Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1937, Page 20

In the Hunt Country Activities Among the Horse-Lovers of Virginia and Maryland. BY NINA CARTER TABB. HE Foxcroft Horse Show at Foxcroft School, near Middle- burg, will begin Monday at 10 am. This annual show will draw a crowd of prominent sportsmen {rom all over the country. Parents of the achoolgirls are filling up every available room in the neighborhood, | {or this will be one of the best sporting | events in Northern Virginia. The show is run by the girls of the | school, assisted by Miss Charlotte No- land. They say the 18 classes will be well filled. Alumnae come back each year to watch the progress of the younger girls and many of them take part in the show. The Davis Challenge Cup, for which only alumnae can compete, is always an interesting class. Among those who will ride for it on Monday are Miss June Haines, Miss Nancy Whitney, Miss Dorothy Goodyear, Miss Laura Sprague, Miss Carol Metealf, Miss Teresa Shook, Miss Mina Jones, Mrs. James Van Allen, who was Eleanor Langley; Mrs. Barney Bald- ing, formerly “Dot” Davis; Wil- liam Beverley Mason, formerly Doro- thy Willing Randolph, and Miss Helen { Bedford of Connecticut, who will come | here from the Washington Horse | Show, where she is showing this week | end. As there are post entries, there | will undoubtedly be many more en- | tries in this cl Three open classes in which people outside the school can enter are pony class, green hunters and ladies’ hunt- ers. A luncheon for charity will be served on the grounds at 1 p.m. L/IXSS GRETCHEN BIGLOW THOMSON, Queen Shenandoah XIV of the Apple Blossom Festival, taking place in Winchester today and tomorrow. is the happiest and most enthusiastic young lady I have ever seen. Gretchen is a slender blond with very golden hair and a perfect complexion. She is thrilled at Lskmg“ the part of queen, is natural and ap- | preciative of all the fuss that is being | made over her and is altogether charming. Entertainments are being | given in her honor by Winchester's most prominent people and they are giving this girl. who has grown up among them, a perfect time. Miss Thomson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Thomson of New Orleans and her grandmother is Mrs. A. Pembroke Thomson of Summit Point, W. Va. Gretchen attended the Cathedral School for Girls in Wash- ington, graduating last June, and made her debut in New Orleans the past Winter. Miss Thomson is the’ guest in Winchester of Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd | This morning at 10:45 there was a| rehearsal of the coronation. At 1| o'clock Mrs. Byrd is giving a luncheon for the queen, to which 50 of her young friends are invited. At 3:30 | this afternoon the coronation takes | place in front of Handley School. IL; always is a lovely and impressive cere- mony. The queen and her court will then pose for photographers among | the apple blossoms. At 5 o'clock they will attend a tea dance at the Win- | chester Country Club, then home to dress for dinner, after which the queen receives the princesses at a re- ception at the George Washington | Hotel. A dance winds up the day. Tomorrow the queen will get a little Test in the morning before attending & luncheon given by the Apple Blos- som Association to her and her court at Miss Ann Brook Kern's house. At 2 p.m. the queen will be seated upon | her throne, bt igh on a white float. After revie: the parade from the qQueen’s stand, Miss Thomson will at- | tend a tea dance at the Winchester Golf Club. At 9 o'clock the queen’s ball will be held at the George Wash- ington Hotel, and there will also be a dance at the Winchester Country Club PATRIOTS DESCRIBED ‘Word pictures of the 10 leading | members of the Constitutional Con- vention were given to an audience last night at the Wardman Park Theater by Fred Taylor Wilson, historical writer, lecturer and author of “Our | Constitution and Its Makers.” | The speaker urged a new reverence | for the fundamental law of the land and a new appreciation of the great | patriots who drew up the Constitution, | Wilson, who spoke under auspices of | the T. Arthur Smith Bureau, was in- | troduced by Representative Randolph, Democrat, of West i o3 & KOAT-A-KOOL Smart Man-Tailored SUMMER SUIT $16.95 80 cool and fresh looking. Holds its shape and is wrin- kie - resistant. In maturai ahade and sizes 12 to 20. Sketched at Zirkin's! 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Arthur of Winchester, then Miss Elizabeth Speck; Miss Priscella Bridges of Maryland, Miss Mary Wise Boxley of Roanoke, Miss Mary Jo Mathews of West Virginia, Miss Patricia Dacre Morion of Winchester, England; Miss Helen Ames Washing- ton of Philadelphia, Miss Francois May of Belgium, Miss Nella Veverka of Czechoslovakia and Miss Cornelia Larus of Richmond. m;hkf,fo S &N, Kar b Che Road Co Qua[ifz/ It ((;asy / THE EVENING SIX TO FACE COURT ON GAMING CHARGE Grocery and House Are Raided Simultaneously—Two Women and Three Men Freed. 8ix men arrested yesterday on gam- bling charges were to be arraigned be- fore United States Commissioner Need- ham C. Turnage today. Simultaneous raids on a grocery store in the 1700 block of Seventeenth street and a private home in the 1600 block of R street resulted in the arrest of three of the men. Two women and three other men seized in the raids were released. Those held are Fred J. 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