Evening star., 1927-04-25
Admiral and Mrs. Rixey
Hosts at Colonial Home.

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Rear Admiral and Mrs. Presley
Marion Rixey win celebrate their
nftieth wedding anniversary AZ an
at home" this afternoon, at o'clock
at their colonial home at Rixey sta
ton, Va. At the same time Admiral
Rixey's nephew and niece, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles ]. Rixey, jr., will cele-
| brate their silver wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Rixey will have assisting her
Mrs. Benson, wife of Rear Admiral
William S. Benson. and Mrs. Henry
b. Brown, widow of Associate Justice
Brown, who were bridesmaids at her
wedding in 1877. DR. ]. G. Boyd, who
was best man at the wedding, and
Mrs. Boyd will also assist at the
reception.
Mrs. Rixey will wear a gown of
white georgette crepe trimmed with
gold flowers and will wear gold orna-
ments, and her niece will be in a gown
of white crepe trimmed in silver.
Among others who will assist the
hosts will be the Bishop of Washing
ton, the Right Rev. James r. Freeman
and Mrs. Freeman, Admiral and Mrs.
John c. Boyd, Mrs. Eberle, Mrs.
Henry B. Brown, Mrs. Russell Smith,
Admiral and Mrs. William Benson,
Rev. DR. and Mrs. Ze Barney Phillips,
Miss Phillips, Mrs. John +. RiXey
widow of Representative Rixey; Rev.
DR.. and Mrs. Robert Johnston, Ad-
miral and Mrs. Albert Gleaves, Rev.
DIR. and Mrs. Roland Cotton Smith
Admiral and Mrs. Helm, Rev. DIR. and
Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, Mrs. Joseph
f. Moore, Mrs. John J. O'Malley, Mrs.
Earl e. Whitehorne, Mrs. John Mar
shall Taliaferro, Mrs. Paul Morton,
Mrs. +. L. Bradman, Mrs. La Garde,
Mrs. Gouverneur Hoes, Mr.. and Mrs.
John S. Barbour, DIR. and Mrs. Sin
clair Bowen, Rev. DR.. and Nine. Vur-
pilot, Rev. and Mrs. John E. Sadtlar,
Mrs. NJ. w. Goddard, the Misses
Moore of Fairfax County, Mrs. Keith
and Miss Keith of Fairfax County
Capt. and Mrs. Dunbar. Miss Dunbar,
Capt. and Mrs. James G. Pryor, Mrs.
Hughes Oliphant, Mrs. John A. Lee
ieune, the Misses Lejeune, Mrs. George
TRIBE. Mr.. and Mrs. Barbour Rixey,
Mr.. John Rixey, Mrs. B. Fl. Bucking-
ham and Miss l. c. Freeman.
The military attache of the Cuban
embassy and Nine. Prieto entertained
at dinner Sunday in the presidential
dining room of the Mayfiower, hav-
ing as their guests DR.. Claudio G. Men
doza, Capt. Francisco Rodriguez and
Capt. Jose A. Medal, members of the
Cuban delegation accompanying Presi-
dent Machado of Cuba, also the as
sistant military attache of the en-
bassy, Lieut.. Rafael Alfonso y Garcia.
Representative and Mrs. Addison T..
Smith of Idaho have given up their
apartment at the Ricardo, 1895 Six
teenth street, and will reside at the
Roosevelt Hotel until their departure
for Idaho May 16, to ramein until
the reconvening of Congress in De-
cember.
Mrs. Smith entertained at lunch
con Thursday at the Roosevelt, her
sister, Mrs. Perry G. Michener of
Somerset, Md; Mrs. Charles Cramp-
ton of this city and Mrs. Howard p.
Kitchener and her little son Jerry of
Staten Island, n. Y.
The counselor of the Swedish lega-
ton, Mr.. p. V. @. Assarsson, left this
morning for New York, from where
he will sail shortly for his home in
Sweden. where he will spend part of
the Summer.
IAIr. Radu r. Djuvara, retiring
counselor of the Rumanian legation,
is closing his apartment at the Ward
man Park Hotel, and will leave to-
morrow for New York. He will sail
on Saturday on the Leviathan and
will pass several weeks in France
before going to Bucharest, where
Ire will have charge of the political
division of the ministry of foreign
affairs.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover will receive
the delegates to the General Council
of the National League Of Women