The Washington times., 1937-01-12
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Mrs. PinchOt
Serves Tea
MAGIC TOUCH
By HELEN ESSARY

BY HELEN ESSAhY
Any undertaking of Mr.. and
Mrs clifford Pinchot has individ-
uality. In politics, social service,
exploring and entertaining they
have the magic touch that looSens
up smugness.
Mrs. Pinchot's card saying mere
ly Five O'Clock, Monday" called
into the fine old mansion at 1915
Rhode Island Ave-, one Of the most
interested gatherings Of the Wash
ington winter season.
The house itself was a happy
setting for such meeting OF
people. We checked our hats and
coats in a big rectangular first
floor room, sometimes used as a
dining room. On the walls were
panels of forest scenes. The WIN
dows were hung in deep rose tai
feta. -,
Over the banister at the head
of the broad winding stairway was
flung a great rug of about 20 RED
foxes, trophies Of Pinchot mark
manShip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pinchot received
their guests, not in their drawing
room, but in a large cheerful
library. In this room the famous
Pinchot personality expressed itself
gracefully.
Mrs. Pinchot, in a silver and
gray dress with girdle OF dark
red to emphasize the color of her
hair, was as slim and two-dimen-
sional as a very young girl. Mrs.
Pinchot looked a tall scholar with
drooping white muStacheS.
Hundreds of volumes lined the
wall of the library from floor to
ceiling. But every book there
looked as if it had been actually
read. And on a table beneath a
reading lamp was "Gone With the
Wind"
Here and there across the book
shelves were hung tapestries. Az
the windows were dark red velVeC
draperies. Pink gladioh IN tai
vases were placed against screens
from the orient. A French lnlald
aecretary, a choice old walnut
desk, chairs and sofas upholstered
thickly, sconces burning tat can
dies some placed against screens,
bright fireplaces, small mementoes
from a trip to Galapagos--theSe
gave the room a menowness tnat
no anxious interior decoratlon
could achieve.
The tea table was spread IN
the library. In the center OF Ine
table was a very tall slender Flor
entine basket of fruit. At the
far end behind a great silver
coffee service sat little Mrs. Boran,
saving, lone or two Jumps, my
dear?" and do tell your friend
DR., Kurt Hetzel, who plays Cne
piano so beautifully, that nice
definition of the meaning OF music
Its what I want to remember
and what I hope to forget
Many representatives Of that
nowerful and uncertain kingdom
known as Washington were at
Mrs. Pinchot's tea.
For example, Mr.. Frank Morri-
son. the labor leader, who USED
n confer with Mr.. Pinchot when
he was governor of Pennsylvania
about miners strikes, was talking
tn Tariff Commissioner Robert
lincoln O'Brien and Mrs. O'Brlen.
Mrs. OBrien has just returned TO
washington and looks particularly
well after a summer and tau at
their New England place.
I also saw the French AmbaSsa'
dor and Nine. de Laboulaye, the
Soviet Ambassador and Nine.
Troyonovsky, Madame de With
wife of the Netherlands Minister: !:
the Austrian Minister and
Nine. Prochnik, Mrs. Roper
MRS, Morgenthau, Mrs. Hugh
Campbell wallace, Frau Won Boetr
ticher, Ralph Snowden Hill,
George Oakley Totten, Mr.. PAU
Welstach, Mr.. and Mrs. DaVlo
Lawrence, Mrs. Walter R. Tucker
man, with several pretty daugh-
tiers by the hand; Miss Bell Cur
nee, the Minister OF the irish
Free State, Mr.. Michael Mac.
white. the Solicitor General and
Mrs. Stanley Reed, Rear Admiral
Adolphus Andrews, Miss Marion
Trumbell, Mrs. Robert ]. Bulkley'
wife of the Senator from Ohio:
Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler. of Mon.
tana, and dozens of other good
looking and important people.
No cocktails or wines were
served. This was a nice change,
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