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WASHINGTON, D. G, MAY 19, 1946.
Colombian President-Elect
Will Be Entertained Here
Other Visitors to Enliven
Washington’s Social Scene
By Margaret Hart
Society Editor.
Washington's kaleidoscopic social scene is as pleasantly surprising
as an old-fashioned grabbag. One never knows what prize is in store.
And that's what makes the Nation's Capital such a good place to be.
One day there is fanfare for a visitor from South America—the next
day the arrival of a celebrity from Europe is claiming the limelight.
And then there is always a whirl of festivities for the homefolk to further
brighten the picture.
Another President-elect is coming to town. Senor Marino Ospina
Perez of Colombia, who in March was elected to the highest office in his
country's government, will be headed for the United States June 2. He Is
due to arrive in Washington June 5 and will be accorded the customary
formal welcome. He will be received by President Truman, Secretary of
State Byrnes and other high officials.
Senor Ospina made plans for an official tour of this country some
time ago and when this was disclosed he was invited to the Capital as a
guest of the Nation. He will stay at the Blair House during his three or
four days’ visit.
The Colombian President-elect will be accompanied by his wife and
several officials who will serve in his cabinet. Chalked on the calendar of
events for him will be a reception at the Colombian Embassy and he will
be feted by officials of our Government.
Senor Ospina is to be inaugurated August 7 in colorful ceremonies
and some of the diplomats he will meet here, as well as members of our
State Department probably will see him take his oath of office.
Aoted British Guest
From England will come a very distinguished visitor. He is Mr.
Julien Huxley, noted biologist and writer. As executive secretary of
the United Nations Economic Social and Cultural Oragnization, his
mission here is an important one. He is to supervise the preparatory
work of the organization, which is just coming into existence.
Due to arrive May 27, Mr. Huxley will be accompanied by Mrs. Hux
Society Attends
Cummings-Murr ay
Wedding Ceremony
The attention of Washington, Newj
York and Chicago society was cen
tered yesterday on the wedding of
Miss Therese P. Murray and Mr.
Walter J. Cummings, jr., in St. Pat
rick's Cathedral in New York, at
which His Eminence Francis Cardi
nal Spellman officiated. He was as
sisted at the ceremony, which took
place at 11:30 a m., by the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Francis J. McQuade. S. J. Pro
vincal of New York Province. Miss
Murray is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph B. Murray of New York
and Southampton, and Mr. Cum
mings is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter J. Cummings of Chicago.
Given in marriage by her father,
the bride made an exquisite picture
in her white satin gown. Her veil
of lace, a family heirloom, was ar
ranged in coronet fashiorf, and she
carried a bouquet of white orchids
and bouvardia.
Mrs. Buckley M. Byers of Sewick
ley, Pa., was her sister's matron of
honor. Mrs. Jerome H. P. Boucher
and Miss Judith Murray of New
York, also sisters of the bride, W'ere
bridesmaids, as were Mrs. John Van
derventer, Mrs. Peter Sullivan, Miss
Mary Stapleton, Mrs. Basil Harris,
jr., all of New York, and Mrs. Vin
cent Mullins of Portland, Oreg. All
attendants wore bouffant gowns of
azure blue organza with matching
coronets of. azure blue horsehair.
They all called sprays of white and
yellow sprir.„ flowers, with the ex
ception of the matron of honor,
whose bouquet was of orchids.
Mr. Arthur J. Cummings was
his brother's best man and Mr.
Edward McLean Cummings, an
other brother, was head usher.
Other ushers were Mr. Jerome H. P.
Boucher, Mr. George M. Duff, jr.;
Mr. Chester .Hammond, Mr. Ring
land F. Kilfctrick, jr.: Mr. John
Mackenzie, jil; Mr. Charles S. Whit
man, jr.. all of New York City, and
Mr. David T. Beals III of Kansas
City, Mo.; Mr. Buckley M. Byers of
Sewickley. Lt. Comdr. Leslie Doug
las. U. S. N. R.. of Washington; Lt.
John L. Frothingham. U. S. N. R.
of Philadelphia: Lt. George P. Gris
wold, U. S. N. R„ of Erie, Pa.; Lt.
Perry A. Pederson, U. S. N R, of
Cleveland, and Mr. Talbot Shelton
of Bethlehem, Pa.
The new Mrs. Cummings was
graduated from the Convent of the
Sacred Heart in New York. She
is a granddaughter of the late
Thomas E. Murray, engineer and
inventor, and Mrs. Murray and the
late James A. Farrell, president of
the U. S. Steel Corp. and Mrs.
