Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1925, Page 8

SO SOC Secretary of State CIETY. IETY and Mrs. Kellogg Return This Evening From Week End Visit in New York. HE Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg will return to Washington _ this evening from New York, where they spent the week end at Har- bor Hill. Roslyn, Long Island, the home of Mr. Clarence H. Mackay. The Secretary will be at his desk in the State Department tomorrow The Ambassador of Daeschner, returned vesterday by motor from Hot Springs, Va., where Mme. Daeschner and their daughters are established for the Summer. France, M The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Mellon, returned this morning from Southampton and will again join his family there Thursday to remain over July 4. The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. ‘Wilbur dined informally with Admir: and Mrs. Edward W. Eberle vester- day at midday and left later fe California. The Secretary will stop Chicago today and will join Mrs. W bur in San Francisco Saturday. The will go from there to Palo Alto to a tend the marriage of their son, Curtis Dwight Wilbur, Jjr., to Mi: Henrietta Shattuck, which will take place Monday, July 6 Senator Augustus Owsley Stanley of Kentucky is in New York at the Ambassador Hotel for a short stay. Virginia Wedding This Afternoon of Wide Interest. The marriage of Miss Virginia Min- nigerode to Lieut. Alan Thornton Hunt, U. S. M. C., will take place this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Elipha- let Fraser Andrews. The guests will assemble in the drawing rooms and lbrary, which open upon the wide hall, lined with family portraits and rare old mahognay furnishings, heir looms for many generations in the family. The rooms will be decorated in pink roses and blue larkspur, against a background of ferns. Mi: Margaret Brittell of Warrenton, Va., will be maid of honor, and will pre- cede the bride, escorted by her father, Mr. Charles Minnigerode of Baltimore, down the spiral stalrway i be met at an improvised altar in the wide hall by the bridegroom and his best man, Lieut. Lloyd Fletcher, U. S. M. C. The Rev. Dr. Willlam Bruce Morton, rector of old Christ Church, in Alexandria, will officiate, and Mr. Lyman McCrary will play the wedding music. Mr. McCrary 15 a life long friend of the bride, and one of the promising__young organists_of the country. He is a student at Yale, and has given a number of organ recitals tn old Christ Church. The bride will wear a gown of flesh- ecolor chiffon over pale blue satin trimmed with broad panels and flounces of rare old rose point lace inherited from her mother. She will wear a broad-brimmed hat of flesh- color chiffon trimmed with rosebuds and forgetme-nots and a scarf of the chiffon falling from the brim to the hem of her gown and finished with clusters of tiny flowers. She will carry pink rosebuds and blue lark- spur and maidenhair fern. Miss Brittell will be in orchid chiffon with hat to match, and little Mary Lord Andrews, daughter of the hosts, will be flower girl and will carry a basket of pink and blue blossoms. Only the members of the two fam- flies will witness the ceremony, a larger company of relatives being asked for a reception afterward. Mrs. Andrews, who is hostess on this occa- sion, will receive with the bride and bridegroom, standing under the giant old trees of this historic estate, and will be assisted by Mrs. Harry L Hunt of Boston, mother of the bride- groom, and Mrs. Charles Minnigerode of Baltimore, stepmother of the bride. Later in the day Lieut. Hunt and his bride will leave for a short motor trip and on their return will be at home at Quantico, Va., where the former is on duty. Capt. and Mre. Austin Kautz have lTeased their house at 1805 Nineteenth street to Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln An- drews during the absence of Capt. Kautz, who is now on sea duty. Mrs. Kautz and her son, Austin Kautz, jr., will start by motor Wednes- day for a tour of New England. In the Autumn Mrs. Kautz will go abroad to spend the Winter. She will visit her nephew and niece, the secretary of the United States Legation in Poland, and Mrs. Edward Savage Crocker, 2d., at Warsaw. Mrs. Crocker was pre. sented at the Court of St. James last week. She was