The Washington times., 1920-03-16
HAPPENINGS in SOCIETY
Brilliant Audience at Washington Opera-Dinners and
Luncheons-NOtes of the Diplomats

interest were: Judge and Mrs
Charles Is. Howry Mr.. and Mrs wal
| ter Bruce Howe, Mr.. and Mrs John
Dillon. Homer calvee. Dr. and Mrs.
David Jayne Hin. Mrs. Francois ber-
ger Moran. Mrs. Charles q. Matthews
] who had a party Of six. including MISS
Helen Blodgett, Miss Myrtis Porcher'
and the Misses Graves. Mrs. Overton
4 Lea and Miss Les. Gen. and Mrs. Fred
erick Abbott. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Peabody Eustic, Col. and Mrs. Dun
lap, Mrs. Cabot Stevens. Mr.. and mrs.
Franklin Townsend, Miss Bette Ham
mond, Senator and Mrs Oscar Under
wood. Miss Mary owynn, Mrs. VIII
liam A. Hammond; the Ambassador OF
Peru and Nine. Peset. Mr.. ana MRS.
Philip 3. Henry. Chief Justice ana
Mrs. Edward w. White. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles ]. Bell. Mrs Theodore Boyn.
| ton. Senator r. j. Walsh. Mr. and
Mrs. Il. IL. Droop. Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Droop. Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Barber
Clark. Mr.. and Mrs. John Joy Edison.
and Edwin and Carl Droop.
Among the distinguished boxhoid-
ers for this evenings performance
are Nine. Cremer, wife OF the minis
ter OF the Netherlands; Mr.. and Mrs.
4
Pearle Moore Gray. Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Carthy Hanger. Barend Barendse.
chancellor OF the Netherlands lega-
ton. and Nine. Barendsc.
On Friday evening Gen. John J.
| Pershing Is entertaining q box party.
Secretary and Mrs. Baker. with their
guest, Miss Catherine Lowe. will also
attend the performance during the
week. General Pershing has not
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| permission for Friday to be called
Pershing night at the opera The
| boxes are practically all gone. and
the large number of army people and
| the generals personal friends num-
bering among the audience that even
| ing, will but voice the belief in the
opera company, which General PERISH
ing so forcibly expressed In a note
| received by those In charge yester-
day.
General Pershing's box will be
draped with his flag, and he has been
invited to make a short speech from
American night.
Guests At Dinner.
ess Romano Avezzana were the guests
OF honor at dinner OF the former
Assistant Military Attache Capt
Count Enrico Luserna di Campiglione.
The other guests were Col. Marquis
and Marquise di Beruezzo, Colonel
and Mrs Knowlton. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
| liam Ham, Mrs. Helen Laird. Mrs.
John Reynolds, Miss Ames, Miss Ro-
mano. Captain Civalari. Commander
Callan, Colonel Crallie, Captain Tappi.
and Capt. Carlo Huntington.
|
! David remnant of the British En-
bassy staff will entertain at dinner
this evening, at the Cafe st. Marks.
| There will be covers for ten.
Entcrtains mt Bridge.
Mrs. Charles G. Matthews will en-
terrain at bridge party this after
noon in compliment to Mrs. John
Temple Graves. who. with her daugh-
ter, Miss Anne Graves, are her guests
for several days. Mrs. Thomas Is.
Dunn. wife of Representative Dunn,
was the hostess at a beautifully APP
pointed luncheon yesterday at the
New willard. given in compliment to
Mrs. Graves. The guests included
Mrs. William NJ. Calder, Mrs. James
X. Mann, Mrs. Hubert Dent, Mrs.
Homer p. Snyder, Mrs. Alanson B.
Houghton, Mrs. William w. Wilson,
Mrs. Frank Leslie Smith. Mrs. Rufus
Day. Mrs. Charles Gray Matthews,
Mrs. Louis Hcrtic, Mrs. Robinson
Downey Miss Flora Wilson. Mrs.
Charles C. McChord and Mrs. William
+. Dennis.
William II. Gonzales. American Am
bassador to Peru, was among the
guests at the bridge party which
Gen. and Mrs. T. Q. Donaldson gave
last evening in compliment to their
guest, Mrs. Grant Carpenter. OF New
York. Some of the other guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. J. Morrill, Cham
berlain, Colonel Allen and Mr.. Strong.
Mrs. Donaldson will be hostess at a
luncheon on Friday in honor OF Mrs.
Carpenter. Mrs. Chester Goodyear.
who Is in Baltimore. will spend
few days this week with General and
Mrs. Donaldson en- route to her home
in South Carolina.
Jan Masatyk, charge d'anaires Of
the Czecho-Slovak legation. returned
to Washington yesterday morning
from a short stay in New York.
Ex-senator Willard Salisbury. OF
Wilmington. Del, has Joined Fred
eriok II. Gillett, Speaker OF the
House, in Augusta, Ga. He will come
to Washington the first of April to
join Mrs. Salisbury, who is spending
several weeks at the Wardman Park
Hotel.
Mrs. Thomas B. Dunn entertained
at luncheon yesterday in compliment
to Mrs. John Temple Graves, of New
York. guest of Mrs. Charles Gray
Matthews, in the Blodgett home on
sixteenth street. Luncheon was
served in the red parlor OF the Will
lard, and the guests included Mrs.
william NJ. calder, Mrs. James r.
Mann. Mrs. Hubert Dent, Mrs. Homer
p. Snyder, Mrs. A. u. Houghton, Mrs.
w. W. Wilson. Mrs. Frank Leslie
Smith, Mrs. Rufus Day. Mrs. Mat
thcws. Mrs. Louis Hertle, OF Gunston
HALL Mrs. Robinson Downey. Mrs. G.
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