The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-02-27
PRESIDENT IS
SITTING FOR
POR TRAIT
DeLaszlo Has Temporary
Studio Here; Is Also
Painting Mrs. Coolidge
BY JEAN ELIOT

: a.
OF the Harding Administration
seems to be in equally high favor
under the Coolidge regime and |:
at present working on portraits o.
both the President and Mrs. Cool
idge and, / believe. one Of Secretary
Mellon. which has been ordered by
some bankers organization.
As / understand it. the famous
portrait pal n t er. who is q
Hungarian by birth but a natural.
ICED British citizen. has been com
miBsioned to edo" Mrs. Coolidge for
q Smith College group. Probably
her recent indisposftion has inter.
fered with the sittings. but Presi.
dent Coolidge posed for Mr.. de
Lagzlo yesterday.
1t may be remembered that this
artist painted President Harding
two portraits of Mrs. Harding lone
q lovely study which used to hang
over the fireplace in the circular
drawing room above the Blue Room
--and that he did most Of the late
President Harding's Cabinet. re
member specifically a remarkably
fine portrait of Charles Evans
Hughes painted when be was Sec
rotary of State, which used to have
in Mr.. and Ik-s. Hughes home in
Eighteenth Street.
internationally Here
Mr. de Laszl0 Is internationally in
!. Washington these days. having
number of commiss ons in New
York, and he Is wol ing here in
big, north lighted ,oein at the
home OF Mr. and Mrs Larz Andef-
l.N. A.. q
him TO use as e studio The Andel
sons. by the way. have returned tu
washington from White Sulphur
Springs, w Va. where they had
been staying. as Mrs Anderson is
.indisposed They have been at
their Massachusetts, Avenue resi-
dence very little OF late.
Other Commissions
From the fact that Mr.. de I4asz4o
Is staying at the Andersons. I
rather imagine that he is painting
either Mr.. or Mrs. Anderson. And
imagine there is a portrait OF
Dwight #. Davis, Secretary OF War.
'.on the fire" The artist was
among the guests at the dinner
which Secretary and Mrs. Davis
gave the other night for the British
Ambassador and Lady Isabella.
Representative and Mrs. Louis
rockingham is another prominent
Washingtonian, who is sitting has
been sitting or Is about to sit--to
Mr.. de Laszlo. The painter, I IN.
sierstand. has said that he would
like to do this subject In kilt and
spcrran. but ! don't know what
has been decided about the matter
OF dress.
Paints Mother and Daughter
Writing of artists and their sub
5ects in Washington, it IL interest
ing TO note that the celebrated Span
ish portrait painter. Rafael Sanchis
Yago, who does such beautiful work
with pencil and brush, has recently
completed a study Of Mrs. Peter
Goelef Gerry, formerly Mrs. George
W. Vanderbilt, and her daughter,
the Hon. Mrs. John Francis Am
herst Cecil, formerly Miss CorneIiA
Vanderbilt. Mr.. Yago did a chara,-
ing sketch OF Mrs. Coolidge.
DINNER PLANNED
AT GERMAN EMBASSY
The German Ambassador and
Baroness Nathan viii entertain at
dinner on Saturday evening March
%, in compliment to Baron Plessen
Of me embassy staff, who IS ex-
ington to Berlin some time in the
spring.
MRS. KELLOGG FETED
IN NEW YORK
HNh
The Secretary of State and Mrs
Kellogg win entertain at dinner on
March %.
Mrs. Kellogg, who is in New York,
was entertained at luncheon yester-
day by Mrs. Douglas Robinson and
Mrs. Cass Gilbert at Roosevelt
House. Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes
was among the guests. Mrs. Kcl-
logg liz expepcted in Washington
tomorrow.
BRYNs HOSTS TO
NORWEGIAN ATHLETE
The Norwegian Minister and Nice.
Bryn entertained informally at
luncheon today in compliment to
Charles HOff, champion athlete Of
Norway, who arrived in Washington
yesterday. There were ten in the
company.
Davis, will be the guest Of honor
at the Army night program to be
given at the Wardman Park Theater
tomorrow evening under the au.
spices Of the Bureau Of Commercial
Economics. The Army Band will
present a program, and a number
Of motion picture films dealing with
life in the United States Army, at
home and abroad, will be shown.
y y
The Secretary OF Labor, Mr..
Davis, was the guest of honor last
evening Of o. J. Richter, of Pitts
burgh, who entertained informally
at the Willard.
The Polish Minister and Mime.
Ciechanowska are spending some
time in New York at the Ambassa.
dor Hotel.
Mrs. Henry c. Corbin gave
luncheon yesterday for Mrs. George
Patterson. Of New York
Thomas j. O'Brien. former Am
bassador TO Japan, and his
daughter. Mrs. Henry Getty Chill
ton, have gone to st. Augustine to
pass several weeks.
Capt. and Mrs John II. Gibbons
are leaving town today to spend
several weeks in Charleston. s. c.
Mrs. Gibbons is conyalescing from
grippe.
Mrs. Harry Covington. wife of
Judge Covington, will be at home
IN Sunday ~