The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-21
CABINETEER'S
DAUGHTER
AT COURT
Miss Alice Brooks Davis
Presented With Wash
ington Group
By JEAN ELIOT


lngham- Palace. This is the third
court of the season and fourth
will be held tomorrow evening with
another American group honored.
Perhaps the most interesting
debutanteI. e., interesting to the
greatest number of peoples Miss
Alice Brooks Davis, daughter of
the Secretary of War and Mrs.
Dwight F. Davis, who is to be
presented to society in Washington
next winter and who is having a
preliminary experience of London
season.
Miss Davis had been in Paris in
school all winter and her mother
went over a few weeks ago to help
her make ready for this great occa-
sion. Mrs. Davis two younger
daughters and Dwight F. Davis, jr.,
who had been at Harvard, sailed
last week to meet their mother and
sister abroad, a governess going
along to play propriety for the
girls; and Secretary Davis is hop
ing that when vacation days roll
round he, too, may be able to slip
away for a short European trip.
Miss Lodge Presented
Miss Helena Lodge, another of
the debutante group, is listed as
'of Boston," but that's a claim
that Washington must protest. A
granddaughter of the late Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, she is tho
daughter of Mrs. George Cabot
Lodge, and much of her life has
been spent here. She is also
nd nIHCl1for nf Mrs Tho No
Cawley, under whose wing she
made her debut in Washington.
Then there's Miss Charlotte Bur-
rage, who is being presented with
her mother, Mrs. Guy Burrage. The
wife of Vice Admiral Guy Burrage,
who has until recently been in COM
mand of the American Naval forces
In European waters, Mrs. Burrage
and her daughter, who had been
with the admiral abroad, remained
over especially for the court. Ad-
miral Burrage returned aboard the
cruiser Memphis, which brought
Lindbergh to his triumphal home
coming. Just a little while before
she went abroad announcement was
made OF Miss Burrage's engagement
to Victor Freyre, son Of the Minister
of Bolivia to the United States. DIR.
Freyre has since been sent to Brazil
as his country's envoy and his son,
who was on his staff in Washington,
is likewise at Rio de Janeiro.
Nations HOnOred
Like Mrs. Burrage, Mrs. Mark
Bristol stayed abroad after her hus-
bands return to be presented at the
Court of st. James. Admiral Bristol,
it will be remembered, served for a
long and successful period as Ameri-
can High Commissioner at Con-
stantinople, his transfer TO the China
station being announced in the early
spring. He came home to report to
the Navy Department-and,I sup
pose, the State Observation-Disclosures
taking over his new duties, He will
meet Mrs. Bristol in Marseilles
whence they will sail some time next
/. month for Picking. The admiral is
to be in command of our forces in
Chinese waters.
DEPRESSION in Current History
Curiously enough Mrs. Lammot
Belin, who was also presented Tues
day, is the wife Of the American
foreign service official who may be
said to be picking up the threads OF
Admiral Bristo1's work IN Con-
stantinople. The opposition, in the
Senate has propounded the theory
that, since the treaty between the
United States and Turkey was re-
jected in the Senate, the State De-
partment cannot go about the bust
ness of re-establishing formal diplo-
matte relations with Turkey. But
the State Department has done 1t
and has named Joseph Grew as
Ambassador.
1t is expected that Mr.. Grew
will take up his new duties in
Turkey in August. Mr., .Belin was
sent out to Constantinople as first
secretary of embassy few months
ago and is now, in charge Of Uncle
Sans diplomatic interests. The
new embassy will be in Constan'
tinople, but a liaison officer will
be established in Angora, the old
capital of Turkey, which is again
the seat of the, Turkish govern
ment.
After Mrs. Belin's name in dis
patches appears *Philadelphia," but
the Belins now call Washington
home when not on foreign service.
Several years ago they purchased
historic Evermay in Georgetown
and remodeled with lavish 'expendi-
ture. restrained by fine taste and
discrimination, it is now one of
the most beautiful homes in the
Capital.
Mrs. Dewey HOnOred
Mrs. Charles S. Dewey, wife of
the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, who sailed a fl,rtnight
ago to spend the summer abroad,
is also among the Americans to
be honored at this court. If |
remember correctly her pretty
daughter. Miss Suzette Dewey.
was presented two years ago on
ton. Miss Dewey is with her
mother in London. as are the
younger members of the family.
and Mr.. Dewey hopes to join them
later
The only Washingtonian in the
group to be presented tomorrow is
Mrs. Harry Wardman. Mr.. Ward
man is an Englishman, who came
to Washington a penniless youth
and whose tremendously successful
business career is one of the ro-
mances of the Twentieth Century
Recently he built a palatial hotel,
The Park Lane, in London; and
Mrs. Wardman has been spending
a good deal of time in England
Of late. She's an American, an I'M
usually handsome woman and al
ways exceptionally chic.
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AT WILLIAMSBURG
FOR COMMENCEMENT
Gen.. Charles Summerall. chief
Cf staff and MrS C,1,1,p,oran I,o,,a