The New York herald., 1922-12-03
WASHINGTON. d. c.. Dec. 2.
Y with the dance.

~ Really that Washington opera
ball seems to have opened the
season "for fair" OF course, last week
"See you at the game!" was the
slogan as Saturday drew near, and
every one who wasn't going up to
Philadelphia for the Army Navy game
seemed to have son. or sweetheart,
or brother in Yale or Harvard, and
to be headed for New Haven. And II
it doesn't seem quite so much the
game as the big service game or the
year, to Washington, which Is home
and headquarters of both services,
still there was plenty of interest in 1t
here, and the New Haven crowd had
added to the many thrills of the actual
play, the big. thrill of seeing the Tiger
of France!
This week, it's been one dance after
another. Monday night there was a
dance of ono. Of the chapters of the U.
d. 'C.--Southern. of course, but nothing
like so sectionally Southern as 1t
used to be. It's a dance they have
every year and which they have
chosen to call the International
ball. Then there was small
smart and very jolly little dance given
by the bachelors Of the British Embassy
up at 3147 Sixteenth street. That was
the one that all the girls naturally
wanted to go to-and a good many of
them-as many as were invited-did.
And there was reception-1presumaoiy
with dancing, since there Is nearly al
ways dancing nowadays at evening re-
ceptions-at the Belgian Embassy. foi-
t.y in
of King Albert's jour de fete, with, or
course, the Ambassador and Baroness
de Cartier as hosts and most OF the
Embassy staff assisting"
On Tuesday night there was a dance
given by the personnel OF the army ar
service at the Lafayette in honor OF the
Assistant Secretary Of War and Mrs ).
Mayhew Wainwright-witfYM Major Gen.
eral Mason w. Patrick, chief of the
ermy air service, and Mrs. Patrick DO
ing the honors; and there were prob
ably other dances. And on WEDNESDAY
came the annual ball for the beneht OF
the six free wards Of the Episcopal Eye
Ear and Throat Hospital--one OF the
really big balls of the winter. and rather
more exclusive than some--the Gave
DwelIers' ball, par excellence. In which
the resident set is particularly inter-
ested. On Thanksgiving night was, as
usual, the Navy Relief ball. always a
gala event in which off1cialdom gener-
ally, and the navy set particularly
are as a matter of course very decidedly
interested.
Last night there was Peggy Hits
they call her Peggy because her name
is Alice, you know-very nice dance IN
which the younger sets were supremacy
Interested Peggy came out last sea-
son, YOU remember. And there was the
first of the army dances at Rauscher's,
at which the official crowd was gen.
orally well represented, from the Vice
President and Mrs. Coolidge down. The
Vice. President had a speaking engage
ment in Wilmington that day before the
thirty-sixth annual meeting of the AS
sociation of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools of the Middle States and Mary
land, but he got back in time to take
Mrs. Coolidge to the dance. sAnd to-
night-well. for the moment don't re-
call any important dance for Tonight
Miss Mellon's? No. Miss Melons was
scheduled for next Saturday. and she
has put it off. I'm perfectly sure there
were dances-among the youngsters, you
know-to-night, but I can't remember
. just where they were. Oh. yes, there
was one at the Becks. for Miss Beatrice.
Small but very smart
And every one of those was preceded
by dinners-some of them of consider
able Importance. For instance, on Mon
day night the Belgian Ambassador and
Baroness de Cartier entertained at
highly official mans dinner before their
reception, with the Secretary of State.
Mr.. Hughes. as their honor guest, and
Secretary Mellon, Speaker Gillett. Sem
ator George Repper. Senator Walter Il.
Edge, DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler (who
had spent the weekend at the White
House as the Presidents guest, and re-
turned to New York that night after
the Belgian party. the Solicitor-General.
Mr.. James Beck; the Under Secretary of
State, Mr.. william Phillips; the Assist
ant Secretary of War. Mr. Mayhem
Wainwright Judge John Barton Payne
(former Secretary OF the Interior and
now director of the American Red
Cross), and a dozen or so more. 1t was
quite a dinner you see, even IL 1t was
only for men. And the ladies came in
afterward for the reception. to which.
perhaps, three hundred had been invited
mostly OF diplomatic and official 60
ciety. with a few of the smart resident
set--to wish the King of the Belgians.
by way of the Ambassador. the usual
'Many happy returns of the day 70
BacheIors' Party a Gay One.
The British bachelors party was
gay one. as their parties always are.
There are perhaps half a dozen of them
living out at 3147 Sixteenth street
right next to the Key Pittssnans. and
the houses so arranged that they can
be thrown together-and as that is the
most suitable place which any of them
control at which TO give dance when
they all want 90 Civ big joint party
and cancel "A whole lot OF their social OBJ
legations at one swoop they give IL
there. There were any number of din
ners that night preceding the British
Embassy boys dance"-parties among
which the hosts of the evening were
themselves pretty well scattered. The
commercial counselor of the embassy
and Mrs. John Joyce Broderick had one
of them with the British Ambassador
and Lady Geddes among their guests.
These looked in at the dance for little
while. but they had, of course. to go to
the Eelgian reception. so they could not
stay long.
The company numbered about 150-
being members of the smart young mar
ried set and the dcbutantes OF this sea-
son and last--the Assistant Secretary
Of "a aottrx nj