The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-03
COOLDGES TO
HEAR GALA
OPERA
Many Box Parties Ar
ranged for "Aida"
Production

The President and Mrs. Coolidge
will attend the Washington Opera
Company's gala performance of
Aida" to be given tonight at the
Washington Auditorium, in connee-
ton with the inaugural festivities
and will have some of the mem
bers of their White House house
party with them. The selection of
Aida" which is to be presented
by brilliant all-American cast, is
particularly happy one since it
was written to mark the coronation
Of a Khedive Of Egypt and is
especially adapted to brilliant cere-
monial occasions.
Guests of the Secretary of Labor
and Mrs. Davis will be members of
a box party-the Davises them
selves are attending the dinner at
the British embassy. Another in
teresting party will include Cover
nor Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming,
her hosts being the members Of the
committee which has her entertain
ment in charge and which includes
Mrs. Josiah Van Orsdel, chairman;
Mrs. Harry Wardman and Fred
erick D. McKenney.
Visitors from New York and
Baltimore are among those who
will entertain boz parties and NJ.
and Mrs. Alexander Revell, of Chi.
cago, have taken a box in which
they will entertain a large company
Of guests.
With the opera monpolizing inter-
est during the early part Of the eve.
ming, interest will be divided after
ward in the brilliant Governors Ball
at the Congressional Country Club
and the patriotic Ball. at the Will
lard, which is sponsored by the
Danes of the Loyal Legion, Women's
Overseas Service League and the
Republican Women's Club of the
District. Members Of the cast of the
opera will occupy a box at the ball
following the performance.
So
! DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS
HOSTS TO SECRETARY HUGHES
The retiring Secretary of State.
Mr.. Hughes, was the guest for
whom the officials of the Depart
ment of State entertained at
! luncheon today. The party was
given at Rauscher's, the guests, all
men. numbering some $50 and be-
| ing limited to the State Department
personnel and officers Of the diplo-
matte and consular services on duty
here. Joseph Grew, UndersecretaIy
of State, presided.
Tonight Secretary and Mrs.
Hughes will be guests of the Sec
rotary Of War and Mrs. Weeks at
dinner. Secretary and Mrs. Weeks
make their home in the pleasant
house at the corner Of Sixteenth
and v streets which Secretary
Hughes built when he was Justice
Hughes and which Mr.. and Mrs.
Weeks afterward purchased from
him.
The British Ambassador and Lady
Isabella Howard will entertain at
dinner this evening in compliment
to the Treasurer Of Australia and
Mrs. Earle Page, who are at Ward
man Park Hotel for a brief stay.
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The Governor OF New Hampshire
and Mrs. Winant will be the guests
of honor at dinner this evening of
the Assistant Postmaster General
and Mrs. John II. Burtlett. Later
they will attend the meeting Of the
New Hampshire State Society,
which will be III honor Of the Gov
ernor and Mrs. Winant.
Governor and Mrs. Hammill of
Iowa reached Washington today to
take part in the inaugural rere-
monies.
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Senator and Mrs. Joseph T.
Robinson Of Arkansas, will have as
their guests over the Inauguration,
Miss Eloise Wayne, of Little Rock. |
Ark, who is in school in New
York, and Miss Emily Sturgis, Of
GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
Mrs. Copeland, wife Of Senator
Royal Copeland and her mother,
Mrs. Friestedt. will leave Washing
ton for New York on Friday, the |
Senator joining them as soon as the |
extra session Of the Senate adj |
journs. They are contemplating a
trip to Egypt in the summer. Sena- |
tor and Mrs. Copeland were the |
guests for whom Prince Habib Lot
fallah, Arabian envoy to Rome, en-
tertained at luncheon at the Chevy |
Chase club on Sunday and on Sat