The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-06

VentlOn0l costume
and unconscious-in.. the pantomiIne
performance Of Pyramtls and Thisbe
from Midsummer Night Dream, put
on by the Shakespeare Society Play
ers as the drama episode Walter w.
Beck directing and Mrs. George
Hewitt Meyers sponsoring the group.
But far and away the most effective
episode of the pageant was Poetry
put on by the Mckinley Dancers, in
which they portrayed with real
fire and abandon the battle Of the
,gods-from the Iliad-who come to
the aid of Hector and Achilles in
their struggle for supremacy. Mrs.
E. A. Hartman sponsored this group,
with Miss Caroline Mckinley direct
ing.
William Barrett Ridgely and ar
ranged by Miss Elizabeth Gardiner,
was another charming number, the
solo work OF Miss Gardner being
particularly, lovely. The pageant
opened with an architectural episode,
.PericIes accepting the model OF the
Parthenon," in which members OF the
American Institute of Architects
and architectural students Of George
rection of Lynch LuQuer.
william Partridge made the hand
some model Of perhaps the most
perfect building in the history OF
architecture which was so etfec-
lively featured here and the group
vas under the patronage OF Mrs:
walter Tuckernaan. Sculpture
sponsored By Mrs. Minnigerode An
drews. with II. K. Bush Brown di-
recting ''the story OF PygmaliOn in.
PRODUCING 1Galatea to his friends,
and 81 painting episode, depicting
Minerva turning Arachne into e.
spider, were features Of the pageant.
The painting group was made up
of students Of the Corcoran School
of Art, directed by Burtis Baker
and sponsored by Mrs. Charles ].
Bell. Mrs. L. M. Leisenning and
Mrs. +. e. Farrington-the latter
most fascinating jester In partlF
colored orange and black-assisted,
For the music episode members
OF the Rubenstein Club were direct
ed by Claude Robson and spon-
sored by Mrs. Raymond Gorges.
Those taking part in the chorus
Gertrude Russell, Miss N. K. Taber,
Miss Katherine Poole, Mrs. William
II. Bushman and Miss Marie Frey.
Numerous Dinner Parties
Given Before. Carnival.
Mingl;ng with the merry throng-
or suppiDg after midnight in the
small ballroom noted Congress-.
man and Mrs. Fred C. Purnell. Cap
tain and Mrs. Howard Angus, Mr..
and. Mrs. Clarence AspinwaIl, Mrs.
Howard Nyman-a yelled lady
of futuristic Commander
John I. Cassidy lady Of the
tinted Veil-Mr. and Mrs. John
Walker Holcombe, who had Con
gresham and Mrs. Henry Riggs
Rathbone among their guests; Ed;
ward T. Clark, secretary TO the
President. a guest in Mr.. and Mrs.
Z. A. Harriman's box; Mrs. James
Warwick, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert bell,
Mr.. and Mrs. Armistead Peter, Cd.
Miss Elizabeth Jobe, Miss Nell
Clark, William Bowie Clarke, Odell
Mackay, George Dubois, Lieutenant
Harvey Cassidy and Mortimer Clark
Many dinners were given before
the bail. .....
Mrs. E. C. Cole entertained at
dinner in the Willard in compliment
| to Justice and Mrs. Edward T. San
| ford. The other guests were .Ad
| miral and Mrs. Edward Eberlc
| Judge end Mrs. William Bailey La
mar, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph ThropL
and Miss Mary TempleA
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Gown enter
| tanned at dinner in their home, later
| taking their guests to their box al
the ball. The guests were the First
| Secretary Of the Peruvian Embassy
and Nine. Prada, Mrs. Emerson
Howe, the assistant military att2che
Of the French embassy, Captain E
Lombard, and the military attachc
Of the Spanish embassy, Major Vic
| toriano Casatus.
= Mr.. and Mrs. George Hewitt
Myers entertained at dinner and
took their guests to their box al
the ball. With them were Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Musgrave, Doctor anG
Mrs. Edward B. Meigs, Captain and
| Mrs. Victor s. Jackson, Mr.. anC
Mrs. William B. Rfdgely and Bert
ram Cadwallader.
Miss Madeline Couzens entertained
party of young people in the boz
Of Senator and Mrs. Couzens.
Among those in Mrs. Charles
Boughton Woods box were tn,
Charge d'Affaires of Austria AM
Nine. Prochnik. Major and, Mrs
Robert Goetz, and Miss Mary Nor
gan.
Miss Josephine WilIiford entertain
ed at dinner, taking her guests late
to the ball where they occupied tn,
box Of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Penn
broke Thorn. In her party wer,
Miss Barrine Drake, Morris Paris
Miss Dorothy Mondell, q. r. BedOy
and Allen Gartner.