formerly Miss Lis- penard Seabury of New York and was resented to Washington society by er aunt, Mrs. Kautz. Former charge d'affaires of the United States in Mexico and Mrs. Nel- son O'Shaunessy will sail tomorrow aboard the Resolute for Europe, to re- main until the Autumn Mre. George von L. Meyer, widow of the former Secretary of the Navy, has opened her Summer home, Rock Ma- ple Farms, at Hamilton, after spending the Winter with her son-inlaw and daughter.” Signor and Signora Bram- billa, in their Italian home. Mme. Kwapiszewska, Polish Minister to Norway, arrived in New York yesterday from Oslo and is at the Waldorf-Astoria. Mme. Kwapiszewska has a host of friends in Washington, where she lived for several years when M. Kwapiszewski wife of the e Announcement Tueaday’ss and Saturday’s Star Mr. | was counselor of the Polish legation ‘here. Col. and Mrs. Russell Reader have zone to New York and are at the | Hotel Weylin for a few days. Col. and Mrs. Robert N. Harper, who were at the Virginia Hot Springs attending the bankers' convention, will open their country place, Caradoc Hall, near Leesburg, Va., on July 1. They will remain there until late in September. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was hostess at dinner Saturday evening in her villa, the Breakers, at Newport, when her guests included her sons- inlaw and daughters, the Minister of Hungary and Countess Szechenyi and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney are cruising aboard their yacht While- away and spent the week end with Mrs. Vanderbilt. Capt. J. M. Reeves, U. S. N., on the aff of the Naval War Coliege, at ewport. R. L, has arrived at the New Willard, where he will remain for several days. The marrfage of Miss Helen Claire Gwyn of 1412 Massachusetts avenue northwest and Mr. James Griscom Harper of 708 East Capitol street, will be solemnized in St. Mark’s Church tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock by the rector, the Rev. Willlam Henry Pettus. Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Farris have gone to Manchester-by-the-Sea to join the British embassy staff, for the re- mainder of the Summer. Miss Anna Katharine Bryant has gone to Asheville, N. C., where she is the guest of Miss Barbara Lee Jones, also of Washington. Mrs. Hamilton Wright has gone to New York, and is at the Waldorf- Astoria for a short stay. Dr. Elic Scott Carroll is in Florida for a few weeks, and will join Mrs. Carroll early in July. Dr. and Mrs. Carroll will close their home in Cleve.- land Park late next month and will &0 to Wisconsin to visit their son and daughter-in-law, Mrrand Mrs. Donald Carroll. Mrs. Harry A. Williams, jr., and het two younger daughters, and Marthena, closed her apartment at Cathedral Mansions last evening and started for Omaha, Nebr., to be with her mother and grandmother, Mrs. Russell B. Harrison and Mrs. Alvin Saunders, at their country place near there. Mrs. Harrison's son and daughter- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Harrison, 3d, have spent the Winter in Indianapolis, and returned to Oma.- ha a short time ago. Mr. Harrison is now in Wyoming and Mrs. Har- rison is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Newton, in Omaha. Mrs. E. A. Martin left Washington vesterday for Long Beach, Calif., to spend several months with her daugh- ter, Mrs. Paddock, wife of Lieut. Hu- bert Paddock, U. S. N. Mrs. Martin will return in October. Lieut. Pad- dock is on duty aboard the West Vir- ginia, now with the Paclfic fleet in Hawaiian waters. Miss Virginia Pottle, who will leave today for Albany, Ga., was guest of honor at a bridge supper Friday eve- ning by Miss Ellen Stuart, who en- tertained in her home, at 1738 Irving street. Miss Pottle will visit Miss Eleanor Riley in Albany, sister of Mr. Ralph Lawson Riley, whose en- gagement to Miss Pottle was recently announced. Mrs. W. H. Shir Clff twill go ta Albany, N. Y., this week to visit her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Shir CIiff. Maj. and Mrs, Holmes Hosts At Pre-Nurtial supper Party. Maj. and Mrs. Frank M. Holmes entertained 40 guests Saturday night at a buffet supper and dance in honor of Miss Mary R. Griggs of Newburgh, N. Y. fiancee of their son, Lisut. Ernest V. Holmes. Mrs. Mechling, wife of Capt. E. A. Mechling, assisted