The sun., 1919-10-26
WASHINGTON READY
FOR BELGIAN IERS
PRESIDENT Illness and Count d Celleres Death Will De-
tract From mpressiveness of Entertainment Cabinet
Women on Strike Against Calling System

some of the party accompanying King
Albert will be entertained, is the In
gals house, which has for several sea-
sons been occupied by the Brazilian
Embassy, in Massachusetts, avenue ut
Eighteenth street. 1t was built by the
late Melville Ingalls, for his own use,
but when he died Just before 1t was
completed his widow and his daugh-
ter (Gladys Ingalls,, now Mrs. NAL
colin Robertson, whose husband is in
the British diplomatic service) did not
care to occupy 1t and rented II to the
Da Gamas. who established their en-
bassy there. The De Carriers have
recently taken 1t. after spending a
month in the Boardman House, and
while the Baron de Cartier has been
touring the country with his SOW
ereigns the Baroness, although she
was in New York with her husband
to welcome the royal party on it's ar
rival. has been here busy getting her
house in order for their entertainment.
Probably had the Presidents illness
not already curtailed the plans for the
entertainment of this most picturesque
and beloved of the royal families of
Europe the death of the Count di Cell
lere would have affected them more
than it now does. AS it is, probably
more people received cards to the flu
rera, of the Ambassador than to the
functions in honor of the King.
Mrs. Lansing has been almost con-
stantly with the Countess di Cellere in
the first prostration of her sudden
widowhood, not merely as the formal
official caller but as the real woman
friend. all kindly sympathy and tact
and forethought, that any woman
needs at such time. 1t seems par
ticularly hard on her and their two
children that the blow should fall just
as they were preparing to start for
home and for thes important post in
the Foreign Office which was to have
been Count di Cellere's reward for long
and faithful service in the field staff
Of the Italian diplomatic service.
Among the notable affairs called off
out Of Difference to a period of diplo-
matte mourning was the benefit for
Nine. Grouitch's Serbian war orphans.
She is an indefatigable person when it
comes to getting up affairs of that
Sort and this was to have been a most
elaborate fete, in which naturally the
diplomatic set was most deeply inter-
ested. 1t was to have run through
Thursday and Friday afternoons and
evenings, with matinees at the Be
lasco in the afternoon and supper
dances enlivened by amateur features
In the evening at Wardman Park Inn
size had got remarkable professional
stars for her matinees, and Of course
professionals cannot always "stick"
when an affair has to be postponed as
this one has.
The supper dance features will prob
ably suffer little for the delay, since
the clever girls who were to contribute
features will probably be here most of
tSc winter. These were to be rather
late affairs. beginning at IL o'clock, so
that those who had early engagements
might get out to Wardman Park after
they had been elsewhere.
Nine. Grouitch herself is living at
Wardman Park Inn only temporarily,
as the house she had been occupying
in Wyoming avenue was leased from
October lit was Mrs. Price Golfers
house last year-and the Redfelds.
whose quarters she and her husband
have taken, were not to move out until
November 1. when Mr.. Redfield's resig-
nation as, Secretary Of Commerce is to
take effect.
DIR. and Nine. Grouitch have as their
guests Lord and Lady Swaythling,
who came over a few weeks ago to
put their son in an American school,
and had expected to do considerable
entertaining in their honor. but it has
resolved itself into small and informal
affairs for the present. Possibly be-