Coolidge in the Willard Hotel, Tuesday, January 8. The Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Roy O. West, who will be host to the President and Mrs. Coolidge at dinner ‘Tuesday evening, January 29, will en- tertain in the Willard Hotel. The Chief Justice and Mrs. Willlam Howard Taft will be the guests of honor b at a mid-day. breakfast today in the Chinese room of the Mayflower, which will be given by Judge and Mrs. Samuel J. Graham, Covers will be laid for 34. The Vice President-elect, Senator Charles Curtis, was the guest in whose honor Mrs. Emerson Howe entertainad at dinner last evening. Others in the company were the Ambassador of Cuba and Senora de Ferrara, the Japanese Ambassador and Mme. Debuchi, the Minister of Norway and Mme. Bachke, Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gi ind sister_of New Members Take Up Legislative Duties In the Upper House ware, Glenn of Illinois and Burton of Ohio Are For- mally Enrolled. Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Wil- mington, Del, who was seated in the u})per house Friday as the successor of Gen. Coleman du Pont, who resigned because of {ll health, was accompanied to Washington by Mrs. Hastings and her niece, and for the time they are staying at the Willard. Wi n, their home town, is-such a comfortable motor or rail journey that for the present they will make week end visits and be content with hotel life in the interim. Senator and Mrs. Hastings will, no doubt, fit into the hospitable tradition which senatorial families from Dela- Tales. of Well Known Folk MRS. JACOB LEANDER LOOSE Of Kansas City, at the Mayflower for the Wintes, and giving a January ball there for-Miss Jardine. Harris & Ewing. - News of Interest Gathered From the Diplomatic World Social Functions Mark Record of Week—Foreign Delegates to International Conferences Enter- tained—Legation Activities Noted. 0y ‘The Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir|ner, the Assistant Secretary of Com- Esme Howard, returned last evening from New York, where he went to meet Prince George of England, youngest son of the King, who was en route fo Lon- don because of the serious illness of his father. Prince George sailed for Eng- land Friday. The Italian Ambassador and Nobil Donna Antoinette de Martino were hosts at luncheon yesterday in honor of the wives of the Italian delegates to the International Civil Aeronautic Con- ference. The company included the Ambassador of France and Mme. , the Minister of Poland and Mme. Ciechanowska, the newly ap- pointed United Stal Minister to San Salvador, Mr. Warren Delano Robbins, now attending the Conference of Amer- ican States on Conciliation and Arbi- tration, and Mrs. Robbins; the counselor of the Hungarian legation and Mme. Pelenyl, Signora Caproni, Signora Cella, Mr. Redpath, Mr. David E. Finley, Mr. Floyd Blair and the second counselor and Signora Catalani; the first secre- tary, Signor Vitetti, and the attache, Conte Macchi of the Italian embassy. Mme. Claudel, wife of the Ambassador of France, has issued cards for a tea Saturday afternoon, January 12. The Chinese Minister and Mme. Sze will be joined the middle of the week by their son, Mr. Deson Sze, who sailed a few days ago aboard the Leviathan from England, where he is in school. He is expected to arrive in New York ‘Thursday. ‘The Minister of Panama and Senora de Alfaro will entertain at dinner Wed- nesday evening for a number of delegates to the Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration. The Minister of Austria and Mme. Prochnik will be joined by the latter’s sister, Miss Violet James, early in Jan- uary. ‘The Minister of Egypt and Mme. Samy will return the middle of the week from New York, where they are mak- ing a brief visit. ‘The Minister of Sweden and Mme. Bostrom entertained a small company at dinner last evening. Many Guests Listed At Legation Reception. ‘The Minister of Venezuela and Se- nora de Grisanti were hosts at a large reception yesterday afternoon in the Mayflower in compliment to the dele- gates to the Conference of American States on Arbitration and Conciliation. The Minister and Senora de Grisanti were assisted in receiving by their daughters, the Senoritas Grisanti, in the ballroom, where the Christmas color scheme in the decorations was carried out with poinsettia