The Washington times., 1926-05-11
CABINETEER IS
HOST AT GALA
DINNER
Entertains Diplomats in
Honor of Vice President
and Mrs. Dawes

nR. HUBERT WORK, Secretary
of the Interior, was host last
~ evening at q diplomatic
dinner" rivalling in interest the
annual dinner for the corps which
Is traditionaIly a feature of the
White House program. The chiefs
of all diplomatic missions in Wash
ington, with their wives, had been
invited to meet the Vice President
and Mrs. Dawes and practically
all OF the group were present or
accounted foremost of the few
absentees being out of town.
Daughter Hostess
Mrs. Avis w. Bissell, of Chicago,
daughter of Secretary Work, and
his guest for q few days, was
hostess for her father. The dinner
was given at Wardman Park Hotel,
where DIR. Work makes his home,
and the long table was laid in the
east lobby, which was completely
closed with a screen of palms tow
ering to the ceiling and interpreted
with feathery Australian ferns. The
( columns were wreathed with South
ern smilax and hung with baskets
of pink gladioli Huge standards
bearing the flags Of the various
nations represented at the dinner.
set fanwise with the Stars and
Stripes in the center. decorated the
ends of the dining room and struck
the keynote for this unusual inter-
national gathering.
The table was arranged to repre-
sent a formal rose garden surround
Ing a lighted fountain banked in
roses. with low PLAQUES OF roses
running the full length of the
table, broken by rose trees artt
ficially built Of the same lovely
long stemmed blossoms.
The Mace cards were unique
one side showing a beautiful mezzo-
tint of various scenes from the
national parks, the reverse bearing
a diagram of the table with the
names of the guests as seated.
After the dinner q series of col
Ored slides were shown OF scenes
from the national parks.
The group OF diplomatic guests
included: The Ambassador OF Spain
and Nine. Riano, the Ambassador
of Great Britain and Lady Isabella
Howard, the Ambassador OF Peru.
DIR. Velarde; the Ambassador OF
Mexico and Sonora de Teller. the
Ambassador of Italy, Signor Mobile
de MARITIME: the Ambassador Of
Germany and Baroness Nathan. the
Ambassador Of Japan and Nine.
Matsudaira, the Ambassador or
Chile, Don Miguel Cruchaga.
The Minister of Portugal, Wis
count date: the Minister OF Nor
way and Nine. Bryn, the Minister
OF Denmark, Constantine Rfun; the
Minister of Uruguay and Nine. Va
rela. Nine. Peter. wife of the Minis
ter of Switzerland; the Chinese Min
lister and Mme. SEE. the Minister
Of Hungary and Countess Szechenyi
the Minister OF Finland, Axel
Astrom: the Minister Of Guatemala
and Sonora de Sanchez Latour, the
Minister of Colombia and Sonora de
Olaya, the Minister OF Panama and
Sonora de Alfaro, the Minister OF
the Serbs Croats and Slovenes.
DIR. Ante Pavichich; the Minister OF
Costa RIGA, Senior ]. Rafael Orea'
muno: the Minister of Bolivia and
Sonora de James Freyre, the Min
lister of Lithuania and Nine. Bisaus-
kiene, the Minister OF the Dominl'
can Republic and Sonora de ARIA,
the Minister OF the Irish Free State
and Mrs. Smiddy, the Minister OF
Greece and Nine. Simopoulos, the
Minister of Haiti and Nine. Price,
the Minister OF Honduras and Sen.
ora de Bogran, the Minister OF
Austria and Nine. Prochnik, the
Minister of Latvia and Nine. Sega.
the Minister of Egypt and NINE.
Sanny Pasha, the Minister OF Bull
gariaL and Nine. Radewa, the MIN
lister of Sweden and Nine. BoStrom.
and the Minister Of Venezuela, DR..
Don Pedro NJ. Arcaya.
The charge d'affaares or Kumana,
-. ~ Affa iTaQ
al Interim of Salvador and Senoara
de Castro. the Charge daft aires ad
Interim Of Persia and MINNIE. ka-
zemi, the Charge d'Affaires OF Para
quay and Nine Ramirez.
Distinguishes Dowagers
others in the company were AS
afstaut Postmaster General and
Mrs. w. Irving Glover, Prince and
Princess Michael Cantacuzene, who
are staying with her moones, Mrs.
Frederick Dent Grant; DR.. and Mrs.
David C. Brown, Of Danv:lle, Conn,
who are visiting DIR. Work; Mr..
and Mrs. James B. Reynolds, DIR.
and Mrs. Charles w. Richardson,
LADY Stamp, wife of Sir Joshiah
Stamp-her husband was q speaker
last evining at the annual dinner
of the American Committee OF the
International Chamber OF Com
merce-Dr. Leo s. Rowe, director
general of the Pan-American Union,
and Stephen T. Mather, director
Of the National Parks Service.
To round out the party and match
up with the bachelor diplomats
tllere were a number OF distin-
guished Washington women, includ-
ing Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Mrs. Fred
erfck Dent Grant, Mrs. Henry F.
Dimock. Mrs. Stephen Elkins, Mrs.
Hugh S. Cumming, Mrs. John B.
Henderson, Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe,
Mrs. Guy d. Golf and Mrs. Thomas