The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-01
BITS OF NEWS
FROM AFAR
DRIFT In
Brides and Babies Are
Concerned in Tales
Now Reaching Town
BY JEAN ELIOT,

BY JEAN ELIOT.
a S society folk begin to turn
A their faces horneward after
IL their holidays, bits Of news
are drifting in from olt-of.the-way
places. Mostly they seem to con-
Germ brides and babies.
One hears, for example, few
details of the marriage of Miss
Alice ReQua, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Mark 4. Requa, and Coy Fill
mer, of San Francisco, which was
celebrated on August IL in the Lit.
tie PIEDMONT Church, Piedmont,
Calf, with a reception afterwarl
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Re.
qua. The Requas are Californians.
but they spent several winters in
Washington during the war when
Mr.. Requa was oil administrator.
They occupied Studio House, Mrs.
Alice Barney's house in Sheridan
circle, entertained a good deal. and
the girls, who were just about of
debutante age, made many friends
and were exceptionally popular.
Then, out in Honolulu, there was
solemnized The marriage of Miss
Kinau Wilder, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Wilder, and Lieutenant
Charles Butler McVay, 3rd, u. s. NJ,
son of Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Charles B. McVay, Jr., of Pitts
burgh and Washington. The wed
ding took place on August 80. Miss
Wilder spent last winter in San
Francisco as the guest Of Judge
and Mrs. Sidney Ballou.
The Ballous, who used always to
divide their time between Hawaii
Judge Ballou, IL mistake not, was
on the Federal bench in the islands
and Washington, would seem to
have shaken the dust of the Capital
from their feet, for they had a
house in San Francisco last winter,
and they have sold the house in
lie Roy place, which they occupied
for so many years. Mrs. John
Stewart McLennan had It last
winter, but it was eventually sold
to Commodore and Mrs. W. w. Gal
braith, who will take possession in
the autumn after extensive repairs
and alterations are completed.
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Babies Divide Interest at
Southampton With Prince Of Wales
AT Southampton the new mem
bers escorted to the colony by the
stork would seem the only topic Of
conversation to divide interest with
the visit of the Prince Of Wales to
Long Island. The daughter born
recently to Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth
O'Brien will be given a warm well
come, for on all Long Island there
Is no more popular person than her
mother, who was formerly Miss
Katherine Mackay. The baby lie to
be named Marie Louise for her
great grandmother. Clarence HI.
Mackay, the happy. grandfather,
and his younger daughter, Miss
Ellin Mackay are frequently inter-
rupting the course Of their elabo-
rate preparations to entertain the
Prince of Wales-it's ball they are
giving at their place at Roslyn.
L. l., I believe-to motor over to
call upon the little newcomer.
Mrs. G. Faber Downey, jr., for
merly Katherine Van Ingen, Is also
the proud mother Of first baby,
who arrived last month, while Mr..
Downey's cousins, Mr.. ana Mrs.
F. Stuart Landstreet, jr,, are re-
ceiving congratulations on the ar.
rival of a young son. Washington
has a proprietary interest in the
Downey baby, for the proud father
is the son Of Brigadier General and
Mrs. George F. Downey, long resi-
dents of the Capital.
We share, too, with Southampton
interest in little Stephanie Pell. who
was born in Paris, but who has
just arrived at the Long Island
resort with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Thompson Pell, for a
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen III. p.
PelI at Cherisol. 1t was for Stephen
-Pell. her grandfather, that the baby
was named.
The young Pells, who have been
living in Paris since their marriage,
accompanied his grandfather,
Colonel Robert M. Thompson, when
he returned recently from Europe
after having served as American
commissioner for the Olympic
games. The baby's mother, was
Miss Alice Harding, daughter Of w.
P. G. Harding, and grew up III
Washington, as her father, now at
the head Of the regional reserve
bank in Boston, was for long
time member Of the Federal Re-
serve Board.