Evening star., 1932-12-19
SOCIETY
Mrs. Hoover Views Dolls and Other Gifts
This Morning at Thrift Shop, Where
Mrs. Williams Was in Charge

turned from New York at the end OF
the week after assisting Miss Helen Lee
Eames Doherty in selecting Is dolls
for the Thrift Shop Christmas sale, will
leave Washington tomorrow for Mem
phis, Tenn, where she will be guest
over the holidays OF her sister, Mrs.
Elias Dimon Herrick.
Mrs. Schoolfield Grace will entertain
at dinner dance this evening at the
National Womans Country Club, for
her daughter, Miss Frances Worrall, IN
honor of Miss Edith Bull, Miss Louise
Tittmann and Miss Martha Morrow.
There will be about 100 guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry c. Ragsdale have
with them for the holidays their SON
in-law and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs.
John W. Kelly Of New Orleans. and
another daughter, Mrs E. w. Whaley,
who has arrived with her son from
their home in Knoxville. Tenn.
Mrs. Charles M. o'connor of Okla
homa City has come to Washington
to spend some time and Is with Miss
Emily New in her home at 14l0
Cathedral Omcials
Feted This Afternoon.
A reception will be held this after
noon at 4:30 o'clock in the Sulgrave
Club at 1901 Massachusetts, avenue
under the auspices OF Miss Mabel T..
Boardman, Mrs. Alanson B. Houghton
and Mrs. Frederick C. Hicks. for the
officers and members Of the Washing
ton Cathedral Committee Of the Ma
tional Cathedral Association. Guests
of honor will be the Right Rev. James
E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington;
York, national chairman of the Ma
tional Women's Committee for the
Cathedral, and the Undersecretary of
State. Mr.. William r. Castle. chairman
of the Cathedral Council Committee
on Ways and Means
The engagement of Miss Elsie Hooper
Perkins, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Forbes Perkins of Owls Nest
Farm, at birmingham, Mass, to Mr.
James Hooper Grew, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Sturgis Grew of Boston,
and nephew of the United States Am
baSsador to Japan and Mrs Joseph c.
Grew.
Miss Perkins attended school in Santa
Barbara, Calf. and later. studied in
Paris. She was presented to society
last Winter and is a member of the
Junior League. Mr.. Grew attended ST.
Marks School and was graduated from
Harvard University in 1929 and studied
at the Sorbonne, in Paris.
The marriage Of Miss Elizabeth Addi-
son Bliss, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Cornelius B. Bliss. in Westbury. Long
Island, to Mr.. John Parkinson. jr. son
IF Do
Mass, took place yesterday afternoon
at the country home Of her parents. in
Westbury. Only members Of the two
families and few close friends were
present at the ceremony, performed by
the Rev John Crocker of Princeton
University. The ceremony was fol-
lowed by small reception and after
ward Mr.. Parkinson and his bride left
on a wedding trip. They will make their
home in New York
The bride is a granddaughter Of the
late Mr. Cornelius N. Bliss who was
Secretary of the Interior in the admin
istration Of President Mckinley.
DR.. and Mrs. G. Tinsley Creech have
with them until after the New Year,
their daughter. Miss Jean Elizabeth
Creech. student at Transylvania Col
lege at Lexington. Ky. Miss Creech,
who is a niece OF Judge Jesse c. Ad-
kins Of the District Supreme Court is
an honor graduate of Central High
School and OF Strayers' College, this
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren W. Smith of
Caracas, Venezuela, who have been
guests Of their brother and sister-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Smith on Massa-
chusetts avenue. left today for Boston
to spend the Christmas holidays with
their children, who are students at Mil
ton Academy Mr. Smith will leave
shortly for Caracas and Mrs. Smith will
remain in Milton through the Winter,
joining Mr.. Smith in Venezuela next
Summer. Mr.. Smith arrived in this
country recently from a three-month
stay in Europe.
Mrs. Henry C. Smither will be joined
Friday by her son, Mr.. Henry c. Smither,
who will arrive from the New York
Military Preparatory School at Cornwall
on the Hudson and will remain with
her for about a week
Mr.. Rufus Putnam, 3d. will spend
Christmas at the home Of his mother,
IN Hagerstovn, Md.
Dumbarton House Scene
OF Reception Yesterday.
A distinguished company was invited
to the reception in Dumbarton House
Yesterday by the National Society OF
Colonial Danes OF America. Directors
and curators Of museums in Washing
ton were the special guests and Mrs.
William Holland Wilmer, vice president
OF the Colonial Danes, received, assist
ed by Miss Agnes Peter, president OF
the District Society. Others assisting
inridge Long, Mrs John H. Gibbons,
Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, Mrs. John w.
Davidge, Mrs. Harrall Milliken. Mrs
Stephen Bonsal, Baroness Korf. Miss
Bertha Chinn, Miss Mary Louis Adams,
Miss Antoinette Greely and the Misses
Powell
Among those invited were the Chief
Justice and Mrs. Hughes. the Attorney
General and Mrs Mitchell, Represent
ative Mary T. Norton, Representative
and Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mrs. Viii
liam Howard Taft, DR.. and Mrs.
Charles G. Abbott DR.. William H.
Holmes, Mr.. and Mrs. Ruel P. Tollman,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. r. Belote. Mr.. Herbert
Putnam. Mr.. and Mrs. Elliot OHara,
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic A. Delano, Col
and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant. Sd; Mr.
Charles Moore, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
c. Glover, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Powell Min
nigerode Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Ham
ilton, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vedder
Fleming, Mr.. and Mrs. Corcoran Thorn,
Mr. and Mrs Charles c. Glover, jr.: DR..
and Mrs. Lewis r. Morris. Judge John
Barton Payne, Miss Mabel T. Board
man, Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Slade
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lodge, Miss
Grace Guest, DR.. and Mrs. Gilbert
Grosvenor DR.. and Mrs. Frederick
P. Keppel, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
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