The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-05-01
A. rs. JOSHUA WILLIS ALEX

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luncheon today for her guests, Mrs.
Paul ID. Kit. OF Missouri, and Mrs.
Tom Ray. formerly Of Kansas City.
now OF New York. The company
asked to meet them included Nine.
Panareton. wife OF the Bulgarian min
ister; Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs
Howard Sutherland. Mrs. Carter
Glass. Mrs. Robert Lansing. Miss Alice
Page. Mrs. Showalter. Mrs. Gordon
Lee. Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Breckin-
ridge Long, Mrs. Edwin +. Sweet, and
Mrs. Edwin S. Fuller.
Mrs. DeFrees Critten was hostess
at a perfectly appointed luncheon to-
day. her guests being asked TO meet
Lady Geddes. wife of the new British
Ambassador, who Is an old friend OF
1.-The hostess. The other guests were
Mrs. cambridge Colby. baroness Ro-
ntano Avezzsns, Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr,
Mrs. Robert Wood Bliss. Mrs. James
lGoode, Mrs. Charles Hyde. Mrs. VIII
lougfiby Wsiiing. Miss Amaryliis Gill
lett, and Miss Marjorie Critten and
Mrs. swager Sherley. daughters Of the
hostess.
Senator and Mrs. Charles b. Hen
derson will give dinner tonight for
Mrs. Walter Dillingham;. of Honolulu.
who IL visiting Capt and Mrs. Rich
ard KimbaIi.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson Gibson
will be hosts at dinner tonight. en-
ltertaining in compliment TO Mr.. and
Mrs. Preston Gibson, who have re-
turned TO the Shoreham after attend
ing the Observation-Disclosures wedding
In New York. Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson
and her children. Cynthia Ann Pratt
and Dallas Bache Pratt will spend
the spring season here.
Major George Oakley Totten. jr,
will entertain at dinner tonight at
his studio house in Sixteenth street.
His guests will include a number of
young people from among whom he
will select the cast for a garden play
he Is arranging.
| DIR. Breckinridgc Baync. who is
with his mother. Mrs. John W. Bayne,
at her apartment in the st. Regis, ex-
poets TO leave within the next few
Iwoeks for Roumanis- where he will un-
ldertake reconstruction work. DR..
Bayne has been decorated for his
services to the Roumania people dur
ing the war. .
| Ambassador Pexct Entertsins.
The Ambassador OF Peru and Nine.
Pezet entertained at a brilliant din
ncr at Rauscher's last evening in
Icomplimen mt to the Secretary OF State
and Mrs. cambridge Colby. The
guests included the French Ambassa-
dor and Nine. Jusserand; the Secre-
Itary of Agriculture and Mrs. Edwin
lT. Meredith: Senator and Mrs. Robert
IL. Owens: Senator James ID. Phelan.
1.-THE charge d'affaircs OF Panama, }.
In. Lefevrc; Franklin MacVeagb. the
lSecretary of the Smithsonian 1nsti-
tue and Mrs. Charles u. -Walcott;
Mrs. Matthew r. Scott. DR.. Lazo-Ar-
riaga. of New York: Prince and
Princess Radziwill: Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Cleveland Perkins; Mrs. +. e.
Moran, Commander and Mrs. RAN
doIph Miner; Mrs. George Is. Hope,
| of Kansas City, Mo-; william An
drews, the Secretary OF the Uruguay
Legation and Nine. dc Pena; Mr.. and
Mrs. Alberto Largo-He riera, of Peru;
Mr.. and Mrs. Alberto Lavandeyra, of
/ New York; DIR. 1smael Portal. OF
Peru; Nine. Lavandeyra. Of Paris;
Mrs. Anderson Davis, of New York;
and the Secretary of the Peruvian
Embassy and Nine. Gibson.
Nine. T. Dewitt Talmage enter
tanned at dinner last evening in the
presidential suite at the Willard in
Honor of the former Secretary OF
State and Mrs. Lansing. There were
thirty-four guests. Capt. and Mrs.
Pitt Scott, son-in-law and daughter
of the hostess, came over from Phil
adelphia yesterday for the dinner,
and Captain Scott acted as host for
Mrs. TaImage Among the other
guests were the American Minister
to Switzerland and Mrs. Hampson
Gary, and Prince and Princess Canta-
cuzene. who came from New York
on Thursday to spend a few days at
the Lafayette.
Senator and Mrs. Claude A. Swan
son have leased the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. Bradley Davidson. 64oO Wis
consin avenue, near Bethesda, Nd.
Mrs. Swanson Is confined to the house
by illness.
Miss Helen Cannon. daughter of
Congressman Joseph G.. Cannon, has
gone to White Sulphur Springs, w.
Va, for her usual spring visit.
Mrs. Stilson Hutchins, of Washing
ton. has leased Tranquility, Mrs. Alex
ander James cottage at Newport, Tor
the summer season.
Capt. and Mrs. Henry d. Warren
have gone from Washington to Hot
Springs. Va, and are at the Home
stead Hotel for a fortnight.
Mrs Nelson O'Shaughnessy will re-
turn soon from Europe, where she has
passed several months, and will join
her husband in New York.
Congressman and Mrs. Frederick c.
hicks have returned to Washington
from their wedding trip and are at
2OO3 o street. Following their mar
riagc on April II, they took motor
tour and made a brief visit at White
Sulphur Springs, w. va. Mrs. HICKS
vas formerly Miss Marie Christie
Stevens.
Mrs. Cromwell Brooks will spend
Il