Evening star., 1922-03-22
Society
For the First Time Since Her Return From
the South, Mrs. Harding Is Receiv-
ing Guests by Appointment

Yates. will entertain at dinner this
evening in compliment to her house
guest, Miss Nina Sebrng of Sebring,
Ohio. Yesterday Miss Yates was
hostess at IA small info NAL luncheon
at the Shoreham for Miss Sebrins
and she will give bridge party Fri
day for her.
Capt. and Mrs. David st. Pierre Gail
lard closed their apartment here yes
Gaillard's new station at Nashville,
Tenn.
Mr. Mark Sullivan will entertain at
a luncheon tomorrow at the New
Willard, in honor of MIR. Christopher
will lecture tomorrow afternoon at
the Playhouse.
A wedding of great interest both
here and in New Hampshire took place
in Rome, Italy, yesterday, when Miss
Ann White Hobbs of Concord, n. H.,
became the bride of former Senator
Henry F. Hollis of New Hampshire.
The religious ceremony took, place at
the American Methodist Church and
the civil rites were carried out at the
capitol. the deputy mayor officiating.
The United States ambassador. Mr..
Richard Washburn Child, and former
Senator James Phelan acted as wit
nesses and the bridal couple left
later for journey to the northern
part of Italy.
Persian New Year
Celebrated Yesterday.
The legation of Persia presented a
varied and brilliant scene yesterday
the minister. Mira Hussein Khan
Alai, held a reception. which followed
the luncheon in honor of the Secre-
tary of State. Mr.. Hughes; the am
basSador of France, the ambassador
of ChMe,i the ambassador of Belgium
and the ambassador of Brazil. the
minister of China and a number of
others.
The minister had to assist him in
receiving during the early hours of
the reception Nine. Jusserand. the
hundreds of guests including men,
bers Of the Presidents executive fan. IN !.
lily, and other branches of official life
and almost the entire diplomatic
corps. The minister and Nine. Jusse-
rand stood in the reception hall to
greet the guests, who passed into the
main drawing room. which had set
ting of rich Persian rugs and art OBJ
jects of interest, and then into the
inner reception room and the dining
room. Ali Ashgar Khan. secretary,
and Hadi Khan khatiblou, attache,
also assisted.
A table was placed in the middle
reception room and from huge
punch bowl the guests drank to the
"no-rouZ" or new year day, yester-
day being the first of thirteen day
festival of merriment and celebra-
ton. An orchestra of stringed in
strumentS, with n piano accompani-
ment, was also stationed in this room
and throughout the luncheon and the
reception played Persian music in
terspersed with American airs.
The tea table was charmingly deco
rated with tall baskets of every va
riety of spring blossoms and in keep
ing with the tradition of the Persian
new day flowers were in abundance
every where.
Besides the ambassador of France
and Nine. Jusserand, early visitors
during the reception included the am
bassador of Spain and Sonora de
Riano, the ambassador of Russia, Mr..
Boris Bakhmeteff: the ambassador of
Chile and Sonora de Matthew, the am
bassador of Argentina and Nine. LIE
Breton, the ambassador of Belgium
and Baroness de Cartier, the ambas-
sador of Brazil. the German charge
d'affaires and Nine. Lang, the min
ister of Norway and Nine. Bryn, the
minister of Denmark. Mr.. Brun; the
charge d'affaires of Siam, Phra San
pakitch; the secretary of the lega-
ton of Siam and Mrs. Edward III.
Lotus. the minister of Cuba and