The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-03
Presidential Party Views Special Performance;
Ambassador and Nine da Cana Entertain Dinner
Guests for Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
Other News of Society a the Capital

President and Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Boil
ing, Miss Bertha Boiling. and Mr.. John
Randolph Boiling occupied the White
House box at the B. F. Keith Theater
last evening. VIII NJ. Cressy and Blanche
Dayne, together with their company,
gave a special performance of the rural
sketch, Town Hall Tonight" for the
Presidential party, II being the first time
the Chief Executive had ever seen this
presentation.
The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
entertained at dinner last evening at
the Willard in honor of the Brazilian
Ambassador and Nine. da Cana. The
dinner was served In the Presidential
suite and there were twenty-five guests.
The Counselor Of the State Depart
ment and Mrs. Frank L. Polk entertained
twenty guests at dinner last evening in
compliment to the Chinese Minister and
Nine. Koo.
Senator and Mrs. Overman were the
guests in whose honor Judge and Mrs.
william Bailey Lamar gave brilliant
dinner party at Rauscher's last evening,
The table was very lovely with hollow
center filed with pink azaleas, white
lIlacs, and ferns. There were corsaSe
bouquets for the ladies Of pink sweet
peas tied with French blue ribbon. In
yited to meet Senator and Mrs. Over
man were Senator and Mrs William ].
Stone, Senator and Mrs. Ollie James,
Senator and Mrs. John d. Works, Sen
ator Phelan and Miss Phelan, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. julius Kahn. Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Frank Clark. Capt
and Mrs. Mark Bristol. Capt. and Mrs.
Theodore Baldwin Medical Director and
Mrs Francis S. Nash, Capt and Mrs
S J. Bayard Schindel Medical Inspector
and Mrs. Sheldon Evans, Judge and Mrs.
Charles B. Howry. Judge and Mrs. Frank
Short, of California; Assistant Attorney
General and Mrs. Samuel ]. Graham, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert S. Shepard, Mr.. and
Mrs Sidney Neale, Mr.. and Mrs. Wade
Ellis, Mrs. Lloyd Bowers, Miss Nbbey,
Mrs. Henry D. Clayton. of Alabama;
Mrs. Henry Oxnard, Mrs. David S.
Kaime. Of St Louis; Miss Judge, Miss
Gladys Sullivan, Of California; Senator
James P. Clarke, Senator William P.
Dillingham;. Senator Key Pittman. SEN
ator Hollis. Representative stephen
Starkman. Representative Richard H.
Whaley and former Governor Gillette,
OF California.
Representative and Mrs. Charles NJ.
Hamilton were hosts at dinner last even
ing when the honor guests were Rep
The other guests included Representa-
tive and Mrs. Thomas B. Dunn, Rep
resentative John ]. Fitzgerald, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. George w Fairchild,
REPRESENTATIVE and Mrs. Luther Mott,
Representative and Mrs. F. A Britten,
Representative and Mrs. Edmund Platt,
Representative and Mrs. W. S. Dempsel,
Representative and Mrs. c. B. Ward,
Representative and Mrs. Myer B. San
ford. Judge and Mrs. c. c. McChord,
Mrs II. L. Irwin, Mr.. and Mrs. William
L. Calder of Brooklyn, and Mr. and
Mrs Joseph Osler, of New York, house
guests Of Representative and Mrs. Dunn.
Mrs. Koo, wife OF the Minister Of
China, will be at home on Tuesday,
March I, from until o'clock, at the
Chinese legation.
Miss Beatrice Clover, Miss Evelina
Gleaves, Mr.. Laurence Baker, and Mr..
william Faust form one of the quar-
tets for The Gypsy Prince" which is
to be given at Rsuschers' by the Junior
League of the City Of Washington next
Monday and Tuesday nights.
Mrs. F Ward Denys and the Misses
Denys was at home yesterday afternoon
for the last time this season. Mrs. Will
lam P. Rodgers was at the tea table.
Madame Ohta- wife Of the third sec
rotary of the japanese Embassy, will
give a tea dance on the occasion Of the
Dolls Festivalo of Japan this afternoon,
from 40 to $50 at the Hotel Lafayette.
The ladies assisting will be: Mrs. Arch
ibald Oracle, Mrs. Charles V. Wheeler,
Miss Marjorie Bartlett. Miss Chase, Miss
Susanna Chase, Miss Jeanette Cowan,
Miss Edith Oracle, Miss Ruth Hitchcock,
Miss Ellie LeJeune, Miss Scriven, Miss
Katharine Scriven, and the ladies Of the
embassy.
The decorations will be dolls and Ike
b&na" Japanese flower arrangement.
Mrs. William Garry, OF Brookline,
Mass, a member OF the Society Of Navy
Sponsors arrived at Washington yester-
day to attend the meetings of the So
ciety today and tomorrow and is stop
ping at the Willard, where the meetings
will be held.
Mrs. Albert L. Mills entertained at a
delightful buffet luncheon yesterday in