The Washington times., 1935-12-24
NOW
Mrs. harrington
Plans Party
Is ARE LUCKY
BY HELEN ESSARY

DIV GSSHANA
There will be midnight feast
OF the Chevy Chase School for
Girls tonight. Those excited fig
tires moving about the big rooms
will not be students of Mrs. Fred
erick harrington, director OF the
school. They will be Is very lucky
friends of Mrs. harrington invited
annually for the most interesting
Christmas party given in the
Capital.
The students, having gone
safely home to their waiting fam
flies, Isabelle Farrington's guests
will gather in rapt attention and
watch a Christmas play written,
80 the invitation declared, by one
"Dear Richard Burton"
The invitation, a marvelously
hand Illuminated parchment by
Mrs, harrington, said in the PRO
logue to the play:
And it came to pass on a day
that dear Richard Burton
passed by the House of Earring
ton and left with Isabelle a
story he had done into a play
with a song therein.
And as she read a voice spake
unto Isabelle saying, Go and
tell all people what thou hast
found for in these things lie
beauty and salvation"
Therefore it shall come to pass
that in this year, on the twelfth
month on the twenty-fourth day
Of the month and the ninth hour
Of evening, We shall hear and We
will, the story of Rahab the
beautiful, done into a play by
dear Richard Burton.
At midnight shall be feasting and
jollity, then, if so be it, that
thou shalt commit thyself to
slumber at the House of Far
rington.
And at the eleventh hour on
Christmas morning, we shall
break our fast together and with
singing and rejoicing. Glory be
to God.
Come by the road called Connect
cut until We arrive at the num-
Der sixty-four hundred and
twelve.
Here is the Song of Rahab, the
heroine of the play:
Rahab is queen of live; her dress
Betrays the beauty claSpt within:
Her mouth is made for tender
ness;
Men lost their souls her grace
to win:
She stands like a pomegranate
tree,
Straight. beautiful and proud to
see.
The warm dusk-splendor of her
eyes
Might wreck the councils Of a
king;
Not Statelier the Jordan flies
Than do her feet in pleasuring:
She doth enthrau with magics
three;
With doubt and hope and CLAM
curry.
Then strike rich chords of pain
and bliss
For Rahab, rose of Jericho:
A regal flower to pluck and kiss
And a Woman's bitter-SWeet to
know:
In all the lists of coquetry
None walks so wonderful as she.
While the m dni g HI feaSting
goes on, the Negro servants Of
Mrs. harrington, dressed in plan
tation costumes, will sing spirit
uals. The guests who wish to
spend the night will find dozens
of rooms left vacant by the stu
dents away for the holidays.
Not the precise Christmas theme
just pleasant thoughts, any day:
Fifteen years ago when Evelyn
Adams, newly appointed recorder
of the Federal Land Office in the
Department of Interior, was ten
years old, she walked, out on a
Los Angeles stage and presented
O bunch of red roses to the Demo
cratic vice presidential candidate,
Mr.. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Miss
Harriet wseman Elliott who is
Dean of Women at the Green's
boro Women's College in North
Carolina, didn't stay in Washing
ton half long enough last week.
Miss Elliott is extremely smart.
She makes magnificent speeches
and she is also very pleasant to