Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-12

NIatsuda!ra viii go to Boston Monday
and will attend the dinner Tuesday
evening, which the Japan Society of
Boston will give IN their nonor
NJ. and Nine. Prochnil1 Hosts
At Dinner Last Evening.
The Minister of Austria and Nine.
Prochnik entertained at dinner last
evening in compliment to the Secre-
,ary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. Others
in the company We're the Ambassador
of Italy and Signora Iii MARITIME, the
Amba ssador of Brazil, Senior do
Amaral; the Minister of Sweden and
F'ru Walleuberg. MIR. Justice and Mrs.
Pierce Butler, Gen. and Mrs. George
Barnett Mr.. and Mrs. Godfrey Lowell
Cabot, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant and
the counselor of the legation and Nine.
kleinwaChter.
Sonora de Alfaro, wife of the Min
lister of Panama, entertained at lunch
con yesterday in compliment TO Mrs.
Chase Willmot Kennedy. The other
guests We're Mrs. John B. kendrick,
Mrs. Bernard B. Jones, Mrs. d. c..
Stapleton, and her sister. Mrs. Barber;
Mrs. Charles Kerr, Mrs. George
Nugent, Mrs. c. c. Calhoun. Miss
Mary Lackey, Mrs. A Moreno, Mrs.
Fenton Bradford, Miss Moreno and
Mile. Orlllac.
Senator and Mrs. Charles s. Deneen
of Illinois who are spending the
Winter at the Willard, entertained in
formally at dinner last night at that
hotel.
Mrs. Sol Bloom and Miss Vera Bloom
had large company at the Actors
Fund Benefit at the National Theater
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GLIDING Mrs. Porter II. Dale, Mrs.
Woodbridge y. Ferris. Mrs. Finis j.
Garrett. Mrs. Richard Yates, Mrs. 7.
Y. O'Conuor, Mrs. ]. C. Rodgers. Mrs.
Theodore n. Tiller, Mrs. Mcpherson
Crichtou, Mrs. Carl Droop, Mrs. Leo
r. Sack, Mrs. Carlton Edward Moran,
Miss Yates. Miss Constance Drexel
and Miss Gurley Edwards.
The Undersecretary of State and
Mrs. Joseph c. Grew will entertain at
dinner Monday in compliment to Miss
Neville Gherardi, debutante daughter
of Capt. and Mrs. Walter Gherardi.
Mrs. Lincoln C. Andrews, wife of
the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, entertained company at
luncheon today.
Mrs Merritte W. Ireland, wife of the
surgeon general, U. S. A, will be at
home informally this afternoon from
TO o'clock.
Capt. and Mrs. Walter Gherardi will
entertain at tea this afternoon from 4
to o'clock at their residence. II
Bradley lane, Chevy Chase. Md, when
they will present their daughter, Miss
Neville Gherardi, to society. The
house has charming arrangement Of
yellow chrysanthemums and foliage.
Mrs. Gherardi will have assisting
her Mrs. James w. Wadsworth, jr.;
Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, Mrs. j.
Vaudeville Carlisle, Mrs. Roger Tay-
lor and Mrs. Bancroft Gherardi. The
bud will have with her Miss Anne
Butler, Miss Rosamond Reed, Miss
Suzette Dewey, Miss Frances Mckee
and Miss Anne Archbold. Mrs.
Gherardi will wear a gown of black
and red chiffon and the debutarte will
be in a dainty frock of pale green
chiffon fashioned very simply.
DR.. John Crayke Simpson has been
called to Des Moines, Iowa, because
of the sudden death Thursday of his
brother-in-law, DIR. James Taggart
Priestley, who is we'll known here,
where he has been a frequent visitor.
y.
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Waggaman, will entertain a
large company at a dinner dance Fri
day evening, January %, at the VIII
lard, their guests being asked to wear
fancy dress and masks.
Miss Helen Choate, granddaughter of
the late United States Ambassador to
Great Britain, Mr.. Joseph II. Choate,
was presented to society in New York
last night, when her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph II. Choate, jr.. gave
Il dance for her. The dance was pre-
coded by a number of dinner parties,
among them the one which the
debutante's parents gave for her.
Judge and Mrs. Goodwin are in
washington for a short visit, staying
at the Mayfiower. They will return to
their beautiful place IN Chicago for
the Christmas holidays. They came
10 the Capital from French Lick
Springs, Ind, where they weer for
some time.
Mr.. Z. T. Stotesbury is at the Will
lard, where he arrived today from his
home in Philadelphia. He plans to
spend several days here. Mrs. Stotes-
bury, who recently spent several
weeks at the Willard, accompanied by
her son-in-law and daughter. Gen. and
Mrs. Douglas Macarthur, did not ac-
company him on this trip to Wash
ington.
DR.. and Mrs. Fenton Bradford will
entertain a small company at dance
his evening in compliment to Miss
Virginia Pochon and Miss Erica Po-
Chon.
Mrs. John William Townsend is en-
PERTAINING a company Of IA at bridge
his afternoon in her Chevy Chase
home in compliment to her house
guest, Mrs. William Thomas Town
send of Deland, Fla.
OF interest in Washington is the
marriage this afternoon of Miss Vir-
ginia Darcy Passano. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis ID. Passano, to
Mr.. Campbell r. Williams, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles p. Williams of
Ibis city. The ceremony is being per-
sorrned at $50 o'clock in the home of
Hiss Mary Lee White, at Ashton, Md.