Evening star., 1925-03-29

tive buds, will be presented in the
home of her mother, Mrs. ]. Wilmer
Biddle, al the famous old Biddle
home, Binderton House, on Chestnut
Hill and Baltimore avenue, on Satur-
lay afternoon, October "a. An earlier
debutante party will be an extensive
al fresco event at LIE Chatelet, in Ard
more, when Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Wheeler will introduce Miss Made
leine Wheeler. Some IS or 20 other
buds from important families of the
Quaker City have their dates al
ready, their assistants all selected
and many are now getting the neces-
sary togs in Paris and London. The
Mask and Wig Club of the University
of Pennsylvania, which so often de-
lights Washington audiences, is ten
dering the sub-debs a concert and
masked frolic on April "a, after which
there Will be general dispersal of
the younger set for the next months.
This species of social preparedness is
utterly confounding the usual Wash
ington hostess whose social pro-
gram for the season 1924-25 still re-
mains to be completed.
Countess de Jumilhac, who with her
husband, Count Pierre, has been visit
ing the Boston kinspeople, was well
known in Washington some years
ago, when, as Miss Louise Coolidge
she was frequently entertained in
this Capital. She married first Mr..
Ray Atherton of Chicago, and the two
were considered the handsomest
young couple in that city, where they
went to live. They We're both inter
ested in racing, and their Lake Forest
estate held a small track for amateur
performances. Mr.. Atherton entered
the diplomatic service, and was sent
to Peklng, where he and Mrs. Ather-
ton were the leaders of society in the
gle-American wing, and were the
generous patrons of all sorts of
sports. But the Oriental experience
seemed to have divided these two, and
their divorce followed hard on their
return from China. Mr. Atherton has
continued his career in the foreign
service, and is at present first secre-
tary of the American legation in
Athens. Mrs. Atherton took up her
residence in Paris, where she married
Count Pierre de Jumilhac about two
years ago. She is now as enthusi-
astfc a motorist as in former years
she was an equestrienne, and has
been touring this country from the
Pacific Coast to Boston in a French
machine. According to her friends,
the countess thinks covering 400
miles day very poor work, and she
thinks nothing of 16 hours at the
wheel The magnificent house on
Lake Shore drive, in Chicago, which
Mr.. Atherton built for his Boston
bride was recently purchased by Mr..
A. d. Lasker, who lived in Wash
ington during the World War, and
was director of the Shipping Board
John Barrymore, the American
actor who is proving to Londoners
that he is one of the most remarka-
bic ShakeSpearean interpreters of his
day, is teaching denizens of the Brit
ish capital another truth, and that is
the comfort of living in small
house right in the heart of the city.
Mr.. Barrymore can afford a tidy
rental and some sumptuous mansions
were offered him at comparatively a
meager sum. But he declined even
to inspect these mammoth establish
ments and instead took a tiny little
house in Chelsea near Cheyne Walk
sacred to the memory of Carlyle, Rus
kin and the intellectual giants of
their day, and here he lives in ease
and comfort and with only one man
servant. London is showing a dis
position to consider the small house.
even the bungalow type of American
suburbs, and nothing seems so alien
to Americans who have not beer to
the British capital in recent years
as to see row after row of six-room,
semi detached houses ranging all
along the. streets which face HYDE
Park. These small houses are SELL
ing like the proverbial hot cakes, and
Nj. P.'s are principally the pur-
chaSers. There is an entire district
called Montpelier, where the best
architects of London have erected
artistic six-room homes complete in
every detail even to a sheltered back
veranda, where the tea table is spread
in pleasant weather