Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-08-02
SOCIETY
Ambassador and Nine. De Laboulaye Plan
Reception for French Veterans Who
Arrive In City Next Week.

not join him here until early septem-
Der.
The Secretary of the Interior, Mr..
Harold N. Ickes, will have guests with
him this evening at the performance of
THE Mikado" which will be presented
in the Sylvan Theater at the foot of
the Washington Monument by the Es-
telle Wentworth opera group as a part
Of the Summer musical festival ar
ranged by the Community Center. Sec
rotary 1ckes Is q sponsor for the per-
Torrance this evening and among
others who will attend will be Senator
and Mrs. William H. King.
Claude A. Swanson are expected to take
guests with them Friday evening when
the Navy Band, Lieut. Charles Benter,
conductor. will give the program as an
other Of the series of Summer festival
programs.
Mrs. william Phillips, wife Of the
Undersecretary of State. who is at her
home, Highover at North Beverley,
Mass, will be hostess at a musicale and
tea Monday afternoon, August Z, for the
benefit of the hospitals taking part in
the Boston emergency relief.
Representative and Mrs. Robert Low
Bacon and Miss Alexandra Bacon will
return from England next week. and
will go to Arlough, their country home
at old Westbury, Long Island. Repre-
sentative Bacon was an observer at the
World Economic Conference in London.
Miss Bacon was presented to the court
of ST. James June %.
Representative and Mrs. Frank Oliver
of New York City are in washington
for a few days and during their visit
they are stopping at the Wardman Park
Hotel.
The newly appointed United States
Ambassador to Argentina and Mrs.
Alexander w. Weddell were guests IN
whose honor Assistant Secretary OF
State and Mrs. Wilbur ]. Carr enter
tanned at luncheon yesterday at the
MayfloWer. The new Ambassador and
Mrs. Weddell will sail within fort
night for South America to take up the
formers new duties at Buenos Aires.
Mr.. Weddell will succeed former AM
baSsador Robert Woods Bliss, who re-
tired yesterday after 80 years Of service.
They have taken an apartment at the
Shoreham.
The newly appointed United States
Minister to CZechoSlovakia and Mrs.
Francis White are sailing today on the
United States liner Washington en-
route to Mr. Whites new post. Mrs.
BENJAMIN Harris Brewster, jr.. mother
of Mrs White, has closed her Balti-
more home and gene to Hot Springs,
Va where she is with her grand
daughter, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
White.
The naval attache of the French en-
bassy, Capt. Camille Husson. who has
been at Newport for q few days, left
there today to make series Of visits in
New Hampshire and Canada before
going to Chicago for the Century of
Progress Exposition. Capt Husson will
return to Washington in September.
Former Ambassador and Mrs. Long
Take Georgetown House As Home.
Former United States Minister to
Cuba and Mrs. Boaz Long, have taken
the house at 1922 o street in George
town, which formerly was the home of
Mr. and Mrs Francis Colt de Wolf
The house was many years ago the
Russian legation under the regime of
Prince Bodisco in the days when
Georgetown was a more important city
than Washington. Mr. de Wolf, while
on duty in the State Department. re-
stored the house and shortly after its
completion he resigned from the State
Department to become member Of