Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
Items of Special Interest
Noted in Society Calendar
Washington Folk Planning for Annual Holiday
!. Festivities-Many Homes Are Entertaining
Guests for Christmas Week.

The family of DR.. and Mrs. Gilbert
Grosvenor during the Christmas holi-
days will have complete reunion for
the nrst holiday season in three years.
Their son-ir-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Cabot Coville, are here visiting
them from Japan. Their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Paxton-Blair of
New York, with their two small chill
dren, will arrive Monday, December 23
Their daughter, Miss Mabel GroSvenor,
will come from Johns Hopkins Univer-
sfty Medical School, and their debutante
daughter, Miss Carol Grosvenor, will ar
rive today from the Abbot Academy
Andover, Mass. Mrs. Grosvenor'S
nephew, Mr.. Graham Fairchild, from
Harvard University, the son of her sis
ter, Mrs. David Fairchild, will also join
the Grosvenor family for the holidays.
DR.. and Mrs. Grosvenor will entertain
for their daughter, Miss Carol Gros-
venor, and their nephew, Mr.. Graham
Fairchild, at dinner tonight at Wild
Acres.
THE son and daughter-in-law of DR..
and Mrs. Grosvenor, Mr.. and Mrs. Mel
vile Bell Grosvenor, and their young
daughter and son will also join the FAM
lily party at Wild Acres for the Christ
mas festivities.
DR.. and Mrs. Grosvenor, with Miss
Carol GroSvenor, are also giving din
ner in the palm garden of the May
flower Tuesday night for Miss Junia
Culbertson and for her attendants and
their escorts, preceding the dance at the
Mayf1ower on that evening.
Former Senator and Mrs. Thomas p.
Gore have returned to Washington and
have opened their apartment at Tilden
Gardens Their son, Mr. Thomas P.
Gore. jr., has arrived from the Gulf
fTOo CT MflifoFu Ara dpYnU in MiScicciprNi
ID spend the holidays with his parents.
Former Senator and Mrs. Robert
Owen were joined yesterday in their
apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel
by their daughter, Mrs. Burgoyne Ham,
nton, who has come from New York to
PASS Christmas with her parents.
Former Representative and Mrs.
Thomas w. Phillips and their two sons
left Washington Friday to spend the
holidays in their home in Pennsylvania.
The former Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Aviation and Mrs. Will
linn P. MacCracken, jr., will be joined
il the Wardman Park Hotel today or
tomorrow by the formers father, Dr.
William P. MacCracken, who will pass
Christmas with them.
Mrs Alvin T. Hert is spending Christ
mas in Louisville, KY, and will not be
in the Capital until after New Year
cay.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Langy lrne
ere spending the holidays in CT. 4ago
with Col. and Mrs. George Lang orne.
Tir. and Mrs. John J. Noonan
To Spend Christmas Abroad.
Mr.. and Mrs John j. Noonan sailed
Let 1a 60, 70,
I1sny to spend Christmas with. their
s3n-in-law and daughter, the assistant
commercial sttache OF the United
tateS embassy in Berlin, and Mrs.
douglas P. Miller, and their children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Absalom Waller will
lcave Washington this week for Front
Royal, Va, to remain over Christmas.
-isS Louise DuBose Waller, their
laughter, left Friday for New York and
:ailsd yesterday with a party af friends
for cruise to the West Irties, and
viii spend Christmas week III Havana,
Cuba. She will return. to Washington
Ing middle of January.
MRS. James {. Hughes, Chairman of
t-ie executive COMMITTEES OF the National
NTomans Ccnn..1I Club, retu. ned Friday
.~em New YcTi, where she made brief
Gay. MIR. I'D T3 Hugne~ and their
Tiny dsugilter, lEary Eilzabsth, arc
fs-ablished in the apartment in the
s.roa6moor which they nave leased for
the Winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mueller, with their
con, Cadet Carl Mueller, and Mrs
AIueller's mother, Mrs. E. NJ. Bauer, will
close their apartment at the Wardman
lark Hotel the end of the week and
will go to Atlantic City for short
ctay.
Dr. and Mrs. j. Ernest Mitchell, have
18th them at their home 1929 K street,
t:loir daughters. Miss En- ly E. Mitchell
g. Randolph Macon arAi Miss Mary
11itchell of Wellesley.
fIr. Harrison Moore Iakin of the
ate Department and Mrs. Ilakin. who
&c in residence at 2909 Macomb street,
ill have with them for the holidays
their son, Mr.. Edgar Lakin of Williams
College.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Richards will
I'VE their daughters, Miss katherine
icl1ards and Miss Agnes Genevieve
richards, with them for the Christmas
holidays The Misses Richards are stu
cents at st. Joseph's School, EmmitS-
l-lrg, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs John Ritchie, jr., have
th them their son and daughter-in-
w, Mr.. and Mrs. John Ritchie. Sd. of
-eenville, S. c.. who will remain with
IAN over the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. w Merle Kline of jack
san Heights, L. l., are visiting the lat
t~r's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis 1.
Toyle, in their home in Chevy Chase
f-r the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred F. Benziger, who
now make their home in New York. will
ret come to spend the holidays with the
iatters mother, Mrs. John E. Hamilton,
nut will remain in their New York home
18th their two sons Peter Benziger and
the younger son. who was born Friday.
FRS. BenZiger was before her marriage
Hiss Nancy Hamilton.
Miss Alice Louise Hunter arrived Fri
ray from Southern Seminary, Buena
Vista, Va. and will spend the Christ
r,as vacation with her parents, Mr.. and
IRIS. John A. Hunter, SAG Nebraska
eve
Mrs Hunter viii enter\ in for her
daughter at tea from to o'clock
December 29.
New Jersey Visitors
Register at Dodge Hotel
Mrs Howard Parry of Riverton, N. j.
with her daughters, Miss S. II. Parry