Evening star. [volume], November 24, 1963, Page B-12, Image 34

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Mrs. Bertha Dougherty, a long-time resident of
Alexandria, stands by one of the panels in her
farewell exhibit of Ships' Figurehead paintings
Figureheads Distract From Figures
In Alexandria Bank Art Exhibit
By AMELIA YOUNG
SUrSUffWrtWr
Citizens heading in and out
of the Alexandria National
Bank are distracted from fi
nance these days by an unu
sual exhibit in the lobby.
Thirty watercolor figures,
each in a separate frame,
lean across large display pan
els and tug at the viewer's
memory with an oddly fami
liar wooden look.
They are paintings of old
ships' figureheads, the work
of Bertha Dougherty, and
comprise the only such col
lection in the country as far
as the artist has been able to
determine.
, She was not intending a
•"first.” or even a collection,
when she started the project
a decade ago, Mrs. Dougher
; ty said in an interview last
week. "I just drifted into this
as I do into almost every
thing."
The artist, now 80 years
old and a resident of Alexan
dria for the past 25 years,
was visiting Newport News in
; Home Tour, Flower Show
Days Set in Willamsburg
The fourth annuel Chrlat
mu home t&ur and flower
, show will be held In Colonial
Willlamsburc next week end.
The theme. “What Is
Christmas?” will be Illustrat
ed In the decorations In five
• homes to be opened to the
public, both In the historic
area and In Williamsburg's
more modern sections.
Hours are from 2:30 to 9
p.m. Saturday, and from 1 to
, 7 p.m. next Sunday. There
will be candlelight tours both
evenings.
This annual event which
opens the Christmas season
in Virginia’s restored Colonl
alcapltal. is sponsored by
the Green Spring Garden
Club for the benefit of the
Williamsburg Community
Hospital.
All the homes will feature
Christmas decorations and
arrangement designs, pre
senting many ideas for the
holiday season. The show's
theme will be answered in
the creative interpretation of
the decorations in each
home. Special emphasis will
be placed on doorway decor.
"Christmas Is Music” is
the theme selected by Dr.
and Mrs. Carl McCartha as
their answer to the show
theme question. Visitors will
have an opportunity to view
the McCarthas’ interesting
contemporary home in the
Queens Lake area. The home
successfully combines 18th
century and modern features
In a gracious and livable
; Plan.
Open for the first time this
year is Hare Warren, the
newly constructed one-story
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ken
neth Hurst-Brown on Rolfe
road. The owners have se
lected “Christmas Is Birth
day” to express the Christ
mas story in design. The
modern-style home, set
amidst pines, hollies and
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THE SUNDAY STAR
Washington. 0. C., No rombor 24, 1942
1853 as the guest of Capt and
Mrs. E. K. Van Swearingen.
Disinclined
She had been thoroughly
wined and dined and was
Just about to leave when her
hostess suggested a last-min
ute tour of the Mariners Mu
seum. ‘‘l was ready tor a rest
after so much entertainment
and really disinclined, but
she Insisted. She knew I’d
always been Interested in
sailing ships.” That was the
day she fell in love with fig
ureheads.
Back in Alexandria she
wrote to the head curator of
the Newport News museum
asking permission to do a
painting of her favorite, ex
plaining, “I had to have a
painting for a Washington
exhibit that year. He was de
lighted. Apparently he’d nev
er had anyone make the re
quest before. The five cura
tors, the museum pbotogra
pher and the librarian
couldn't do enough to make
dogwood, contains fine old
Irish and English antique
furnishings.
Because her home is in
geniously built around a
wondrous beech tree, Mrs.
Charles J. Duke, Jr., has
selected “Christmas Is Won
der” to illustrate the show
theme in her Christmas de
cor.
Also to be shown is Col.
Warren Green’s apartment
in one wing of the Duke
home. A “Christmas Is Hos
pitality” theme will be car
ried out in the decorations
and arrangements in this
large apartment-home, fur
nished attractively with col
lections from Paraguay and
Turkey as well as old family
pieces. Os particular interest
is the handmade furniture
from Paraguay.
In the restored area of
Williamsburg, the 18th cen
tury restored Carter-Ssun
ders house on Palace Green
near the Governor’s Palace,
will be on display with the
theme, “Christmas Is Leg
end.” In its history, the
house had many famous visi
tors, among them George
Washington.
Deoorations and arrange
ments in the 18th century
manner will be seen
throughout the house.
The Christmas arrange
ments in the houses will be
Judged and blue ribbons
awarded for the top winners.
Prizes will be given to the best
of the blue ribbon winners.
Green and white arrow
signs will direct visitors to
the homes and maps may be
procured at each home to be
open. Tickets will be availa
ble at each home during the
hours of the show.
Walking shoes are suggest
ed for the visitors’ comfort
and safety as well as for pro
tection of the highly polished
floors.
now on display at the Alexandria National Bank.
—Star Staff Photo by Walter Oates.
me feel welcome,” she re
called.
The research she did there
led to further research at the
Library of Congress and later
to a painting tour of naval
museums along the East
Coast. Within several months
she’d read volumes on the
subject and produced 35 wat
ercolors, careful "non-glam
or ised” renderings of those
she liked best.
