Evening star., 1932-09-10
SOCIETY
The Chief Justice and Mrs Hughes Will
Spend Short Time at Briar Cliff
En- Route to Washington.

|HE Chief Justice and Mrs
Charles Evans Hughes have left
Saranac and are now at Briar
Cliff Lodge, Briar Cliff Manor
They will return to Washington
the first of october and open their
house on S street. The Supreme Court
will convene Monday. october 8.
Mr. Justice James Clark McReynolds
has gone to Hot Springs, Va, where he
will remain for several weeks.
Miss Bacon Made Debut
At Brilliant Ball Last Night.
Miss Alexandra Murray Bacon
daughter of Representative and Mrs
Robert Low Bacon, was presented to So
ciety last evening at a supper dance
given by her grandmother, Mrs. Robert
Bacon. at Old Acres, her estate at Old
Westbury, Long Island. Preceding the
dance Representative and Mrs. Bacon
entertained at dinner for their daughter
Mrs. Bacon, whose estate on the
Jericho Turnpike is one of the few
places that retains it's historic Long
Island farm house atmosphere, with
traditional red barns, white rail fences
and paddocks, did not employ the mod
ern vari-colored lighting effect, but
used only the white lights Of the Ian
terms on the gate posts and entrances
to guide the guests. Vases of Fall flow
ers decorated the rooms with blooms
from the Bacon gardens, famous for
their beauty.
Mrs. Bacon received with her grand
daughter and the latter's parents in the
reception hall of her home where she
has entertained for many distinguished
visitors during the diplomatic career
of her husband, the late former Am
bassador to France Miss Bacon wore
g dainty frock of white tulle.
The company included guests from
Washington where the family has long
been prominent in the official life of
the city and others from Boston where
the debutante'S late grandfather was
a Fellow of Harvard University. Among
the guests were Miss Gladys Szechenyi
daughter of the Minister of Hungary
and Countess Szechenyi; MIR. Dwight
w. Davis, jr., son of the former Sec
retary of War and Mrs. Davis; Miss
Helen Robbins, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Warren Delano Robbins; Miss
Janet White, daughter of Mrs. Aldrich
wife OF Representative Richard S. AID
rich: Miss Grace Roosevelt, daughter
of the Governor of the Philippines and
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Miss Dorothy
Fell, daughter of Mrs. Mills. wife of
the Secretary of the Treasury, and
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, jr, son of
the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Adams.
Representative Fred A. Britten was
Joint host with Comdr. and Mrs. Eugene
Mcdonald, entertaining aboard the lat
ter's yacht Mizpah yesterday afternoon
the Crown Prince, Frederick William of
I.s- l,-NA T1,-s,, d.
Ferdinand. The party cruised on Lake
Michigan through the afternoon, buff
fet supper being served on the way back
to Chicago.
Mrs. Britten' has remained in their
Sheridan Circle home through the Sum-
mer and early in October will join Rep
resentative Britten in Chicago.
The chief of naval operations and
Mrs. William v. Pratt returned last eve
ming from a short visit in Virginia.
Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs
Wilbur j. Carr sailed today from Cher
bourg aboard the Leviathan for this
country after spending six weeks abroad.
Brig. Gen. Samuel E. Tillman and
his daughter, Mrs. Tfllman Martin, will
return to Washington at the end Of next
O. Sea, at Southampton, Long Island.
The chief of the Protocol Division of
the State Department and Mrs. Warren
Delano Robbins few yesterday to their
Summer home at Tuxedo Park, N. Y,
where they will remain over Sunday.
The economic advisor to the State
Department and Mrs. Herbert FeiS flew
to New York yesterday and will spend
the week end with the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Stanley Brown, on
Long Island.
Capt. and Mrs. Arthur B. Cook will
return to their apartment at Wardman
Park Hotel shortly from Great Bar
rington, Mass, where they spent week
in the Berkshires.
The chief of the foreign service build
1ngs office of the State Department, Mr.
Keith Merrill, returned yesterday from
a short vacation spent with Mrs. Mer-
rill and their family at Prides Cross
ing Mass. Mrs. Merrill and the family
will close the place at Prides Crossing
later in the month and join Mr.. Merrill
here.
Ring Reynolds Wedding
In California at Noon Today.
The marriage of Miss Eleanor Rey-
nolds. daughter of the late Capt. C..