The Washington times., 1921-02-12
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Annual Ebent,
For Mrs. Gerry
IN ACCORDANCE with a caSom

give a ball tonight for her daughter.
Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry. She will
be hostess at a dance 10 which
brilliant company OF guests has
been invited and will give a small
dinner before the party, with Sena-
tor and Mrs. Gerry as the honor
guests.
When Mrs. Gerry. then Miss Ma,
thilde Townsend. was a very small
girl, Mrs. Townsend inaugurated
the custom OF giving a dance for
her each year on February IL and
ever since society has recognized
the claim OF this prominent and
popular hostess to this date. Some
OF the most brilliant balls in WASH
ington's social history were given
by Mrs. Townsend for her daughter
In her girlhood days and after her
marriage. During the war, a small
dinner dance replaced the larger
party each year. The dance tonight
will also be small In comparison to
the great balls of other seasons. but
will be attended by a goodly com
pany of those prominent In official
life. A number OF guests from New
York and other cities will also be
present.
kIsA s6uATe q ITsQ s.pussuMoL SIN
beautiful pictoTially, for her house
is perfectely arranged for enter
tanning and she always has II sweet
with flowers. This evening there
will be hint OF springtime In the
decorations with all the spring
blossoms used in profusion.
Many dinner parties are being
arranged tonight. the hostesses
proposing to take their guests on
to Mrs Townsend's ball. Mrs. Mar
shall Field will entertain large
company at dinner. with Secretary
of State and Mrs. Colby and Prince
and Princess Antoine Bibesco
among the guests. Some of the
guests from Mrs. Elkins dinner will
also go on to Mrs. Townsends.
The Undersecretary OF State and
Mrs Norman Davis and Mr.. ana
Mrs. John p. Story are others who
will give dinners tonight Mr.. and
Mrs. story are entertaining q group
of young people in compliment to
their daughter. Miss Caroline Story.
DINNERS At CHEVY CHASE.
Numerous dinner parties at the
Chevy Chase Club will also be given
tonight, and many of the guests are
planning to remain there for the
dancing. which is always a pleas
ant feature of Saturday evening.
Col. and Mrs. Clarence Ridley are
among those who are giving dinners
at Chevy Chase, and Mrs. Francois
Berger Moran will entertain sew
enty guests in honor OF the Minis
ter of Cuba and Nine. de Cespedes.
Her dinner will be given in pri-
vate dining room. The table will
be elaborately decorated with guam
titles Of tulle arranged In rainbow
effect and flying doves glimpsed
amid the clouds of tulle.
The guests will include the Min
lister of Ecuador and Nine. Elizalde,
the Minister Of Colombia and Mme-
Urueta. the Secretary of the In
terror, John Barton Payne, Senator
and Mrs. Atlee Pomerene, Senator
and Mrs. william NJ. Calder, Sena-
tor Howard Sutherland. Senator
and Mrs. Joseph ]. France, and SEN
ator walsh.
The ladies will be presented with
bouquets tied to bracelets, and the
favors for the men will De tiny
guns covered with flowers.
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Senator vittorio Rolandi-Ricci, thu
newly appointed ambassador of Italy
who arrived in New York yesterday
Is expected at the embassy here to-
morrow or Monday. The ambassado
was accompanied by his son, a cap
tain in the Italian army, and Guido
Sabetta. former consul general TO
Italy in Chicago, who is to be coun
selor of the Italian embassy in Wash
ington. Members of the embassy star
went to New York from Washington
to welcome their new chief.
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MRS. RIDLEY ENTERTAINs. {.
Mrs. Clarence Ridley was hostes
at luncheon today at her apartmen
in the Brighton. She had fifteel
guests. among them Lady Geddes an
Mrs. Newton ID. Baker.
Tonight Colonel and Mrs. Ridle'
will give a dinner at the Chevy Chas
Club, with Gen. Peyton c. March
Major and Mrs. c. e. d. Bridge, of tn
British embassy. and Colonel and tn
Marquise de Bernezzo, of the 1talia'
embassy, among the guests. Ther
will be twenty-six in the party.
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Mrs. Samuel Peters Brown. who !
today celebrating her eighty-seventl
birthday. will be the guest of homo
this afternoon at tea to be givel
by her granddaughter. Mrs. war,
Brown, at her nome, 3olo " stree'
Mrs. Browns daughter, Mrs. Charlott
NJ. Conger. who has been visiting he
daughter in Boston. has come to Wash
ington to be with her mother on this i'm
portant occasion. Mrs. Reeve Levi
will preside at the tea table.
For many years either Mrs. Congo
or Mrs. Ward Brown, who was Mis-
Emily Conger, have given tea t
mark Mrs. Browns birthday, and Z
give her old friends an opportunit.
to offer their CONGRATULATIONS.
MISS JONES TO WED.
Mrs. Franklin ellis, of washingt on
VIII be the only bridal attendant a
the marriage of Miss Caroline Ogdel
Jones, daughter by former marriag
of Mrs. Paul w. Bartlett, to Armi
stead Peter, Sd. which takes plac
next Monday morning In the Chantr'
of the Church OF the Transfiguratior
Bromley Seeley. of Washington, WI
act as best man and the ushers will
be Chester Snow. Richard Hollyday
Robert Bell and Frank Ellis, all
Washington. A small reception an
wedding breakfast will follow at tn
home of the brides mother, 40 Yves