Evening star., 1936-12-28
Brilliant
Audience
AtConcert
Diplomats, Officials
and Residents At
tend Musicale.

-HE Ambassador of Poland and
Countess Potocka were rank
ing guests at the luncheon
i given today at the Mayflower
by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend
In compliment to the artists giving the
FIRST of Mrs. Townsend's morning musi-
Gales this season in the Capital. Nine.
Enid Szantho, contralto. and Mr.. John
Charles Thomas, baritone.
Also accompanying the Ambassador
were his mother and brother. Countess
Roman Potocka and Count Alfred Po-
tocki who are his guests now In WASH
ington.
Others from the diplomatic grouu
included the Minister Of Hungary and
Nine. Pelenyi, the counselor Of the
Polish Embassy and Nine. Wankowicz,
Nine Kulikowska-H -Higersberger, Mr..
Michal Budny and Don Marcello del
Drago.
Also present were Senator and Mrs.
Millard E. Tydings. Sir Willmott Lewis,
Mrs. Campbell Prichett. Mrs. Randolph
Santini Mrs Eugene Roberts. Mrs.
Ralph Stewart, Miss Ethel Worthing-
ton, Miss Jane Thorpe, Mrs. John
Charles Thomas, Mr.. Robert Kelly, Mr..
U. Grant Smith. Mr.. Laszlo Steiner,
MIR. Paul Ulanowsky and Mr.. Carroll
Hollister.
Mrs. Harry H. Woodring, wife Of
the Secretary of War. and Mrs. Daniel
c. Roper, wife of the Secretary Of
Commerce, were among others at the
opening musicale. Also in the audi
ence were Nine. Troyanovsky, wife Of
the Soviet Ambassador: Nine. de
Laboulaye, wife of the French Am
bassador: Nine. Saito, wife of the
japanese Ambassador, with wives Of
members of the Embassy staff; Senor-
ita Olga Patterson, daughter of the
Cuban Ambassador, accompanied by
the Senoritas Trucco. daughters Of
the Chilean Ambassador; the Charge
d'Affaires of the Netherlands Lega-
tion and Baroness Van Breugel Doug
las, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Mrs. Til
man B. Parks, Mrs. Edward Everett
Gam. Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley. just
back from two months in California; ;
Mrs. Howard Sutherland, Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss. Mrs. Charles D. Walcott.
Mrs Charles M. Lea. Mrs. John r.
williams and her daughter and grand
daughter, Mrs. Joseph Letter and Miss
Nancy Letter; Mrs. D. c. Stapleton
and her daughter. Miss Stelita Staple
tor; Mrs. Mondell Gregg. Mrs. Parker
w. West Mrs. George c. Thorpe,
Mrs. William F. Dennis and her
daughter, Mrs. Charles Riker, who
is on visit here from Kentucky;
Mr. and Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman
and their two daughters, Mrs. Benja-
min Bays and Miss Alice Noel Tucker
man; Miss Mary Mcdowell, whose
engagement to Mr.. Alexander Long
Ellis was announced last week by her
mother, Mrs. Ralph Walker Mcdowell;
Mrs. T. @. Donaldson, Mrs. James r.
Mann, MRS. George Barnett. Mrs. Ira
z. Bennett, Mrs. william Barret
Ridgely. Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro,
Mrs. Clarence Norton Goodwin, Mrs.
James G. Field, Mrs. Mahlon Pitney.
Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun,
Mrs. Carl A. Droop, Mrs. w. H. Shir-
cliff, Mrs. Wilbur w. Hubbard, Mrs
George Maurice Morris, Mrs. Jouett
Shouse, Mrs. Eldridge Jordon, Mrs.
Wade H. Ellis, Capt. and Mrs. John
H. Gibbons, Mrs. David Meade Lea.
Mrs. David Baer, Mrs. John Philip
Hill. Mrs. Charles Fairfax, Miss
Margaret Chase. Mrs. William Wheat
ley, Mrs Blair Banister. Mr.. and Mrs.
John Walker Holcombe, Mrs. William
Laird Dunlop, jr; Mrs. Frederic Will
liam Vile, Mrs. George T. Marye, Mrs.
George Becker, Miss Anne Randolph
and Miss Mary Randolph, Mrs James
Alexander Lyon, Mrs. Rudolph Max
Kaufman, Mrs. Bowler Hull, Mrs.
James N. w. Mcclure. Mrs. Henry
Parsons Erwin, Mrs. John Paul Jones,
Mrs. Frederic D. McKenney, Mrs.
James Carroll Frazer, the Rev. Meade
Bolton MacBryde. Mrs Cabot Stevens,
Miss Virginia Hunt and Mr.. Eben
Comins.