The Washington times., 1935-01-05
NOW
Congratulations
For Mr.. Farley
LONGS HONORED
BY HELEN ESSARY

BY HELEN ESSARY
'Don't forget now, Mr.. Far.
ley! The Inauguration and
luncheon"
So a pretty, dark-haired
woman said earnestly to the
Postmaster General.
Mr.. Farley with several dozen
other distinguished characters
was at the party Mr.. Robert
jackson gave for the Ambas-
Sador and Mrs. Breckenridge
Long at the 1925 F. Street Club.
Mr.. Farley, beaming happily, ex-
claimed:
Forget! Even il you and
George Earle weren't such great
people, 1 couldn't forget this
Inauguration. It's one of the
things they said never could
happen"
The Governor-elec of Penn
Sylvania and Mrs. Earle hurried
away to catch a train. The
Postmaster General sat down
again on one of Laura Curtis
big, gold-colored sofas and
talked cheerily about the thing
that never could happen-the
election of a Democratic COVER
nor in Pennsylvania. For fifty
years there's not been one. 1t
looked as if there never would
be one. But along came George
Earle.
Mr.. Farley was enthusiastic
about the support given the
Democrats in Pennsylvania by
young Tony Biddle (Anthony
j. Drexel Biddle, jrD Mrs. Bid
die Chat lovely looking thing
with the straight black bangs
Is the daughter of the energetic
and generous Republican, Will
liam Boyce Thompson. But she
and Tony Biddle changed their
political minds and went Demo
cratic.
They were at Bob Jackson's
party, too. And so was Mrs.
Mary Roberts Rinehart. Mrs.
Biddle told Mrs. Rinehart that
her detective stories frightened
her so that she couldn't sleep at
nights after reading one. Mrs.
Rinehart laughed and said:
81 am a master of goose
flesh"
Mr.. Farley was the center Of
much flattering attention.
I don't know when at any
Washington party I've seen as
amusing and assorted crowd Of
people-resident, official, diplo-
matte, and out-of-town groups.
The family of the Secretary of
War was there in body Gin an
assorted body plus Mrs. Harry
Baxter. So were the Homer
Cummingses and various joyful
Democratic Senators. Joe Rob-
inson and Bennett Clark, for
instance, and their wives. The
diplomatic corps in its best
medals and ribbons drifted in
from the White House reception.
The Austrian Minister, Mr..
Prochnik, looked at the dash
ing Mrs. Jock Whitney, the Di-
ana of Middleburg, and was re-
minded of a great huntsman in
his own country, the Austrian
Pole. Count Gizycka. Count
Gizycka was the husband OF
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson. "He
died in Vienna" said the Aus
trian Minister, land was buried
In his pink hunting coat. He
was a great cavalier"
A party like Bob Jackson's
gives disagreeing personalities
a chance to agree. There, for
instance, was Richard Robbins.
When president of the Trans
continental Air Mail, Mr.. Rob
bins sued the Postmaster Gen.
eral for a terrifying sum be-
cause the Government air mail
contracts we're taken from him
after accidents to fliers. The
other night, however, Mr.. Far
ley and Mr.. Robbins were gos-
Siping congenially together.
Mrs. F.. L. Lewis elizabeth
Arden) and Mrs. Scott Williams
came by in a whiff of del
icate perfume. Listen atten-
lively, girls-Mrs. Lewis used
no makeup. Her skin was
quite pale. She looked very
charming in a pale pink taf-
feta.
Vincent Bendix, who makes
many of the parts that make
automobiles go. stopped in on
his way home to Chicago. Mr..
Bendix is recently back from
three months in Russia. There,
no doubt, he considered the
Soviet's interest in automobiles.
I almost forgot to mention
John Hollister, who succeeded
Nick Longworth as Representa-.
tive from Cincinnati. Mr.. Hol-
lister talked a long time with
Alice Longworth.
And now paragraph about
Madame Mehemet Munir, who
came from New York on TueS-