and palms. The Vice President and Mrs. Dawes attended the reception. The Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg, the Attor- ney General and Mrs. Sargent, the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Wil-| bur, the Secretary of iculture and Mrs. Jardine and their daughter, Miss Marian Jardine; the Secretary of Com- merce and Mrs. Whiting, heads of for- eign missions in Wi n and oth- ers of the diplomatic corps; the Under- secretary of State and Mrs. J. Reuben Clark, rj.; the -Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr, the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Carl Schuneman, the Assistant Attorney General and Mrs. Farnum, the Assistant Postmaster | General and Mrs. Bartlett, the Assist-{ ant Postmaster General and Mrs. W. Irving Glover, the Assistant Attorney General and Mrs. Paul A. Chase, Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. | will merce for Aviation and Mrs. Willlam P. MacCracken, jr.. Gen. and Mrs. Herbert M. Lord, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John A. Lejeune and the Misses Le- jeune, the Assistant Secretary of Labor and Mrs. H. W. Husband, as well as members of the congressional circle and many others prominent in society of the National Capital. The Minister of the Dominican Re- public and Senora de Morales will be hosts at dinner Thursday evening, in the Chinese room of the Mayflower. The charge d'affaires of Salvador and Sencra de Leiva will entertain at dinner this evening in the Chinese room of the Mayflower- in compliment to the newly appointed United States Minister to Salvador and Mrs. Warren Pellano Robbins. Covers will be laid or 30. The retiring counselor of the Czecho- slovakian legation, M. Jaroslav Lipa, is the fourth diplomat holding this rank to be detached from local foreign estab- lishments within the past three months. | Three of these, Mr. Henry Getty Chil- ton of the British embassy, Senor Fe- lipe Espil of the Argentine and Senor Federico Agacio of the Chilean service promoted to the full rank of Minister at Rome, the Netherlands and, in the case of Senor Agacio, to the Central American countries, with permanent residence in San Jose de Costa Rica. M. Lipa of the Czechoslovakian legation, who was only recenetly informed of his change of mission, and who, with Mme. Lipa, will leave during Christmas week, has been granted a vacation. This will be spent in Paris and on the French Riveria. Upon its completion M. Lipa temporarily assigned to the foreign office in Prague. Mme. Lipa possesses much charm, and as she is an excellent pianist, she has been closely associated with the musical group in the Capital. She was Mlle. Ludmilla Masaryk when she mar- ried the young diplomatist who had ac- companied the illustrious Czecho states- man, M. Benes, on his mission to Paris. Orphaned in her early girlhood, she lived with her uncle, Dr. Thomas Mas- aryk, President and virtual founder of the Czechoslovakian Republic, until her marriage 10 years ago. She will be an important figure in the international society in Prague when she returns to her home some time in April. The newly appointed military attache of the French embassy, Col. Raymond Casanave, has been promoted to briga- dier general and will sail for this pest shortly after Christmas. The naval attache of the French em- (Continued on Second Page.) Society Hostesses Announce At Homes Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, will be at home Wednesday afternoon from 4:30 to 6:30 o'clock in her home at 1812 R street. Mrs. Pdward Twiss Dunlap will be at home Wednesday afternoon, Decem- ber 19, from 3 to 6 o'clock, at 4415 Q street, Foxhall Vi 3 Maj. and Mrs. Ennals Waggaman will be at home this afterncon after 4 o'clock in their home at 2443 Kalo- rama road. Senator md*;irs. Harris ‘ Compliment Daughter Senator and Mrs. William J. Harris B. Parmenter and Mr. and Mrs. O. Luhring. . Among other guests were the Assist- ant Secretary of War for Aviation and Mrs. F. Trubee Davison, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, Mr. Edward Warner, and Miss War- K. |dance for their daughter, of Georgia are giving a young folk tea Miss Julia Harris, at the Willard Hotel from 5 to 7 o'clock. December 24. awr and her friends wi ise. ccmpany. She will join her parent ' here December 21. ’