Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-07
SOCIETY
Mrs. Hoover Surrounded by Guests While
Resting at the Presidents Virginia
Fishing Camp.

Mrs. John OLaughlin, Mrs. Frank
DUNCAN. Mrs. George Unmacht, Mrs
Hobart Brooks, Mrs. Benjamin Ralph
Luscomb. Miss Marguerite Meehan and
Miss Emma Slater, who motored from
Washington for. the party; Mrs. Edgar
Greene, Mrs. Thomas w. Somerville, jr.,
Mrs. Harrison Somerville. Mrs. John
Harding. Mrs. Wallace Marin, Mrs. Rose
Logon, Mrs. Robert Hardin and Miss
Margaret Somerville.
Gen. H. F. Rethers and Mrs. Rethers
were week end guests at Westport Inn,
Lake Champlain, N. Y.
Mrs. Sewen Munson Corbett, wife of
Maj. Corbett, professor of military
science and tactics of George Wash
ington University, and medical director
of the Once of Public Buildings and
Public Parks, is sailing from New York
Saturday, aboard the transport Cam
brai, for the West Coast Mrs. Corbett
will be accompanied by their son, VIII
liam Henry Corbett Maj Corbett will
leave Washington later for San An
tonic, Tex, where he will be stationed
in the Fall and will be joined there
by his family. Maj. Corbett is in the
Army Medical Corps and has made his
home in Arlington, Va.
Ensign Robert E. Van Meter of the
u. S. S. Oklahoma, was a week end
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
A. Hunter, SAG Nebraska avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Lloyd Aspinwall
are spending some time in New York
and are, at IA East SiXtieth street.
Among those who will be entertain
ing at the Thursday evening beach
party at the Beach and Tennis Club, at
Annapolis Roads, is Mrs. James Carroll
Frazer. whose guests will include the
Swiss Minister, Mr.. Marc Peters; Col
and Mrs. Arthur O'Brien, Miss Kath-
crime Judge. Mrs. Pendleton Mayo and
Mr.. John Davidge.
Mr.. Donald Woodward was host to a
party at dinner last evening at the
PLACE Deauville at the Wardman Park
Hotel.
Capt. Benjamin r. Luscomb, U. S. A.
| and Mrs Luscomb, who recently came
to Washington for station after some
time in Hawaii, have taken an apart
ment in Corcoran Courts.
| Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius VAN
| derbilt have as their guests at Newport,
Lady Lowther of England and her
daughter, Miss Edith Lowther, and Miss
| GLADYS Lowther, who will later be
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont.
| Several entertainments are being planned
| for Lady Lowther, who was formerly
Miss Alice Blight. daughter OF the late
Mr.. Anterior Blight of Newport.
Mrs. John Newton Culbertson left
town today for Atlantic City and will
be a guest at the Chalfonte-Hadden
Hall.
DR.. and Mrs. Ellie Scott Carroll start
ed yesterday by motor for wisconsin,
where they will spend month with
their daughter n-law. Mrs. Carroll,
widow of Don Scott Carroll. on
her ranch near McNaughton. DR.. and
Mrs. Carroll will return to their apart
ment, in the new addition Of Wardman
Park Hotel, early In September.
The United States Ambassador to
Peru, Mr.. Alexander P. Moore, has re-
turned to New York after passing some
time in Washington.
Mr.. Kenneth Gilpin, son-in-law of
Senator and Mrs. Lawrence D. Tyson,
is the guest of Maj. Algernon danger
field at Saratoga for the races.
Lieut.. and Mrs. L. B. Written,
United States Navy. who have Just re-
Gently completed a three-year duty at
Honolulu. are at the Martinique. after
on extensive automobile tour through
the West. Lieut.. Written is to be sta
toned at Washington in the Office OF
the chief of the Air Service.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Nelson Little of
Kobe, Japan, who have been in the
United States since the first part OF
June, are now at the Mayfiower for a
brief visit before going to New York,
where they will board the steamship
California and return to the Pacific
Coast by way OF the Panama Canal.
Mr.. Little, an engineer, has lived in
Japan for the past 10 years.
Mrs. Anna S. Smith, president Of the
Soroptomist Club of Philadelphia, is a
guest at the Mayflower, having arrived
in washington yesterday morning for
conference with Mrs. Ruby Lee Minor,
president of the Federation Of Soropto-
mist Clubs.
Miss Rose Brennan is visiting her
nieces in Pittsburgh.
= Mr.. and Mrs. John Edward Sailed
are now established in their home,