The Washington times., 1923-02-24
Dinner Partie S
Crowd TonighfS
Calendar


guests at the dinner which
the Secretary Of the Interior and
Mrs. Fall are giving, and which
will be one Of the most interest
ing OF the score or more dinners
on the calendar tonight. Justice
James Clark McReynolds, Justice
Edward Terry Sanford and the
Secretary Of the Treasury, Mr..
Mellon, will be among the guests.
The Italian ambassador, Prince
Gelasio Caetani, will have a din,
ner for twenty guests. They
were asked to meet the Secretary
Of State and Mrs. Hughes, but
the guests Of honor have can.
celed all their dinner engagements
on account Of illness. The Ger
man Ambassador and Nine. WED
feldt also are giving q dinner to-
night, entertaining informally and
for few guests; and the Belgian
Ambassador and Baroness de Car
tier will be guests Of honor at
the dinner which Senator and
Mrs. Lawrence C. Phipps are CIV
ing. They will have q number
House among their guests-if a
AA4SAL 6C6S1OA uOC0u OAVdh up
their party. The Charge DAT
fairies of Austria and Nine. Proch-
mix will have an informal buffet
supper.
Congressman and Mrs. Frank
Hamilton Funk will entertain a
small company at the Chevy
Chase Club, and 1t is there, too,
that Mr.. and Mrs. John Lewis
Smith are giving a dinner party.
Their guests, numbering sixteen,
will be young people and are
asked to meet Miss Virginia Ed.
wards. debutante daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. John L. Edwards.
Congressman Joseph w. Ford
ney and Mrs. Fordney will be
honor guests at dinner of Mr.. and
Mrs. Truman Palmer, who are en-
tertaining for a company OF TWEEN.
ty.four at the Chevy Chase Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer will give an
other dinner on March 10 and will
entertain again on March II. Mr..
AID Mrs. George T. Weitzel are en-
tertaining at the club in compli-
ment to Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Horton
Arnold and Major and Mrs. Fred
erick A. Barker.
-a-
SEVERAL dinner parties win
~ precede the meeting of the
Twenty-Twenty Club, which is to
be held as usual at the home of
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh. Mrs. r.
r. Gown will take a small COM
pany Of dinner guests to Mrs.
Walsh's to dance. and so will Col.
and Mrs. Jack Hayes. Major and
Mrs. w. H. Simpson are giving
dinner for twelve and are enter
tanning at Wardman Park Hotel
Col. r. d. Stevens will have six
for dinner at lie Paradis.
Then there's the dinner which
Miss Elizabeth Hanna is giving in
compliment to her guests, Miss
Cathleen Vanderbilt and Miss
Winifred Walker, of New York
She IL having the party at the
Hamilton Hotel and afterward will
give a small dance at her home in
Florida avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Davis are
dining with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Lansing prior to starting tonight
for JeclyI Island, Ga.-but this
can scarcely be classed as a din
T1er party" as 1t Is just meeting
of old friends.
CONGRESSMAN JOSEPH G.
~ CANNON will be host tonight
at one Of the most delightful
parties Of the evening. entertain
ing for the members Of the Grid
iron Club at whose dinners ''Uncle
Joe" has 90 often been an honored
guest. None OF the lame ducks
will be more generally and
genuinely missed than Mr.. Can
non, and his going will be real
blow to the newspaper fraternity,
since 1t has long been an under
stood thing that any anecdote
or story good enough to be
printed could be "hung on Uncle
Joe" with impunity.
The reception tonight, which is
q mans party, IL in the nature
OF q farewell, as Mr.. Cannon is
leaving for his home in Danville,
ILL.,, Immediately after the ad-
tournament Of Congress. His
daughter, Miss Helen Cannon, will
accompany him, possibly return
ing to Washington for q brief
visit later. Miss Helen LeSeure,
granddaughter Of Uncle Joe, who
has been spending the winter with
Mr.. Cannon and his daughter, will
remain at their house in Eight
zenith street until spring and will
have q friend visiting her.