The New York herald., 1921-05-01

ested in hearing IT, SO George Totten
! lent TO them his studio. and Mr.. DE
Lagerberg. secretary and until recently
charge Of the Swedish Legation.
was naturally interested. both for his
country's sake and for his own, for
he himself contributed two or three
4 very interesting songs to the pro
\ gramme and accompanied several OF
the others most sympathetically. All
had invited their friends to most In
| teresting party.
Swedish Music and Dances.
The programme OF Swedish music and
| Swedish dances was real treat Mr.
Albion himself sang-it was the first
time I had heard him, and he Is very
we'll worth hearing-as are Miss Clelia
Floravente. young italian with a
remarka bly, sweet voice and beautiful
method of handling it. and Miss
Frances Corey, apparently an Amert-
can who has the voice but needs
little more training. and Prince Ga
garine of the Russian Embassy. and
the National opera Quartet. which Mr..
Albion has been training. and which
certainly does him credit, and a Nor
"
got. Their Swedish songs were GER
tainly a revelation to most OF the
audience. for Swedish music Is not
very well known here. And there were
two pairs Of Swedish dancers In cos
tume--a couple of young girls who did
spirited. graceful folk dance and a
pair of children who were perfectly
charming and brought down the house.
And while it wasn't very large house,
nff y, ht In
One noticed Nine. Marc Peter. the wife
OF the Swiss Minister: Mr.. and Mrs.
William Mcclellan Ritter, themselves
rather given to musicales who only re-
Gently have opened their Massachusetts
avenue home after being away all win
ter; DIR. and Mrs. Mitchell Carroll, DIR.
and Mrs. Tom Williams, Mrs. Wilfrid
De Puy. Miss Louise Delano, the Will
lam Atherton De Puys and Herbert
Hengstler OF the State Department:
Nine. Wallenberg, wife of the Swedish
Minister; DR.. stepanek, the Minister OF
CZecho-Slovakia. and Miss Stepanek:
Horace Luttrell. Mr.. De Buenavista OF
the Peruvian Embassy, Mr.. and Mrs.
Boyd Carpenter Mr.. and Mrs Franklin
Barber Clark, and Miss Natalie Barnes
and her fiance. Mr.. Mark Reid Yates.
who, by the way, were married this
afternoon.
in this letter / sent the Vice-President
and Mrs. Coolidge to Pittsburgh and
neglected to bring them back--and
Washington couldn't get along without
them. However, they brought them
selves back, and Secretary Mellon who
went up with them--and the French
Ambassador and Nine. Jusserahd, who
also made the trip.
Secretary Mellon, by the way, is get
int 1nA tn, he -
1lS3 Massachusetts avenue, which
told you a week or two ago Of his hav-
ing taken. His daughter, Miss Ailea
Mellon, is In town. came last Monday
and Is temporarily the guest of the
Campbell Graefs. They are back in
their house at Fifteenth and K streets,
which the Colbys occupied while they
were here during Mr.. Colby's service as
Secretary of State: he is abroad, be-
lieve. just now. and Mrs. Colby is visit
ing friends here. but she has been I'll
and Is not going about. Meanwhile the
Graefs are glad to get back into their
own house, and Olyve is very busy
supervising Ailsa Melons launching into
Washington society, entertaining for
her guest and being entertained along
with her. Miss Mellon is keeping a
sort of an eye on the apartment, and
as soon as it is ready will join her
lneGe.
From the way that the Cabinet farni-
lies are gradually getting settled 1t
rather looks as II they didn't see much
vacation ahead of them this summer
Mrs. Davis seems to be about the only
one who is definitely planning not 10
attempt to settle in Washington until
autumn. She says she doesn't dare
bring the babies here during the very
hot weather, but she expects to get
here in the fall and probably will take
an apartment in Wardman Park Inn.
Dinner giving. which rather centred
on the Coolidges for a while, is getting
more general as the Cabinet families
are getting settled. though the Vice.
President and his wife have quite all
the dinner and luncheon engagements
they can make time for Next week
the Speaker and Mrs. Frederick Gill
lett are varying the programme by
giving a dance I'm their honor. and that
and the polo ball are dividing the in
terest o. society so far rs dances are
concerned for next week, the one on
Monday night. the other on Tuesday,
both at the Willard and both likely
to bring out particularly brilliant gath
erings