The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-03


and a gold colored gown.
Headdresses Aid Picturesque
Touch 70 Dinner Parties.
Numerous dinner parties preceded
the ball. The Minister OF Egypt
and Mime. Yousry wefe present
with some OF the thirty-tNUs guests
they had entertained at dinner.
The Swiss Minister and Nine, Peter
were the guests OF Doctor and Mrs.
Edward b. Meigs, who also enter
tanned Captain and Mrs William
Pierre Robert, Lieutenant Com
lInnader and Mrs. John Meigs, Miss
Julia Brice, and Lynch LuQuer at
dinner
Mrs. Davis ireland was hostess TO
a group, Of this years debutantes
at dinner last night for her daugh-
ters Miss Louise Ireland in honor
of her guest, Miss Margaret Hall.
The guests included Miss Gratia
Houghton, Miss Elizabeth Park,
Miss Louise Clayton, Miss Betty
Ives, Miss Elizabeth Parker, Miss
Elizabeth Johnson, Rowland Chase,
Robert Stead, Manning Stead,
James Kerr, Andrew Wylie, Charles
Marbury, Deering Davis, Winslow
Van Devanter. Hope DarneilIe,
Roger Dunn, and BENJAMIN Thoron.
Captain and Mrs. Austin Kautz
gave O. diner, taking their guests
later to the ball With them We're
Captain and Mrs. Charles Hussey,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hewett Dells. Conn
Loander and Mrs, Robert Henderson,
Miss Etheldreda Seabury, and Com.
mander Theodore Jewell.
who had a dinner before thes ball,
occupied asbOx jointly with Mr.. and:
MIS-. Barry Mohnn. Their guests
included Colonel and Mrs. John al.
Hull, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Dunlop.
MIR. and Mrs. Stanton G. PeeIle, Mr..
and Mrs. Barry Mohun, and Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Aspinwall.
With Mr.. and Mrs, George Hewitt
Meyers were their dinner guests,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cheney Hyde,
Colonel and Mrs. Conrad Rabcock,
and Myron Whitney. Mrs. william
FITCH Kelley, who had had a pleas.
ant little dinner party, had with
ner Rear Admiral and Mrs. Joseph
strauss. Miss Helen Strauss. Mr..
ana Mrs. John Hervey Young,
Doctor and Mrs. Davenport White,
SSAAA 4ACNAuEG 6A61AGY.
With Miss Virginia Edwards,
who was hostess in Mr.. and Mrs
John Z. Edwards box were Major
and Mrs. Xenophan Price, Miss
Mary Stitt, Miss Mary Elizabeth
Thompson Ensign John Elbridge
Parker, Lieutenant Ralph Riggs
and Lieutenant Radcliffe Welles.
Ihey had previously been guests at
dinner at Miss Edwards home.
Another group Of young people was
the dinner party which had been
entertained by Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Hard for their debutante
|. daughter, Miss Eleanor Hard and
which included Miss Laura Bryn,
Miss Bessie McKeldin, Miss Ruth
Stoddard, Major George A. King.
Stanley Suydam, BENJAMIN Michael
son, Joseph Stoddard and J. Theo.
dore Mariner.
Captain and Mrs. Ridley Nc
Lean entertained for their daugh.
ter, Miss Beatrice Mclean, whose
! guests included among others, Miss
| Janet Moffetts Miss Margaret Zol-
nay, Miss Barbara Stanfield, Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Norment and a
number ,of others.
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Miss Elizabkfh Sutherland enter
tanned at dinner, taking their guests
Spectators View Gay Scene
From Boxes Lining Ballroom.
From the boxes which lined the
walls OF the ballroom interested
and interesting looked
down.
Senator and Mrs. Robert Stan
field entertained Colonel and Mrs.
E. p, orion, Captain Herbert Part
ridge, Miss Barbara Stanfield and
James Nolan.
Mrs. Charles Boughton Woods
box was occupied by her niece,
Miss Mary Morgan, who had with
her Rear Admiral and Mrs. H. H.
Rousseau, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Faust, Mr.. and Mrs.. Leslie Morgan,
and Edwin Flather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Tuckerman
had with them in their box Mrs.
Brewster Warwick, Mrs. Harold
Walker Lynch LuQuer, Ward
Brown and Eben Comins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Kaufman
had as their guests, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Kaufman, their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John
Dryden, Mr.. and Mrs. Ashmead
Fuller, Herbert Hengstler and Col
onel and Mrs. Frederick Coleman.
Nine. Ekengren was among Gem
eral and Mrs. !. George Barnett's
guests.
With Mrs. Armstead Davis were
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall Hagner,
Mrs. Henry G. Corbin and Henry
Gassaway Davis Sd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter G. Peter
and Mrs. Thomas Reed had a box
together. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
guests were Mrs. Cresson New
bold and Mr.. John Cummins.
Mrs. Dwight Chester had in her
box her daughter and son-in-law,
Captain and Mrs. Emory Ladd,
and Mrs. John B. Kendrick.
\ Others in the picturesque COM
pany were the Charge d'Affaires
of Austria and Nine. Prochnik,
Mile. Claire Heilmann, Doctor and
Mrs. G.. Brown Miller, Miss Leila
Peachy, Colonel and Mrs. Howard
Dickinson, Mrs. William Wheat
ley, Miss Barrine Drake, Miss
Lillian Thompson, Ralph Totten,
Lewis Dickson and Paul Gardner.
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