The Washington times., 1935-11-26
NOW
Extra Men Here
Are Scarce
ARTS PATRON.
BY HELEN ESSARY

agreeable Extra Men are Sllpplng
into the morass of matrimony.
The supply of adaptable, unat-
tached men is shrinking daily.
Practically hourly. The winter
ahead for hostesses (and unat-
tached women looks cold and
bleak.
This desire of the caretree
Extra Man for the responsibility
Of a household has developed sud
denly. Just the other day MIR.
Lawrence Wood Robert, assistant
Secretary of the Treasury CChip"
Robert) who could be counted on
to make" any party, married the
fascinating Evelyn Walker.
Late last spring, George Angus
Garrett, handsome, gay and very
successful, took himself a bride
Mrs. Harry Darlington, OF Pitts
burgh.
The new and serious romance
of Senator Millard Tydings dis
concerts the Washington hostess
In search of an Extra Man.
Millard is handSomer than any
smart young Maryland lawmaker
has a right to be. Is mentioned
for the Presidency, sometimes. Is
an artist of ability and a credit
and a triumph to any dinner
hostess.
But they tell me he is on the
verge of stepping into matrimony
with the lovely Mrs. Elizabeth
Davies Cheeseborough, daughter
of the famous Joseph E. Davies
Off goes the Senator from Mary
land from the Extra Man Brigade.
Not very long ago the wealthy,
delightful Hugh AuchinclosS was
a blessing to an official or resi-
Dental "Iist." But now he has
made the beautiful Nina Vidal
Mrs. AuchincloSS. And the eli,
gible men are fewer by one.
John Boettiger was an Extra
Man to make any hostess look
down her table with pride. But
he married Mrs. Anna Roosevelt
Dali. So he's gone.
Hugh S. Cumming, jr., one Of
Cordell Hulls bright young men,
another bachelor who could be
counted on, married the charming
Mrs. West.
Per Wykman, Counselor of the
Swedish Legation, an extraordl-
narily clever young diplomat with
a future as well as a present, has
married Ruth Wallace, sister Of
the Secretary of Agriculture.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur has
left these parts and will be seen
no more this winter gracing the
right dinner tables. He hasn't
gotten married but he's gone to
the Philippines. The result is the
same to a hostess making out her
list.
Ed. G. Osborne, counselor and
Minister Plenipotentary Of the
British Embassy and heir appar-
ent of the Duke of Leeds (and
himself o Sahib from the Top
Drawer-aS they say in England)
is slated to be His Britannia
Majesty's Ambassador to tn e
Holy See. Therefore, Washington
parties will soon begin to miss
Darcy Osborne unless he comes
back some day as Ambassador.
Perhaps I shouldn't call a
bishop or a priest an Extra Man
-but-there has seldom been a
more soughtafter guest in Wash
ington than the recently departed
president of the Catholic Univer-
sity, James Hugh Ryan.
Unless you'd mention DR.. 7.
Coleman Nevils. former president
Of Georgetown University.
Both Of these distinguished and
popular clericS have left Wash
tngton permanently.
Bishop Ryan has gone to be
Bishop of omaha DR.. Nevils is
now rector of the Church of Saint
1gnatius Loyola in New York City.
Altogether, the Extra Man
prospect is mean and dispiritin', u
as the late Senator Ollie James,
Of Kentucky said of the woods
around the Pimlico race track the
day his long shots came in "also
rams"
The new Greek Minister, Deme-
trias SicilianoS, himself a patron
of the arts, is entertaining the
Archaeological Society of Washing
ton this afternoon at the recently
acquired Greek Legation on Twen-
tieth Street.
DR.. T. Leslie Shear, of Prince
ton, who knows and writes more
about excavations than three mil
lion average citizens, will give an
illustrated lecture on THE City
OF Pericles."
DR.. Shear, will take as his
particular theme the excavations
around Athens, financed by
American capital, and partially
directed by the Archaeological
Institute of America.
Mrs. Frank SimondS is a sort
of combination secretary and ad-
wiser to her brilliant husband, who
writes and speaks so vigorously on
international matters.
Good deeds of that Younger
Generation: Three recent brides,