Evening star., 1953-01-30
Society News
CubonEnbossyScene
Of Large Reception
Ambassador and Senoro de Concheso
Celebrate Birth of National Hero

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terday.
DR.. Jose Baron, Cuba,s repre-
sentative to the GAS and Sonora
de Baron acted as co-hosts at the
Pan American Union Wednes-
day and also were much in
evidence yesterday at the EN-
baSSy. Dr. Baron was attached
to the Embassy staff for many
years. his last post being Minister
Counselor before he became the
representative to the OAS. Dur
ing those years they have made a
very wide circle of friends for
themselves and for Cuba.
A special Marti collection has
been arranged by the Pan Amer
ican Union and was on view
Wednesday evening in the ex-
hibit halb The exhibit viii con-
tinue through February.
Handsome Embassy
The Embassy, with its sew
eral small drawing rooms and
large ballroom and dining room
on the second floor, lends itself
so well to such receptions. The
exterior of the building was built
after the famous Moro Castle
which dominates Havana Har-
Dor. The interior with it's inn
posing white marble stairway,
red carpeted, was modelled after
the castle of Sonora de Cespedes
in her native Italy. The build
ing was designed and built dur
ing the late DR.. de Cespedes'
regime as Minister.
Ambassador and Sonora de
Concheso stood in the small
drawing room on the south side
Of the house to greet their 500
or more guests yesterday. The
very attractive and dainty host
esS wore a floor length black
crepe dress. The diamond clip
at the becoming neckline
matched her earrings.
Receiving with the hosts were
the new Minister Counselor of
the Embassy and Sonora de Pat
terson, who recently arrived and
have taken an apartment in the
Argonne. The new members of
the Embassy group are attractive
and Sonora de Patterson is i'm
proving her English every day.
She wore black yesterday as did
their daughter, Senorita Olga
Patterson.
Representative Company
Secretary Of State John Foster
Dulles, preparing for his trip
overseas, was unable to attend
and Mrs. Dulles has returned to
New York to direct the compile
tion Of the packing and shipping
of their household to Washing
ton. Others in the new Cabinet
circle were included among the
invitations as well as some of
the newcomers in Congress.
Among those from the Upper
House were Senator and Mrs.
Bourke B. Hickenlooper. Senator
and Mrs. Alexander Wiley and
Senator Theodore F. Green.
Associate Justice William o.
Douglas, Associate Justice and
Mrs. Robert H. Jackson, and AS
sociate Justice and Mrs. Harold
H. Burton were there from the
Highest Tribunal. There also
were representatives Of the In
ternational Bank and Monetary
Fund. the Export t-Import Bank
and other agencies Of this Gov
ernment.
Diplomats Numerous
Many in the large company
were chiefs Of diplomatic mis-
sions Of other countries. The
dean Of the corps and Mrs.
Munthe de Morgenstierne were
there and others included near
neighbors of the hosts, Italian
Ambassador and Signora Tar
chiani, whose Embassy is across
Fuller street to the North. Trek
king across Sixteenth street
through the rush of early eve
ming traffic were Mexican Am
bassador and Sonora de la Colina
and Spanish Ambassador and
Sonora de LeQuerica.
The Spanish Embassy was built
by the late Mrs. John B. Hender-
son, widow Of the Missouri Sena-
tor, and sold to the foreign gov
ernment. italy, like Cuba, built
her own building and Mexico
purchased the Embassy from the
estate of the late former Secre-
tary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Franklin MacVeagh.
Cuba was one of the pioneers
in that part of Sixteenth street
and the ground was bought from
Mrs. Henderson who spent many
years trying to make what then
was upper Sixteenth street into
embassy row.