Mrs. Holmes in serving. The guests were also delightfully entertained with a reading entitled “The Silver Anniversary,” given by Miss Esther B. Holmes, a niece of Maj. Holmes and teacher of domestic science in the high school of Dubois, Pa. Miss Griggs left for her home Monday morning. Mrs. Brownson, wife of Admiral Willard Brownson, was the guest of honor at dinner last evening of Mrs. Albert Smith Barker of this city, who :;\tertuned at Osceola, in nox, Mass. Comdr. and Mrs. Lamar R. Leahy will sail Saturday aboard the Levia- than for the Netherlands, where the former will take up his duties as naval attache of the United States legation at The Hague. Comdr. and Mrs. Leahy have recently returned Chair 5 [ ] Caneing Porch Rockers Splinted Low Price. Quick Service. NUF-CED Clay Armstrong 1233 10th St. N.W. Franklin 7483 KAPLOWITZ we INCORP 721 NINTH ORATED STREET NORTHWEST FOR MADEMOISELLE SIZES 14— 16—18—20 A SPECIAL REMARKABLE OFFERING FROCKS DRESSES ~ GOWNS $20 CUSTOMARY PRICES ARE $. TO ¢ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1925. ——— e BRIDE OF SATURDAY XV & MRS. RAYMOND STONE, Jr. Before her marriage to Lieut. Stone, U. S. Anne Davis Wesson, daughter of Mr. wedding journey will end in Honolulu. from Homnolulu and are visiting the latter's mother, Mrs. Charles W. Clinton, in her home at Tuxedo Park until they sail. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Britton were hosts at luncheon yesterday at the Cascades Clubhouse at Hot Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Black of New York have leased Belmead at Newport for the season and will close their apartment on the roof of the Hotel Plaza in New York Wednes- day. Mrs. Black was formerly Miss Isabelle May of Washington. Mrs. R. Golden Donaldson gave a tea vesterday afternoon at Hot Springs, where she went last week with Mr. Donaldson. The mafriage of Miss Lillan Lee Templeman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Templeman of Fred- ericksburg, Va., and Mr. George Wil- lard Quick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt Quick of this city, was solemnize at 8 o'clock Saturday night at the home of the bride, 2524 Seven- teenth street. The apartment was decorated with pink and yellow snapdragons and roses and an altar was formed of ferns and wild flowers. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore a sleeveless straight gown of white duchesse satin, h a bertha of rose point lace, which fell in a cascade down the left side. Her long tulle veil was held in place by a coronet of lace embroidered with seed pearls with orange blos- soms on the sides. An antique pin of old gold was her only jewelry. The bride’s houquet wa¥ the conventional shower of roses and lilles of the valley. Miss Macle Templemai who was ber sister’s maid of honor, wore an apple green georgette dress with a picture hat of pink and green, while little Mildred Templeman, in a white frock with short tulle veil, scattered roses before the bride. The officlating clergyman, Rev. E. C. Prim; the best man, Mr. Carol Thomas. and the bridegroom are all . il 2, “qne Yark€? Prince OKLAHOMA COLLEGIANS| Every evening. song and banjo speeiaities by Brooke Johss. Trip to mirthful ody by his Orchestral ital cuisine and cooling and 12:30 Nightly 1a case of rain the sup- dancing and enter- e. 31 Plus Tax, Holldays, Phene r ions, Mr. Sellmer, Franklin 5800 Saturday, she was Miss and Mrs. Charles M. Wesson. Their University of Richmond men who have located in Washington, Mr. Prim as pastor of the Second Baptist Church and Mr. Thomas and Mr. Quick with the Bureau of Standards. After July 15 Mr. and Mrs. Quick will be at home at 4520 Fourteenth street. Among the out-of-town guests at the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Templeman, Miss Florence Tem- pleman of Fredericksburg; Mrs. R. T. Ashby of Quantico, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- lam Peed of King George, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hawxhurst and Mrs. Tunis C. Quick of Falls Church, and Dr. R. A. Quick of Clarendon. An interested witness at the wed- ding was the grandmother of the bridegroom, Mrs. Christina Keim, who is 90 years of age. ‘The marriage of Miss Mary Jeanette Shane to the Rev. Marshall C. Muir, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Muir