Ferrell.
The bridegroom attended St. Al
ban's School in Washington and
the Chicago Latin School. He was
graduated from Yale University in
1937. from the Harvard Law School
in 1940 and has been serving on
the staff of the Solicitor General
in Washington. His parents 're
sided in Washington in 1933 and
1934. during which time the
senior Mr. Cummings was chair
man of the Federal Deposit In
surance Corp. and executive as
sistant to the Secretary of the
Treasury.
ley ana iney win stay at uiair L,ee
House for their brief journey. Plans
are now taking shape for their en
tertainment.
Mr. Huxley will be in the coun
try for about three weeks, making
New York his headquarters for the
major part of the time. He has
just completed a tour of Brazil.
Venezuela and Cuba. Mexico will
be his last stop before entraining
for Washington.
In Washington now is another in
teresting personality from England.
Dr. Edith Ford, chairman of the
British Teachers' Exchange, arrived
several days ago for important dis
cussions with officials of our office
of Education. She is winding up
arrangements for the exchange of
teachers between this country and
England. Seventy of our top teach
ers are to sail for England in time
for the opening of the coming
autumn school term. And simul
taneously the same number of Eng
lish instructors will be en route to
the United States.
Mrs. Ford will be in this city for;
several weeks and will be enter
tained during her stay. The whirl
of fetes for her started Friday with
the First Secretary of the British
Embassy and Mrs. Maclean and the
Second Secretary and Mrs. David
Daiaches giving a joint cocktail
party in her honor.
Mrs. Clark Plans Pete
United States, Attorneys from all
parts of the country will be in town
during the coming week for confer
ences with Attorney General Tom
C. Clark. Their arrival will be the
signal for several entertainments.
Many are bringing their wives with
them and there will be parties for
them too.
Mrs. Clark is planning a buflet
supper Thursday for the ladies at
her home. The affair will be
marked by simplicity and the guests
will be limited to the visitors and
wives of officials of the Justice De
partment.
Another function scheduled for
the ladies is a tea Wednesday
given jointly by Mrs. Wendell Beige,
Mrs. T. Lamar Caudle, wives of
Assistant Attorney Generals and
Mrs. James V. Bennett, whose hus
band is Director of the Bureau of
Prisons.
The Wednesday affair will be
given at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Berge in Rock Creek Hills. In
keeping with the conservation of
wheat for food relief abroad, the
tea time dainties will be made of
oatmeal and other substitutes.
Another entertainment for some
visitors will be the cocktail party
tomorrow given by the chief of
I the shipping division of the State
Department, Mr. Jesse E. Saugstad.
His guests will be a number of
prominent shipbuilders from Swe
den, who are en route to Seattle
to visit ship yards there.
With the end Wednesday of the
mourning period the calendar will
be crowded with activity. In ad
dition to the events postponed out
of respect to the late Chief Justice
Stone, many other parties have been
planned.
The Dean of the Diplomatic Corps
and Senhora de Martins will be
hosts at dinner Wednesday night;
at the Embassy. The affair will1
honor the newly appointed United
(See HART7Page D-67) I
BRIDES WHOSE WEDDINGS TOOK PLACE YESTERDAY.
Mrs. Walter J. Cummings, jr. (above), before her marriage yesterday was Miss Therese
Murray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bradley Murray. _Hal Phyje Photo.
<Upper right) Mrs. William Joslin before her wedding yesterday to Lt. Joslin, U. S. N. R.,
was Miss Mary Coker. She is the granddaughter of the late former Secretary of Commerce and
Mrs. Daniel C. Roper. —Bachrach Photo.
Exclusively Yours,
-Betty Beale -
Capital Mecca for New Yorkers;
Romance Bloomed at Second Sight
when a Washingtonian hears
about some out-of-town gayety, he
is apt to feel like Noah listening to
much ado about a drizzle. When the
local fry leave
luwu n is no
longer with that
fun- searching
gleam in the eye
as of a hunter
on the chas$,
but rather with
the frank ad
mission that rest
is indicated if a
breakdown is to
be averted. Once |
Capitalites went *
to New York for
excitement, now
.New x o r k e r s ■
come to Wash- Mrs. Wanamaker.
ington to taste again the pleasures
of the fulltime party life.
The glamorous blond Mrs. Rodman
Wanamaker and the attractive Mrs.
