The Washington times., 1928-04-23
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY IN THE CAPITAL
Society VIII Attend Concert Of
Washington National Opera
Paul Althouse and Rosa
Low to Give Program
This Afternoon at the
Mayflower Hotel

This Afternoon at the
| Mayflower Hotel
Washington has certainly
had its opera in concentrated
form this season. Either by
intention or accident one
opera company's productions
have followed another.
The Washington National :
Opera Company opened the
season early in December,
putting on a program for a
week. Then before the tones
from those operas had been
dimmed in memory along
came the debut here of the
American Opera Company,
with q three-day run.
Al few weeks elapsed and the
Washington Opera came to the
front again with q program of
two weeks, featuring several
artists of various lands. This
was uerhaps q bit too ambitious
for Washington, which still
takes opera rather as an artistic
dessert and not an essential
food.
The Metropolitan Opera paid
its visit last week, climaxing it's
program with "Tannhauser" on
Saturday evening.
And this afternoon the Wash
angton Opera Company is putting
on e. concert in the ballroom Of
the Mayflower Hotel with the
opera stars, Paul Althouse, tenor,
and Rosa Low, soprano. as the
artists.
Keenly interested
washington society Ii .keenly
interested In the success of its
own opera company and In the
efforts OF its director, Edouard
Albion, ana Mrs. Albion. to give
Washington this musical expires
sion.
So the ballroom Of the May.
flower viii have In its audience
this afternoon names that mean
much in the social and artistic
life OF Washington.
Among those sponsoring the
concert, which begins at 4tS0, are:
The Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr.. Mellon; the Secretary of the
Interior, DR.. Hubert Work; Mrs.
Dwight f.. Davis, Mrs. Harry S.
New, Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur, Mrs.
Louis d. Brandeis, Nine. Ferrara,
Nine. Simopoulos, Nine. Prochnik.
Nine. Morales, Nine. Bachke, Mrs.
Hiram Bingham, Mrs. Lawrence
G. Phillips, Mrs. Key Pittman,
Mrs. Frederick Sackett, Mrs. Cop
ley Amory, Mrs. Charles J. Bell,
Mrs. Perry Belmont, Miss Mabel
Boardman. Mrs. Mitchell Carroll,
Mrs. o. b. Campbell, Mrs. G.. r.
Cecil, Mrs Henry Getty Chiffon,
Mrs. Parker Corning, Mrs. Tracy
bows. Mrs. Hayne Ellis, Mrs.
Henry w. Fitch, Mrs. w. S.
Groesbeck Fowler, Mrs. Christian
Heurich, Mrs. Lawrence Heap,
Mrs. s. ]. Henry, Mrs. A. Geary
johnson, Mrs. Francis T. A. Jun.
kin, Mrs. August King-Smith,
Mrs. Marshall Langhorne, Mrs.
Frank Let's, Mime. e. Lombard
and Mrs. James z. Mann.
Attractive Ushers
Mrs. Gerrit s. Miller, Mrs. or.
den L. Mills. Mrs. Tasker oddie,
Mrs. Edwin B. Parker Mrs. James
Southworth Parker, Mrs. Duncan
Phillips, Mrs. Thomas w, Phil.
lips, Mrs. John L. Proctor, Mrs.
William Mcclellan Ritter. Mrs.
Hope Slater, Miss Jessica Ran.
dolph Smith, Mrs. Mary Stewart.
Mrs. Alfred Pembroke Thorn, Mrs.
John Holabird Towne, Mrs. Ed
ward K. Tyler. Mrs. Carlton Van
Valkenburg. Mrs. Hugh Wallace,
Mrs. Edward C.. Walker Mrs.
Bates Warren, Mrs. Joseph e.
Washington. Mrs. Henry w. Wat
son, Mrs. John Campbell White,
Mrs. G. Wilkes, Mrs. Charles
Bougiton Wood and Miss Sarah
Elizabeth Woodward.
The ushers' committee is headed
by Lila lie Garde. Members of
the committee are Miss Margaret
Bacon, Miss Eleanor Smith, Miss
Ruth Jones, Miss Exilona Hamil-
ton, Miss Frances Gore, Miss
Sarah Major. Miss Lillian Lati.
mer, Miss Caroline Wilcox and
Miss Margaret Bouve.
X X
The Assistant Military Attache
OF the French Embassy and Mime.
Lombard have returned from
Cleveland, where they were the
guests at the country home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Scott. Mr..
Scott was the chairman of the
munitions board during the World
War.
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Military Attaches