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Evening star from Washington, District of Columbia • 28

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Governor and Mrs. Tuck feted At Reception in Alexandria By Margaret Germand The Governor of Virginia and Mrs. William M. Tuck, who were the guests of historic Alexandria yesterday for the series of brilliant staged in celebration of the 217th birthday anniversary of George Washington, topped the day's activities at a large reception given in their honor by Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Barbour Rollins and Mrs. Rollins' daughter, Miss Evelyn Dixon Dillard. Old Tavern, frequently the scene of lavish social functions which the distinguished general attended with Mrs. Washington, was ablaze with candlelight for yesterday's 5 to 7 fete. Logs flamed in the large fireplaces in all four of the ground-floor rooms, in three of which refreshment tables were laden with Smithfleld hams, sandwiches of all varieties, hors oeuvres, cakes, candies and salads.

The hosts ana tneir nonor guests received in the small parlor, Mrs. Rollins wearing a long black dress with an off-shoulder neckline bordered with embroidery of tiny colored beads in a flower pattern. Mrs. Tuck also was in black, the yoke of her off-shoulder bodice being of fine lace, and she wore a shoulder corsage of purple orchids. A deep lace yoke also trimmed the off-shoulder bodice of the long black frock worn by Miss Dillard.

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, in a street costume of black, a small hat with a stand-up black feather, and wearing a corsage of purple orchids, stood in the receiving line through a part of the reception. She was succeeded in that honor by the Attorney General of Virginia and Mrs. Lindsay Almond. Evergreens and flowering shrubs from the farm near Fredericksburg were in profusion throughout the rooms, and on the mantles mounds of jonquils, tulips, snapdragons and forsythia were bright in the candlelight.

Spring flowers, flanked by tall, branched eandelabra, centered each of the refreshment tables and, large azaleas in pink to coral shades made beautiful cornerpieces and small table decorations. A strolling accordionist played throughout the reception hours. Guests numbered nearly a thousand, among whom were State Senator and Mrs. Andrew Clarke, Representative and Mrs. Howard Smith, the latter among those assisting; Representative and Mrs.

Schuyler Otis Bland, Mr. Robert Payne of Fredericksburg, uncle of Miss Dillard, who held quite a reception of his own; Mr. and Mrs. Beverly May, Miss Fannie Herbert, Navy Capt. and Mrs.

Atherton Macondray, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Crockett, Capt. and Mrs. George Evans, Mrs.

Will Leonard Lowrie and Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Boothe II. Mr. and Mrs.

Joshua Evans, Mrs. Frederick Mitchell Gould and Mrs. Mary E. Buford of Washington were among early arrivals, and others in the throng were Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Bryant, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kirk, Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Kirk, Mr.

Ward Boswell, Miss Mary Lindsay, Mrs. Robert M. Reese, Mrs. Charles Calvert Smoot. Mr.

and Mrs. Charles C. Carlin. Miss Jeannette Francis, Mrs. A.

E. Barton and her daughter, Miss Jenifer Barton: Miss Ellen Burke and Mr. and Mrs. D. C.

Book. Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald Douglass and their daughter, Miss Kathleen Douglass, were there, and also Mr. and Mrs.

F. W. Youry Mr. and Mrs. A.

J. Kraemer, Maj. and Mrs. Du Bois Brookings, Mr. James S.

Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Pierce, Mrs. Judith Hammett, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Vernon Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Williams, who recently arrived from Panama: Dr. and Mrs. Nelson Gray, Capt.

and Mrs. Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G. Fawcett, Mrs.

T. Clifton Howard. Mrs. Ferguson B. Bryan.

Mr. Edward Van Devanter, Mrs. Zerelda McConnell and Miss Katharine Uhler. Mrs. Louis Scott was among the guests and also Mr.

and Mrs. Irving Diener, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Burke, Mr. and Mrs.

J. Randall Caton, Miss Barbara Watkins. Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Saugstad, Mr.

Warren Grubbs, Mrs. J. T. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs.

John P. Robinson, jir. and Mrs. Thomas P. Moncure, Mrs.

Frankling Backus, Navy Capt. and Mrs. Pablo Barrett. Mrs. Maude Laidlaw, Mr.

and Mrs. Ashby Reardon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nicholson, Mr.

and Mrs. Windsor De Maine, Mrs. Raymond Hulfish. Mr. and Mrs.

John Francis Hauber. the Rev. and Mrs. B. B.

