The Washington times., 1919-12-06


Dwight. and Mrs Ross St John Nc
Clelland.
Among the guests were Hugo V. de
Pena, secretary of the legation or
Uruguay, and Nine. de Pena- Mr.. de
Beaufort, of the Netherlands legation;
A. F. NJ. Greig, and r. H. Hadow, OF
the British embassy; G. B. Ceccato, OF
the Italian embassy; Mr.. and Mrs.
John Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs. Law
renee Baker, Major and Mrs. Conger
Pratt, Comdr. and Mrs. stephen
Rowan, Miss Fitch, Mr.. and Mrs. Scott
Thropp, Mr.. and Mrs. Randolph Ma
son, DR.. and Mrs. Walter Wells, Col.
and Mrs. William Merry, Miss Olga
Pilson, Miss Lena Hitchcock, Miss
Kathryn Hitchcock. Miss Enid Sims,
Miss Helen Blodgett, Miss Mona
Blodgett, Miss Mildred Bromwell,
Miss Virginia Eckles, Miss Marguer-
lite Simonds, Miss Anna Hamlin, Miss
Madeleine Austin, Miss Virginia
Hunt, Miss Marcia Chaplin. Miss Del
phine Heyl. Miss Helen McLanahan.
Miss Anne Gordon. Miss Emily Chase.
and Miss Mamie Chase.
Others in the company were Miss
Hill and her brother, Francis Hill
Miss Cora Barry, Sylvanus Stokes, jr;
Mortimer Clark, Delos Smith, Herbert
Hengstler, Spencer Gordon. Major
Harold NJ Rayner, Major Edwin f.
Watson, Douglas Bulloch, Jack Del
bert, Major Robert Paxton, George
Oakley Totten, and Donald Alexander.
The next dance Of the series will
be given on Friday evening, Decem-
Der %, and hereafter committee ex-
Of a receiving line
The Vice President and Mrs Mar
shall started for New York this morn
ing and will return to town tomor-
row. The Vice President will be the
guest of honor at q banquet at the
Biltmore tonight and Mrs. A. A.
Adams will entertain at dinner for
Mrs. Marshall
The Secretary of State and Irs.
Lansing. who had planned to motor
to Gunston Hall to spend the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Hertle.
have given up the trip on account Of
the inclement weather.
The Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs. Lane, who have been absent
are expected back in town next week.
Mrs. Lane Is trying to avert threat
ened breakdown.
During their absence Miss Nancy
Lane is spending the greater part of
her time with Congressman and Mrs.
Ira c. Copley.
David Franklin Houston, jr., a stu
dent at Harvard University, will ar
rive from Cambridge on December 20
to spend Christmas with his parents,
the Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs.
Houston.
Mrs. Houston will be at home on
Wednesday afternoons during the sea-
son, beginning the first Wednesday In
January.
Maj. Gen H. Keppel Bethel, D. 8.
o., military attache of the British
embassy, will be best man at the
marriage next Tuesday of Mrs. Ell
eanor Whitridge Greenough to Col
Norman G. Thwaites, director Of the
British mission in New York, in the
, home of her mother. Mrs. Frederick
w. Whitridge.
Mrs. H Tftzhugh Ward will enter
tain at tea this afternoon in her
apartment at the Woodward, in COM
pliment to Miss Helen Tuckey. debu-
tante daughter of Mrs. Charles
Cowles Tucker. Mrs. Tucker and
Miss Tucker will receive with the
hostess. Those assisting will be Mrs.
Benjamin Rush Logic. Mrs. Evans
Browne, Mrs C1audian Northrop,
Mrs. ]. Miller Kenyon, Mrs. John
Kratz, Miss Katherine Andrews, Miss
Mary Pike, and Miss Taylor Logic.
The resignation of Col. J. Marvin
Wright, Corps of Engineers, u. s. A.
has been accepted to take effect Janu-
ary 1. Colonel Wright has accepted a
position with the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works, and will go to their
plant at Eddystone, Pa, for three
months, after which he and Mrs. vx-
pect to make their home in Philadel-
phia.- Since their marriage last sum-
| mer Colonel and Mrs. Wright have
been living with her mother, Mrs
Junius MacMurray.
Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall wa
among the guests at the b. illiant re-
ception given yesterday afternoon a
the Congressional Club in honor o
the wives of the members of Congress
Mrs. Robert Lansing, Mrs. Carte1
Glass, Mrs. Joshua Willis Alexander
wife of the new Secretary of Com
merce, and Miss Agnes Wilson repre-
sented the Cabinet set among th'
callers. and pretty nearly all of tn,