Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1940, Page 25

s Golden Wedding énniversary and Debut Parties Mark Social Calendar OCIETY. Bishop and Mrs. Freeman Give Reception Marking 50th Wedding Anniversary Guests Extending Congratulations To Widely-Known SO0th Anniversary of Marriage ‘The Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of the Washington Diocese of the Episcopal Church, versary of their marriage nd Mrs. &sterday at a reception in the afternoon. The Couple Freeman celebrated the 50th anni- Bishop and Mrs. Freeman, who made many friends in the Capital when the Bishop came to fill the rectorship of the Church of the Epiphany some years ago, have added to that large circle in the 12 or more years since he became Bishop, and the several hundred guests yesterday afternoon were representative of the Federal Government, as well as the Episcopal clergy, almost in its entirety, and numbers of personal friends in resident circles. Mrs. Roosevelt, just back from a visit to the West Coast, was among the early arrivals and was met at the door by the Bishop's chaplain, Canon Raymond Wolven, who is the Bishop’s son-in-law. He escorted the President's wife to the drawing room, where the Bishop and Mrs. Freeman received their guests. Murs. Roosevelt wore a becoming dark blue redingote over a gay print which had a background of blue and her small hat was of the same shade of blue straw, trimmed with white flowers. Mrs. Roose- velt, who, with the President, are active members of the Episcopal Church, remained half an hour or more chatting with many friends. Mrs. Freeman was dressed in<— cream-color lace, the skirt falling in . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940. graceful folds at the floor and the bodice having a V neckline and long fitted sleeves. She wore the shoulder bouquet of golden-tipped purple orchids sent her by the bishop and carried an arm bouquet of golden roses. She showed friends her anniversary gift from the bishop, a ring of antique gold set with diamonds. ‘The Bishop's House in the Cath- edral Close on Mount St. Albans was aglow with flowers, all golden | in hue, bouquets sent by friends, | and. perhaps a few from the Bishop's Garden itself. The dining table, from which delicacies for the tea hour were served. had a tall white wedding cake, with the gold figures 1890-1940 on top. Tall golden tapers flanked the center cluster of yellow roses, jonquils and freesia, and among those alternating at the tea table during the reception hours | | ception, and others in the hosts’ were Mrs. Thomas Ewing of New ‘York, Mrs. Ze Barney Phillips, wife; of the chaplain of the Senate, who | succeeded Bishop Freeman as rector | of the Church of the Epiphany: Mrs. 3 Albert Joseph McCartney, wife of | the pastor of the Covenant-First} Presbyterian Church; Mrs. William Channing Johnson, Miss Phyllis Snyder, Miss Helen Jones, Mrs. Noble C. Powell, wife of the dean of the Cathedral, and Mrs. Albert | Lucas, wife of the headmaster of St. Alban’s School for Boys, who is a canon of the Cathedral. Scores of the guests who were | served punch in the library of the Bishop's House went to the terrace for a glimpse of the view over Wash- ington. In the foreground is 'hei spacious and velvety lawn WhiCh‘ leads to the Bishop's Garden, edged with 80-year-old boxwood. Many stopped at the small chapel in the | Bishop’s House, where the altar vases were filled with early spring blossoms and the soft light was en- hanced by the colors of the st,ainedl glass windows which honor famous women of the Christian church. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of | the war-time President, who is| buried in the Cathedral, called to offer congratulations and best wishes. She wore dark blue with trimmings of white, which was car- ried out in her becoming hat. Former Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, who themselves celebrated their golden wedding aniversary last winter, were among the guests. The Rev. Dr. George Fiske Dudley, for many years rector of St. Stephen’s Church, now St. Stephen’s and the Incarna- tion, with Mrs. Dudley came from their home at Rumson, N. J., for the reception. Miss Susan Fellows of Elizabeth, N.J., who attended Miss Ella Vigilius when she was married to Mr. James Edward Freeman 50 years ago, also came to celebrate the anniversary. She was the only member of the wedding party pres- ent, the bishop's sister, Mrs. C. SALE 3 DAYS ONLY 1,236 Pairs of SPRING FOOTWEAR Not All Sizes in All Styles Sales Final CORNER OF CONNECTICUT AVE. AND L Irving Lattin, who had been a brides- maid, being unable to attend owing to illness. Mrs. Erle B. Savage, jr., of Minne- apolis, granddaughter of the bishop and Mrs. Freeman, came for the