The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-20
OPERAARTISTS
TO BE FETED
THIS WEEK !.
Gala Performance Prom
ised for Tonight; Eng
lish Opera Tomorrow

INcS Ii 14Ano "a A0hOA ~ tAS
Il visiting artists who are here
for the Washington Opera Com.
pany's international festival will
be many and varied. the Ger
man Ambassador and Nine. Won
Prittwitz will emit ertain at
luncheon on Friday for Heinrich
Knote, the famous German tenor.
who has come from Munich 10
sing in Tristan und Isolde" Sir
Adrian Baillie, of the British
Embassy staff, will give dinner
for Eugene Goossens, the English
conductor for Hugh the Drover,
and Tudor Davies, the. tenor. who
created the role of Hugh in Lon
don. Yesterday afternoon groups
OF patronesses had a series or
teas for the artists of various
nations taking part in the festival
and on Saturday night Represen-
tatiye and Mrs. Henry Riggs Rath-
bone had a supper party follow
ing the opera performances, with
Nine. Luella Melius, the prima
donna in a colorful production OF
''Iakme." joining their guests.
The Ambassador of Italy and
Donna Antonietta de MARITIME have
q box for the presentation OF
'sTosca" tonight and tomorrow
evening the British Ambassador
and Lady Isabella Howard will
take guests to hear Hugh the
Drover." Others who will enter
tain box parties tomorrow are Sir
Adrian BailIie, Mrs. e. G. Walker.
Mrs. F. B. Moran. Mrs. Stokes
Halkett and Mrs. Henry Strong.
There was a brilliant audience
for .sIakme" on Saturday evening,
the French Ambassador and Nine.
Claudel entertaining guests In
their box and the Turkish Ambas-
sador. Ahmed Mouhtar Bey. at
tending. with the Counselor OF the
Embassy and Mime. Bedi Bey and
other members Of the staff. KEEP
resentatiVe and Mrs. Rathpone
also had a box party.
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Nine. Samy Pasha. wife of the
Egvptian minister, will be the
guest in whose honor Mrs. Charles
Williamson will entertain al
luncheon in the F'lorentine room
at the Wardman Park Hotel TO-
morrow.
TIME Captain and Officers OIL
i the MayfIower are entertain
ing a large company at tea
this afternoon from 4;SO to
o'clock on board the President
Yacht. Assisting in receiving VIII
be the wives of some OF the
officers stationed at the Navy
yard. Capt. Wilson Brown, naval
aid to the President. il In COM
tnand of the Mayflower.
Miss Vera Bloom, daughter OF
Representative and Mrs. Sol
Bloom. entertained informally at
supper last evening in their
apartment at 1922 Sixteenth st.
MAJ. GEN. AND MRS. AMOS
wi FRIES entertained last eve.
ming at one Of a series of Sunday
evening dinner parties they have
been giving through the season.
Guests were Representative and
Mrs. John s. Miller. Represen-
tative and Mrs. Roy A. Fitz-
gerald, Representative and Mrs.
Homer Hoch, Gen. and MRS.
Briant A. Wells, and Major and
Mrs. Roy r. Fitzgerald.
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EINAL rehearsals of all pageant
4 groups taking part in the
Garden Party on the Potomac"
are being held this afternoon ur.
der Mrs. Walter Tuckerman's
direction in the Mayflower ball.
rooms. which later will be turned
into the gateway and arbOr of an
old-time Potomac River mansion
under the expert hands OF the
committee on decorations, includ-
ing Mrs. James A. Lyon, Miss
Grace Lincoln Temple, Prof. Norris
/. Crandall, Miss M. Lillian Burke
and John H. Small, Bird.
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman will
appear as Martha Washington,
Carlton Van Valkenhurg as George
Washington, Will C. Barnes as
BENJAMIN Franklin, and many
other prominent Washingtonians
will take important roles in the
Garden Party on the Potomac
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