Lytle Hull (formerly Mrs. Vincent
Astor) will come down from Gotham
on the 21st for fun and a few days’
visit. Joseph Alsop will give a
dinner for them on the 22d and
Mrs. Arthur Fowler will do likewise
for the same reason on the 23d.
And lured to this vicinity this week
end by the charms of Capital life
are Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamil
ton of New York. They are staying
with Janet and Hugh D. Auchincloss
at their across-the-river estate,
Merrywood. Last night the Auchin
closses entertained at a small dinner
in their honor. Sandy Hamilton is
always running into people who
have never met him before but who
feel sure that they have because
the name is familiar.
Mrs. Clark Mcllwaine will give a
dinner and dance Saturday night
at the F Street Club for the club
capacity. And that is for 100 unless
there has been a very recent change.
. . . The next afternoon there will
be a large after-christening party
at the pink and blue home of Ruth
and Wiley Buchanan to meet Wiley
Thomas Buchanan. III. . . . Betty
and Frank Vanderlip will be hosts
at a buffet supper on the 29th
before the United Nations ball. So
close is the Vanderlips’ house to the
old Townsend home where the ball
will be, that guests will practically
be able to fall out of one and land
into the other.
* * * *
When Anne Boardman and Jim
Penfleld show how co-operative State
Department members can be and
[became one on June 1, they will
combine enough experiences to fill
the proverbial tome. As an OWI in
formation specialist, Anne analyzed
radio propaganda in England,
worked on OWI publications in
Italy, started a United States li
brary and information center in
Belgrade and helped open up the
Embassy there, too. She met the
iron man Tito under completely
social circumstances but with the
State Department reserve prefers
not to give her impressions of the
powerful, Russian favored, Yugo
slavian leader. Sometimes there
were only a few miles between the
German lines and this good-looking,
vivacious blond, who is all that and
intelligent, too.
She met Jim this Christmas and
it was love at second sight because
neither of them can remember their
first meeting despite the fact that
they dined together. Each can re
call perfectly dining at the Ted
Achilles several years ago and would
swear that the other was not there
were it not for the fact that Anne
kept a diary and listed all the people
on the dinner. Anne says her
(See BEALE, Page D-6j
Surles Moving;
Other Service
Families Hosts
By Ann Cline
Maj. Gen. Alexander D. Surles,
on the staff in the Chief of staff's
Office, and Mrs. Surles will have a
different address as of tomorrow.
They took advantage of an oppor
tunity to get an apartment in
Washington—which is sometimes
compared to going through a major
war—so there will be a temporary
vacancy out at Port Myer.
Their new address will be 2022
Columbia road, the Wyoming Apart
ments.
An unusual and interesting coin
cidence in the Surles’ case is that
Fort Myer was their first post and
their last. When Gen. Surles grad
uated from West Point in 1911 he
was sent there as a lieutenant in
the 15th Cavalry. Mrs. Surles said
she hoped this would be a perma
nent address. Her husband was re
tired on March 31, but was called
back on active duty the next day.
Along the entertainment line:
The Surgeon General of the Army
and Mrs. Norman T. Kirk were hosts
at a farewell dinner party last
night at the Officers’ Club of the
Army Medical Center in honor of
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Stanhope
Bayne-Jones. Gen. Bayne-Jones,
who was m the Office of the Sur
geon General, is being separated
from the service and he and his
wife are leaving Washington.
Two parties are on the calendar
for tonight. Maj. Gen. Charles D.
Herron, who is in the Office of the
Chief of Staff, and Mrs. Herron will
give a cocktail party in their Be
thesda home.
The only guests not from Wash
ington will be the Herrons’ son-in
law and daughter. Lt. Col. and Mrs.
R. W. Ripple, who are making their
home with the hosts.
The other affair is a supper party
being given by Brig. Gen. George
Beach, commanding officer at Wal
ter Reed, and Mrs. Beach.
Invitations are in the mail from
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Virgil Peterson
for cocktails on June 2.
News of Envoys From Afar;
Espils Settle in London
Mrs. Bartlett Off to Dinard;
Mrs. Gunther Back in July
By Katharine M. Brooks
News from overseas last week included word from the new Argen
tine Ambassador of the Court of St. James's, Senor Don Juan Espil, who
presented his credentials the middle of last week. The Ambassador and
Senora de Espil left Madrid a month or more ago and spent a brief
vacation in Paris after he was transferred from Spain to England.
