The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-16
Horse ShOW Gets
off to Bad
Start
Ry JEAN ELIOT.

~ the National Capital morse
snow, which opened yesterday
got off to a bad start. And this
in spite of the fact that it boasts
the largest and finest list OF
entries in the history of the
organization.
After a rainy morning the
powers that be decided to post
pone the show until next day,
and announcements to that effect
were published in the Afternoon
papers. Then it cleared and at
the eleventh hour it was decided
to return to the original schedule.
The boxholders APPARENTLY don't
read the papers, for they were
present in force, most of them
entertaining guests. But for the
rest the spectators were conspicu-
Gus by their absence. And what
confusion resulted poor Mr..
Hazen, manager of the show, run
ming round in circles trying to
notify the exhibitors and the ex-
hibitors running round in circles
trying to get to the horse show
grounds in time once they had
been notified. 1 caught a glimpse
of Mrs. Alan Potts, who has sew.
eral entries, tearing out to Ar
lington Park in a taxicab, sitting
on the edge of her seat and look
ing as though she feared to miss
q train.
An everybody was mad-the
newspapers because their orderly
preparations for covering the
show had been interrupted, the
photographers who should have
had men there and didn't, the
exhibitors and more especially
those who wanted to see the
opening program of the show and
missed it.
PEAR ADMIRAL CARY T.
GRAYSON, president of the
Horse Show Association, was on
deck, however, and so was Col
Robert M. Thompson, a former
president and one of the founders
OF the organization, who hasn't
missed a horse show in years.
Colonel Thompson had guests in
his box, among them Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Montgomery Macourt
and Mrs. LETTERS. Mrs. Grayson
was helping Mrs. Thomas Bell
Sweeney and her cohorts in the
tea room, which is being run this
year for the benefit of the Chill
dren's Hospital. In the group of
girls assisting them were Miss
Carolyn Nash, Mrs. Howard
Hume, Mrs. Theodore Wilkinson,
Miss Evelyn Wadsworth, Miss
Zilla MacDougall and Miss
Charlotte MacDougall, who drifted
back and forth, serving tea, iced
drinks-yes, and ice cream cones
Ito people in the boxes. Mrs.
A. Garrison McClintock was one
of the ladies in charge.
On account of the threatening
skies, the clothes of the women
were on the whole rather quiet,
the men quite putting them 70
shame. Nobody, for example,
could miss Major Harry Leon
ards rust-colored breeches, worn
with a gray-green coat. Nor the
gay little feather in LaCz Ander-
sons hat. Nor could on fail to
note that Maj. Gen. H Keppeu
Bethel was wearing the latest
thing in riding togs-putty-
colored CATERS cut in one with
his breeches, with dark brown
carriers at the knees.
AS for the ladies, the prettiest
HOWIl IOlCu "dS "OIIl by MIS-.
Frederick Sterling, who, with Mr..
Sterling, was entertaining a party
of guests in Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Letters box. 1t was of red
flat crepe, a lovely glowing red
which withal was cool and sum
merry, made with a full skirt and
sleeves cut in one with the vo-
luminous bodice. The only trim
ming was vest of black and
white embroidered crepe, forming
almost the entire front of the
bodice She wore a black hat,
with a feather dropping over the
brim, black suede pumps and
beige stockings and gloves. Mrs.
r. Leslie Craigie, all in white,
was another strikingly charming
figure. She had on a white wool
sports dress, with a small white
hat and a most becoming top
coat of white fur.
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WITH Mr.. and Mrs. Sterling
were the Undersecretary of
State and Mrs. William Phillips,
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Laughlin,
and Mrs. Hare Lippincott. Mr.
and Mrs. Craigie had with them
their cousin, Miss Beryl Hanen,
who is visiting them, and A. II.
Hamilton-Gordon, of the British
embassy. With Mr.. and Mrs.
Sylvanus Stokes, jr., were Mrs.
Alan Wellman, of New York,
who was staying with them; Mile.
Lucienna Nano, her fiance, Senior
Cardenas, and Sterling Larrabee,
of Warrenton.
The Minister of Switzerland
and Nine. Peter and the Minister
Of Ecuador and Nine. Elizalde
were guests Of Medical Director
and Mrs. Francis S. Nash. Mrs.
Charles Boughton Wood occupied
q box, entertaining Mrs. James 3.
Montgomery, of Portland, Ore;
Mrs. Lewis F'rizzell. Of New York;
Miss Edith Grant, of San Francisco;
Miss Marion Trumbull and Miss
May Morgan. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Baldwin Cochran were with Miss
Julia Whiting, who also enter
tanned Miss Virginia Hunt and
Horace Peaslee
Mrs. Axel Wichfeld was in Mr.
and Mrs. John f. wilkins box
I read that she had gone to New
YORK preparatory to sailing, but
she was there large as life and
clad In a. very gay frOck of
foulard figured in purple posies.
Miss Camilla Lippincott was with
them part Of the afternoon, leav.
ing later to visit with the Ster-
ling party, and Miss Katherine
Wilkins completed the group.
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COMMISSIONER AND MRS.
CUNO RUDOLPH entertained
in their box Nine. Saburj wife of