The Washington times., 1929-05-01
Embassy and Legation Dinners Retain
StateLiness in Face OF Spring
British Ambassador and
Lady Isabella Howard
Hosts Last Night

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becoming more and more
informal in character as the
spring progresses, embassy
and legation dinner parties
continue to have a certain
stateliness. The British Am
bassador and Lady Isabella
Howard entertained last eve-
ming for a distinguished
group of guests, with all the
pleasant ceremony of a mid
winter party. The Minister
of the Netherlands and Nine.
van Royen were also din
ner hosts last evening. To
night the Minister of Can
ada and Mrs. Massey will
give a dinner at the legation
and on Thursday they are
planning a luncheon in
honor of the Chief Justice
and Mrs. Taft.
Dinner Guests
Sir Esme and Lady Isabella
Howard's guests last evening
were the Attorney General and
Mrs. Mitchell, Senator Frederick
Hale, Senator and Mrs. George H.
Moses, Senator Bronson Gut
ting, the Chinese Minister and
Nine. WI, the Polish Minister,
Mr.. Filipowicz; Representative
and Mrs. Hamilton Fish, jr.;
Representative and Mrs. Louis
Ludlow, the Bishop of Washing
ton and Mrs. Freeman, Assistant
Postmaster General and Mrs.
Warren Irving Glover, Thomas
j. O'Brien, of Michigan, some-
time United States Ambassador
to Japan; Lawrence Richey, Sec
retary to the President, and
Mrs. Richey; the Counselor of
the Siamese Legation and Mrs.
Lotus, Mrs. Bayard Cutting,
Mrs. Carroll Frazer, Mrs. Hope
Slater, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Atherton, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Denegre, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Hard, the First Secretary of the
British Embassy and Mrs. Ter
ence Shone, and Miss Gytha
Stourton.
For Havana
The Minister of the Netherlands
and Nine. van Royen-to digress
a bit-will sail the last of this
month for Havana, the minister
being accredited to Havana as well
as to Washington. Herman van
Royen, son of the minister, and his
classmate, Mr.. Loudon, nephew Of
a former minister of the Neither
lands to the United States, VII ar
rive in Washington in mid May.
They have just been graduated
from the University of Utrecht.
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The Secretary of State, Henry
l.. Stimson, was the guest of
honor at luncheon given today
in the Palm Court of the May
flower by the members of the
American Foreign Service Asso-
citation. Covers were laid for 100.
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/ The minister of Albania. Mr..
Konitza, who is now in New York,
will return to his apartment at
the Mayflower on Saturday.
Sonora de Alfaro, wife of the
minister of Panama, was the
ranking guest at luncheon today
of Mrs. Wilton J. Lambert, who
entertained in her home on Yer
mont Avenue. Other guests were
Mrs. Porter Dale. Mrs. Hugo
Black. Mrs. Thomas W. Phillips.
jr.. Mrs. B. B. Jones, Mrs. Will
liam Livingston Crounse. Mrs.
Joseph Wall, Mrs. Beverly Will
hanson. Mrs. Ella Herbert Mi
cou, Mrs. Robert Love Taylor,
Mrs. Henry D. Flood, Mrs. Thorn.
ton Boland, Mrs. Henry Parsons
Erwin, Mrs. G. s. Baker. Mrs.
Frank Hight, Nine. Panaretoff,
Mrs. Harley Peyton Wilson, and
Mrs. C. T. Vaught.
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French Strother and his sister,
Miss Nell Strother, who has been
visiting him here. will leave to-
morrow morning for New York.
Mr. Strother will return to his
apartment at the Wardman Park
Hotel in a few days. where he
will be Joined in a month or so
by Mrs. Strother and their small
son. Mrs. Strother is now in
California with her mother and a
sister, who is convalescing from
q serious illness.
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Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Edward A.
Kreger are the guests in whose
honor Col. and Mrs. Hugh Carnes
Smith will entertain at dinner
tonight at the Army and Navy
Club. There will be As in the
company.