Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-26
SOCIAL STARS ACT
TWO PLAYS GIVEN BY TAIL
ENTED AMATEURS.
Brilliant Audience Applauds Efforts
and Stays to Sup and
Talk.

Two play: gwen before fas hionab bic
audience at Che PLAYHOUSE iasi night
made decided LIS. ono sketch by Mrs.
Alter. :. Burles,H 4. emitted His Score
tar. ard the other. a. French comedy
called ''i.e Occur ses Rasons, by NM.
De FicrS and Caillavct.
His Secretary" has clever lines and
situations. Charles T. Wilson played the
part of Represented tive MarSton. con-
gresham from a western state. and Mrs.
Maud Howell Smith. Mrs. Marsten. both
scoring successes.
In the French play were the Niscoun-
tess Benost DAY. Mrs. Preston q 5son.
Count Csekon cs and q. Maugras, all Of
whom canably interpreted their parts.
The Countess Moltke was stage director.
Countess Won BernstorT, wife of the
German ambassador entertained I'm her
box Miss .Alys Meyer. Miss Aldrich. Mr..
Craig Wadsworth. MIR. John White and
DR.. Piatt Andrew.
Niscount d Azy. who had box built
for the occasion, entertained in his
party the Austro- Hungarian ambassa-
dor, the French ambassador and Mime.
Jusserand. the Italian ambassador and
Warehouses CuSani. Donna Beatrice
cusani, the Attorney General and Mrs.
Wicker sham. the Postmaster General. Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend Mrs. Rob
ert Patterson. Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs.
A>tiNti JNoDefi Lht1oi MI -
CroHninshield. Senator du Pont. the as
siStant secretary of the navy and Mrs.
Winthrop. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White.
Mrs Draper. the counselor of the Ger
man embassy and Mrs. Han.el Won Hahn
hansen, Mr.. Kerr of tho British embassy.
Mrs. Henry Cor5in. NJ IS Boardman. Mrs.
j. Il. Henderson Mr.. John r. Henderson,,
jr. Count de Chabannes. Mrs. Hopkins
and Count de Chambrun. Following the
performance Niscount and Niscountess
d. Azy entertained at supper. at which
there We're about sixty guests. including
the PLAYERS.
MIR ana Mrs Perry Belmont had in
their box the Russian ambassador and
Nine. Bakhmeteff. the Brazilian ambas-
50 dor the Dan sh minister and Countess
AoltKe and Mrs. Richard Townsend.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter Dencgre, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Gaff and Mr. Gist Blair also
entert aimed box parties.
With Mr.. Preston Gibson i'm his boz
were MIS-. James Mcmillan and Mr.. and
Mrs EsBond OVcy.
Others i'm the audience were Mrs. Al
bert Burleson. the Misses Burleson, Miss
Wetmore. Mrs. John w. Dwight. Mime
EGengren. Mrs. Henry Corbin. the Misses
Patton. Mr. and Mrs Garrison Me- lin
took. Mrs. Robert Hinchley, Miss iincS-
ley Mr.. and Mrs. Ormshy McCammon,
the Misses Cameron. Col. and Mrs Spen-
Ger Cosby. Mrs. Charles Shepard. Mr..
and Mrs. Murray CoDb. Mr.. w =. Clarke.
Viscourt dc Sibour, ,ir and Mrs. Chris
nan iten'filtt. MI anu MIS- I'll ~ III Z
Fortescue. Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Legare.
Mrs. Clarence Moore. Mrs. Swift. Mrs.
Horace Wiley, Nine. de Riano. Miss Lota
Robinson. DR.. and Mrs. Kienlin, Mrs.
Hun; Slater. Miss Miriam Crosby. Lord
Eustace Percy. Mr.. George Howard. Capt
J. |. Carter. Mr.. Schmolck, Maj. Horton,
the Misses Finley. the Misses Whiting,
Sisnor Augusta Rcsso, Baron Harden
brock Mrs. Richard Reid Rogers. Miss
Elizabeth Rogers. Miss Carol Crawford.
MI Dmitrow. the military attache of the
Spanish legation and Nine de trcullu,
the military attache of the Russian en-
bassy. Col. Baron de Bode. Baroness
Elizabeth de BOde. Mr.. Dc Morgenstierne.
Mrs. Frank Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Henr.-
May Mr.. Charles Richardson. Mr.. and
Mrs Charles +. Adams, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Adams. Mr.. and Mrs. Woodbury.
Blair, Mrs. Francis Leupp, Miss Leupp,
Mr. and Mrs. John Bolt, Miss Yvonne
Townsend. Mrs. Matthew Scott. Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Wilson, the naval attache
of the Russian embassy and Nine. Vas
silieff Mr.. Kurt Diedrich. Count d Adhe-
mar Mr.. and Mrs. Huntington Jackson,
Mr. and Mrs. William Littauer, Paymas-
ter and Mrs. John Merriam. and Lieut..
and Mrs. Richard Wainwright.
\ number of Suppers followed the plays.
In addition to that given by Niscount and
Niscountess d Az. Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Legare. Mr. and Mrs. Murray COBB, and
Mr.. Gist Flair entertained.