Evening star., 1935-12-12
Diplomats,
Officials
Entertain
Belgian Ambassador
Returns Austrian
Envoy in N. Y.

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The Belgian Ambassador, Counte
Robert van der Straten Ponthoz is
again in the Capital after spendlng
a week in Chicago The Ambassador
returned yesterday.
Nine. Oswaldo Aranha, wife of the
Ambassador of Brazil, will be at nome
this afternoon from 5 TO o'clock
Cards have been issued.
The Minister of Austria and Nine.
Prochnik will go to New York Satur-
day to see their daughter, Mrs. Francis
L. Spalding, and her two children sail
to Join Mr.. Spalding in Switzerland,
where he is United States vice consul
at Zurich. Mrs. Spalding has been
visiting in Boston and New York since
Mr.. Spalding sailed two weeks ago for
his post.
The Minister of Hungary, NJ John
Pelenyi, has gone to New York for a
few days. Count Teleki, former prime
minister of Hungary, who was the guest
of the Minister and Nine. Pelenyi, has
also gone to New York and will sail
the end of this week or early next week
to return to his Hungarian home.
The Minister of Greece, Mr.. De-
Ynetrios Sicilianos was host at a lunch
con yesterday in the legation, when the
guests were the Ambassador of France
and Nine. de Laboulaye, the Minister
OF Norway and Nine. Munthe de Nor
genstierne, the charge d'affaireS OF
Czechoslavakia, DR.. Josef Nemecek;
the counselor of the Swedish Legation
and Baroness Beck-Friis and Mile.
Christine Beck-Friis, Mrs. William R.
Castle, the commanding officer at
Boiling Field and Mrs Martin F.
Scanlon, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Norment,
Mrs. Francis E. Whitten, Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh D. Auchincloss and the counselor
of the Greek Legation, Mr.. Nicholas
Lely.
Senator and Mrs Arthur K. Van
denberg are again in their apartment
at Wardman Park Hotel after an abb
sence of several months. Senator and
Mrs Vandenberg spent five weeks in
Europe after the adjournment OF
Congress and on their return to this
country went to their home in Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Miss Elizabeth Vandenberg, daugh-
ter of Senator and Mrs. Vandenberg,
will Join her parents late next week
She will come from New York where
she is studying piano and will bring
with her as her guest Miss Marie
Smith of Grand Rapids Soon after
Christmas Mr. Arthur Vandenberg, jr.,
will come from Grand Rapids to be
with his parents for the remainder
Of the Winter.
Mrs. Barbara Vandenberg Knight,
elder daughter of Senator and Mrs.
Vandenberg, who also lives in Grand
Rapids, will spend a short time with
her parents before going to Florida,
where she will spend the Winter.
Representative John j. Delaney Is
at the Carlton. having arrived from
his home in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Phillips Gives
Party for Visitors.
Mrs. William Phillips, wife of the
Undersecretary of State, was hostess
at dinner last evening, entertaining
in compliment to former Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Eliot Wadsworth of Boston and Mrs.
Phillips brother and sister-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. William A. Drayton of New
York. The ranking guests at the din
ner were the Ambassador OF Peru,
Senor Don Manuel de Freyre y San
tander, and the Ambassador of Argen-
tina and Sonora de Espil.
Following the dinner Miss Elizabeth
Travis, gifted young pianist, gave
short program Of music. Miss Travis
made her debut in Washington with
the National Symphony Orchestra at
its concert December l.
Senorita Marta Trucco, Senorita
Graciela Trucco and Senorita Rebeca
Trucco, daughters of the Ambassador
Of Chile, will entertain at buffet
supper this evening in honor Of Seno-
rita Zoe Patterson and her fiance, Mr..
Ernest Schlatter, attache of the Swiss
legation.
1he MlnlSter-cOunSe1or OF the Gu
ban Embassy and Sonora de Baron
entertained at a tea yesterday after
noon in honor of Senorita Patterson
and M. Schlatter.
Assisting the hostess were Nine.
Peter, wife of the Minister of Switzer-
land; Sonora de Patterson, daughter
in-law Of the Ambassador of Cuba
and wife of the third secretary of the
embassy, and Sonora de Alcaide and
Senorita Rabino, both house guests at
the embassy.
The financial counselor of the Ru-
manian Legation and Nine. BonceSco
entertained at small cocktail party
yesterday afternoon in honor of Miss
Sydna White of Boston, their house
guest until Sunday. Miss White. who
has recently returned from India,
where she spent several years study
ing the Indians and their customs,
has noted and transposed some of the