The Ambassador and Senora de Espil have a very wide circle of
friends in Washington, the Ambassador having served here in various
capacities at the embassy until his appointment as Ambassador at this
Capital. When the Ambassador and Senora de Espil left here they
went to Buenos Aires before his mission to Madrid.
Before Senora de Espil made a visit in Washington, where her
mother, Mrs. Frank C. Letts, still makes her home, she joined the
Ambassador in Madrid. There was great pleasure felt when he again
was appointed to Washington, that assignment having been changed
later with instructions for the London post.
Washington probably will not see Senora de Espil before the
autumn, for she is deep in the settling of the London Embassy for
their occupancy. She probably will be unable to complete this work
before hot weather descends on the District and will make her visit
here in the autumn.
Caseys in Australia
Also from overseas comes word that the former Australian Minister,
Mr. Richard Casey, has been elected president of the Australian-Ameri
can Association. This organization, which is somewhat similar to the
English-Speaking Union in its aims, has its headquarters in Australia,
The former Minister, who was the first from his country at this post,
and Mrs. Casey were here in the late winter for a brief visit on their
way from his former post in India to Australia. They were entertained
by some of their many friends here and at the legation.
Mrs. Paul W. Bartlett is among Washingtonians who are looking
forward to returning to their homes in France, now that transportation
Capital Silhouette
By Frances Lide
Mrs. Woodhouse of Connecticut
Known as Economist and Educator
About twice a month, Representa
tive Chase Going Woodhouse re
turns to the Connecticut district she
represents in Congress to talk over
current issues
! with her constit
uents.
These discus
sions usually
are in the na
ture of public
forums under
the auspices of
different groups
—with the audi
ence invited to
question the
speaker on leg
islative matters
and other sub
jects oi con- ——
cern. Mr*. Woodhouse.
Those who participate represent
many economic backgrounds and
| political faiths. Mrs. Woodhouse is
a Democrat in a normally Republic
s can district and she believes voters
i have the right to see, hear and
■ question their elected Representa
- tives.
*j Her technique has attracted wide
s j Interest, but it is a logical method
r i for a woman who often has demon
v • strated her belief in the effective
, ness of bringing various groups to
2! gether to talk over common prob
- lems.
A good example of this is found
. in the conferences of the Institute
t of Women’s Professional Relations
i annually held here in the Capital.
. The institute was founded in 1929
? by Mrs. Woodhouse and Mrs. Jou
i ett Shouse of Washington, who long
i have been friends and partners in
- various enterprises. Its headquar
- ters are at Connecticut College for
1 Women — where Mrs. Woodhouse
. has held the chair of economics for
: a number of years—and its princi
y pal work is in the field of research,
s Mrs. Woodhouse, who is man
t aging director of the institute, alsc
° has played a prominent role in
f many other organizations concerned
e with public questions and the pro
i. Sessional advancement of women.
‘ She is a distinguished looking
3 person, with a highly intelligent
s face and an air of dignity and
poise. She has calm gray eyes
f and white hair, but her daughter
' Margaret, who currently is serving
^: as her secretary, contends her white
1; hair is misleading. The truest thing
ever said of her mother, in Mar
_; garet’s opinion, is that “regardless
' | of when she was born, Mrs. Wood
7 house is young.’’
rj Before she was elected to Con
gress in November. 1944, Chase
v 1 Going Woodhouse had served as
e Secretary of State of Connecticut
. in 1941 and 1942, being granted
leave, then as now’, from her post
n at Connecticut College,
n How she became an economist
educator, and eventually, a holdei
of public office, is a story she sums
up briefly—jobs have always seemed
to come her way in an easy fash
ion. She undertook both her politi
cal campaigns at the request of
1 Democratic groups in her State.
She is a New Englander by fam
| ily background, but was born in
■ Victoria, British Columbia, where
her father, a civil engineer, was
engaged on a railroad-building
project. Most of her youth was
, spent on the Pacific Coast, she was
; graduated from the Science High
; School at Shelbyville, Ky„ and then
:went to McGill University in Mon
treal for her college work. After
that she studied abroad—prin
cipally at the University of Berlin
before returning to America for
further graduate work at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
While she was at the University
of Chicago she was offered a posi
tion as economics instructor at
! Smith College. That started her
on a career that has included teach
ing at the summer sessions of many
universities, several years here as
senior economist with the Agricul
ture Department’s Bureau of Home
Economics and a post as director
of personnel at the Woman s Col
lege, University of North Carolina.