of Chevy Chase, Md., took place Wed- nesday evening, June 24, in the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Shane, at McDonald, Pa. The ceremony was performed at 7:30 o'clock in the library of Mr. and Mrs. Shane's home, the Rev. W. E. Ash- brook of Hubbard, Ohlo, cousin of the bride, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Dr. J. J. Mui* of this city, grand father of the bridegroom. Tall stand- ards of palms. delphinium and fern tied with white ribbon marked the alsle through the hall and parlor to the improvised altar, and preceding the ceremony Miss Hazel Speer play- ed several solos and then played the wedding music. The bride was given in marriage by her father, and wore a gown of white chiffon _heavilv _beaded with crystals 1143 CONNECTICUT . AVENUE ‘ Greatly ~ Reduced Prices on Smart HATS For Every Occasion Hats Formerly $15 to $35 Now 10 & 415 A Special Group at ‘5 7th and H Sts. N.W. 804 7th St. N.W. 800 Mid-Summer Hats Priced Very Low Ajour and 2 This season’ WHITES and blacks. poke shapes and smaller slight roll-off- face effects. The trimmings are flowers and ribbons. Hair Hats s newest fad. There are Hats in smart and made over white satin. Her tulle vell, which formed her train, was arranged in a cap effect finished with orange blossoms, which trimmed the wedding gown of her mother, and she carried pink and white roses with a shower of lilies of the valley. Mrs. Paul N. Jordan was matron of honor for her sister and was in a gown of georgette crepe in an Amer- ican beauty shade and carried swes heart roses. Miss Loulse Shane, si ter of the bride, and Miss Stella Wagenfehr, a classmate at college, were bridesmaids, the former wear- ing pink chiffon and carrying Premiere roses and the latter in yellow geor- gette crepe and carrying a bouquet of vellow roses. Mr. Brockett Muir of Chevy Chase was best man for his brother and the ushers were Dr. Paul N. Jordan and Mr. Jack Shane, brother of the bride. A reception followed the ceremony when the parents of the bride and bridegroom received with theu, Mrs. Shane wearing a gown of powder blue beaded georgette crepe and Mrs. Muir was in orchid georgette crepe em- broidered in gold. Supper was served later, a large, round table being reserved for the bride and bridegroom and their wed ding party, a basket of pink roses and sweet peas forming the center- piece. Mr. and Mrs. Muir will said Sat- urday aboard the Leviathan for Scotland and a tour of the continent, returning in September, when they will go to St. Paul, Minn., where Mr. Muir has been called as assistant to Dr. Swearingen at the Church of Mrs. Muir is a graduate of vivania College for Women < of 1925 and Mr. Muir was from the Western Theo logical Seminary last month and was a graduate of the Washington and Jefterson College in the class of 1 Ganss-Wallerstein Wedding Brilliant Event Yesterday. The marriage of Miss Helen Wal- lerstein, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Wallerstein. and Mr. Harold Ganss, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Ganss, took place yesterday at noon at_Rauscher's. The ceremeny, which was perform- ed by Rev. Dr. Abram Simon of the Eighth Street Temple, took place in the small ballroom, under a bower of palms and white flowers, was wit- nessed by 60 guests, the relatives and close friends of the young couple, and was followed by a breakfast, the Ruests being seated at one large table in the form of a horseshoe. Clusters of roses formed the decorations of the table, and before the bride and groom was a centerpiece of lilies of the valley. The attractive bride, who was given away by her father, wore a becom ing gown of soft white satin, trim- med in pearls. She wore a tulle vell, which fell to the hem of the skirt, held in place with a crown of pearls. and carried @ shower bouquet of bride roses and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Leroy Hutzler, the bride, was, matron of honor, and ) . .SeocTETY. wore a gown of green georgette, trim- | [ med in beads, and carried pink roses. Miss Dorothy Sonneborn, as maid of honor, wore a girlish gown of orchid chiffon, trimmed in silver, and carried pink roses. The bridegroom had for his best man his cousin, Mr. Mark Friedlander of this city. Little Le Roy Hutzler, 