Evening star., 1924-12-31


Viceroy of India and Lady Reading.
The charge d'affaires of Austria
and Nine. Prochnik will entertain a
company of 16 at dinner this evening.
Senior Victor Alfaro, Senior En-
manuel Lyons and Senior Luis Alfaro.
son and nephews of the Minister of
Panama and Sonora de Alfaro, will
entertain at dinner this evening, later
taking their guests to the Chevy Chase
Club for dancing.
Mrs. Paul Lessinoff of Bulgaria,
who is visiting her mother. Mrs. T. Fl.
Given, at her apartment at Wardman
Park Hotel, plans to spend about 10
weeks in Washington. She will take
her small son, George Wheeler, back
with her when she returns to Europe.
Representative and Mrs. Z. Hart
Fem have returned to Washington
and are at the Shoreham Hotel for
the remainder of the season.
The Surgeon General and Mrs Mer-
rite w. Ireland will give a tea dance
this afternoon at Rauscher's from
to $40 o'clock, when their guests will
number between 500 and 400. Gen.
and Mrs. Ireland and their house
guest, Mrs. j. NJ. Kennedy of San
Francisco, will receive the guests. and
the wives of several of the medical
officers of the Army will assist.
Gen. and Mrs. John A. Hull will be
the guests In whose honor Mr.. and
tertain company at dinner this eve
ming at the Chevy Chase Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean
will be hosts to a company of 240 at
dinner this evening in their home on
street, a dance for 600 or 500 guests
to follow. The dinner company will
be seated at three large tables, and
the house is gay with Christmas
of Washington, conducted by a ma
tive Washingtonian, and the other
from New York, will play for the
dancing, and a buffet supper will be
served shortly after the advent of the
New Year.
Judge and Mrs. ]. Harry Covington
will give a dinner tonight for their
debutante daughter, Miss Anne Cow
ington, when their guests will num-
Der Is, and later the company will go
to the dance which Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Lean will give.
Comdr. and Mrs. Herbert Howard
will be hosts at dinner this evening,
entertaining a company of II in COM
pliment to Mr.. and Mrs. Christian
Herter and Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Emmett.
Mrs. Thomas Antony Walden was
hostess at luncheon today at the
Hamilton Hotel, entertaining In COM
plirent to her sister. Miss Margaret
Atlee Pou, daughter of Representa-
tive and Mrs. Edward William Pou,
whose marriage to Mr.. Carleton Ed
ward Moran will take place January
Il. Others IN the company were Mrs.
Pou, mother of the hostess and guest
of honor; Mrs. Lotta Loomis Moran,
mother Of the bridegroom-elect; Mrs.
David Fl. Blair. Miss Annie Ford of
Charleston, S. c., house guest of Mrs
Blair; Mrs. John ]. Cassidy, Mrs
Stuart Gaull, Mrs. Neblett, Miss Mary
Smithwick, Miss Fanny May Trfmble,
Miss Blanche Wingo, Miss Mayme
Ober Peak, Mrs. William j. Jenealy
and Mrs. John Gilman Walling. sisters
Of the bridegroom elect; Miss Claudia
Read, Miss Mary Scott, Miss Audrey
Heron and Mrs. Vincent Hughes.
Miss Muriel Eleanor Gray will be
hostess at dinner this evening in COM
pliment to Miss Genevieve Rusk,
daughter Of Mrs. Robert Vinton Rusk.
and her fiance. Mr.. John Price WetherilI,
Sd, Of Philadelphia. After the dinner
Miss Gray will take her guests, who
will number Ii, to the Chevy Chase
Club for dancing, later going on to the
after o'clock for the first time this
season.
Mrs. Gray and her daughter will re-
ceive informally Sunday afternoon
after o'clocw for the first time
this season.
Col. and Mrs. John NJ. Dunn enter
tanned at a buffet supper last eve
ming in their home, on Connecticut
avenue. for the latter's daughter,
Miss Katrine Van Rensselaer,. The
guests included Miss Elizabeth Suth-
erland, Miss Eleanor Hard, Miss
Laura Towne, Miss Laura Bryn, Miss
Louise Claytor, Miss Mary Earle Hox-
tdn, Miss Katharine Voris, Miss
Eleanor Wells, Mr.. John Bryn, Mr.
Julian Green, Mr.. John Wells. Mrs
Peter Wells, Mr.. Charles Buchanan,
Mr.. Sam Rank, Mr.. Jack Darneille,
Lieut.. George Bellinger, Mr.. William
Mondell, Mr.. Jack Sterling, Mr.. Smed-
burg, Mr.. Billings of New York and
Mrs. John Sweeney. The guests later
attended the dance given by Capt.
and Mrs. Mclean.
Countess Gizycka will be hostess
TO a company of 60 at dinner this
evening, at the Grasslands Country
Club.
The members of the Princeton Tri-
angle Club will be entertained by
the Princeton Alumni Association at
a dance Saturday night, January 8,
after the performance which the Tri-
angle Club will give early that eve
ming in the President Theater. The
dance and supper will be given at
the Wardman Park Saddle Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Philippe
Soyez will given a dinner party this
evening for the latters daughter,
Miss Lilita Dawson, at the Chevy
Chase Club in compliment TO her
house guest, Miss Emily West of
Baltimore.
Miss E. D. Bouldin of. 1s4s Park
road will not receive tomorrow
afternoon owing to illness in her
family.
Mrs. Frank L. Peckham will be at
home tomorrow afternoon from 4 to
o'clock at 1914 S street. She will have
assisting her Mrs. J. Winter Graves
and Miss Emogene McGarraghy.
Mrs. Lord, wife of Gen. Lord, di-
rector of the budget, will not receive
tomorrow as is her usual custom.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Carter Lafferty
will rpnafVa infnrr1al1v n