Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-01
New Year Teas and Receptions.

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| Thursday. January 9, from until 6
o'clock, at 1927 X street.
New Year Teas and Receptions.
Acting Secretary and Counselor of
State and Mrs. Frank Lyon Polk have
| a number of ambassadors and foreign
ministers at tea with them this after
noon.
Third Assistant Secretary of State
and Mrs. Breckenridge Long will be
at home this afternoon from to
II o'clock. at their residence, 1929
18th street. There will be music and
| informal dancing during the recep-
| ton hours.
| Mrs. Charles Sumner Hamlin is at
| home after o'clock this afternoon
and will have with her her debutante
| daughter. Miss Anna Hamlin, who
! was presented to Boston society carly
! in the season.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome N Bonaparte
| will be at home from to o'clock
today at their home 1927 X street.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley will be
at home Informally this afternoon.
! The Spanish ambassador and Nine.
| Riano will be the honor guests at a
dinner which Mrs. James Mcdonald
| Is giving on January IL.
| Members of the Congressional Club
will be at home to their friends at
| the clubhouse, 2001 New Hampshire
avenue, today from to o'clock.
| Mrs E. H. G. Slater will entertain
| a large dinner party on January Is
and with her guests will later attend
the Russian benefit at the Wardnan
! Park Hotel.
! Mr.. and Mrs Thomas T. Calf enter
! tanned a large company of distinguish
ed guests at dinner last night in honor
| of former President and Mrs Will
/ liam Howard Taft and the Secretary
of the Interior and Mrs. Lane.
! Mrs. T, Q. Donaldson was hostess at
| dinner last evening, entertaining at
! her residence, on Wyoming avenue. in
| honor of Miss Elizabeth Hamlin
Young, and her house guest, Miss Jean
Willis of Fort Worth, Tex. The other
| guests were Mrs. John Hervey Young.
Miss Mae Sue Donaldson, Col. Fred
erick Price. Lieut.. Birmingham, Mr..
Dillman and Lieut.. John Donaldson.
Dorothy Mills and Major Hodgson, all
| going to the Junior League ball at
! Rauscher's.
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| tanned at dinner last evening in honor
of Gen. and Mrs. George Barnett.
| Judge and Mrs. Timothy r. Ansberry
| were hosts at a large New Year eve
/ dinner party. entertaining at the
Chevy Chase Club.
| Mrs Thomas Benton Albert, 1902
North Cleveland avenue, Canton. Ohio.
announces the engagement of her
daughter, Edith Spicer, to Maj. Joseph
L. Gooch, jr.. Sanitary Corps, United
States Army.
Mr.. and Mrs. John s. Drum will be
hosts at a large farewell dinner party
this evening, as they are returning to
their San Francisco home tomorrow.
| Representative and Mrs. Ira Copley
have gone to their home, at Aurora,
H., for visit of several days.
Judge and Mrs. William Bailey La
mar are spending the winter months
at their estate at Monticello. Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henri di Sibour were
Hosts at large New Year dance last
night, entertaining at Grasslands, the
country club.
f. The marriage of Miss Ethel Sloan.
daughter of Representative Charles
II. SoIOdN oi ~ MI. MI duS
| Corbitt of Ozark. Ala, whose engage
ment was announced on Sunday, will
/ take place tomorrow. Arrangements
| for the ceremony are being made
rather hurriedly. as Mr.. Corbitt. who
| is in the consular service. will leave
on Saturday for his post at Lyon.
France. and will take his bride with
! him..
Birney-Finkenstaedt Engagement
| Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Walker an
nounce the engagement of their sister.
Miss Lillian Birney, to Capt, Edward
\ r. Finkenstaedt, @. M. c., of Cleve-
| land, Ohio. SOM of Mr.. Frederick c.
. Finkenstaedt of Bay City, Mich, but
stationed in Washington. The we'd
| ding will not be long delayed. await
! ing only the return of Capt. Finken-
| staedt's brother from abroad
| Miss Birney's sister, who was Miss
Catherine Birney, was married two
years ago to Baron Won Schoen, then
an attache Of the German embassy
here Later he went to Mexico, where
] he was attached to the German en-
{ bassy Miss Birney and her fiance
were the guests of honor at dinner
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Down
ing, who entertained twenty-five
| guests, to whom the engagement was
announced.
| The Junior League Victory ball last
might at Rauscher's fulfilled the
prophecy that there would be more
really pretty girls seen in Washington
lSOciety this winter than for yeara