Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-20
Brilliant Assemblage at the Mclean
Home.
The BROMLEY PAUNCEFOFE WEDDING
Recent HospitaIities and Future
Ones.
TIMELY TOPIC S

| The events of the coming week run large
| ly to dinners and luncheons, the three
| evening occasions, however, being such that
| nothing else Is needed to insure all the
| brilliancy and gayety possible. Wednesday
| evening the second reception of the winter
| will be held at the White House. when the
| judiciary will be the special official body
honored. Thursday evening the annual
charity ball. for the benefit of the Childrens
| Hospital, will be held at the Arlington
| Hotel and all the old-time glories which
have always been associated with the very
| mention of charity ball will be revived.
| The President has signified his intention of
being present with members of his cabinet.
| The Marine Band will play in the ball
| room while promenade concert for those
! who do not care for the dancing Will be
| in progress in the large salon, the Fort
| Myer Military Band furnishing the music
| The receiving party will consist of the
| board of mana cement, headed by the presi-
| dent, Mrs. Davis. There has been nothing
| left undone to make the ball splendid
| success.
The dinner dance will be given Tuesday
| evening at the German embassy, although
the popular host of that foreign home Will
| be absent in Chicago, where on wednesday
| afternoon the University of Chicago Will be
| in holiday attire to greet the ambassador
| Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Mclean gave an
| other of the entertainments last night for
|
| and musicale at which all the brllllancy Oh
| a Washington season was reflected In the
| personnel of the notables present from Of
! fetal and resident circles. While planned
| in honor of Admiral and Mrs. Dewey, the
| latter owing to painful attack of tonsi-
| litis, was not able to be present The ad-
miral received with Mrs Mclean, who
Superbly goWned in gold-embroldered white
| satin, stood near the ball room entrance
| The guests who arrived before 10 took
seats facing the platform which was ar
| ranged across the south end OF the most
| imposing of capital ball rooms, while the
| overflow formed tiers Of well-dreSSed hu-
! mainly the broad stairs at the entrance.
| 1t was one of the parties for which perhaps
! an invitation was most coveted of all the
| winters series, but with the generous hos
| pitality shown was also one at which one
| half of the celebrities present could hardly
| know of the presence of the other. Miss
| May Handy of Richmond and Miss Robin
| son of Baltimore, both house guests, were
| also presented to the company by the host
| eSS.
The great fireplace in the banquet hall
| bloomed with American Beauty roses. This
| flower. with other roses, adorned both the
drawing rooms and ball room.
| The artists of the evening were: Nine.
Schumann-Heink con ratio; NJ. Thomas
| Salignac, tenor; Signor Giuseppe Campa-
nari baritone; Mr.. Harvey Murray, at the
piano, and the Baltimore Symphony Or
chestra, numbering twenty-five pieces.
The program which began at 10 o'clock,
was follows:
PART I.
| Karl Won Weber-Overture.. ....... .Oberon
| Giocchino Rossini-"Largo al Factotum"-
Barber de Seville
| Charles Gounod. ............... Ave Maria
| Ange Flegier. stances"
- D''N' PART II. N ''A' 'i's'
Pierto Observation-Disclosures
"Cavaleria Rusticana'
! Gaetano Donzetti-"n segretto''-
"Lucrezia Borgia''
NJ pta'r ED,,c
Jules Massenet. ...... .'Pensee de Automne''
| Georges Bizet-Duo, Les Percheurs de
Perles" understandable Pearl Fishers
Direction Mr. Ed F. Guzman.
After the feast of music, the guests en-
joyed a champagne supper.
