Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-13

Ishbel Macdonald Is the official hostess
Of the Naval Conference. The prime
minister's daughter has never fully
overcome a natural ShyneSS despite her
seven or eight years in the offlcial lime
light, but she fills her present role with
engaging eclat. Her British friends will
tell you that Washingtons hectic ex-
periences last october viSibly broad
ened" Ishbel. Miss Macdonald proves
to have rather an amazing memory.
Though many hundreds of Washing
tonianS were presented to her at the
British embassy and elsewhere during her
fathers visit, she remembers the names
OF nearly everybody In the American
conference delegation whom she met
on the Potomac or the Rapidan four
months ago.
One evening, at the end Of January,
when the men of the American and
British delegations we're Staging it"
at the welcoming dinner of the Pill
grims' Society, Mrs. Dawes and Miss
Macdonald hit on joint scheme to en-
terrain the womenfolks. Each gave a
dinner-the ambassadors at the Amer
lean embassy in Princes Gate and Miss
Macdonald at No. 10 Downing street
for the respective delegation wives. After
dinner, about $3.50 O'Clock, 1t was ar
ranged that the ladies should join
forces at the embassy to look at the
private showing Of a new American
Aim specially loaned to Mrs. Dawes for
the occasion. Other American and
British ladies were invited to meet the
women Of the conference.
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Signor Dino Grand, the baby" Of
the conference, has reSorted to rather
neat tactics to ingratiate himself with
the two Engiish-speaking delegations
the American and British. BY the same
token, he makes q concession to the
Japanese, for English Is their second
tongue. The bearded young chief Of
the MuSsolini delegation conspicuously
refrains from addressing the conference
IN Italian. He invariably speaks Eng
lish; His command Of it IS good, but
a little hating. Grand could talk
French as fiuently as NJ. Tardieu him
self. but he prefers to use the language
sureSt to be well and promptly under
stood by MeSsrs. Stimson, Macdonald
& Co. The youthful Roman foreign
minister has scored heavily with his
little linguistic coup.
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Senator Joe T.. Robinson was i'm
mensely amused the other night when,
In company with four other lawyer
members Of the American delegation
MesSrs. Dawes, Morrow, Reed and
Adams-he attended q dinner Of the
famed Middle Temple Benchers. Their
most was Gen. Dawes, who was admitted
to membership In the Temple q couple
OF weeks ago. Robinson noticed, to his
CONSERVATION, that the toast to the
King was drunk sitting. Explanations
enSued. It appears that one Of the
Charleses-I or II, deponeth saith not
was being entertained at dinner by the
Benchers. When the time came to pro-
pose the loyal toast, the King himself
was so drunk that he couldn't get to his
feet. Thereupon, to the stupefaction of
his majeSty's still more or less sober
subjects, Charles blurted out: "Oh,
drink it sitting down. What do I care?''
ever since then the Middle Temple
Benchers have drunk the health of his
Britannia majesty while remaining
seated.
Herbert F. Wright Of the State De-
partment at Washington is attached to
the American delegation, with the rank
and title of editor" It is his lob to
assemble all the photography Of the
conference as 1t progresses, including
the mimeographed documents which
o0Ze from delegaClon headquarters. Mr..
Wright's chin Is surrounded by q beard
not unlike that which adorns the south
ern extremity Of Signor Grandi's physi-
ognomy. The result is that the young
American is constantly being mistaken
in conference haunts for the boy states
man from the Tiber. At the glittering
Guildhall banquet on the night Of jan
uary % four Of the lord mayors silver
slippered and powdered-wigged fiunkeys
we're Just about to clear the way for
his excellency the italian foreign min
lister, Signor Dino Grandi," as Wright
came along Somehow crashed the Sit