Evening star., 1952-02-11
Society News:
Chilean Military Changes;
Princess Alice Is Coming

Several changes are about tx
take place IN the military staff a.
the Chilean Embassy.
Gen. Santiago Danus, head o1
the Chilean Military Mission anc
also Military Attache. will be re-
placed In both jobs by Col. Gull
lermo Lopez Larrain, who Is now
the Chilean Undersecretary Of De.
Tense. Col. Larrain is no stranger
to Washington, having served here
as Military Attache in 1913 and
1914.
Col. and Sonora de Larrain will
arrive here about the end Of Feb
ruary, but he viii not formally
assume his new post until Gen.
and Sonora de Danus leave on
April Is.
Capt. Jorge Escobedo, Naval
Attache, will be replaced by
Comdr. Oscar Larenas, who ar
rived last Friday with his wife.
Sonora Dolly Harper de Larenas.
Capt. and Sonora de Escobedo will
sail from New York Friday for
Chile. He is scheduled to become
Chief of Staff of the Chilean Navy.
Also being replaced are 1t. Col.
Patricio Murphy, Assistant Mill
tary Attache, and Comdr. Andres
Martinez, Assistant Air Attache.
The former will be succeeded by
Col. Carlos Gardewig, who is ex-
pected here about March Is. The
latter's successor. Comdr. Marcos
Loyola, already has arrived in
Washington.
Porty for Newcomers
Capt. and Sonora de Escobedo
entertained at cocktails last eve
ming in honor of the Larenas' and
Admiral and Sonora de Videla.
The Videlas arrived in Washing
ton about three weeks ago as a
result Of another change at the
Chilean Embassy. The Admiral,
who was formerly Chief of Staff
of the Chilean Navy, replaced
Vice Admiral Emmanuel Holger
here as chief of the Chilean Naval
Mission.
The party was held at the
Bethesda Naval Officers Club.
Guests included the Chilean Am
bassador and Sonora de Nieto del
Rio and the Naval Attaches of
other Embassies and their wives
and top officials in the United
States Navy.
Among those in the latter group
who were expected to drop by
were Rear Admirals Felix john
son. Walter SCHNEIDER and Milton
E. Miles and their wives.
Sonora de Escobedo received
her guests in a black taffeta cock
tail dress with full skirt and a
straplesS top covered by a small
jacket.
Princess to Visit
The Greek Embassy was expect
ing the arrival yesterday evening
OF Princess Alice Of Greece, moth
er Of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,
husband of England's new Queen
Elizabeth.
Princess Alice expects to stay at
the Sulgrave Club during her
brief stay, which will last only
about three days. No parties have
been planned for the Princess,
both because of her closeness to
the mourning British Royal fam
lily and because the Princess is
herself nun of the Greek Ortho-
dox Church.
Her mission here Is to attempt
to raise funds for q school of
nurses near Athens. which she
heads. In pursuit of that, she is
expected to meet quietly with
groups, many of whose members
will be old friends.
Austrions Entertoin
The newly appointed Austrian
Ambassador and Mrs. Max Loe-
wenthal entertained for the first
time last evening. It was a black
tie dinner in honor of DR.. Felix
Hurdles, former Austrian Minister
of Education, who came to this
country to represent the new Min
lister of Education, DR.. Ernst Kolb,
at the opening of the exhibition
of Viennese art treasures at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art next
week.
DR.. Hurdles was accompanied to
this country by his son, Felix. jr..
who also was present at the
dinner. Present too were DR.. and
Mrs. Ernst Buschheck. He Isl
director of the Austrian Museum
of Art, and has accompanied the
art treasures throughout their tour
of this country.
Other guests at the dinner were
Dr.. David E. Finley. Director OF
the National Gallery Of Art. and