Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1936, Page 41

SOCIETY SECTION he Sunday Shae WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1936. Capital’s Social High Lights Part Three E Part 3—12 Pages CALENDAR RAPIDLY BEING FILLED FOR COMING SEASON SENORA DE VITERI, Wife of the former Ecuadoran Minister and mow head of the delegation from his country to the boundary conference, with their daughter, Senorita Rosita. ) SENORITA OLGA PATTERSON, Daughter of the Cuban Ambassador, who acts as her jather’s official hostess. Diplomatic Corps Roundsv Out With the Arrival of Two New Ambassadors SENORA MANTILLA-ORTEGA, Wife of the first secretary of the Ecuadoran Embassy. —Underwood & Underwood Photos. ¢ N Italian and Spanish Envoys Here, While Other Members Are Returning From Summer Vacations. diplomatic corps in Washington is rapidly being completed. I Each day a newly appointed diplomat arrives and those members who already have been on duty here are returning from their Summer leaves. Members of the corps at this Capital are not indulging in the usual Autumn “house hunting” which 50 frequently has developed into a veritable game of “pussy wants a corner” among the foreign representatives. The new Ame- bassadors have come to embassies owned by their governments, the recently arrived Italian and Spanish Ambassadors have taken up their abodes in imposing buildings on Sixteenth street, opposite each other, and the new Polish Ambassador, who arrived in the Spring, is ensconced in an equally handsome house close by. ' The Cuban Ambassador, Senor Dr. Guillermo Patterson y de Jauregui, was host to the members of the embassy staff and the Cuban colony in Washington yesterday afternoon, when he held a reception to celebrate the Cuban national holiday, El Grito de Yara. The Ambassador received his guests in the drawing room, assisted by his daughter, Senorita Olga Patterson. The Ecuador Ambassador, Capitan Colon Eloy Alfaro, will return today from New York, where he went for the foot ball game yesterday played by teams from the Military Academy at West Point and Columbia University. The Minister of the Irish Free State, Mr. Michael MacWhite, went to New York yesterday to attend a dinner given in his honor by the United Irish Societies of New York which was held at the Hotel Astor last evening. While in New York the Minister will officiate at the opening ceremonies of the fourth annual Gaelic Festival taking place today. He will return to Washington tomorrow. The Minister of Hungary and Mme. Pelenyi, who have been abroad through the Summer, are expected to arrive in this country about October 24 and will come at once to Washington. The Greek Minister, Mr. Demetrios Silicianos, has returned from a short stay in New York and Philadelphia. The Minister of Bulgaria, Mr. Dimitri Naoumoff, who has been in Boston, is spending the week end in New York and is expected back tomorrow or Tuesday. The newly appointed Minister of Canada, Sir Herbert Marler, s expected to come to Washington within the week. The Charge d’Affaires of Great Britain, Mr. V. A. L. Mallet, will go to New York the first of the week to meet Mrs. Mallet, who will arrive tomorrow or Tuesday aboard the Aquitania from her home in England. They will come to Washington later in the week. The Canadian Charge d’Affaires, Mr. Hume Wrong, will be Joined the middle of the week by Mrs. Wrong, who has been in her Canadian home for a week. ‘The Nicaraguan Charge d’Affaires, Senor Dr. Don Henri de De Bayle, returned yesterday from Nicaragua, where he has been for & short visit. Dr. de De Bayle arrived in New York the end of the week and spent a short time there before coming to Washington. The Counselor of the Polish Embassy, M. Wjtold Wankowicz, will be joined later In the month by Mme. Wankowicz, who will be @ passenger aboard the Polish liner Pilsudski. The new Counselor of the Danish Legation and Mme. Eickhoff and their two small sons are staying at the Shoreham until they find a house or apartment for the Winter. The Financial Counselor of the Rumanian Legation and Mme. Boncesco are guests over Sunday of the former United States Am- bassador to Chile and Mrs. William 8. Culbertson at their Summer home at Charmian, Pa., where they went yesterday by motor. The Commercial Counselor of the Swedish Legation, M. Per Wijkman, who is in Mexico, is expected to return the middle of next month, He made the trip by motor. Senhora de Reis, wife of the assistant naval attache of the Brazilian Embassy, will return tomorrow from a short stay in New York, ¢ & 4 % oY) de Castillo Najera. Residential Washington Personals Mr. and Mrs. Belin Will Observe Wed- ding Anniversary. R. AND MRS. F. LAMMOT BELIN will celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anni- versary at an evening party on January 16 at the Sulgrave Club. Mrs. Belin was before her marriage Miss Frances Jermyn of Scranton, Pa. Mr. Belin was for many years in the United States diplomatic corps, fronr which he resigned several years ago. His last post was that of Ambassador to Poland. = Maj. and Mrs. Ennalls Waggaman are expected in Washington this week for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kauffmann entertained a house party of 20 at the Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club Thursday in honor of Mrs. Kauff- mani’s birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Allen