Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-19
EVENTS Of INTEREST
IN AND OUT Of TOWN
Judiciary Reception at the White
House Tonight Beginning
at 8 O'Clock.
Many Dinner Parties Usher in the
Week-Young People Returning
Home for Christmas Holidays.

The President and Mrs. Wilson will
he hosts this evening at their first state
reception of the season, when the jul
dietary will be their special guests. The
reception will begin at o'clock instead
| of $3.50, as heretofore. The reception
| complimentary to these distinguished
guests has usually taken place about
a month later but in addition to the
omission of the diplomatic reception
this season the entire schedule of White
House hospitalities has been advanced
fortnight.
The Vice President and Mrs Marshall
were the guests in whose honor the
third assistant secretary OF state ana
Mrs. Phillips entertained at dinner last
evening heir other guests were the
Spanish ambassador and Nine. Riano,
senator and Mrs. Newlands, Senator
Phelan, Solicitor General and Mrs.
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Corcoran Thorn, Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh c. Wallace Mrs Mar
shall Field, Mrs. ]. Borden Hartman.
bassador to Mexico. Mr.. Henry P.
Fletcher, and Mr.. Edgar II. Wells.
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Lam
sing were the guests OF honor at din
ner last evening of Senator and Mrs.
willard Salisbury of Delaware. The
guests to meet them were the Secretary
of Agriculture and Mrs. Houston, the
governor of the federal reserve board
and Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin, the assist
ant attorney general and Mrs. Charles
! Warren, Mr.. Adolph Miller of the fed
eral reserve board and Mrs. Miller, Col.
and Mrs w. W. Harris. Mrs. Thomas r.
Bayard, Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore w.
Noyes and Gen. James Wilson Of Will
mington, Del
Miss Ethel Barksdale of Wilmington,
Del will arrive at Washington today
to be a guest of Senator and Mrs:
Salisbury, with whom she will attend
the reception at the White House this
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank B. Noyes are en-
tertaiuu1ent at a small informal dinner
lance this evening for their daughters,
Mrs. Thomas Blagdon, whose wedding
anniversary it is, and Miss Frances
Noyes.
Mrs. Warren entertained informally
ut luncheon today in compliment to the
Hon Mrs Lyon. wife of the Hon. Mr..
John Lyon, temporarily attached to the
British embassy.
! Assistant Attorney General and Mrs.
Charles Warren will go to Boston on
Tuesday, January 2, to attend the
golden wedding anniversary, the fol-
! y,
| Mr.. and Mrs. Winslow Warren.
Miss Lorraine Allen, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George Marshall Allen: Miss
Pauline Disston and Miss Meirs will ar
| rive at Washington tomorrow to be
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edison Bradley.
| who are entertaining at dinner fol-
| lowed by II dance in their honor. to-
morrow evening.
! Miss Allen was the guest of honor at
| dinner, followed by theater party
| given by Mrs. Herbert Shipman. Mr. and
Mrs Bradley's daughter, at New York
last Saturday evening. Miss Doris
| Fletcher Ryer, who will be married
later in the winter to Mr.. Stanhope
Nixon, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Nixon
and Miss Pauline Disston were also
among the guests.
| The Secretary of the Interior and
i Mrs. Lane, who have been at Philadel-
phia, where the Secretary has been at
| tending the international conference OF
representatives of this government and
Mexico. expect to return to Washing
| ton today, to remain over Christmas
| Mrs Daniels. wife of the Secretary OF
| the Navy, will return today from a
| visit of several days at Raleigh, ~ c.
The Chinese minister will go to Har-
| risburg. Pa, the day after Christmas
| to be a guest at a dinner to be given
dence He will be luncheon guest OF
the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce
| the following day.
Mrs. Koo will have a childrens party
| Christmas day.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Wheatley are
1 among the passengers sailing on the
| steamship Sixaola for Kingston, ia
maica, Friday, December %. en- route
to Florida, via Isthmus Of Panama
Miss Mabel Boardman will give a talk