Evening star., 1926-02-16
Unmasking of King and
Queen at Ball Tonight.

The King and Queen of the Mardi
Gras ball? Who knows? That TACT
Will be revealed about IL O'Clock or
after the assembling of guests at lO
o'clock
Dinner parties galore will be a fea-
ture Of tonight preceding the ball at
the Mayfiower.
The ball will open promptly at lo
o'clock and guests are asked to Sc,
, cure their tickets in advance, If pos
sible, to facilitate the handling Of the
crowds at the door, and in order not
70 delay the opening scene of the
royal procession. Supper Will be
served beginning at 1870 o'clock and
many big parties at supper will like
wise be a feature of the occasion.
reservations to be made In advance
for the supper also.
Distinguished men and women will
occupy all the boxes tonight and the
royal court will occupy the throne at
the far end Of the ballroom, which
will be a mass of gorgeous color. In
deed, the first Washington Mardi Gras
has been built upon the most impress
sive ceremonies Of the New Orleans
carnival, which. in turn, is a heritage
of early Roman days when the festival
Of Lupercalia was the outstanding
event of the whole year.
Mr. Walter Denegre, who is the
chairman of the ball, has been as
sisted in the selection of the important
cnmmittees and groups by the COM
I.littee of ladies headed by Mrs,
Dimock and Mrs. Walter Tuckerman
and including Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth. Mrs. Richard H. Townsend.
Mrs. Copley Amory, Mrs. Charles j.
Bell, Mrs. William NJ. Butler. Mrs.
Godfrev Cabot, Mrs. Walter Denegre,
Mrs. Charles Dewey, Nine. Ekengren.
Mrs. Stephen B. Eikins. Mrs. Gibson
Fahnestock, Mrs. Charles NJ. Ffoulke,
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood Mrs.
Marshall Field, Mrs. Peter Gerry,
Mrs. Frederick H Gillett, Mrs Fred
erick Dent Grant. Mrs. Arthur A.
Houghton, Mrs. Garrison McClintock,
Mrs. George Wharton Pepper, Mrs.
Stanley Rinehart, Mrs. Theodore
Douglas Robinson. Mrs. Stokes
Halkett, Mrs. George H. Williams of
. Baltimore and Mrs. Charles Woodruff.
Among those who will entertain at
dinner are Mrs. Dimock. Mrs. Charles
J. Bell, Mrs. Charles NJ. Ffoulke. Mrs.
brewster Warwick, Mrs. Charles Pat
terson and Miss Suzette Dewey.
1t has been announced that tickets
for the ball may be bought at the
door.
Representative Isaac Bachrach of
New Jersey entertained at a stag
dinner last evening in the preSiden-
tial dining room at the Mayf1ower for
the Speaker of the House of Repre-
senta atives and had nearly a hundred
guests in his party.
Col and Mrs. s. NJ. de Loffre. who
spent the early part of the Winter at
2400 Sixteenth street. have returned
i,,1 fn .tl
Admiral and Mrs Walter Mclean
came Friday from their home in the
Green Spring Valley to attend the
Lincoln Lee celebration that eve
ming which the New York State So
ciety and the Southern Society gave
1t the Willard. Admiral and Mrs.
Mclean We're guests of Mrs. James
". Wadsworth, ir.. president of the
New York State Society, in her box.
and Admiral Mclean returned to
Baltimore yesterday, Mrs. Mclean
remaining this week with her cousin,
Miss Mary Ella Nichols.
Mrs. William Floyd Sicard was
hostess at tea yesterdy at the Wash
Ington Club in compliment to Mrs.
-lcLean.
AN Evening of Music at Mount
Vernon" February %, again calls out
the colonial dresses ana furnishings
which have figured this season more
than ever before in the social events
of the Capital. Mrs. Thomas S. Wiles,
working for the success of this benefit
for the George Washington Univer
Sity Hospital, has assembled beautiful
old dresses In which the members of
the National String Quartet and the
tuesday Evening Chorus will support
Carmela Ponselle; Mrs. Walter D. Will
cox has gathered together with great
discrimination the articles of antique
furniture necessary to complete the
illusion, and Prof. Norris Crandall.
with the School of Architecture Of
George Washington University, has
..ocnnStructed that loEelN room at