The Washington times., 1931-04-17
Royal Guests
Entertained
BY Envoy
Japanese Prince and His
Bride Are Given Formal
Dinner by Ambassador and
Nine. DebuChi at Embassy
BY ANNE PATTEN

look back on last evening as
one hundred per cent perfect,
socially speaking.
With the japanese Ambas-
Sador and Nine. Debuchi's din
ner and reception for their I'm
perial HighneSseS, Prince and
Princess TakamatSu, and the
final performance, Peter Ibbet-
son." of the Metropolitan Opera
both on the evenings schedule
(not to mention a half dozen
or so other dinners of less
importance) nothing was left
to be desired. Those fortunate
enough to be included on the
Japanese dinner list were forced
to give up the opera but the
majority of the guests invited
only to the reception did both.
Some voted to desert the
opera after the second act to
be prompt at the reception but
many decided to stick the opera
out (not to miss single note
of Deems Taylor's beautiful
dream story and arrive at the
royal party late.
Dinner Is Brilliant Affair
The dinner, one Of the most
brilliant in the Capital in many
a day, was given in the grand
ballroom of the Mayflower Ho-
tel in a beautiful setting of
flower-banked walls and a table
glittering with silver and aglow
with spring flowers.
Those present were the Sec
retary of State and Mrs. Henry
L. Stimson, Mrs. William D.
Mitchell, wife of the Attorney
General; the Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Charles F.
Adams, the Secretary of Agri-
culture and MRS. Arthur M.
Hyde. the Secretary of Labor
and Mrs. William N. Doak, the
Undersecretary of State and
Mrs. William R. Castle, jr., the
Chief of Staff, Gen. Douglas
Macarthur, U. S. A.; the Chief
of Naval Operations and Mrs.
William v. Pratt.
Among the Guests
Also the Commandant of the
Marine Corps and Mrs. Benja-
min Hebard Fuller, the Assist
ant Secretary of State and Mrs.
Wilbur j. Carr. the Assistant
Secretary of State and Mrs.
Francis White, the Assistant
Secretary of State and Mrs.
James Grafton Rogers, the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Ernest Lee Jahncke, the Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. David S. ingalls,, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Mark L. Bris-
tol, Maj. Gen. William D. Con-
nor, commandant of the Army
War College; the former Am
basSador to Japan and Mrs.
Roland S. Morris, DR.. Stanley
r. Hornbeck, John Barton
Payne, Mr.. and Mrs. John Ken
meth Caldwell, Ransford S.
Miller, Col. and Mrs. Alfred T.
Smith, Capt. and Mrs. c. P.
Snyder, Capt. and Mrs. Charles
r. Train, Capt. and Mrs. H. r.
Stark, Capt. and Mrs. w. Bag
galley, Lieut.. Col. Campbell B.
Hodges, Lieut.. Cow. and Mrs.
Ellis Mark Zacharias, Miss
Mabel Boardman, Mr.. and Mrs.
Maxwell Hamilton, Charles A.
Page, Major and Mrs. william
Carey Crane, j. Franklin Nc
,Fadden. honorary consul of
Japan at Philadelphia, and DR..
Frederic Bancroft.
Attended The Royal Pair
Members of their Imperial
Highnesses' suite present were
.Comdr. Takeo agata,
master of ceremonies; His
Excellency Iwakichi Ishikawa,
controller of the household;
Madame Takako Ochiai, lady
in-waiting to Her Imperial
HighneSS; DR.. Tseneo Saka-
mato, physician to the house
hold; and 1t. Comdr. Kyosuke
Mizuno, aide-de-camp to His
Imperial Highness.
From the embassy staff were
the counselor and Madame
Kato, the naval attache, Capt.
s. Shimomura; the military
attache, Col. Shehei WaShizu;
the first secretary, K. Midzu-
Sawa; the second secretary,
and Nadine Kiichi Cunji, the
third secretary, and Madame
Knoru Maxi, and H. Terasaki,
secretary to the Ambassador.
The Consul General of
Japan to New York, K. Horin-
ouchi was also guest.
Ambassador Debuchi PreSides
Some two thousand mem
bers of official, diplomatic and
residential society attended the
reception. The guests we're
received in the Chinese room,
Ambassador Debuchi making
the presentations to the royal
couple.
Prince TakamatSu's staff,
glittering with decorations,
stood behind the receiving line,
and directly back of the
princesS-bride stood her lady
in-waiting, Nine. TAXA d o
Ochiai.
X
VII Visit Son Here
Mrs. Adam Wyant has come
from her home in Greens
burg, Pa, to attend the confir'
nation of her son Adam wy
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