Evening star., 1941-10-29

Warrenton, Miss Elaine Darlington,
Miss Sta Finkenstaedt, Miss Bar
bara Mallory. Mr.. Ralph Jester Of
California, Mr. John Anory Miss
HART Rhett, Mr.. Clifford Mallory
and Mr.. Britton Browne.
Miss Mary Wright and Miss Edith
Wright, daughters of the former
United States Ambassador to Cuba,
the late Mr.. j. Butler Wright, had
a group of their contemporaries
dining with them and joined their
mother, Mrs. Wright, in her box.
The group included Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Lloyd Symington, DR.. and Mrs.
Henry Beall Gwynn. jr. Miss Nancy
Weller, Miss Marjorie Ferguson, Mr..
Peter Drury, Mr.. Walter Cummings,
Mr. William Cary, Mr. Robert Cleve-
land and Mr.. Marshall Dill.
Vice President of Peru
Guest of Sumner Welles.
The brief visit Of the Vice PreSl-
dent of Peru, Senor Rafael LARGO
Herrera, gave little time for parties,
but yesterday he was entertained
at luncheon by the UnderSecretary
of State, Mr.. Sumner WelleS, and
today he was honor guest of his
Ambassador, the dean Of the dlplo-
Freyre Y Santander. Guests of Mr..
Welles included the Ambassador,
Senior de Freyre: the Attorney Gen.
eral, Mr.. Francis Biddle: the POST
master General, Frank C. Walker;
Senator Arthur Capper, Senator
James E. Murray, Senator Guy M.
Gillette Senator Josh Lee, Repre-
sentative Sol Bloom. Representative
w. R. Poage, Representative Foster
Stearns, the Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, Mr.. Ralph A. Bard; the
Undersecretary of Commerce. Mr..
Wayne hatfield-Taylor; the Coun-
selor of the Peruvian Embassy; Senor
Don Juan I. Elguera; the Director
General of the Office of Production
Management. Mr.. William S. Knud-
sen; the Director General OF the Pam
American Union, DR.. Leo S. Rowe;
the acting chief of the Division of
American Republics of the State De-
partment. Mr.. Paul G. Daniels; the
acting chief of protocol. Mr.. Stanley
Woodward; Capt. Albert P. FL
bright. U. S. A., aide to the Peru
Wan Vice President. and Mr.. John
F. Melby of the Division of American
Republics of the State Department.
Later in the afternoon the dis
tinguished visitor had tea with the
Newspaper Women's Club in its
Headquarters at 1904 Twentieth
street. Accompanying the Vice Presl-
dent were Capt Albert P. Elbright.
U. S. A, aide to the Peruvian official
while he is in this country. and Don
Alba, who acted as interpreter. Mrs.
Marie McNair, president of the club.
received the guests and presented
them to the guest Of honor
The attractive club rooms were
crowded through the late afternoon
and had an unusually artistic ar
rangement of flowers on the several
tables. Mrs Luther Sheldon. jr.,
planned the various clusters, using
for the center OF the tea table small
mink and mauve chrysanthemumS IN
a small blue black bowl on an ebony
stand, the flowers harmonizing with
the blue and pink cups and saucers
and the green lamps in the dining
room. In the lounge were button
chrysanthemums matching the col
or of the furnishings in the room,
and on the rare old Chinese braser,
a gift to the club from Gretchen
Smith in memory of her father, the
late Col. Herman c. Schumm, U. 5.
A.. an oblong Chinese blue bowl held
yellow daisies with several tiny but
ton chrysanthemums in one end,
Miss Grace Fry presided at the I'M
provised bar and among others as
sistinp were Mrs. Hobart Brooks,
who relieved Mrs. Sheldon at the
tea table, and Miss Patricia Brady.
Representative Edith Nourse Rog-
ers arrived late and with the Dl-
rector of the Mint, Mrs. Nellie Tay-
loe Ross, was Miss Dorothy Tom
hnson. Miss Frances Prultt. who
will leave Saturday for South Amer
lea. had a long conversation with
the Vice President in Spanish and
others at the party we're Mrs. Rob-
ert Bacon, Mrs. William N. Doak,
who had with her Maj. F. R. wash
burn, U. S. A.; Mrs. Clarence Nor
ton Goodwin with her son, Mr..
Mcdonald Goodwin; Mrs. Gilbert
M Hitchcock. Miss Clarissa Aiken
of Chicago, MS. Morrison, wife OF
Comdr. George Douglas Morrison,
U. S. N, recently returned from
Honolulu; Col. James w. Boyer, U.
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