Evening star., 1926-11-27
Diplomats and Officials
at Lecture Last Night.

A distinguished audience, including
Ambassador and Mobile Donna An
tOinette De MARITIME and the entire
staff of the Italian embassy, last eve
ming heard Gen. Umberto Mobile de-
scribe his flight across the North Pole
by dirigible. His address was given
before the National Geographic Socie-
ty in the Washington Auditorium.
DR.. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, president
of the National Geographic Society,
introduced Gen. Mobile. Among
others in the audience were: Senator
and Mrs. William Cabell Bruce. Sena-
tor Wesley L. Jones, Representative
Theodore E. Burton, Representative
Thomas w. Phillips, jr.; the counselor
of the embassy and Contessa Rogeri di
Villanova, Brig. Gen. Augusta Villa,
military attache; Comdr. Alberto Lais,
naval attache, and Signora Lais,
COmdr. Silvio Scaroni, air attache;
Conte Macchi di Cellere, secretary Of
the embassy; Signor Leonardo Vitetti,
secretary; Signor Luciano Mascia, sec
retary. and Signora Mascia, Signor
Romolo Angelone, commercial attache;
Signor V. Di GirolamO, chancellor, and
SignOra Di Girolamo, Mr.. r. j. Lewis,
interstate commerce commissioner;
Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, Rear
Admiral w. II. Brownson, Brig. Gen.
w. ii. BiXley, Brig. Gen. Charles w.
Hobbs, Rear Admiral George w.
Baird, Rear Admiral Joseph Newton
Hemphill and Miss Hemphill, Rear
Admiral Washington l.. Capps, Brig
Gen. James T. Kerr, Maj Gen. p. c.
Harris, Col Alexander w. Maish,
Comdr. NJ. l.. Wood, Maj. Arthur
Conrad, Maj. James A. Ulio, Lieut.
Comdr. E. E. Smith. Lieut. Comdr.
\. L. Jones. Capt. David LIE Breton,
Mr.. Rudolph Kaufman, DIR. and
Mrs. c. z. Marberry, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles j. Bell, Mr.. John Joy Edison,
DR.. and Mrs. c. Hart Merriam, DIR.
and Mrs. George r. Putnam. Rear
Admiral c. NJ. Chester, DIR. J. Howard
Gore. DR.. and Mrs. Frederick V.
Coville. DIR. and Mrs. John Foote,
Maj. Gen. A. w. Greedy, DR.. and Mrs.
George Otis Smith, Mr.. and Mrs.
stephen I. Mather, Col. and Mrs. f.
Lester Jones. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Shires. 3D.; DR.. Neil NJ. Judd. DR.. j.
S. Jamison, DR.. and Mrs. Earl Clarke,
Mr. and Mrs. James Parmelee, Mr..
and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles DENLY. Mr.. and
Mrs. A. n. Talbot. Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Savage and Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter +. TuCkerman.
Delegates attending the National
Professional Pan-Hellenic Association
meetings were entertained informally
at dinner last evening ut the Grace
Dodge Hotel. Among the delegates
and guests attending were: DIR. Louise
Stanley, chief of the Bureau of Home
Economics. Department of Agricul-
ture; Mrs. Bessie Parker Bruggeman,
chairman Of the compensation com
mission; Miss Jessie Dell. civil service
commissioner; Miss Mary Anderson.
chief of the NOman'S Bureau, Labor
Department.; Miss Grace Abbott, chief
of the Children's Bureau; Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt. assistant attor-
ney general; Maj. Julia Stimson, head
of nurses in the War Department;
Mrs. Nina c. Van Wrinkle. head of
the Woman's Bureau. Police Depart.
ment; Mrs. Mary Hickey, head of
nurses in the Veterans Bureau: Miss
Anita PhippS, director of women's re-
lations. War Department.; Miss J.
Beatrice Bowman. head of nurses,
Navy Department: Miss Mary Stewart,
Junior division. United States Employ
ment Service; Miss Lucy Minnegerode,
, head of nurses in Public Health Serv-
ice; Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth. industrial
engineer from MOntclair. y. j.: Mrs
Mary Love Collins, president of Chi
Omega Sorority: Miss Helen d. Pigeon.
associate secretary. International AS
sociatiOn of Policewomen; Mrs. Ethel
I Puffer HoWes, from Smith College,
and DR.. Iva L. Peters. ..dean and direc-
tor OF personnel for women, Syracuse
University
Representatives from three of
Washington clubs for business and
professional women were present and
outlined the purposes and work of
their organizations. Miss Eliza beth
Harris represented Zonta Club: Miss
Alvina Jacobsen, Quota Club, and Mrs
Nina Van Wrinkle the Soroptimist
Club.
Mrs. William Brown Maloney of
New York is the house guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Alvin Dodd.
Mrs. George Boyd of Panama. who
with Mr.. Boyd and their family is
spending the Winter at the Wardman
Park Hotel, entertained there yeSter-
day at a children's luncheon party
for her daughter, Lola. on the oc-
casion of her tenth birthday anni-
versary. There were IL little guests.
and later they attended the matinee.
Miss Anne GroSan. who motored
to New Han III for the Yale Harvard