The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-05-19
NOW
The PinchOtS
Haze Fun
AT A PARTY
BY HELEN EssARY

ernor OF pennsylvania, ana MS
wife, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, get
great fun out Of living. They've
verve and humor and the same
adventurous attitude toward the
world. In the Governors man
sion at Harrisburg, or in their
fine house on Scott Circle, or in
3 bounding sailboat off the shores
Of the MarqueSas and Galapa-
COS Islands, they are equally at
home. -.
The friends who sat in the Ii
brary of their washington house
Monday night and enjoyed the
moving pictures Of their cruise to
the South Sea Islands were lucky
in catching their host and hostess
in two environments at the same
time.
In 1929 former Governor and
Mrs. Pinchot ana their son, Gift
ford, jr., now O student at Yale,
went off in the family yacht, the
"Mary Pinchot," to explore the
South Seas. They took many pic
lures on the trip. More excit-
ing and beautiful photography
I've never seen. Adolph Zukor
should waste no time in getting
the Pinchots to lead his Holly
wood prima donnas.
Much amusement was added to
the picture showing by Mr.. and
Mrs. Pinchot's explanations. He
said:
Here you have seen the
sharks rushing about. You've
watched one big fellow eat o
dead lamb in one bite. Neverthe.
less, Mrs. PinchOt is determined
to q. down in these same waters
and hunt for coral"
Next we saw Mrs. Pfnch0t In
diving suit, climbing over the side
of the boat. She explained:
'T'm very lucky in that par
ticular suit. If, when I'm below
water, the men should forget
to pump oxygen down my line,
I lust take my helmet off. It's
o simple arrangement"
It didn't seem so simple to us,
taking ones helmet off, fathomS
deep in the water. However, the
next turn of the reel showed Mrs.
Pinchot wandering about the bot
tom Of the sea, cheerily hacking at
coral reefs with a Ratchet. The
helmet stayed on, fortunately.
In the same carefree manner
the Pinchots rode surf boats,
climbed steep mountains. reveled
in sunsets, fiShed, shot sea bats,
did setting-up exercises with
turtles and-here's the most inn
portant part-lived to tell the tale
DELIGHTFULLY."-.
And now something about Other
people you should know.
Although Representative Edith
NourSe Rogers Is q staunch Re
publican from Massachusetts, she
draws no party Lines in her home.
at her dinner table Monday sat
that equally staunch Democrat,
Representative Nan Wood Honey
man from Oregon: likewise, or
primarily I might say, Supreme
Court Justice and Mrs. Harlan
Fiske stone and Senator James
Hamilton Lewis, ardent Demo
cratic supporter Of President
Rooseyelt's Supreme Court retire
ment bill. Mrs. Lewis was also a
guest and was entertaining as
she always is.
Those determined Republicans,
former Senator Daniel Hastings,
of Delaware, and Mrs. Hastings,
were additional guest of Mrs. Rog-
ers. Such q political mixture
naturally put us on our toes con-
yersationally.
:, Versatile diplomacy was also
well represented at Mrs. Rogers
dinner. There were the Italian
Ambassador and Donna Matilde
Euvich Donna Matilde is so
pretty and witty that dignitaries
hope to sit beside her at the din
ner tablet; the japanese AmbaS-
Sador and Madame Saito MADAME
Saito wearing one of the prettiest
prints of the spring bright clear
flowers on o black background =,
and the Danish Minister, Mr.. Otto
Wadsted, happy about the Jubilee
celebration Of King Christian Of
Denmark
Among the other guests at this
representative Washington party
were j. Pierpont Moffat, Consul
General at Sydney, Australia: Mr..
and Mrs. Keith Merrill, Miss Anne
Squire, the Emily Post of Wash
ington, and Mr.. Eames McVeagh.
Mrs. Harry Flood Byrd, wife of
the outSpoken Senator from Vir-
ginia, is seldom in Washington.
However, she is coming today from
her home ct Berryville especially
to visit Montpelier Manor, the
home of former Ambassador to
Italy and Mrs. Breckenridge Long.
The manor will be open for the
benefit OF Stratford, the birthplace
Of Robert e. Lee, in Virginia.
Montpelier Is famously beauti-
full old place. In its traditions are
stories Of both Colonial opulence
and Quaker caution. When Qua
ker Thomas Snowden married
Anne Ridgely, o Baltimore heir.
esS, he added rich wings and gar
dens to the manor built by his
father in 176O. The QuakerS
threatened to expel him from the
Meeting House for extravaganza.
ant Thomas freed q hundred