The Washington herald., 1922-11-12

States told him by Mr.. and Mrs.
Townsend. Mr.. Townsend belongs
to that little group Of former mem
bers Of the American Diplomatic
Corps who have settled down in
Washington. having represented
the United States as Minister to
both Belgium and Spain. Indeed the
Townsend children were playmates
of King Alfonso In Spain In his
childhood days.
The tea was small. since the
Townsends' house il small, and in
formal in character. but was very
delightful since Mime. Helena Marsh.
a young American soprano gifted
with a golden voice. sang for the
guests.
Miss Marsh arrived In Washington
Tuesday with Mr.. and Mrs. Town
sends daughter-in-law, Mrs. Rex
Townsend, and Is a guest at the
Townsend home. Miss Margaret
Kahn. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Otto Kahn, came Wednesday after
noon and Mr.. and Mrs. Townsend's
daughter. Miss Yvonne Townsend,
is also with them. so they had quite
a gay little house party for the
occasion.
Mrs. Townsend was assisted by
the members of her house party,
Mrs. Henry Getty Chiffon. Mrs. c.
E. D. Bridge. of the British Embassy.
and Mrs. Rex Townsend presided
at the tea table and others assisting
were the two nieces of the hostess.
Mrs. bingham Lawrence Town
send and Mrs. James B. McCord.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., and
her sister, Miss Littleton, who will
be with her this winter.
Mrs. Rex. Townsend will remain
with Mr.. and Mrs. Townsend until
the return of her husband. who Is
at present in Venezuela and Is due
to sail for home next week. Since
their marriage Mr.. and Mrs Town
send have spent most of their time
in Mexico and this is young Mrs.
Townsend's first visit to Washing
ton. Mrs. Lawrence Townsend will
go to New York with her daughter
in-law to meet her son.
Miss Yvonne Townsend, who has
been living in New York of late.
expects to spend the greater part
of the winter in Washington and
will study at the Corcoran Art
School.
The little season." during which
the younger set are the center OF
things, is under way; paper chases
bridge parties, informal dinners
and dances are everyday occur
rences now. The debutantes par
ticularly have something especially
for them every day. They seem to
be getting together beautifully be-
fore they actually come out and
their favorite sport seems to be
bridge parties. There was at least
one. I think, every day last week
Monday Miss Lillian Thompson,
daughter of Mrs. Douglas B.
Thompson, had a debutante bridge
and Wednesday Miss Dorothy War
ren, debutante daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bates Warren. had her sister
buds for bridge. Thursday Mrs.
Walter G. Peter gave a bridge party
for her niece and bud, Miss Emily
Marbury Beale. Friday, 1t was
Alice Milburn, debutante daughter
of Mrs. Charles Milburn, who had
the bridge party for her sister
buds. And I'm sure there were sew
eral more I've forgotten.
MR.. AND MRS. WALTER TUCK
ltl ERMAN have resumed the Gus
tom of entertaining at paper chases
on Saturday afternoons. They used
to have them practically every Sat-
urday until Mrs. Tuckerman went
into mourning. Leander Mccormick
Goodhart entertained similarly a
number of times lately; all the same
crowd, the British Embassy at-
taches and some of the other young
diplomats, including the Carlo Hunt
ingtons. the Henry Price wrights
Admiral Rousseau-you know all
that crowd. They walk miles on
foot and then end up at the Tucker
mans for tea. Joe Bradley gave one
of his famous coon hunts recently
out at his farm near Rockville and
1 hear they all walked so far that
many of the ladies were lame the
next day. I saw Mrs. Joe at the con.
cert Monday; she is looking very
we'll.
And concerts: the concert season
is certainly "on" with a bang. There
were several last week which are
always attended by the cream oi
Washington society; 1 don't know
when 1 recall % many in one week
Tuesday there was the first of the
series of Philadelphia Orchestrs
concerts, perhaps the most popular
of them all. Society stops every
thing else to go to that series.
The house was certainly packed on
Tuesday and very brilliant. I saw SO
many people for the first time this