Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-04-15
SOCIETY
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among their guests Col. and Mrs. Mel.
son Z. Margetts.
Gen. and Mrs. Dennis Nolans
guests included Col. and Mrs. Frank
b. Cheatham, Col. and Mrs. w. H.
Noble, Col. and Mrs. Daniel Van
Noorhe and Maj. and Mrs. Charles
Williams.
The commercial counselor of the
British embassy and Mrs. John Joyce
Frederick were with Mrs. Thomas f.
Walsh, whose others guests included
Mr.. Keith and Mr.. Swift.
Admiral and Mrs. Richard Vain
wright had guests in their box.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey Parker en-
lertatned at dinner preceding the ball
and took their guests later to their
box. In the company were Admiral
and Mrs. Joseph Strauss, Gen. and
Mrs. Mason N. Wright, Admiral
Palmer and Miss Ernst.
Maj. and Mrs. Robert Goetz occu-
pied the box of the latter's aunt,
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood, and
had with them Col. and Mrs. Herbert
o. Williams, Maj. and Mrs. Robert
Eichelberger and Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Father, jr. Maj. and Mrs. Goetz
entertained their guests at dinner
before the ball.
Lovely Gowns Added Charm.
Baroness Won Nathan, wife of the
Ambassador of Germany, wore an eff.
tectiVe costume of gold metal cloth,
hanging straight from the shoulders
with slight fullness on each side
marking low waistline. The gown
was moderately long, with embroidery
of pearls and turquoise and palest
corals forming deep band about the
bottom of the skirt and narrow
band corresponding about the round
neck. She wore a tulle scarf of tur-
quoise blue about her shoulders and
coronet of gold set with pearls and
turquoise.
Nine. Peter, wife of the Minister of
Switzerland, was in black satin, the
only trimming being narrow shoulder
straps of jets and strings of jets hang
ing from a normal Waistline, at one
side of the front.
Countess Szechenyi, wife of the
Minister of Hungary, was in her Gus
tomary simple costume, wearing
gown of white chiffon incrusted in
crystals, made straight and moderate
~ short, the skirt cut in points. Her
guest, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit
ney, was in a gown of copper red
crepe, the material caught together
on the shoulders to form a bateau
neck and short sleeves. The waist
bloused slightly over a normal waist
line, and about the rather short skirt
was a deep band of Hungarian pat
tern in characteristic colors. She wore
no ornaments.
Sonora de Alfaro, wife of the Min
lister OF Panama, wore one of the
many chiffon velvet gowns seen at last
nights ball Hers was in soft shade
of orange color, fashioned after the
popular straight-line effect and trim
med at the bottom of the skirt with
ostrich feathers of the same shade
Across the back, foot or more above
the edge OF the skirt, flounce of chif-
fon in shaded orange tones was held by
narrow band of pearl embroidery
and fell at the left side forming a
short pointed train.
Mrs. Hill, wife of Representative
John Philip Hill, was a striking pic
ture, with her very black and simply
arranged hair, long and elaborate
pendant earrings, both accumulated by
the perfectly plain and straight gown
OF white brocaded chiffon, finished
about the bottom of the skirt with
several bands of uncurIed ostrich
feathers She carried a fan of very
long uncurled ostrich feathers in
shades of orange and yelloA. Mrs.
Mckenzie Moss, wife of Assistant Sec
rotary of the Treasury, wore a quaint
frock of dark blue taheta, with wide
stripes of plaid from waistIine to hem
of the full hoop skirt and tisht-fitting,
sleeveless bodice.
Mrs. a. j. Elliott, who is here for a
few days with Col. Elliott on their
way to New York, was in an unusual
costume of black taffeta made with
very wide and full hoop skirt and
tlght-fitting bodice, over which she
wore a rare Japanese shawl of Chi
nese blue heavily embroidered i'll deep
cream color. The shawl was made in
a cape which fell gracefully from her
shoulders as she danced, and light
ened the somberness of the black
gown.
Others at the party were Comdr
and Mrs. Emory Scott Land, Comdr
and Mrs. Henry Conger Pratt, Comdr
and Mrs. Charles Theodore Jewell,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. NJ. Kaufman, Mrs.
Dallett Wilson, Nine. Ekengren, Mrs.
Henry d. Flood, Maj. and Mrs. George
Oakley Totten. Mr.. and Mrs. William
Eric Fowler, Princess Ghika, Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter A. Drury, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Wolff Smith. DIR. and Mrs.
Fenton Bradford and Miss Muriel
Eleanor Gray.