New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Beauty Regiment Differed
by Society Women, Will
SOlicitContributionsWhen
Drive Opens Tomorrow
Preparing for Horse Show
Many House Parties Are Ar
ranged for Annual Meet
During Week of May l8
Special Dispatch TO The Tribune

Horse Show Association, to be held at
Arlington Park, from May Is to May
"a Salvation Army drive in the
oiflng and several notable out-of- door
tetes IN course of preparation. society
folk, for the moment, are rather more
occupied with the immediate future
than with the present. However, the
pleasant business of getting acquainted
with the new Secretary of State and
ms family and the new British Am
bassador and his wife goes .merrily on
and the round of parties in their honor
precluded any possibility of dullhess
IN the week just ended.
The horse show is always one of the
most interesting features of the spring
season and, with a view to making It
gala event this year. many of the
prominent men and women interested
IN its success are planning to entertain
house parties for horse show week.
Mrs. Loula Long Combs, of Kansas
CITY, is bringing on her famous string
OF OF snow horses and during her stay in
Washington will visit her brother-in-
law and sister, Commander and Mrs
Hayne Ellis, at Woodley. Sterling
Larrabee, of Warrenton, will be the
guest OF his mother, Mrs. Charles F.
Larrabec, and will show a string of
hunters Miss Marion du Pont, of Will
mlngton, Del, will be an exhibitor.
Large List of Entries
The list of entries already has
reached unusually large proportions
and many famous stables are renre.
sented. There will be racing each dav
and the card is notable one.
1aere Will be more army entries than
ever before, for isn't General John ]
Pershing vice president of the Horse
SNOW ASSOCIATION? a box has been re-
served ser for the general, another for
William Corcoran Eustis, the re-
Gently elected president of the associa-
ton. and one also has been put aside
for the White House, although it is
scarcely probable that the President
and Mrs. Wilson will attend the show
this year. Two one time presidents of
me morse show association, Colonel
Robert NJ. Thompson and Brigadier
General James A. Buchanan, are among
! the boXholders and the list also in
( cludes Mr.. and Mrs Larz Anderson.
residence for horse show week; Mr..
ana Mrs: Joseph Letter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Wllilam +. r. Hit, Mr.. and Mrs, James
Parmalee, Medical Director and Mrs
FRANCES 5. Nash. Mrs B. H. Warder, Mr.
and Mrs Reginald Huidekoper. Mr.. and
Mrs Thomas I! Gaf, Miss Julia Whit
ing ana grlst of others equally prom-
AAOi0-S w Cd tCOIt is Cne reCentlV
elected secretary Of the association.
succeeding Arthur D. Addison.
The Salvation Army campaign will
open Monday and will continue until
May 20. 1t will be marked bv everv
variety OF stunt" for the Salvation
Army has little to learn about WAYS
and means of extracting money pain
iessly; and there's no doubt that Wash
lngton will go over the top with a
A.,
oooooo Home Service Fund needed by
the great organization whose slogan
Is A man may be down but he's never
out"
Girls to Act as Pickets
Society folk are doing their "driv
ing" through the Observation-Disclosures Of
the famous "Salvation Army Beauty
Regiment of which Mrs. Eliphalet
frazer Andrews is colonel and which
IS oIhcered by women prominent in
social life and in the field of women's
clubs. They have gathered together a
corps. OF the prettlest girls in town,
who, wearing the dark blue dress and
the becoming bonnet of the Salvation
Army lassie, will picket the town in
relays for the ten days of the drive,
taking In contributions and soliciting
subscriptions
Booths, in the form of the Salvation
lished at various points in the city, and
the girls will make these their head
quarters. Mrs. Andrews started the
work of her organization by giving a
luncheon at the New Willard for her
z various captains and lieutenants- Mrs.
( Goldsborough Adams, Mrs. Isaac Pear
son, president of the League of Amer
ican Penwomen; Mrs. Charles Cowles
Z Tucker, representing the Club of Co.
q Mrc No
of the Washington Club; Mrs. Ralph
Creyke, Mrs. Charles B. Drake, Mrs.
frederick Chaplin, Mrs. Francis Junkin
and Mrs John w. Thompson, represent
:. ing the Junior League, and others
and last week she had series of teas
for the girls who have been asked to
serve on the various teams. Mrs Thomp-
son also gave tea, entertaining on
Thursday afternoon for the members
. of the two Junior League companies
. Mrs. Thompson is captain of one of
the companies, with Mrs. John B.
Smallwood and Miss Jamie Hearin as
/ her lieutenants. The other company is
under the command of Miss Genevieve
Brooke. with Miss Cora Kingsbury and
Miss Elizabeth Kingsbury as lieu
tenants.
Benefit Fete for Opera Fund
Perhaps the two most important BEN
efits of this month will be the May
fete to be given on the 22d inst
for the benefit of the producing fund
of the Washington Opera Company, and
the annual garden party for the House
of Mercy. This will as usual, be held
in the Cathedral Close and the date
selected is May 25. Mrs Julian James
is honorary president of the board of
managers of the institution, and Mrs
Henry B. Brown the active president.
In their preparations for the festi-
val, which is to be marked by many
novel features, they will have the as
sistance of representative group OF
women. A'buffet supper will be served
under the great trees which shade the
cathedral, with Mrs. Isaac T. Mann in
charge. and picnic supper boxes will
be sold for those who prefer an al
fresco meal. Mrs. Frank Anderson
will direct this feature. Music will
enliven the entertainment and there
will be, as usual, dancing on the green
DIR. and Mrs. Frederick E. Earring
ton, principals of the Chevy Chase
School, have loaned the school and the
lovely grounds surrounding it for the
Washington Opera Companys festival.
Mrs. harrington is a patroness for the
opera and Il member of the vigorous
committee of nearly fifty women who
are working to increase the PRODUCING