The New York herald., 1922-03-26
Bouts at Fort Myer Draw Many Enthusiasts From
Social Circles--Amateur Circus Planned-Dinners,
Dances and Interesting Engagements Announced

last week and established themselves al
the Willard as a base of operation, but
the Hardings would not have II that
way. There was plenty of room at the
White House. So it came TO pass that
the Hardings had them over for lunch
on Monday and after that when any
one asked for the Scobeys at the hotel
4 they were told that they had moved
J to the White House - For the next day
saw them established as guests at the
Y Executive Mansion-in the nice, neigh
/ borly Harding way. But they didn't
/ stay long enough to wear out their well
\ come. BY Thursday 1t was announced
| that they had decided to join the large
I Administration colony up at Wardman
I Park Hotel, and had taken an apart
\ ment up there and were getting settled
at once.
There have been no social doings
worth mentioning at the White House
I for the last few days. Once or twice
in the afternoon Mrs Harding has re-
ceved q few ladies by appointment; but
the President has been too busy with
/ the bonus, and the treaty. and other
matters of Administration interest He
has kept some Of the gentlemen who
| came to confer with him on such public
/ matters. to luncheon or to dinner, as
| the case might be. But they were not
/ exactly "parties'-not quite picncs,
4 those conferences.
/ Among the people who have been re-
ceived at the White House-and with
| pleasure--by both the President and the
i First Lady-havc been Hugh Gibson, the
Y United States Minister to Poland and
his bride They arrived last Saturday.
\ and are leaving tomorrow. They have
\ been guests at the Hoover residence up
/ on S street-although the Hoovers
! themselves have been away-and while
| there have been some big parties for
/ them there have also been any number
| of little ones, arranged by intimate
friends of Hugh Gibsons. who wanted
really to know his bride-not merely to
meet her. They have found her charm
| ing with big gray blue eyes. and hair
with quite tinge of red in it. which
she wears in rather a long bob" that
curls prettily around her face. and
/ frames it most becomingly. Their mar
! riage took place in Brussels a few weeks
ago. and was the elimination of a war
romance. She was Miss Ymas Reyntiens
daughter of a court official OF King
Leopold's day, and they say that when
Mr.. Gibson first saw her she was busily
rolling bandages and preparing emer-
| gency kits FOR Belgian soldiers. Any
how, they were associated In relief work
over there
Ii was a foragone conclusion that Mr..
Gibson's old cronies in the State De-
partment-the group of men who lived
! at 171S II street until they were burned
out at the same time that the Knicker-
booker Theater disaster was holding the
Mortified attention of the cty-should
give him and his bride a rousng well
come. They have kept up a constant
fire or nice little intimate parties, at
which Mrs. Gibson has met her hus-
II hnVn al ri
equally Of course the Polish Legation
gave = dinner for them. and the Belgian
Amba ssador and Baroness de Cartier
/ are giving theirs tonight. and the Hun
garian Minister and Countess SZechenyi
gave a luncheon for them on Thursday.
the Counselor of the British Embassy
1 and Mrs. Henry Getty Chiffon enter
tanned at dinner for them last night
Mr.. and Mrs. William r. Castle gave a
dinner in their honor on Thursday and
I the Robert Woods Blisses had lunch
\ con for them yesterday.
Y Farewelis for the Gibsons.
\ Mr. and Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins
! are giving them a farewell dinner. also
another OF their own fareweiis-they are
/ having as many as Patti-to-morrow
and after that the Gibsons proceed OH
their way, weary perhaps. but It is
hoped convinced OF Washington's hos
/ pitable intentions in their behalf. All
I the world loves a bride. and Is perhaps
! a little more inclined TO make much Of
her If She bears n foreign label.
Which reminds me that Princess
Margaret Boncompagni. who was Mar
garet Draper. and her Prince. Andrea
Boncompagni. are in Washington for
visit-no one seems 10 know for how
long. They are at Wardman Park
Hotel and so far as ! have heard are
not planning to open the big Draper
house down at Connecticut avenue. and
X street. as 1t was rumored last fall
they would do this winter The "for
sale" signs have disappeared from 1t,
but / have no authoritative information
that the home of Margaret Draper Bon
compagnfs young years Is to know her
again. For a fact. most of her closest
friends here are gone-the girls with
whom she made her debut, and with
whom she played around in Washington
are mostly married and scattered-or
scattered without being married. like
Eudora Clover, who has been taking
courses in scientific agriculture in order
to run efficiently the lovely ranch in
California which used to be the Clovers'
summer home.
Before | get too far away from the
subject-there have heen several en-