re- family present were their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Freeman; their son-in-law and daughter, Canon and Mrs. Wolven; a nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. C. Irving Lattin, jr., and Mr. Henry R. Freeman, jr., and little Miss Jane Freeman, a granddaughter. Mrs. Kee Directs 73 Club Luncheon Mrs. John Kee, wife of Repre- sentative Kee of West Virginia, en- tertained a number of guests at the luncheon of the 73 Club today at the Parrot. Mrs. Kee was chairman of the committee in charge of the affair. The 73 Club is an organization of the wives of Representatives elected to the Seventy-third Congress, the first session of which was held im- mediately following the first inaugu- ration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. At this meeting Mrs. David D. Terry, club president, pre- sided Appearing upon the pro- gram were Mrs. Agnes M. Parker, Mrs. Ernest K. Lindley and Mrs. Charles E. Fairman. 1 Mrs. Kee's committee included | Mrs. M. E. Wallgren, Mrs. Paul Brown, Mrs. William Lemke, Mrs. James Richards and Mrs. Prentiss Brown. Hollins Card P;'ty The annual card party of the Washington Chapter of the Hollins College Alumnae Association will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Kingan Chapel Annex of All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase Circle. Proceeds will go toward the scholarship fund. Miss Emma Thom is president of the chapter. Turkish Envoy Host at Dinner The Ambassador of Turkey and Mme. Ertegun were hosts at din- ner last night at the Embassy, when their guests were Senator and Mrs. Charles L. McNary, the former United States Ambassa- dor to Turkey and Mrs. Robert P. Skinner, Col. and Mrs. John Alden Crane, Col. and Mrs. Joseph Cecil, Maj. and Mrs. Parker W. West, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Merriam, Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Moorhead, Mrs. George Thorpe, Mr. and Mrs. John Cas- well, Mr. Henry Villard and the Counselor of the Embassy, Mr. Orham H. Erol. o Formerly to 14.75 Charge Accounts Observing the 50th anniversary of their marriage, the Right Rev. and Mrs. Freeman gave a large reception yesterday afternoon in the bishop’s house in the Cathedral Close on Mount St. Alban for several hundred guests representative of the church, the Federal Government and resident Washington. —Star Staff Photo. Residential Social Notes Mr. and Mrs. Heath of Indiana Visit Here En Route From Florida . Mr. and Mrs, Bennett Heath of Muncie, Ind., have arrived in Wash- ington from Florida, where they spent the winter, and are guests of Mrs. Perry S. Heath, widow of Mr. Heath'’s uncle. Mr. and Mrs. Heath will be with her for a few days be- fore returning home. Dr. and Mrs. John L. Devine of Minot, N. Dak.,, who are guests of the latter's grandmother, Mrs. Rus- sell B. Harrison, will be hosts at supper this evening, entertaining for Mrs. Devine’s sister, Miss Marthena Harrison Williams, and her fiance, Mr. Paul Franklin Traynham, jr. Miss Willlams and Mr. Traynham will be married Saturday afternoon and both Dr. and Mrs. Devine will be members of the wedding party. Mrs. George Maurice Morris was hostess at luncheon yesterday, en- tertaining in her home, the Lindens, in compliment to Countess Casa- grande of New York, who is visiting Mrs. Carlton Holdrege. Guests, in addition to Mrs. Holdrege and the Countess, were the latter's sister, the Countess of Gainsborough, the Countess de Buyer Menieure, Mrs, George Eyston, Mrs. Robert T. Pell and her guest, Mrs. Appleby; Mrs, Hallett Johnson, Mrs. Sterling Lacy, Mrs. Francis Whitten and Miss lrene Boyle. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elliott Freer | of Westmoreland Hills have as their house guest Mrs. Freer’s sister, Mrs. John A. Maguire, who flew on from her home in Boston to attend the small family dinner party yester- day, at which Mrs. Freer’s birthday was celebrated. Mrs. Lutz Wahl, widow of the late Brig. Gen. Wahl, and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Blanchard will entertain at tea Sunday afternoon in honor of Miss Charlotte Ball and Mr. Charles Seymour, whose marriage will take place May 4. Miss Ball is the daughter of Mrs. Ball and the late Col. William Ball. Mr. Seymour is the son of the president of Yale University. Rector’s Aid Society To Hold Dinner ‘The spring dinner sponsored by the Rector’s Ald Society of All Souls Memorial Episcopal Church, Ca- thedral avenue and Woodley place, will be held in the parish hall to- morrow evening at 6 o'clock. Mrs. William S. Quinter is in charge of arrangements. Patronesses for the dinner in- clude Mrs. Webster Ballinger, Mrs. Frank S. Bright, Mrs. E. Herbert Block, Mrs. Bryson Bruce, Mrs. Charles de Vere Drayton, Mrs. Katharine