Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1931, Page 19

THE EVENIN SAR. JWASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1931. = SOCIETY | (Continued From Second Page) | tained at luncheon at the Shoreham to- day. Her guests were Mrs. Thomas L. Jones, Mrs. Albert Rose, Mrs. P. B. Harvey, Mrs. R. E. Fletcher, Mrs. Frank M. Munson, Mrs. J. H. Boggis, Miss Mary Morgan and Miss Elizabeth Tyree. Miss Louise Prances Bruce, daughter of Comdr. and Mrs. Bryson Bruce, and Miss Cecile Harrington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Harrington, will enter- tain in the former's residence at a tea and shower this afternoon in honor of Miss Barbara Miller, whose wedding h)‘ Mr. Emory Albert Nielsen will take| place Saturday. Among those assisting | were Miss Dorothy Albert of Washing- | ton and Miss Helen Kerr of Fortress| Monroe. Miss Edna May Luers entertained at | the Shoreham at luncheon today in honor of her sister, Mrs. Percy Hill of | Vancouver, British Columbia, Her other guests were Miss Dorothy Lewis, Miss Ruth Hall, Mrs. McKay and Mrs. Wil- liam Eickner. Congressional Club Parties for Young People. The Congressional Club will give a dance tonight from 9 to 12 o'clock for the sub-debutante daughters and young | sons of members in its club house at 2001 New Hampshire avenue The club was the scene of a gay | Christmas party given for the children and grandchildren of the members yes- | terday afternoon. | Mrs, Howard S, Reeside played Santa Claus to the delight of all the litcle guests. Games and stories were con- ducted by Miss Elizabeth Molster. A group of songs sung by the Powell Jun- for High School Quartet and the mov- ing pictures directed by Mr. Josenh Herbert and Mr. Kemper Cowing com- pleted the afternoon’s fun and frolic | for the youthful guests ‘The Belasco Theater held a capacity house last evening which had much the appearance of an opera crowd, but instead it was a delightful presentation of “The Jewel Robbery,” with Mary Ellis and Basil Sydney starring. Representative and Mrs. Clyde Kelley had a party with them as also had the Controller General and Mrs. J. Ray- mond McCarl, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Craven, Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley ard her sons, Mr. Harvey W. Wiley and Mr. John Wiley: Mr. and Mrs. Fellan Gar- zia and Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Bush- Brown The first of the annual Georgetown | assemblies was held last evening at historic Linthicum Hall, in George- town. 1 Dr. Robert S. Beale is chairman of the Assembly Committee, which in- cludes Mr. John Blake Gordon, Mr Basil Boteler, Mr. Llewellyn Nichol- son and Mrs. Henry Matthews, jr. In the recelving line last evening were Mrs. Beale, Mrs. John Hanna_and | Mrs. 8. Percy Thompson. Miss Emily | Matthews entertained at dinner pre- | ceding the dance for her niece, Miss | Lucy Mackall, daughter of Mrs. Louls Mackall and the late Dr. Mackall i There will be two more assemblies | this season, one January 48 and the other February 8 | Mrs. Henry C. Smither entertained at | dinner last evening at the Arm: | Country Club for her son, Mr. Henry C. | Smither, jr., who is home for the hol days from his studies at the New Yol Military Academy. The guests included | Miss Carol Martin, Miss Jane Evans, | Miss Peggy Grimes, Miss Jean McNeill. Miss Eleanor Perkins, Miss Kate Cla Miss Beatrice O'Malley, Mr. Jok Thempson, Mr. Peter Kieffer, Mr. W ter Pick, Mr. Thomas Kimmel, Mr Bteve Holderness and Mr. Alex Stewart. | Miss Quincy Smith will be at home | this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock at | 3110 Woodland drive. Miss Smith will | leave Thursday for Africa. Mrs. Natalie R. Fernald is spending the holidays with her son and daugh- | ter-in-law, Prof. and Mrs. Ernest Mer- cer Fernald, at Easton, Pa. Miss Madeline Prentice of New York City is the guest of Maj. and Mrs. | L. Larsen in their apartment at | an Park Hotel, Maj. and Mrs. Larsen entertained a | group at dinner there last evening. covers being laid’ for 10. Mrs. C. M. Stover was hostess to a | company of 11 at luncheon yesterday | at the Carlton, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph G. Hills of Balti- more are spending & few days with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Dixon, in their apart- ment at Wardman Park Hotel. Miss Betty Dixon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, who spent Christmas with her parents at_Wardman, has returned to | Columbia, N. Y., where she is attending | school. | | | | Judge and Mrs. John C. Clark have arrived in Washington from their home in New Yerk City, accompanied by their daughter, Miss Jane P. Clark, and are stopping at the Carlton