Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1931, Page 34

2 Mr. and Mrs. 50 CIETY Keith Merrill Leave for Summer Place F Visit—Mr. and M to Cap Mr. and Mrs. Keith Merrill have elosed their home in Washington and gone to their Summer place at Prides Crossing. Former Senator Ernest R. Gould of Presque, Me., has come to Washington to remain for a short time and is at the ‘Willard. Mr. and Mrs. John N. Hudgins will leave Washington Thursday for Cape May, where they have taken a cot- tage on Columbia avenue. Mrs. John Henry Dwight and Miss | Mary Isabel Dwight are at the St. Regis Hotel in New ‘York, where they will re- main until Tuesday. Miss Virginia Ashburn, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Percy M. Ashburn, has gone to Annapolis for June week. Mr. Phillip Larner Gore, son of Capt. @nd Mrs. Albert J. Gore, of Garfleld street, and his class mate, Mr. Russell Morley of Hartford, Conn., will arrive | in Washington June 5 to spend a week before returning to Princeton, they will be graduated June 16. Capt. and Mrs. Gore will go to the graduating exercises with them. Mrs. Gore and her son will sail the early part of July from Los Angeles on the Malolo, for Hono- hulu. They will be gone about three onths, returning on the northern route ugh the Canadian Rockies. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Yost are spending | the holiday at their home in Hunting- #n, W. Va., and will return to the May- flower the first of the week. Baron Francls Hatvany of Budapest, | Jromgery. who has just recently arrived | ‘Washington, has taken an apartment ot Wardman Park Hotel, where he will make his home while here. Mrs. Wirt Robinson, with her little daughter, Evelyn Byrd Robinson, plans 10 leave for her Summer home at Stone Harbor, N. J., within a few days. She | will return o her apartment at the | Shoreham early in the Fall. During the | Summer Mrs. Robinson's sister, Mrs. David Fiske, of Evanston, Ill., and her | daughter, Miss Isabel Fiske, will live at the Shorehame, occupying Mrs. Rob- inson’s apartment. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Wilson and Mr. ‘Wilson’s mother, Mrs. Carrie L. Wilson, made a brief visit at Old Point Comfort and stayed at the New Chamberlin. They returned to Washington Friday. Mrs. William H. Hawkins of Boston, | Mass., is passing a few days at the | Dodge Hotel. Mrs. Hawkins is exqcutive secretary of the Massachusetts Lvanch | of the National Woman's Party and is in Washington attending the conference | of party workers, which is being held at | the Dodge Hotel. Mrs. W. K. Wooley of | Grand mpms is also a guest at the\ Dodge ard is attending the conference. Miss Patricia Dent and Miss Elizabeth Holmes of Evanston, Ind.. juniors at Swarthmore College, are the guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. | Dent, 2035 Cathedral avenue. Mrs. Atherton Seic~ll of 2301 Con- mnecticut avenue will leave Washington today and will sail Saturday for Europe. Mrs. Seidell will be accompanied by her niece, Miss Elizabeth Medinger, after joining Dr. Seidell in Paris. They will | spend the Summer motoring in England and France. Mr. Donald MacDonald, 3d, has re- turned from the West and rejoined his mother, Mrs. Donald MacDonald, at | 1824 Belmont road. He will remain here for some time before leaving to spend the Summer in Northern Michigan. Mr. Herbert L. Aldridge. son of Mrs. Mae Aldridge, of 118 North Maple street, North Little Rock, Ark., will be graduated from Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., this month, when he will | receive the bachelor degree in civil engineering. Mr. Aldridge has attended | Lafayette College for the past four | xeur; and has been active in engineering | wor Previous to his enrollment at Lafayette he was in the adjutant general's office, War Department. Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Ripply. for. merly of this city, are being congratu- lated upon the birth of a son John | Newton on May 22. Mrs. Charles M. Ripply is spending several weeks at the home of her son in Troy, N. Y. | Mr. and Mrs. J. Alphus Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stanley Wolfe, maternal and paternal grandparents of Miss Elizabeth Johnson Wolfe, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Stanley ‘Wolfe of Bridgeport, Conn., whose mar- riage to Mr. Rushton Leigh Ardrey will take place June 26, will go to| Connecticut for the wedding. Miss | Ada Howard Johmson, aunt of the bride, will also be among the out-of- town guests. Mr. and Mrs. William Francis Mar- ghall have returned to Washington from Richmond, where they went to attend the marriage of their son, Mr. Alfred Winston Marshall, to Miss Mary Whiting Templeman. The marriage took place in the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Temple. man of Highland Park, Richmond, Va. Mrs. Laurence ‘Briggs Dodds 1s visit- ing her grandmother, Mrs. B. O. Bil- lingsley at Jewell, Va., having motored from her home in Schenectady, N. Y., Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Prangley and their young son, who are visiting Mr. Prangley's mother of this | city. Mr. R. Berrell W. Walker of 2222 Q‘ street northwest will leave this week to attend the reunion of his class where | | Washington a te rs. Hudgins Going e May. and will stop over at Hartford, Conn., en route. Mrs.,Sallie H. van Antwerp of South Cathedral Mansions spent several days last week in Baltimore, attending the | 'meetings of the Real Estate Board, which been in convention in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Barrett of Chicago will be guests at the Mayflower until the middle of the week with their daughter, Miss Gertrude Barrett. Two of their other daughters, Misses Helen and Marion Barrett, are at Trinity Col- lege, the former a member of this year's graduating class. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin R. Hodge of Charleston, W. Va., are the week end guests of Mrs. Van Antwerp and Miss Hodge, 2900 Connecticut avenue. Mr. Hodge was located in Washipgton for some time as an official of the ul!- | phone company, until he was ferred to West Virginia division Wlth headquarters in Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Telford have taken an apartment at the Shoreham |and will make their home there during the coming season. Mr. and Mrs, B. Nelson of Sacra- mento, Calif., are week end guests at | the Dodge. - [ Mrs. William L. Jones, accompanied by Miss Annie B. Chamberlain of Natchez, Miss, is at the Dodge Hotel for a few days. | Mrs. E. D. Woodyard, who arrived in days ago from her home in Spencer, W. Va., and took an apartment at Wardman Park Hotel, was joined yesterday by her husband, and they plan to remain here for some little | time. Mrs. Lillian R. Minkow of Long Islan Wardman Park Hotel, to remain for several days. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Post of Chices, Calif., are passing a brief time at the Dodge. Miss Marion E. Wells, and Miss Louise Dyer have left the city for Annapolis, where they will attend the June week | celebration and graduation exercise of the Naval Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Lorton of Tulsa are at the Willard for a few days. Mr. Lorton is the owner of the Tulsa Daily World. Many 7E;1gagements Await Mrs. Hoover, Back From Trip ___(Continued From First Page) | diplomatic households there during the Summer months. Washington is passing through its annual stage of interesting local wed- dings, the usual number being sched- uled for June and July and others com- ing later in the season. Whenever pos- sible an cutdoor atmosphere is given | for at least the reception, and at least one bride will introduce an original note in the costumes of her attendants by the use of charming fancy bag almost_ covered with lilies of the valley | or other small flowers, with many little ribbons attached. The same blossoms will form the trimming on the broad- | brimmed lace straw hats and perhaps a cluster at the belt line. This is, in- deed. a delightful change from the long | procession of arm or shower bouquets | which generally form a circle about the altar and the bride. One of the most charming weddings in its arrangement will be that of Miss Anne Crevling Serre to Mr. Raymond Dyer McGrath of New York City at Warrenton, Va!, Thursday. The cere- mony will be performed in the garden of Mrs. Serre's home. Next in beauty | to a garden wedding is one in lovely | Bethlehem Chapel, where at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon the wedding of Miss Isabel Casilear Greene. