The sun., 1919-03-16
Ball Of theNations, Wedding Of Senorita
Bonillas and Many Lesser Affairs
Listed for Lenten PERIOD
WASHINGTON, d. c., March Is.

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Their out of breath. II had
wound up a gay and brilliant
season with gay and brilliant ball;
1t had, on the same day, attended the
obsequies of the Sixty-fifth Congress
the war" Congress that was born
with a fight on its hands and had died
, still fighting. 1t had. at about the
same time. bid farewell to the war
, President, who sailed away with fire in
q his eye and peace pact in his pocket.
, 1T had welcomed and sped g few di-
plomats and any number Of home
grown officials. and, through it all,
each one as before had chased his
favorite phantom. No wonder it rather
welcomed Lent and the chance to
catch up with things generally.
II only those daylight saving advo-
Gates could devise a day Of more than
twenty-four hours!
One might think that with the Pres
ident and Mrs Wilson away, and with
Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall
away. and the Secretary OF State and
Mrs. Lansing away, and the Secretary
of the Interior and Mrs Lane away,
and the Secretary of War away and
the Secretary of the Navy just getting
away, and the Secretary OF Commerce
and Mrs. Redfield also just getting
: away-in fact, with the Administra-
ton circle "all shot to pieces" and
Congress adjourned "sine deo," to
quote the Vice-President, and "sine
DEL" as the Speaker more conserva-
lively put It, that the penitent days
would Of necessity be observed with
austerity and sackcloth and ashes be
very much in vogue. But as a mat
ter Of fact. Lent is getting less rest
full every year, and this season prep
arauons are going merrily on for the
balls and bridals that are to come not
merely in the Easter season but dur
ing Lent itself.
Brilliant Affairs Ahead.
. There is a M-Careme ball. the Bail
Of the Nations" for the benefit of
Neighborhood House, planned for
March rs, which promises to be a gay
and fashionable affair. And there is
what might be called a Mi-Careme
wedding-an international wedding in
the diplomatic circle-that of Senorita
Maria Bonillas, daughter of the Mex
lean Ambassador and Nine. Bonillas,
and Lieut.. Giuseppe Cappola of the
Italian War Mission two days earlier,
in which society is of course greatly
interested. And there are any num-
Ter OF lesser affairs scattered through
the aforementioned "penitent days"
This week'began with pretty nearly
everybody-limited only by the ca
pacity of the Housekeeping to the first
American performance of The Bur
G0masteY of Belgium" Maeterlinck's
wondered war play, on Monday night
Really 1t is hard to say whether the
play or the audience was the more
notable
The production is sponsored by the
Interall!ed Art Associations Franco
american organization in the inter-
osts OF the arts and artists of America
r and her allies. Its honorary president
- NJ. PiChon, Minister of Foreign At
fairs, and NJ. Laferre, Minister OF
Public instruction and Fine Arts, and
its committee of honor" includes NJ
, Iusserand, Marshal Joffre, NJ. Tar
GU, Countess Curzon of Kedleston
E and Otto II. Kahn of New York Mrs
Kahn is member of the American
committee of the Interallied Art Asso-
citation. which, though it is not yet
complete, already includes the Duchess
OF Manchester, Mrs. Frederick Van
derbilt Mrs. William p. Thompson and
Z Mrs. Arthur Iseln.
But TO get back to THE Burgomas-
p ter'-naturally the diplomatic, official
and fashionable world turned out in
force Monday night to greet him. 1t
l,, 10
& once.' The British Ambassador and
the Countess of Reading were there
as guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Ora
nam Glasgow, who entertained at din
ner in Their honor before the perform
ance and filled two boxes with their
entire dinner party, including Mrs.
Franklin Roosevelt, Mrs. West. Mr..
Z and Mrs. John +. wilkins. Rear Ad-
1niral Max Lovatelli. Naval Attache of
the Italian Embassy; Capt. r. r. Glen
and Capt. Portman of the British EN-
hassy, Capt. F.ournoy, L. S. A.. and
Mr.. Henry Russell of London. Cant.
and Mrs. Perry Belmont, who were
also dinner hosts, with the United
states Ambassador to France and Mrs.
hugh Wallace as their special guests.
occupied another box, having with
Item in addition the Counsellor of the
British Embassy and Mrs. Colv!lle
barclay and Major Crawford Stuart.
aide to Lord Reading.
The Belgian Minister, Mr.. de Mar
Ch!enne, was not there. He had eX-
pected to be. of course, and had taken
DON. In fact the Belgian legation
took its box for the entire week. But
il was occupied, both on the opening
night and for the other performances,
by a group of Belgian officers enter
tanning guests. Mr.. de Marchienne
was on his way to Europe in response
to hurry call for help from his King.
He rushed over solely to help King
Albert entertain the President and
. Mrs. Wilson when they make their
promised visit TO Belgium, and he ex-
I'ccts to rush back as soon as that or
Ceal is over.
In the box adjoining the Belgians
the secretary Of the Swedish legation
and Baroness Bonde entertained a
party which included the Swedish
Minister and Nine. Ekengren, Mrs
Roger Watts and Sir Grimwood Mears
OF the British Embassy
Mrs. Henry Rea was hostess TO a
tremendous box party-about 100 con-
Nalescent soldiers from Walter Reed
IioSpital--W which occuDied prpttv uucl,