The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-04
YANKE GAME
LURES MANY
FOREIGNERS
.Internationale' Yelled in
Tones and Terms of
Baseball
By JEAN ELIOT.

By JEAN ELIOT.
The Assembly Of the League Of
Nations that has just concluded its
sessions in Geneva has nothing on
washington today in the way Of in.
ternational atmosphere at least
where the spectators are scrambling
20 see the opening game Of the
World Series. The spectacle at the
ball park is even more international
perhaps than at Geneva for here
the United States IS present off.
cialIy and abnndantly present I'm
officially. Practically all Of the
embassies and legations are repre-.
souted.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
hardly had time to get "a bite to
eat" after having reviewed the pa
rade Of the First Division and the
dedication of the memorial just
south Of the State, War and Navy
Building before they had to make
q dash for the baseball park where
they arrived just before the game
was called.
With the President and Mrs.
Coolidge at the dedication were
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stearns, who
are guests at the White House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stearns did not get
to the game until later in the after
noon as they remained to see the
finish Of the exercises Of the First
Division In which their son, Foster
Stearns, was an officer during the
world war.
Bureau, Clearing House For Social
Activity, Is Transferred to Willard.
Transferring its base OF opera.
lions from 1414 Twentieth street
to the willard Hotel, the social bu-
reau operated by Mrs. Helen Ray
Hagner is opening up again and
from all indications will do even
more toward helping society to
maintain the even tenor of its way
than was accomplished last year.
The idea of establishing some sort
OF a clearing house where social
events might be listed to avoid con-
fusion Of dates and where problems
OF precedent and precedence might
be discussed and solved has long
been mulled over, but 1t remained
for Mrs. Hagner to give it concrete
form. And early last winter she
opened a little office in her house
from which she transacted the
varied business Of social secretary,
sending out invitations arranging
dinner lists, getting up charity
balls, making and correcting calling
lists, and furnishing competent sec
retaries for work at private resi-
&ences.
She handled a lot of business, Of
course, but the really important
aspect Of her work had to do with
the coordination Of the social &C.
fivities of WashingtOn's numerous
little coteries, a result to which
frequent consultation with the
other women who are doing secre-
tarial work contributed in no small
measure. The transfer of the bu-
reau to the Willard should be help
ful in the work because the hotel
ID the setting for so many OF the
big functions which are crowded
onto Washington's social calendar.
Born into one family which has
has been socially prominent in
Washington and married into an
other, Mrs. Hagner is peculiarly
fitted by training and association
Tor such work as she mas under
taken; and she has, moreover, had
long experience Of the workings of
society from the social secretary's
point Of view. She has filled the
role of secretary for great many
persons prominent in official life,
notably for Lady Geddes, wife Of
the former British Ambassador. As
ISOLATED with her in the bureau is
Mrs. Natalie H. Hassan, also a
woman who knows Washington So
ciety from association as well as
3rom observation.