Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1942, Page 26

SOCIETY. Much of Entertaining In These War Days Centers Around Music Senor Castro Will Be Honored With Senorita Regules by Espils At Argentine Embassy Much entertaining centers around music during these war days. The THE 'EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1942. Argentine Ambassador and Senora de Espil will entertain at luncheon tomorrow in honor of the distinguished composer and conductor from Argentina, Senor Juan Jose Castro. Sharing honors with him will be Benorita Marisa Regules, the brilliant young pianist for whom the Am- bassador and Senora de Espil gave an afternoon party a few weeks ago. Senor Castro will conduct the National Symphory Orchestra tomorrow evening in a concert for which the director general of the Pan-American Union, Dr. Leo 8. Rowe, and the assistant director, Dr. Pedro de Alba, issued invitations. The program will be given in the Pan-American Union and Senorita Regules will be the soloist. Dr. Hu Shih Entertains Guests At Informal Buffet Supper. The Chinese Ambassador, Dr. Hu Shih, had guests dining with him 1ast evening at Twin Oaks, the charming old estate on Woodley road. where he has lived since he took this post here. Guests last evening were close friends of the diplomat who, with his keen sense of humor and quick wit, is & delightful host. The guests were invited for an informal buffet supper but they were seated and the menu was more substantial than supper. Among the other parties of yesterday was the dinner given last eve- ning to honor Dr. Luthero Sarmanho Vargas, son of the President of Brazil. Dr. Eugene de Savitsch was the host at this affair, and among the guests were Dr. Charles Stanley White, Dr. James A. Cahill, jr., Dr. Robert Howe Harmon, Dr. G. W. Leadbetter, Dr. Milton C. Cobey, Dr. Tomas Cajigas, Dr. Custis Lee Hall, Dr. P. 8. Constantinople, Dr. George C. Ruhland, Dr. H. H. Kerr, Capt. Bergett H. Blocksom and Mr. Edward T. Wailes of the State Department. Mr. and Mrs. H. Gardiner Putnam & also entertained yesterday, their will travel extensively in this party being held in their apartment on New Hampshire avenue. Mrs. Donald Richberg, who gave a small luncheon to honor Mrs. James Knowlson, was another hostess of yesterday. Mrs. Knowlson recently came here from Chicago with Mr. Knowlson. Miss Nancy Williard, who has been feted continuously since her engagement to Mr. Thom- as Henry Schaffert was announced, was honored at the party given by Mrs. John J. Hasley in her home on Rittenhouse street. Miss Williard and Mr. Schaffert will be married February 7. Visitors continue to come from across the seas. Among the current guests in Washington is the Rev. Dr. Albert Peel of London, who was a guest at luncheon Sunday of His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador and Lady Halifax. Also lunching at the Embassy Sunday was Mr. Henry Luce and members of the Embassy staff. Dr. Peel, who is moderator of the Congregational Church in England, served with the B. E. F. in France in 1940 and is the author of many books on his church and religion. He spoke last week at the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church and was the guest preacher at the Sunday morning service. Dr. Peel Miss Alice Reid To Be June Bride MISS ALICE GRENELLE REID. Of interest in Washington is the announcement of Mr. and Mrs. ‘Thomas Grenelle Reid of Glen Rock, N. J, of the engagement of their daughter Miss Alice Grenelle Reid to Ensign Donald Raymond Bried, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bried of Oklahoma' City. | Mr. and Mrs. Reid formerly re- | sided in Chevy Chase. Their daugh- ter attended Mundelein College in | Chicago and Ensign Bried was| graduated from the Naval Academy in 1940. { The wedding will take place in| June, | country. Princess Boncompagni Hostess at Dinner. Princess Boncompagni was host- ess at dinner last evening, entertain- ing at the Sulgrave Club. Her guests included her cousin, Mr. William F. Draper of Boston, who recently came to Washington. Mr. Draper is a namesake of the princess’ father, the late former United States Am- bassador to Italy, Mr. Willlam F. Draper, and is the son of Mr. and | Mrs. Clare Hill Draper of Boston. Princess Boncompagni, as Miss | Margaret Preston Draper, was pre- sented in Washington some years late Mr. and Mrs. Draper, on K street at Connecticut avenue and among her guests were two of the “Big Six,” a group of debutantes who, | with Princess Boncompagni, were | presented the same year—Mrs. Mc- | Ceney Werlich, formerly Miss f Gladys Hinckley, and Mrs. John B. Cochran, formerly Miss Alice Whit ing. Other guests of Princess Boncom- pagni last evening were Rear Ad- miral Herbert Seymour Howard, Mrs. Montgomery Blair, Mrs. Ham- ilton Vose Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. Fran- cis Burrall Hoffman, Miss Carolyn Nash, Prince Tourmanoff, Count Czermin and M. Sherbowvitch. Two Art Critics Arrive for Judging Of Exhibition Mr. Thomas C. Colt, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and