The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-26
BUDS PASS UP
SOCIETY FOR
BUSINESS
Variety Marks Profess
sions Into Which Society
Girls Are Entering

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IN OCIETY Is not what it used K
be. Each year It's lure be
~ comes less allurihg for many
upon whose shoulders falls the
social mantle. Every city which
supports q social register group re
fleets the same condition. And ac
cording to the present tendency il
will not be SO very many years be
fore 9 novelist can make fame BY
writing a cOlorfuI story entitled
When Society Was In Flower. =
The debntantes rush into society
devote year--perhaps two, some
times nioFe--to 1t and occasi0nallS
make II life work But each yeAI
number Of girls who might 81
numbered among the debutante.
feel that the result Is not worth The
Effort, and so 60 from school direct
to some occupation, INDUCING in the
frivols OF society as a sidcliYlA. Oi
they win dash in the social whirl
for year and then will look
around for something more interest
ing, more satisfying.
Locally there are q number oI
girls who have passed up" society
for more definite work. Miss BeA-
trice Henning, for instance, Is still
taking q business course, although
her marriage to George Shaw is
scheduled to take place within a
month. In the midst OF getting a
trousseau Miss Henning is practie.
ing shorthand.
Miss Corinne Stephens, whose
father was an army officer, Is lay
Ing aside for flon.acceptarce invita-
tons for luncheons and bridge so
that she can spend the days as q
salesman for q well.known motor
car.
Miss Katherine Beach, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan Beach, has
for about two years been successful
in running q ldresemakinR and cos.
tune designing shop At first she
and Suzanne Chase had the shop
together, but Miss Chase married
Eugene Smith last year and went to
live in the suburbs.
And there Is Lindsay Wood, the
very beautiful daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Waddy B. Wood, who spends
most of her time in New York, where
she Is an authority on interior
decorating. Miss Wood has an aunt
In New York, Miss Virginia Har.
graves Wood, who Is q distinguished
artist and who has made her name
international in the realm OF art
Newspaper Work Draws
Pretty Girls Into Field.
Newspaper work has drawn to its
field two local girls Miss Dorothy
Mondell, daughter of the chairman
Of the War Finance Board and Mrs.
IN Ia taaAt
Crosson, daughter Of Doctor and
Mrs. Fl. j. Crosson. Miss erosion
began this work about year ago
and Miss Mondell has only recently
taken 1t up. Both girls are quite
delighted with their work and
wouldn't think Of going back to
just doing society"
In the writing game there Is q
newcomer to washington in the
person OF Vera Bloom, daughter OF
Congressman and Mrs. Sol Bloom,
Of New York. She has written
much for the daily press of her
experiences In foreign fields and
plans to write this year of her life
In Washington.
Mrs. Henry M. Hoyt, has achieved
than any Of her Washington con.
tenhporaries. She has written sew
eral short stories and sketches for
well,known. magazines, and he.
work Is really good
Miss Anne Gordon, daughter OF
Mrs. George Barnett. has also
taken up writing seriously and socn
perhaps we shall see something
interesting from her pen.
il is not unusual for the otaxe to
claim society girls when the first
flush Of the social life has worn
off a bit. And so the raft Of girls
that are struggling to have their
names. emblazoned In, the lights
along Broadway give no particular
surprise. The fact that these
Washington girls are really willing
to work hard and long may he a
BIT unusual. &A V
There is Miss Tallulah Bankhead,
daughter Of q Congressman, who
has recently been garnering lourels
In London after scoring q great
success in New York. Miss Bank.
head made her debut in Washing
ton with her sister, Jeanne Bank.
head, now Mrs. Morton Hoyt..
Juliette Crosby, daughter OF Ca
car T. Crosby, sometime Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury, made
success last year in 1.-THE Show
Off" and despite her marriage to
Arthur Hornblow, a playwright,
she is stil continuing her stage
career.
Miss Theresa crosson. daughter
Of Doctor and Mrs. n. J. CrOsson
and grand daughter of James G
Blaine, and sister Of Miss Mar.
garet Crosson, is another Washing.
ton society girl, who has taken up
the stage profession mad,
good by her work. Last summes'
she had an attractive part in "Sit.
ting Pretty" and just now she IL
trying to make up her mind bo.