Evening star., 1923-12-02
President and Mrs. Coolidge
Will Entertain at Dinner
Brilliant Functions Give Notice That Winter
Season of Hospitalities Already Is
Under Way.

Famous for its long series of brill
liant dinner parties each season. the
winters schedule opens propitiously
this week.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
will entertain at dinner Thursday
evening in the White House in honor
of the members of the cabinet and
their wives. This will be the most
important dinner of the week. and
Is the first formal entertainment
given by President and Mrs. Coolidge
since he took the oath of Office.
The Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft
will be the guests of honor at dinner
Saturday evening of Maj. and Mrs.
Parker w. West, who will entertain
distinguished company in their
residence at Soldiers Home.
Mai and Mrs. West will entertain
at dinner again Saturday evening,
December 22. in compliment to the
minister of Bulgaria and Nine. Pana-
reton.
The Postmaster General and Mrs.
Harry s. New will be the honor
guests at dinner Monday, December
II, of the assistant postmaster gen.
eral and Mrs. Warren Irving Glover.
who will entertain at Wardman Park
Hotel.
Senator and Mrs. Pat Harrison
were the guests in whose honor Mr..
and Mrs. Jesse w. Nicholson enter
tanned at dinner last evening in their
home in Chevy Chase.
The undersecretary of state and
Mrs. Phillips will entertain Il dis
tinguished company at dinner Tues
day evening. December II, in their
suburban home Beauvoir.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Blair Mitchell
entertained at dinner last evening for
their house guests, Mr.. and Mrs Ed
ward T. Flood, and their daughter,
Miss Edith Flood, of Philadelphia.
The company included the assistant
secretary of commerce and Mrs. j.
walter Drake, the assistant attorney
general and Mrs. Rush Holland. Mr..
c. H. Huston, Miss Eleanor Huston.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis Phillips.
Altoona and Mr.. Mitchell Blair.
DR.. and Mrs. John Crayke Simpson
have returned from New York and
are in their apartment at the Willard
Hotel
DR.. and Mrs. Simpson will entertain
at dinner December IL in honor OF
Commander and Mrs. Smith Hemp
stone.
Former Senator Hoke Smith was
host at dinner last evening a the
Shoreham Hotel, having as his guests
the ambassador of Spain and Sonora
de Riano, Senator and Mrs. Claude
A. Swanson. Judge and ,9 MIS-; CHARLES es
Mr.. Smith took his guests to the per-
formance Of III Trovatore," given
by the San Carlo Opera Company at
Polls, where they occupied a box.
Former United States Ambassador to
France and Mrs: Henry White VII VII
evening. The y were also hosts at
dinner last evening.
Col. and Mrs. Stephen LII. Slocum
will be hosts at dinner Friday eve
ming, when their guests will include
Miss Margaret Flint. who will arrive
that day from her home in New York
to visit Col. and Mrs. Slocum.
Nv and Mrs Henry Parsons Erwin
entertained a company Of fourteen at
dinner last evening. in honor of their
house guest, Mrs. D. +. Webster. who
Will return to New York tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. r. Erwin of Lansing.
Mich, will arrive in Washington to-
ter in law, Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin.
Mrs. Horace Macfarland will enter
tain at dinner Friday in her home on
New Hampshire avenue. in honor of
the majef general corhmandant of the
Marine Corps and Mrs. John A.
Lejeune. =
Mrs. Macfarland spent Friday in
Baltimore, where she was the guest
of honor at luncheon Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene de Bullet, who entertained q
company of sixteen at the Kennel
Club.
Mr.. John NJ. Hudgins. who has been
with his mother, Mrs. Macfarfand, for
the Thanksgiving holidays, will re-