The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-21
JEAN ELIOTS NEWS OF SOCIETY
Secretary of Var and Secretary OF Navy
Head Official Delegation to Arny-NaUy Game
Many Parties Planned;
Assistant Secretaries
Will Attend With Group
Of Guests
BY JEAN ELIOT

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WITH the President and Mrs.
w Coolidge passing up" the
historic Army-Navy game, the Sec
retary Of War and the Secretary OF
the Navy will represent the Admin
ietration. They will occupy boxes on
0uposita sides Of the field and there
will he many other officials in the
great delegation from Washington,
which will make pilgrimage to New
York for the service football classic.
The Secretary of War and Mrs.
Davis. who will leave town Tor
New York on Friday. will have
their debutante daughter, Miss Alice
Brooks Davis, in their party ana
their son. Dwight F.. Davis, Jr.,
who is at Harvard, will join them
IA New York. They will also have
several guests with them.
The Secretary Of the Navy ana
Mrs. Wilbur will be hosts to the
Secretary of Commerce and Mrs.
Hoover and the Secretary of Labor
and Mrs. Davis; and will also nave
with them Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart
Cramer, Of North Carolina, who
have been in the Secretary Of the
Navy's box at the Army and Navy
game, for the last several years. A
year ago Mrs. Wilbur did not go
TO the game, held in Chicago, but
Mr.. and Mrs. Cramer accompanied
the secretary on his journey West.
Mrs. New, wife of the Postmaster
General, is also planning to attend
the Army-Navy game. She will
motor to New York. leaving town
on Wednesday with Mrs. Parker
Hit, and while in New York will
be the guest of Mrs. Tomlinson
Brush, who has frequently visited
her here and who Is expected early
IA December to be her guest.
Junior Cabinet" Representation
For the last two or three years
the Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy, Theodore Douglas Robinson,
has been the moving spirit in
organizing a party of the younger
official group to journey up to New
York together by private car, take
in the game and have some sort Of
q celebration afterward This time
Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson are In New
York, where they were called by
the illness of their son, Theodore
Douglas Robinson, jr., and if they
go to the game at all it will prob
ably be with family party. But
Assistant Secretary of War and
Mrs. Hanford MacNider are plan
ming to attend. So are F. Trubee
Dawson, Assistant Secretary of
and Edward P. Warner, Assistant
Secretary Of the Navy for Aviation.
Each will have guests.
Others Who Will Attend
Representative and Mrs. Fred
Britten will leave town on Friday
and will take guests to the game on
Saturday. Others who are planning
to be present are Admiral and Mrs.
Edward w. Eberle, Brig. Gen and
Mrs. George Barnett, Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Arthur Willard, Capt. and
Mrs. Emory s. Land, Capt. and
Mrs. Thomas T. Craven and Col.
and Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee.
The Lees will leave on Friday
for New Yark and will stay at the
Roosevelt Hotel. They will be joined
by Mrs. Lees son, Cadet Fletcher
Cole, who is student at the
Military Academy.
Mrs. Joseph Bley left yesterday
for New York. where she will be
at the Barclay Hotel for Thanks.
giving holiday and the my.Navy
game. Mr.. Bley will Join her on
Wednesday. and they will return
to their Wardman Parry apartment
the first of next week.
Judge and Mrs. John W. Price
will accompany their son, Lieut..
John W. Price, jr., U. S. N, to New
York for the game. Lieutenant
Price will come to Washington to-
morrow to spend Thanksgiving with
his parents, who have reopened
their apartment at Wardman Park
Hotel, after having spent the sum-
1ner at their country home near
Mt. Vernon.
MRS. COOLIDGE
TO RECEIVE TODAY
Mrs. Coolidge is receiving a group
at o'clock this afternoon.
Mrs. Harry S. New. wife of the
Postmaster General. will entertain
at dinner this evening in honor of
Mrs. Thomas r. Marshall.
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