The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-26
COOLIDGES TO
ATTEND OPERA
PERFOR NANCE
Many Brilliant Box Par
ties Arranged for Audi
forum Opening
By JEAN ELIOT.
PRESIDENT AND MRS
COOLIDGE will attend the

BY JEAN EL1OI.
"HE PRESIDENT AND MRS.
COOLIDGE will attend the
gala performance of Faust
by the Washington Opera Company
which will celebrate the formal
opening of the fine, new Washing
ton Auditorium.
This will, of course, be an event
of double importance, and society in
its three-old aspects-diplomatic Of
fetal, and resident-will be numer
ousIy represented. Many dinner
parties have been arranged to pre-
cede the opera, an early hour being
chosen in order that guests may ar
rive in time for the overture.
Because of the meeting OF the
budget committee, which is being
held at Memorial Continental Hall
and at which President Coolidge
is to make an address, the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge will be
late in arriving at the opera, bur
they are expected about the time
Of the first entire acte.
The Secretary Of Labor and Mrs.
Davis are giving a dinner before
the performance, with the Secre-
tary Of War and Mrs. Weeks and
at the opera the entire company,
"a
Edourd Albion, director OF the
Washington Opera Company, and
Mrs. Albion. who are entertaining
guests in several boxes.
CONGRESSMAN and Mrs. Henry w.
Watson will also take dinner guests
to the opera, as will Mr.. and Mrs.
Christian Huerich who are among
the box holders.
others who will entertain box
parties are the Minister Of Poland
and Nine. Wroblewska, Colonel and
Mrs Arthur O'Brien, Mrs. William
J. Boardman, Mrs. John B. Hender-
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Lemmot Belin,
Colonel and Mrs. Henry May, Mr..
and Mrs. Francis White, Mr.. c..
Bascom Slemp, William Phelps Emo,
Mrs. Delos Blodgett, Mrs. Charles
Boughton Wood, Mrs. Francois
Berger Moran, Mrs. C. C. Calhoun,
Congressman and Mrs. Richard
Aldrich, Senator Key Pittman, Sem
ator Thomas j. Walsh, Senator and
Mrs. Henry Wilder Keyes, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Mrs. Mary
Stuart, Mrs e. Lester Jones, Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Walker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bates Warren and Major and
Mrs. George Oakley Totten, jr.
Presentation of Faust Is
Milestone In March Toward Goal.
Feodor Chaliapin. the great Rus
sian basso, who is to sing the role
of 'Mephistopheles" was given a
tumultuous reception when he
reached Washington yesterday but
was carried off to the peaceful sur
roundings of Colonel and Mrs. Ar
thus O'Brien's home and was the
honor guest at an informal dinner
given there last evening. After
dinner, learning that Miss Caroline
Roebling, schoolgirl daughter Of
Mrs. O'Brien, had been i'll, he sang
several of his most popular songs,
saying that they were sung especial
1y for the little girl.
The production Of Faust" tonight
Is the most ambitious yet attempted
by the Washington Opera Company
and gives promise Of being a mile.
stone in the march Of this organ
ization toward a tremendous goal
the removal from Washington Of
the stigma Of being an operaless
capital.
MayflOwer Cruise Follows
Attendance at Wilson Memorial.
After attending the service at the
Central Presbyterian Church, yester-
day morning at which a memorial
tablet to woodrow Wilson was un-
yelled, President and Mrs. Coolidge
embarked upon an overnight cruise
aboard the Mayflower, returning to
the White House this morning. They
were accompanied by Solicitor Cen
eral and Mrs. Beck, Assistant Secre-
farv of the Navy and Mrs. Robinson,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. Glover, jr., and
A ssistant Attorney General and Mrs.
Donovan.
Mrs. woodrow Wilson was present
1T the unwilling ceremonies, which
were attended by some 500 people,
who listened with great interest to
the story, told by the pastor, the
Reverend J. H. Taylor, of the late
President Wilson's association with
the church and Of THE Anxious
Sunday just after the declaration
of war with Germany, when Presi-
dent Wilson attended service, al
though the pastors drawer was
stuffed with anonymous letters
warning of a projected attempt to
blow up the church and everybody
in it.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Hughes will be the guests of honor
at dinner this evening of the Min
lister Of Panama and Nine. Alfaro.
The Ambassador of Great Britain
and Lady Isabella Howard were
the guests in whose honor Mrs.
Thomas F.. Walsh entertained at
luncheon yesterday at her home in
Massachusetts avenue. There were
forty guests.
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant. enter
tanned a few guests at luncheon
yesterday, among them Chief JUS
tice and Mrs. Taft, and was also
hostess on Saturday when her
guests included the British Am
bassador and Lady Isabella Howard
Mrs Grant has been indispOsed OF
late, but has recovered sufficiently
to see her old friends.
BRITISH ENVOY TO