Evening star., 1925-02-10

Former Senator and Mrs. willard
Salisbury will entertain a company
of Is at dinner this evening.
Brilliant Company Hear
Chicago Opera Company.
A distinguished audience attended
the first Of the seasons presentations
by the Chicago Civic Opera Associa-
ton last evening, when it gave
Wagner's "Tannhauser," in the Wash
ington Auditorium.
The Secretary of War, Mr.. Weeks,
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Brett Noyes who also entertained in
their box Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Caspar
Miller and Mrs. James Carroll Frazer.
The Secretary of Commerce and
Mrs. Herbert Hoover entertained In
their box Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Win
ter of Minneapolis.
The Minister Of Panama and Sonora
de Alfaro were guests in the box OF
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Norment, who also
entertained the charge d'affaires of
Austria and Nine. Prochnik. Mr.. and
Mrs. Norment entertained at dinner
preceding the opera.
The Minister of the Netherlands and
Nine. de Graeff were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Edward B. Meigs, who also
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Warren and Mr.. Lynch Luquer.
The Minister of Greece and Nine.
Simopoulos were among the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest G. Walker. who
also entertained Gen. and Mrs. George
Barnett.
Representative and Mrs Fred s.
Purnell occupied a box and had among
their guests Miss Pearl Waugh.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
and Mrs. Frederick I. Cox were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E
Lewis, who also had in their box Mr..
and Mrs. Algernon S. Gardiner.
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood and
her brother, Mr.. William Phelps Emo,
were hosts to Mrs. George Colt Bag
ley of Minneapolis, Mrs. William Bar
ret Ridgely, Mrs. Frederick Wood
Meeker, Miss Mary Morgan and Col.
Theodore Davis Boal.
Princess Margaret Boncompagni
had as her guests last evening MIR.
and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Miss
Natalie Hammond and Mr.. and Mrs.
Montgomery Blair, with whom the
princess is staying until March.
Mrs. Horace Macfarland had among
her guests in her box Jodge and Mrs.
Charles c. McChord.
Mrs. B. H. Warder entertained her
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. John W. Garrett, and Mrs. Henry
Leonard, another daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Corby had
with them their daughters, the Misses
Corby.
Mrs. George D. Hope had as her
guest Miss Flora Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard B. Jones were
hosts to Mr.. mad Mrs. Louis Hertle
and Judge and Mrs. Charles Ames of
New York, who are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Jones.
Mrs. B. Parker Brueggeman enter
Ao, DtttI Iny-
Maj. and Mrs william Wolf Smith
and Mai. Leland Wind.
Others in the audience were the
Minister of Denmark, Mr.. Brun, who
was the guest of Mrs. Richard H.
Townsend; Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Ed
ward T. Sanford, Senator and Mrs.
Robert l. Owen, Representative and
Mrs. Fred A. Britten, Representative
and Mrs. Henry Riggs Rathbone,
Mrs. James r. Mann, Mrs. Robert
Love Taylor, Miss Helen Cannon,
MIR. and Mrs. Dorsey Richardson,
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, Mrs. John
Allan Dougherty, Or. and Mrs. John
Crayke Simpson, Mr.. and Mrs. Perci-
val McCeney-Werlich, Mrs. Gibson
Fahnestock, Mr.. Victor Kaufman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles c. Glover, Dis
trict Commissioner and Mrs. Cuno
H. Rudolph, Miss Laura Harlan, Mrs.
James r. Mann, Miss Daisy Prentice,
Mr.. and Mrs. Emile Berliner, Mrs.
Albert Douglas, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
B. Hutchins. Mrs. David du Bose Gail
lard and her -daughter-in-law, Mrs.
David ST. Pierre Gailfard, Mrs. Gil
let-Hill, Mr., and Mrs. Peter A. Drury,
Mrs. William f. Dennis. Mrs. Charles
Nelson Riker, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Lsner,
Mrs. Gilmer Brenizer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alexander Bentley, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Harris, the Misses Patten,
DIR. and Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, DR..
and Mrs. l.. w. Eugster, the Misses
Brick enstein and Mr.. Mccormick >
Goodhart of the British embassy.
The ATTORNEY General and Mrs.
Stone were the honor guests at din
ner last evening of the First Assist
ant Postmaster General and Mrs. John
H. Bartlett, who entertained at the
New Willard Hotel. The table was
decorated in red and white flowers,
the valentine idea being also car
ried out in the favors and menu.
The guests included the Secretary