Evening star., 1942-02-27

members of the Embassy staff and
their wives were busy looking after
the guests and seeing that all were
bountifully served.
Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone
Among Guests at Embassy.
To mention just a few of the
great throng that enjoyed the gra-
cious hospitality of the Brazilian
diplomat and his popular wife, Mrs.
Harlan Fiske Stone, wife of the
Chief Justice. was an early caller
who remained for some time min
Cling with the guests in the spacious
and handsomely furnished Embassy
Mrs. Sumner Welles, wife of the
Acting Secretary of State, was in
the gathering, wearing becoming
black gown with a white felt beret.
Another from the State Department
set present was Mrs. Stanley Horn
beck.
The senatorial circle was well rep
resented. Senator and Mrs. Denis
Chavez, Senator Theodore Green
and Senator and Mrs. Ralph o.
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Still others glimpsed in the flower
filled rooms were Mrs. Gilbert M.
Hitchcock, Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley,
Mrs. Owen j. Roberts, Mrs. Jesse H.
Jones, Mrs. James Lawrence Hough-
telling, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Burke,
the Minister of Guatemala and Sc
nora de Recinos, Countess Szechenyi,
Admiral and Mrs. George T. Pettin-
gill, the Netherlands Minister and
Nine. Loudon, the Swiss Minister and
Mime. Bruggmann, Mrs. Warren Lee
PierSon. Mrs. Frank Let's, who ar
rived with Mrs. Randall H. Hagner;
Mrs. Eldridge Jordan, Mrs. Noyes
Lewis, Mrs. Loring Christie, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Caswell, the Misses Pat
ten, Mrs. Clarence Norton Goodwin
and Mrs. Wallach Merriam.
To mention few more, Mrs
Philip o. Coffin, arrived with her
sister, Signora Brambilla; Mrs.
Selden Chaplin was with her sister,
in-law, Mrs. Alan Kirk; Mrs. Adolph
Casper Miller. Mrs Herbert Seymour
Howard and Mrs. Duncan Cameron.
Being greeted on all sides was Mrs.
John Hamilton, the former Jane
Kendall, looking smart in severe
black, her sole ornament being a
diamond-studded elephant poised on
her shoulder.
81 Guests Dine at
French Embassy r.r
The guests at the French Embassy
last evening not only received very
cordial greeting from their host but
from his conStant-as constant as
possible Pup, lovely
white and black spotted Dalmatian.
Pup Is a tireless assistant to his
master, even announcing that din
ner is served by barking, rather
softly, but nevertheless persistently
until the guests start to the dining
room. The company of So was
seated at small tables In the dining
room, cocktails having been served
in the drawing room where coffee
was served after the dinner. Later
several tables were set up in the
library for a dozen or so who played
bridge, others remaining by the fire
to chat.
The Undersecretary of Commerce
and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield-Taylor
were among others at the dinner,
the list also including the Political
Adviser to the Secretary of State
and Mrs. James Clement Dunn, Mr.
Wallace Murray and Mrs. Sam
uel Reber of the State Depart
ment: Mrs. H. E. Kondrup and
her daughter, Miss Anne Kondrup;
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Krock, Countess
de MARITIME, Mrs. Albert L. Niblack,
Col. Bentley Mott, U. S. A, former
Military Attache of the United
States Embassy at Vichy, and Mrs
Mott; Mr.. and Mrs. Andre Monod
of New York, Mrs. Edward Downe,
formerly of Paris; Mr.. C. G. Irish
and members of the Embassy staff
including the Military Attache and