Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1936, Page 43

Capital’s Social - High Lights Part 3—12 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C, SOCIETY SECTION The Sunday St SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1936. mE CHARACTERS IN ‘GONE WITH THE WIND’ TO BE PORTRAYED MISS HELEN POTTS, In the costume representing “Scarlett O’Hara,” which she will wear to the gay nineties’ ball Saturday at the May- fiower. Residential And Official Activities Mrs. Roosevelt to] Spend Tomorrow in New York City. RS. ROOSEVELT, who is at her home in Hyde Park, will spend tomor- row in New York City, where , she will attend several meetings and do part of her Christmas shopping. Mrs. Roosevelt is expected to Join the President Wednesday at Bayonne, N. J., where they will board a ferryboat to Bedloes -Island for the ceremonies cele- brating the fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty. The President will leave the White House late Tuesday for Bayonne. The Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., are ex- pected to return to Washington to- morrow from New York, where they have been for a few days. Secretary Morgenthau attended the dinner mn New York Priday arranged by the Good Neighbor League. Admiral Joseph J. Cheatham, U. S. N, retired, with Mrs. Cheatham has taken an apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel, where they will make Lejft center: Miss Margaret McMullen, as Ellen O’'Hara, the charming character she will bring to life at the fete given for the debutantes of the season. Right center: Miss Henrietta and Miss Margaret Sampson, as they will assume at the fete. Talbott, as “Cathleen Calvert,” “Mrs. Sally Fontaine,” the roles Debutantes and Brides Rivals for Prominence On the Social Program Marie Therese the younger set. Getting Under Way—Luncheon for Mlle. Many Parties for Members of Younger Set de Laboulaye. are truly rivals for first honors on the social program for THE debutantes of the season and the many attractive brides Almost every day boasts a party for a bride-elect and in the next few weeks there will be debutante | parties galore. | Mlle. Marie Therese de Laboulaye, daughter of the French Ambassador and Mme. de Laboulaye, will meet a number of the luncheon planned in her honor by Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor and her debutante daughter, Miss Gloria Grosvenor. The function will be given Novelber 6 at Wild Acres, the beautiful estate of Dr. and | Mrs. Grosvenor in Maryland. The place is now at its loveliest, with | the wooded grounds a riot of color and the Autumn blossoms | bursting forth in all their glory. | Miss Grosvenor will be presented to society at a tea dance at this charming domicile by her parents November 25. There will be many other parties for this popular debutante. One of the most feted of the debu-' tantes will be Miss Mary Senate season’s debutantes on November 17 Howes, daughter of the Acting Post- | Instead of November 5 at the May- master Genersl and Mrs. W. W.|pigc o s monered Howes. Miss Betty Galt, daughter of ' At Delightful Tea Yesterday. debutantes of this season, as well as several of last year, at a } MISS MARY SENATE HOWES; Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Galt, will en-| tertain at a buffet supper for her November 11, and & few days .later, | November 14, Miss Jean Macklin, Miss Yvonne Christian, daughter of the Assistant Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, and Mrs. Chris- tian, was honored at an unusually delightful tea yesterday afternoon, MISS MARIA WHITEHURST, & MISS MARY AGNES YOUNG, As “Suellen O’'Hara” the per- sonality she will portray at the ball Saturday. Miss Calvert Engagement Announced {Wedding to Lieut. Collett Will Take Place in November. R. AND MRS. GEORGE H CALVERT, Jr., announce Y s the engagement of their daughter, Margaret Peyton, to Lieut. (J. G.) James Dahlman Collette, U. S. N. Lieut. Collett is the son of Mrs. Baughman, wife of Capt. Cort- landt C. Baughman, U. S. N., now in command of the U. S. 8. Cin- cinnati, stationed at Coronado, Calif. Miss Calvert graduated at Gunston Hall School and made her debut here and in Baltimore several years ago. Lieut. Collett graduated at the United States Naval Academy in the class of 1932. The wedding will take place in November. