New Britain herald., 1929-10-26
SOCIAL RUSH 0N
 IN NATIONAL SET
Washington Group Busy Indeed
 Says Writer
By SALLIE V, H. PICKETT

"Si W M CNool " NdcAlllIS Ioll hp- pfoaching social season by the hap penings of the last week. it would be to anticipate the most gigantic social rush the capital has ever known. While awaiting with no small degree Of impatience the pub lication of the official social program from the White House. the Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson gave sev- cral dinners and the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Adams with all of the affairs that marked the life of John Quincy Adams, entertained at their first reception of the season.
 With due ceremony, MT. and Mrs. Adams held a reception for the members of the cabinet and their wives, the naval attaches of foreign embassies and legations, and the Of ficers of the navy in and near Wash ington. and their wives, at their charming home on "R" street.
 Then. the hospitalities of the em- bassies and legations equalled if they did not exceed any week in that branch of society last season.
 The Belgian embassy presented a particularly interesting affair--a dinner followed by a lecture with moving pictures of the Belgian Congo and it's forests and people. Another dinner party. but not as large a one. was followed by a trip to the Corcoran gallery of art where a display Of Belgian contemporary art is on exhibition.
 Fully two thousand invitations were sent out for the private view at the gallery. the exhibition being under the patronage of President Hoover and the King Of Belgium. Princesses Deligne and the daughters of their house assisted in receiving the company which included the cabinet the diplomatic corps and official and resident society in gen. "ral. Louis Pierard, members of the Belgian parliament brought the col lection to this country.
 The international institute of law with it's dozens of important dele gates in Washington opened the doors of many embassies and lega- tons. The entire body being guests of the board of governors of the Pan-AmcrIcan Union at a luncheon which included justices of the supreme court. cabinet members and high ranking diplomats.
 Secretary Stimson's famous stag dinner at Woodley, his fine old house on Woodley Lane, for the prime minister of Great Britain, Mir James Ramsay Macdonald. was fol- lowed by dinner party few nighte ago for ladies as well as gentlemen This time. Mir. and Mrs. Stimson entertained in honor of Irwin Laugh lin, recently appointed ambassador to Spain and Mrs. Iaughlin. To be sure the company was an exceeding ly innormal one, but it shows the in creased social activity in the admin 'stration circle.
 The old saying that one is as good as dead after the passing of an ad- Mlnlstration in which one figures i prominently did not hold good for Mrs Richard A. Ballinger, widow of the former secretary of interior who came here from her home in Seattle for visit with relatives and friends. While she has been entertained two and three times a day ever since her 1 arrival. it remained for the Chief Justice and Mrs. William Howard | Taft to furnish the crowning event.
 MT. Taft was secretary Of war In the Roosevelt administration In which Mir, Ballinger was secretary of interior and the friendship be- tween the families has continued ever since, Mrs. Taft attending many of the lunchcons and teas given for l Mrs. Ballinger who is the guest of her relative Mrs. M. Ballinger Berry, hill who with Miss Jessie Dell, civil service commissioner, maintains s large apartment in the Meridian ! mansions, The Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft give no dinners and at tend only the especially official ones but they do entertain at luncheons and such an event was arranged for Mrs. Ballinger.
 Dcbutantes of the 1929-30 season are attending subscription dance, and lunchcons, but the real seasor has not yet opened for them. One oi the girls who will undoubtedly re. ceive great social attention from ad mlnistration circles is Miss Mildred Huston, daughter of the chairman of the republican national commit. tee, Claudius Huston, who has talk. en house for the winter the bet
 ter to entertain for the bud,
 Cabinet women will not begin tt
 hold their official days at home unti
 December and just now they art
 discussing just how exclusive the, shall be about it, how many time!
 during the season they will be a home and whether or not the tes
 table shall be spread when they d,
 receive. The Congressional club vii
 not open it's doors until the regula,
 session in December, but the pro
 gram will be so arranged as to hay,
 the congressional set in full meet tn,
 entire administration, the diplomat,
 corps and many personages iron
 distant parts of the country. Thi
 winter the club will sponsor an un
 usual number of dances, arranged. il three sets, one for the older mem
 bcrs of the club and their husband,
 another series for the young girl
 and boys, and still another series fo
 children.
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