Evening star., 1924-01-23
Sir Auckland GedGes
Guest Before Departure.

Sir Auckland GedGes
Guest Before Departure.
The ambassador of Great Britain,
Sir Auckland Geddes, will be the
guest in whose honor Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Letter will entertain a COM
pany of forty eight at dinner this
evening in their home on New Hamp-
shire avenue. The ambassador will
leave Washington tomorrow and will
sail Saturday for his home in Eng
land, where Lady GeddcS and their
children remained. Glr. and Mrs.
Letter have asked the members of the
British embassy staff and their wives
to come after the dinner for a little
informal farewell reception to the
ambassador.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Hughes were hosts at dinner last
evening, entertaining; IL compliment
to Sir Auckland GcGdes, and asked to
meet hun the ambassador OF Italy,
Don Gelasio Caetani, Postmaster Cen
of the Secretary of the Navy; Sem
ator and Mrs. Claude A. Swanson,
Senator and Mrs. David A Reed, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Hilary Jones, the
Leland Harrison; the director Of the
consular service and Mrs. Wilbur j.
Carr, Mrs. Henry L. Dirnock and Mrs.
Chauncey Lockhart Waddell, daugh-
ter OF the hosts.
The minister OF the Netherlands,
Jonkheer DIR. de Graeff, IS leaving
for Philadelphia today to attend the
Society of that city. He will return
to Washington Friday.
The minister of Panama and Sonora
de Alfaro will be the guests of honor
this evening OF Mrs. /. III. b. Smith
and Mrs. Matte Wyaut Porter, who
will entertain company Of thirty at
dinner at Meridian Mansions.
The minister OF Uruguay and Nine.
Varela will entertain company at
dinner this evening.
Mrs. Porter II Dale. wife of Sena-
tor Dale, and Mrs. Simeon d. Fess
will be at home jointly tomorrow aft
ernoon from to o'clock at 144 B
street northeast. Assisting them vii VIII
James F. Byrnes, Mrs. =. L. b. Ste
phens. Mrs. Charles c. kearns, Mrs.
c. E. Moore. Mrs. l. NJ. Foster, Mrs. Err
nest w. Gibson, Mrs. Morton d: Hull,
Mrs. Charles Brand. Mrs. Frank
Briggs and Mrs. John Miller Baer.
Mrs. Lee Slater Overman, wife of
Senator Overman of North Carolina,
from to o'clock, at the Powhatan
Hotel
Miss Maths, niece of Senator Will
liam b. Mckinley. will be at home
tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. Edwin F. Ladd, wife of Sem
ator Ladd OF North Dakota. will be
at home tomorrow afternoon from
3 TO 6 o'clock, 121 Willow avenue,
Takoma Park, 1IG.
Mrs. Phipps. wife of Senator Law
renee c. Phipps OF Colorado, will not
receive tomorrow afternoon owing to
absence from Washington. Mrs.
IL, III I'll
expectedly, but will be at home
Thursday afternoon, January 81.
Mrs. Z. Hart Fem, wife of Repre-
sentative Fem of Connecticut, enter
tanned guests at lunch yesterday at
the Shoreham.
Mrs. Henry Alien Cooper. Wife of
Representative Cooper of Wisconsin,
Is entertaining at tea this afternoon
ut the Rochambeau, and has assist
ing her Nine. Farela, wife of the
minister minis OF Uruguay; Mrs: John
Mrs. Finis Garrett, Mrs. Cordell Hull,
Mrs. Frank II. Briggs, Mrs. George
Leroy Boyle and Mrs. Howard Hume.
Representative and Mrs. Charles B.
Ward of New York have return ed to
the New Willard, where they will
spend the winter.
The new attache of the Swedish
legation and Countess Won Rosen
have taken an apartment at Meridian
Hill Studio, and will take possession
this week. Count and Countess Won
Rosen have been guests of the minis
ter of Sweden and Nine. Wallenberg
since their arrival in Washington.
Count Won Rosen succeeded MIR.
Gustaf de Printzkold. who returned
to Stockholm about ten days ago.
Countess Sommati di Mombello,
Col. Marquis di Bernezzo, military at
tache, and Capt. Sommati di Nom
: bello, naval attache of the Italian en-
bassy, entertained at dinner last eve
ming at their home. Among the
guests were: Gen. Dumont, military
attache of the French embassy; Col.
and Mrs. Donaldson, Capt. and Mrs.
Galbraith and Maj. and Mrs. Eglin.
The retiring counselor Of the Japanese
embassy, Mr.. Sadao Saburi, who has
haen called to the foreign Office, will
leave Washington February /, ac-
companied by Nine. Saburi, for Cali
fornia. Mr.. and Nine. Saburi will