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Devereux Greene, to Mr. Richard Chew Zantzinger of Mary- land will take place. ‘There is supreme consolation in being a member of the League of Republican Women if for no other reason than that Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, who is herself a member, is giving the use of beautiful Wild Acres, her home on the Rockville pike. for an outing party for members of the league tomorrow. If rain spoils things, then the hospitality holds good for the next day. Wild Acres is the home of hundreds of birds and one of the pleasures will be to wander over the wooded acres and meet the songsters on their own ground, or, rather, on their own boughs. Mies Cat]’l‘;:":e Berry Completes Weddmg Plans (Continued From Pirst Page.) tained at a bridge party for Miss Berry and Wednesday Mrs. Leon Grant, sister of the bridegroom, was hostess at a bridge luncheon for her. Miss Christiana Osborne Jones, whose marriage to Mr. Theodore Sul- livan Cox will take place June 20 at St. John's Church, has chosen as her maid of honor and only attendant Miss Cecil Lester Jones, daughter of Mrs. E. Lester Jones of Georgetown, and the late Col. E. Lester Jones. Mr. Fred- erick Deane Goodwin Ribble of Uni- versity, Va., will act as best man, and at the United States Military Academy, West Poi.nt, N. Y., oceurring June week, (pi CONNECTICUT AVENUE @i Opposite the As you would expect . . . It is quite natural that the show- place of Washington should have exquisite creations —in keeping with the individ in which they Such are seen at Avenue.” “Rizi! Rizik's contini Main the same merchan- dise and personnel. the models now to be the ushers will be Mr. Emery Cox of Norfolk, Va., brother of the groom; o Mayflower ual surroundings are displayed. k’s Connecticut Street the with wpn ues as Store , N. Y., has joined Mr. Minkow at | where they plan | | | Mr. Thaddeus Culver Jones, brother nl {the bride: Mr. Thomas Pinckns |and Mr. Samuel Brown Witt, bl of Richmond. | Miss Jones, daughter of Mr. Thad- {deus Milton Jones, treasurer of Prince | Georges Bank & Trust Co.. and Mrs. Jones. who is active in many patriotic societies, was graduated at Miss | Madeira’s School and Wellesley Col- | lege. Her great.grandfather, Amos | Kendall, a member of the’ famous | | “kitchen cabinet” while Postmaster Gen- | ur ton’s leral in the Jackson and Vai cabinets, was one of Washi earliest and most generous philan- | | thropists. ~ Another branch of her | | family was well established in George- | | town before Washington became a city. Mr. Cox is the son of the late Mr. | and Mos. William van Zendt Cox of | | Emery place, Brightwood, and the | grandson of ‘Matthew G. Emery, the | last mayor of Washington. During the | World War he served as captain of Field Artillery in the A. E. F., and is now head of the School of Jurispru- | dence of the College of William lnd Mary. Miss Margaret de Maulsby West, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry West, whose marriage to Mr. John | Homer Chase will take place at noon | Saturday, at St. Matthews Church, will { have as her only attendant her little sister, Miss Bille Byrd West. Mr. Walter Carter of this city will be the best man, and the ushers selected include Mr. Donald J. Nightingale, Mr. Paul M. Strickler, Mr. Frank I Gillis Mr. Robert M. Gormley, Mr. W. Wayne Haley, Mr. Lee E. Eynon, Mr. Lincoln J. Patton, all of New York City; Russell Ratigan of Buffalo, N. M I. Brainerd Kremer, 3d, of Montcla N. J.; Mr. Frederick B. Smillee of Plain- fleld, N. J.; Mr. Aldace Walker of Mc- Daniel, Md., and