New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
Many Affairs Cancelled as
Knickerbocker Theatcr
Accident Sends Sorrow
Into Homes of Capital
Some Receptions Held
Supreme Court Banquet Is
Perfunctory; Daugherty
Defers Harding Dinner
sseoinl ntsna.ch to The Tt-ibuno

Thea.er Saturday night which left so
c,e.v folk disinclined to carry on with
snv form Of euterta airment.
Several dinner parties and luncheons
80 less pretentious nature were car
ned through where the hostess had in
;,ed circles Of intimates. but at best
,ach little meeting was enshrouded in
.rdness and there was little conversa-
IN aside from one gloomy subject.
~ Diplomatic Corps, Congress and
slmost every branch Of service, as we'll
as the military, was touched by some
death. and the few women who kept
their days at home found them sad
Affairs.
Those who visited much in the Latin
American contingent of the Diplomatic
Corps had learned to know charming
Sonora Virginia Feraud, who always
received with her sister, Sonora de
Bianchi, wife Of the Minister of Guate-
mala, on her days at home in the
legation and who was one of the vic
tins Of the theater catastrophe Nc,ile
Tommaso Assereto. Third Secretary of
the Italian Embassy. was also great
movie fan and favorte, and while he
lived TO get out of the Knickerbocker
Theater, he is badly hurt, lying in a
hospital Every walk of life was af-
fected by the tragedy and Immediately
society set itself about cancellng en-
gagements.
While the President and Mrs. Har-
ding carried on with the Supreme Court
dinner at the White House Thursday
night even with its more than eightv
guests it was merely perfunctorv
affair at best-one OF those things laid
down by the official social law and fol-
lowed out, whether the host would or
no. 1t was 8 fine dinner, to be sure,
with many noted lawyers from various
cities, and especially from Ohio, the
guest Of honor, Mr.. Taft, and the sec
ond ranking guest. the Attorney Gen.
eral, as well as the host himself, com
. ing from that state.
Congressional Reception
will Be Given Thursday
The next White House reception,
that of Thursday, is always the most
interesting of all from human inter
est standpoint. 1t is in honor of SEN
stors and Representatives and is known
as the Congressional reception. 1t
should be one Of the most imposing Of
all the receptions, for while bereft Of
the glittering uniforms of diplomats,
and even the palmer ones of the United
states officers of the army and navy,
II is intended to compliment the great
body of legislators and will attract a
cosmopolitan, if not rigidly formal,
gathering.
It. was in Difference to the official
mourning ordered by the District
fathers that the Attorney General can
eeled the date for the dinner company
ne was to entertain Wednesday night
yCr tho pr,c
and which will be given at later date.
Invitations had been extended to a
number of important Ohioans and
others from outside of Washington.
ana tnc dinner was arranged to take
place in the Presidential suite at the
New Willard Cabinet dinners have
become little uncertain since that
gwen by the Secretary of State and
Nis. hughes and by the Secretary of
ene treasury and Miss Mellon and the
Secretary OF War and Mrs. Weeks
1he postmaster General, Will H. Hays,
cues not Know just when he can secure
aate for the dinner he wishes to
gife' and some of the other Cabinet
uliners are thrown into chaos by the
sa'tlng of Of the Attorney Generals
me luncheons givon for Mrs. Cool
0Se' TWO Of them cutie large. were Of
Hor' private nature. and that given
'he Presidential suite by Mrs. Rob
"sDh bowney Of sylvania, was a
'iy beautiful affair. There were more
~ o"n MY guests, including all ranks
y, o'iciai life. Mrs. Henry c. Wallace
'pnesehtlng the Cabinet. Mrs. William
asfo a1oS~fo AT the Supreme Court, Mrs.
Son S;,rmly Wilder kcycs ana others in
ha he"S,orial N,, ranks, Nine. Grouitch, wife
e. ". Mthister Of the Serbs, Croats and
tbu,e"es' the diplomatic corps and
." Iif, d number Of women in private
NJ VINO once shone officially, like
i'S' Josephus Daniels. wife of the one
ra~. V secretary OF the Navy. who is al
received with open arms when
We comes to Washington to visit her
'q.nef Mrs. Adelaide Worth Bagley.
~ was ednesday that Mrs. Coolidge
80 '"e guest of Mrs. Ernest G. Walker
r.-.a- caA'mlngly planned luncheon
~T: Mfs James K. Mann, Mrs. Vic
M, Ass,uhmann, a, Mrs. J. Borden Harri-
M's' Theodore Laurence Pomeroy,
o0rseh"ieh, Conn; Mrs John A.
ver. ,~0"e ana Mrs. John Crayke Simpson
tho r"'Nong the guests. Friday night
ve,, 'lee-Presdent and Mrs. Coolidge
nav. guests of honor at a dinner com
Eo,s, eh'ertaIned at Wardman Park
Br;s.ooy oy representative and Mrs. Fred
lsa,. OF Illinois. who have given a
nss. aug brilliant series of enter
VAL 0Nis season. Mrs. Ernest G..
dav VINO gave the luncheon Wednes-
josedi - hohor OF Mrs. Coolidge, will be
al ~ 's ner husband in entertaining
tar. ~'~ser 1 February for the Secre-
w.. o' war and Mrs. Weeks.
u "ae Of Austria Charge
aolds First Reception
p,aane. ifochuick. wife of Edgar l.. G
esb,s0sAnick, secretary Of legat;on % and
Sss'ge daiTaires for Austria STARTED
dss sNday afternoons at home on Fri.
TEN. Ten, hoidlng the first reception by q
h.if sentative Of Austria that has been
TIE a:'e aHeie IN years and the first since
NM s0'Vlsion of Austria and Hungary
easrrr; Irochnlck, who is Young and
como Ing, mad many obstacles to over
ness vi I Washington besides the cool
She l"n'ch sCci"ty felt toward Austria
Der 80. paby lust six weeks old and
lots "o Other children are also
Aes ere was indeed brave to start
n eortrS nS social program at all Quite
ssested asV Is the Hungarian legation
assssa. ~ handsome residence out
sss S.osetts Avenue, and with Count
T. aea,,i. .echehyi, formerly GLADYS Van
aill;os,'. TO preside The Vanderbilt
lianysr; are back Of the wife of the
ATE clan olath Minister. Her children. too
al .bra1' and they cut a pretty figure
ss row. dressed exactly alike sitting
fseen,l,"s IN theater box, as they did
unan az al concert given by an Hun
The