The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-09
JEAN ELIOT's NEWS OF CAPITAL SOCIETY
Wealth, Influence and Fashion
At Dinner TO President Coolidge
DR.. Work Host to- Bril-
liant Company at Pan
American Union
Nv JEAN ELIOT

by JEAN GAAAUL ~
UlIE PRESIDENT AND MRS.
COOLIDGE were guests last
night Of DR.. Hubert Work. secre-
tary Of the Interior. who entertained
ST dinner for them at the Pan Amer
lean Union.
Not since some of the State din.
ners at the White House in the
Harding Administration has there
been such an assemblake in Wash
ington Of Industrial leaders, Wall
Street magnates and influential mem.
bers or the fourth estate as met last
evening about the great flower laden
table IN the Hall Of the Americas.
Mrs. Avis w. Blssell. daughter OF
eecretary Work, was hostess.
.'Big business" was represented by
some Of its most distinguished sons,
among them Henry Ford, who was
accompanied by Mrs. Ford. Mr.. and
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr., had
accepted an invitation to be present,
but were obliged later to send re.
arets. However, Secretary Mellon
Of the Treasury was q guest, 90
there were two Of 1.-THE three richest
men in the world" present. Presi-
dent Coolidge must have felt much
like the proverbiaI ''poor boy at a
frolic."
Among the Absentees
Almost Of much interest attaches
to those who were not present as to
those who were last evening. DIR.
and Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler
had accepted but the president Of
Columbia University wired his Ere
grets" yesterday afternoon. Perhaps
he thought It might be an embar-
RAISING moment to break bread with
President Coolidge so soon after his
speech predicting that President
Coolidge would not be candidate
for q third term which has
created such q political uproar.
Judge Ebert H, Gary and Charles
M. Schwab-America's most import
ant steel n1Agnates--had been In
vited, with their wives. but were not
able TO be present. Judge Gary was
i'll and Mr.. Schwab Is in Europe.
Others who sent regrets probably
with very genuine regret, were Mr..
and Mrs. Cyrus H. K. Curtis-Mr.
Curtis is head OF the Curtis Pub
fishing Company-Roy X. Howard,
Of the Scripps-Howard chain of
newspapers, and Mrs. Howard and
Win Hays, ''cxar OF the movies"
and one.tins Postmaster General.
A Departure From Custom
In inviting some Of his fellow
Cabinet members to meet the Presi-
dent at dinner. Or. Work departed
from recent custom. In the old
days only members Of the Presidents
official family and their women folk
were invited to the round OF Cabinet
dinners for the Chief Executive. but
President Roosevelt rebelled at see.
ing the same faces every week and
at his ipstigation the Cabineteers
began to go afield for their guests.
During the Coolidge Administration
small dinners. with the guests re-
cruited from the home districts of
the hosts, have been the vogue. But
Secretary Work had asked an i'm
posing group OF guests and among
them were the Secretary of Com.
merce and Mrs. Hoover, as well as
Secretary Mellon. Governor Fisher
Of PennsylvaniA--a boyhood friend
OF Secretary Work-was also in the
company.
A Notable Company
The British Ambassador and Lady
Isabella Howard were present--an.
other departure from precedent to
include any Of the diplomats at a
dinner to the President. Others in
the brilliant company were Justice
and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone. Maj.
Gen. Charles p. Summerall, chief
of staff, and Mrs, Summerall; Mr..
George Eastman, Of the Eastman
Kodac Company; Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Brisbane, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey S. Firestone, Firestone Tire
and Rubber Company; Simon Gug.
genhein1, president Of the American
Smelling and Refining Company;
Mr.. and Mrs. Kent Cooper, A. r.;
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Ochs, New
York Times; Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden
Mills Reid, New York Herald.
Tribune; John w. O'Leary, presi-
dent Of the United States Chamber
Of Commerce, and Mrs. O'Leary;
DR.. Wendell g. Phillips, president
Of the American Medical Associa-
ton, and Mrs. Phillips: Patrick E.
Crowley. president of the New York
Central Lines. and Mrs. Crowley;
DR.. and Mrs. Charles w. Richard
pOIts IL -. .. 1SOWSs uHCCtoT gen
eFal Of the Pan.American Union,
and DR., Josiah H. Penniman, pro.
vost Of the University OF Pennsyl.
vania.
A little group OF distinguished
women rounded out the party, In.
GLIDING Mrs. Alvin T. Hert. vice
chairman Of the Republican Ma
tional COMMITTEES: Mrs. Stephen B.
Elkins. Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs.
Henry F. Dimock. Miss Mabel
Boardnan and Mrs. ". 8. Walpole,
of Pueblo, Col.