The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-15

| Proves "a Brilliant FunctiOn-Many
Evening Dinners for FavOrites.
The President and Mrs Taft attended
the opera again last night. the last night
Of the season Of Manhattan Opera. With
them were Attorney General and Mrs.
/ Wickersham, Senator and Mrs. Hale. and
/ Lieut. Commander Leigh. Palmer
Mrs. EIkins, wife Of Senator EIIins, had
in their box Mrs. Samuel Spencer, Mrs,
John w. Foster and Miss Katherine
Brown; Mrs Letter had the Secretary
OF War and Mrs. Dickinson. Gen. Clarence
Edwards, Mrs. Henderson, Of London.
and Miss Janet Fish, OF New York; Mr..
and Mrs John Hays Hammond had with
! them Senator and Mrs NeWlands and
| Mr. and Mrs. Herbert WadswOrth, and
had late supper afterward in the Ham
mond home. which is the former home OF
former Vice President and Mrs Levi
2, Morton, and was also the Russian
/ Embassy for many years
In another box, opposite the Presidents.
/ were former Ambassador and Mrs. Henry
4 White. Mrs James W. WadsWOTth, and
the Spanish Minister. Marquis de villa
! lobar The Minister from Salvador
and Nine. Mejia had a box, and with
them were the Minister from Honduras.
DR. Luis Lazo, and the Misses Mejia.
Miss MathiIde Townsend entertained a
party Of young people in her mothers
! box. Mr.. and Mrs Edison Bradley had
as their box guests their daughter. Mrs.
/ Herbert Shlpman, OF New York; Mr.. and
Mrs. Wltsie, Of New York; the Duke OF
{ Nallambrozia, and several others, who
also dlned with them before the opera.
! The Assistant Secretary Of State and
/ Mrs. Huntington Wilson entertained al
dinner last night in honor Of the Vice
/ President and Mrs. Sherman. They had
to meet them Baroness Rosen. wife Of
the Russian Ambassador; the Chilean
Minister and Nine Cruz. Marquis de
! Villalobar. the Spanish Minister; Senator
Frye. and his daughter, Mrs. Briggs:
/ Representative and Mrs. James Breck
/ Perkins, Representative and Mrs. Frank
/ o. Lovden, the American Ambassador TO
. Mexico and Mrs. Henry Lane Wilson, the
| American Minister to Uruguay and Para
quay. Mr.. and Mrs. I.arz Anderson, Mr..
and Mrs F. p. Crowninshield, and Miss
/ Christian. Of Richmond, Va, house guest
/ Of Mrs. Wilson.
The italian Ambassador and Baroness
des Planches were the guests Of honor
Of Mrs. Richard Townsend al dinner last
night The other guests we're the AM
bsssador from Austria-Hungary and Bar
oness HengeImuller. the Danish Minister
and Countess Won Moltke. Senator and
! Mrs. Aldrich. Senator and Mrs Root
Senator Warren, Representative Hamil-
ton Fish. Mrs. Robert Patterson. Lieut.
Col and Mrs. Charles L. AlcCaWley. Mr.
/ and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend. Mr. and
Mrs. Woodbury. Blair, Mr. and Mrs. George
Howard Nj and Mrs Thomas Nelson
Page, Mrs. LaCenberg, Of New York,
/ house guest Of Mrs. Robert Roosevelt;
Miss Boardmau. Miss PaJten. Commander
Retzmann, OF the German Embassy staff;
Baron Hardenbroeck, Of the German En-
bassy staff, and Mr. John Barrett
The British Ambassador and Mrs.
James Bryce were the guests Of honor at
dinner last evening OF thu charge
dafaires Of Turkey. A Rustem Bey
/ Tho guests asked TO meet them we're the
swiss Minister and Nine. Ritter. Mr.. and
Mrs. Keunard. Of the British Embassy;
J the Naval Attache Of the French En-
bassy and Viscountess day, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas T. Gaff, Mrs. Guidet-Duryee,
! Mrs. A. Chester, Countess Luise Alex
andra Won Bernstorff, daughter Of the
/ German Ambassador. Miss COUderL- Of
New York; Miss Henrietta Fitch, Miss
Marie Guidet-Duryee. Miss Maud Con-
rad. Baron Ambrozy, Mr.. Hanihara, Mr..
Wilbur J. Carr. Director OF the Consular
Bureau Of the state Department; Mr.
/ Walter Davidge, Mr.. Low, and the second
secretary Of the Turkish Embassy,
Ibrahim Rifaat Bey.
Senator and Mrs. Depew entertained at
dinner last evening. Their guests were
the Speaker of the House Of Representa-
tives and Miss Cannon, Mt. Justice and
! Mrs. Holmes. Senator and Mrs. Burrows,
Senator Kean and Miss Lucy Kean, Sem
ator and Mrs Scott, Senator Dillingham;,
| Senator Du Pout. Senator and Mrs. Will
lam Alden smith. Representative and Mrs.
J. Sloat Fassett, the Secretary Of the
Senate and Mrs. Bennett, Mr. and Mrs
IG. G. Hill. Miss Sheriff. Miss Josephine
Patten, and Mr.. Crist.
Gen. and Mrs Gillespie entertained at
dinner last evening. Their guests were
former Senator and Mrs. John F. Dry
den, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Oracle, DR..
and Mrs Wilmer. Rear Admiral and Mrs
MacGowan, Gen. Sanger, Maj. Gen. Da-
Wis. Mrs Beach Grant. Mrs Nathan
Wyeth. and 8Ir and Mrs. Charles Henry
Butler.
The largest social function of last even
ing aside from the opera was the ball and
IcotiIIion given by Mr. and Mrs. Robert
B. Roosevelt, Of New York, for their
debutante daughter. Miss Olga Roosevelt.
They entertained a party OF New York
guests at dinner preceding the dance,
which was given at Rauscher's, and was
a very brilliant and beautiful affair. The
bathrooms were decorated with hundreds
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