The Washington times., 1913-02-14
Mrs. Taft Entertains Friends
With Box Party at Produc-
ton Of lucia"

For the second time this season,
Chase's Theater is filled with a brill
liant throng of people from resident
ana official society to hear the Chicago
Grand Opera Company. Lucia" is be-
principle role.
Splendid afternoon costumes. and gay
plumed hats have taken the place Of
the elaborate and bejeweled head dress
Of night season of grand opera, but
the scene is equally brilliant
The boxes are filled with distinguished
parties. and the body of the house Is
representative of the foremost music
lovers and society people Of the Cap
ital.
Mrs. Taft is occupying the first box
10 the right, and has with her Mrs.
Horace Westcott, Mrs. E. Rollins Morse.
Miss Boardman Miss Taft, and Miss
Catherine Anderson.
Mrs. L. 2. Letter is entertaining Frau
yon Melchow. of Berlin. Miss Kellogg.
Of Utica, N. Y, and Miss Dorothy WILL
liams. and others.
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh has by far
the largest number of guests. and has
in her box on the right Madame Bakh-
meter, Mrs. Macveagh, Mrs Robert W.
Patterson. and Mrs. John Hay.
In Mrs. waIsh's box on the left are
Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard, Mrs. Francis
4. Newlands. Mrs. Thomas Nelson
Page. and Mrs. James W. Pinchot. In
her first box In the second row are Mrs.
Anderson. Mrs. w. L. Boardman, and
Mrs. Henry c. Corbin: and in her second
box. in the second row. are Mrs James
w. Wadsworth, Mrs John B. Hender-
son, and the hostess herself, Mrs.
Walsh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Truxton Beale have in
their box Mrs. Thomas K LaughIin,
Miss Harriet Wadsworth, Major Win
ship. and others.
Mrs. David w. Fairchild is entertain
ing I'm her box Mrs. William Alden
Smith. Mrs. Nathan B. Scott. of West
Virginia; Mrs. Ira c. Copley, Mrs.
Henry c. Clayton, c. c. McChord, Mrs.
Matthew T. Scott, and Mrs. Ten Eyck
Wendell
Rear f.dmiral and Mrs. Willard II.
Brownson are entertaining in their box
Mrs Robert NJ. Thompson, Mrs. Kean.
Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Hart.
and Mrs Hussey.
Miss Mary Boyce Temple, of Tennes-
see. is entertaining a box party in
honor Of Mrs. Horace Van Devanter.
Of Knoxville and has as other guests,
Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Lurton. Mrs.
Rubin Moon, Mrs. Richard Butler, Mrs.
Walter Wells, and Miss Gillett
With Mrs. Marshall Field are several
diplomats and others. and in the audi
once are the Netherlands Minister and
Madame Loudon, the Swedish Minister,
the Norwegian Minister and Madame
Bryn. the Belgian Minister and Madame
Hevenith, DR.. and Mrs. Buckner Ran
dolph. DR.. and Mrs. Fremont Smith, Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar Underwood. Senator
and Mrs Hoke Smith, and Miss Maths.
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"A party OF about ten students from
bryn Mawr College will arrive In Wash
ineton late this afternoon to be the
weekend guest Of Miss Helen TAFT.
their FORMER classmate at the White
House. Miss Taft will entertain in
formally for them this evening.
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The Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. MacVeagh will entertain at din
nsr this evening. taking their guests
~AeSf "oao W Tue odliSt ~ MIS-. Rogers.
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Nine. Tetrazzini is a guest at the
Hotel Bellevue during her stay in Wash
incton.
Mrs. Carrico. wife of DR.. Albert J.
Carrico. is spending few days at Fort
Monroe, Virginia, a guest at the Ho-
tel Chamberlin.
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William Loeb, tr.. arrived today ana
II a guest at the Shoreham.
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Mrs. Dean will entertain at an in
formal tea for the friends of her son,
Capt Warren Dean, u. S. A., following
the cavalry drill this afternoon In the
riding hall. Their quarters at Fort
Myer have been adorned for the occa-
sion with ferns and clusters OF spring
blossoms.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bertram B. Conrad, Of
Washington. are spending some time at
the Royal Palm, at Miami. Fla