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...socially in a tight little world of its own. The hostesses strive hardest to bring to their dinner tables the diplomats: Belgium's Prince de Ligne, Canada's Vincent Massey, England's Sir Esme Howard, Cuba's Señor Ferrara, Germany's Von Prittwitz und Gaffron, Hungary's Count Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses on their...
Last week, among many notables who applauded Kreutzberg in Manhattan, were German Ambassador and Frau von Prittwitz, Playwright Noel Coward, Actress Beatrice Lillie, Singers Maria Jeritza and Mary Garden, and Mrs. Vincent Astor. They saw a young hairless-headed fellow make swift, strange pictures to music by Chopin, Scott, Wilckens, de Falla, Satie. They saw him clown with Stravinsky and go gibbering mad with Prokofieff. So enthusiastic was Ambassador Prittwitz that he took steps to arrange a recital in Washington. Dancer Kreutzberg and the bright, wispish Georgi will go thence to Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Boston...
President Nicholas Murray ("Miracu lous") Butler, of Columbia University, whose "who" in Who's Who runs an entire column, last week stepped into a five-story house on West 117th Street, Manhattan, with young and elegant Baron von Prittwitz, German Ambassador to the U. S. With the Baron was the Baroness...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Jesse Holman Jones, Ambassador von Prittwitz of Germany, John Philip Sousa, President Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange, President Sloan of General Motors, President Coolidge of the U. S. A. and many another personage attended the spring dinner and prank-night of the Gridiron Club (Washington news-gatherers). Politics past, present and future were "horsed" as usual. President Coolidge stayed to the end and made a speech which, under the Gridiron Club's huddle system, might not be repeated or reported...
...Prittwitz-Gaffron" (as he often calls himself) believes diplomacy should be based on economics and publicity. After two years in the U. S. (1908-1910) as an attache, he saw much of the pre-War diplomacy-of-deception at St. Petersburg and in the Berlin Foreign Of- fice. For a time, he was personal secretary to Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg. He fought in the War, being badly wounded. Following Germany's Revolution, he helped found the Democratic Club in Berlin but did not leave diplomacy for politics. The rise of Germany's new democracy sent him to Rome...