The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-04-02
President Harding's
Social Engagements
Marked by Variety
POtentates and Pic
ture Players Quests
at White House.

ing must regard their social
relations in somewhat the came
light that Former President viii.
son looks on vaudeville-if one act
doesn't please him, the next one
may, and at any rate it's soon over
for there is an infinite variety
about their human contacts. They
almost never sit down to luncheon
or dinner without guests. some
times one or two, sometimes as
many as a dozen, and frequently,
as in the last week. they range
from potentates to picture players.
The Governor Of Pennsylvania
and Mrs. Sproul had luncheon at
the White House with the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harding one day,
having come on to take part in the
ceremonies connected with tart
ing work on the Meade Memorial.
And Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander =.
Moore, of Pittsburgh. were White
House guests another day, Mrs.
Moore DIETER known to fame as
Lillian RusselD being in Washing
ton to report to Mr.. Davis. Secrc-
tary of Labor, on emigration COLI
ditions abroad which she has been
investigating at the special request
of the President. And on top o.
this the Hardings were hosts to
that wizard of the film world.
David Wark Griffith, and "the
Miss Gishes," as the theater at
taches insist upon calling them.
1t is recorded that Miss Lillian
Gish retained her poise, Will. her
sister, Miss Dorothy Gish. was so
nervous that she couldn't eat; and
that Mr.. Griffith. at the Presi-
dents request. assumed the Chief
Executives chair for the nonce
and got away with the role very
creditably. The Gish girls are
Ohioans, I believe, and the Pres.
dent and Mrs. Harding have an
especial interest in anyone who
had forethought enough to be born
in the Buckeye State.
MRS. HARDING told an in
curing soul the other day
that while there was, Of course.
a lot Of fun and interest in being
First Lady of the Land, there was
a lot of work about being Mis-
tress Of the White House, il you
happened to have been brought
up with any sense Of housewifely
responsibility.
Mrs. Harding is emphatically
the sort who runs her own house,
plans her own meals and knows
pretty well about the details of
her own menage. I'm told that
before they were in the White
House 1t was a matter Of course
that there should be one or two,
or even three or four extra" at
luncheons and dinner, practically
every day in the week. But "A wo.
man who is in way to know told
me not long ago that the Hard
ings had not sat down to any meals
but breakfast without guests. since
they had been in the White House.
Now you know people used to
do that, but housekeeping is not
so lavish and hospitality is not
so impromptu in these days of
the high cost OF living as in the
olden days. And it takes a pretty
good housekeeper with a family
Of two to be always prepared for
ten. 1t would be hard enough
on a housekeeper in private life,
but when it comes to one whose
every move is in the limelight
and whose every shortening is
magnified, il does seem q wonder
that she should never come short.
TWO Of the unofficial little din
hci pdititS with Oiu lIlcIluS as
hosts, in which the President and
Mrs. Harding delight. were in.
cluded in the varied list of last
weeks activities. They dined last
Sunday evening with the Secretary
Of War and Mrs. Weeks, after de-
voting the afternoon to driving in
the country and glimpsing how
trees and bushes were a.greening
under the warm spring sun. And
on Friday evening they were guests
OF Senator Frederick Hale, one of
the Presidents "bud1ies" when he
was in the Senate, and his mother,
Mrs. Eugene Hale. Both parties
were small-just a few old friends
Of the honor guests-and neither
was much heralded to the waiting
world. which likes to know where
the President dimes and with whom.
President Harding, himself a
Rotarian, attended the gala per-
Torrance at Keith's on Monday
night. when the whole house was
turned over to the Rotary clubs in
convention here. He took Mrs.
Harding with him, and they gath
cred in Mr.. and Mrs. Henry p.
Fletcher, who came on from the
dinner given in their honor by the
Secretary of State and Mrs.
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