The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-22
MRS. BROWN IS.
SUCCESSFUL
I'M LONDON
Gives Function That Wins
Applause From Blase
Britons
By JEAN ELIOT.

boctal SUCCESS OF Mrs. w. Harry
Brown. wealthy widow Of Pitts
burgh, who has been spending the
last few seasons In Washington. /
believe, Il memory serves correctly,
that she came In with the Harding
hdministration or thereabouts. My
first recollection Of her seems to be-
q. small dinner party that she enter
tanned In honor OF the Secretary Of
the Treasury, Andrew w. Mellon, q
fellow PittsburghiA in her apart
ment at exclusive 1885 Massachu.
Botts avenue. where the Secretary
and his daughter, Allsa, also have
IN apartment.
have been confined chiefly to small
affairs, Informal dinner parties with
Eongenial groups and dances with
= limited number present. She has
given, however, an occasional biz
Affair-for instance, the cotillion
last season for Natalie Hammond,
debutante daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hays Hammond. AT this time
Mrs. Browns daughter, who il mar
eied and who lives in Pittsburgh,
was generally considered to be shar.
ing the honors with Miss Hammond.
There Is another child, q son, who
was graduated from Princeton III
Tune and who was married Just be-
fore Mrs. Brown sailed Tor England.
Dance at Norfolk House Draws
Royalty Among the Guests.
Mrs. Brown went over to England
last spring and summer to look over
the social field ana to lay plans for
FINDING q sunny place thereon. She
was content last season to figure
largely as an observer-an tntel1i-
gent observer who looked and
learned. And according to my COM
munication she has done well. How.
ever, here il the cornmuniQue:
THE windup OF the season finds
Americans here continuing to take
. prominent part In social events.
Mrs. Harry Brown. Of Pittsburgh,
who Is occupying the palatial Nor
folk House in. st. James Square.
gave her first big affair." dance
here last week and It proved 70 pc
Dne Of the most wonderful balls Of
the season.
''The decorations alone gave those
present enough to talk about for
weeks for she had turned the man.
sion into q veritable bower Of roses
Trelliswork covered with red roaes
decorated some rooms and formed q
screen that hid the band from tina
dancers.
'As the guests entered the han
they found themselves In q rose
garden lighted by hundreds OF col
ored lights which made simmer.
ing maze Of color. A number OF min.
1ature fountains cooled the air and
pleased the eye. The supper. too,
gained praise from the visitors who
are often not 50 enthusiastic about
That phase Of London dances
Soon after midnight Maurice and
Leonora Hughes arrived to enter-
tain the guests with their wonder.
Eul dances. This resulted IN people
climbing on chairs to watch them.
Princess Andrew, Of Greece, and
her daughters and the Duchess Of
Rutland, Lady Irene Curzon, Lady
MORA Coombe, Mr.. and Mrs. Post
Wheeler and Captain and Mrs. L.
Hussey were among the guests"
Evidently there was omitted from
khe list Of guests mentioned above
the name Of Lady Henry, who, / feel
sure was present. For I have a
hunch" that she is giving Mrs.
Brown much valuable advice con.
cerning the ways and means Of Brit.
esh society. Lady Henry has visited
frequently in Washington and ts
FATHER a good friend Of Mrs. Brown.
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Mrs. Stearns Delayed
IN Boston.
Mrs. Frank Stearns, VINO expected
g return TO the White House from
Boston today, has been delayed
there for a few days and win not
arrive until the latter part Of the
week.
Mrs. Genevieve Clark Thompson,
who has been visiting Colonel and
Mrs. J. G. Breckenridge, at their
quarters, in the Marine Barracks,
left Washington today for Summit
Point, w. Va, to join Mr.. Thomp.
son at his parents home. Later
they win 60 to their home In New
Orleans,
Lord and Lady Aston WIN
Entertain at CliVedeu.
Lord and Lady Astor are booked.
for q large garden party Friday at
Cliveden, their beautiful estate on
the Thames. This IL to be given
for members Of the American Bar
Association now meeting in London
and among the guests win be q
large delegation from Virginia, Lady
Astor's native State. When some
Of these Virginia lawyers and their
families passed through Washing
ton recently on their way to New
York to embark for England they
were talking then Of the entertain.
ing they expected Nancy Lang.
horne" to give for them.
ANN
Mrs. Henry Whites
Grandson TO Wed.
OF interest to Washington society
Is the wedding Of Miss Katherine
White. daughter of Mr.. Ernest niger.
soil White, to William Douglas Bur-
den, which will take place at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry w.
Sage, Menands road, Albany, on
Monday afternoon, July %. Thew
will sail Immediately afterward for
Paris. Mr.. Burden is a son Of Mr..
and Mrs. James A. Burden, Of New
York, and q grandson Of Mrs. Henry
White, of New York and Lenox. wife
Of the former ambassador to France.
Mr.. Burden was graduated from
Harvard and Is now with the Troy
Iron Works. founded by the Burden
family generations ago.
NAM
Lieutenant and Mrs. Everett II.
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