Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-07

-0HE President and Mrs. Wilson
attended the performance at
III the Belasco Theater last night.
II They had with them Mrs. Will
III liam H. Boiling, Miss Boiling
and Mr. John Randolph Boiling.
Mrs. Wilson will receive this afternoon
the delegates to the national war work
council Of the Y. NJ c. A. at the close
of their afternoon session.
A large an6 appreciative audience
filled the ballroom at 2400 18th street
last night for the concert of the Jubi-
lee Singers of Fiske University The
program. which opened with the sing
ing OF America. included many famil-
lar old plantation melodies. to which
the singers gave new pathos and beau
the Secretary Of the Interior and Mrs
Lane. the assistant secretary of state
and Mrs. Phillips. the assistant secre-
tary of agriculture and Mrs: Vrooman.
| Roosevelt of New York, Senator and
Mrs. A. A. Jones, Mrs. J. Hamilton
Lewis. Mr.. Thomas J. Walsh. Mrs. En-
NETT Gudger Mrs. John b. Henderson,
McKim. Mrs. Culberson. Mrs. Schluter,
Mrs. James Carroll Frazer, Rev. Ste
phen Van Rensselaer,. Mrs. Matthew 7.
Scott, Mrs. Charles S. Cromwell. the MISS
!
Mrs Hennen Jennings. Mrs. Chauncey
Hackett. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. w. Wetmore.
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood, Miss
Morgan. Miss Antoinette Graves. Mr..
and Mrs. Adolph Caspar Miller, Mrs.
Charles Henry Butler. the naval at
tache of the French embassy and Nine.
de Blanpre, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic Ath-
erton. Mrs. Charles Graves Matthews.
Mrs. William kearney Carr. Mrs. Wal
lace Radclif. Mrs. Edward Goring
Bliss, Mrs. Saxton. Mrs. Harry l.. Rust
Mr.. William Phelps Emo, Gen. Julian
Carr. Mr.. Charles Noble Gregory. Mrs:
Portsmouth. Va; Mrs. Price. Lieut.. and
Mrs. Withan and Maj. Mudd.
| Mai. Gen. Peyton c. March, acting
chief of staff of the Army, announces
the engagement of his daughter jose
phine to Maj Joseph NJ. Swing, L. s. A.
The wedding will take place in the near
future and will be solemnized quietly on
account of the recent death of the
brother Of the bride to be.
The British ambassador and; Lady
| Reading were guests at dinner last
evening Of the third assistant secretary
of state and Mrs. Breckenridge Long.
who had to meet them the Secretary of
| the Navy and Mrs. Daniels, Mr.. Cartier
de Marchienne. Belgian minister: the
president pro tempore of the Senate and
Mrs. Salisbury. Senator and Mrs. Hitch
| cock, Senator Phelan, Assistant Secre-
| tary of War and Mrs Stettinius, the
| solicitor general and Mrs. John w.
Davis, Admiral and Mrs. Grayson, Mrs.
William Wright, Maj. and Mrs. Blair,
Mai. Crawford Stewart, Capt. and Mrs
\ Perry Belmont. Mrs. E. H. G. Slater.
i Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss and
Il Miss Ladenburg.
il Assistant Secretary OF War and Mrs.
/ Edward R. Stittinius will entertain at
I dinner on Saturday evening, May II. in
i honor Of Admiral and Lady Grant. Ad-
1 mfral Grant is commander of the north
Il Atlantic fleet and naval attache to the
!: British embassy.
!: Miss Isabel Stettinius will entertain
a dinner party Thursday evening In
honor of her house guest. Miss Eleanor
Lawrence Of New York.
: Mrs. Josiah Pierce has returned to
washington after spending several
weeks at Boston and New YORK. While
Of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Vinton Pierce.
Col, ana Mrs. Sherman Miles enter
: tanned Informally at dinner last even
: ing at the Purple Iris tea house. when
their guests included several members
Of the French military mission and
their wives.
Col. and Mrs Clarence Ridley will
take a party, including Col. and
Baroness Reille and Mile. Genevieve
: Relic, to the dance at the Washing
: ton barracks Saturday evening for the
wool fund of the woman's committee
for engineer soldiers.
A bridge tournament will be given
this evening at o'clock at the resi-
dence Of Mrs Henry F. Dimock for the
benefit Of the Italian war relief. Three
handsome prizes will be given.
): Mrs, W, e. Flournoy. who has been
visiting her aunt Mrs. Samuel Spencer.
will return to her home, at portsmouth,,
: Va. tomorrow. -
Mrs. Spencer had Mrs. Flournoy and
Mrs. Price Of Louisville, KY. as her
: guests at tho concert given last even
ing by the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
Mr.. Carl Vrooman, the assistant Soc
rotary of agriculture, Is leaving today
for a weeks stay in New England.
He returned to Washington yester-
day from Youngstown. Ohio.
Mrs. George w. Vanderbilt returned
to Washington last evening from New
York.
Mrs. John Robinson Baxter. wife of
Cant. John r. Baxter, U. s. A., Is visit
INK her aunt, Miss Slosson. at the
Cairo. Miss Baxter was Miss Donald
son Of Washington, before her mar
riage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Kellogg have
leased the house in the Rockville road
which Mai, and Mrs. Willard Straight
bought last autumn and will occupy the
house for the spmWen MAJ. StIAtkht ID