Cook have returned to their home, Seven Oaks, at Silver Spring, Md., after a motor trip to Canada. They visited in Montreal and Quebec and made & tour of the Gaspe Peninsula, returning by way of Plymouth, Mass, where they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cordes. - Mrs. William H. Shir Clff is estab- lished in her new house at 3336 Runny- mede place, after living for many years on Lamont street. Mrs. Shir Cliff, formerly Miss Nellie Wilson, was the leading soprano soloist in chutch choirs and concerts in and around (Continued on Page 7, Column 1) 8 SENORITA EMRA CASTILLO NAJERA, Daughter of the Mezican Ambassador and Senora L T =, W () The three popular daughters of the Chilean Am- bassador, Senoritas Marta, Graciela and Rebeca Trucco. Debutante Season Is On Date for Black-and-White Ball Is Changed to November 27. HERE . are each year many changes on the debutante cal- I endar until the season offi- cially gets under way. Most frequently these changes are brought about by the same date finding favor with more than one of the young women who will be formally pre- sented. Then, again, there is an- nually the dropping from the “bous quet of rosebuds,” a few of the girls who suddenly change their minds, de- cide to continue their studies for an- other year or perhaps turn their backs entirely on the gay, but rather fatiguing, debuntante whirl. An important change on the sched- ule is the date for the beautiful black and white ball at the Mayflower, ar- ranged by Mrs, William Laird Dunlop, jr. With the Army and Navy game set for November 28, the date orig- inally selected for the ball, and Mr. and Mrs. George Angus Garrett give ing a ball that evening for Mr. Gar- rett’s debutante daughter, Miss Mar- got Garrett, Mrs. Dunlop has decided to give the event the evening before, Friday, November 27. The black and white ball is one of the most popular functions given annually for the debutantes, -and realizing this, Mrs. Dunlop thoughtfully, changed the date in order that none might miss this charming fete. Although the debutantes have been slower this year completing their plans than in other years, the cal- endar is quite generously marked with Miss Carrie Roper Fulton will be presented by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Fulton, at & luncheon at the Mayflower October 29. Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle Gordon will introduce their daughter, Miss (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) House Wa.rming Of Thrift Shop Draws Interest ROMINENT on the social calendar this week will be the Thrift Shop house warming Thursday, from 3 until 6 o’clock, in the new headquarters, at 425 Tenth street. Mrs. John R. Wil- liams, president of the board for the shop, will receive the guests, assisted by other members of the board, in- cluding Mrs. Reeve Lewis, Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney, Mrs. Edward R. Finken- stedt, Mrs. James H. Patten, Mrs. Prank C. Letts, Mrs. Charles H. Brad- ley, Mrs. Willlam Sturtevant, Mrs. Chandler Anderson, Mrs. Archibald Davis and Mrs. Barry Mohun. The Thrift Shop is maintained for the benefit of child welfare of the District through the Children’s Hos- pital, the Child Welfare Association, the Children’s Country Home, the Pre-Natal Clinic at Columbia Hospital and the Junior League. Gen. and Mrs. Craig Set Days at Home Official Set Of Capital In Review Mrs. Morgenthau Re- turns to Washington for Winter Season. RS. HENRY MORGENTHAU, jr., wife of the Secretary of M the Treasury, is back in Wash= ington for the Winter season. Setretary and Mrs. Morgenthau are again at 2201 R street, the house they leased last year, The Secretary of War, Mr. Harry H. Woodring, has left the Capital for a speaking tour in the West. Mrs. Wood- ring, who spent a few days in New York with Mr. Woodring, is at her (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) Dr. and Mrs. Bohn Hold a Reception Mrs. Homer S. Cummings, wife of the Attorney General; Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, and Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, will be among those assisting Dr. and Mrs. Prank Bohn at the at home they will give this afternoon in their apart- ment at 1901 Wyoming avenue. Oth- ers assisting will be Mrs. Theodore A. Walters, wife of the First Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Mrs. Lu- cille Foster McMillin, civil service commissioner; Mrs. H. O. Chalkley, wife of the commercial counselor of Mr. James S. Robb Weds Miss Frances H. Woolley Miss Lois James Married to Mr. Thomas Eliot at Seminary Hill Ceremony Yesterday Afternoon. Robert Wickliffe Woolley and the late Mrs. Woolley, and Mr. James Spittal Robb, son of Mr. | and Mrs. Charles S. Robb of Wash- ington, were married yesterday after- | noon at the residence of the bride’s father, 3401 Prospect avenue, the Rev. F. Bland Tucker, rector of St. John's Church, Georgetown, officiating. Miss Florence Trenholm Wickliffe Woolley was her sister’s maid of honor, and Mr. Charles S. Robb, jr., of Tucson, Ariz,, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. Mr. Woolley gave his daughter in marriage. There were no other attendants. The bride wore a gown of bridal white satin and carried a bouquet of bride’s roses and lilies of the valley. 