The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-26

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Bancroft place Is for sale.
/ When their place in Georgetown
/ is made over as they wish l., 1t
will be 4 really delightful spot.
Just now it is very much run
down and consequently needs much
| touching up" The last two or
three years the place has been in
the possession OF Captain @. j..
van Lennep, a builder, aTcllitcct
and real estate promoter, who VIII
| live in the studio on the west SIDE
OF the estate-this having been re-,
served in the sale. Captain van
Lennep is a native OF Holland.
RICE.MOLLISON NUPTIALS
TAKE PLACE TODAY
The wedding of Miss Katharine
Peabody Rice. daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. George Samuel Rice, or Wash
ington, to Robert Wallace Mollison,
which takes place at 5 o'clock this
afternoon, is to be a cbarmingly
| simple outdoor ceremony in the
grounds of 1.-THE Brambles.' the
| Rice's summer home at Wellington
on the Potomac.
| The Reverend Theodore Hubbard
Evans, rector Of st. Johns Episco-
pal Church in Waynesboro, Va. VIII
perform the ceremony, standing
under rustic arch which is deco
ated with oak leaves and copper
dahlias. The grounds are gay with
Japanese lanterns and the house
is decorated with evergreens and
pale yellow gladioli.
The bride, who will be given In
| marriage by her father, is grad
| uate of Smith College in the class
| of 1918, She is wearing ivory
georgette crepe embroidered girdle
fashion with crystal beads. Her
| tulle veil is held by q coronet OF
| iuchesse lace and orange blossoms
and she will carry a shower bou-
quet Of white roses and lilies OF
| the valley. Her two-piece travelling
costume is in pansy braided IN
silver.
/ Miss Rice's only attendant. col.
lege classmate, Miss Elsie Prentiss
Briggs, OF Brookline, Mass, win
/, wear a chiffon frock in two shades
of honeydew and a large leghorn
| hat trimmed with bronze velvet and
honeydew tulle. She carries yen
low roses with bronze tulle.
| A chiffon gown in Dansy shades
! is Mrs. Rice's costume and she
wears a corsage bouquet Of pink
rosebuds and lilies of the valley.
| Mr.. Mollison is the son Of James
Mollison, Esq, former director OF
agriculture for the government OF
| India and now OF Ascott's, East
Grinstead, England. The bride.
groom served as captain in the
Royal Field Artillery during the
war and is now in business In
Philadelphia. His best man Is
| Eustace Smith, jr., of Toronto.
The ushers, all of Washingtons
are: J. Brewster Rice, brother OF
the bride, Glenn McHugh, Doctor
Royd r. Savers, James A. Stone.
Mathew van Siclen, and j. Bernard
Wyckoff.
Among the out.of.town guests are
of the bride, Nelson S. Spencer,
Mrs. Richard Dana Upham, Miss
Caroline Rice, and Miss Katharine
Johnson, of Newark, N. j., and the
Misses Gertrude and Dorothy Wolff,
| of Baltimore, Smith College class.
mates Of the bride.
A string quartet will furnish
music for the ceremony and recep.
ton and a buffet supper will be
served on the lawn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mollison will be
at home in Moorestown, N. j.,
after October l. .
Mrs. lPhilander G. Knox, who has
an apartment at The Mayflower. will
entertain informally in the Presi,
Dental dining room this evening.
Mrs James E. Alexander and her
daughters, Miss Carolyn Livingston
|
der, are visiting the formers aunt,
Mrs. Charles Shirley Goldsborough,
at her home in Oxford. on the East.
ern Shore OF Maryland.
Miss Cecil Lester Jones, daughter
Of Colonel and Mrs. E. Lester
Jones, will leave Friday for viii,
| nington. Del, where she will be
the guest for week of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Dupont.
|
Miss Marian Darrah and Miss
Jean Darrah. daughters OF Colonel
Thomas w. Darrah, who have been
passing the summer at Camp Hol.
ton, Me, will stop in Washington
for a few days early next week en-
route to their home in Atlanta.
MRS. chester SHOWS WHO, with nSr5
young daughter, has been at Cape
May for the summer, is expected
to return to Washington next week.
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Mrs Samuel Adams arrived in
| Washington last evneing from her
home in Chicago to join Mr.. Adams
at Wardman Park Hotel He has
been here for several days, and
both of them will remain here some
time longer.
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Colonel and Mrs. HaIsey Dun.
woody, of Paris, are at the Willard,
where they plan to make a short
visit.
|
! Colonel Carries, b. Drake has re.
turned from a months trip to
Canada. Fishers Island, Kenne-
bunkport and the Maine coast Mrs.
Drake and Miss Barrine Drake,
who accompanied Colonel Drake.