Paramount Pep (1923)

16 PARAMOUNT PEP Hardings and Guests See Covered Wagon Special Showing at White House With Criterion Orchestra Develops Into a Social Event of the Administration Water Your Plants ^\W\1/ !/////Xs The company answered a personal appeal of President and Mrs. Harding for a showing of “The Covered Wagon’’ in a most successful way Saturday evening, April 14th, at the White House. Upon the receipt of a phone call from Washington, thru PEP, arrangements were immediately made with John Flinn by C. E. McCarthy and the Editor to conduct an expedition to Washington for the big event. The twenty-five piece Criterion orchestra under Mr. Zuro and the Criterion operator, left Penn station Saturday morning, and arrived in Washington in time for a rehearsal at the White House, Saturday afternoon. Mr. McCarthy and the Editor having left Friday afternoon to make final arrangements in Washington. Mrs. Harding herself sat thru the rehearsal all the afternoon when she was supposed to be resting for the evening affair. At first it was decided by President and Mrs. Harding that only a few friends were to be present but when informed that we were bringing the big Criterion orchestra with us, they made it a social affair, in fact the first big step in this direction since Mrs. Harding’s illness. There were one hundred fifty guests present and all pronounced it a beautiful and colorful affair. With the well known east room as the setting, together with the guests and orchestra in evening dress, it looked everything that the papers next day said of it in pronouncing it the social event of the season. A Sunday afternon showing was given at the Shubert-Garrick Theatre for the National Press Club and it was noted that many Washington celebrities who had attended the White House showing the previous night appeared at the Sunday afternoon showing to see this mammoth production again. Those present at the White House were as follows : President and Mrs. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson ; Capt. and Mrs. Adolphus Andrews; Hon. and Mrs. James M. Beck and Miss Beck; Mr. and Mrs. Woodbury Blair; Hon. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss; Senator Frank BBrandegee; Hon. and Airs. Phillip P. Campbell and Miss Campbell ; Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, The Secretary to the President and Mrs. Christian, Mrs. Farrar, Mr. Christian, Hon. and Mrs. Daniel R. Crissinger and Miss Crissinger, Senator Charles Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Davidge, The Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Davis, Hon. and Mrs. Dwight Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus S. Day, Col. and Mrs. Matthew Delaney, The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Denby, Mr. Walter F. Dillingham, Senator and Mrs. Walter E. Edge, Miss Louise Sewall, Mr. Loyall Sewall, Mr. Sumner Sewall, Miss Evelyn Senner, Mr. Percy Donald, Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, Mr. and Mrs. Wade H. Ellis, Mrs. James Carroll, Hon. and Mrs. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, The Speaker and Airs. Gillett, Miss Hoar, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Glover, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, Senator Frederick Hale, Mrs. Eugene Hale, Hon. Leland Harrison, The Secretary of Commerce and Airs. Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. "Edward A. Harriman, Mr. Charles P. Kling, Hon. and Mrs. Albert B. Lasker, Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis, Hon. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Hon. and Mrs. Martin B. Madden, Gen. and Mrs. Charles L. McCawley, Senator and Mrs. Aledill McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. McLean, Mr. Justice McReynolds, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Miss (Continued in next column) APRIL GHOWERG BRIAI6 MAY FLOWERS Mellon, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Miller, Hon. and Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, Miss Mondell, Mrs. Mosher, The Postmaster General and Mrs. New, Miss Patten, Judge John Barton Payne, General John J. Pershing, Hon. and Mrs. William Phillips, Col. and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Hon. and Mrs. Frank E. Scobey, Col. and Mrs. Clarence O. Sherrill, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Edward B. Stitt, Miss Stitt, Hon. and Mrs. Howard Sutherland, Miss Sutherland, The Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Richard Townsend, The Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Wallace, Senator and Airs. Francis E. Warren, Senator and Mrs. James E. Watson, The Secretary of War and Mrs. Weeks, Hon. and Mrs. Henry White, Mr. John White, Col. and Mrs. Arthur Woods, Mr. and Mrs.. Samuel E. Winslow, The Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Work. Madison Square Press, Inc., New York