Mr. John F. Sweeney | of this city. Immediately following the ceremony there will be a wedding breakfast for relatives and out-of-town guests at the home of the bride. A number of prenuptial festivities will be given this week for Miss West. Miss | Mary Hills will entertain at a bridge | party tomorrow for her, and Wednes- | day Mrs. William Harryman Rapley, tertain the members of the wedding | varty before the dinner Mr. and Mrs. West. parents of the bride, will give at the Chevy Chase Club Thursday, for the wedding party. Mr. Chase will give his bachelor din- | ner Friday. | 'The marriage of Miss Mary Margaret Ruane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Ruane, 6319 Connecticut menue, to Mr. Nicholas Auth of this city, will take place in the Church of the Most Blessed | Wednesday Wild Acres the Scene of Republican Garden party' June 10 Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, first vice| fmother of the bridegroom, will enter. | President of the League of Republican tain at luncheon and bridge. Mrs, | Women, will be hostess for the garden James Foster Willett, the former | party of that organization at her home, | Sencrita Lucia Tessada Guzman, will be | Wild Acres, on the Rockville pike, to- hostess at luncheon June 4, at the | morrow. | Chevy Chase Club, in honor of t After a plenic luncheon, the guests’ bridge-elcct. 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Shafroth will speak. Mrs. Grosvenor will be assisted Mrs. Edward E. Gann, Mrs. Frank W. Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Mondell, Mrs. John Holmes, Mrs. Walter Sacrament at 11 o'clock, the morning of | Tuckerman and Mrs. Eugene Stevens. THE Piano ======= The shrine of the most beautiful art in the world. T A RPN TN A WL 0 T AN | ™ WL am!iw%wi’ Upper left: Mrs. David L. Brainard, in the garden of their home on Thirty-t] Center: Mrs. Harley Peyton Wilson Vice President Curtis and his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Edward | Everett Gann, in her lovely garden. Upper right: Miss Katherine Dougal Mrs. Walter T. Wheatley, in Georgetown. Lower: Mrs. Calvin Nefl of Sutton Mrs. Brainard on Thirty-third street. SOCIETY Miss Lenore Lafount TO M‘rry Mr- Romney: Rites in Utah July 2 Miss Mary Emogene Foley Will Marry Mr. B. E, Talbott, Jr., in Fall. Federal Radio Commissioner Harold A. Lafount and Mrs. Lafount aAnounce Lenore, to Mr. George W. Romney 01 Salt Lake City, Ntah. the I!lddtn( take place in Sale Lake City the 2d of The engagement was formally an- nounced yesterday at an unusual lunch- eon given by Mrs. Lafount at the Con- gressional Country Club. The hostess was assisted by two of her daughters, Mrs. J. N. Dotson and Miss Ruth La- fount. The color scheme of yellow and green was effectively carried out. The Euem included 20 of the family's close Miss Lafount is a graduate of George Washington University. She has studied dramatic art in New York, and during the past year has been at the Holly- wood Studios of Metro-Goldwyn-May- er. She will leave Washington .Yune 10 for Salt Lake City, where she wik visit friends and relatives for two weeks prior to the wedding. , Mr. Romney is the son of Mr. Gas- Eell Romney, a prominent contractor of Mrs. Thomas William Foley an- nounces the engagement of her daugh- ter, Mary Emogene, to Mr. lln]ln'lth Erlie Talbott, jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Erlie Talbott. The wedding will take place in the Fall. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Dorsey Clag- gett announce the engagement of their daughter, Frances Nicholas, to Mr. dolfh Stanley Souther. The wedding take place June 20. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Culj r, form- erly of Suffolk, Va., now omfi N announce the engagement and ap- proaching marriage of their daughter, Ruth Philnower, to Mr. Thomas Allen Sullivan, formerly of Plerre, S. Dak., now of wuhmzmn ‘The enmement of Miss Marian Jahn was recently announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Joseph Jahn, to Dr. Henry Konzelmann of Bayonne, N. J. THe weddlnz will take pllce in August. Mr. and Mrs. Smruon Are at.Long Island Home (Continued From First Page.) attend the graduation of another daughter, Miss Garnet Sheppard, from the University of Tezas. Representative “and Mrs. James M. Beck leave the Capital tomorrow for New York. They will go to their Sum- mer home at Seabright, N. J., later. