Evening star., 1933-12-24
Officers at Quantico
Entertain at Dance
For Holiday Visitors
Informal Parties Precede
Affair for Young People.
Manwarings Leave Post.

QUANTICO, Va, December 23.-The
officers mess gave a Christmas dance
last night to the young people Of the
station who are home for the holidays.
A number Of informal parties were
given before the dance at the Waller
Building.
Col. and Mrs. Edward Manwaring left
the post Monday for their new station
in Philadelphia, where the colonel will
assume command of the Marine 6ar-
racks at the Navy Yard. Mr.. and Mrs.
E. Wharton Manwaring Of Norfolk spent
the week end here with their parents.
Lieut.. and Mrs. William Sihler enter
tanned informally at supper party
Wednesday served In quarters, their
guests being Maj. and Mrs. Allen Simon.
Capt. and Mrs. Willard Leutze, DR.. and
Mrs. Hugh Mauldin, Capt. and Mrs:
Floyd Bennett, Lieut.. Lyman Miller and
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald Vardy.
Maj. Julian Smith has been granted
To-day leave Of absence, which he and
Mrs. Smith are spending with his
mother in Elkton, Md, and in visiting
relatives at Orangeburg, S. c.
Lieut.. Herbert Keimling, who has
spent the past fortnight here in taking
examinations incidental to his promo
ton, has returned to the Natchaug For
est of Connecticut and resumed his duty
with the y. =. y.
Mrs. CorIett Arrives.
Mrs. John Mcqueen motored to
Washington Tuesday to meet her moth
er, Mrs Thomas G. Corlett of Colorado
Springs, who made the trip East by way
of the West Coast and the Panama
Canal. DR.. Corlett is expected to arrive
until after the New Year
Mr. and Mrs .T0Hn n ErUit1 pYtpr-
tained Informally in quarters last night
and later accompanied their guests to
the dance at the officers mess.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. James Brecken-
ridge and children are spending the
holidays with the family of Mrs Breck-
enridge, near Charles Town, w. Va.
Mr.. Andrew Lyman, who attends the
Severn School at Annapolis Is SPEND
ing his vacation with his parents, Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Charles Lyman.
Mrs Lemuel Haslup and children of
Washington were guests of Mai. and
Mrs. Allen Simon for several days last
week
Miss Alice Allen, who is attending
school at Penn Hall, Chambersburg, Pa,
| Is spending the Christmas holidays with
her parents, Capt A. H. Allen, U. S. N,
and Mrs. Allen.
The many friends of Mrs. Julia Davis
OF Washington we're given an opportu-
given by her G daughteT' I eSHny MRS. Al Dewitt fHa
Peck. Mrs. Davis will remain with Maj.
and Mrs. Peck until after the holidays.
Lieut.. Col. Sidney Smith Lee has been
detached from the 7th Regiment and
returns to Washington for duty. Mai.
John Sebree succeeds him as command
ing officer Of the 1st Battalion.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald Vardy are
| spending their Christmas vacation in
Annapolis as guests Of Lieut.. and Mrs.
/ Steven Edison.
Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. w. Dalton
/ Davis were hosts at dinner served in
quarters before the dance last night.
Capt. and Mrs. Reynolds Hayden, who
expect to leave Washington early in
January for their new station in the
/ Philippines, were the guests of honor.
Also in the party were Capt. and Mrs.
Ernest Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. P. c. Alex
ander and Mrs. Julia Jenner of Wash
! ington.
/ Smiths Entertain Mother.
Capt and Mrs. o. P. Smith are en-
tertaining the formers mother, who ar
rived here early in the week from Berk-
ley. Calf. On Wednesday. Mrs Robert
Blake gave a luncheon, with Mrs. Smith
and Mrs. Frederick Holm Of New York
dS IUIlOT guests.
Lieut.. Comdr and Mrs. Clifford Rich
ardson have gone to Norfolk, where
| they will visit Mrs T. A. Balm over the
holidays. Comdr. Richardson and Miss
Betty Richardson will return the first
Of the year, but Mrs. Richardson plans
! to remain for longer visit
! Mr.. Donald Heath of Washington was
guest of Maj. and Mrs. Louis Pagan
last week. Mr. Heath, who was former
! American consul in Port al Prince, has
| been transferred to the State Depart
ment, and Mrs. Heath and the children,
who are now in Topeka, Kans., expect
to come to Washington early in the
year.
Maj. and Mrs. George Hammer have
as their house guests over the holidays
the formers mother, Mrs. S. L. Ham
ner, and his brother and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. L. Hammer of Washington, and
Mrs. Charles Wehl of Philadelphia.