The Washington times., 1909-05-07
AMBASSADOR AND MRS. BRYCE
APE THE HOSTS TODAY
At A LUNCHEON.

The British Ambassador and Mrs
James Bryce entertained at luncheon
today, having as their guests the Right
Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Mackay-
Smith. of Philadelphia; Mrs. Choate,
wife of the former American ambas-
sador to Great Britain, and Lady Had
field.
The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
George Won L Meyer we're hosts at a
dinner followed by a box party at the
New National Theater -'or the perform
ance of Robin Hood last evening III
honor of Miss Ethel Roosevelt, who is
their guest for a couple Of days.
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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Gaff, who
have been in mourning for the greater
part of the winter. were hosts at din
ner last evening in homer of Miss Mar
jorie Lawson, of Cincinnati, who is vis-
iting her aunt and uncle, Mr., and Mrs.
Walter d. Wilcox Miss Lawson is also
a niece of Mrs. Franklin Ellis. Covers
were laid for forty, and the guests were
mostly from the younger set.
Mrs. Taft will be hostess this after
noon at s o'clock at the first OF a series
of garden parties she has arranged for
d, Fridays in May on the White House
lawns. The guests viii enter tho
grounds at the east entrance and Mrs.
Taft, who viii be uuassisted in recetv-
ing will stand a little in the west or
the south portico. The Marine Band
will be in attendance during the after-
noon.
Mrs. Taft attended the concert at the
New National Theater tlsis afternoon at
2:15 o'clock by the Paulists Chorister
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were Mrs. w w. Wotherspoon and
I Miss Mimmack.
At the concert bevy of attractive
( deputantes of the season who sold SOU
venir programs were afterward the
guests of Mrs. William Manning Irwin In
her box. In the party were Miss Marjorie
Aleshire, Miss Katherine Weeks. Miss
Harriet Eatch, Miss Ruth Bliss, Miss
/ Katherine Crane, Baroness Marie Won
1 Paumgartten, Miss Caroline Shepard
and Miss Annie Irwin.
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Mrs. Ross Perry was hostess at a
/ luncheon yesterday followed by bridge
in her home on p street
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Baroness Won Paumgartten and her
daughter, Baroness Marie Won Paum-
gartten, VIII leave Washington early
| IN July for their summer place on
/ Lake Michigan
On Tour of Inspection.
The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
George Won l. Meyer will leave Wash
| ingtou this afternoon at O'Clock on
board the L. S. S. Dolphin for three
or four-days tour of inspection. They
will go first to Annapolis, where the
Secretary will witness the boat race to-
morrow morning between the Annapolis
cadets and the Columbia College crew
I Saturday evening they will leave for
Nr.H. "a
viii inspect the Hampton Institute
some time during Sunday. Monday he
Will visit the Norfolk navy yard, re-
turning to Washington Tuesday morn
| ing. The Misses Never viii accompany
their parents, and there Will be several
/ guests in the party.
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Mrs Norman Williams has cards out
for tea Monday afternoon to meet
Mrs. Franklin MacVeagh, wife Of the
! Secretary OF the Treasury.
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viii Entertain Singers
Mrs. George c. Bliss. Mrs. Thomas
| II. Carter, Miss Alice Riggs, Miss
Roach. Miss Ella Lorraine Dorsey, Mrs.
John James Walsh, Mrs. James Knox
/ Taylor, Mrs. L. P. Mccartney, Miss
Caroline Hickey, Mrs. William K Carr,
Mrs William Manning Irwin and Mrs.
Broadhead, of the executive committee
/ in charge of the Paulist Chorister So
ciety at the New National Theater this
afternoon at 2:15 o'clock. will entertain
/ the members OF the society and their
/ friends at tea this afternoon at ) O'Clock
| at Carroll Institute Hall. An elaborate
buffet supper viii be served by Rausch-
| ers'.
/ Tea will be served informally at the
| Congressional Club this afternoon, Mrs.
/ Woodyard, Of West Virginia, presiding.
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! Representative and Mrs. James Breck
/ Perkins Will close their residence here
early in June, and go to their home in
New York for the summer.
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/ Mr.. and Mrs. Waller, who have spent
the winter at the Portland, have re-
turned TO their home in Virginia
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The auditorium OF the New Masonic
Temple was filled with an enthusiastic
| audience yesterday to greet Mrs. Lucia
/ Gale Barber, who gave an interpreta-
/ ton Of rhythm, to the accompaniment
4 of classical music. Mrs. Barber was
assisted by classes from Boston and
/ Washington.
class of children from the kindergarten
/ of the Seaton School. under the direc-
/ tion of Miss McKeW and Miss Bentley.
/ Among the list Of patronesses were
/ d. Addison, Mrs. Larz Anderson, Mrs.
/ j. 3. Aleshire, Mrs. Charles ]. Bell,
/ Mrs. John S. Blair, Mrs. julius c. Bur
rowe, Mrs. william Kearny Carr, Mrs
/ Chatard, Mrs. Louis A Coolidge, Mrs.
| William Sheffield Cowles, Mrs w
/ Murray Crane. Mrs Albert B. Cummins,
Mrs Charles Conner, Mrs. Chauncey
Mitchell DeDew. Mrs. Henry Cleveland
/ Perkins, Mrs. James Breck Perkins,
Mrs James Q. PilIing, Mrs. Wicker
/ sham, Mrs John w. Weeks, Baroness
/ Takahira, Mrs. Jonathan p DolliVer,
| Mrs Z. Tiffany Dyer. Mrs. John Joy
/ Edison, Jr-, Mrs. Richard +. Ely, Mrs
/ Franklin Emmons, Mrs. W. Ashton Ev-
/ ans, Mrs. G. Worthington Ford, Mrs.
! Joseph 3. Foraker, Mrs. John G. FIRE.
mont. Mrs Augustus P. Gardner. Mrs.
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