Comer Lile. Mrs. Herbert Oliver, Miss Elizabeth Ramey. Mr. and Mrs.

Nelson Snyder and many more. Mrs. William J. Boothe and Mrs. Gardner L.

Boothe were among those assisting in serving tea. coffee and punch, and others were Mrs. William E. Borah, Mrs. Thurmond Arnold, Mrs.

George Carter, Mrs. Charles M. Shepperson. Mrs. Malcolm Matheson, Mrs.

Joseph P. Crockett. Mrs. B. B.

Comer Lile. Miss Clarence Snowden, Mrs. Charles F. Holden and Mrs. A.

Kenley Thorne. Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman. Mrs.

Harry Covington. Mrs. George Tyson, Mrs. George Barnett, Mrs. George Mesta and Mrs.

Bernard B. Jones of Washington, alternated at pouring punch and tea, and others assisting were Warner Snider of Leesburg and Mrs. George Benoit and Mrs. Robert Payne of Fredericksburg. Munillas Veted By Mrs.

Tyner Col. and Mme. Felipe Munilla. Who will leave the first of next month to return to Cuba, were entertained at high tea yesterday by Mrs. Elonzo Tyner in her apartment at the Shoreham.

White lilacs. ptnK carnations, blue delphinium and yellow roses were used as the centerpiece on the tea table and on the floor were tall vases of flesh pink gladioluses. Mme. Munilla wore a royal blue jewel trimmed dinner gown and an orchid corsage. Mrs.

gown was gold crepe and with it she wore an orchid, too. Assisting at the tea where South American rum punch, as well as tea and tea dainties, were served were Mrs. Henry Lewis, Senora de Caceres, wife of the Ambassador of Honduras; Mrs. Edward F. Bartelt, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Senora de Baraibar, wife of the Spanish Minister; Senora de Castro, Mme.

Sze. whose husband is the former Chinese Ambassador, and Mrs. Thomas Burke. Also entertaining yesterday was Mme. Van Kleffens, wife of the Netherlands Ambassador, who entertained at luncheon in honor of Mme.

Adrienne Boissevain. MRS. BOGIE. The former Miss Mary Elizabeth, Floyd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

F. Erich Floyd of Leonardtown, became the bride Saturday of Mr. James E. Bogie, son of Mr. and Mrs.

C. M. Bogie of St. Paul, Minn. The bride was married in a double wedding with her sister, Mrs.

Robert J. Nash, the former Miss Rose Veronica Floyd. Zweig Photo. VIRGINIA OFFICIALS AT TAVERN. In the receiving line at the large reception given yesteraay ov Mr.

ana Mrs. unaries Barbour Rollins in honor of the Governor of Virginia and Mrs. William M. Tuck are (left to right) Mr Rollins. Mr.

Lindsay Almond, the Attorney General of Virginia; Mrs. Tuck, the Governor; Mrs. Almond and Mrs. Rollins. Nearly a thousand guests attended the reception in the grand parlors and ballroom of historic Tavern.

Staff Photo. Dinners, Cocktails Fill Evening Honrs The Chief Justice and Mrs. Fred Vinson were the guests in whose honor Mrs. George Mesta entertained a company of 28 at dinner last evening. The French Ambassador and Mme.

Bonnet were hosts at dinner last evening at the embassy. Also entertaining at the dinner hour were Mr. and Mrs. John Chamberlain McClintock. Their honor guests were the retiring Ambassador of Honduras and Senora de Caceres.

The other guests were the Guatemalan Ambassador and Senora de Gonzalez-Arevalo, the Ambassador of Costa Rica and Senora de Esquivel, the United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States and Mrs. Paul C. Daniels, the Chief of the Division of Central America and Panama of the State Department and Mrs. Willard Barber and Mr. and Mrs.

Matthew' Mr. George livingston Williams gave a luncheon for 50 at the Sulgrave Club yesterday. Prominent among the guests were the Norwegian Ambassador and Mme. Munthe de Morgenstieme, Mrs. Max Truitt, daughter of Vice President Barkley; the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.

John W. Snyder, with his daughter, Miss Drucie Snyder; the Attorney General and Mrs. Tom Clark and Gen. and Mrs. Dwight D.

