The Washington times., 1927-12-07
President and Mrs. Coolidge Entertain
Candda's s Governor General at Dinner
Visitor to Be Guest To-
night at Brilliant Fete
at Canadian Legation
BY JEAN ELIOT

ny JEAN GLAOA
THE dinner given last night
= by the President and Mrs.
Coolidge in honor of the Gov
ernor General of Canada and
Viscountess Wellington marked
the opening of a round of
official entertaining for these
visitors Of state.
In accordance with a Coolidge
custom, the dinner company was
small, 40 in all, the guests being
for the most part from the
Administration family and the
governor generals suite, with
the diplomatic envoys of Great
Britain and Canada-the guest
of honor on this occasion having
a double allegiance to our
Dominion neighbor and the
British crown.
NHE guests were seated at a
= great oblong table decked with
pink roses, stevia and maidenhair
roses, stevia and maidenhair
fern and laid with the famous
Dolly Madison gold service.
The President had Viscountess
Willingdon on his right and the
governor general had an en-
gaging dinner partner in Mrs.
Coolidge.
The Vice President and Mrs.
Dawes. the British Ambassador
and Lady Isabella Howard and
the Speaker of the House and
Mrs. Longworth were among
the guests, with the Secretary
of State and Mrs. Kellogg,
Secretary Mellon of the Treas
ury and the Secretary of Com
merce and Mrs. Hoover to rep
resent the Cabinet, and the
Minister of Canada and Mrs.
Massey.
CONGRESS had its representa-
~ tion in Senator William. E.
Borah, chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee of the SEN
ate; Senator and Mrs. Claude e.
Swanson; Representative Stephen
g, Porter, chairman of the For
eign Affairs Committee of the
House, and Representative and
Mrs. Charles J. Linthicum-Sena-
tor Swanson and Mr.; Linthicum
being included as the ranking
Democratic members of these i'm
portant committees. Mrs. Borah
was an absentee because of illness.
William Phillips, American Min
lister to Canada, and Mrs. Phil
lips, who had come to Wash.
ington for the period Of the
governor generals visit, were also
among those present, as was Mrs.
Wilbur j. Carr, wife of the As.
sistant Secretary of State, and
the group from the governor gen.
erals suite included his secretary.
e. c. Melville; Mrs. r. H. Os.
borne. a sort of social aide de
camp to Viscountess Hillingdon,
and Viscount Willingdon's aides,
Capt. the Hon. j. c. c. Jervis and
Captain the Viscount Hardinge.
MIR. AND MRS. sILAS H.
AVA sTRAWN. of Chicago, Miss
Mabel Boardman and Mrs. Will
liam Corcoran Eustis were included
in this highly official party, al
though they have no official con.
nection-unless Miss Boardman
may be described as the Minister
of Murray Bay" that delightful
Canadian summer colony, which is
SO popular with Washingtonians.
The company was completed by
the Secretary to the President and
Mrs. Sanders. Capt. Fred H. Poteet
and Lieut.. Col. Nelson E. Margetts,
American aides to the Governor
General, and the Presidents aides,
Col. Blanton Winship and Capt.
Blanton Winship.
HHE Minister of Canada and
4 Mrs. Massey will entertain
tonight in honor of Viscount and
Viscountess Willingdon at a. dinner
which will be largely official in its
makeup, and afterward they will
give reception for several hun.
dred guests from the official, diplo.
matte and resident groups. This
will be the first opportunity for
1onofficial folk to meet the dis.
tinguished visitors-excepting the
lew who were guests at the lunch.
con given yesterday by the Min.
1ster of Canada and Mrs. Massey.
C1MILAR informal luncheons,
~ attaining considerable pro.
portions, re booked for each day
OF the governor generals stay,
Today the guests asked to meet
the Governor General and Wis.
countess Willingdon were Senator
and Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry.
Mime. Philip. Roy, wife of the Ca.
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