Evening star. [volume], July 08, 1940, Page B-3, Image 21

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Various Social Circles
Were Well Represented
At Opening Concert
Leaders in Many Activities
Of Capital Life Seen in
Audience at Water Gate
The Star Spangled Banner waved peacefully in the flood light atop
the shell as the National Symphony Orchestra opened its first concert
of the series of sunset symphonies at the Water Gate last evening, with
the playing of the National Anthem. But reminiscent of the last war was
the appearance of the uniformed ladies representing the Red Cross when
Mrs. August Belmont made her stirring speech of appreciation for aid
already given and a plea for more help to the Red Cross in the present
conflict.
The weather was ideal with only enough clouds to enhance the beauty
of the sunset over the Virginia hills, and the many circles which make
up the population of the National Capital were well represented in the
throng last evening.
Swiss Minister and
Mme. Bruggman Present.
The Swiss Minister and Mme. Bruggman walked in from Constitu
tion avenue where they parked their car. She wore a natural-color linen
frock, smartly tailored and having a short skirt with dark blue embroid
ery on the bodice, which was cut high in the neck and had short puffed
sleeves. With this she had a long dark blue coat. And lightweight wraps
were very comfortable after nightfall.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, returned to Washington from their
summer home at Newport, just for this opening concert of the National
Symphony Orchestra, of which Mr. Howe is treasurer, and Mrs. Howe
chairman of the Woman’s Committee. She wore a becoming gown of
gray and white chiffon, the white predominating. With her was Mrs.
Robert H. Dunlap with a long dark coat over her frock. Neither wore hats
as scores of others were bareheaded, yet there also was every variety of
headgear, large and smhll hats and bands about the heads, in evidence last
night.
Mrs. Edward R. Finkenstaedt, who with Mr. Finkenstaedt strolled
about chatting with friends during the Intermission, wore white, a sport
dress with a long canary yellow' coat, which was very becoming. The Misses
Randolph—Anne Powell and Mary—were there, neither wore a hat and
each had a figured frock topped with a light-weight dark coat.
Many Others *
In the Audience.
Miss Grace Dunham Guest, cura
tor of the Freer Gallery, wearing
an all-white costume, without a hat,
and Mrs. Edwin B. Parker were
together, Mrs. Parker wearing a
dark blue figured dress and long
coat with a small dark-blue hat.
Mrs. Frederick DeCourcy Faust,
wearing blue and white frock; Miss
Eleanor M. Connolly, in dark blue
and white figured dress and dark
blue coat, her hat a band of white
flowers with dark blue bow and
streamers in the back; Mrs. Eugene
Byrnes, Miss Stire, Mrs. Truxtun
Beale, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman,
Miss Leila Peachy, and Miss Martha
Hanan were others at the concert.
Senator William H. King, who
was accompanied by his daughter,
Miss Kathleen King, wearing a light
cape matching her high-necked
frock, and Representative Caroline
O'Day, in dark chiffon with a long
dark coat and no hat, were among
those representative of the legisla
tive branch of the Government in
the audience.
The President's secretary and
military aide, Gen. Edwin M. Wat
son, and Mrs. Watson were there
and Mr. Edward H. Green, who
seldom misses a concert—especially
In summer, was one of the very at
tentive listeners last evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Aspinwall
Among Others Present.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Aspin
wall who shortly will leave for a
trip in the West were among those
taking advantage of the intermission
for chats with friends. She wore a
three-quarter length coat of black
and white over her summer frock
and a horsehair braid hat which
fitted her head and formed a halo
effect. Mrs. William D. Wrightson,
hatless and wearing a black cape
like coat over her black and white
chiffon dress, was telling friends of
plans for the moonlight sail down
the Potomac of the Woman’s
Auxiliary of the Panama Society
July 20. Among others who heard
the concert conducted by Dr. Hans
Kindler, wrere Mrs. Albert P. Niblack,
Mrs. Albert Johnson, Mrs. Charles
W. Fairfax, Mrs. Ralph Richards,
Mrs. Walter Hilton, former Repre
sentative Edward Keating, Mr. Eben
6. Comins and, of course, the mem
bers of the Summer Concert Com
mittee.
