Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-01
Diplomats and Society Folk
Observe New Year Eve.

Observe New Year Eve.
The Persian Minister. Mr.. Davoud
Meftah, entertained a party OF five at
the New Year eve supper dance and
carnival At the MSyeNHer last night.
The Minister will be the guest In
whose honor Mrs. Hamilton Wright
win entertain al tea this afternoon.
DR.. F'aik Konitza, the Albanian Min.
lister. entertained last night at the
New Year eve supper dance and carni.
val at the Mayfiower.
Representative and Mrs. David II.
kincheloe viii give a musical this eve
ming in their home at 5000 Thirteenth
street. when the program will be given
a. 2 O'Clock by Mr.. John Marville. bari.
tone. ana Miss Ruth Bondville of
Madison, KY, and Mr.. George Dixon
Thompson. pianis;s The program
will be followed by a buffet supper.
Representative and Mrs. s. Wallace
Dempsey were the honor guests at
the dinner which Mrs. Horace G..
Mac1arland gave last evening at the
Chevy Chase Club. Others in the
company were Commissioner and
airs. Frederick Irving Cox. Capt. and
Nrs. Walter CIosley. former Gov. and
Mrs Morrow OF Kentucky, Or. and
Mrs. de Saussure. DR.. and Mrs. Dav-
export White, Col. and Mrs. Edward
Clifford. Mrs. Matte Porter of Ken.
lucky, who Is spending the Winter
with Mrs. Macfariand: Mr.. Francois
Guer1n. Mr.. Markley Bethea, Mr.. VIII
aiam Hays Ackland and Mr.. Addison
F1ournoy.
The counselor of the legation Of
Sweden, Mr.. P. v. G. Assarsson, and
Baron Lennart Rape, attache. Of the
same legation, wore luncheon guests
yesterday in the presidential dining
room Of the Mayflower.
The councillor Of the German en-
bassy, DR.. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff,
who is about to leave Washington to
assume his now post as the councillor
of the German embassy in London,
was the guest Of honor at q luncheon
yesterday at the Willard, given by
the German press correspondents To-
Gated in Washington.
The director of the Bureau of the
Budget and Mrs. Lord will not be at
home today. Mrs. Lord will receive
the first Friday in January.
The newly appointed Assistant At
torney General and Mrs. George r.
Farnum will arrive in Washington to-
day from Melrose, Mass, and will take
up their residence at the Mayfiower,
where they have leased an apartment.
Mrs. Rathbone, wife Of Representa-.
aive Henry r. Rathbone Of Illinois,
Will be the guest Of honor at the
weekly tea of the Congressional Club
Friday afternoon, January Z. Mrs
Rathbone win give readings Of her
original poems at 8 o'clock and Mr..
Robert Davidson, baritone, will sing
several numbers The program viii
be followed by tea.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Charles J. Sum.
Merall, who are holding q New Year
reception tomorrow afternoon in their
quarters at Fort Myer, from to z
o'clock, Will not be at home next Sun.
day afternoon, but viii resume their
Sunday afternoons at home January
56.
Mrs. Hamilton Wright will be
hostess at tea this afternoon in COM
pliment to the new Minister Of Persia,
Mira Davoud Khan Meftah.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean
gave their annual New Year eve din
ner and ball in their city home at
1900 I street when their guests were
West Point cadets, Annapolis midship-
men, debutantes of this season and
many of those older in society. Mr..
5 and Mrs. Mclean entertained about
200 at dinner and those invited for
dancing later were about 1000. The
house was gay with Christmas greens
and reds and buffet supper was
served just before midnight.
DIR. and Mrs. Boyd Carpenter will
give q New Year tea this afternoon to
meet Mrs. Jessie Emerson Moffat of
New York from 4 to z o'clock in their
homo at West Melrose street, Chevy
Chase, Md. DIR. and Mrs. Carpenter
and Mrs. Moffat will be assisted in
receiving by Mira. Moffat's debutaute
daughter, Miss Idanthea Moffat.
Miss Idanthes Moffat, debutante
daughter OF Mrs. Jessie Emerson Moi
tat, has as, het guest Hiss Ruth Hol-
finger Of Ohio, who will remain
through text week ant assist at the
debut OF Miss AIoffat Wednesday aft
ernoon ae the Mayf,ower.
Mr.. anu Afrx Patton Wise Slemp of
Cincinnati are spending today with
the lattorA pa-a ents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Dennetr. Mr. and Mrs. Slemp
have been il. New York for the holi.
days and Mr.. Sleinp will return to
Cincinnati the first Of the week; ,eav.
ing Mrs. Slemp, who was before her
marriage Miss Dorothy bennett, to
spend two months with her parents
here.
Mai. and Mrs. John d. Burnett en-
tertained at the New Year eve sup
perdance at the Wardman Park Hotel
last evening following the dinner given
by Mai. and Mrs. T. II. Lowe, when
their guests were the military attache
of the Spanish embassy, Maj. v. Casa
1us: Miss O'Meara, Miss Eileen
O'Meara and Mr.. J. w. Carroll.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Justice Mueller,
ar. will give q dance this evening at
the Masfower for their daughter,
Miss Grace Antoinette Mueller, who
was presented at a tea which her par
ents gave December IA.
Mr.. Samuel NJ. Shortridge, jr., ar
rived in Washington this morning
from San Francisco to visit mis- father
Senator Shortridge of California, who
has I'M apartment at the Mayfiower.
Mss Ethe!dreda Seabury, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Marston
Seabury OF New York, sailed yester.
day aboard the Arabic and will visit
her brother in-law and sister. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Savage Croker, I'd, IN
Budapest, where Mr.. Croker IL now
serving as first secretary OF the
United States legation, having recently
been transferred from the United
States embassy in Rome. where he
was third secretary. Mrs. Croker
was formerly Miss Lispenard Seabury
and was presented to Washington So
ciety several seasons ago by her aunt
Mrs. Kautz, wife of Capt. Austin
Kautz, u. s. N.