Evening star., 1923-12-21
Society
President and Mrs. Coolidge Hosts
at State Dinner and Musical in
I White House Last Night

S1 HE PRESIDENT and Mrs.
Coolidge entertained at din
ner last night at the' White
House in honor of the heads
of foreign missions in Washington,
the imposing company numbering
eighty. The guests were received with
the usual formality in the blue room,
where white roses formed an 'effec-
tive decoration, filling the washes on
the mantel. In the state dining room
Christmas decorations were In evil
dence. large clusters of poinSettta
filling the gold vases on the Dolly
Madison service and on the t.r-Shaped
table
Mrs. Coolidge wore gown of
poinsettia red velvet. the panels
lined with cloth of silver and a large
silver ornament holding the gr aceful
folds of the drapery in place.
Al the state dining table were:
The ambassador of France and Nine.
Jusserand. the ambassador OF spain
and Sonora de Riano. the ambass ldor
of Belgium and Baroness de CARRIER,
the ambassador Of Brazil. Mr.. Augusta
Cochrane de Alencar: the ambaSsa dor
of Germany and Frau Wiedfeldt, the
ambassador of italy, Don Gelasio
Caetani: the ambassador uf Japan and
Nine. Hanihara, the ambassador of
Cuba, Senior DR.. Cosme 6e Ia Tor
riente: the Secretary of State and
Mrs. Hughes the minister 1T Norway
and Nine. Bryn, the minister of
Ecuador and Sonora de EliZalde. tha
minister of Uruguay and Nine. y arela,
the minister of Switzerland amt Nine.
Peter, the minister of the Dominican
Republic and Sonora de JoubertS the
minister of China. Mr. Sao-K Alfred
SZe; the minister of Sweden and MIME.
Wallenberg, the minister of Bulgaria
and Nine. Panaretoff the minister of
Persia, Mira Hussien Khan Alai; tine
minister of Hungary and Countess
SZechenyi, the minister OF Finlandy
Mr.. Axel Leonard Astrom; the min.
lister of Guatemala and Sonora de-
Sanchez 1-atOur, the minister of Co
lombia- and Sonora de Olaya, the min
lister of Panama and Sonora de Alfaro.
the minister of Venezuela and Sonora
de ArCaya, the minister of Poland
and Nine. WroblewSka. the minister
of Costa Rica. Senior Don J. Rafael
Oreamuno; the minister of the Neither
lands and Nine. de Graetf. the min
lister of Haiti and Nine. Dejean. the
minister of Siam. Phya Burr Nava-
rasth: the minister of Czechoslovakia,
DIR. F'rantisek ChvalllOvsky; the min
lister of Bolivia and Sonora de Jaimes
F'reyre. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
Representative Stephen G. Porter, the
charge d'affaireS ad interim of Ar
gentina. Mr.. Felipe \. Espil; the
charge d'affaires ad interim of Peru
and Sonora de Gonzalez Prada the
charge d'affaires ad interim OF Great
Britain and Mrs. Chiffon. the charge
daffaires ad interim of Chile. Senior
Don Oscar Gana-SerrUyS; the charge
daffaires of Lithuania- Mr.. Gays
Bizauskas; the charge d'affaireS ad
interim of Austria and Nine. Prochnik-
the charge daffaires ad interim of
Salvador and Sonora de Castro. the
charge d'affaires al interim of Portu-
gal and Nine. MendeZ Leal, the
charge d'affaireS ad interim of Mica
ragua. Senior Don Manuel Zavala: the
charge d'affaires ad interim of Ru-
mania aI,I Nine. Nano. the director
general of the Pan-American Union.
DR. Leo S. Rowe; Col Clarence o.
Sheriff. and Capt. Adolphus Andrews.
The dinner was followed by a musi-
cal in the east room. Additional
guests included members of the for
eign relations committee of the SEN
ate and the foreign affairs COM
mittee of the House and their wives.
The program give n included: "Ombra
mai fu' (the largo from ''Nerxes'D
(HaudeD: Look Into Mine Eyes"
Hungarian folk song); "Elegie"
(MaSsenet': "Chanson du Tore ador'
C"Carmen'D (BfzeD. Mr.. Graveure;
"Chanson Louis XIII ct Pavane" (Cou-
perin): "Rondino" Con a theme OF
Beethoven): "Bourree" eighteenth