The Washington times., 1935-02-25
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Sad Errors of
HOSteSSeS
SPRING FEVER
BY HELEN ESSARY

pen at parties.
We know two magnificent
stories of mistaken identity at
formal dinners. But we can't
tell the names and stories, too.
The first is about a hostess
who, needing an extra man (the
perennial complaint), phoned
her husbands old friend, Bill
Williams, who had dined with
them in the fall and was back
in town again at the NRA. Bill
williams accepted the invita-
ton cheerily.
At five minutes to eight, on
the night of the dinner, when
the butler announced "Mr. Will
liamS," the host and hostess
stepped forward to greet their
guest.
The person who entered the
drawing room they had never
seen before in all their lives.
Instead of a tall, handsome
man, there was short, fat man
with q bald head.
1t was the wrong Bill viii.
liamS!
Another poor hostess said to
the gentleman her husband
brought home to dinner (huS-
bands are largely to blame):
"It's so nice that you can be
here at last. I've been wanting
to meet you for ages"
The gentleman said:
"TO meet me? 1 was here
at this very table about a
month agO!"
And then the hostess slid
from her chair into pallid
heap on the floor. And died.
What else could she do!
DR.. Clloyd Heck Marvin
thinks the press is uncon'
sciously unanimous. When he
wrote the newspapermen about
to receive LIDS from George
Washington University for their
head sizes so that the university
might provide caps to go with
the ceremonial gowns and hoods,
three of the replies from diff
ferent parts of the country
said these same words:
Before I heard of the
honor your university is about
to give me my head size was
- Now it is considerably
larger"
Spring Fever:
The Riggs Bank moves prac-
tically in a body to Palm
Beach. The Robert Flemings
and the Charlie Tompkins are
visiting the Carl Corbys at
their winter home there. :.
"Peter" McHarg miss Esther
Belle) and Martha Davidge
are in a state of agitation try
ing to shop and pack and go
to dozens of farewell parties
before they start for Rome
to spend the spring with
Christine Long, daughter of
the Ambassador to Italy and
Mrs. Breckenridge Long.
College girls make good:
Dorothy Sands, who, with
eighteen changes of costume
and character, gave an imper-
sonation at the National The
ater last night. is a Radcliffe
graduate. She thought of teach
ing but the professor at Yale,
whose prize pupil she was, prac-
tically bounded her out of the
classroom onto the stage. ).
Dorothy Gill and Eileen Moody,
with the D'Oyley Carte Opera
Company, are also college grad.
yates. The American Associa-
ton of University Women had a
party for them.
Mrs. ZeBarney T. Phillips.
wife of the chaplain of the Sen
ate, is a before-and-after.prohi-
tion Prohibitionist. She's never
even tasted the stuff . If you
fear your next party will be
flop, send for that free film of
the Bureau of Animal Industry,
"The Control of Parasites in
Hogs" in two reels. It's cute
picture. An admirer of the
Secretary Of the treasury,
Henry Morgenthau, jr., sent
Mrs. Morgenthau a big box of
camellias (they are like scarlet
gardenias) just in time for Mrs.
Morgenthau to pin three on the
black gown she was wearing to
Mrs. Hugh Campbell Wallace'S
dinner party.
Certain friends of young
Thomas Jonathan Jackson, the
grandsc:c: Sf Gen. Stonewall
jackson, are moving heaven and
earth to get the boy an appoint.
ment at West Point. The Con.
greSSmen from West Virginia,
where young Stonewall lives, al
ready have promised their ap-
pointmentS to other boys. If
President Roosevelt does not ap.
point him to one of the IL va.
cancies (there are $50 applicants
for the examination) the grand.
son of one of the greatest SOL
diers in history probably will
have to sell insurance.
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