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Edward Everett Gann went to another grand Society party in Washington last week, a State dinner in honor of Señor Don Pablo Ramirez, Minister of Finance of Chile, given by Señor Don Carlos G. Dávila, Chilean Ambassador to the U. S. There were 189 other people there, some of whom Mr. Gann knew, which made it pleasant...
...glittering table like two horseshoes laid end to end was spread in the Hall of the Americas at the Pan-American Union Building. Mr. Gann found his seat seventh from the foot of one horseshoe. On his left was Mrs. William Braden, wife of the Chilean copper operator. On his right was a Mrs. Paul Wooton, wife of the Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...Gann, no talker in Society, heard those about him discuss the Junoesque lady in a silver lace dress seated so grandly at the right hand of the diminutive Ambassador Davila at one end of the table. This was embarrassing for Mr. Gann because the lady in question was his own wife. In the other direction, all bathed and shaved and shining in his evening clothes, beside Señor Davila, was Mrs. Gann's brother. Vice President Charles Curtis, upon being whose official hostess Mrs. Gann had long been. bent. This dinner represented the final triumph...
...Gann listened to the conversation around him and held his peace. This was his wife's big evening. He saw it through...
...Gann case is not likely to produce any Cabinet resignations, but to Washington's social actors and managers it seems a very serious matter indeed. Off in one corner of the theatre, watching the spectacle, sits a senator-Nebraska's George William Norris-who has more than once expressed himself forcefully if not tactfully on the Capital's society. Early in the Harding administration Senator Norris made an attack upon Mrs. Edward B. McLean, too acid to quote. Last week Senator Norris, his tongue in his cheek and even sticking out of his mouth a little...