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hart of Portland, Oreg., announced the ene gagement of their daughter, Kathe erine Hart, to Mr. Albert E. Stephan, the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Stephan of Washington, at a tea given at their home in Portland last Sunday. Miss Hart is a graduate of St Helen's Hall and studied at Reed’s College in Portland and graduated from Mills College in California. She their home during the coming sesson. | 45 “Begtrice Tarleton,” the, figure she will characterize at the | given by Dr. and Mrs. John McPher- | Costumed as “Aunt Pittypat,” as she will attend the function. | s member of the Junior League and Col. and Mrs. Jeter Horton have as their guest Miss Suzanne Preston Wil- son of Stratford Lodge, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Mrs. Harold F. Pullen, wife of Lieut. Pullen, U. S. N,, is at the Ward- man Park Hotel wi their family. ~(Continued on Page 8, Column 1) Pages of H.istory Will Be Unfolded At Colorful Fete pages of history will be turned 1% back to the gay 1890 period at the annual “tacky” ball, this year known as the Gay Nineties ball, at the May- flower, Always the first large party of the season for the girls being pre- sented, the younger social set looks forward to it each year as an oc- casion to renew old acquaintances and to meet the debutantes of the season. The party was inaugurated eight years #go by Mrs. William Laird Dunlop, jr., and the fact that it falls on Halloween night this year will make it even more Sestive. Many of the post-debutantes and debutantes will impersonate characters from Margaret Mitchell’s much talked about book “Gone With the Wind.” Scarlett, of course, will be there, also Melaine, Rhett Butler, Aunt Pittypat and others. All guests at the ball will arrive masked and at the supper hour will remove their masks and make known their identity. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes. The orchestra will play some “gay ninety” numbers, but rhumbas and modern jazs will, of course, be the order of the evening on the musical program. The ball starts promptly at 11 ¢’clock and, as the in- vitation reads, will end with & ques- tion mark as to the closing bour. % event arranged annually by Mrs. William Laird Dunlop, jr. \ Many Foreign Visitors Inter-American Horse Show Brings Round of Entertaining at Embassies. been engrossed in the entertain- ment of foreign visitors during the last week or ten days, the competing teams in the Inter-American Horse Show, which SOCIETY in Washington has will close today, taking a goodly tion to the parties planned by the association, share of the festivities. In addi- the visitors have been feted at their respective embassies, Today the Chilean Ambassador,< Senor Don Manuel Trucco, will be host at a cocktail party following the events at the show this afternoon, and this evening the Mexican Ambassador and Senora de Castillo Najera will give an informal reception in the em- bassy. Plaas for‘the entertainment at the Mexican Embassy were deferred until the return of the Ambassador from his home in Mexico. His arrival was de- layed until yesterday morning and immediately plans were made for the informal party this evening. Guests will be received at 9 o'clock, the Am bassador and Senora de Castillo Na- The members of the Me; competing in the horse show will be the guests of honor and guests will include the other ing teams, diplomats, officials number of Army and Navy officers and'their wives. “'n’ucco, daughters of the host, stand- | ing with their father. The members | of the embassy staff and their wives | will assist and the guests will include | members of official, diplomatic and (Continued on Page 7, Column 1) |French Diplomat And Family Plan Trip to New York THE Prench Ambassador and Mme. de Laboulaye, with thelr soas and | daughters ‘will go to New York to- daughter of the assistant patent com- missioner and Mrs. Justine W. Mack- lin, will give a buffet supper for h"'i November 21, Miss Randolph Richard- son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred- erick Richardson, will entertain at & dance for Miss Howes at White House, the home of her parents in Fairfax, Va. Miss Howes will be honor guest at’ a tea given by Mrs. Neitah King, Tues- day, in her apartment at 2310 Con- necticut avenue. There will be many other partles for the “cabinet bud,” who will be presented by her parents at a tea dance at the Mayflower Hotel December 26. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Russell Young will present their daughter, Miss Mary Agnes Young, at a tea dance at the Mayflower on Saturday, December 5. Miss Young is a_graduate of Sweet Briar College and %iso of Holton Arms and this Winter she plans to continue the study of French and Spanish at a local school. Mifs Katharine McKane, who was presented in Washington last season by her mother, Mrs. J. P. McKane, will entertain at luncheon for this Gen. and Mrs. Craig Announce At Homes The Chief of Staff, U. 8. A, and Mrs. Malin Craig will entertain at home from 4 until 6 o'clock the first Sundays in November, December and February in their quarters at’ Fort Myer. German Visitors Embassy Guests son Lowrey in the reception and palm room of 2400 Sixteenth street. Miss