Eisenhower. Countess Gertrude d'Amecourt entertained 50 or 60 guests at cocktails yesterday afternoon and will have a 'second party next week for another group of friends. Dropping by after 6 at her home on Northampton street were the Austrian Minister and Kleinwaechter and their daughter Gunda. Swedish Counselor Alexis de AminofT with his wife, who was being greeted with very pleasant surprise since no one knew she had returned from Europe; Baron and Baroness Wilhelm Goertz, French Counselor Jean Daridan, French Naval Attache Capt. Pierre Lancelot, Mr.

and Mrs. Edgar Prochnik, Mr. and Mrs. Tartiere, Mr. George Baker, Maj.

Taylor Simmons and Mr. Harry de Pauer, who was fresh from a two-week trip to Aiken and Charleston. Dance Friday Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C.

Washington. will entertain at cocktails Friday preceding the second subscription dance of the Junior Dance Series being held at. the United Nations Club. In the receiving line at the dance will be Miss Mary-Stuart Montague Price, chairman; Miss Ann Muse Gillespie and Miss Jane Tunstall Lingo, vice chairmen; Mrs. Diana Taylor Hatch, treasI urer; and Mrs.

Henry Williams Morgan, College Clubs A bridge dinner for the benefit of the Alumnae Loyalty Fund will be given by the Hood College Club at 6 p.m. Friday at the Fairfax Hotel, it was announced by Dr. Margaret K. Deringer, director, Miss Jane StefTey is chairman. Dr.

Redvers Opie of the Brook! ings Institution will speak on "Germany and the Great Power at a luncheon to be given at 1 p.m. Saturday by the Radcliffe Club of Washington at Good Earth Restaurant. The speaker will be introduced by Mrs. William A. Coblenz, president.

Reservations are being taken by Mrs. Peter B. Tomkins. 1668 Fitzgerald lane, Parkfairfax, hospitality chairman. Anniversary Fete Mr.

and Mrs. Terence F. Barry celebrated their second anniversary Monday evening at a dinner the Lotus Club. Mrs. Barry is the former Miss L.

Griffith of Cleveland. She and Mr. Griffith were married in Gaffney, S. and spent part of their honeymoon in Orlando, with the latter's mother, Mrs. Ada M.

Barry. Mr. Barry is employed by the United States Patent Office. Engaged to Wed Mr. and Mrs.

Lawrence M. Bearse of Hyannis. have announced the engagement of their daughter, Nannettte Claire, to Mr. Gerard S. Blackburn, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Walter G. Blackburn of Arlington. No date has been set for the wedding. Mr.

Blackburn served with the 82nd Airborne Division. Tea and Style Show A benefit tea and style show for the scholarship fund of Camp Clara R. Nourse will be given by the Camp Committee of the Girls' Friendly Society from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Epiphany Parish Hall. Proceeds will be used to buy handicraft and athletic equipment and provide scholarships for needy girls to the Holiday House camp this summer.

Parish Benefit The annual benefit card party of St. Gabriel's Parish will be held at 8:30 p.m. Monday at the parish hall, Webster street at Grant Circle N.W. The Rev. John B.

Roeder is honorary chairman. Mrs. Joseph Egan is head of the Committee and Mr. James Rogers is in charge of the Gentlemen's Committee. Mrs.

E. Woodfleld is chairman of the Rereshment Committee. EYE BRIGHT EYE KIT BY To help make lovely eyes even Eye Bright Eye Kit provides refreshing treatment for busy spring days. Kit contains jx Jacqueline Cochran Eye Bath, Jacqueline Cochran Eye Bright Eye Pads, and Jacqueline Cochran 24-hour Eye Cream for lubrication. $2 plus tax.

Cosmetics, First Floor Also at Spring Valley Julius Garfinckel Co. Street at Fourteenth Symphony Benefit This Afternoon The sustaining fund for the National Symphony Orchestra will be added to through the silver tea which will be given this afternoon in the Hop Hall at Fort Myer. No admission will be charged but patrons will be asked for a centribution. The event is scheduled from 4 to 6 o'clock and during these hours Sylvia Meyer, harpist of the orchestra will play several times. Mrs.

Courtlandt V. R. Schuyler, chairman of the Army Committee for the fund drive, with other members of her committee will be hostess. Mrs. Dwight D.

Eisenhower is among the sponsors and will be among those present this afternoon. Others attending will Mrs. Kenneth C. Royall, Mrs. Walter Bedell Smith, Mrs.

William Draper, Mrs. Omar Bradley. Mrs. Gordon Gray and Mrs. J.

