The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
E aslion Notes Of Ultra Smart
 SocIe ty
Ry MAReARET WADE

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 As. foreshadowed a week ago, Lent has brought little change to the social life of the capital, as the average resi- dent or visitor sees the wheels go round.
 Dinner parties and luncheons, an oc- casional evening musicale and even q dance or two are on the social calendar, but as rule the participants are com parative newcomers in Vanity Fair. with much of the hospitality q return by diplomatic hosts for courtesies re- ceived earlier in the season, which, as regards the diplomatic circle, was in terrupted by the death of former Presi-
 Although Mrs. Coolidge is inviting a large company to the White House every Monday afternoon for what the local press describes as an informal musicale, there is little social activity in the administration circle, where the trail of what is commonly called the oil scandal, not to mention the inyestiga- tion of the veterans bureau, is cast ing it's shadow across the threshold of many homes heretofore identified with all that is best in Washington society.
 Washington is, however, blessed with a short memory when speaking in the present tense. s
 This is great asset in polite circles where the business of government, both domestic and foreign is often accelera- ted or retarded over the dinner table or in the unguarded half hour over the after-dinner cigars
 Even Milady's tea table has it's seri- ous uses, where the conlings and go- ings of men of affairs and the news of the day are interpreted and discussed.
 To the credit of polite society, be 1t said the persons mast deeply involved in the above mentioned s.scandals" have, with one or two exceptions. never been prominent inN the social life of Wash ington.
 A very notable exception in this re- spect is Mir. Edward Beale Mclean, who inherited his place in the front rank of resident Washingtonians not only from his father, the Ohio publisher, who left him the fortune he has used in the lavish entertaining of the late President Harding and the entire world of society, but from n long line of maternal ancestors going back to the early history of Maryland and Vir- ginia.
 His mother. in her day the foremost nonofficial hostess of the capital, was Miss Emily Beale, daughter of the late s EQWdFQ G Gsr bedAc- 0k t11ts- -CltJ. 5fs'l
 Young Mrs. Mclean, who occupies much the same place in Washington today that her thef-in-law did 20 years ago, was prior to her marriage Miss Evelyn Walsh. Her late father, from whom she inherited fortune equal to her husband's, was the Colo rado mining king, Thomas F. Walsh, whose successful operations attracted the Intention of the late King Leopold of Belgium to the degree that the King was an actual partner in some of Mr. Walsh's developments which yielded great and honest profits.
 Mir. and Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean have three children, two sons and q daughter. The late President and Mrs. Harding were spons6rs for this youngest child, who was chfistened with great ceremony in the town house of her par ents two years sgos sdA2 sas'
 Young Mrs. Mclean has also@ been regarded as close personal friend of the present mistress lof the White House. It was ..Friendship," the suburban home of thee McLeans, that the new President and his wife were dinner guests for the. first time after succeeding to their present dignity. , Mrs. Coolidge is one of the sponsors for the new beige tone which made it's appearance in Washington in the frocks of the bridal attendants of the former Miss Evelyn Wadsworth and has been accepted with joy by many discriminate
 While right from Paris and the last word iii color for spring wear, the new