Evening star., 1948-12-12
HH12zeWrOngs
T0Haue Parties
In Their Home
Fete to Follow
Christening
Bv Katharine NJ. Brooks

The Canadian Ambassador and
Mrs. Hume Wrong are completing
their plans for Christmas festivities
for those connected with the En-
bassy. The first Of these fetes will
be a punch bowl party December
21 for those working at the Chan
Gerry. This will be from $50 to 7:3o
o'clock in the Wrongs very attrac-
tive home on Woodland drive.
Christmas night the Ambassador
and Mrs. Wrong will be hosts to the
members of the Embassy staff
those in the diplomatic service-at
a buffet dinner. This also will be
at home.
Before the Christmas parties be-
gin, the Ambassador and Mrs. Wrong
will entertain a number of his col
leagues in the corps at this Capital
and their wives at dinner Tuesday
evening.
The Brazilian Ambassador, Mr..
Mauricio Nabuco, will serve as god
father by proxy to Christian Leon
Mario Prieto when he is baptized
December %. The baby, who is the
infant son of the Second Secretary
of the Chilean Embassy and Sonora
de Prieto, will be christened by the
Apostolic Delegate, the Most Rev.
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. The
ceremony will take place in the ex-
uuisite chapel in the Apostolic Lega-
ton on Massachusetts. avenue at
Thirty-fourth street, and will be fol-
lowed by a cocktail party in the
home of Senor and Sonora de Prieto.
Sonora de Nieto del Rio, wife of
the Chilean Ambassador, will serve
as godmother by proxy for the baby.
The godparents are the baby's
grandfather, Senor Leon Suberca-
seaux, Chilean Ambassador to Lon
don, and Sonora de Maria, wife of
the Chilean Minister to Sweden.
The First Secretary of the
Swedish Embassy and Nine. NAL
maeus will entertain members of
the Embassy staff tomorrow evening
to celebrate st. Lucia's day. The
party will feature dancing and a
buffet supper
Senor Federico Enrique Leon has
arrived in Washington and taken
up his duties as First Secretary of
the Venezuelan Embassy. This is
his first post in Washington, but he
served for a short time as First
Secretary of the Venezuelan En-
bassy in Quito, Ecuador, before
coming here He was accompanied
to Washington by Sonora de Leon
and their infant son Henry.
AHaros Coming Soon
The chief of the Panama delega-
ton to the United Nations, DR..
Ricardo Alfaro, and Sonora de Al
faro will arrive in Washington the
middle of next week from Paris.
They are expected to spend Christ
mas here with their son and daugh-
ter-in-law, DR.. and Mrs. Victor AL
faro, and their sons-in-law and
daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Weller at Orchard Hills in Kensing-
ton and Mr.. and Mrs. H. Cabell
Maddux, jr., at Chesterbrook Farm
in Falls Church.
Senorita Hilda Vallarino, daugh-
ter of the former Panamanian Am
bassador to Washington, left yes
terday to join her parents in their
Panama City home, after spending
two months or more in Washington
and New York.
Also returning to Panama in time
for Christmas is Sonora Carmen de
Arias,. who has been visiting the
present Ambassador and Sonora de
Vallarino.
Senorita AnaliZa Vallarino will
not join her parents, the Ambassa-
dor and Sonora de Vallarino, for
Christmas. She is staying in Paris
with the former Ambassador here
and Sonora de Jimenez.