Christian will become the bride | of Lieut. William E. Persons, jr., Sat- urday in the picturesque chapel at Walter Reed Hospital. All the im- pressive traditions of a military wed- ding will prevail at the marriage of this popular couple. A color scheme of soft pink, em- phasized with huge, shaggy, pink chrysanthemums and tall pink tapers wds used on the tea table at yester- day’s fete and feathery palms and ferns with white snapdragons were used about the rooms. Alternating ut the tea table during the afternoon were Mrs. Willlam E. Persons, mother of the bridegroom; Mrs. Warren F. Draper, Mrs. John McMullen and Mrs. C. T. Messner. Receiving with Dr. and Mrs. Low- rey were Miss Christian and her flance, Lieut. Persons; Miss Corleen Loeffler, Mrs. Warren C. Landis, who will be matron of honor at the wed- ding: Lieut. Landis, Miss Elizabeth Fieser, Mr, Albert Persons, Mr. Law- rence Persons and Mr. Robert St.| (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) Mefico Honérs Army Officers ‘The Mexican Ambassador, Senor ~Underwood & Underwood Photos. Picturesque Weddings Distinguished Gathering at Marriage of Miss Lois Walters and Mr. Coker. BRILLIANT climax to weeks crowded with pre- edding parties for Miss Lois Walters and Mr. Robert R. Coker was their wedding yesterday in the National Baptist Memorial Church. The arrangements for the wed-$————— ding were charming in every detail, and the company sttending represented the friends in official, dip- lomatic and residential circles of the parents of the young couple. The bride is the daughter of the First As- sistant Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Theodore A. Walters, and the bridegroom the son of Mr. David Coker, son-in-law of the Secretary of Commerce, and Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, As the guests assembled 1n the edi- fice an impressive organ recital was given. . White chrysanthemums, min- gled with fern and palms were used generously in the church and the sitar was lighted by many tall tapers. The Rev. Dr. Rufus W. Weaver performed the ceremony, which was followed by a large reception at the Roosevelt Hotel, where the bride's parents reside. The bride, who was christened Llo, but prefers being called Lois, was es- corted to the altar by her father, who gave her in marriage. She was & lovely picture as she walked to the altar. Her wedding gown was of tvory satin, made on Princess lines, with & redingote of satin combined with chantilly lace. The bodice was with an Elizabethan collar, | line. Inserts of lace on the sides of the redingote fell gracefully into a | train, 5 yards in length. Her dong, | full veil was held in place by a baby ! stuart cap of lace over tulle, with a | strap of the tulle under the chin and (Continued on Page 10, Cofumn 1.) Diplomats Attend First of Season’s Symphony Concerts | NJANY members of the diplomatic | corps in Washington will attend the first concert of the sixth session of the Natiqual Symphony Orchestra this afternoon in Constitution Hall. Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the orchestra, will direct, and Tito Schipa, famous tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, will be the soloist. The Japanese Ambassador and Mme. Saito have a box for the concert is now the secretary of the Oregon League of Nations Association. Mr. Stephan attended the Force School and Central High School in Washington and graduated from Wesleyan University and Harvard Law School. He is a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the University Club. He formerly made his home in Washe ington, but is now located in Porte land as attorney for the Interstate Commerce Commission. The wedding will take place during the Winter. Friday Evening Club Completes Plans for Its Winter Dances THE Friday Evening Dancing Club will issue invitations for its series of dances tomorrow, the first dance to be given PFriday evening, Deceme ber 4, at the Willard Hotel. Senora de Alfaro, wife of the former Minister of Panama, and Senora de Baron, wife of the counselor of the Cuban Embassy, head the committee in charge of the danees for the coming season. Mrs. King, wife of Senator William H. King, also is a member of the committee, Others assisting are the Civil Service commissioner, Mrs. Benton McMillin; Mrs. Charles Ede ward Riggs, Mrs. Willlam S. Culberte son, Mrs.-John Allan Dougherty, Mrs. S. Wallace Dempsey and Mrs. Parker W. West, who again is secretary and treasurer. Maj. Gen. Prederick A. Coleman is chairman of the Floor Committee for the dances and is assisted by Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, Col. Edward Clifford, Mr. Prank Roddybush and Mr. John MecClure. The Priday Evening Dancing Club will give its second dance New Year eve, Thursday, December 31, at the ‘Willard, b >