The New York herald., 1922-03-26

gagements announced recently in which
Washington has taken the hveliest sort
of interest. Catherine Hughes's, or
course. Cabinet weddings are always
interesting. But people really know
very little more about the plans Tor
this one than they did when tha bare
announcement was made OF the engage
nent, with a few vital statistics" as 70
the man in the case. He has not. so ia"
as l have heard. been in Washington
since the announcement. nor Is there
any definite information as to the we'd
ding. There seems TO be an assumption
that Il will BE- June wedding, and will
take place right here in Washington.
but have not heard that these is any
it Is just guess-as good as, and no
better than-any other guess.
Then of course Washington feels q
certain proprietary interest in the an
nouncement that Gen. Leonard Wood !
son is TO marry-especially since he il
To marry Miss Katherine Thompson. 4
granddaughter of Gen. James III. Will
son. u. s. A., retired, long and promi-
nently connected with Washington both
socially and officially. True the an
nouncement comes from Wilmington
where Mr.. and Mrs. Henry b. Thonp-
son, the latter a daughter Of Gen. Wil-
son, live. 1t Is announced that the we'd
ding will take place in the near future
and one assumes that it will take place
in Wilmington. although Miss Thomp-
son Is at present visiting Miss Louise
Wood in Manila. Lieut.. Osborn Wood
Is the second son OF Gen. and Mrs
Wood. graduate Of Groton and oi
Harvard, contemporary and associate
OF the Roosevelt boys. He Is First
Lieutenant and is serving on his father !
| staff
Miss Mays Engagements.
/ Then came the announcement 4
Isabelle Mays engagement TO Mr.. Harry
,. Black Of New York. Personally
am rather glad Miss May is going tc
pc married and 20 away from Washing
ton she wore such lovely clothes a.
20 rouse those Of us who could no
nave the same sort 10 sinful emotion.
or envy Outside OF that she's all right
nice girl and good looking one--ar
unquestioned favorite ever since hei
debut. She Is the daughter of Col. anC
Hrs. Henry May. and has two brothers
l1enry Coleman May and Gerald de
Courcy May-the entire family being
4 prominent socially in half a dozen lead
ing cities on both sides of the millpond
Her sister. Cecilia, married Wilhelm
vom tI dont know why that isn't won.
but It's not) Rath, formerly attached Il
The German Embassy here-though she
had 10 go abroad TO do it, since he was
called home to the service OF his country
at the outbreak of the war.
Miss May is the elder daughter. was
n contemporary and playmate of Alice
Roosevelt with whom, and Countess
Cassini. she completed a dashing trio OF
acknowledged leaders in the younger
social set of the Roosevelt regime
I I u III Sha hac
nolds Hits in Bermuda. where MI
Black also was guest. While no date
has been announced for the wedding, il
is said that it will take place soon. am
in Washington. That 1t will be an event
almost equally interesting to New York
and to Baltimore. where the May family
comes FROM is foregone conclusion.
You'd hardly know it was Lent ii
\ Washington. 1t isn't quite so hectic a.
during the Christmas holidays or ever
y during the week or two before Ast
\ Wednesday is supposed to have rlina
Gown the curtain. But I've known iullci
times in midseason in other years. Look.
ing over the social calendar for tn,
week one could not but agree with the
woman who was reflecting out loud a
| she looked over her own engagements
There We're dinners every night ant
enough dances TO keep one in practice
certainly, and constant succession oi
] luncheons and teas. to say nothing oi
such usual Lenten diversion as lectures
and musicales and charity bridges--anC
non-charity bridges.
Z To be sure most OF the parties were
4 carefully announced as small and in
/ formal. But they were none the worse
! for that. rather better. And besides
\ everything's relative; they weren't *
very small and informal Though FOL
\ the most part they were not the bis
official functions which are to a degree
4 characteristic OF Washington society
\ STILL Count Constantini's dinner parts
\ On Monday night was as large rs I
Y dinner company has any business TO be
\ and the Warren Irving Glovers or
! Wednesday night for their new chief