The Washington herald., 1920-03-11
DANCE
BIGSUCCESS
Many Prominent Officials
Attend Brilliant Mi
Careme Affair.
l7O DINED AND DANCED
Army Officers Of High Rank
And Foreign Ambassa-
dors Present.

Just like a large and very select
private party was the Mi-Careme
dance given at the Cafe st. Marks
last evening as a benefit for the
fund to raise a memorial to the
United States Marines at Somme Ply.
France. A very brilliant company.
limited to about ITO. dined and
danced there. while others went In
for the dance after dining else
where. The function was arranged
by Miss Biddle Porter, Mrs. Henry
Rousseau and Mrs. Claude B. Mayo.
Mrs. George Barnett, wife Of the
major general commandant of the
marine corps, received the guests,
assisted by Mrs. Mahlon Pitney,
Nine. Marc Peter. wife of the Nina
lister of Switzerland; Mrs. Charles
Boughton Wood and Mrs. Gist
Blair. The receiving party stood in
the small reception hall that opens
room where the entertainment took
place.
Diplomatic Circles Represented.
Among those who attended were:
The Chilean ambassador and Nine.
Mathieu; the Argentine ambassador
and Nine. lie Breton; the italian
ambassador. Mime. Romano and Miss
Romano; the Peruvian ambassador
and Nine. PeEet; the minister from
Switzerland and Nine. Peter; Brig.
Gen. Collardet. military attache Of
the French embassy; Captain LomS
bard of the French embassy stan
Maurice Casenave, French Commits
sioner; Hilarion d. Moreno, Counsel
or of the Argentine embassy; DR..
Felipe A. Espil, secretary OF the Ar
gentine embassy; Captain Pietro
Civalleri. Italian naval attache;
Signor G. b. Ceccato, commercial
aeIeE ate of the Italian embassy: Mr..
Berti, of the Italian embassy stan !;
Kimon Collas, secretary of the
Greek legation; DR.. b. ]. Gratama,
assistant commercial attache OF the
Netherlands legation; Major Livius
d. Tieusanu, military att9ehe OF
the Rumanian legation, and Nine
Tieusanu; Mr.. and Mrs. George Eus-
tis; Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Lang
horne; Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Will
son; Mr.. and Mrs. Gist Blair; Mr..
and Mrs. Franklin II. Ellis; Wis.,
count and Visoountess Henri de ST.
bour; Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Harper;
Com. and Mrs. c. r. p. Rodgers;
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. Andre w. Brews-
ter; Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Cushman;
Mr.. and Mrs. Allerton Cushman:
Mrs. Armstead Davis; Mrs. George
Percy; Nine de Mention and Mile.
de Mention; Mrs. Henry Chiffon;
Miss Lydia Biddle; Maj. w. s. Bid
die; Mrs. Franklin Mac Veagh, Maj.
John Van Ness Philip. Miss Mary
Sheridan, Mrs. Charles Bromwell,
DIR. and Mrs. F. S. Nash; Mrs. ST.
monds, Mrs. Joseph Hampson, Miss
Frances Hampson, Miss Anna Ham
lin, Miss Mary Morgan, Mrs. Charles
Wood, Miss Mary Potter, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. p. Garvan: Mrs. Cleveland
Perkins, Senator ]. d. Phelan, Miss
Helen Blodgett, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas F. Logan, Miss Ruth Orton.
Gen. and Mrs. T. Q. Donaldson, and
many others prominent in society.
Celebrities on Committee.
Among those on the floor commit
tee were Maj. Gen. George Barnett,
Brig. Gen. Charles l.. McCawley,
Mai. Henry Leonard, Maj. Littleton
Waller, all of the Marine Corps;
Prince Eugene Lubomirski, the Po-
lish minister; Conrad Jenny and
Emile Fontanel, of the Swiss lega-
tion staff; DR.. Felipe A. Espil, of the
Argentine embassy; Admiral Albert
Niblack, Walter Wilcox, Marshall
Langhorne. William Bowie Clark,
John b. Henderson and Capt. Lom-
bard.