The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-11
Brilliant Audience
Attends Opera
Performance.

The Washington Opera Company
has scored again, its presentation
Of Bizet's Carmen" at the Presi-
dent Theater last night being per.
haps the most electric and genu.
inely artistic achievement OF It's
career. Due possibly to the out
rageous weather there we're gaps in
the house which should have been
crowded to the doors. but the au-
dience was moved to a spontaneous
and exuberant enthusiasm strange
and rather thrilling In a city which
Is proverbially cold.
No city in this country can turn
out so many notableS as Washing
ton on a gala occasion and from the
society EDITORS point of view the
audience last night was remarkable.
One of the most interesting box
parties was entertained by G. Bas-
com Slemp, secretary to the 'Presi-
dent, who had as guests Congress
man and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth,
Brigadier General and Mrs. John
A. Johnston, Miss Josephine Patten,
Alexander p. Moore, American am
bassador to Spain, and Senator
Ernst. Senator and Mrs. James
Couzens in their box nearby enter
tanned a group OF young people
friends Of their daughter, Miss
Madeleine Couzens; and with SEN
ator and Mrs. Lawrence G.. Phipps
were Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Ellis
and Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford.
The Minister of Switzerland and
Nine. Peter were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis White, who entertained
box party across the house. their
party also including the Counselor
Of the French Embassy and Mime.
de Lahoulaye and Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Butler Wright. The Minister Of
Panama and Nine. Alfaro were
present and the Minister OF Fin.
lana, Leonard Axel Astrom. was
with Mrs. F. b. Moran. who also
entertained Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Benjamin r. Hutchison and Maj.
Gen. and Mrs. George Barnett.
With Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood
were Mrs. George Ehle, Major and
Mrs. William Goetz, Miss Mary
Morgan and Frederick Stevens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Reid Yates
ing Col. the Marquis di Bernezzo,
OF the Italian embassy, among their
guests.
| 4NOI Ouly uAU Lu0 WOTk Oh SuCH
visiting artists as Ina Bourskaya,
Clarence Whitehill. Paul Althouse
| and Paulo Ananian merit-and re.
ceive-prolonged applause, but there
was q genuine thrill in the success
of such Neutrality-suspicious. as Dorothy
Mansfield. lovely and gifted sing
er, Albert Shefferman. Rose Polio
and Paul Tchernikoff and Elizabeth
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lovely ballet. The chorus work, too,
Torrance thoroughly delightful. ALI
honor to the gifted director,
Edouard Albion!
Others in the distinguished audi
ence were Mrs. Herbert Hoover,
Miss Laura Harlan, Commissioner
and Mrs. Cuno Rudolph, Admiral
Andrew Long, Mrs. Stephen B. Ell.
kins, Mrs. Frank Mondell, Brig.
Gen. Charles McCawley, Mrs. Theo.
dore w. Noyes, Andrew Wylie, Col.
O. Sheriff., Major and Mrs. George
Totten, Mrs. Dillon, Mr. and Mrs
William Repburn, Miss Elizabeth
Hanna, Richard Davidson, DIR. and
Mrs. William Thornwall Davis, Miss
Alice Hartman, Mrs. Pearl Moore
Gray, Miss Muriel Gray. Major and
Mrs. A. A. Cedarwald. Mr.. AMI Mrs.
Frederick Vile, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Walker Holcombe, Miss Florence
Farnsworth, Mrs. r. G. Jefferds
Mrs. Louis Magill, Lieutenant Hef.
ferpan, Mr.. and Mrs. Mark r
Yates. Mrs. Buchanan Merryman
Henry Parsons Erwin. John Del.
bert. Mrs. Waters, Mrs. Quinby
Mckeon. Miss McKeon, William
Bowie Clark, Mrs. Alice Pike Bar.
ney' Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Bennett,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wilcox, Miss
Natalie Hammond, Mrs. Henry
Wilder Reyes, Mrs. Guy Scott, Mrs.
Helen Hagner, Miss Carolyn Hag.
ner. Mr.. and Mrs. Truman
Palmer. DR.. and Mrs. Horace Wiley,
Mrs. F. B.. Wildly, Mrs. John Har.
rlson Knapp, Congressman and Mrs.
Samuel e. Winslow, Frank A. Rich
ardson' Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Walker
Helen Carusi, Mrs. Leila H. B.
Smith, Judge Samuel Jordan Ora.
ham, Mrs. Junius MacMurray, and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Van A. Mac.
Murray.
To Take Bride to
S0ntO Domingo Post
Mrs. Mayme Reeves announces
the marriage Of her daughter, Miss
Marjorie Jean Reeves, to Lieut., Will
Henderson Lee, U. s. M. c., yester-
day morning, at the Mount Vernon
Methodist Episcopal church. Lieut..
Lee and his bride will go to Santo
Domingo, where Lieut.. Lee will be
stationed.
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With Mrs. James Irwin Steel "A
hostess, a card party will be given
by the Delta Eta Sorority at the
Burlington Hotel on Tuesday after.
noon, March IS, for the benefit of
the George Washington University
Endowment Fund.
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Mrs. ]. Burton Kimberley was
hostess to a company of thirty.
eight ladies at luncheon today at
fha Hamilton Hnfol