Among the invited guests. nearly all of
whom were present, were the British am
bassador and family, the Italian ambassa-
dor and Baroness Fava, the Russian am
bassador, the Mexican ambassador and
Mrs. Azpiroz, Mrs. Perez, the Secretary of
State and Mrs. Hay, the Secretary of the
Treasury and Mrs. Gage, the Secretary of
War, Mrs. Root and Miss Root, the Post
master General and Mrs. Smith, the Secre-
tary of the Interior, Mrs. Hitchcock and
the Misses Hitchcock, the Secretary of Ag-
riculture and Miss Wilson. the Belgian
minister and Countess Lichtervelde, the
Costa Rican minister and Mrs. Calvo, the
Swiss minister and Mrs. Pioda, the Guate-
malan and Danish ministers, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wollant, the Chinese minister, Chief JUS
tce and Mrs. Fuller, Gen. and Mrs Bates,
Justice and the Misses McKenna, Mr.. and
Mrs. John W. Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lansing, General
and Mrs. Miles, Colonel and Mrs. Reber,
Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Mr.. Will
liam Jennings Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. Cor
man, the Misses German Mr.. and Mrs. R.
A. Johnson, Commander and Mrs. Clover,
Speaker and Mrs. Henderson. Miss Hen
Senator and Mrs. Chandler, Senator and
Mrs Culom, Mr.. and Mrs. Buckingham, Mr..
and Mrs. Bloomer, Mr.. and Mrs. Forbes
Beale: Mr.. and Mrs Charles Poor, Mr. and
Mr.. and Mrs. De Almond, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L.
Brewer, Representative and Mrs. Grosvenor
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Hague, Mr.: James l..
Patten, Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar, Mr.. and Mrs
Kenny, Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis, Mr.. Herbert
Putnam Gen. Corbin, Gen. Baird, the
Hit, Senator and Mrs. Proctor, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Addison Porter, Col. and Mrs
Bingham, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Walker,
Miss Walker, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Hig-
GIBSON, Senator and Mrs. Teller, Senator
and Mrs. Spooner, Gen. Wetmore Repre-
sentative and Miss Lowering, Representa-
tard, Mr. and Mrs. John Poor, Mr.. and Mrs
Weightman, Mr.. and Mrs Campbell, Gen.
and Mrs. Sanger and Miss Sanger, Mr..
Richard Townsend, M M5; and dna Mrs Biddle
and Mrs Lodge, the Misses Emory, Miss
Waite, Miss Ida Thompson, Miss Gwynn.
Miss Kibbey, Mr.. and MIS-. Archibald Hop
kins, Mr.. and Mrs. Gallaudet and Miss Ma
rion Gallaudet, Mr.. and Mrs. Goldsborough,
DR.. and Mrs. Hyatt. Mr.. and Mrs. Crop
per. Rear Admiral and Mrs. Crowninshield,
Miss Webb, Senator and Mrs. Martin, Gen.
and Mrs Rochester, Mr.. and Mrs ODon-
nell, Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Legare. Mr. and
Mrs Wilkins, Mrs. Sheridan, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mcguire Mr.. and Mrs. Dawes, the Misses
Davidge. Mrs. Hobson. Mr.: and Mrs.
Sprague, Mr.. Seckendorff and Miss Seek
endorff, Representative and Mrs. Claude
M. Swanson, Miss Hunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
James NJ Johnston, Miss Woodruff, Sena-
tor and Mrs. Elkins, Senator and Mrs. For
aker, Senator and Mrs. Hawley, Senator
and Mrs Thomas c. Plat, Senator Depew,
Miss Paulding and Miss Hageman, Miss
Clagett the Misses Squire, Miss Bessie
Davis, Miss Hagner, Miss Markoe, Miss
Rivinus, Miss Clark, the Misses Owen, Miss
Deering, the Misses Todd, Miss Warder,
Miss Hawley. Miss Hichborn. Major Nc
Cawley, U. S. NJ. c.; Major NJ. NJ. Macomb,
U. s. A; Prince Troubetzkoy, Mr.. w. c.
Marrow, Prof. Emmons, Dr. Clayton, Mr..
Cousins, Major Russell, Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
man f. Mack of Buffalo. Mr.. and Mrs. w.
p Huntington of Columbus, Ohio, Mr.. and
Mrs d. c. Balentine, Rear Admiral and
Mrs Sefridge, Rear Admiral and Mrs.
ntie