The second concert of this series
Will be given Wednesday evening
when Dr. Kindler again will conduct
and Jessica Dragonette, soprano, will
be the soloist.
Norwegian Envoy
Returns Tomorrow
The Norwegian Minister, M. Wil
helm Munthe de Morgenstierne, will
return tomorrow from Cape Cod,
where with Mme. Munthe de Mor
genstierne he went the middle of
last week. Mme. Munthe de Mor
genstierne and their children will
remain at Osterville. on the cape,
through the remainder of the sum
mer.
Several Hostesses
Entertain Over
The Week End
Among the week-end festiv
ities was a luncheon given by
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Ellis at
their country house, Rippon
Lodge. All of the guests re
mained through the afternoon,
some lounging in the garden, and
some going for a cruise on the
Potomac in the Ellis boat.
Mrs. Joseph Davies was another
hostess who offered her guests
an opportunity to be cool as well
as gay. She entertained at a
luncheon at the Davies’ farm.
Valley View, and immediately
afterward left for her camp in
the Adirondacks, accompanied by
her young daughter, Nedenia.
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Jane Ramseyer
Selects July 27
For Marriage
Miss Jane Ramseyer, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. William Ram
seyer, has selected July 27 for the
date of her marriage to Mr. James
Lloyd Cameron, jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Lloyd Cameron
of Edora, Iowa.
The wedding will take place at
the Ramseyer residence at 4:30
o’clock, with the Rev. James Shera
Montgomery, chaplain of the
House of Representatives, officiat
ing. Although only a few rela
tives and close friends will attend
the ceremony, a large reception
will follow.
Miss Barbara Ramseyer, sister
of the bride-elect, will be her only
attendant and Mr. Robert Green
leaf of Washington will be best
man for Mr. Cameron.
Mrs. Brown Married
To Mr. Wooden
At Cherrydale
Mrs. Pauline Leatherwood Brown,
daughter of Mr. Herbert Francis
Leatherwood of Washington, and Mr.
John Frederick Wooden, jr., son of
the Rev. and Mrs. John F. Wooden
of Westminster, Md., were married
in the Methodist Church, Cherry
dale, Va., Saturday, June 29. The
ring ceremony was performed by the
Rev. John F. Wooden, father of the
bridegroom, assisted by Dr. Herbert
E. Hudgins, pastor of the Cherry
dale Methodist Church.
The bride was given in marriage
by her father. Her attendants were
Miss Gladys Buckingham, her
cousin, and little Miss Allene Brown,
who was her mother’s flower girl.
Mr. Wooden's best man was his
cousin, Mr. Herbert Fletcher Green,
jr., of Amelia, Va. The ushers were
Mr. Reuben and Mr. Donald Leath
erwood, brothers of the bride. The
mistresses of ceremony were Mrs.
Reuben Leatherwood, sister-in-law
of the bride, and Mrs. P. McKenney
Johnson, sister of the bridegroom.
Organ music was played by Mrs.
Ruth Hall Leaf of Baltimore, a
cousin of the bridegroom. Only
members of the families witnessed
the ceremony. A reception was held
immediately following the ceremony
at the Washington Golf and Coun
try Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Wooden will reside
in Sykesville, Md., where Mr.
Wooden is principal of the high
school.
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The daughter of Mr. B. F. Ginther of San Antonio, Tex.,
before her recent marriage she was Miss Helen Claire Ginther.
The wedding took place in the Emory Methodist Church, the
Rev. Horace E. Cromer officiating. The bridegroom is the son
of Mrs. John D. Anderson of McGregor, Tex.
—Harris-Ewing Photo.
Weddings of Interest
To Capital Society
Mr. and Mrs# Croft, Wed in Arizona,
To Pay Visit to Capital;
Miss Mullen Married
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clayton
Croft, who are in Northern Arizona
for a brief wedding trip, will come
to Washington next month for a
visit with the former’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel M. Croft. The
wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Croft, the
latter formerly Miss Alma Faye All
wine, took place Thursday, June 20,
in the chapel of the First Method
ist Church in Phoenix, Ariz., the
Rev. Richard N. Merrill officiating.
