Evening star., 1925-06-22

at the weekly luncneOn Ol tile w OH
ems National Press Club at the Ham
ilton Hotel today.
Senator Mckinley Best Man
ut Wedding i'm His Home.
The home of Senator William B.
Mckinley on Massachusetts avenue
was the scene of an interesting wed
ding at 1890 O'Clock today, when Miss
Bernadette NJ. Herman, daughter of
Mrs. Michael Herman, became the
bride of Col. Joseph w. Beacham, L.
s. A., the Rev. Thomas Walsh of ST.
Thomas chapel officiating in the
presence of only few friends.
Mrs. John Allan Daugherty attended
the bride, who wore a gown of white
fiat crepe made along straight lines
with appliqued flowers on the bottom
Of the skirt. She carried a shower
bouquet of orchids and lilies of the
valley.
Senator Mckinley was the best man
and entertained the wedding party at
luncheon following the ceremony,
after which Col. Beacham and his
bride left for an extended wedding
trip. They will make a series of
visits. going first to North Carolina
and later to the New England resorts.
On their return Col. Beacham will
take up his duties as commander of
Senator Mckinley came to Wash
ington for a short stay and opened
his house for the wedding. He will
go to Baltimore this afternoon to at
tend the meeting of the Loyal Order
of the Moose, and will return to Wash
ington for brief stay before going to
Illinois. Miss Julia Maths. who is
now in Champaign, ILL.,. will leave
there shortly to spend the remainder
of the Summer AT Estes Park Colo
Members of the wedding party and
guests for the wedding of Miss
Lucinda Steers. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Walker Steers, and Mr.
Bernard Pope Day of New York, at
s O'Clock tomorrow evening at the
Church of the TRANSPORTATION, have
arrived in Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Pope Day
and members of their family, includ-
ing the bridegroom, arrived yeSter-
day, motoring from New York, and
are at the Mayflower Hotel. Mr..
and Mrs. Day entertained a large
luncheon party there today.
Following the rehearsal this eve
ming. Miss Helen Marion McCabe.
sister of one of the bridesmaids, will
entertain all of the attendants for
the wedding at a charmingly arrang-
ed garden party at her Chevy Chase
home.
Miss Steers and her sister returned
Saturday from Boston. Mass, where
they went to attend the graduation
of Mr.. Day from Harvard.
The Washington Opera Company's
presentation of the "Mikado" in the
Washington Auditorium tonight will
be witnessed by an unusually distin-
guished an idnteresting audience.
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant will occupy
the presidential box, having with her
party of friends. Others having
boxes are Gen. and Mrs Amos Fries,
DR.. and Mrs. Tom Williams, Mr.. and
Mrs. Boyd Carpenter, Mr.. and Mrs
MondeI, Mr.. Stanley Olmstead and
Mr.. and Mrs. H c. Sheridan. Another
box will be occupied by Mrs. Mulliken
president of the local League of Amer
lean Pen Women, and by Mrs. Harry
Atwood Colemen. national president of
the league, while other persons inter
ested in the opera and the Washing
ton Opera Company will occupy
groups of seats and boxes.
The United States Ambassador to
the Court of ST. James and Mrs.
Alanson B. Houghton attended the
races last week at the Royal Ascot,
in London, as guests in the royal
Enclosure. Other members of the en-
bassy staff who were so honored were
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic A. Sterling,
Mr.. and Mrs. Boylston Beal and Miss
Beal, Capt. and Mrs. Luke McNamee
and Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. Kenyon
Loyce.
Mrs. Harold Walker left Washing
ton this morning for New York, ac
companied by her sister, Baroness Won
Schoen. and Miss Elevlyn Walker, her
daughter. They will spend a short
time there before going to Salters
Point, Mass, for the remainder of the
Summer.
Mrs. Ruth Lindsay Dayton will en-
terta in at dinner this evening for her
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Dayton and
her fiance, Mr.. Arthur Herzog, jr., of
New York, whose marriage will take
place tomorrow. The guests will in
clude. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur HerZog of
New York, parents of the bridegroom
elect. out-of-town guests and members
Of the wedding party.
Mr. w. Bowen Fairfax. recently
spent week in Washington visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w.
Fairfax at Wardman Park Hotel. He
left several days ago to attend the
Yale-Harvard crew races at New Lon
don. Mr.. Fairfax graduated from
Yale In the 1924 class and is now
taking the two-year business admin
stration course at Harvard Uni
versity.
Capt. Middleton Stuart Elliott, NJ c.,
U. S. N. and Mrs. Elliott, announce
the engagement of their daughter,
Miss Alice Sherwood Elliott, to Mr..
Joel Newson, lieutenant, Junior grade,
u. S. N.
DIR. and Mrs. w. II. Howard have
visiting them at their residence, 1912
Garfield street, their daughter, Mrs.
Robert II. Wood and her children of
Tulsa, Okla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry White have