Evening star., 1916-12-07
EVENTS OF INTEREST
IN AND OUT OF Town
President and Mrs. Wilson Give
First Large Dinner Party of Sea-
son This Evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chaplin Entertain This
Evening for Miss Minna Blair.
Dinners Precede Dance.

The President and Mrs. Wilson will
entertain at dinner this evening in
| compliment to Mr.. Vance Mccormick,
chairman of the national democratic
committee, and those who were most
closely associated with him in the
recent campaign. 1t will be the first
large dinner party at the White House
this season.
The President and Mrs. Wilson, ac-
companied by Mrs. Wilson's mother and
sister, Mrs. Boiling and Miss Boiling:
Miss Bones, Miss Edith Benham and
Mr.. John Randolph Boiling, attended
| the theater last evening.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick L. Chaplin are
entertaining at dance this evening at
| the Alibf Club in compliment to Miss
Minna Blair, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Montgomery Blair, debutante this
season. Mr.. and Mrs. Chaplin will have
/ a small dinner party before the dance
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard A. Harlow will
| be hosts at dinner this evening at
their residence in 21st street in COM
| pIiment to Miss Anne Hopkins and Miss
| Lydia Chaplin, both debutantes of the
| season.
| The party will later attend the Chaplin
| dance.
Miss Amaryllis Gillett. who win en-
| tertain at dinner this evening in honor
of Miss Margaret Fahnestock, will later
| take her guests to the Chaplin dance
at the Alibi Club.
| The counselor of the State Depart
ment and Mrs Frank Polk were hosts
at dinner last evening, having among
their guests the Italian ambassador
I md faco (N4Nl
| retary of War and Mrs. Baker
Mrs. S. B. NJ. Young entertained at
luncheon today at her quarters at
ton Baker, wife Of the Secretary of
War.
| Mrs. Archibald Livingston Parsons
was hostess at a beautifully appointed
luncheon al the Army and Navy Club
of her daughter. Miss Reeves Harris.
and a number of the seasons debu-
tantes.
The luncheon was served in private
diningroom at one large table, which
was adorned with basket filled with
American beauty roses.
| The guests included Miss Nellie
Johnson. Miss Minna Blair. Miss Ade-
laide Tuttle. Miss Margaret Tuttle,
Miss Mary Veeder, Miss Mary Brown.
Miss Taylor Logic. Miss Candace How
ard. Miss Emily kutz, Miss Amy Ben
nett, Miss Margaret Clark. Miss Do
lores Crawford. Miss Amy Brooks, Miss
Mary Lord Andrews. Miss Suzanne
Chase. Miss Elizabeth Chase, Baroness
Lily Won Winckler Miss Mary Carter
Graham and Miss Katherine Goodwin.
| Mrs. Andrews entertained at an in
formal luncheon today in honor of her
| house guest, Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee Mimi
1
nigerode were Mrs. C. c. Marbury, Mrs
Rene Bache. Mrs. Mitchell Carroll, Mrs
George T. Porter. Mrs. John Orville
Evans, Mrs. Ernest Darlington, Mrs
las. Mrs. C. H. Nichols. Mrs. H. W
Holcombe. Mrs. Henry Krogstad, Mrs
Charles Drayton, Mrs. Thomas Ran
dolph Keith. Mrs. G: Powell Mimi 1,,i.
Powell, Miss Lucy Kearny Powell and
Mrs Laura Tucker Pendleton.
| Mrs. Minnigerode with her little
daughters Patricia and Margaret will
Christmas. Capt. Minnigerode also will
spend the holidays at Washington.
| The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs
| Daniels were the guests OF honor al
beautiful dinner given by Chaplain G.
Livingston Bayard. U. S. N. and Mrs
Bayard at the Chevy Chase Club last
| evening
| The guests were the Bishop OF wash
ington, Senator and Mrs. James E. Mar
! tine, Representative and Mrs. Lemuel
}P. Padgett. Rev. Father Louis j.
OHern, Mad Gen. and Mrs. George Bar
nett, Rear Admiral and Mrs. w. S. Ben
| son, Surgeon General and Mrs. William
!C Braisted. Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Henry T. Mayo. Rear Admiral and Mrs
Frank ]. Fletcher, Rear Admiral and
Mrs Edward H. Gheen. Bishop and Mrs.
Cranston, Rev. DIR. and Mrs. Stetson
Rev DIR. and Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe
Rear Admiral and Mrs. James H. Glen
non, Rear, Admiral and Mrs. Robert s.
Griffin, Lieut.. and Mrs. Byron McCand-
less, Judge. Martin A. Knapp, Paymas-
ter General Samuel MCGOWAN, Miss
Helen Clark and Mr.. Frederick c. Hicks
Of New York.
i Owing to a death in the family of
Mrs Leland o. Howard, DIR. Howard.
assisted by Mrs. John Dewhurst Patton,
the godmother Of the debutante, and
Miss Thurber Of New York, will present
his daughter, Miss Candace Leland
Howard. at a reception at the Club Of
Colonial Danes on the afternoon Of
December %, from till 7 o'clock.
i Mrs Burleson. wife of the Postmas-
i ter General. entertained Mrs. Helen
y sSmith Woodruff OF New York. niece Of