The New York herald., 1922-03-12

OH Tor q week anu tTdnSicIIeu ~ W
Willard. But before the week was up
one of the original group of hosts was
lying at deaths door In the hospital
the young Marquis Assereto Of the Ital-
ian Embassy STAFF was one of those very
badly hurt In the Knickerbocker disas-
ter-and the party again was post
poned.
II finally was pulled OFF last Wednes-
day, back at the Montgomery Country
Club, as originally intended, and was of
course the merriest sort Of party and
the stunts devised by the clever young
sters Of the diplomatic corps were more
entertaining to those ''on the inside OF
Washington society than anything ever
played on q real stage ever could be.
The hosts OF the occasion were decidedly
an internationally mixed lot There
were Capt. Rigal and Mr.. Guerin Of tho
French Embassy, Senior de Cardenas and
Senior Mariana de Amoedo Of the Span
ish, Mr.. Hector Ayerza of the Argen-
tinian, Mr.. de Lagerberg Of the Swedish
Legation and DR.. Venceslas Sokolowski
and Prince Eugene Lubomirski of the
Polish. Young Assereto did not figure
among the hosts. Last time ! heard OF
him he was getting better slowly, but 1t
will be long and weary months before he
figures at dances. II indeed he ever does.
The girls, and indeed the whole party.
was pretty much the same, only larger,
than had made up the Vanderbilt dinner
dance the night before. Mrs George w.
Vanderbilt and her daughter were
rather late getting settled In their
Washington home this season. In fact
the season was pretty well over when
they came. but they have had any num-
Der of awfully nice parties since they
ho,y haa toh hora-fha nf
parties that the papers never seem to
hear about and one only gets line on
from running into people who were
there There was one at which they had
Micha Itow, that wonderful Japanese
dancer as the star. and they tell me he
quite outdid himself for that select audi
ence.
vanderbiIts i'm Warrington.
Washington, by the way, has been
simply swarming with Vanderbilts this
winter They have fairly cluttered up
the drawing rooms and been quite
feature in the landscape. Mrs. George
w. Vanderbilt has been identified with
Washington society for some time past
has had her home In K street next to
the Elkinses for years. But there have
been three more Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilts--the elder. widow Of the late Corr
neius Vanderbilt Of New York, being
officially simply Mrs. Vanderbilt. She
has been here most Of the winter with
her daughter. Countess Szechenyi, get
ting settled In anticipation of Szechenyi
being named first Hungarian Minister
to these United States, which happened
about the first Of the year. Then Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt (who was In her
day Miss Grace Wilson, daughter of the
late r. T. Wilson Of New York;, wife of
Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, has
been here a good deal, and her husband
only little less. Finally, their son and
his young wife have been here q good
part Of the winter. He Is functioning
more or less as a newspaper man and
was supposed to be here covering the
conference
Then Mrs. Henry White. who has
vibrated between New York and WASH
ington, was OF the tribe Of Vanderbilt
and occasionally has had others OF the
connection-Twombly. &c.-down here
with her. And. of course. Countess
Szechenyi was Gladys Vanderbilt So
that Washington, which has heretofore
only considered that the George Van
derbiits belonged" seems to have suf-
fered rather an invasion Of Vanderbilts
To return to my dances-the other
postponed dance was that of the One
Hundred Club. II was to have been
Valentine masquerade at the young Syl-
vanus Stokeses on February IA. But
Mr. Stokes's mother died suddenly In
Atlantic City just before the date set FOR
the dance which was sure to be gay
one. There's nothing Mrs. Sylvanus
Stokes, Jr., who was Margaret Fahne-
stock, likes better or does better than
planning masquerade. OF course this
one had TO be postponed and was held
tonight at the Breckenridge Longs, the
big house on Sixteenth and Park road.
which, It is said, Mrs John b. Hender-
son put up with the 1ea that It would
be a good house to sell to Uncle Sam
for a Vice. Presidential residence. She
couldn't make Congress see IL that way.
so when the Mexicans bought UP for
embassy purposes the Franklin Mac
veagh house down at Sixteenth and
Euclid streets. which the Breckinridge
Longs had been using. she sold her
house to them and they have beeen get
ting settled in rather leisurely fashion.
At the dance tonight Brig.-Gen. ana
Mrs. Douglas Macarthur were rather
the center of attraction. They are here
for fortnight. chiefly TO close up the
house and gather up the children, I
fancy. and OF course their friends are
seizing the opportunity to do some or
the entertaining that there was no chance
for during their short engagement Mrs.
Macarthur, as Mrs Cromwell Brooks.
has been one of the leaders OF the one
Hundred Club and was at It's last dance
on the Saturday night In January whei
her mother. Mrs. Stotesbury. Fastening
from Palm Beach. announced the en-
gagemenet OF Louise Cromwell Brooks
to Gen. Douglas Macarthur. OF course
she was a center Of interest that night
She selected for her wedding day the
date set for the next OF the dances.
February II, St Valentines day, but
that dance was postponed and here she Is
attending Il tonight and again center
OF interest with husband in tow who is
as good looking and as well known and
all around popular In Washington as she
is herself.
Preceded by Dinner Parties.
Each OF these dances was preceded
by grist of dinners, with the MacAr-
thurs In each instance the bright partic-
ular stars of one OF them, and you
never would guess from the dinners
that II was the season or fasting and
prayer. The Coolldges have been the