Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-21

group OF students at Holton Arms
School, among those present being Mrs.
James III. Johnson Miss Dorothy
Nicholson, Miss Kathryn Fuqua, Miss
Aileen Harris, Miss Ruth Mackay, Miss
Marion Ostermayer, Miss Adeline
Porter and Miss Mary Katherine
Spinks.
Miss Mary Frances Marshall has re-
turned to the city after trip in Eu-
rope and is spending several weeks as
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Walton s.
Petit, at 1926 Seventeenth street.
Mr. Thomas Armat, jr., entertained in
his home, Greystone, on the edge of
Rock Greek Park, recently two of his
former schoolmates at st. Pauls School
at Concord, N. H., Mr.. Thomas F.
Bayard, jr., of Wilmington, Del, and
Mr.. Samuel Carnes Collier of New
York.
Mr.. Armat, jr., Is the guest of Mr..
Woodbury. Blair at Easthampton, Long
Island, and Miss A. b. Armat is visiting
her cousin, Miss Maria Logan Of Phila-
delphia, at York Harbor, Me.
Mrs. George M. Myers of Kansas City,
Mo-, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Thomas
J. Myers Of Topeka, Kans., are passing
few days in Washington at the May
flower. They left their homes earlier
in the Summer for Los Angeles and
then made the trip East through the
Panama Canal.
Miss Roberts Bride Last
Evening Of Mr.. LeonnIg.
The Church Of the Sacred Heart was
the scene Of pretty wedding last eve
ming when Miss Marion Kent Roberts,
ri Ire N.e
came the bride Of Mr.. Leo John Leon
mig. The ceremony was performed by
the Right Rev. Mgr. Joseph A. Cum
name Of st. Andrews Church, in Balti-
more, who performed the same service
for the brides parents over 80 years
ago. He was assisted by the Rev.
Thomas A. Cunningham of the Sacred
Heart. The altar boys were Carlo Ler-
razolo, cousin of the bride, and Elliot
Perry, friend of the bridegroom. The
wedding march was played by Miss
Mary Sullivan and the ave Marie"
was sung by Miss Lightburne.
The bride was escorted by her uncle,
Mr.. George Brent Merrick of Maryland.
satin and she wore a tulle veil held
with orange blossoms. She carried a
shower bouquet Of brides roses and
lilies of the valley. Her only jewelry
was string Of pearls.
The maid Of honor, Miss Lucille
Bowie Roberts, sister of the bride, wore
pink embroidered net dress with a
blue horsehair braid hat trimmed with
pink roses and blue ribbon. Her bou-
quet was Of pink roses and blue del
phinium. The brides mother wore
black silk lace over black satin, with
pearl necklace and earrings.
Mr.. Robert A. Boyd of Oregon was
the best man, and the ushers were Mr..
John Elliott Of Georgia, Mr.. Kenneth
e. Milford, Mr.. William D. Holden of
Oregon and Mr.. Paul v. Finnigan of
Washington.
After the ceremony a reception was
held in the home Of the brides mother,
1889 Irving street northwest, which was
attended by friends and relatives, many
of whom were from Maryland. When
the festivities were over the young cou-
pie left for q short trip and will be at
home in September in their apartment
on @ street near Seventeenth.
The bride Is the youngest daughter
of Mrs. Alice Waring Roberts and
Joseph Kent Roberts, Sd, a lawyer of
Maryland. Mrs. Roberts father was
the late Judge George G. Merrick of
Prince Georges County, Md, whose wife
was Alice Warning. He was a brother
of Judge William Merrick and Richard
Merrick, late of the washington bar,
and q son Of United States Senator
william d. Merrick of Maryland. The
bride is q direct descendant Of Gov.
Robert Bowie. Judge william @. Worth
ington and Of the Warnings, Brents and
many of the other old Colonial families
of Maryland. The bridegroom Is the
son Of Mrs. Celestine A. Leonnig and
the late Henry F. Leonnig Of Baker,
Greg, and is q graduate OF Oregon
State College, member Of its Gamma
Eta Gamma Legal Fraternity, a grad
uate of George washington Law School
and a member of the Ofncers' Reserve
Corps of the Army.
Mrs. B. c. Davis and Miss Emily c.
Davis are visiting IN Brooklyn, where
they are stopping at the Hotel st.
George. They motored there from
washington Sunday. and after q week
stay on Long Island they will spend
some time visiting New England coast
resorts before returning home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence A. Lane have
as their guests the formers brother
in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs Dushane
Coward Of Babson Park, Fla.
Mrs. Robert P. Noble Of Greenwich,
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