The Washington herald., 1920-12-14
BRILLIANT SOCIAL
GATHERING Sees
AIDA PERFORMED
Official and Fashionable
Set Box Holders at Polls
Opening.

Theater last evening. for the FIRST
Performance of the Washington Op-
era Company's production of Aida, :"
was as brilliant a sight as can be
imagined. The Diplomatic Corps,
ohcials and the ultra-fashionable
set in residential society occupied
the boxes, and the women in their
sandstone gowns and their magnifi-
cent display of jewels, and the Wis
iting back and forth among the
boxes made as gay a scene as could
be found at the opera in New York.
Many of the boxholders entertain
ed at dinner earlier in the evening.
Mrs cambridge Colby. wife of the
Secretary OF State, and Miss kath-
crime Colby dined with Mrs. George
Ehle and William Phelps Emo, who
later entertained them in their box
at the opera. The others in his
party were Mr.. and Mrs Adolph c.
Miller.
Miss AmAryllis Gillett entertained
the guests in her box at dinner. in
the company being the Peruvian
Ambassador and Mime. Pezet, former
Secretary of State and Mrs. Robert
Lansing and DIR. l.. s. Rowe.
The members of the stan of the
French Embassy occupied four
boxes.
LeBretons Have Box Party.
The Argentine Ambassador and
Nine. LeBreton entertained a box
party, having among their guests
the latter's niece, Miss Manuela
Lloveras
Miss Gladys Hinckley was among
he guests in the box Of Col. Will
lam Eric Fowler. Capt. and Mrs.
e. c. Calhoun entertained Comdr.
and Mrs. Randolph Miner and Mr..
and Mrs Charles W. Wetmore In
their box Mr.. and Mrs. George
Mesta, of Pittsburgh, entertained at
dinner. taking their guests later to
the opera, where they had a box.
With Miss Helen Mesta and Miss
Helen Mclean, Mr.. and Mrs. Mesta
are spending the week at the New
willard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Kaufman
had with them in their box Col and
Mrs Clarence Day, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles V. Wheeler; Miss Miriam
Hoy, of Albany, who is visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Kaufman and their son.
Samuel Kaufman. Mrs. Gibson
Fahnestock entertained in her box
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvanus Stokes, jr..
and Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard. Mr..
and Mrs. ]. T. Mann had with them
In their box Gen. and Mrs. William
d. Connor and Comdr. and Mrs. W.
W. Galbraith.
Party with Mrs. Moran.
With Mrs. +. B. Moran in her box
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Sutherland. Mrs. Paul Fitzsimmons,
Col. and Mrs. U. S. Grant. Col John
Wise and Mrs. Horace Macfarland.
Mrs Delos Blodgett. who was a box
holder, entertained Capt. Irwin. Col.
and Mrs. James Walsh and the
| Misses Blodgett. With Col. and Mrs.
+. T. A Junkin in their box were
ien- and Mrs. John l. Chamber
pin and Canon DeFrees. Mr.. and
srs Thomas F. Logan had as their
Iguests in their box the third sec
retary of the Italian Embassy and
Mime. Celessia, Mrs. Joseph Hamp-
son, Ames Brown and Robert Silver
cruys of the Belgian Embassy staff.
Mr. and Mrs. Logan entertained
their party at dinner before the
opera
Other box holders were Miss Ma
bel Boardman. Mrs. Peter Drury,
Victor Evans, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
II. Everett. Mrs. Marshall Field, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas T. Gaff. Mr.. and
Mrs. +. r. GOWN, Judge Martin \.
Knapp, Mr.. and Mrs. George T.
Marys. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T. Ok
nard, Mr.. mad Mrs. James Parmales
and Mrs. Mary Stewart.
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
IN AUDIENCE.
Among those IN the audience were
Chief Justice and Mrs. Edward Doug
las Waite, Assistant to the Secretary
of state. and Mrs. Wilbur Carr and
Mrs. Ezra Koon, Mrs. L. W. Glaze
brook, Miss Julia Wilson. Mrs Z. E.
whiting, the new Czecho-Slovak
Minister, DR.. Bedrich Stepanek; Mrs.
Charles ]. Bell, Mrs. Thodore Boyn-
ton, Mrs John Joyce Broderick, ].
Mitchell Carroll. DIR. p. P. Claton, ].
de Lagerberg, Mrs. Chas. w. Fair
lax, Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, Homer
Hit. Mrs. Theodore Noyes and Mrs.
Eugene Pomeroy.
Mai. George Oakley Totten gave
supper party and dance at his
beautiful studio in Sixteenth street
after the performance for the direc-
tors and principals in the opera and
for the boxholders and their guests.
II was a jolly party and kept up
until the wee hours of the morning.