New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-01-19


tor Henry r. Ashurst of Arizona.
met at the place of fashionable
tailor where both were having 4
coat fitted, and passed on the styles
of the day. At the morning musicale
at the Mayflower hotel Wednesday,
and while the fashionable world at
tending was making vain effort to
reach Mrs. Coolidge and sympathize
with her on the weakened condition
of her mother. she slipped quietly
out and left the hotel without
meeting a half dozen persons. She
wore splendidly fitted and tailored
black coat suit. and coat of p
length and clochet of soft black
felt fitted snugly about her face.
Washington is having brand
new experience in having a vice
president elect in town where he
can be seen on all occasions and
can make visits and be entertained.
Indeed, Senator Charles Curtis is
having scarce a moment to himself
is some ones guest.
In moving into the presidential
suite at the Mayflower, taking with
him his half-sister and her hus-
band, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Ever
EFT Gam, he makes himself much
more accessible to his colleagues
and constituents. Mrs. Gam has
moved Mr.. Curtis's books and be-
longings from their pretty Queen
Ann house In Cleveland park into
the suites in the hotel and in fact
almost everything that belongs to
him while for her own use she has
moved just enough to make the
rooms look homelike.
Mrs. Gam has ordered her dress
for inaugural day ami a splendid
lew gown for the ball In the eve
ming. She dresses remarkably we'll
and while many effects in costume
are due to her good taste and skill
full needle, she knows how to shop.
Mrs. Miles Poindexter has re-
turned to Washington. or course
her husband. former Senator Poin-
dexter has returned too, coming
from his post as Ambassador TO
Peru. but that is not half SO much
to the point. No woman who has
ever figured In senate circles has
produced quite so much excitement
and given SO much to talk about in
an agreeable way as Mrs. Poindex-
ter. Lima will never forget her. She
would not hesitate to advise either
the President of the United States
or Peru, II she thought he needed 1t
and he would be in gales of laugh
ter While she did it,
1t was once thought to be exceed
ingly vulgar to mantion money In
connection with marriage, but just
now the chief chatter of drawing
rooms is this or that million dollar
bridegroom. of which Washington
girls seem to have plenty. Society il
looking forward to the wedding of
Miss Janet Newbold, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fleming Newbold OF
Washington to Mr.. Allan A. Ryan,
Jr, in st. Matthews Catholic church
February 5, and many New York
society folk will come here for the
event. Mr.. Ryan's vast fortune is
reckoncd over and over by the lisp
ing tongues of debutantes. but with
or without money, every one of
them who know the bridegroom
elect like him.
Another wedding early February
with the fortune of the New Eng
land Diapers back of 1t, is that of
Miss Virginia Mason, daughter Of
Mrs. Charles Field Mason and the
late Brig. General Blair. Jr., whose
mother was Edith Draper, aunt Of
Princess Marguerite Boncompagni.
Or. Blair's parents have one of the
splendid Maryland estates at Silver
Spring, a few miles from Washing
ton. Her wedding will take place in
old st. Johns church on Lafayette
square.
Senatorial weddings are not so
rare in Washington but a senatorial
wedding on Sunday afternoon seems
never to have happened in Wash
ington before. However. one will
happen Sunday aftenoon. in the
home Of Senator and Mrs Alben w.