1SS FRANCES HOWARD WOOLLEY, daughter of Mr. | The maid of honor's gown was of blue | brocaded satin and her bouquet was of talisman roses. Miss Woolley's veil of exquisite old rare lace was worn by her great-grandmother, the late Sarah Howard Wickliffe, a Kentucky beauty of the early nineteenth cen- tury and daughter of Robert Wickliffe, when she became the bride at Lex- ington in 1825 of Aaron Kitchell Woolley, & noted lawyer and jurist of anti-bellum days. The ceremony, to which, owing to the death ofs the bride’s mother in July, only the two families and a few rela- tives and intimate friends were in- vited, was performed in the bay win- dow of the spacious drawing room of the Woolley home, transformed for the occasion into a bower of Autumn flowers. Following the wedding there was a small reception to which addi- tional friends and relatives of the bride and. bridegroom, and of their parents, were invited. Assisting Mr. Woolley and the bride and bridegroom in receiving the guests were the bride- groom’s parents and Mr. Woolley’s sis- ter, Mrs. William Fontaine Alexander of Charles Town, W. Va. The bride is & great-grandniece of Charles A. Wickliffe, Governor of Kentucky and later Postmaster Gen- eral of the United States under Pres- jdent James K. Polk, and, through her mother, a great-granddaughter of George A. Trenholm of Charleston, S: C., a noted financier of the old South and Secretary of the Treasury of the Confederate States of America. Her father was director of the mint and & member of the Interstate Com- merce Commission by appointment of President Woodrow Wilson. ~ Miss Woolley was educated at Gunston Hall and Holton . Arms School, and is & member of the Junior League. The bridegroom’s father is a native of Glasgow and a scion of two dis- tinguished Scotch families, the Spit- tals and the Robbs. His mother is the former Jane Estill of Staunton, Va., and is descended from several of the foremost families of Virginia. He attended Choate School and Cornell University. Among the guests from out-of-town were Dr. and Mrs. Walton Hopkins and Miss Katherine Hopkins, Mrs. James F. Ferguson and Miss Julia Trenholm of Annapolis, Md.; Mr. and Mrs. Hardy C. Gieske of Catonsville, Md.; Mr. Glover Trenholm of Balti- more, Md.; Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Alex- ander of Woodburn, Spring Station, Ky.; Misses Agnes and Mary Page of Boyce, Va.; Mr. Alfred Williams of Hampton, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. John ) Y Preston Wiley and Mr. and Mrs. Har- rison Cooke of Elizabeth, N. J.; Mr. B. F. Fitch of Greenwich, Conn.; Mr. and Mrs. Lothrop Lee of Ardmore, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Borda of Chestnut Hill, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Tale bot Winchester Jenkins of Winches= ter, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. J. Harkey Reiter of Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Mrs. Dallas Tucker of Charles Town, W. Va.; Mr. and Mrs. George Walker Sawin, Miss Mary Lee Browne, Mrs. John Wheel= wright Browne of Merion, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. W. Jett Lauck, Miss Eleanor Lauck, and Mr. W. G. Maguire of Fredericksburg, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. A. Brooke Lawson, Miss Mary Lawson and Mr. Richard Lawson of Uppere ville, Va., and Miss Lita Graham, Mr. R. Bruce Hyndman and Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm S. Langford of New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Robb left immediately after the reception on their wedding ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 5) |Series of Dances Of Friday Evening Dancing Class Set 'HE annual series of dances are ranged by the Friday Evening Class each Winter will open Novems ber 27 in the Sulgrave Club, the other ‘dances to follow on December 11 and January 19, also at the Sulgrave Clyb. The Friday Evening Dancing Cl&s is the outgrowth of the group which met weekly in the ball room of the late Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh for dancing, starting during the war and continuing for some years afterward. The group became known as the 2020 Club, taking the nume ber from the number of the Walsh house on Massachusetts avenue, now occupied by a portion of the Resete tlement Administration. When the group became too large for Mrs. Walsh and her ball room, they moved to the Willard and after a few seasons bee came the Friday Evening Dancing Class. Mrs, West, wife of Maj. Parker W. West, has been the moving spirit in these dances for several seasons. Chinese Ambassador Host at Dinner Last Evening at Embassy TBE Chinese Ambassador, Dr, Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, was host at dinner last evening, entertaining & group of men at the embassy. The guests included Senator William H, King, Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay, Dr, Stanley K. Hornbeck, chief of the Far Eastern division of the State Departe ment; Mr. Edwin S. Cunningham, former United States Consul General at Shanghai; the United States Consul General at Hankow, Mr. Paul R. Josselyn; the president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Mr, Harper Sibler; Mr. Maxwell M. Ham= ilton, Mr. Stuart J. Fuller, Mr, Charles K. Mose, Mr. J. Paul Jameson, Mr, Raymond C. Mackay, Mr. Eugene H. Dooman, Mr. Willlam T. Turner, Mr. John Carter Vincent, Mr. Howard Bucknell, jr.; Mr. Frank E. Duvall, Mr. H. Charles Sprucks and Mr. John H. Spencer. ?