Lawton Collins. A section of the Army Band from Fort Myer will furnish incidental music during the tea and sharing honors with Miss Meyer as a soloist during the reception hours will be Mrs. William S. Ely who sings delightfully to her own i piano accompaniment. Military police will be stationed at the entrance gate of Fort Myer to direct visitors to the Hop Hall.

Announcements Navy Capt. and Mrs. Thomas B. Hill announce the marriage of their daughter, Emma Patricia, I to Mr. William Truman Smith, son of Mr.

and Mrs. William H. Smith of Chevy Chase. The ceremony took place December 22 in Christ Episcopal Church in Rockville. The wedding of Mrs.

Olive Moriton Burkle and Mr. Charles Kenneth Kline also took place rec ntly, the Rev. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris officiating in Foundry Methodist Church. Mr.

Marvin Hopkins escorted the bride and gave her in marriage and she was attended by Mrs. Isabelle Strand. Mr. J. Wiley Cox was best man and the Messrs.j John Wrenn and Rudolph Nickel were ushers.

Luncheon to Have Indonesia Theme A colorful program centering on Indonesia will be presented at luncheon meeting of the Capital Division, Woman's National Farm! and Garden Association, to be held at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow at the YWCA, Seventeenth and streets N.W. Mme. Helb, wife of the Counselor of the Netherlands Embassy, will make the principal address. Mme.

Helb was born in Java and spent the early part of her life there. An interesting honor guest will be Raden-Adjeng Soepianti Soejono. a native of Java who assisted members in planning the menu and decorations. The menu will be developed around the rice dish called nassi-goreng, while the decorations will include Indonesian art objects. Mrs.

Willoughby Chesley will preside and other honor guests will be Baroness van Walderen Rengers, wife of the Assistant Trade Commissioner for Indonesia, and Mme. Adrienne Boissevain, founder of the Patchwork Skirt movement in Holland. Mrs. Chesley will have as guests Mrs. Charles F.

Brannan, Princess Atalie Unkalunt and Miss Bertha Noyes. Mrs. Walter Tuckerman will entertain Lady Crowe, Mrs. Richard Cutts and Mrs. Clarence Aspinwall, while Mrs.

W. Wallace Chiswell will have at ner table Mrs. William G. Neumeyer, Mrs. William B.

Trundle, Mrs. Arthur J. Keeffe, Miss Helen Noble and Mrs. Lavinia Quinn. Tea Speaker Named Mrs.

Theodore O. Wedel, president of the Auxiliary of the Episcopal Church of the Washington Diocese, was to speak on Co-operation of Groups Can Help a at a tea to be given today by the Greenbelt section of the National Council of Jewish Women at the Center School. As part of the organization's participation in the National Brotherhood Week program, all civic and religious groups in the community were invited. Mrs. Israel Stalberg and Mr.

David Burchuk were to present musical selections. Mrs. William Nicholas is president of the section. Dance Tonight A Washington's Birthday dance will be held from 9 to 12 o'clock this evening at the Service Club, 1644 Twenty-first street. Lee Maxflelds orchestra will play and all present and former officers of the Armed Services are invited.

MRS. DONOVAN. Before her recent marriage to Mr. Richard Leo Donovan, she was Miss Shirley Ann Sharon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Edgar Sharon. Porter Photo. British Woman Magistrate Tells Of Problem Child 'Treatment? By Jeanne Rogers The problem child of England gets more detailed from the courts than his American contemporary, Mrs. Dermot Morrah, British juvenile court lay magistrate, said yesterday at an informal luncheon. Women representatives of the Federal and District Governments, guests of the national staff of the American Association of University Women, gathered at the Roger Smith Hotel to exchange ideas on with the English social worker.

believe the English have more means of treatment of the delinquent child at oui Mrs. Morrah said. have a wider range of schools. The reform or approved schools are divided into junior, intermediate and senior classifications. Children must be placed in schools of their religious denomination.

English believe in making punishment fit the criminal and not the crime just as we get the child to fit the The probation hostel, where the youth applies his own trade, was mentioned by the speaker as being between an institution and the wide "As children don't have much money sense, the authorities like the use of Mrs. Morrah pointed out. "We take compensation in the form of spending money from the own Mrs. Morrah, deputy chairman of the Tower Bridge Juvenile Court of London, is midway through a lecture tour of this country. The speaker explained that she was interested in learning American methods of handling young offenders.

90 per cent of the juvenile cases are heard by lay justices in Mrs. Morrah said. English believe that they require the common sense of the average man or woman rather than that of a trained A child (8 to 14 years old) never is convicted in juvenile courts, rather a finding of guilt is made, Mrs. Morrah stated. She added that the child may plead, evidence is heard and cross examining may follow.

