The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-22
CELEBRITIES
DIN NER
GUESTS
Varied Interest Marks
Last Evenings
Festivities
By JEAN ELIOT.
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distinguished visitors is al
Il ways Washington faVorlte
diversion, but it ia not often, even
In the midst of the official season.
that there are so many dinner par
ties of such varied interest as last
evening brought forth.
The one into which politically
minded persons are likely to read
the most significance was given by
D. r. Crissinger, Governor OF the
Federal Reserve Board for Doctor
Hjalmar Schacht, head Of the Ger
man Reichsbank, who spend an ex-
ceedingly busy day in Washington
being received by President Coolidge,
calling upon Secretary Of State KEEL
log and comforting with Secretary
Mellon of the Treasury and Fed
eral Reserve Board officials. He
was accompanied by Benjamin
Strong, Governor of the Federal
Reserve Bank, OF New York.
Charles E. Mitchell, president Of
the National City Bank, fresh from
a stay in Germany, where he con-
among President Colleges visitors
yesterday. And this coincidence
naturally gave rise to a feeling
that a German loan might be in
the wind. Doctor .Schacht, however.
Is emphatic in stating that his visit
to this country is simply one OF
courtesy, designed to pay his re-
spects to various American officials
and to return the call" of Benja-
min Strong, who dropped in on him
in Berlin last year.
A 'SeVenteen-Eig
Mr.. Strong, who brought his name
into international prominence with
his part in the delicate negotiations
which helped bring Great Britain
back to the gold standard, is, by
the way, one OF that brilliant little
group of men who are Seventeen
eighteeners," members of the little
bachelor club established at 171S
II street, and he viii probably find
time during his. stay in Washing
ton to take part in the informal re-
union of his old friends and associ-
ates now in progress and to attend
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmy" Curtis
dance tomorrow night.
Doctor Schacht has already re-
turned to New York. At the din
ner in his honor last evening Mr..
.
tary Mellon, Undersecretary of the
Treasury Winston. Sir Robert
Horne. former chancellor of the
British exchequer. and all members
of the Federal Reserve Board.
Explorer HOnOred
Captain Road Amundsen, the dis
tingtlished Arctic explorer and dis
coverer of the South Pole, was en-
knS,@ To-. f-.rr INrx
the. Minister Of Norway and Nine.
Bryn at the close of a crowded day.
Arriving in Washington yesterday
morning, Captain Amundsen was
presented to President Coolidge by
the minister Of Norway and after
ward called on Secretary of the
Navy and other high officials. In
the afternoon Captain Amundsen
Iectured at Polls Theater.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Kellogg were guests at the Minister
and Nine. Bryn's dinner, and the
party also included the Secretary of
the Navy and Mrs. Wilbur, Captain
Road Amundsen, Major General
Lejeune, commandant of the marine
corps, and Mrs. Lejeune; the Ameri-
can minister of Norway, Lauritz
Swenson; Lieutenant Commander
and Mrs. r. E. Bird, Miss Mary
Randolph, the Counselor of the Nor
wegian Legation and Mime. Steen,
Miss Inger Bryn, Miss Laura Bryn,
and John Bryn.
Commander Byrd accompanied
Commander Macmillan to the Arctic
on his recent expedition and COM
manded the navy planes which were
part OF his, equipment.
Westerners Guests
The dinner given by Doctor HUI
bert Work, Secretary of the In
terror, also has an unusual interest
since his guests were a group of
Western friends who are attending