San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-16
Weddings and Social Func-
tons Brighten Up Capt.
tal-Many Return From
Vacations-AM Eyes
Turned Toward White
House.
BY BETTY BAXTER.


Copyright. by the San Antonio Light.
Washington, ID. C., Sept. 10
With the flags on all the governmental
buildings again flying full staff, the
shutters coming down from all the
"big houses" the hotels featuring din
ner dances, the fast returning Euro
pean "trippers" rushing right from
the dock to Washington and every
body from everywhere fitting into the
kettle of home coming, gossip is bub-
bling merrily.
What's what at the White House
is the very first query.
The debutantes are almighty anx-
ious to know and so are their ambi-
tious mothers.
1t means a lot TO have the first
year date-book all filled up with
White House dates.
In the first place one at the
White House meets everybody on
a happy neutral ground; all the
bachelor diplomats and the beaux
from all over the world: and the
leading ladies of officialdom and all
the social notables foregather there.
Weddings and then some.
Engagements and rumors OF many
others in the offing.
I When the curtain dropped the
other night on "Home Fires" Juliet
Crosby rushed from the theater and
boarded a train for the quaint old
family home at Warrenton, Va.
On Sunday she and Arthur Horn
blow Jr.. were married.
Everything went off like breeze
including the bride and bridegroom
whom left father and mother Crosby
and pretty sis n, Celeste, and few
intimate old-time friends rather
breathless.
1t all seemed so sudden.
The bride is the daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Crosby and every
body here knows the Crosby girls.
Mr.. Crosby was assistant secretary
of the treasury during the Wilson
regime.
Mixed With Boston Family.
There was great study of names
when the bridegroom's identity be-
came known.
Lots of people got confused and
got him all tangled up with the fam
Gus Bostonese family of Hornblower.
One of the Hornblower kin is as
ISOLATED with the secretary of war,
Mr.. Weeks, in the firm of Hornblower
and Weeks.
But everybody's got it quite
straight now. Instead of belonging
to that distinguished company the
bridegroom, Arthur Hornblow Jr.. is
on the Charles +. Rohman executive
staff.
Then another very interesting
"little wedding" with just two or
three to look on took place when Mai.
Gen. Frank w. Coe. chief of staff,
Coast Artillery. U. S. A., and Mrs.
Martha Pratt Donnellan, were mar
riad.
The Rev. DIR. U. G. B. Pierce of
All Souls (Unitarian) read the SER
vice and Mrs. Donnellan's two kid
dies and Major Goes son, Lieut.. VIII
liam Coe, were all there were for
guests.
Major and Mrs. Coe logged off on
a little motor trip and then turned
right back again to say goodbye to
Lieutenant COe. who is about TO
start for the Philippines.
And the Donnellan Riddles had to
be established in school too.
After November 1 they will be at
home at the st. Nicholas apartments.
Although so simply conducted. it
was a regular army" wedding all
/ right.
Mrs. Coe is n daughter of the late
Brig. Gen. Sedgewick Pratt and a
sister of Major General John S.
Pratt Coast Artillery her cousin,
Major Conger Pratt of the Air
Service, is stationed here now.
And Genevieve Burnett and Chap
lain Thomas Leroy kirkpatrick, U.
s. N, were married the other day.
1t was o country house wedding
with the going after the wedding