Evening star., 1935-03-31
Newspaper People
Entertained at Tea
At Alexandra Home
Col. and Mrs. Charles Beat
ty Moore Are Hosts in
Historic Fairfax House
for Residents of City.

ALEXANDRIA. Va, March 80
Col and Mrs. Charles Beatty Moore
entertained at tea Monday afternoon
for large group of newspaper people,
many of them representatives OF ma
tionally known papers and magazines,
who now make their homes in Alexan-
dria.; The home of Col. and Mrs.
Moore was once owned by George Will
liam Fairfax, contemporary and friend
Of President Washington. but Is usually
called the Mckenzie House. as 1t was
for many years the residence of the
late Mr.. Lewis Mckenzie. The draw
ing rooms and dining room were deco
rated with Spring flowers and lighted
by candles. Alternating at the tea
table were Mrs. Gardiner L. Boote,
Mrs. Richard Coke Marshall, Mrs.
Richard Royal Baker, Miss Mary
Lindsey and Miss Florence A. Long.
Among the guests were Mrs. Frances
Parkinson Keyes, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Origen Herrick, Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Howard, Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth g.
Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mallon,
Mr.. and Mrs. z. Lawrence Carter, Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac Gregg, Capt. and Mrs.
Charles M. Shepperson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Bradley Bloomer, jr.; Mr..
and Mrs. Charles c. Carlin, jr,; Mr..
and Mrs. John c. Swank, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles F. Moore, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Thiele, MIR. and Mrs. Vernon
Z. Bundy, Mr. and Mrs. William F.
Carne, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Nutter,
Mr.. and Mrs. William S. White, MIR.
and Mrs. Herbert Plummer, Mr.. and
Mrs. Burt P. Garnett, Mr. and Mrs.
Nelson Pointer, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
M. Kidney, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Wooten.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burdge McFall, Mrs.
James A. Long, Mrs. Hobart Brooks.
Miss Katharine Brooks, Miss Margaret
Germond, MIR. Herbert P. Little, Mrs.
Ruby Black, Mrs. Harry N. Cootes,
Mr.. Jerry Krutch, Mr.. Michael T.
Dwyer, Mr.. Marshall Baggett, Mr.. Lee
Miller and. Mr.. Clement Ellis Conger.
Invitations have been received from
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Wray Selden for
the marriage of their daughter, Rosa
lie Bethel, to Mr.. Robert Kent Snead,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Chan
ming Snead of Carysbrook, Va, Mon
day afternoon. April %. at 3 o'clock,
in ST. Johns Episcopal Church in Co.
lumbia, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Edmonds Hut
cheson of Gloucester, Va, have made
known to their relatives here the en-
gagement of their daughter, Jane
Blackburn Lee, to Mr.. Richard
Wortham Talley, son of Mr.. and Mrs
William Warren Talley of New York
City and Gloucester. Miss Hutcheson
Is granddaughter of the late Rev.
and Mrs. William Byrd Lee and is
related to the Lee, Blackburn and
Sinclair families of Alexandria. She
is granddaughter of Ed
mund Jennings Lee, brother of Gen.
''Light Horse Harry" Lee. Miss Hut
cheson is a graduate Of the Hannah
More Academy in Reistertown, Md,
and for several years has been en-
gagged in art and illustrating in New
York. Mr.. Talley is a graduate Of
the University of Virginia and is a
grandson of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Pichard C. Workman of Richmond.
No date has been announced for the
wedding.
Mrs. Rathbone Smith and her son,
Mr.. Douglas Smith: her sister, Mrs.
Charles Poser of Fairfax, and Mrs.
M. c. Laidlaw returned last week
from a visit to Mrs. Smiths son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick Ainley Lanigan Charles
worth, in Guelph, Ontario. Mrs.
Charlesworth' returned home with
her mother and will remain here for
another two weeks. Before her mar
riage, last September, she was Miss