The Washington times., 1938-01-15


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NOL. AND MRS. CALVIN
~ MATTHEW'S were hosts at
a small and very nice dinner
Thursday night at their house.
Mrs. Matthews is reminiscent
of a dainty Dresden figurine,
and with her exquisite white
skin and silver hair. is one of
the prettiest women in the Ma
rine Corps.
A ND speaking of the Marine
"A Corps, Quantico, which has
been extremely gay all during
the holidays with dinners,
dances, teas and goodness
knows what else, is going to be
very quiet, so we are told, at
least for the next two months.
All because some 500 Marines,
stationed there, have gone away.
The Fleet Marine Force, to
give these 500 Marines their
official title, sailed yesterday
morning at o'clock from Nor
folk to go to Cullbra for ma
neuvers. Consequently, the en-
tertaining done at Quantico
will consist mainly Of femme
bridge foursomes and occa-
sional luncheons.
MAJOR MATTHEW KING
4N1 MAN, who is now stationed
in San Francisco, has been Wis
iting here the last week with
Col. and Mrs. Leroy Hunt at
their quarters in the Marine
Barracks. Major Kingman, who
will be remembered, and most
pleasantly, by scores of people
knew him when he was sta
toned at Quantico, has obvi-
ously not changed one bit. be-
ing just as good looking and
just as nice as ever. Major King
man, who is quite a golf devotee
and plays an excellent game,
used to spend every spare min
ute of his time on the golf
course at Quantico and he is
doing the same thing in San
Francisco.
MRS. JAMES McHUGH, wife
UA of Major McHugh, U. S. M.
c., has collected the most beauti-
full brocadeS and furnishings
from all over the world but
especially from China. At the
moment, with an apartment in
Washington cher husband is in
China). half Of her lovely pos
sessions are in storage in Guam
tico but she has a few of them
with her.
One piece that intrigued us
was a fireSide bench. OF course
it must have a name but that
describes it. 1t is heavily cush-
ioned, very intricately carved
and is a combination of red and
gold. This bench is made in sew
eral units, which can be used
separately or, as Mrs. McHugh
now uses it, in one whole piece
which entirely surrounds the
fireplace.
DAISY DONOHUE, pretty
L daughter of Commander and
Mrs. Robert Donohue, is wearing
a plenty good looking dress
these recent days and one which
has very tricky accessories in
the way of buttons. The dress
is that exquisite and hard to
wear shade of aquamarine and
the row of glittering glass but
tons which parade down the
front from collar to hem are
made in the manner of women'S
tiny turbans.
DUTH ELLEN PATTON,
~ daughter of Colonel and
Mrs. George Patton, is here in
town looking lovelier than ever.
She is slim and blonde and
graceful and has the most grac-
ious manners of any young per-
son we know. AS you doubtless
remember, the PattonS went
from here for station in Homo
lulu, but are now back in the
States.
Ruth Ellen, when we saw her
last week, admitted that though
she liked Washington, she did
hate to leave Honolulu. Mrs.
Patton, her mother, has been
for some time interested in the
history Of Hawaii. and the book
which she wrote, titled THE
Blood Of the Shark" was mostly
to do with this interesting sub
ject, with the central figure be-
ing Captain George Beckley.
Captain Beckley founded the
Hawaiian fleet and married into
the reigning family. 1t was Cap
tain Beckley'S great granddaugh-
ter, Emma Ahuena Taylor, who
gave Mrs. Patton most Of her
factual history for this book.
Mrs. Taylor gets her very Amer
ican last name because she mar
ried an American newspaper.
man.
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HEN. EDWIN WINANS thinks
u that the Army, Navy Coun-
try Club and the Army Navy
Club are so confusing as to SINH
lar names, unless one says the
whole out, that something
should be done about it. Gen
eral WinanS had a very unSatiS-
factory experience with these
names, which is one reason he
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