Fuqua, Mrs. J. Raymond Hoover, Mrs. Charles Colden Miller, Mrs. G. Gilbert Nettleton, Mrs. Rob- ert Sterrett, Mrs. James Hunting- ton Turner, Mrs. William Wayne Wirgman, Mrs. William Chapin Huntington and Mrs. Fred A. Cyrter. I q Reception: Dinners, Teas and Weddings Call Us for Estimates Col. 5042-5072 Collier Inn 18th & Columbia Rd. N.W. Miss Arndt to Speak Miss Jessie Ash Arndt, club editor of the Washington Post, will speak over Station WMAL Friday at 10 am. on the program arranged by the District Federation of Women'’s Clubs. Introduced by Mrs. Edgar B. Meritt, she will discuss “Club- women and the Press.” Mrs. Ernest Humphrey Daniel, federation presi- dent, originally had been scheduled to make the broadcast. " superio’ b are— DONT STORE - A UNTIL YOU KNOW THE ADVANTAGES The lock-seal tag is your guar- antee of safe FUR STORAGE «+« You get NOT ONLY moth, theft and fire protection, but preservation from the deteri- orating effect of summer heat and humidity which only GENUINE COLD STOR- AGE provides. Ask Your Furrier or Call District 4046 b By the Way— Beth Blaine———— Standing beside their cousin, Arthur Bradley Campbell, in the draw- ingroom of the 1025 F Street Club, pretty, soft-spoken Isabelle and Marjorie Meuser made their debuts to a distinguished group of official, residential and diplomatic society yesterday afternoon. Both buds wore white—sheer and bouffant gowns, and carried old-fashioned bouquets with lace frills. Their only assistant, Ellen Floweree, wore a floor- length gown of turquoise blue crepe with white orchids pinned on her left shoulder. " | Flanking the debutantes were many baskets of flowers and the tea table, piled high with all sorts of good things to eat, had for its center- piece a great bowl of all white snapdragons, roses and iris. Alternat- ing at the tea table were Mrs, Francis Whitten, in smart and sophistieated black crepe, with a charming hat of deep red roses; Mrs. Gilbert N. Hitch- cock, Mrs. George T. Marye, in wine and white and pink printed frock, with & large brimmed hat trimmed with pink sweet peas; Mrs. McCeney Werlich, Mrs. Kenna Elkins and Mrs. Wallach Merriam, in wine colored and white printed dress with a corsage of enormous purple orchids and & becoming straw hat. There was dancing for the younger element with an excellent orchestra and plenty of very good champagne punch. Among the popular debs we saw whirling about the dance floor was little Nancy Weller, dressed in navy blue with sheer organdy ruffies at the throat and wrists and her dark hair cut like a little Dutch gisl's with thick bangs over her forehead. Mrs. Weller, in brown and white printed gown and brown hat, looked very smart as she com- pared notes with several other debutante mothers. Among the friends we saw were Mrs. Henry D, Flood with her daughter Eleanor; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Baker, Marjorie in her favorite gray, the frock of gray and yellow print and the hat all gray; Capt. and Mrs. John Parker Jackson. Mme. Cardenas, Mme, Espil with her lovely daughter, Louise Stillwell, in rosy tweed coat and a print gown the same shade; Mrs, Joseph Cecil, in gray with orchids; the Kurt Hetzels, the Joseph T. Davies, she wearing a blue hat the exact color of her eyes; Mrs, Aldice ‘Walker, Mrs. George T. Pettengill with her niece, Peggy Wagner; Mrs. Eldridge Jordan, Mrs. Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, Mrs. Richard Cowell, chatting with Fred- erick Roy; Mrs. Harry Wardman, in a chic white hat with a black veil to match her black gown; Mrs, Lawrence Houghteling, in green and white print; the Harold Hintons, Mary Montgomery, Comdr. ‘William D. Thomas, Griffith Warfield, Merritt Swift, Clarence Hewes, in earnest conversation with photogenic Peggy Townsend; Mrs. Ran= dall Hagner, in two shades of blue; Mrs. Donald Jones with her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Henry, jr. Other guests included Mrs. Henry Grant Meem, in very becoming purple, with her daughter Eleanor in brown; Mr. and Mrs. William P. Mac- Cracken, Vera Bloom, wearing & red hat with her dark dress; James Mitchell, John Hammond, Mrs. S8ims Snow, with lilies of the valley on her tiny white hat and a very smart print gown; Mrs. William Mann, in an all gray dress with an off-the-face gray hat; Betty Beale, Edward Vandevanter, Burdette Fitch, Pendleton Hogan, Mrs. Kent Legare, just back from a Southern visit to her family; Mrs. Albert Dewey, in black with a white Dutch skull cap with a black veil and feather; Mrs. Emil Hurja, Stellita Stapleton, wearing a red jacket over her black and white print dress; Mrs. James M. Beck and her son James, jr.; Dick and Wilmer Bolling, John Philip Hill, Miss Katherine Judge, Miss Lydia Loring, Miss Polly