A child is brought into court for out of she said. Mrs. Morrah received the British Red Cross Distinguished War Service Certificate from the Queen. She was made a magistrate in 1944, specializing on the juvenile bench. She is the wife of a member of the London Times editorial staff and editor of Round Guests at the luncheon, arranged by Dr.

Phoebe Morrison. AAUW associate international relations were: Col. Mary Agnes Brown and Judge Lucy Howorth, legislative section of the Administration; Miss Mary Cannon, chief of the international division. Woman's Bureau, Department of Labor; Judge Nadine Gallagher of the District Juvenile Court; Mrs. Rachel Nason and Mrs.

Florence Duffus, specialists in international organization. State Department; Miss Caroline Ware, School of Social Work, Howard University. Miss Gagny Johnson, labor analyst, Labor Department; Capt. Rhoda Milliken, chief of the Women's Bureau, Metropolitan Police: Miss Katherine Frederick of the Civil Service Commission and Miss Margaret Fletcher, information officer, British Information. Artists Here Plan Exhibit Saturday Washington artists will explain their crafts in a temporary workshop to be set up in the gallery and front dining room of the Arts Club from 2 to 9 p.m.

Saturday at a demonstration and exhibition presented by the Industrial Arts Committee. Among the artists demonstrating various techniques will be Olaf Saugstad, woodcarving; Mrs. Miles Trowbridge. Mrs. Robert Du Bois and Mrs.

Charles Stratton, metalcraft and jewelry; Mr. and Mrs. Donnell B. Young and Mrs. Alice G.

McGlauflin, weaving; Miss Eleanor Cox, ceramics; Mrs. E. E. Metcalfe, bookbinding; Mrs. Herbert Larsen, rugs; Mrs.

Ruth Barnet, blockprint; Mrs. Kenneth Kinnear, silk screen, and Robert Garruson, plastics. Exhibitions will be shown of screens by Robert Le Fevre, decorative painting by Irene Eno and Illuminations by Marion Lane. Bene jit Supper A buffet supper to be given by the Alpha Phi Alumnae of Washington at 6:30 tonight at the home of Mrs. Newton Miller, 3330 North Albermarle street, Arlington, will serve a dual purpose of greeting and farewell.

Mrs. William H. Hutchinson, national president from Seattle, will be guest of honor. Mrs. Max Palmer, district governor, who is moving to Baltimore, also will be honored.

Assistant hostesses will be Mrs. Fred Fredlund. Mrs. A. R.

Seelye, Mrs. Richard Turner and Mrs. E. I. Carriker.

Bethesda Group Plans Hobby Show Members of the Woman's Club of Bethesda and their families will exhibit hobbies ranging from quilts to butterflies at the annual show and tea to be held from to 5 p.m. Sunday at the clubhouse, Georgetown and Sonoma roads. An exhibition of paintings which members executed in sketch classes will be shown and rated according to popular choice. They include pastels, water colors and oils. Mrs.

T. Emmert Beall is in charge of the show, with Mrs. Thomas Godfrey as hobby chairman and Mrs. Robert Fisher painting chairman. The tea will be under the direction of Mrs.

Mark Haller. Past presidents will pour. A tour and talk on American artists at the National Art Gallery will be given at 1:30 p.m. Friday for the fine arts section. It will be preceded by a regular lecture tour on 18th century costumes at 11:30, followed by lunch.

Pancake Party Mrs. Lucie Eberly has sent out cards for a Shrove Tuesday pancake party from 5 until 8 on March 1, in honor of Miss Rhoda Low. The party will be held at 1316 Nineteenth street. Rummage Sale A rummage sale will be given by the Club of Alpha Delta Chapter, Delta Zeta Sorority. from 8 to 8 p.m.

Saturday at 2103 Nichols avenue S.E. See Our Donel Television Show on Station WNBW-TV Wednesday, February 23, through Friday February 25, on the Johnny Bradford-Jeonne Warner Television Journal, 6:00 to 6:50 p.m. Miss Rorke, the Donel Designer, will be available for consultation Thursday, February 24, through Saturday, February 26, in our Corset Department, Fifth Floor. underscores a gentle spring Our own girdle smoothes and controls gently, achieving important diaphragm control for fashion's newest figure. Of nylon power net with rayon satin elastic front and back panels.

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