The bride, who is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Allwine, for
merly lived in Clinton, Ind., and was
a member of the Oratorio Society
of Phoenix and of the choir of the
First Methodist Church.
Miss Pauline Cole of Colorado
Springs was maid of honor and Mr.
Donald Parker was best man.
Mr. Croft formerly was with the
Bureau of Bacteriology of Maryland
and now is affiliated with the Ari
zona State Board of Health as a
serologist connected with the State
laboratory at Phoenix. He received
his bachelor and master of science
degrees from the University of
Maryland and also studied at the
University of Arizona in Tucson,
where his fraternity is Phi Mu
Alpha. He is a member of the
Phoenix Orpheus Club, the First
Methodist Choir, the Sons of the
American Revolution and the So
ciety of American Bacteriologists.
Mr. and Mrs. Croft, will return to
Phoenix after their visit here and
will be at home at 416 North Oak
land avenue.
Miss Margaret Mullen Bride
of Dr. Russell C. Payne.
Of interest to Washington resi
dents is the marriage, June 22, of
Miss A. Margaret Mullen, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John Burroughs
Mullen of Reading, Pa., to Dr. Rus
sell Crandle Payne, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. Frank Payne of Washing
ton.
Dr. Payne was graduated from
George Washington University in
1935 and finished at the 43eorge
Washington medical school in 1939.
He and his bride will reside at 3629
Thirty-fourth street N.E., Mount
Rainier, after August 1.
! Scene of the wedding was the
j First Presbyterian Church in Read
! ing, and Dr. Robert MacLeod Camp
bell of that church officiated. Solos
were sung by Miss Dorothea Mc
Corkle of Coatesville, Pa., and Mr.
■ John Nichols was the organist.
Mr. Mullen gave his daughter in
marriage. She wore a trailing gown
of ivory slipper satin, yoked with
Glencon lace. The skirt was fash
ioned with a dirndl effect and a
long train and the sleeves came to
a point over the wrists. A veil of
tulle fell from a coronet of old fam
ily rose-point lace and the bride
carried a bouquet of gardenias, lilies
of the valley and orchid.
The maid of honor was Miss Eliz
abeth Ginger of Reading, who wore
a yellow net dress with square neck
line and a bodice trimmed with rows
of French lace. The short sleeves of
her dress were puffed. A horsehair
hat, trimmed with green velvet, and
a bouquet of orchid water lilies
completed her costume.
Four other attendants wore
dresses similar to that of the maid
of honor, in green with contrasting
yellow’. They W’ore hats of horse
hair and carried white water lilies.
The bridesmaids were Miss Mary
Jane McDermott, a cousin of the
bride, of Paoli, Pa.; Miss Louise
Abrams of Wyomissing, Pa., and
Miss Margaret Van Reed and Miss
Mary Betty Richardson of Reading.
Dr. Frank Gibson of Washington
was best man for Dr. Payne, and
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For the first summer in many years Senator and Mrs. Vandenberg will
forgo a vacation on cool Lake Michigan and, instead, will open their own
Grand Rapids house, which has been closed for some time. It must be quite
a wrench to the Vandenberg family to tear themselves away from their
beloved “Lake View Cottage,” which really isn’t a cottage at all, but a
large, roomy summer home (belonging to the George Getz estate) with
Mrs. Arthur Vandrnberr.
enormous screened porches and green lawns
that slope directly down to the water. There
are tennis courts, croquet on the lawn and a
little way out from the sandy beach an an
chored float for diving, with the clear,
fresh lake water affording the most mar
velous swimming imaginable. However,
duty calls, and with the 1940 campaign In
the offing, Mrs. Vandenberg and young
Arthur, jr., who will be his father's right
hand man, are already in Grand Rapids,
where the Senator has his office and head
quarters and where he will Join his family
as soon as Congress adjourns.
