Evening star., 1922-04-11
Society
President and Mrs. Harding to Enter
tain Army and Navy Officers. :
Invitation List Closed.

Yesterday they entertained a small
company informally at luncheon at
the Shoreham.
state and Mrs. Bliss will entertain
company of twenty at dinner this
evening in honor of the. secretary
of the United States embassy in
Berlin and Mrs. Robbins.
The military attache of the British
was host at dinner last evening at
his home on 18th street. when his
guests were Mrs George Wander
Capt. John Gregory Hope. Mrs. Will
liam Ziegler, Miss Katherine Mackay,
Miss Margaret Harding. Miss Lind
say. Wood and Mr.. Peterson. Com
Cormick -Goodhart of the British en-
bassy staff.
The secretary of the Italian en-
bassy and SigAora Geisser Celesia
gave buffet supper last evening in
honor of the secretary of the United
States embassy in Berlin and Mrs.
Warren |Delano Robbins. The COM
pany numbered twenty-four. and ow-
ing to the heat the evening was spent
in the garden.
Mrs. Sarah Lee Phillips entertained
company of twenty-five at luncheon
today in honor Of her sister. Miss
Rosa Lee.
Col. and Mrs. Morris Ernest Locke
ner last evening in their apartment
on 18th street
Mr.. and Mrs. Garrett
To Entertain Lady AstOr.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Garrett will
have as their guest in their home,
Evergreen, near Baltimore, next week,
Lady Astor of England. formerly Miss
Mamie Langhorne Of Virginia. Lady
Astor is coming to this country to at
tend the pan-Amerfcan conference,
which will be held in Baltimore this
month. She is the first woman to be-
come member of the Englyish par
lament. Mr. and Mrs Garrett. who
spent the winter in Washington,
where they had an apartment at 1855
10th street. will entertain in honor of
Lady Astor several times during her
stay, and will have box at the per
formance of "The Runaway Girl"
which will be given by the famous
Paint and Powder Club of Baltimore
next Tuesday for the benefit of the
Bryn Mawr School League.
Mrs. Rudolph Kaufman will not be
at home at Airlie tomorrow after
noon, but will receive informally
Wednesdays. April 1s and 20.
Miss Virginia Edwards entertained
at luncheon today in honor of Miss
Vivian Gordon Brown. whose mar
riage to Ensign Gerald Desmond
Linke will take place Monday. The
other guests were Mrs. Theodore +.
Moves, Mrs. Richard Buchanan. Miss
Irone Russell. Miss Annette Ashford.
Miss Mary Palmer. Miss Atala KIM
nell, Miss Mary Emily Hamilton, Miss
Laura Lejeune, Miss Frances Dwyer,
Miss Elizabeth Zolnay. Miss Eleanor
Northrop. Miss Diana Cumming, Miss
Julie Hume, Miss Mary Stitt, Miss
Miss Aline Jones. Miss Charlotte
Lenoine and Mrs. John L. Edwards.
mother OF the hostess.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles o. Richards
of Coronado and San Diego, Calf.
have announced the engagement of
their daughter Katherine to Lieut..
Edgar Allan Poe. jr., U. S. NJ. c.. son
of former Attorney General of the
State Of Maryland and Mrs. Edgar gar
the wedding. Miss Richards, who is
an enthusiastic sportswoman. served
as a captain in the Motor Corps dur
ing the world war and was educated
abroad. Lieut.. Richards served with
the Asiatic squadron on Admiral
year has been stationed at Coronado
Mrs. William A. Slater has closed
her apartment at f215 18th street and
gone to New York. where she is in
an apartment at 920 5th avenue,
which she has leased.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. R.. Tindle, with
their sons James and Robert, of VAL
ley Forge. Pa, are spending the week
a n 10
is the daughter of the late Senator
Philander c. Knox and Mrs. Knox.
Mr.. and Mrs George Eustis Cor
coran will open their summer home
at Newport about May 20.
Mr.. and Mrs Allan McLane. jr..
spent the week end with the formers
parents. former Judge and Mrs. Allan
McLane, at their home in the Green
Spring valley.
Col. and Mrs D. c. Falls, who spent
short time in Washington. have re-
turned to their home in New York.
Col. and Mrs. Falls were in Florida
for the winter and stopped in Wash
ington on their way north.
Mrs. T. G. McKnew and her daugh-
ter, Miss Gertrude McKnew, have re-
turned after spending the past ten
weeks in Florida.
Mrs. Aaron A. Romansky Of Phila-
delphia is the guest of her brother
in-iaw and sister. DIR. and Mrs. Alfred
j. Steinberg. for the week. Mrs.
will be among the guests