3d, nephew of the bride, preceded her a. ring bearer. Later in the afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Ganss started on their honey- moon trip, which will include the Great Lakes as far as Duluth. The going-away gown of the bride was an ensemble suit of beige-colored cloth trimmed in vari-colored cretonne and a becoming hat of brown velour with touches of color to correspond with her suit. Upon the return of the young couple they will go to housekeeping in their new bungalow, which has just been completed on Harrison street, Chevy Chase. Among the out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Sol Peyser, Mrs. Edgar Wertheimer, Mrs. Harvey Spiegel, Miss Dora Garner of Newport News, b Mrs. Samuel Wallach of Phila- delphia, Mrs. Philip Peyser of Tampa, Mr. and Mrs. Le Roy Hutzler, jr., %'nd Le Roy Hutzler, 3d, of Richmohd, a. Mrs. Frank E. Altemus is leaving the city today for Saranac Inn, to be present July 1 at the marriage cere- money of her son, Mr. Frederick E. Altemus, to Miss Florence M. Mills. Mrs. John M. Buckly of Worcester, Mass., is at the Willard, where she ar. rived today for an indefinite stay. Mr. rl B. Elder of Chicago is the house guest of Dr. and Mrs. Everett M. Ellison, at their home on M street, for a few days. Mrs. Robert H. C. Kelton, with her son, John Kelton, and her mother, Mrs. George E. Wills, left Sunday for New England, where they will remain until about the 1st of October. Mr. and Mrs. mond Brennan, ac- companied by Mr. and Mrs. Dewsy Zirkin, left today on a motor trip to Canada. 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This is a special purchase, together with merchan- dise from our own stocks, reduced to sell at the same price—which is less than the wholesale cost! made light-weight chokers and flexible bracelets—just the thing you need to complete your Summer costume. Novelty Chokers Choke-s description — French pearls in the creamy in- destructible quality, both graduated and uniform. of every well as Also bar pins, earrings of all sorts All—95c eack’ tted Sportswear, $5.90 ) Regular prices $10 to $15 or more Loveliest things in vacation apparel—in the season’s high shades as well as staple colorings. Reindeer Chamois i One of America’s highest class manufacturers of knit goods was making his pre-inventory cléaring of these high-grade novelties from which we took our choice at our price. ——— Sports Section—Street Floor Costume Slips—Tomorrow 3 unusual values—you need at least one more slip! $2.95 Of tub silk, with pleated . sides—fullness, and yet the straightline! In white, flesh color and light blue. Also in natural pongee. Shadow- proof hems. Slips—Street Floor Closing Out 100 Women’s Fine Coats Formerly priced at $55 to $145— Going on Sale tomorrow reduced to One hundred fine coats—many of them exclusive models, made by the country’s best makers of fashionable coats—are to be disposed of in this important event! They have the cool, Summery short Bracelets French pearl, baroque- style pearls, and stone ef- fects, in novel settings as sterling and gold plated bangles. \WAsmmvTOm, Pars JuLIUS GARFINCKEL & C Unusual Values n Summer Apparel For Infants, Small Boys and Girls A Wide Choice Selection at Reduced Prices E have greatly reduced groups of L distinctive goods from our regular stocks. Our goods are the best quality always. 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Large WHITE band- for sportswear, too, Unusual quality for Third Floor $3.95 Radium silk slips, with shemstitched tops. These, too, have side pleats, giving Jullness, but maintaining the straight line. Shadow hems. Flesh color and white. New Sorosis White Pumps : $875 55 The season’s most fashion- LORCHENE, = C= JEWELTONE, CORDETTE, SATIN, BENGALINE, FAILLE, RUSSIAN CREPE, OTTOMAN, CREPE SATIN and CANTON CREPE. The colors—Navy, black, chili, wigwam, amber, rose, tan, bambino, blonde, cocoa and rust. o Many are beautifully trimmed with Summer furs! I Others are plain. And the stunning’ models include tucked, embraidered and braided coats— L4 tailored and dressy styles—flares, front ties, pleated panels, jabots, revers and fascinating EXCLUSIVE FASHIONS OF KAPLOWITZ QUAUTY AND COPIES OF THE FRENCH, THE FASHIONS PATOU .. tENIEFF .. 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