Evening star., 1921-11-24
CITY HAS BRILLIANT
FARLEY RECEPTION
Unusual Setting Is Provided
in Honor Of Delegates
= FromOther Lands.
THOUSANDS AT MUSEUM
Every Circle of Official, Social and
Residential Life Is Well
Represented.

hepTeSeuteu.
The size, brilliancy and excellent
management of last nights reception,
rendered by the District Of Columbia
to the distinguished visitors attend
ing the armament conference, more
than compensated for any possible
feeling that the affair was compar-
able to Hamlet with Hamlet left
out" due to the fact that members OF
the delegations, proper were, almost
without exception, unable to- attend.
More than 1000 specially invited
residents of the National Capltai NIL
ed the spacious and beautifully deco
rated corridors and halls OF the New
National Museum and were received
by the heads of the local government
and their wives. Perhaps no greatt I
evening reception in the history Oh
the city ever had a more interesting
or unusual setting or witnessed a
TO that of last night, when every CIR,
Gle of official, social and residential
life was splendidly represented.
Attendance of Omcials.
Pressure of public or private busi-
ness, fatigue due to either cause. al, f.,
sence from the city or other soclal
engagements prevented the attend
dnce all q lie" VI llc uSiS
gates proper. to the natural disap-
pointment of their many admirers
who had hoped at least to see them
there. However. high advisory ON :
cials, nifnbers OF them in briiliant
uniform, and others connected with
the various delegations, representa-
tives of the different embassies here
attended generally and appeared TO
enjoy being guests fully as much as
the District enjoyed entertaining
them. ~. go ...
The guests, who began to arrive at
the north--eHtrance of the museum
promptly at the scheduled hour. left
their wraps in any one of a large
number of cloakroomS installed along
the main downstairs corridor. ihen
they formed in a Sleng double line
which, slowly, but without hitch.
wound first upstairs and then so ex-
tensively through the great exhibit
tion hall that the journey to the re-
ceiving line was relieved of all pos
sible tedium. To many of those pres
ent the wonderful collections of the
museum through which they passed
was a new sight and many express
sions were heard to the effect that
nowhere else in this country and in
few other capitals of the world could
a more fascinating setting for an
evening function have been provided.
Beautiful Decorations.
The central corridors and main
floor rotunda were beautifully deco
rated with flowers, green's and a pro-
fusion of big flags of the nations par
ticipatine in the conference. The bril-
liant colorS of evening were match
ed not only by the gold lace OF for
eign uniforms, but also some OF those
of the United States. The full dress
of the Navy, with epaulettes and gold
lace recently revived. helped make the
occasion the most colorful of its kind
since America entered the war. while
here and there amidst the usual olive
drab was seen the half-forgotten full
dress of various branches of the Army.
High up in portion of the corri-
dor encircling the rotunda the Ma
rine Band. led by Capt. Santelmann.
played throughout the evening. The
effect of the strains of music COM
ing from an invisible source lent a
noteworthy touch.
In one Of the far chambers of the
National Gallery of Art, in a setting
Of masterpieces of painting, stood
dolph. Commissi oner and Mrs. James
F.. Oyster, Commissioner and Mrs
Charles Keller and Charles j. Bell.
chairman of the reception committee.
The guests were presented to the re-
ceiving line by Capt. Hayne Ellis,
after which they passed through the
exhibition salons of the gallery out
into the rotunda. In one Of the great
halls opening out from the rotunda
an elaborate supper was served
throughout the evening.
Perfection Of Arrangements.
How arrangements for this function
could have been improved upon is
difficult to imagine. From the ar
rival OF a guests motor car at Penn
sylvania avenue and 10th street to it's
departure hours later from it's spe-
cially designated parking space every
movement was made with regularity
and dispatch. Fears that there might
be a vehicular congestion proved
utterly groundless. Acting Supt. Sui
Ivan and Capt. Albert ]. Headley
head of the traffic departmen were
in personal charge of hundred po-
licemen and a hundred members of
the Home Defense League, who. sta
toned only a few yards apart, direct
ed the traffic.
Arrangements inside the museum,
carried out by the museum person.
mel and aides to the reception COM
mittee. also reached the highest pos
sible point of efficiency. Favorable
comments were divided almost equal
ly between the beauty. brilliance and
size of the reception, and the perfec-
tion of all incidental arrangements.
Mrs. Rudolph wore gown of black
jet draped with coral velvet and tulle,
a bandeau of corals and pearls, with a
spray of Paradise plumage in her
hair She carried coral ostrich
feather fan. Mrs. Oyster was in
handsome gown of black jet. trimmed
with black Chantilly lace. Mrs. Kel-
ler wore jade green georgette, beaded
in pearls, made on straight lines, with
n narrow band of pearls to mark the
waist line, and the edge of the skirt
scalloped and edged with narrow pearl
fringe.
Vice President Attends.
The Vice Hesident and Mrs. Cool
idge arrivedssHrly and spent some time
behind the @ine, the latter wearing a
graceful gdWn of dark blue velvet,
gracefully draped.
MIR. William Howard Taft, Chief
Justice of.-the Supreme Court of the