Evening star., 1935-02-03
Alexandra Women
SPONSOR Art Exhibit
In Galloway Studio
Paintings Of Miss Catherine
Cri+cher, Miss Comegys
and Glenn NJ. Brown to
Be Displayed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, February q
Miss Helen Won Stori Cannon enter
tanned at cocktail party this evening
in the home Of Capt. and Mrs. Charles
M. ShepperSon In honor of her sister,
Miss Dorothy Hanna Cannon, who has
been visiting in Boston for the past
several months and is en- route to her
home in Hamlet, N. C. Later in the
evening Miss Cannon took her guests
to the weekly dance at the Belle
Haven Country Club.
An art exhibit, reception and tea
will be held next Wednesday and
Thursday afternoons and evenings in
the Galloway Studio on North Fair
fax street, which will be in charge of
several of the women members of Old
Christ Church. Exhibitions will be
given of the paintings of Miss Cath
crime Carter Critcher of Washington,
q former AleXandrian: Miss Margaret
Comegys and Mr. Glenn Madison
Brown. Mrs John Thornton Ashton
is chairman of the committee and will
be assisted by Mrs. Douglas A. Lindsey,
Mrs. Julian r. Burke, Mrs. John w.
Howard, Mrs Kenneth Downes, Mrs.
Charles F. Holden and Miss Clarence
SnoWden. Among those who will
alternate at the tea table and assist
on the two days will be Mrs. William
Hulfsh, Mrs. Robert G.. Carter, Mrs.
Richard Coke Marshall, Mrs. Howard
C. Richards, Mrs. Gardner L. Boothe,
I'd; Mrs Colgate Darden, Mrs. Charles
c. Smoot, Mrs. John s. Dunn, Mrs.
Frances Parkinson KeyeS, Mrs. William
j, Boothe, Mrs. Gardner L. Boothe,
Mrs. Helen Army Macan, principal Of
St. Agnes School; Mrs. William j.
Morton, Mrs. Charles Beattie Moore,
Mrs Eliphalet F. Andrews, Mrs. WAL
ter Du BoiS BrookingS, Mrs. Taylor
Burke, Mrs Francis E. Carter, Mrs.
John Origen Herrick, Mrs. Morris L.
Horner, Mrs. David Tucker Brown,
Mrs. Hugh MCGUIRE, Mrs. Robert NJ.
Reese, Mrs James NJ. Lands and
Miss Helen Norris Cummings.
Mrs. Howard Knox will leave next
week for South Orange. N. j., where
, she will be one of the attendants at
the marriage Tuesday, February II,
of her sister, Miss Mary Evelyn Webb,
daughter of Mrs. Alfred L. Webb and
the late Mr.. Webb, to Mr. Charles P.
Connally, jr., of Atlanta.
The dean of the Episcopal Theo-
logical Seminary, Very Rev. DR.. Wal
lace E. Rollins, has announced the
marriage of his niece. Miss Helen
Tighe, formerly of Asheville, N. c., to
Rev. Clifford L. Stanley, professor of
the history and philosophy of religions,
Sunday, December %, 1884, in I'M
manuel Chapel at the seminary. For
the past several years the bride has
acted as hostess and secretary for her
uncle and is a graduate of the North
Carolina College for Women. Mr.
Stanley is a native of Williamsport,
Pa, and attended Bucknell University
and later was graduated from the Uni
versity of Virginia. He took his course
in divinity at the Virginia Seminary,
where he has been on the faculty for
the past five years. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley are living in Bohlen Hall in
the seminary grounds.
Mrs. Walter Arnold Taylor, jr., Of
New York City, who has been visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w.
Tucker, left this week, accompanied
BY her sister, Miss Lorraine Tucker,
to Join Mr.. Taylor in Palm Beach,
where they will remain until April
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Louis Bowman
have issued invitations for the mar
riage of their daughter Ruby Gillian
to Mr.. David Leeder Bollnan on Satur-
day evening, February 16, at o'clock
In the First Baptist Church.
The Midwinter dance of the Society
OF the Skull and Dagger was held last
evening at the Belle Haven Country
Club. The dance was largely attended,
many of the guests coming from
Washington, Warrenton, Fairfax and
Charlottesville. The chaperons were
MIR. and Mrs Valentine Smiths Mr..
and Mrs. Milton R. Greenland, Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar S. Bayol, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Didier and Mr. and Mrs.
William j. Gilman of Richmond.
Members of the Floor Committee were
Mr.. William Harvey Smith, Mr.. Ed
ward w. Alfriend, Mr.. John Carlyle
Herbert Hoof and Mr.. William F. Nc
Gowan.
Mr.. Chalmers C. Crump, son of Mr..
and Mrs Harvey Crump, has been
selected by Representative Howard w.
Smith as one of the three candidates
to take the competitive examination
for entrance to the United States
Naval Academy on February 13. Mr..
Crump is lieutenant colonel of the
George Mason High School Cadet
Corps.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. Barnett enter
tanned Informally Wednesday evening
to celebrate the twenty eighth ami
versary of their marriage.
Mrs John Miller of Washington and
her house guest, Mrs. Louis Hutchin-
son of Upper Darby, Pa, were guests
this week of Mrs Lydia L. Spofford.
The marriage of Miss Mildred
Eleanor Lyles, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Lambert LyleS, to Mr.
James Overton Jones, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James S. Jones, will take place
Tuesday evening, February 10, in
Christ Episcopal Church.