Mr. John Richard Craft, director of the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in town, Md., have come to ‘Washington to serve as members of the prize jury for the awards in the S1st annual exhibition of the Wash- ington Soclety of Artists. Mr. Colt and Mr. Craft are serving with Mr. John Walker III, formerly of Pitts- burgh, chief curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Last evening the members of the jury were guests of honor at dinner given by the Soclety of Artists at the Cosmos Club, when Mr. Rowland Lyon, president of the club, pre- sided and was toastmaster. Seated at the table with the guests of honor were Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Lyon, the secretary of the Society, and Mrs. Garnet Jex, Mr. Robert Parsons, assistant director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Miss Emily Millard, secretary to Mr. C. Powell Minnigerode, the director of the Corcoran Gallery; Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Walter, Mr. Roger Rittase, | Miss Norma Bose, Dr. | Motley and Mr. O. R. Carrington. | Varnishing day for the exhibition Corcoran Gallery of Art and the annual event will be open to the public Sunday. The DICKENS ROOM is mow open moon to 1 a.m. ® COCKTAILS from 30c ©® LUNCHEON from 50c @ DINNER from 90c 1120 Vermont Ave. If you haven’t found your size in this sale, you'll be glad to know we recei ment of Sale Shoes from LM ived an entire new ship- our other I. Miller stores. iller Nill]) Ingenue Shoes Values from 8.95 to 12.95 Made especially for I. Miller SALE 090 1. Miller Shoes Values to 16.95 SALE OF SILK HOSIERY 8%¢ $1.35 Yes, they're scarce, but we've supply. no further Value been lucky to have a rescive Take advantage of these reductions while they last, reductions ALL SALES FINAL—NO C. 0. D.'S 1222 F Street N.W. ago in the home of her parents, the | Robert E.| | will be Saturday afternoon in the | Attractive Setting Marks Wedding of Jane Williamson In a setting of Easter lilies, white tulips and heather, with tall palms | in the background, Miss Jane West ‘Willlamson, daughter of Mrs. Henry R. Williamson, became the bride of Mr. Richard W. Walmsley of Bos- ton. The ceremony took place Sat- urday in the home of the bride’s mother in the presence of the imme- diate families. The Rev. James H. Taylor of the Central Presbyterlan Church offi- ciated. The bride wore a white satin gown, a finger-tip-length veil held by three white ostrich plumes and carried & bouquet of white roses and lilies of the valley. Miss Shirley Mackay was the maid of honor, wearing a blue chiffon dress. Tiny blue plumes formed her headdress and her bou- quet was of American Beauty roses. Mr. Richard Hutton of Providence was the best man. A large reception followed the ceremony, with the mothers of the bride and bridegroom assisting. Mrs. ‘Willlamson wore a periwinkle blue lace gown with s matching hat and Mrs. Walmsley was in dusty pink crepe with & turban to correspond. Among the out-of-town guests were Miss Mabel Bauer apd Mrs. Elizabeth Franckel of Boston, Mrs. Richard Hutton of Providence and Lt. and Mrs. John Farley Splain, brother-in-law and sister of the bride, of Fort Monroe, Va. ‘The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Richard Walmsley and the late Mr. ‘Walmsley of Boston. He attended | Brown University and is a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. He is at present employed at the State Department. After the reception the couple left by plane for a short wedding trip in the North. After their return they will be at home in Alexandria. Missouri Ball The Missouri State Society will entertain at a ball Saturday eve- ning at the Shoreham Hotel when the Missouri delegation in Congress will be the honor guests. Representative Richard M. Dun- can will deliver an address. Mrs. Claude M. Houchins, president of the society, will receive the guests. Mrs. Charles Keyser is chairman of the Reception Committee. i numbers, MRS. RICHARD W. WALMSLEY. Let’s Make It a Date! ~ PASHION SHOW “Efficiency Fashions for Defense,” Thursday, 4:45 P.M. . . . Second Floor L —Hessler Photo. Many Hold Horse Show Reservations All Social Circles To Be Represented At Fort Myer Event A distinguished audience, repre- sentative of all circles of society, will | witness the thrilling riding at the horse show at Fort Myer tonight and tomorrow night. The event is annually one of the outstanding preludes to the celebrstion of the President’s birthday anniversary and | | J. Blandin of Akron, Ohio. MISS ELISABETH PAGE SMITH. Miss Smith to Wed Ensign Blandin Mr. and Mrs. Elbert L. Smith an- nounce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Elisabeth Page Smith, to Ensign Victor A. Blandin, U. 8. N, son of Mr. and Mrs, John | Miss Smith was graduated from | Western High School and attended George Washington University | where she pledged Pi Beta Phi so- | rority. She also is a member of | Sigma Lambda sorority. | Ensign Blandin was graduated | from the United States Naval Acad- emy in February of 1941 and is now