The New York herald., 1922-05-14
Eircus and Performance Of
Peg o. Ny Heart in French
Among Other Events.

Ssosos Dtspafch to THE New YorK HrRAIp.
WAsHrNoroN, d. c.. May 13.
THIS was gay week for society
in the capital. Properly It was
"horse show week." and given
rood weather that IS glory enough for
tny week. 1t always means horse
chow house parties. the afternoon
rpent over at Arlington Park and the
evening in all sorts of hoepitalities or
'anized for horse show guests-people
Ike Miss Katherine Mackay. who came
down for the week, or rather for the
I've days OF the show, as the guest OF
ar. and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend; !;
and Miss Frances Sullivan from Phila-
1eiphia. who was Miss Gladys Hinck-
rey's guest; and Miss Louise Ross
Todd of Louisville, who was visiting
her aunt. Nine. Christian Hauge;
though to be sure each OF these came
before the horse show. Misses Sullivan
and Todd had both been on the ground
Iror at least week and Miss Mackay
came down a few days ahead; and
each OF them was a perfectly good
excuse for a number of good parties.
Then again. it was circus week---
Two different greatest shows on
earth"-after a dong famine. Circuses
only come to Washington few times
a year. with long, weary months in
between. and they never stay for more
than two or three days at a time. and
everybody organizes circus parties:
and Just to prove that they are all
Just as young as they once were every
Dody makes point of going and act
Ing a whole lot younger-everybody
from uncle Joe and Senator Page,
Gown to little Betty Koo.. or Hans
.Elnar Reisser. small son Of the secre-
tary OF the German Embassy and Mime.
Reisser.
Up to Wednesday, while there was
enough to keep one pleasantly occu-
pieo, there was no such mad scramble
rs 1lued the remainder of the week.
with the Horse Show in the offinr-
two big balls put over from last week
Bobby Bells Play (Which Bobby
Bell had neither written nor played in.
Dut which he sponsored-or rather "dI-
rected'), the performance of "Peg o.
MY Heart in French, the STORY Of tha
cross pageant out at the Cathedral
the Victory Ball for Mrs. Dimock's Ma
tional Victory Memorial Building and
the usual grist of dinners and dances
and luncheons, &C., augmented by
special T. p. G. parties for the Argen-
tine Ambassador and Mme Le Breton.
Mrs. Harding CIinEs to Friends.
And there practically wasn't an item
on the program In which the President
and Mrs. Harding were particularly
concerned. Mrs. Harding went up to
the regular weekly luncheon Of the
Ladies OF the Senate--an organizat ton
TO which she belonged from the time
that it had its first meeting, and In
which she retained her membership
after Air. Harding's, election to the
Presidency. 1t IL rather pathetic the
way she clings to her old friends-the
effort she seems to make not to let
her position as mistress OF the White
House separate her from the rest of
the world: her evident desire to keep
In touch with humanity.
Mrs. Coolidge. who has been o bit
under the weather and has been &C.
lcepting comparatively few invitations
for the last week. had sufficiently re-
covered to be presiding as usual. and
with no pomp and ceremony. no fuss
about entertaining the First Lady, they
were all Just girls together" Pre-
sumably during the week Mrs. Harding
made q few appointments to receive
women callers at the White House. but
about the only occasion when there
were moro than one or two guests there
was on Wednesday afternoon. when
they opened the tennis courts to some
exhibition championship tennis matches.
( when Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory.
world champion among women players,
played and was beaten by Mrs. Marian
/ Zindcrstein Jessup. and r. Norris Will
Jams. I'd. of Boston and Wallace T.
johnson of Philadelphia played doubles
against Watson M. Washburn and Karl
Behr of New York, The President and
Mrs. Harding had asked to the games a
number of personal and official friends
members of the Cabinet, department
officials and quite few OF the dip
lomatio corps. 1t was really quite
distinguished company. but Of shifting
personnel as one or another watched
q while and then answered the call
of urgent affairs elsewhere.
The President was little moro than
usually busy Of course since he was
planning to take couple Of days Off and
try out the famous Absecon links at the
Sea View Country Club near Atlantic
City. He went UP there yesterday, as
you, OF course, know--he and Mrs. Har-
ding motoring UP and leaving Washing
ton Friday morning. The plan seems to
be to stay there until tomorrow eve
ming, and put in a long, happy day Sat-
urday on the links. 1t Is Senator Edges
party, and rather a big one--men and
women, although the men rather pre-
dominate. and quite naturally they are
all people who have been closely asso-
c,ated with the Hardings-Secretary and
Mrs. Weeks, Attorney-General Daugh-
erty, Senator and Mrs. Frelinghuysen,
Senator Lawrence Phlpps, Gen. Charles
q. Dawes. Speaker and Mrs. Gillett, Gen.
Charles E. Sawyer and George d. Chris
tian, Jr. .
That trip of the Presidents rather
took the wind out Of the Horse Show
sails when II was announced early In
the week. For the Horse Show had, as
usual, quite counted on the President
and Mrs. Harding for their opening on
Friday afternoon. There always In
box reserved for the White House. and
uaffalIv the president occupfes IL for the