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ball will be titled in the Orient"
featuring brilliant pageant specta-
Gle written by Mrs. Charles Bittinger,
wife of the president of the Arts
Club, who has captioned the Oriental
professional Marco Polo ReviSits the
Orient"
Mrs. William ]. Peters will direct
the pageant with Mrs. Maud Howell
Smith as the casting director, and IN
cluded among the 200 participants
will be the Capital Citys outstanding
actors and dancers
The grand march of all costumed
men and women attending the Bal
Boheme will eclipse III rich color all
previous events of its kind given by
the Arts Club in the past II years.
Costume awards are offered by the
Bal Boheme Committee for the most
beautiful original Oriental costume,
and for the most beautiful authentic
native Oriental costume as we'll as for
the most original and amusing cos
tune of any kind.
This season the Bal Committee
has reverted to its original ruling of
fancy dress without exception" and
1t goes without saying that the mag
nifiCient garb of the Oriental Coun-
tries will give glamor and enchant-
ment to this city-wide ball of the arts.
Mrs. Fulton Lewis, who is chair
man of patronesses and boxes, is re-
ceiving acceptanceS from many prom
inent people in official, diplomatic
and resident society for the bal, and
distinguished artists and society folk
are taking boxes for the event, for
which they will entertain many out
of-toWn viSitorS-for the fame of the
Arts Club Bal Boheme has spread far
and wide since it was first given at
the Willard in 1924.
Mr.. F. Byrne Austin of Takoma
Park, Md, is chairman of the Presi-
dent Roosevelt birthday ball for Mont
gomery County, to be held Wednesday
night, January 80, at the Kensington
Armory, in Kensington, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Summerville,
Sd, of Chevy Chase, Md, head the
Patrons and Patroness' Committee and
Miss Lavinia Engle of Forest Glen,
Md, is chairman of the Reception
Committee.
Mai E. Brooke Lee and Secretary
of the State Thomas Dawson and Mrs.
Dawson of Rockville, Md, are among
the patrons for the affair.
Mrs. Virginia OHare will entertain
nj l1,,NoI0OY1 Of tI,o o,-l+O
Hotel for her sisters Mrs. John LaSkey
ana Mrs. Edward Kane of Summit, N.
j. Mrs. O'Hare will leave February
8 for Miami and Havana, accompanied
by Mrs. William Keegin.
Patrons for the recital of Alexander
Sklarevski, Russian pianist, at the
Carlton Hotel Friday, February /, in
clude: Miss Mora Archbold. Mr.
Percy Lee Atherton, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Bartlett, Mr.. Theodore Bekefi,
Mrs Robert Woods Bliss, Miss Vera
Bloom, Miss Lucy BrickenStein, Prin-
cess Julia Cantacuzene-G Grant, Mr..
Andre Cattaui. Mrs. Cyrus Whitney
Culver. Mrs. John DiStler Of Balti-
more, Mrs. Walter DiStler, Mrs. Tracy
Dows, Mr.. Edward H. Droop, Mr. and
Mrs. Alden H. Emery, Mrs. Charles
w. Fairfax, Mrs. John W. Garrett of
Baltimore, Miss Grace Dunham Guest,
Mrs. William Duncan Herridge, Mrs
Hugo HeSselbach Mrs. Miriam B. Hill
ton, Mrs. Holland Huntington. Mrs.
Charles V. INLAY, Dr. Hans Kinder,
Mrs. William H. King, Sir Willmott
Lewis, Mrs. Gertrude Lyons, Mrs
Chester Morrill,, Mrs. Martin A Nor
rison, Princess Leonide Ourusoff, Mrs
Edwin B. Parker, Mr. Edward C. Pot
ter Nine Natalia Rimsky- -Korsakoff,
Mrs. Fannie Amstutz Roberts, Nine
SEE, Mrs. Earl Templeton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Myron w. Whitney, Maj. and
Mrs. Guy Withers.
Mrs. Barlow S. Weeks entertained
at dinner last evening in the tapestry
room of the Park Lane in New York
in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis A.
Cushman and Mr.. John Charles
Turner.