on active duty. | No date has been set for the wed- ding. will not attend owing to the death | in France of his mother, Mme. Henry-Haye. The Canadian Minister and Mrs. | McCarthy will have guests with them in their box tonight and Lt.i - — the proceeds of the two perform-| Douglas Fairbanks, jr., and Lt. Rob- | ances greatly swell the funds of the | grt, Montgomery, both of the U. 8. National Foundation for Infantile| N R, will be guests of Lt. Arthur | | Gordon, who will have with them | Paralysis. The Venezuelan Ambassador and 8Senora de Escalante will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Morris in their box at this evening’s show. Mr. and Mrs. Morris also will have with them the Guatemalan Minister, Senor Dr. Don Adrian Recinos, and the Nicaragusn Minister and Senora de De Bayle. Lord and Lady Halifax To Be Guests of Gordons. His Britannic Majesty's Ambassa- dor and Lady Halifax will be enter- tained this evening by the comman- dant of Fort Myer and Mrs. W. W. several of the leading motion picture stars who have come to take part | in the celebrations this week. Lady | Halifax will present the Washington Horse Show Trophy in Class III sponsored by the Junior League. The Commandant and Mrs. Gor- don'’s guests at tomorrow's perform- ance will be Senator and Mrs. Alben W. Barkley and Field Marshal Sir John Dill and Gen. H. C. B. Wemyss, | of Great Britain. Mrs. Barkley will present the trophy in Class IV and | Sir John Dill the trophy for the ex- | hibition of fox hounds from the | Middleburg (Va.) Hunt by Miss Charlotte Noland and Mr. D. C.| Sands, M. F. H. McCarthys to Have Guests in Their Box. | A. Allen. The French Ambassador, M. Henry-Haye, has a bex for this eve- ning and probably will offer it to members of the Embassy staff as he | Do come and plan to bring your business friends with you. The fashions in this show will solve many of your wardrobe problems “’for the office’” and after work hours at a glance. Fashions will all be displayed by living models. —HEAR Peggy Sweet, Career ond Merchandise Editor Moagazine, give a resume of war- time fashions, of Glamour —HEAR Perry Martin, well-known radio ortist, sing several current —HEAR the populer music of Bert Bernath and his Pall Mall Room CAREER GIRL Other boxholders for this evening | include Mr. and Mrs. Harry Semmes, | Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wood Rob- ert, jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Milton W.| King, Mr. and Mrs. Christian Heu- rich, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. God- frey, Mrs. A. DeM. Riges, Mrs. Dorese Bell, Mr. Joe E. Gardiner and Mr. E. H. Davis. The Minister attached to the Brit- ish Embassy, Mr. N. Hall, has a box for the second evening, and will have guests with him for the show. The Lease-Lend Administrator and Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius are box- | holders for Thursday evening and | others on this list include Mrs.| William M. Bell Watkins and her | sister, Mrs. Karl Boy-Ed, Mrs. Joseph Leiter, Mrs. Lee Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Sherwood, Col. Ed- | ward H. Hardy and Mr. L. H. La | Motte. \TKINS _ OPFICIAL AUXILIARY SHOE FOR WOMIN . . . IT's i T ATKINS SHOES 711 13th St NW. NA 4785 | NAtional 9800 il | nounced the engagement of her | | daughter, Miss Helen Mae Sim- | day, February 6, at the home of the —Harris-Ewing Photo. Dinner 'to Precede Guild Concert Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Woodward will entertain at dinner preceding the Chamber Music Guild concert in Almas Temple this evening when | Frances Nash, in private life Mn‘ Edwin M Watson, will be the soloist. | Among their guests will be Mr. and | Mrs. John Walker III and Mr. and | Mrs. Adolph Caspar Miller. | Among the many recent reserva- tions for the concert are those for Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, Mrs. Ar- thur Seaton, Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitch- cock, Mrs. Charles Bittinger, Mrs. Reeve Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. W. Caven- dish Cannon, Mrs. Charles Elliott, Mrs. Eldridge Jordan, Mme. E. E. Lombard and Mrs. Henry Latrobe Roosevelt. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burke will | have as their guests the Mexican | Ambassador and Senora de Castillo | Najera, the Yugoslav Minister and | Mme. Fotitch and Senhora de Konder, wife of the Minister Coun- selor of the Brazilian Embassy. Miss Helen Simmons Will Be Married Mrs. Oscar O. Simmons has an- mons, to Mr. Frank Redfield Brown, | Brown of Falls Church. A The wedding will take place Sat- urday evening, February 14, in the SOCIETY. By the Way— Beth Blaine ‘The Albert Deweys’ house is small but perfectly arranged for the informal little parties that Felicia and Albert are giving this winter. There is an open fire in the smart little drawing room—another in the library just beyond. Both rooms always are flower-filled, the furniture 1s comfortable and attractive and the food served in this house really is something to rave over. Felicia says she makes up