Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
NOTABLE LEADERS
MEET AT BANQUET
President and Mrs. Coolidge
Head Distinguished Guests
of Secretary Work.

The President and Mrs. Coolidge
Joined a brilliant company of business.
political and financial leaders of the
Nation and members of the cabinet
at dinner given last night in the
Pan-American Union Building by Sec
rotary of the Interior Work.
Two of Americas wealthiest men,
Henry Ford, multi-mililonaire auto
mobile manufacturer. and Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon, attended the
dinner, given in the picturesque
Hall of the Americas" From every
standpoint the company was the most
important. attending any dinner given
during the Coolidge administration.
Details for the reception and enter
tainment were in keeping with its i'm
portance.
Building Splendidly Decorated.
The Pan-American Building, always
considered the most effective place in
Washington for entertaining, was
splendidly decorated with flowers,
ferns, palms and slender cedars. AS
the guests entered the building they
faced the patio, where soft lights fell
over the rare tropical growth and the
illumiaatcd Aztec fountain.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
stood with the host Secretary Work,
and his daughter, Mrs. Avis w. Bis
sell of Evanston, ILL.,. at the head Of
the broad marble stairway and met
the guests as they arrived for the
dinner.
The oblong table had q hollow CEN
ter filed with ferns. with fountains
playing under colored lights and huge
white daisies holding their petaled
heads over a, bed of ferns. Three tall
standards of moss green rose from
the center decoration and were filled
with graceful branches OF yellow
| forSytnia.
List of Guests.
The guests included: The President
| ana Mrs. Coolidge the Ambassador
| of Great Britain and Lady Isabella
Howard, Mr.. Justice Stone and Mrs.
| Stone, Andrew w. Mellon, Secretary
| of the Treasury; the Secretary of
| Commerce and Mrs. Hoover, Gov.
| Fisher of Pennsylvania. Maj, Gen.
| Charles p. Summerall, chief of staff,
| u S. A, and Mrs. Summerall; Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Ford; George East
man, president the Eastman Kodak
Co; Arthur Brisbane, chief editorial
| writer of the Hearst publications, and
Mrs. Brisbane; Harvey S. Firestone,
| president the F1reStOne IRE ana tup-
| her Co., and Mrs Firestone; former
Senator Simon Guggenheim and Mrs.
| Guggenheim.
CYRUS H. X. Curtis Of the Curtis
Publishing Co. and Mrs. Curtis; Kent
Cooper. general manager the Associ-
ated Press, and Mrs. Cooper; Adolph
s. Ochs of the New York Times and
Mrs. Ochs; Ogden NJ. Reid of the New
York Herald Tribune and Mrs. Reid;
Roy W. Howard, chairman the
| Scripps- Howard Newspaper Associ-
alton, and Mrs. Howard; John w.
OLeary, president Chamber of Com
merce Of the United States, and Mrs.
OLeary; DIR. Wendell G. Phillips,
president American Medical Associa-
ton, and Mrs. Phillips; Patrick T.,
| Crowley, president the New York
Central Lines, and Mrs. Crowley; DR..
and Mrs. Charles w. Richardson; Mrs.
Alvin r. Hert, vice chairman Republ1-
can national committee; Mrs. Stephen
B. Elkins, Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs.
Henry r. Dimock, Mrs. N. S. Walpole
Of Pueblo, Colo; Miss Mabel t. Board
man; VIII Fl. Hays, DR.. L. S. Rowe,
director general PAN American Union,
and DR. HoSiah H. Penniman, provost
University of Pennsylvania.
John D. Rockefeller, jr., Charles M.
Schwab and Ebert II. Gary We're UNI
able to attend the dinner.