The Washington times., 1928-04-18
Embassy Dinner Starts Round OF Entertaining
For BOnny Bride; International Wedding April %

Br1tlSh Ambassador anu
Lady Isabella Howard
/ Hosts to Young Peo-
pies Group
a round of entertaining
for Miss Janet Phillips and
her fiance, Leander McCor-
mick Goodhart, began last
evening with an embassy
dinner-the British Embassy,
naturally enough, as Mr..
McC ormickrG o o d h a TT has
been serving as commercial
counselor thereof for several
years.
Il A Youthful Group
The British Ambassador and
Lady Isabella Howard, most
charming hosts, had assembled
d group of guests which was
preponderantly youthful in its
makeup. Miss Phillips parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas w. Phil
lips, jr., were present, with Mrs.
Frederick McCorInick Goodhart
and Hamilton Nee ormick- Good
hart, mother and brother of
the bridegroom-elect, and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Getty Chiffon,
of the embassy staff.
Other Guests
For the rest the company In
eluded Major and Mrs. Alfonso
Reyes, but newly arrived for a.
visit to Mrs. Reyes father, the
Minister of Ireland; Miss Betty
Chiffon, Miss Alice Davis, daugh.
ter of the Secretary of War:
Hiss Janet Newbold, Miss Laura
Towne, Miss Evelyn Walker, Miss
Helen Robinson. Miss Francesca
Stewart; the charge d'affaires
Of Argentina, Felipe Espil-soon
20 leave Washington for q min
dsteriaI post-Robert Silvercruys,
Of the Belgian Embassy: Mariana
Amoedo, Of the Italian Embassy:
Theodore Mariner, of the State
Department; Capt. j. 8. NJ. Richie,
Ronald Ian Campbell, and Mi
chael Wright, Of the British
Embassy, and Mr.. Craigie.
A Splendid Dover
This international marriage be-
tween q foreign diplomat and
m American heiress-Without at
least one Of which no Wash.
ington season IS completes set
FOR April % in the Bethlehem
Chapel Of the Cathedral. A
scion OF the Chicago McCormiclxs.
which, in addition to nnanufac.
turers and milIionaires, has given
statesmen, editors and diplomats
20 the service Of the United
States. Mr.. McCormick-G oodhart
has a comfortable private for
tune and II quite independent Of
the dover Mr.. Phillips is giving
his pretty daughter. which reli.
able authority places at anywhere
from 100000 to $4,000 It
comes from that splendid coal,
coke and iron domain in West.
ern Pennsylvania where Thomas
". Phillips. grandfather of the
bride, was an important citizen
In his day, as well az q mem.
chr Of Congress from his dis
trict. Thomas w. Phillips, jr..
Il win be remembered. represent
I'd Pennsylvania district In
Congress for several years, but
refused to stand for reelection
n the last campaign, preferring
TO so down to defeat as cam
didate for governor Of Pennsyl-
vania.
Mr.. McCormick-Goodhart and
his bride viii spend their honey
moon abroad, but It seems to be
understood that the British dip
lonat win follow the example Of
the Hon. John Francis Amherst
Cecil. who married Miss Cornelia
Vanderbilt, IN living in his wife's
country. He is half American,
anyway. and his mothers per.
nanent home is at Langley Park,
Just over the Maryland line
from Washington.
President Coolidge will attend
the opening tonight of the Metro
politan Opera Company's brief
Washington season, when Norma
will be presented at Polls Thea
ter before a. brilliant audience. 1t
has not yet been decided whether
or not Mrs. Coolidge will accom-
pany him. She is still conserv-
ing her strength after her recent
illness, and Is making few en-
gagements.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger
will entertain a large company at
dinner tomorrow evening in their
home at Is Dupont Circle in
honor of the Wee President and
Mrs. Dawes.
Tea for Ambassadors
Madame Dayila, wife OF the Am.
bassador of Chile, is the guest in
whose honor Madame Ramirez,