a lot of the recipes herself—like the cheese ice cream we had there one night! It sounds odd, we know, but it couldn't have been better. One gentleman who said he hated cheese ate two plates of the ice cream before he knew what it was! The Deweys do most of their entertaining over the week ends when they usually have house guests. This week end they are expecting Felicia's mother and step-father, the Frederick Frelinghuysens, and will give them a dinner Sunday night. Saturday night they all will dine with the C. Mathews Dicks. Week end after next Michael Arlen and his beautiful wife will come down from their present New York home to visit the Deweys—so there doubtlessly will be some more party-giving for the famous author of “The Green Hat.” The Howard Cushings will have week end guests, too. How- ard’s mother, now Mrs. J. Dennison Sawyer, and Mr. Sawyer will arrive Priday for a visit with them here. As the wife of the late Howard Cushing the present Mrs. Sawyer was the subject of some of the artist's loveliest portraits. Her regular features and magni- ficent red hair made her especially paintable, . When Audry Campbell sold her house on Kalorama Circle to the Gerard Lamberts she took a long lease on a lovely old house just outside of Warrenton. She has moved her own furniture down there and is completely settled. We hear the house is a dream . .. Not so far away Audry’s cousin, Tommy Leiter, is living in the Robert Winmills’ beautiful house, Clovelly. He first had the Winmills’ smaller house, but when it was sold to the Martin Vogels he had to move, and liking that part of the country he didn't move very far! The Winmills themselves are living | in still another house on the same estate, e e The James Altemuses are coming to Washington for the duration (he has a defense job here) and have taken a house on With their two small children they've been living on Long Island,for the past few years. As the former Rosalie Pillot Stuyvesant, Mrs. Altemus spent several years in Washington some time ago. She was extremely popular and made many friends here who will be delighted to see her come back. Mr. Altemus is living at the Metropolitan Club until the arrival of his family. He is a brother of “Liz” Altemus Whitney. Massachusetts avenue. Maj. and Mrs. Sherlock Davis will be off any day now for a new post in Buenos Aires. They have leased their house here to the Amory Houghtons. From Chicago the Lester Armours have arrived for the duration. They're still house-hunting. He is a cousin of Mrs. James Clement Dunn—who was the former Mary Armour. Leland Harrison leaves shortly to return to his post as Minister to Switzerland. Saturday Mrs. Harrison will give a farewell cocktall party in his honor. L ‘There will be some big parties—but all for a cause—dinners pre- ceding the ball to be given at the Sulgrave Club Saturday, February 14, for the benefit of the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club and the Bel- gian prisoners of war. Mrs. Richard McCreery will give one and so will the Chauncey Parkers, jr, and Baron and Baroness de Gruben. Betty van der Straten-Ponthoz, daughter of the Belgian Ambassador and Countess van der Straten-Ponthoz, will entertain a group of the younger set at dinner before the same ball. cards announcing the marriage of another daughter, Miss Dorothy Dana Spence, to Lt. Donald E. lDl'ukcl(!mfllel' of Fort Belvoir, which | took place January 9 in Fort Lewis, J‘ O' HUbbard * | Wash., where the bridegroom is on Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Spence of temporary duty. Miss Jeanne Spence Engaged to Wed Arlington announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Jeanne Co- Mrs. Druckemiller is a graduate of the College of William and Mary. |son of Dr: and Mrs. James W. | lace, cousin of the bride, will be the rinne Spence, to Mr. James O. Hub- | Her husband, & native of Sunbury, bard, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Hub- | Pa., was graduated from Bucknell bard of Mineral, Va. University. The wedding will take place Fri- |Club Elects Board matron of honor, and Mr. Vincent | Members of the Board of Gover- Hubbard will be the best man for | nors of the Washington Club elected his brother. at a meeting yesterday include Mrs. bride’s parents. Mrs, J. O. Wal- Church of the Pilgrims, and an in- formal reception will follow in the | home of bridegroom’s parents. Miss Simmons attended Western High School and her fiance also at- tended Western and the University of Virginia. TO You'll hardiness o it comes in green, Jul ican tailoring. The bride-elect is a graduate of | William Aspinwall, Mrs. R. Winston St. Cecilia’s Academy and attended | Holt, Mrs. Cloyd Heck Marvin, Mrs. the University of Richmond. The James Shera Montgomery and Mrs. bridegroom-elect will be graduated Willlam Charles White. from the Richmond Medical School | Officers will be elected from mem- of Pharmacy in June. | bership of the board at a meeting Mr. and Mrs. Spence are issuing | to be held next month. 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