Nicolae Carpathia stepped out from his place at the table and went to each person individually. He greeted each by name, asking him to stand, shaking his hand, and kissing him on both cheeks.
Once everyone knows your shtick is listing things, you have to spice it up a little.
Actually, in hindsight, I think you could read this as Carpathia’s hypnotic trigger. All of his commands in the rest of the scene seem like hypnotic commands (Casting as…