The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-21
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY FOLKS
Brilliant Dinner Parties Precede
Period of Prayer and Fasting
Secretary Of Agriculture
to Entertain the Presi-
dent Tonight; Embassy
and Legation Fetes

GA4A &S5S~
MYTH Ash Wednesday in
w the offing, there seems
10 be an effort to crowd as
many festivities as possible
into the first few days of
this week.
srONIGHT the Secretary of
= Agriculture and Mrs. Jar
dine are having their dinner in
honor of the President and Mrs.
Coolidge leaving but two Of
the annual series of Cabinet
dinners for the Chief Executive
90 be given in Lent. And last
night there were two important
embassy dinners British and
French-as well as the Minister
of Rumania's dinner in honor
of the Secretary Of State and
Mrs. Kellogg. The last was
Followed by musicale, to which
. group Of distinguished guests
was asked to hear . program
presented by Countess Ortensio
EPiercy di Mignano, with Mrs.
Mildred Kolb Schultze at the
piano. Mile. Jeanne Cretziano,
daughter of the Rumanian min
lister and the only girl presiding
as chateiaine Of foreign lega-
ton in Washington, was hostess
for her father.
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UvEE British Ambassador. and
a Lady Isabella Howard were
hosts to q distinguished dinner
company, including the. japanese
Ambassador and Nine. Matsudalra.
the Spanish Ambassador and
Nine. Padilla, Senator and Mrs.
AJesse MetcaIf, Senator and Mrs.
Hiram johnson. Senator Bronson
sCuttfng,. the Austrian Minister
and Nine. Prochnik, the Persian
Minister. the Minister Of Norway
and Nine: Bachke, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Lansing, Or. ana Nine.
Kiep, Of the German Embassy;
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Denegre,
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Pinchot,
Alexis Aminoff, attacl1e Of the
swedish legation, and Nine. Ami
noff: Captain and Mrs. Knothe. OF
the British embassy: the Hon.
and Mrs. Merwyn Herbert, MIS-.
willard. Lady Lister Kaye MIS-.
William Barrett Ridgely. Miss
Gytha Stourton, G. Bascom Slemp'
Colonel Boal. and DR.. G. 4. Rich
ulond.
UHE French Ambassadors and
4 Nine. Claudel's guests were
Secretary Mellon OF the Treasury,
the Secretary of War and Mrs.
Davis. Senator and Mrs. Peter
Goelet Gerry, the Hungarian Min
lister and Countess Szechenyi. the
Polish Minister and Nine. Ciencna-
nowska, the Canadian Minister and
AIRS. Massey, Representative and
Mrs, Robert Low Bacon, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Campbell White, Gen.
and Mrs. Charles Sheriff., Of New
York; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
also Of New York; Mr.. and Mrs
Adolph Caspar Miller, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. r. Sands, Mrs. Hennen Jen.
mfnRs. Count de Sartiges and Fred.
.arick Knobei, OF the embassy. staff.
Ambassador and Nine. Claudel VIII
have another dinner tonight.
The guests asked to meet the
Gecretary OF State and Mrs. KEEL
sngg at the Rumanian Legation
dinner were the Ambassador OF
Brazil, S. Gurgel do Amaral; the
Undersecretary of. the Treasury
and Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Campbell Wallace, Mr..
and Mrs. John Philip Hill, Baron
and Baroness Won Boetzelaer, Miss
Patten, Mrs. Thomas g. Hether'
ington, Countess Ortensio Piercy
di Mignano, Princess Sturdza, Miss
Maron Trumbull, Frank B. Moves
Cleveland Perkins and g. How
land Shaw.
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The ladies' Of the Cabinet group
have discontinued their Wednes.
day afternoon receptions and viii
not be at home during Lent.
RRME. sAMY PAsHA, wife Of
IVA the Egyptian minister. was
the guest in whose honor Mrs
Charles ). Williamson enter.
tanned at luncheon in the Flor
entine room at the Wardman
park Hotel today. Other guests
were Mrs. Nathaniel Dial, Mrs
Adam NJ. Wyant, Mrs. Clyde
Kelly, Mrs. Merritte W. Ire.
land, Mrs. John Il. Bartlett
Mrs. w. Irving Glover. Mrs
Frank T. Hines, Mrs. Frank
W. Mondell, Mrs. Harry E. Hull
Mrs. J. A. Van Orsdel, Mrs.
George r. Clarke, Mrs. David
Mead Lea, Mrs. Carl Casey. Mrs
Blodgett Priest, Mrs. Charles
Graves Matthews, Mrs. r. A
Wolff. Mrs. William Hamilton
Bayly. Mrs. James M. Greene
Mrs. Hobart Hawkins. Mrs. Ell
bridge Moore, Mrs. Delos Blod
gett, Mrs. William w. Van Valzah
Mrs. Clifford Bergman. Mrs. A
p. Stewart, Mrs. Charles W
Richardson, Mrs. NJ. B. Ferris
Mrs. Harry r. Perry. Mrs. Luc!
Wilder Morris, Mrs. Robert Owen
Mrs. Sidney Andrews, Mrs. Har
ley Peyton Wilson, Mrs. Franz
W. Bacon and Miss Edna Patten
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MAJOR AND MRS. THoMAi
uA B. LARKIN are being con
graduated on the birth of |
daughter yesterday. They ar
making their home In Washing
ton, Major IlarIkin being on dut,
In the office OF the chief OF en-
gineers. Mrs. Larlxin, who wa