When Mrs. Vandenberg takes
time off to attend the Democratic
Convention in Chicago, she will not
be the only dyed-in-the-wool Repub
lican wife present, for we understand
the wife of the former Assistant Sec
retary of Commerce under President
Hover, Mrs. William P. MacCracken,
will -also be an interested spectator.
ine vivacious emeu went to me KepuDiican Convention In Phila
delphia and from there journeyed on to Long Island for a cruise
with Col. and Mrs. Robert Guggenheim on their beautiful yacht
“Firenze,” stopping off for a day at Port Washihgton with the
colonel's mother, Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, at her estate there.
The old Guggenheim house at Port Washington has just been gener
ously donated by the senior Mrs. Guggenheim as a home for war
refugee children.
* * * *
Mrs. Edward Reed, wife of the counselor of the American Embassy
in Rome, who just got out of Italy (on the S. S. Manhattan) before war
was declared, left yesterday with her youngest son Allen for the Adiron
dacks, where she will spend several weeks at the Saranac Inn. The other
two children are at camp and will join their mother here next winter,
for the attractive Caroline tells us she has leased a house at 2312 Tracy
place for next year—which is good news for her many friends here.
* * * *
One of our “working girl” friends who has a small apartment
with a partrtime maid soon discovered that her hours and the
maid's were so different that the best way for them to communicate
was by writing—so-o, each day before leaving for the office our
friend left a note with the day's orders for her “faithful one." Just
before the Fourth, the young mistress found she could get away for
the holiday so left a note telling the maid she could have both the
4th and the 5th “off." Her reply (also by note) was: “Dear
Madame: I see you have a heart for a dark horse—I'm just as sur
prised as Willkie!”
Another domestic story which we found amusing was that of
the young State Department couple who had a treasure of all work
named “Annabell”—but one morning to their great consternation
Annabell failed to appear. As they were having a buffet supper for
20 that ewening they decided to telephone Annabell, for both felt cer
tain that nothing short of sudden death could have made her fail
them at a time like this. In a tragic voice Annabell answered their
call and between sincere sobs told them that her doctor had told
her she was having a nervous breakdown, but—and here her voice
brightened—she would be back the next day!
And now for our favorite story concerning faithful servants! Tommy
Leiter, who usually spends part of every winter in Aiken, has a priceless
pearl of a colored mammy who maids the young lady guests at every house
party. After innumerable house parties Mammy always received frantic
letters from the departed guests as to various missing articles important
to every girl's wardrobe. With much trouble she rounded up the missing
articles and, with even more trouble, shipped them off to the young ladies.
Time came for the worm to turn, and one day when an unusually gay
house party was breaking up. Mammy, having struggled to pack every
thing, leaned over the bannister and called down to.the departing guests,
“Listen, young ladies—don't write back for anything that you can't find
—write to each other—not to me—’cause everything is in somebody's bagl”
Davies Entertain
The Executive Assistant to the
Secretary of State and Mrs. Joseph
E. Davies entertained at luncheon
yesterday in their home on Foxhall
road.
Senator Returns
Senator and Mrs. Lewis B. Schwel
lenbach have returned from Old
Point Comfort, Va., where they
spent the holiday and week end.
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Berry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Berry of Largo, Md.
Her wedding took place in the historic St. Barnabas Church at
Leeland, Md. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas H. Welsh of Hyattsville and Leonardtown.
—Hessler Photo.
Mrs. Smith Visiting
In Connecticut
Mrs. J. A. Smith of San Francisco,
formerly Mrs. Marjorie Nettleton
Torbert of Washington, and her
small daughter, Carolyn Smith, have
gone to Wethersfield, Conn. Mrs.
Smith jointed her mother, Mrs.
Grace Walker Nettleton, formerly of
Washington, who now resides with
her son, Mr. Malvern R. Nettleton,
secretary to the commissioner of
public welfare of Connecticut.
Mrs. Nettleton and Mrs. Smith
spent a short time ip Washington
visiting the former's sister. Miss
Laura Walker, and Mrs, William Lee
Britton of Chevy Chase. Mrs. Smith
also will visit her son, Mr. Jack Tor
bert, in Wethersfield, where he hs^
lived for the last three years. Mr.
Torbert will enter the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis in the
next class, having been appointed
by Representative William J. Miller
of Wethersfield.
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