The Washington times., 1934-12-17
NOW
F st. Club Gives
Famed Parties
NOTABLES CALL
BY Helen ESSary

The saturday luncneOn nOur
at the 1925 F Street Club is
one of those charming times to
be remembered years after
ward.
Washingtonians enjoy it
every week-if they are clever.
Out-of-town people who are for
tunate enough to be asked in
to meet Mrs. James F. Curtis
and the amusing group always
gathered about her tell the
folks back home of the expert
ence. They make capital and
reputation about that terrif-
ically important So-and-So
whom I happened to run into
at Laura Curtis"
If the raconteur is a gentle
mani beg your pardon-a
man, he is certain to refer in
that casual way that is so re-
vealing, why I met her at
Laura Curtis"
Last Saturday we were asked
in for a luncheon in honor of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Krock.
After IS encouraging minutes
or so, before a glowing fire
place in the drawing room with
with it's cherry hangings and
deep gold chairs, we drifted
into the dining room and
found ourselves seated about a
round table with center piece
of gold chrysanthemums and
deep red roses.
Peggy Krock was looking ex-
tremely smart in green and
white tweedS. She was seated
between the Greek Minister and
"Tod" Sloan, just arrived from
Middleburg for the occasion.
Madame Simopoulos was there
too, and was entertaining as she
always is, despite the shocking
fall she had the other day.
Then there was a lovely new
person-Mrs. Tuckerman Dra-
per-from New York. A tall,
stunning brunette in a tailored
black velvet suit with a crimson
wool scarf wound loosely about
the throat, a black tricorne and
q jaunty dotted veil.
Mrs. Draper. who is the sister
in-law of the famous Ruth Dra-
per, does interior decorating.
She came down to washington
to look into the plans for fur
nishing the model houses being
built under the national hous-
ing plan.
Beside Mrs. Draper was Gill
bert Miller, producer and citi-
zen of the world, now pleasantly
occupied in chaperoning Ina
Claire in her successful comedy.
lode to Liberty" Among the
other guests we're Mr.. Ferry
Heath, one of the towns most
sought-after guests. and Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Hinton.
There were other parties at
the F Street Club at the same
hour. I saw Lady Lewis; Mrs.
''Phil" Cabell, recently come to
Washington to live. and. like
Ethel Lewis. wearing at the
moment the always smart
black, plus, however, a big
black hat; Mr.. George Garrett,
Phyllis Thompson. Frank Pack
ard, George Marshall, Mrs.
Higginson Rogers, Mrs. FL
dredge Jordan, Mrs. Albert
Davey, "Pete" de Sibour, BILLY"
Rayburn. "Chip" Robert.
a lovely Miss Patterson of
Philadelphia, who is visiting
Phyllis Thompson, and Jack"
Cohen. publisher of the Atlanta
Journal, come to town for a
short stay.
Grace Roper's Sunday after
noon parties are becoming a ma
tional institution. Likewise a
model to hectic hosteSses. Miss
Roper refuses to ask in more
guests than she has chairs (eX-
cept in the case of the Town
HalD. She says she hates to see
creatures struggling with a pleas
ant hour, a cup and saucer, a
visiting stranger, and six cubic
inches of standing room at the
same time.
Commendable though this de-
cision on sitting room only often
may be, yesterday afternoon it
was unfortunate. Dozens of
people who didn't meet Miriam
Underhill, the guest of honor,
when she spoke on her mountain
climbing experiences in SWitzer.
land before the National Geo.
graphic Society, would have
adored seeing her at the home of
the Secretary of Commerce and
Mrs. Roper.
Those who did come in for
tea found Mrs. Unierhill a de-
lightful preson. CAS- the daugh-
ter of the chairman of the Tariff
Commission and Mrs. Robert
Lincoln O'Brien one might have
been prepared for this character
isticD In addition to being a
traveller, a writer and an ex'
plorer, Mrs. Underhill seWs like
French courtiere. She made
the smart gown she wore before
her lecture audiance. And that
isn't all, she sewS for. friends,
for the love of them and it.