Mrs. Woodhouse and her husband,
Edward James Woodhouse, a pro
fessor at the University of North
Carolina, have two children. Their
son, Noel R. S. Woodhouse. served
several years in the A. A. F before
his recent discharge. He has re
turned to the University of North
Carolina to study law. Margaret,
who became her mother’s secretary
when Mrs. Woodhouse found it al
uiuH impossiuie 10 coiain sucn
assistance, plans to begin a law
course at the same university next
February.
Mrs. Woodhouse and Margaret
live in a house in Georgetown which
she bought after she came to Wash
ington. It is fllled with the antiques
she loves and has a nice garden.
Her hobby is doing over old houses.
She once wanted to become an
architect, gave it up because she
couldn't find a good school that
would accept women and now satis
fies the ambition by donning over
alls and wielding a paint brush.
She has little time, however, to
spend at home. Being a member
of Congress, she has found, curtails
personal freedom to a great extent.
She is a member of the Banking
and Currency Committee which has
handled such important legislation
as the Bretton Woods agreement,
OPA and housing bills and the
British loan.
As a freshman member of the
House, she has been impressed by
the spirit of "give and take" which
prevails despite personal disagree
ments. And she has found that
the women in Congress are treated
not as women but as persons.
is possmie. bne plans to leave
some time during the early summer
and will spend several months at
her place in Dinard as well as
taking time to look over her apart
ment in Paris. Her charming place
in Dinard, where she has assembled
much of the late Mr. Bartlett's best
works of sculpture as a permanent
exhibit, has been left almost per
fectly intact. However, there prob
ably has been considerable damage
done from the dampness in the
Paris apartment because of the lack
of heat in the age-old stone build
ing.
Stefanos Lease House
Mrs. Bartlett remained in her
Dinard home as long as she dared
after the invasion of France and
for some months nothing was heard
from her in Washington. She
reached here safty after pnusual
experiences in transit and settled in
the house at 3026 N street where
she has been for the past few years.
The N street house she has leased
to the Counselor of the Italian Em
bassy and Signora Stefano.
Planning to return to Washington
in the autumn, Mrs. Bartlett prob
ably will take over the N street
house. In the meantime. Mrs.
Bartlett is in what she calls her
"Foxhole," a smaller and very quaint
little house at 1673 Thirty-fourth
street. The little "Foxhole" stands
in the midst of a rolling field, which
gives ample opportunity for a small
garden—a necessity to comfort in
Mrs. Bartlett's life.
Coming back recently from Paris
were Dr. and Mrs. Hugh S. Cum
i ming. Dr. Cumming, who some years
ago was surgeon general of the
Public Health Service, now is di
rector of the Pan American Sani
tary' Commission. The trip was for
inspection of conditions abroad. The
couple made the trip both ways by
plane.
Mrs. Franklin Mott Gunther is
making plans for her return to this
country, having been abroad for
some time. She is in Romania and
expects to be back here some time
in July.
Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins also
is Washington bound, although
plans for her flight to the Capital
from the Argentine were delayed
from this month to June.
Other travelers coming in this
direction are Mrs. Dean Acheson,
expected back this evening from
Saranac, and the Undersecretary
of Commerce and Mrs. Wayne
Chatfield-Taylor. who will be back
shortly from 10 days on their farm
in Virginia.
yVl/tt Wright Picks
June Wedding Date
The Scientist Director of the
United States Public Health Service
and Mrs. Willard H. Wright an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter. Miss Mary Louise Wright,
to Mr. James Thomas Campbell, jr.,
of Kansas City, Mo., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Campbell of Paducah. Ky. The
wedding w-ill take place June 15 in
the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church.
Miss Wright graduated from
Queens College, Charlotte. N. C,
w'here she was a member of Kappa
Delta sorority. Her fiance attended
Purdue University and was a mem
ber of Lamba Chi fraternity.
High Lights of Fete for Far Eastern Commission
* «< The newly appointed Soviet Ambassador, Mr. Nikolai V. Novikov (right), chats with Secretary General
of the Far Eastern Commission Nelson T. Johnson at the former’s party for the commission. (Above) Brig.
J. D. P. Chapman-Denys, Great Britain’s delegate, pictured with Miss Tanya Krilova. (Right) The Chi
nese Ambassador, Dr. Wei Tao-ming, and the Netherlands Ambassador, Dr. A. Loudon, were other members
of the commission present. —Harris & Ewing Photos.