Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-15


lister to this country, DR.. Wellingto
party to France by day. Former
delegation, and the entire compan,
private cars and every attention pos
Gayest of the Christmas events will
be the ball given the night of Decem
Der 25 at Rauscher's, when society
folk will dance for the benefit OF the
Children's Country Home. Mrs. Ed
ward Beale Mclean. who is one of the
executive committee for the Christ
mas dance, will join Mr.. Mclean IN
giving on New Year eve one of the
most splendid balls of the season.
ball where regal gowns. wealth OF
jewels and the environment of price
less tapestries add to the beauty
When Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Letter take
1epossession of their home on Dupont
circle, which has been veritable bar
racks for British officers for months
past, they will inaugurate their hospi-
talities on January 4 with dinner
and dance, which will be scarcely sec
ond to the Mclean entertainment.
Dinner parties. teas, luncheons ana
benefits fill this week and starving
with the presentation of THE Mas
Guerader" tomorrow night at the
Belasco for the Columbia Hospital,
when the world of fashion will be out
in full force, on down through the
succeeding days there is unusual IN
rine Harlow to Commander Theodore
Stark Wilkinson, I'd. U. 5: ~, on
Tuesday. the dinner party which MRS.
Calf will give for debutantes the
night of that day, and so on through
the week, the social calendar is full.
The Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall have gone to New York TO pc
present at the meeting to be held at
the Metropolitan Opera House TINS
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make an address in behalf OF the
"Christmas roll CALI of the American
Red Cross. They will return 10
Washington Tuesday.
Last evening the Vice President
and Mrs. Marshall dined with the
secretary of the Smithsonian 1nstl-
tuition and Mrs. Charles D. Walcott.
who had an interesting company to
meet them.
Dehutante in Diplomatic Corps.
Miss Julia Zaldivar, daughter of
the minister of Salvador. Senior DR..
Don Rafael Zaldivar, will make her
noon at a tea which Nine. Zaldivar
will give at the legation. on Massa-
chusetts avenue. A small dance will
follow in the evening.
Nine Ekengren. wife of the min
lister from Sweden. will entertain at
a tea Wednesday afternoon.
The Cuban minister and Nine. de
Cespedes will return from New York.
months. after Christmas, when they
will occupy the handsome new lega-
ton. 263O 10th street
Nine. Sulzer. wife of the minister
from Switzerland, who is spending
several days in New York. will re-
turn to Washington tomorrow even
ing.
The Attorney General and Mrs.
them during the Christmas holidays
their sons. Ensign Thomas Watt
Gregory. U. S. N. and Mr.. Nalle
Gregory. who Is in the Marine Corps.
They will reach Washington next
Sunday or Monday.
Miss Agnes Hart Wilson. who has
been visiting Miss Martha Shanks at
williamsport, Pa. will return to
Washington tomorrow.
Several generations Of the most dis
tilguished representatives of foreign
and American society paid homage to
Miss Mildred Bromwell. daughter of
the late Col Charles S. Bromwell. U.
s. A., for some years aid to Pres1-
dent Roosevelt. and Mrs. Bromwell.
who was presented at tea yester-
day afternoon by her mother and her
grandmother. Mrs. Matthew T. Scott.
Fairly uncovered in flowers. more
propitious coming out could not have
been conceived. The debutante is a
graduate Of the Foxcroft School at
Middleburg. Va, where she won
try riding. for which that part of
Virginia Is famous. Added to her
other accomplishments Is that of a
linguist. she having spent several
the various countries Of Europe.
The drawing rooms in the home OF
Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Cromwell were
little less than flower gardens for the
afternoon and evening. the guests,
with many additions. coming in for
the dance at night.
The associates Of the debutante who
were with her during the afternoon
included her cousin. Miss Elizabeth
Stevenson. Miss Anna Hamlin. Miss
Miss Frances Hopkins. Miss Elizabeth
Grinnell. Miss Alice Requa, Miss Zal-
divar. Miss Margaret Harding. Miss
Carter Mullikin. Miss Eleanor D.
Miss Margaret Calhoun Simonds and
Miss Leila Gordon
At the fower-laden tea table were
Mrs Francis Emroy Warren. Miss
Mrs John Ballantine Pitney. Mrs.
Cary D. Langhorne and Mrs. Walter
Dillingham; of Honolulu.
Miss Bromwell wore for the occa-
sion a gown Of fesh-colored tulle
draped over cloth of silver, and in
contrast with its airiness was the
black velvet and silver gown of her
mother. Mrs. Scott. who is famed for
her laces and old Jewels, wore black
velvet and rose point.
long list Of dinner parties preceded
tho dance which Mrs. Bromwell and
Mrs. Scott gave. and among the hosts
were Mrs. Frank Let's of Chicago.
Mrs. William Morton Grinnell, Mrs
Mark L. Reoua. Mrs. LIE Roy Tuttle,
Maj. and Mrs. Harry Leonard and Col
and Mrs. Kimball, each hostess after
ward escorting the entire dinner COM
pany to Miss Bromwell's homo.
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Hamilton an
nounce tho engagement Of their daugh-
ter Elizabeth to MAJ William F. Tomp-
kins. Corps Of Engineers, U. 8. A. Mai.
Tompkins. who is now in France, where
he has served since August. 1917, 10 ex-
pected to return to this country early in
January. Miss Hamilton made her de-
but IN this city, where she spent her
childhood and young ladyhood and where