Mrs. C. Frank Bolt of Anderson, §.C., is the guests of her sister, Miss Laura | Ruff, and Miss Mabel Ezell for the | holidays. Dr. Hornell Hart of Bryn Mawr, Pa., is at the Dodge for a few days. Dr. Hart is head of the Carola Woerishoffer | graduate department of social economy and social research of Bryn Mawr Col- | lege. Dr. Robert M. Stabler of the Univer- sity of Penn: a, with Mrs. Stabler | lbert Hamilton Y., have been | tabler at Edge- Dr. Stabler left where h guests of th wood, in Sa Saturday ation of parasitol Miss Frances Kerr, student, wil classmates at tea tomo in Massachusetts Park ity College p of her rer home former_secre- { Mr. Benjamin Cohen WELCOME 1932 AT THE GALA NEW YEARS Eve PARTY = CLUB = Chantecler No. 1 Thomas Circle Couvert $5 per person Dancing and Merriment from 10 p.m. to 4 am. University of South Carolina, of which her father is librarian. She is a mem- ber of the Columbia branch of the Junior League. She has spent much of her time in the last few years with tary of the Chilean embassy, was host last evening at the Club Chantecler supper dance. | chorus from “Lohengrin Wedding in Virginia This Morning of Interest Here. A wedding of interest in Washington and several Southern States took place this morning at Gray Gables, historic. residence of the late Maj. Robert W. Hunter, in Winchester, Va,, when Miss Margaret Stuart Kennedy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Kennedy of Columbia, S. C., became the bride of Mr. John McGough Baarcke, also of that city. The ceremony Wwas per- formed at 11:30 o'clock by the Rev. Robert B. Nelson, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, at an improvised altar n the library and was witnessed only by members of the immediate families and a small number of per- onal friends of the couple. The house as decorated with Christmas greens and flowers and the altar was banked with holly, pine and pussy willow branches and lighted with a candclabra of cathedral candles. The bridal was sung Mrs. W. Nelson Page, Miss Mary Green- way Russell, Mr. Peter Vredenburgh and Dr. Robert McC. Glass, with Mrs. Harry K. Russell playing the piano accompaniment The bride, escorted and riage by her father, suit of black and g sories to match, and cerried bouquet of yellow roses Miss Sarah Rich of Columbia acted as maid of honor and wore a ess of black and white with matching acces- sories and carried an arm bouquet of pink roscbuds. Mr. R. Hunter Ken- nedy of Columbia, a brother of the bride served as best man The bride’s mother wore black velvet and a corsage bouquet of lilies of the valley. Mrs. Kennedy was formerly Miss Julia Hunter, daughter of the late Mai Hunter, Confederate Army officer, newspaper publisher and lawyer an connected with the Department of the Interfor in Washington during the Cleveland administration. Following the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served, after wkich M Baarcke and his bride left on a ding trip. bia. The bride is a graduate of Win- throp College and also attended the iven in mar- a traveling with acces- an arm They will reside in Colum- | her aunt, Miss Caroline Hunter, in Winchester. Mr. Baarcke, native of Alabama, is a graduate of the Univer- sity of Alabama and & member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity. He is engaged in business in Columbia. Guests from out of town included Mr. Edmund Pendleton Hunter, Mrs. A. B. Davis, Mrs. B. C. Grymes, Mr. George Stuart, Miss Laura Stuart Smith, Miss Carter Conrad and Miss Augusta Conrad, Mr. and Mrs. G. Car- roll Todd, Miss Meredith Todd and Miss Frances Todd, all of Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dement an- nounce the marriage of their daughter, Mary Frances, to Mr. Charles Jerome Dorman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome B. Dorman, Tuesday afternoon, De- cember 22. ‘The ceremony Wwas per- formed in the home of the bride's parents, the Rev. George C. Brown of the North Carolina Avenue Methodist Protestant Church, officiating at 4:30 o'clock. The bride was given in marriage by her father and wore a gown of velvet in a French rose shade, her turban and shoes matching, and she carried Joanna Hill roses. Mrs. Henry J. Trai- nor was matron of honor and had a costume of flame-color velvet with tur- ban and shoes to match and carried talisman roses. Mr. Harry J Trainor was best man. An informal reception followed when Mrs. Dement, mother of the bride, re- ceived, wearing a gown of brown vel- vet with which she wore a corsage bouquet of Rosslyn roses. Mrs. Dor- man, mother of the bridegroom, was in brown silk and had a shoulder bouquet of gardenias and lilies of the valley. The house had an effective arrange- ment of flowers, ferns and palms. Shortly after the reception Mr. and Mrs. Dorman started on a wedding trip to Bermuda. Miss Catherine Roberts entertained a party of eight at the supper dance at Wardman Park Hotel last evening. | Mr. and Mrs. W. rry King of Dav- enport Terrace Apartments have as | their guests Cadet Harrison King and ' Cadet Morris Oswald Edwards of Salt THE NEW elleff's 1216-1220 F Street N.W. Lake City, from the United States Mili- tary Academy, at West Point. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Straus, jr., of New York City, are at the Carlton for a few days, accompanied by their son, Irving Lehman Straus. Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Shaw of Gran- | ville, Ohio, are at the Dodge for a week’s stay. Dr. Shaw is president of Denison University, in Granville. Mr. E. Davis Caldwell, sophomore at Brown University, is home for the hol- idays, visiting his mother, Mrs. G. K. Caldwell, and his grandmother Mrs. E. G. Davis of California street. Another grandson, Mr. Montclair, N. J., is also visiting Mrs. Davis for the holidays. | Mrs. J. L. Thorndike of Boston, Mass., is at the Carlton for a few days, ac- | companied by Miss Alice Thorndike and Mr. H. G. Thorndi also of Boston. Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. Joint New Year Festivities. The Young Women'’s Christian Asso- ciation and the Young Men's Christian Association will follow their annual cus- tom and hold a joint New Year day party, with a series of delightful social events all afternoon in the Y. M. C. A. and in the evening in the Y. W. C. A.| Events in the morning, largely by the Y. M. C. A, will be athletic game: Building will begin at 3 o'clock, which the public is invited. The boards of both associations, headed by Mrs. | A. Chalmers Oliphant, president of _thei Young Women’s Christian Association, | and Dr. A. C. Christie, president of the | receive the guests. Also at 3 o'clock in C. A, beginning at 5:30, a special eve- ning program will be giv of Christmas music. assisted by Mrs. William E. Chamberlin |and the program will be given at 8:30 | | o'clock. | The reception in the Y. M. C. QAO}PIBH {o End Hard Times.” Young Men's Christian Assoctation, will | Mrs. Andrieus A. Jones. the lobby of the | guests, were Mrs. Robert Cooper, MIS.| ¥. M. C. A, there will be a concert|Frank Bolt, Miss Laura Ruff, Mrs. by the joint glee clubs of the associa- George M. Eckels, Mrs. Edward Keat- tions, in which Miss Mary M. Burnett, soprano; Mr. J. Nelson Anderson, teno: Rev. Gienn B. Faucett, Frau Trappe | and Miss Katherine Benson and Miss | Marjorie G. Davis, pianists, will assist. | Later in the afternoon, in the Y. W. ingtonans |ing, Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin, Mrs. A, ;| Garrison McClintock, Mrs. Henry Leon- ! ard, Miss Marvin Breckenridge, Mrs.| Richard Snowden. Miss Caroline Reilly, Mrs. J. N. Mrs. Donald MacDonald, Mrs. Frank §. en by artists | Bright, Mrs. James Newton, Miss Ruth of the two associations, and at 6:30 | Mills, Mrs. Florence Mills, Mr. and Mrs. o'clock the building will be open for | Huston Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. inspection to the public, when a spe- cial committee will Teceive and conduct the guests to the many departments of | announced | general and specific interest to Wash- | Garner, wife of the Speaker of the | House, has become an active member of Miss Mary Riley, Hay, | Robert Woolley. president of the club, Mrs. Herrick, Mrs. John Nance that The first showing of “The King of | the Woman's National Democratic Club. Kings” as & sound picture will be given | in the spacious lobby and reception | rooms of the building’s main floor. Mrs. Selden M. Ely will be hostess | | this evening at the club house of the American Association of University | Women, on I street, when the Tuesday | Evening Music Club, Mrs. Florence N. | Howard, director, will give a program Mrs. Ely will be | Mr. Edward Keating, editor of Labor, was the guest of honor and speaker at | the weekly forum luncheon which the, ‘Woman's National Club | He spoke on “Labor’s| Mr. Keating Democratic gave yesterday. | was introduced by Mrs. Samuel Herrick. Some of the others at the speaker's| table were Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell, | Mrs. Cordell Hull, Mrs. Edward P. Cos- | | tigan, Mrs. Ashton C. Shallenberger and Others at the luncheon, many with| Miss Josephine Roche will be the |'at 7:30 o'clock in Barber Hall, and this | honor guest at the dinner which the William G. Upton of | showing is open to the public, followed | clyp il give Friday evening. She will | by a “party,” with refreshments served | make an address, her subject being " (Continued on Fifth Page. 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