The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-13
NOW
Summer PARTY
Is Success
DIPLOMATS
BY HELEN ESSARY

~ TO give good party WEen LIE
temperature is 104 in the shade.
James Clement Dunn, Assist
ant Secretary of State, obviously
has both of these gifts, plus the
reward of good friendship.
He had a perfect supper the
other night in the garden of his
home on Observatory Circle. The
guests we're chiefs of divisions of
the State Department and the
newspaper correspondents asso-
ciated with the Department.
But-the piece de resistance was
a 40-pound silver salmon! The
kind of fish a fisherman dreams
about but almost never catches.
This fine fellow was a triumph
of Mr.. Dunn's friend, Robert Low
Bacon, Representative from New
York. Mr.. Bacon sent it down to
Mr.. Dunn from the AriStigouche
River in Canada.
Mr.. Bacon is having great
chance to show his skill as a
fisherman this summer. With
Mrs. Bacon and his daughter he
is staying on an island in the
st. Lawrence River which Mrs.
Bacon recently inherited from
her father.
Representative Bacon's salmon,
when it was introduced to the
State Department and journalism,
appeared in its own exquisite
pink flesh, thinly yelled in jellied
bouillon. 1t reclined for the
moment on a plank.
No dish in the Dunn menage
could hold it in one piece. Nor
was their family kettle large
enough for it's cooking. 1t had
to be sent first to a market
man and then to a caterer.
Served with the salmon was
q salad of various chopped veg
etables and small hot rolls.
Chilled fruit cup was the dessert.
The 40 or so guests were
seated at small tables under the
trees.
Mr.. Dunn will leave in August
to join Mrs. Dunn and his daugh-
ter Cynthia in Honolulu where
they have taken a cottage until
the fall. The Count and Countess
Rene de Baillet-Latour, Son-in-law
and daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dunn, are now in Belgium and will
shortly make trip into Austria.
Further Notes on Washington
Diplomacy
The Danish Ambassador and
Madame Wadsted are not taking
a holiday this summer. They are
planning to go to Denmark at
Christmas, the first they will have
spent there for several years.
The Japanese Ambassador ana
Madame Saito, now at Virginia
Beach, have had installed at Inc
Japanese Embassy superb water
ing system for their garden. Drive
bv there most any July day. YOU
will wish you were under one OF
the dozens of fine sprays.
An automobile with a USED
mast stalled a night ago exactly IN
front of the entrance to the ele-
CANT British Embassy. AS the
driver struggled desperately with
the starter and the gas and those
other gadgets that sometimes are
so dead and so perverse, two young
Embassy attaches stepped forth
from the Chancery.
These gentlemen were obviously
on their way to dinner. They were
flawless in. white linen dinner
Jackets plus the other trimmings
that Bond Street prefers. They
addressed the motoriSt:
STRANDED, are you? Let's see
what we can do about it."
Skillfully they Unanswered their
own car and pushed the stalled
machine until the gateway to the
British Embassy was clear. This
done they continued pushing down
Massachusetts Avenue, said good
bye at Dupont Circle where the
balky machine seemed to have
got it's second wind, and departed
smiling, with:
''NO trouble at all, Sir!"
Genevieve WinSatt, who lives
in that fascinating old house in
GEORGETOWN with the Chinese
dragons at it's door (she writes
books about China, you know
noticed that her Pekinese dog
was living in the basement dur
ing last weeks hot days. She
decided to initiate the dog and
took a group of guests below
stairs for luncheon.
One nice thing about vacations
is that you can go where no one
knows you and pretend you
really amount to something
where you came from.
But if you go to Scotland, re-
member to say kilt" not kills"
And in England, if you should
find yourself in Meols, Ulgham,
GarboldiSh ma, HGutpois or
Punchknowle, be sure to call
these towns Meels, Uffam, Gar
belsham, Hobbs and Funnel.
If you don't the natives might
think you are an American.
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