The Washington times., 1927-12-24
Dr.. and Mrs. Harrington to Hare
Imaginative Christmas Celebration
Old Time Yuletide Gus
toms to Be Feature Of
Party Hindu Play,
sShakuntala Z Will Be
Presented
By JEAN ELIOT

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nHRIsTMAS EVE is'taking
on more and more pic
turesque aspects from year
to year, with the community
tree blossoming into glitter
ing splendor at President
Coolidge's touch, candles in
the windows and groups,
small and large, joining in a
hook-up Of Christmas carol
singing covering the whole
land.
DUT to my mind, DR.. and
~ Mrs. Frederick E. Earring
toms annual Christmas Eve
party is the most imaginative
and delightful holiday celebra-.
tion that I know about and the
one most pervaded with the
true Christmas spirit.
DR.. Harrington, it viii be re-
membered, is the principal Of
the Chevy Chase School. The
girls 60 home for the holidays,
SO the Farringt3ns have room
enough to tuck away i large
number Of guests ard they
usually keep about half their
party overnight to come to-
gether again for breakfast on
Christmas morning.
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DUT that's putting the cart be-
~ fore the hose. Guests win
assemble at the home of DR.. and
Mrs. Harrington at o'clock this
evening. the little theater Of the
school being the scene Of the first
part Of the program. With the
auditorium darkened, Christmas
carols win be sung, the audience
picking up the refrain from a
choir behind the scenes. The
play. which is annually feature
OF this holiday celebration. will
follow. This is always something
which has not been given sbefore
in this country and always pro-
duction which is spiritually slim
ulating and artistically satisfy.
ing.
After this comes supper--a good
old-fashioned English feast. with
the boar's head in the place OF
honor and the menu made up OF
familiar Yuletide dishes. And
after this, in turn, the guests
gather about great Yule log to
tell stories and listen to the waits
caroling without until the small
hours of the morning when some
drift homeward and others retire
to come together again for break
fast on Christmas morning.
THE play chosen for this year
= is ''Shakuntala," the work Of
Kalidasa. Hindu poet or $500
years ago. While. Of course. it
does not deal with the Christmas
legend but with Hindu folk lore,
1t IL filled with mystical beauty.
There Is lovely incidental music
and several charming lyrics pune
Z tuate the sequence.
Miss Carolyn Mckinley will have
the role Of Shakuntala, with
Maurice Jarvis in the opposite
role, and others in the cast are
Theodore Hardy, Martin Scran-
mage. John Long, Gideon Lyon,
Paul Hunter, Conrad Young, Ar.
thur White, Miss Hattie Murphy,
Miss Mary Marshall, Miss Pattie
Williamson, Mrs. Philip Smith.
Miss Virginia Hardy sand Mrs.
Eugene Stephens. with Edmund
Deviin In child's part.
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TINE invitations for this Christ
mas party OF the Earring
tons are really works Of art
illuminated on parchment and
phrased in the, picturesque Ian
guage Of centuries ago.
DR.. and Mrs. Harrington are
entertaining q Christmas house
party, their guests including DR..
and Mrs. Henry Suvvallo, OF the
I University OF Washington: DR..
and Mrs. Henry X. McComas
and George Peck, Of Princeton:
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ridgely Tor
renee, Of New York Mrs. Tor
renee widely known ana well re.S
membered in washington as
Olivia Dunbar
THE Minister of Hungary ana
il Countess Szechenyi viii give
= ball at the legation on New
Year Eve.
The Charge d'Affaires Of Ger
many and Mrs. O. G. Kiep will
entertain the staff Of the EN-.
bassy at dinner in their apart
rineilt at the Wardman Park Hotel
tomorrow. DIR. and Mrs. Kiep
will leave tomorrow evening for
New York to remain until the
end Of the week, returning In
time for the diplomatic reception
on New Year Day.
A*H
Mai. Gen. William Crozier, IT,.
s. A.. retired, former chief OF
ordnance. and Mrs. Crozier, have
!. arrived in Washington after an
absence Of two years spent in
the Far East, and are at the
Wardman Park Hotel for an ex-
tended stay.
Edward Van Devanter left
this afternoon to spend Christmas
with his sister, Mrs. Robert Jan.
riey McCray. at her country
place near Leesburg. Va. He
viii return TO washington Mon
day afternoon.