The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Hold Tennis Tournament and
SenOr Don j. Il. Lefevre
Gives Luncheon.

Special Dispatch to THE New York HERALD.
F, WASHINGTON, d. c.. July 20.
r T is one of the interesting things
F, about Washington's society that
it is everlastingly on the go. Just
now. aside from the usual and normal
coming and going of the official world
(and of the unofficial, which. even II 1t
las DO finger in the political pie, likes
to go around with those that have),
there is interest in the groups that are
forming to go to three widely different
places for three widely differing occa-
sions.
There are any number of highly
official parties being made up to go
to Brazil for the coming centennial
celebration and exposition, which opens
in September. OF course there is
Uncle Sans official representation.
headed by the Secretary of State, as
proxy for the President, and by Major
Gen. Bullard. Then the other nations
are drawing to some extent on their
embassies and legations here in max
ing up their official parties. And of
course there are all sorts of specialists
and experts of one sort or another
who are being sent to assemble and
look after exhibits. Most of us, who
hardly knew a month ago that Brazil
was having a centennial, are now on
glib and familiar terms with it. Aside
from that there is quite large Wash
ington contingent which is going
mostly, in fact, it has already gone
to the Williams College Institute of
Politics, which opened yesterday.
And there is another large representa-
tion headed out West to attend the
meeting Of the American Bar Associa-
tion at San Francisco, which opens
next month.
Entertains for DIR. Work.
At about the only official parties
given during the week diplomats were the
hosts. They were not Of the most formal
but were interesting if only because
they proved that there were still quite
q few people in town. They were din
ner which Senor Don j. E. Lefevre
Charge d'Affaires of the Legation Of
the Postmaster-General, DR.. Hubert
Work, as the chief guest, and a lunch
con which the Charge d'Affaires of Bel
GUM and Nine. de Selys gave on
Thursday, with the Under Secretary of
State, Mr.. William Phillips, Mr.. Henry
Getty Chiffon. Charge d'Affaires of
Great Britain, Mr.. Allen Welch Dulles
of the State Department, NJ. Parmentier
and his associates of the French finan-
cial mission. and number of others of
equal official status.
Mr.. Lefevres dinner was for DR.. Work
rather than for Postmaster-General
Work, and for him as former president
OF the American Medical Association
rather than as a present member of
President Harding's Cabinet. 1t was
really a dinner for those officially in
terested in the Gorgas memorial. and
Mr.. Lefevre had invited the medical
associations committee to meet DR..
Work with the board of directors Of
the Gorgas memorial. 1t was a man s
dinner Of course. Senorita Ramona F..
IIlefevre, the efficient hostess for Mr..
Lefevre during the season. has been
abroad two or three months now and
will not return for a month or so to
come. The guests included the Under
Secretary Of State, Mr.. William Phil
lips; DIR. Rowe. director-general of the
Pan American Union; Mr.. Robert
Woods Bliss. Francis White. head of
the Latin American division of the
State Department; DR.. de Schweintz.
present head of the American Medical
Association; DR.. Charles W. Richard
son of Washington, DR.. Lund of Bos-
ton. Surgeon-eneral Ireland of the army
and Surgeon General Stitt of the navy
and Surgeon-General Hugh Cumming of
t-o A ro1
BREASTED. chairman Of the Gorgas me-
mortal. and others all equally official.
Including the Consul-General of Pan
anna, Belisario Porras, Jr.. who came