The Spirits
The use of figureheads,
Mrs. Dougherty says, goes
back to the ancient Norse
men, who put flerce-looking
beasts on the bows of their
vessels “to shoo away evil
aplrlts. The figures were the
spirits of the vessels them
selves.”
“Iceland made a law that
any ship with a dangerous
wild animal on its bow
couldn't come into port. It
was feared that the 'spirit'
might get off and threaten
the population,” she said.
After finishing the figure
head paintings, Mrs. Dough
erty put them away in a
portfolio and went on to other
things—more painting, writ
ing and etching, her chief
creative pursulta since her
minister husband died in
1936. “I had Just done them
for the heck of it. It never
entered my head that any
body would be especially in
terested.” she explained.
A poet friend who saw
them some years later and
felt it a waste that they
hadn’t been shown, brought
the paintings to the attention
of the Seamen’s Bank for
Savings in New York City.
Exhibits were held in the
bank’s three branches last
summer.
A Farewell
Once prompted to display
them, Mrs. Dougherty
thought she might put them
on sale. Asked by a curator
friend and adviser how she
' would prioe them, she said,
"Oh maybe S3O each.” He
quickly talked her out of that
| counseling her to sell the 30
paintings he selected only
as a collection, preferably to
a museum and for consider
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Mrs.* Dougherty’s current
exhibit is byway of farewell
to Alexandria. She will leave
for Cincinnati next Monday
to Join the only one of her
three sons living, Mr. Ed
ward Archer Dougherty, and
his wife. The paintings will
remain behind to be seen
by bank visitors through
Friday, December 6.
A native of New York and
a Vassar graduate. Mrs.
Dougherty is the daughter of
the late Dr. Jesse Lyman
Hurlbut, the Methodist min
ister whose book on the Bible
has sold over 4Vi million
copies. “Hurlbut’s Story of
the Bible” is still bringing
in royalties to his family.
Mrs. Dougherty has moved
into her 80's non-dotterlng,
gregarious and Independent.
The luncheons, dinners and
teas planned in her honor
these past few weeks have
left her minimum time for
packing and none for her
customary creative pastimes.
The well spring of her con
tinuing energy, she believes,
is " a very happy childhood.
I was loved generously and
I felt the support of my
parents in everything.” That
will carry a person a long
way, she observed.
Miss Rhea,
Mr. Taylor, jr.,
Are Engaged
Col. and Mrs. Robert Lee
Rhea, jr. of Ban Antonio,
Texas and Washington an
nounce the engagement of
their daughter, Gwendolyn,
to Mr. Daniel Albert Taylor,
Jr. of Chicago. 111., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor of Chi
cago and Washington.
A February wedding is
planned.
Miss Rhea attended Sophie
Newcomb College, New Or
leans. La., and was graduated
from the University of Texas.
She is a member of the San
Antonio Girls Cotillion.
Mr. Taylor was graduated
from Cranbrook School,
Bloomfield Hills. Mich, and
George Washington Univer
sity Law School.
PARIS REPORT
They Danced All Night
By ANDREA
St or Satltl Writer
PARIS.—Care for a bit of
gossip?
Paris is full of it. Firs* about
the big event of the week
—this year’s official Deb
utante Ball. It took place in
the Palais de Chaillot. which
is much bigger than the Op
era where it was staged last
year. It had to be moved for
it did cost much more and
the money was hard to come
by. The contributing com
mercial firms didn’t think
the publicity was worth big
donations and the Paris Fes
tival Committee, which spon
sors the affair, had to find
the necessary funds.
The "Debs” are always in
vited and their dancers, too
(some say they should get
paid for it), but other
“guests” had to pay up to <6O
for their tickets.
Finally the big house was
filled and all went well, only
there was no royal highness
accepting the carefully stud
ied curtsies from the 400
white gowned and diadem
crowned girls.
Princess Bixte de Bourbon-
Parma, who had promised to
preside over the ball, had to
cancel her appearance due to
the death of her father, the
Duke of Doudeauville. A sim
ple Duchess—La Duchesse de
Sab r a n-Ponteves took her
place and the aristocratic as
pect was saved.
Not Selective
Older Paris dowagers are
raising their eyebrows sug
gesting that the ball is not
what it used to be and the
selection of the debutantes is
not strict enough. However,
the younger set thinks it’s
WEDDINGS
Mardell-Wishnow
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Wish
now of Silver Spring an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter Jeanne Muriel to
Mr. Irwin David Mardell, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan
Mardell of Arverne, N. Y.
The wedding took place No
vember 3 in Bheraton Park
Hotel. The couple will live in
Rockville, Md.
Gooding-Henry
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Frank
S. Henry of Alexandria an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter Joan Elizabeth to
Lt. Warren Michael Gooding,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell
H. Gooding of University
City, Mo. The wedding took
place November 16 in the
Post Chapel, Fort Myer, Va.
The couple will be stationed
in Germany.
Taylor-Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Claude S.