Randolph, Baroness Baeyens, Mrs. Edward Mitchell, the British Embassy Curzon-Howes, Mrs. Anthony Coleby, also from the British Embassy; Mrs. Pearsons Rust, Col. Francis Harrington, and Mrs. Mathew Hanna, who, newly arrived in town for a visit with Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins, looked so smart in all black with stunaing diamond clips and pearl necklace; Mrs. Crosby Miller, up from Warrenton for the party, all in black with her hair in a long soft bob and, oh, so many, many more that for want of space we cannot go on. x % n AND— BY THE WAY. Among those entertaining at dinner before the Fahnestock party Saturday night will be Mrs. Higginson Rogers and Mrs. Pearsons Rust. triloquist, with “Winnie Mae,” his “partner.” Mrs. John D. Langston, former president of the Goldsboro (N. C.) chapter, will bring a message from that group. Mrs. Franz Richey is president of the local chapter. Mizrachi Meeting Greensboro College Alumnae to Hold Musicale Tonight Greensboro College alumnae will sponsor a dinner and musicale to- night at 7 o'clock at the home of Mrs. W. Lloyd Horne, 3715 Kansas avenue N.W. SOCIETY. *% B—3 THE MISSES ISABELLA AND MARJORIE MEUSER. Presented yesterday afternoon at a teaut the 1925 F Street Club, the Misses Meuser made their formal bows in Washington when their cousin, Mr. Arthur Bradley Campbell, entertained. Mr. Campbell is the son of the late Marchioness of Huntly, who as Mrs. James McDonald lived in Washington for several William E. Brogan, bass soloist at St. Luke’s Methodist Church, New York City, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Brogan, organist at the New York church, will be a guest artist. Miss Earline King, soprano and a member of the local chapter, also will appear on the program. Two piano selections will be offered by Mrs. C. Benjamin Barker, also a member of the local chapter. The Washington Chapter of the Junior Mizrachi Women will hold its semi-monthly cultural meeting tonight at 8:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Beatrice Kopernick, 5019 Sixteenth street N.W. with Rabbi Solomon H. Metz of the Adas Israel Synagogue as speaker. Announcement has been made by Mrs. Gerald Gross that the annual donor dinner will be held the first A humorous contribution will be | part of June at the Wardman Park entertainment by Joe King, ven-Hotel. . BEST&CO__ FLOWER-PASTEL TWEEDS... NEWS IN REEFERS *\/OUNG COSMOPOLITANS’ first fashion- i love, the reefer, adapts a new Spring style. They're in flower-pastel tweeds now . . . soft, muted colors that make their slim lines doubly flattering. They’re practical, as well as becoming too, because they'll “Cover” almost every dress in your wardrobe. Powder blue or dusty rose tweed. Sizes 11 to 17. * Reg. U. S. Pat. OF. years before her marriage to the late Marquess of Huntly. —Underwood & Underwood Photo. Taylor-Shepard Nuptials Pretty Ceremony Performed in Boston’s Church of New Jerusalem Miss Helen Gertrude Shepard, daughter of Mrs. Benjamin Curtis Tower of Brookline, Mass., and the | late Capt. Francis Burritt Shepard. U. S. A, of New York, was mar- ried yesterday afternoon to Lt. James Taylor, 3d, U. S. N., of Wash- ington, son of Mrs. Franklin H. El- lis of Washington and the late Col. James Davis Taylor, U. S. A. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Anthony P. Regamey at 4 o'clock in the Church of the New | Jerusalem in Boston, where Easter | lilies decorated the altar and the| pews. A reception followed at the| Country Club in Brookline. Wears Grandmother's Gown Of 01d Ivory Corded Silk. The bride was escorted to the| altar by her brother, Mr. Francis Guernsey Shepard. She wore her grandmother’s gown of old ivory corded ‘silk made with a heart- shaped neckline, a basque bodice and a train. Her face veil of heirloom rosepoint lace over tulle was at- tached to a wreath of orange blos- soms, and she carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley, white orchids and orange blossoms. Her sister and maid of honor, Miss Betsy Tower of Brookline, and the two other attendants, Mrs. Kenneth H. Perkins and Miss Mary Elizabeth Lowe of Boston, were gowned alike in aqua chiffon dresses made with full skirts and shirred bodices. They (See WEDDINGS, Page B-6.) Voters to Meet With Morton Wallerstein, execu= tive secretary of the League of Vir= ginia Municipalities, as guest speaker, the department of gove ernment and its operation of the Voteless District League of Women Voters will hold its annual open meeting tomorrow at noon at the Y. W. C. A, The league has been studying pro=- posals for reorganization of the District government and expects to discuss points in this connection at the meeting. 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