Evening star., 1925-02-04

N III Townsends morning musi-
N cal at Rauscher's today.
Av1 when the large ballroom
was filled with brilliant
ass smblage of officials, diplomats
and many from resident society. The
musical was the last of a notable
series given this Winter.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Hughes will be hosts at dinner the
evening of February 21, when the
Ambassador of Spain and Sonora de
Riano will be honor guests.
Streets and avenues leading to the
homes of cabinet members Will be
crowded this afternoon with visitors
from official and unofficial ranks
calling to pay their respects to the
cabinet hostesses, who will hold their
second and last reception of the sea-
son today. The home of the Secre-
tary of State and Mrs. Hughes, that
of the Secretary of the Treasury and
Miss Mellon, of the Attorney Cen
eral and Mrs. Stone, of the Secretary
Of the Navy and Mrs. Wilbur, of the
Secretary Of Commerce and Mrs.
Hoover and that of the Secretary of
Labor and Mrs. Davis Will all be
open for callers. Mrs. Weeks wife
of tho Secretary of War, has gone
~ II lollud lol lILc rest OF the cOlu
season, and Mrs. New, wife of the
Postmaster General. is not receiving &
on account of invalidism
Mrs. Hughes will have several la :
dies of the State Department assist
ing her, Mrs. John Van A. MacMurray
and Mrs. Charles Cheney Hyde, wife
of the solicitor for the Department
of State presiding at the tea table,
while assisting otherwise will be. Mrs
Francis White, Mrs. William R. Cas-
tie, jr:, and Mrs. Frank P. Lock
art
With Miss Ailsa Mellon this after
noon at her reception from to 6
O'Clock in her apartment at 1885
Massachusetts avenue, will be Mrs
David A. Reed and Mrs. Charles Car
roll Glover, jr.
Mrs. Stone will have with her from
to $50 O'Clock this afternoon at
2400 Sixteenth street, Mrs. Grosvenor
Backus, Mrs. Louis Hertle, Mrs. Gill
bert Grosvenor, Mrs. Charles Henry
Butler, Mrs. Chauncey Parker Mrs
Bertrand Smell and Mrs. Mabel Walk
er Willebrandt.
Mrs. Wilbur, wife of the Secretary
of the Navy, will receive from to 6
o'clock and will have with her her
daughter. Miss Edna Wilbur, and Mrs
Guy Burrage, wife of Rear Admiral
Burrage.
Mrs. Hoover, wife of the Secretary
of Commerce, will receive from to s
O'Clock and those assisting her will
be Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, Mrs.
Adolph c. Miller, Mrs. Vernon Kel-
logg, Mrs. Mark Sullivan, Mrs. George
Hewitt Myers, Mrs. J. Walter Drake
and Miss Aida Henriques.
Mrs Davis, wife of the Secretary
of Labor, will have the Secretarys S
mother, Mrs. David ]. Davis, of Shar-
on. Pa, receiving with her from to
o'clock. Assisting otherwise will
be Mrs. Thomas Phillips, Mrs. E. A.
Ackerman, Mrs. John H. Bartlett and
Mrs. z. J. Henning.
Lady Isabella Howard at
Home to Invited Guests Today.
The Ambassador of Great Britain
and Lady Isabella Howard had a.
small company dining informally with
them at the embass last evening.
Lady Isabella Howard has issued
cards for at-home this after
noon, and with the Ambassador will
, entertain the members of the English
Speaking Union at tea Thursday
afternoon, February IL.
The Ambassador of Spain and
Sonora de Riano will be the guests
of honor at dinner this evening of
Col. and Mrs. William Eric Fowler
who will entertain a company of %
in their home on r street.
The new Ambassador Of France and
Nine. Daeschner and their two daugh-
terS went to New York today to at
tend the charity ball this evening at
the Waldorf Astoria, an annual event
in New York since 1857. They will
return tomorrow.
The Secretary of Agriculture, Mr..
Howard NJ. Gore. attended the dinner
which former Representative Harry
&. woodward of West Virginia gave
last evening. Mr.. Gore is the Gov
ernor-elect of West Virginia, and Mr.
woodward will return to Congress
March 4. The other guests were AS
sstant Attorney General Mrs. Mabel
Willebrandt, and Mr.. Frank Buckley.
After dinner Mr.. woodward took his
guests to the performance of THE
Dove"
The Attorney General and Mrs.
Stone Will occupy a box at the
Belasco this evening to see white Col
iars," having a small party with them.
The Minister of Sweden and Nine.
wallenberg entertained at dinner last
evening In honor Of the Ambassador
of Belgium and Baroness de Cartier
The other guests included Senator
and Mrs. William Cabell Bruce,
Senator Frederick Hale, the charge
d'affaires Of Rumania and Nine. Nano.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orme Wilson, Capt and
Mrs. John Henry Gibbons, Mrs
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