Evening star., 1927-12-02
SOCIETY
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Col and Mrs. w. w. Overton, Col.
and Mrs. c. c. Whitcombe, Maj. and
Mrs. j. B. Gillespie. Maj. and Mrs.
LAWSON Adkins, Col. and Mrs. c. A.
THUS, Col and Mrs. E. V. Bookmiller,
Mai. and Mrs. T. A. Clark, Maj. and
Mrs. d. ]. Woolnough, Gen. and Mrs.
H Deakyne, Maj. and Mrs. L. c.
Crawford, Maj. and Mrs. j. d. Rear
Mrs. E. p. Orton, Brig. Gen. and Mrs.
j. N. Kennedy. Maj. and Mrs. r. G.
O'Brien, Col and Mrs. j. NJ. Graham
and Gen. and Mrs. w. j. Nicholson.
Judge Timothy T. Ansberry of Ohio
was host at dinner last evening at the
Carlton Hotel, his guests being Sem
ator Key Pittman, Representative
John H. Garner. Representative Cor
dell Hull. Representative William A.
Oldtield, Mr.. James Kerney, Mr.. Jo-
seph p. Tumulty, Mr.. Frederick Steck-
man. Mr.. Robert Callahan, Mr. E. J.
Walsh, Mr.. Cy Cummings, Mr.. Ed
ward Halsey. Mr.. George O'Connor,
Mr.. Matt Horn and Mr.. William Nc
Nally.
Senator-elect Frank L. Smith of Hi.
nois. who is in Washington for the
purpose of taking his seat in the
Senate as a newly elected member, is
at the Carlton with Mrs. Smith for
several weeks.
Consul General and Mrs. Nathaniel
B. Stewart will arrive in Washington
Friday from Barcelona. where Mr..
Stewart is stationed. While here they
will be the house guests of Maj. and
Mrs. James L. Fort, at $500 street.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Brown Scott
have gone to New York and are at the
Waldorf-Astoria for short stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. southgate have
returned to their former apartment, at
the Wardman Park Hotel Mr.. and
Mrs. Southgate spent the Summer
months at their home, in Oysterville,
Cape Cod, Cedar Knoll and since then
have been residing at the Ritz-Carlton,
in Boston.
Mrs. Henry Rea and her daughter.
Miss Edith Anne Rea, who have been
in their villa, Lagomar. at Palm Beach
for short stay, have started North
and will stop in Washington for a
few days on their way to their home
in Pittsburgh, to spend Christmas.
They will return to Palm Beach early
in the new year.
Mrs. Coolidge heads the list of
patronesses for the marionette show
to be given by the Yale Puppeteers at
the Y. w. c. A. Auditorium December
20. for the benefit of the Bryn Mawr
scholarship, fund. Others who will act
are: Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mrs
Louis D. Brandeis, Mrs. Charles P.
Sunmerall Mrs. Chandler Hale, Mrs
Frederic Holton. Mrs. Edward Meigs.
Miss Jessie c. Mcdonald, Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, Mrs. George III. Myers, Mrs.
Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mrs. Walter
Tuckerman and Mrs. David Wing.
A distinguished company has accept
ed invitations of the Bureau of Com
mercial Economies to the diplomatic
motion pictures on Czechoslovakia to
be shown at 8 o'clock Sunday evening
in the patio of the Carlton Hotel.
Among those who are expected to at.
tend are the Minister of Hungary
Count Laszlo Szechenyi; the Minister
of Rumania, Mr.. George Cretziano;
the Minister of the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes, Mr.. Voislav Antonievitch
the Minister of Czechoslovakia Mr..
Zdenek Fierlinger; the Minister of Fin
land, Mr.. Axel Leonard Astrom; Sem
ator Harry B. Hawes of Missouri,
Senator Lee Slater Overman of North
Carolina, Senator Andrieus A. Jones of
New Mexico and Mrs. Jones, Senator
James Couzens of Michigan. Repre-
sentative j. T. Deal. Representative
Henry w. Watson, Representative
Bertrand H. Snell and many others.
The concert to be given by the well
known soprano, Idalia Hare of New
York City. at the Mayf1ower Sunday
night. under the distinguished patron
age of the Duchess de Vendome, the
Ambassador of France and Nine.
(tatfd0l and tho M, dnys nf Dol
gium and Princess de Ligne, for the
benefit of the Duchess de Vendome's
Home for Babies at Sedan-Torcy in
France, is attracting much interest in
the National Capital.
Prominent members of the diplo-
matic corps as well as leaders in the
official and social life here have be-
come patrons and patronesses of the
event, which has now taken on an inn
portant social as well as musical char
acter.
The Italian Ambassador and Nine.
de MARITIME. the Cuban Ambassador
and Nine de Ferrera, the counselor of
the Polish legation and Nine. Wan
kowiscZ, Capt. and Nine. Willm of the
French embassy, Miss Belle Gurnee of
New York, Mrs. Lawrence Townsend,
Mrs. Lyman Kendall and Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Tuckerman are among those
who will be present on Sunday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert s. Bryant
announce the engagement of their
daughter Katherine Gertrude to Mr..
Joseph Bush Kingsbury Of Usage,
Iowa.
Mrs. Watson E. Coleman enter.
tanned at luncheon yesterday in the
Willard Hotel in honor of Mrs. Harold
w. Byron of Mercersburg. Pa, who
will sail shortly to pass the Winter In
South America and Africa.
Luncheon at Carlton for
Winner of Contest Prize.
The Highway Education Board gave
q luncheon today in the patio of the
Carlton Hotel in honor of Miss Bethel
Pugh Of Pueblo, Colo, winner over
more than 400 900 contestants in ma
tional safety essay contest conducted
by the Highway Education Board, and
in honor of Miss Elizabeth NJ. S.
Laughton of Boston. who was the sue
cessful contestant in companion con-
test among elementary schoo teach
ers. Among those who accepted invi-
tations to be present were:
Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur, Mrs. John B.
Henderson, DR.. John j. Tigert, United
States commissioner Of education, and
Mrs Tigert; Mrs. w. r. Dunlap. MIR.
and Mrs. William Manger. Assistant