The Washington times., 1918-08-09
HAPPENINGS IN SOCIETY
President at the Play-Diplomats to Spend the Week
End in the Mountains

who occupied Do1 AT Ine Dc
l. lasco Theater last evening, were
ACCOMPANIED by John Randolph
Rolling and Richard Wilmer Boiling.
The household at the White House Is
now smaller than at any time during
the summer, the guests who were mere
for the wedding Of Miss Alice "ilsSn
and the Rev. 1. s. McElroy. jr.. having
departed. and Miss Wilson being away
for seGeral weeks Miss Helen "oOoro"
Bones Is also out Of town
The Secretary Of State and Mrs.
lansing are expected at their Wasnlhs
ton residence on Sunday evening Iney
an. rnotorinR through New England. ac-
companied BY the Solicitor General ana
Mrs John w. Davis and spent last
night at Manchester. VT. They are oue
at Lenox, Mass, tonight. and expect 70
spend Saturday night at the Bitmore
Hotel New York
Goes to Blue Ridge sHnmit.
The Italian Ambassador, Count dii
cellere. has gone to Blue Ridge Sum-
NIT, Pa, to spend the weekend with
his family. Mr.. Cuniberti, Of the ltal-
ian mission, and Nine. Cuniberu were
guests of Countess di Cellere at Blue
Ridge Summit for several days THIS
week. Mr.. Cuniberti is now BACK In
town, and Mime. Cuniberu mas re-
turned to Sherwood Forrest, MO-
where she and Nine. Falorsi are es-
tablished for the summer.
Mrs. NJ. c. Daniels, mother Of the
Secretary of the Navy, and his niece
Miss Mary Cleaves Daniels. who have
been guests OF Secretary ana mrs.
Daniels for several weeks, started last
evening for their home in North Caro-
lima
DIR. Naon at Buena Vista
The ambassador of Argentina DR..
Naon, went to Buena Vista Springs
yesterday, where he Joined Nine. Naon
for the Weekend.
Nine. de Riano, wife of the Spanish
ambassador. Is with Mrs Vanderbilt
at the Breakers, Newport. for q
weeks visit before going to York
Harbor, Ne, to stay with her sister,
Mrs. Chandler Anderson
DR.. Belisario Porras. minister Of the
Republic Of Panama. and Madame Por-
ras returned yesterday to Washington
after a long visit to Panama and are at
their residence, 1913 Sixteenth street
Mr.. and Mrs. william George Hill,
who have returned from their wedding
trip, are guests of Mrs. Hills parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Spottswood Garland,
for a few days. Later they expect to
90 to Blue Ridge Summit, Pa, for few
weeks. and on their return they will take
an apartment here.
Mr.. and Mrs william A Slater, of
Washington, are entertaining a house
panty at Home Farm, their place at
Eenox, Mass. their guests including
Commander de Blanpre, naval attache
of the French embassy, Nine de
Blanpre, and Capt. Lamberto Vannu-
telli. naval attache Of the Italian en-
bassy.
Mrs Marshall Field, %, is the guest
of Capt. and Mrs. Perry Belmont at
Belcourt, their Newport home Cap
tain and Mrs. Belmont will entertain
at dinner tomorrow evening in honor
of their guest
Burweu Cutler, chief of the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce OF
the Department of Commerce, will go
to Philadelphia tomorrow to join Mrs:
cutler. who is the guest Of Mr.. and
Mrs Morgan Lister. Mr.. and Mrs.
cutler, accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Lister. will motor to the Jersey coast
for the week end.
The minister of China, DR.. yelling
ton Koo. Joined Mrs. Roo at Blue
Ridge summit yesterday, and will re-
turn to the legation next Monday.
The charge d'affaires OF the Neither
lands. DIR. w. H. de Beaufort, enter
taIned a company at dinner last even
ing at the Club de Vingt-
Miss Carolyn Nash entertained a
small company informally at dinner
last evening at the summer quarters
of the Club de Vingt
The Rev. Merrill z. Gates, OF Wash
ington, who is spending the summer
at Naplewood Inn, in the White
mountains, is delivering a series OF
half-hour lectures on american Citi-
zenship During the War" on Sundays
during August
Mrs. Hoover Hostess
Mrs. Herbert Hoover was hostess
At an informal reception at her
Massachusetts avenue residence on
wednesday evening. entertaining in
compliment to Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
BuIlard, who returned to town on
Tuesday from a brief wedding trip.
They left again yesterday for the
West and will sail shortly for Japan.
The marriage of Mr.. Bullard and
his bride, who was Miss Ethel Mather
Bagg, took place last week at In-the-
Woods, Mrs. Hoover's summer home
near Chevy Chase Lake, with only a
small family party present and the
reception on Wednesday evening was
arranged in order that the friends OF
the bride and bridegroom might have
the opportunity of offering their fe-
licitations and speed them on their
I long journey. Mrs. Hoover. who is
now living in the country. placed her
I town house at the disposal OF Mr..
and Mrs. Bullard for the few days
4 they were in Washington. and IL was
decided that the reception in their
honor should be given there.