Evening star., 1939-07-30
Social Set
Changes in
The Capital
Mrs. McNutt and
Mrs. Sayre Hold
Interest Here
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asset to any gathering. There is not
the slightest pretenSe about this
young member of the McNutt fam
lily, and that she enjoys life TO the
uppermoSt is most evident in her
l sunny disposition and her redlneSS
Z to smile at the slightest provocation.
7 There is frankneSs about her that
Is delight in this day and age. She
admitted yesterday that she is
frightened to death of flying" and
mischievously confided that even
though her mother was obliged to
60 places by plane she did not believe
her mother liked flying any better
than she did.
Leave for Summer
Stay in indianapolis.
Mrs. McNutt and her daughter
concluded their short stay in WASH
ington yesterday, leaving with Mr..
McNutt for Cleveland. From the
Ohio city the two ladies will 90 to
indianapolis, where they will spend
the remainder of the summer
months. Mr. McNutt is expected
back at his Office here the first of
the week.
While in the Capital last week
the house problem engaged the time
OF Mrs. McNutt. After searching
about, she decided in favor of an
apartment. While no decision as to
just which one of the many she
inspected would be leased, however,
1t is definite that the head of the
new Federal agency and his attrac-
tive wife will live in an apartment,
instead of house, as was an
nounced.
Mrs. Sayre Not Stranger
To the Philippines.
Mrs. Sayre well is equipped to fill
the position held in the Philippines
by Mrs. McNutt. Her graclouSneSS
and consideration for others has en-
deared her to Washington. She
does not entertain on large scale,
her small informal parties at her
home on lockwood parkway all the
more StreSsing her desire for SIM
plicity and simple living.
The Sayre family have delayed
discussing plans for their departure
for Manila, for Mr.. Sayre'S appoint
ment by the President has not been
confirmed. But quite naturally the
young sons of Mrs. Sayre are all eX-
cited over the fact that a trip across
the Pacific is in store for them.
Ralph A. Graves, the 14-year-old
son of Mrs. Sayre, who is just the
age his mother was when she Wis
tied on the islands, and his brother,
William Pierce Evans Graves. two
years his Junior, will be the only
ones to accompany Mr.. and Mrs.
Sayre to the Philippines. if and
when they go. The children of Mr.
Sayre, all of college age. must COM
plete their courses and SO must re-
main in this country. Miss Eleanor
AXson Sayre is student at Rad
cllffe; Mr.. Woodrow Wilson Sayre
attends Williams College, and his
older brother will resume his studies
at Cambridge Theological Seminary.
Mrs. Sayre has pleasant memories
Of the islands, where she went with
her father, the late Col. William
Pierce Evans. She regrets the pos
sibility of leaving her Washington
home and friends but looks forward
with real pleasure to the prospect
of again seeing the beautiful places
she visited when just little girl
This week Mrs. Sayre will be off
for Martha'S Vineyard, where she
will have the whole family with her
her sons and the children of Mr..
Sayre-for the month of August.
Mr.. Sayre will join his family for
long week ends.
Senator and Mrs. Van Nuys
Will Entertain Today.
The social spotlight today will
spread its rays on a spacious old
farm in Virginia, for Senator and
Mrs. Frederick Van Nuys have asked
a few of the congressional clan to
crop by for dinner at their newly
acquired place, Mooreheld, a mile
from Vienna, Va.
Senator and Mrs. Van Nuys are
proud of their new home and Justly
so. for the 150-acre tract boasts every
thing that one could wish to have
on farm. There is a stately white
house, on the incline of the rolling
grounds, that was built $50 years
ago and the old oaken bucket that
hangs by the well at the front of
the house is mute evidence that the
place is stepped in memories of by
gone days.
From the wide screened veranda
at the back of the house. which over
looks the garden, stables and other
buildings on the place, the guests
today will see the many prize heifers
and the beautiful horses of Senator
and Mrs. Van NuyS
Giant old trees give ample shade
about the house and the flower gar
den, now in full bloom, is enhanced
by the dignity of the age-old box