Scheckel of Chevy Chase
announce the marriage of
their granddaughter, Miss
Vicki Jean Walker, to Mr.
Richard Boyd Taylor, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William War
ren Taylor of Bethesda. The
wedding took place yesterday
in the Washington Cathedral.
The couple will live in Chevy
Chase.
Lewis-Tompkins
Mrs. George H. Calvert of
this city announces the mar
riage of her daughter, Mrs.
Eleanor Calvert Tompkins, to
Mr. Edwin Stevens Lewis of
Berryville, Va. The bride is
also the daughter of the late
Mr. Calvert. The wedding
took place November 12 in St.
John’s Church, Washington.
greater fun that way and up
to the last day a Mg “eacort
switching" was going cm de
spite all the sinister rules,
that only those couples
would be admitted, who had
attended all the rehearsals.
Some exciting foreign girls
were arriving in town only
two days before the event,
like the three daughters of
former Peruvian President
Parks-Prado. The most suc
cessful girls are always the
ones from abroad or those
with the “international”
touch. The “Parislennes” are
sweet but everybody already
know* them and ... well!
Among the “Parisian” for
eigners were some “great”
girls, like Donna Hunt
daughter of “Life’s” manag
ing editor, who studies at the
Sorbme and works at the
press section of the big cou
turier Balmain. Her French
girl friends are a little bit
shocked by her declarations
to a Paris newspaper that
they are dressing too much
like their mothers, making
themselves look much older.
Debs in Demand
Other “debs in demand”
are Annabel Bcrope, niece of
Lord Home; Maris Milsteln
(violinist Nathan Milsteln is
her father): Sandra Hutch
inson (Canada Steel: Dru
mond McCall) and several
daughters of Paris-accredited
ambassadors.
A French debutante from
Washington is Catherine de
Segonzac. “Slggy’s” daughter,
who is the permanent corre
spondent of France Soir in
the Nation’s Capital. She
studies art and archaeology
at the Louvre and lives in a
Mutino-Ferguson
Mr. and Mrs. Egbert R.
Ferguson, Jr., of Wood Acres,
Md„ announce the marriage
of their daughter Mary Gay
to Mr. Paul Anthony Mutino,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony
Mutino of Port Chester, N. Y.
The wedding took place yes
terday in the ChUrch of the
Little Flower. The couple will
live in Washington.
Le Blanc-FitzGerald
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C.
Fitz Gerald of Elmira, N. Y.
announce the marriage of
their daughter Bonnie Ann to
Lt. D. Thomas Le Blanc, USA.
son of Comdr. Theodore Le
Blanc, USCG (retired), and
Mrs. Le Blanc of Washington.
The wedding took place yes
terday in the Base Chapel,
Hancock Field, Syracuse,
N. Y. The couple will live in
Chevy Chase, Md.
Baker-Knox
Mrs. Abby Jane Knox of
this city announces the mar
riage of her daughter Annice
to Lt. Robert E. Baker, USN,
son of Mrs. L. G. Pope of
Douglas, Ga. The wedding
took place November 22 In
the Cleveland Park Congre
gational Church.
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Wall Sconce, Brass or Pewter $22.50
Stieff Pewter Salt or Pepper Shaker $11.75
Henkel-Harris Oblong Tea Caddy,
Solid Mahogany, foil lined $34.00
Stieff Pewter Candlestick, 7V4" high.
Hurricane Shade, ll\i" high ...... $15.00
+ (also available in JJV4" height)
Henkel-Harris Octagonal Tea Caddy,
Solid Mahogany, foil lined $24.00
■)!)/ Drop-Leaf Table, Williamsburg Adaptation,
solid mahogany $190.00
‘ I)lI l ( p' u ® 80 “any more gifts with Williamsburg
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who observe her outings very
closely.
The one who should have
been the star of the dancing
girls, couldn’t come, because
her father was against it.
Geraldine Chaplin would
have loved to relax with a
waltz or twist from her re
hearsals for the “Cinderella”
ballet to take place in De
cember at the Theater des
Champs Elysees. It's her first
time in Paris, nearly on her
own, except for her very seri
ous governess Miss Ford, who
shields her from all publicity.
A couple of professional
dancers shocked some old
patrons at Maxim’s, but for a
moment only. It was on their
request that the famous res
taurant agreed—for once—to
install several television
screens for the diners. Zizl
Jeanmaire and Roland Petit
had asked their friends to
admire their first TV show
"Coeur de Paris” at Maxim's.
They made a double en
trance—on the little
screen as well as at the res
taurant, Just at the right mo
ment.
Loves to Dance
Dame Margot Fonteyn is
still in town and she too
loves to dance other steps
than the ballet. At the “New
Jimmy’s" she admired the
Duke of Windsor trying the
surf. That was by night.
During the day, Mr. Jones
(Lord Snowdon In his pri
vate life, husband of Princess
Margaret) had taken pic
tures of her and dancer, Nu
rejev, for a story in the
"Sunday Times.”
Prince Constantin of
Greece was in Paris with his
little sister Irene to show her
the town, and Prince Herald
of Norway has been seen
here too. Gosslpers pretend
that together they have
danced all night!
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