Evening star., 1931-12-19

PanSy Blooner, Miss Villa Fulmer, Miss
Ann W. Park. Miss Barbara Davis, Miss
Frances Mathews, Miss Hildegarde
Hicks, Miss Anne BroWnlow Hacker
Miss Elizabeth Fisher, Miss Julia Dig
gins, Mrs. John E. Fowler and Mrs
Frank Long. The table was decorated
with holly and Christmas greens, and
miniature Santa Clauses were the favors.
Mrs. Bolick Hurd and her son, Mr.
c. w. B. Hurd. will entertain at the
dinner dance this evening at the
Kennedy-Warren in honor of Miss Bar
bara Davis and Miss Elizabeth Davis.
Countess de Malroy has come to
Washington from New York City and
taken a suite at Wardman Park Hotel
for the duration of her stay here.
Mrs. Truxton Beale has gone to Cuba,
where she is spending the early Winter
at the Hotel National in Havana.
Mrs. George Allen was hostess at a
luncheon yesterday at the Carlton, the
company numbering 10.
Mrs. Daniel Ruden and Miss Mary
Perdue Ruden have gone to Chicago for
the Christmas holidays.
Mrs. D. S. White went to New York
today and will be joined there Tuesday
by Mr.. White to sail that day for Ber-
muda to spend the holidays. They will
return to their apartment at 1861 Cres-
cent place early in the new year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Water Clifford Burke,
formerly of Los Angeles and now living
in Washington, will return to their
apartment IN the Westchester for
Christmas after spending month at
the Hotel Taft in New York.
Weddings of Unusual
Interest This Afternoon.
Miss Barbara Ballantine. daughter of
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs. Arthur Atwood Ballantinc
will be married to Mr.. John Cross, a
sen of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cross of
Weston, Mass. this afternoon. The
ceremony will be performed in Bethle-
hem Chapel of the Washington Cathe-
dral. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes offici-
ating at 430 o'clock Immediately
follG~ing a reception will be held in
th2 home of the brides parents, at ITO
Massachusetts avenue.
The marriage of Miss Helen Stewart
Maj. and Mrs. Raymond w. Harden
bergh, now stationed at Fort Hamilton,
N. Y, to Lieut.. John Francis Regis
Seitz of Fort Hamilton, son of Mrs
George Hillary SeitZ Of Gordon Heights,
Wilmington, Del, will take place this
afternoon. The ceremony will be per-
formed in the hone of the brides
grandmother, Mrs. Lorenzo johnson, in
Winnetka, Ill. Rev. Andrea Simon of
the Catholic Church at Fort Sheridan
Ill. officiating at 4 o'clock. An in
formal reception will follow for those
who witness the ceremony.
Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee of Marietta. Ga,
Mayf1ower in compliment to Mrs Harry
N. Cootes, wife of the commandant of
Fort Myer Va. Her other guests were
Mrs. Mark L. Bristol, Mrs. Charles H.
Bridges, Mrs. Alfred T Smith, Mrs.
Osmun Latrobe Mrs. Charles P. George,
Mrs. Walter Newton, Mrs. Sydney A.
Cloman. Mrs. Walter R. Tuckerman,
Mrs. Wade H. Ellis. Mrs. William S.
Scully, Mrs. Charles Mason Remey. Mrs
George C. Thorpe, Mrs. Charles Delmar
and Mrs. Davis Wills.
Mrs. Lee is spending a fortnight at
the May flower, and will return South
dlleT CllTlSLIUdS.
Mrs. William G. Wheeler who makes
her home at the Shoreham. entertained
at luncheon today at the Shoreham in
honor Of Mrs. Richard Lane. formerly
OF Washington but now of Cincinnati.
Sonora de Riano. wife o. the former
An bassador of Spain, has taken an
apartment at 1l55 Sixteenth street for
the remainder Of the Winter. Senior
Rlano recently Irned to their apart
ment in Newport rom fishing trip of
the Florida coast, and after the holi-
days will return to Florida for more
fishing
Mrs. Edward Watson will entertain
at the dinner dance tonight at the
Shoreham in honor of her daughter,
Miss Clifford Watson.
Judge and Mrs. James F. Burke are
again IN their apartment at 1870 Wyom-
ing avenue after spending some months
in Paris, where Judge Burke was United
states commissioner at the Interna-
tlonal Colonial Exposition. Judge and
MRS. Burke entertained several guests
Ihurscay evening, the company being
lhose VINO served on the commission in
Paris
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Gray Park, ir.,
Will introduce their daughter, Miss Ann
wentworth Park, at a small dance in
the gold ball room at the Shoreham
Monday night.
Miss Dora V. Boyce of Princeton, N
j., is the house guest of Mr.. and Mrs
william Cassel Hanson, who will enter
taln at dinner dance tonight at the
Army-Navy Country Club. Miss Bovce
eXhlblted her horses at the Riding and
Hunt Club last evening.
Girls in Army Circle Aid
Midshipma1 and Cadet Ball.
The Army Girls" Floor Committee
for the fourth annual Midshiprnan and
Cadet Ball, to be given at the MayfloWer
Christmas night, includes Miss Marv
!ngraham Henry, chairman; Miss Caro-
lyn Huff Payne, vice chairman: Miss
Beatrice Patton, second vice chairman:
Miss Kathleen Carmichael, third vice
chairman. The committee will be Miss
Virginia Ashburn, Miss Barbara Bristol,
Miss Fanella Castanedo, Miss Virginia
Cheatham, Miss Mary Cootes, Miss Jane
Crosby. Miss Barbara Davis, Miss Rosa
lind Deakyne, Miss Peggy Gibbons Miss
bouioC 1llShIldll MISS Jlild LdgdrOe,
Miss Nora Mcintyre, Miss Marie NC
1ntyre, Miss Harriet Mitchell, Miss Caro-
line Miller, Miss Janet Murray, Miss
Elizabeth Pillsbury, Miss Nancy Robin
son, Miss Caroline Schulz, Miss Frances
Stearns, Miss Marjorie Simonds. Miss
Frances Simonds and Miss Mary Louise
Watson.
Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, ma
tional president of the National League
OF American Pen Women left Washing
ton yesterday afternoon for Phila-
delphia, where she was the guest of
honor at luncheon today of Mrs. Rus
sell Duane, who entertained large
company at the Acorn Club. Among
the prominent Philadelphia Pen Women
who attended were Miss Agnes Rep
pller, Mrs. George D. Dixon and Mrs.
Irving R. PrentiSs.
Mrs. Seton, who came from her home
in Greenwich, Conn. for the December
meeting of the National Executive
Board of the league at the Willard
hn af