The Washington times., 1922-11-26


However, they are all drift
Ing back either today or tomor-
row. About the last stragglers
Of the official world are about
back now, too, after having
been away for month or
more. Most of them arrived in
town the first of the week,
headed by the Vice President
and Mrs. Coolidge, who had
been out of town for several
months, reaching here in time
for the extra session of Con-
gress which the President called
on Monday and to hear the
President address both houses
on Tuesday last.
But even with Congress once
more at work up on the Hill and
most of the people who belong here
in town. society has not really got
ten under way yet. Indeed things
seem to be later than usual getting
started. have the impression
that society Is not quite in the
mood for much formal entertain
ing. There are lots of parties and
informal ones, but few large formal
affairs as yet.
But II the Washington Opera
ball on Monday night, which
people seemed to regard as really
the opening Of the season, is 20
be taken as sample-or a
prophecy-of what is to come.
the winter Of 1929 will be both
brilliant and picturesque. 1t was
gay and colorful, artistic alike in
conception and execution. And
II went over big"
DERHAPS, too, the arms con-
ference next month will give
an impetus to the social whirl.
The Secretary of State, Charles
Evans Hughes, you know, has
called for next month-early in
the month, too, believe-a
conference on land disarmament
and better American relations. 1t
is to be a sort of family affair, the
delegates coming only from the
Americas. Some of the delegates
will be the minister Of Costa Rica,
Octavio Beeche; the minister Of
Nicaragua. Emiiiano Chamorro;
the minister Of Guatemala, Fran
cisco Sanchez Latour. and the presi-
dent of the supreme court Of JUS
tice of Salvador. DIR. Francisco
Martinez Suarez.
That conference, like every
thing of the sort Is sure to
be the signal for a round Of en-.
tertaining. Then suspect there
will be some parties for Clemen-
ceau when he comes to town early
next month, although he comes
unofficially. And goodness knows
what other celebrity may turn up
almost any old time. Foreign dig.
nitaries have way Of dropping
in on us suddenly. as Sir Eric
Ceddes did recently. We didn't
know he was coming until he had
landed safely in New York.
A RECENT arrival-and a more
"A or less permanent one-of spe.
ciaI interest is Commonder Gui.
seppe Catalani, until recently Ital-
ian minister to Venezuela, who
has been appointed second coun.
lor of the Italian embassy in
Washington. He appears in the
new diplomatic list for November.
1ust issued by the State Depart.
ment, as honorary minister pleni.
potentiary, second counselor of
embassy" a "title" I have never
noticed before in the diplomatic list
for any nation. don't quite grasp
why. a diplomat who has been
n minister-and still has that
rank apparentlv--should hold the
cffice of second counselor. The
first counselorr-most Of the staffs
only have one counselor--is Au.
rusto Rosso, now charge d'affaires
nd interim.
Another unusual thing I noticed
I'm the new list of the italian en-
bassy staff was the fact that
G.. b. Ceccato. commercial adviser.
comes before Andrea Geisser Ce-
lesia di vegliasco. secretaEyi