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes will leave Wednesday for his Summer home at Beverly Farms, Mass. Mr. Justice and Mrs. Louis Brandeis will close their home here this week and g0 to Chatham, Mass., where they will be at their place, the Homestead, for the Summer. Mr. Justice and Mrs. George Suthe: land have leased a house in Burlin- | game. Calif., and will leave Tuesday for the West. Mr. Justice and Mrs. Harlan Piske Stone are closing their Washington home this week and Saturday will go to Tle au Haute. Me., to pass the greater | part of the Summer. wife of Brig. Gen. Brainard, U. 8. A, hird street. —Harris-Ewing Photo. of Hollin Hall, Va., who entertained —Underwood Photo. | in the lovely old garden of her mother, —Underwood Photo. | Place, N. Y., visiting Brig. Gen. and —Harris-Ewing Photo. Mre. Hoover Guest at Fedeffl'ed Cl“b! Lunc}l Mrs. Herbert Hoover will be the guest of honor at the annual luncheon to be held at the Mayflower Hotel; | June 10. Committee chairmen arrang- | ing the luncheon include Mrs. William | La Varre, Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, Mrs. Ernest H. Daniel, Mrs. Eva Criswell, Mrs. Tamar F. Rorke, Mrs. Virginia ‘White Speel, and Mrs. Prank A. Shortall. J. Harry Cunningham will be chalrman of ‘mualc, Mrs. H. M. Hunter, chairman | program; Mrs. Grattan Kerans, chllrmln of publicity; Mrs. F. C. Brinley, chairman of reservations. Mrs. Edgar B. Merritt will preside. | To Attend ACong;cssional D.| qualified na- | hrough the 40 e of woodland of the Grosvenor es- birds, trees and Former Representative and Mrs. John W. Palmer have been joined in their home, in Sedalia, Mo, by their daugh- | ter, Miss Hazel Palmer, who remained in the Capital for a stay after the de- parture of her parents. Miss Palmer will accompany her parents to Minne- apolis June 10 to attend the wedding of her brother, Mr. John Palmer, jr., to Miss Patricia Rowena Nolan, daugh- ter of Representative and Mrs. William ! 1. Nolan. *’ 1857 by R. 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University Graduates | Dance at Willard June 6/ The Assistant_Secretary of War and The annual alumni reception and|Mrs. F. Trubee Davison and their chil- dance in honor of the members of the | dren will leave today for their Summer | Sune graduating classes of the George | Place, Peacock Point. Locust Valley, Lo 1sl; Washington University will take Dlace | (hels fonsiis Wil cpendt e Smarer. .| Saturday evening at 9:30 o'clock at the| The Secretary will return the first of | Willard Hotel, under the joint auspices | the week. L | of three of the university alumni or-| The assistant solicitor of the State ganizations—the General Alumni As-| Department and Mrs. Josepn Richard. sociation, the Columbian-George Wash- Baker have closed their apartment | ington Law School Association and the | Until the Autumn. They are staying in nearby Fairfax County, Va., until the | Seorge Washingion University Medical 1g¢5'summer, when they will make visits Preceding the reception the annual [in Quebec Province and the Adi- moei:e\ngs of two of the sssociations wi|fondacks. Gradiiates of the Law School wil as- | ITWO PUBLIC LECTURES semble at 8 ofclock for the meeting of the Columbian-George Vashington Gottfried de Purucker (Head g, the Theosophical Society Ravin Sthool Association, With® Allred. Adams Wheat, chief justice of the Supreme nternationsl Headqupriers at Court of the District, who is president | of the association, presiding, f ?‘/ed June 3, 8:30 PJ\:‘; e annual meeting of the Genera At pesetarion winfotiow 3¢ 53| “THEOSOPHY o'clock. This meeting also will have &- At Masonic Auditorium, N. Y. 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