The Washington times., 1924-01-07
Mrs.Coolidge Guest
at First Morning
Musicale
BY JEAN ELLIOT.


Lawrence Townsend, at the Ham
ilton Hotel, and had as guests
Mrs. Frederick III. Gillett and Mrs.
Frank w. Stearns, OF Boston, who
is staying at the White House.
Leaders of diplomatic, resident
and official society were mingled
In happy proportion in the audi
ence which crowded the big draw
ing room Of the Hamilton to capa-
Getty. And under such auspices
the morning nRusicale, firmly es-
tablished in New York-witness
the Bagby concerts--and beloved
of Philadelphia, has come to
Washington-and come to stay.
This may be prophesy. but, it
savors of "betting.on a certainty
after seeing the audience which
turned out this morning.
The concert marked the debut
of Mrs. Townsend as a professional
impresario, but her friends in
Washington-and they are legion
knew that they could trust her
musical judgment and turned out
in force to hear her first program.
And the music was enchanting,
a delightful seventeenth century
art being revived by Nine. Wanda
LandowSka, modern mistress of an
ancient instrument-the.s harpsi-
chord--and Jacques Thibaud, cele-
brated French violinist, charming
his hearers with an art that is
age old but ageless. Seventeenth
century airs made up the major
portion of the program, Nine.
LandoWska playing both the harp
sichord and the piano; and duets
for the two artists were among
the numbers most roundly APP
plauded.
s.
m WAS most distinguished
i audience which assembled for
the concert-and there was much
the everybody knows-everybody
else sort of an air that one finds
at q private party. Most of the
auditors fingered afterward to
congratulate Mrs. Townsend and
to- greet one another, breaking up
into small groups and chatting
animatedly. Moreover, there were
at least a dozen smart luncheon
= parties in the Hamilton dining
room, made up of guests from the
concert. 't
Among those in the audience
were Nine. JusseEand, Baroness
de Cartier, the Italian Ambas.
sador, Prince Caetani: the Hun.
garian Minister and Countess SEE.
chenyi, the Polish, Minister and
Nine. Wroblewska, the Neither.
lands Minister and Nine. de
Graeff, with their daughters,
Miles. de Graeff; the Charge DAT
flares Of Great Britain and Mrs.
Henry Getty Chiffon, M. and
Nine. de Laboulaye, General
Georges A. l.. Dumont, Captain
Jean Rigal, Nine. Nano, Renato
Silenzi and Hugh Tenant.
Mrs. Marshall Field entertained
several guests. as did Mrs. Rich
ard Townsend and Mrs. Thomas
F. Walsh. Others present were
Mrs. Robert Lansing. Mrs.
Thomas F. Bayard, Mrs. Peter
Goelet Gerry, Mrs. William
Crozier, Mrs. r. r. Gown, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry May, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Henry Purdy, Mrs.
Harold Walker, Miss Elizabeth
Hanna, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Denegre, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
McCormick-Go odhart, Mrs. Oscar
Underwood, Mrs. David A. Read,
Mrs. James Warwick, Mrs. John
e. Reyburn, Mrs. William Stuart
Reyburn, Mrs. r. r. Hit, Mrs.
William J. Boardman, Miss Mabel
Boardman, Countess Gizycka, Mrs.
Hare Lippincott, Mrs. William
Phillips, M. Sorin and NJ. Soud-
binin, Congressman and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, jr., Miss Ailsa
Mellon, Miss Betty Connolly, Mrs.
Joseph Hampson, Miss Frances
Hampson, Mrs. Joseph Noel, Mrs.
Franklin Ellis. Mrs. William r.
Castle, jr., Mrs. Adolph Caspar
Miller, Miss Gertrude Meyer and
Mrs. Hampson Gary.
Mrs. Townsend entertained at
luncheon at the Hamilton follow
ing the recital in compliment to
the two artists and had as guests
the Polish Minister and Nine.
Wroblewska, Mrs. Hugh Gibson,
wife Of our Minister to Poland,
and M. and Nine. de Laboulaye,
General Dumont and Captain
Rigai, of the French embassy
well chosen little company, as M.
Thibaud Is French and Nine.
Landawska although Partisan by
adoption is Polish by birth.
others who gave luncheons fol-
Lowing the recital were Mrs.
Thomas F. Walsh, Col. and Mrs.
Henry May and Mrs. Lyman B.
Kendall. Mrs. KendaIfs guests
were Mrs. Clarke Waggaman.
Mrs. John M. Biddle, Mrs. Kenna
Elkins. Mrs. Richard T. Wilson,
of New York, Miss Virginia Car
michael, Of Hagerstown, Md, ana
william Sullivan. of New York.
So
NUIE prediction that the Italian
ambassador, Prince Caetani,
was about to inaugurate a bril-.
liant round of entertaining Is
even now being fulfilled. He has
invitations out for a dinner on
january 81 in honor of Chief
Justice and Mrs. Taft, and UNI
doubtedly will entertain within
the next few weeks for the Sec
rotary of State and Mrs. Hughes.
Moreover, there have been since
the season began a delightful
musicale at the embassy, with
the Duchesse di Mignano, young
countrywoman of Prince Caetani,
as the bright particular star, and
that delightful cotillion last Fri
day evening, the lovely favors
for which were brought from
Italy.
Then, last evening the ambas-
sador was host at a dinner In
honor of Luigi Pirandello, the
celebrated Italian playwright,
with a reception afterward at
which Signor Pirandello spoke
informally. Arthur Livingston,
who translated Signor Pirandello's