Evening star., 1933-12-24
Miss Margaret French
To Wed New Yorker at
Alexandra on Tuesday
Death of Bride.Elect's Father
Limits Witnesses of
Ceremony to Immediate
Families.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, December 49,
The marriage Of Miss Margaret Reed
French. daughter of Mrs. Mary Hop
kins Reed French and the late Mr..
George Smoot French, to MFR. Raymond
Farmer OF New York City will take
place Tuesday morning at 1890 o'clock
In Old Christ Church. Owing to the
recent death Of the bride-elect's father
the ceremony will be witnessed by
members Of the immediate families
only. The Rev. DR.. William j. Morton,
the rector, will oficiate.. Miss French
VIII De unattended and will be given in
marriage by her mother and Mr.. Rob-
ert Nash Of New York will be best man
for Mr. Farmer. Immediately after the
ceremony Mr.. Farmer and his bride
VIII leave for a wedding trip to the Far
South and on their return viii live In
guests expected for the wedding Is Miss
Mabel Farmer, sister Of the bridegroom,
Of New York City.
Mr. Armistead L. Boothe and Mr.
Charles Tompktns have returned from
Atlanta, where they were among the
ushers at the wedding of Miss Marion
Feel Calhoun, daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. Ferdinand P. Calhoun, and Mr..
Bickerton Winston Cardwell, son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Patterson Cardwell
OF Prospect HIN. Hanover County, Va.
which took place Saturday afternoon,
December 10, In the First Presbyterian
Church. Mr.. Cardwell for some years
the Episcopal High School and It is
there that he and his bride will be at
home after January q
Visit Gov. Pollard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Lee Boatwright,
tr.. and their small son, Herbert Lee
Boatwrfght, Sd, are in Richmond to
spend the holidays with Mrs. Boat
wright's father. Gov. John Garland
Pollard. and Mrs. Pollard In the Eyecu-
tive Mansion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Franklin W.
Clarke have issued invitations for tea
sunday afternoon, December 81, from
. to O'Clock at the Belle Haven
Country Club.
Right Rev. Arthur Selden Lloyd, for
merly bishop coadjutor of Virginia and
now sunragan bishop of New York,
was the guest Of relatives in Alexan-
dria before going Monday TO Richmond,
where he will visit his son-in-iaw and
daughter, the rector Of st. James Epis-
copal Church and Mrs. Churchill Jones
Gibson. Bishop Lloyd was accom-
panied to Richmond by his grand
slaughter, Miss Elizabeth Lloyd Gibson,
wNo Is attending the Cathedral School
In Washington. Monday evening Miss
tending the first dance Of the Rich
nlond German Club and had as her
dancing partner her cousin. Mr. Pat
ATr<
ters, Mrs. Edmund Pendleton Dand-
ridge OF Nashville, Tenn; Mrs. Charles
J. Symington and MRS. Gavin Hadden
of New York City, have many relatives
in Alexandria and throughout the
South. 1t was while the family was
living here that Mrs. cambridge, for
merly Miss Mary Robertson Lloyd, was
married to Rev. Mr.. cambridge in old
Christ Church only few weeks before
her fathers conservation to the Episco-
pate in the same church. Mrs. Lloyd
who died several years ago, was a sister
Of the late DR.. Lancelot Minor Black
ford. for many years headmaster of the
Episcopal High School.
Thursday evening DR.. and Mrs. Glib
son gave a dance to present their
daughter to Richmond society, when
she shared honors with her cousin. Miss
vile and Miss Alice Fitzgerald, daugh-
aid, Jr.. OF Richmond. The dance was
attended by Miss Gibson's cousins, Mr..
Edmund Pendleton cambridge, jr., Of
the University of Virginia; Miss Betty
Gay Symington of Chatham Hall
School and Mr.. Arthur Lloyd Syming-
ton Of Princeton.
Misses whitton 70 Entertain.
The Misses Whitton have issued in
vitations for a eggnog party tomorrow
afternoon in their home on South Pat
rick street.
Mr.. Herbert Bellringer, accompanied
by his cousins, Miss Mary Catherine
Bellringer and Mr.. Frederick Bellringer
of Hollis, Long Island, went to Rich
mond yesterday and last evening at
tended the dance given at the Com
monwealth Club by Mr. and Mrs
Charles D. Larus in honor of their deb
utante daughter. Miss Elizabeth Larus.
Mr.. James Wallace was the guest
this week of his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Sidney Douglas, and left Fri
day to visit, his mother, Mrs. Frederick
T. Cause, and Mr.. Cause, in Westches-
ter. Pa.
Vassar to spend the holidays with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry B. Cation.
Miss Jacquelin Cochran OF Sweet.
and Mrs Thomas B. Cochran
Representative and Mrs. Howard w.
Smith have returned from q months
trip to Panama and the Canal Zone
and have with them for the HOLIDAYS
Mr.. Smiths son, Mr.. Howard Worth
Smith, jr, Of Randolph-Macon College,
in Ashland, Va
Miss Katie UhIer is the guest of her
brother r-in-law and sister, Capt. and
Mrs. Marvel Henry Parsons, In West
Point, N. Y. After the holidays Miss
Uhler will go to Great Neck, Long
Island, to stay for the remainder Of
the Winter.
Miss Carlyle Downes of st. Cath
crimes School in Richmond will spend
the holidays with her parents. Capt.
and Mrs. John Downes.
ers iSS o1eS teie IL, sn19et e6 sssse i, Tes6h, it5
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G.
Smoot.
Miss Mollis Sherwood and Miss Har-
riet Sherwood went to Richmond yes
terday to spend a week with their
grandmother, Mrs. Edgar Gum, in the
Monroe Terrace Apartments.
Visits Parents.
Miss Julia Duncan Of New York City
is the guest of her parents, Mr.. aud
Mrs James Morton Duncan.
Miss Ella Broders, who is spending
the Winter in Hopewell. N. j., is the
guest of her brother-in-law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles C. Carlin.
Mrs. Samuel Wise Rixey has gone
to join Mr.. Rixey in Chickamauga