The Washington times., 1925-04-24
TO.
/ RECEIVE LAW
DELEGATES
Mrs. Coolidge Attends
Girl Scout Fete
at Polls
By JEAN ELLIOT.

DIV JEAN 5A1AAAOAs
president AND MRS. COOL
4 IDGE will receive this after
noon the delegates to the conference
of the American Association or In
ternational Law. which Is now
meeting here to preside over Wnlcn
Charles Evans Hughes. sometime
Secretary of State. came to wash
ington for his first visit since re-
signing from the Cabinet.
Mr.. Hughes. who is president Oh
this organization OF legal luminaries.
will be POSTMASTER at the banquet
+onnorrow night and will introduce
q. galaxy of t.prandial speakers
incIudine the Secretary OF State |
Mr.. kellogg, the British Ambassa-
dor. Sir Esme Howard the Minister
OF the Netherlands, Jonkheer de
Graeff, and Solicitor General Beck
Earlier this afternoon Mrs. Cool |
idee attended the Children's Spring
Dancing Festival at Polls Theater,
whicnNs presented for the bene-
fit Aof the Girl Scout Association. OF
the District Appearing in her .ole
of honorary commissioner, MIS-.
Coolidge wore her Girl Scout uni
form-the first time she has donned
it-and she was received on her
arrival dI Z Oll . with PA9NSS
nlony, being escorted to her box by
a uniformed color guard.
The program opened with the |
Girl Scout oath of allegiance and |
the singing of the Star-SpanSled |
Banner, this being followed by The
Fairy Hour g. fantasy written and |
produced by Mrs. Goring Bliss, with
the last half of the program made /
up of all manner of dance divertise.
n1ents in which the children II
many prominent Washing tonians
took part The fete was under the
direction of Miss Minnie Hawke,
with pupils from her various classes
taking part.
The French Ambassador and Nine.
Daeschner are viewing the fete as
guests of Colonel and Mrs, William
Eric Fowler.
Society Turns Out to View
'eThe Talk Of the Town"
.'The Talk of the Town." which
opened a three-day run at the Be-
lasco Theater last evening, was
reminiscent in part Of Charlot's
Revue and the Chauve Souris." but
FAMILIAR things were given with an
unfamiliar slant, there was much
that was original and witty and
the audience, which filled the thea.
ter, rocked with applause. To be
sure, the fact that most Of the
spectators had daughters or sisters
or cousins in the cast, made for a
certain charitableness of Judgment;
but even the unbiased admitted
that the show, in which q large
group OF girls and boys prominent
in Washington society, provided
more spontaneous laughs" than
the average professional revue and
had moments OF real beauty.
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood en-
tertained a box party and had with
her Mrs. Robert Nelson Stanfield,
whose pretty daughter. Barbara.
put on a Dance de Rendezvous"
with Captain Woldemar Sveshni-
koff which was one of the high
lights of the program; Mrs. james,
d. Montgomery. OF Portland, Ore.;l
Mrs. Paul Rittenhouse, of Chicago.
and Miss Mary Morgan. With Mrs.
Frank Hight were Mrs. Henry
Wilder Keyes. her aunt; Mrs. VIII. |
liam H. Hill. and Mrs. Percival
RIsdale.
The revue, which was directed
fn Donald Mcdonald, wizHrd
when it comes to putting anna eurs
through their PAGES with almost
professional finish, is being pre-
scented under the auspices Of the
Ten Painters" to further the de-
velopment Of art in the Capital;
and among those in the audience
last evening were Felix Mahony
and Arthur, Musgrave. members Of
this group. Others present were {
Mrs. Victor Kaufman, Mrs. Rob
ert Mackenzie, Mr.. and Mrs. Wat
son Freeman Clark, Mr.. and Mrs.
Graham Powell, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Meade Lea, Commander G. T.
Jewell, NJ. and Nine. Tilmont. Of
the Belgian embassy, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester Snow, Miss Betty Connolly,
Miss Eleanor Wheeler, Mrs. Larkin
GIazebrook, Mrs. Eveleth Whiting.
Mrs. Charles Hume-the cast liter
ally bristled with Hume girls-Mrs.
Huntington Turner and her dau Oh
ter, Mrs. Leonard Bloch, Mrs. Sin
clair Bowen, Lawson TredwelI and
his daughter, Miss Mary Tredwell;
Miss Delphine Heyl, Miss Dorothy
Mondell, Miss Alice Hartman, Miss
Jane Bell, Doctor and Mrs. Daven-
port White, Judge and Mrs. Dlniel
Thew Wright and their daughter
Mrs. Gladys Wright Church and I
Doctor Santiago F. Bedoya, of the
Peruvian Embassy.
While it must be admitted that
the hit Of the show was made by
m unprogramed pickaninny dancing
with the Paradis Banda truly gor-
geous buck and wing-a real COM
edy flair was displayed by old
friends like Dimitri Dlmancesco, Of
the Rumanian legation, and Albert
Bareto, while such lovely ladies as
Miss Margaret Zolnay, premiere
darseuse, Miss Julie Hume, Miss
Charlotte Hartman. who has a
splendid voice and many others won
well merited applause.
"T4a BOxe" Comes Into Favor
With Smart Society Folk.
La Boxe," long fashionable in
Paris and New York, is becoming
more and more popular in Wash
ington, and is apparently in high
favor with the smart set. The
boxing matches out at the Congress
sional Country Club, which have
been largely attended, started the
ball rolling, and now every time
there is a match at the Washing
ton Auditorium under the auspices
of the National Capital Sporting
Club there is a great demand for
boxes.
The Italian Ambassador, Signor
di MARITIME. has reserved a box for