Evening star., 1941-03-03

OSwaldo Thomas Whateley, Mr.. Lac
Pinto, from Brazil, and DR.. Luis Gull
Mrs. Mclean Gives Dinner
For Newspaper Women.
Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean gave
her annual dinner honoring mem
bers of the Newspaper Women S
Club. of which she is an associate
member, and those of the Women S
National Press Club. In addition she
had several guests from out of town,
personal friends who also are mem
bers of the Fourth Estate, but it was
entirely feminine party. Guests
were asked for o'clock and the
hostess received at the door of the
drawing room, assisted by Mrs.
Cordell Hull, the ranking guest at
the party, and Mrs. Arthur H. VAN
denberg, next in rank, who also are
associate members of the Newspaper
Women's Club.
The house at Friendship, the Nc
Lean estate on Wisconsin avenue,
was lavishly decorated with large
clusters of early spring blossoms,
delicate mimosa and freesia, tall
stalks of gladioluses and snap
dragons, with yellow predominating
in each cluster
Mrs. Mclean Wears
Delicate Shade of Pink.
Mrs. Mclean was wearing a deli
cate shade of pink, the first time
she has appeared in light color for
some years, her gowns usually being
black. The dress last evening was
of lace fashioned with short sleeves
and jacket effect with gracefully
f1aring skirt, and about her shoul-
ders as she stood in line she wore
a cape of ostrich feathers exactly
matching the frock. About her
neck she wore her famous Hope
diamond hanging from string of
small diamonds and wide band of
diamonds fashioned in links like
chain, hung around her neck and
below the Hope diamond. In her
ears she wore dainty circles of dia-
monds and on her arms numerous
bracelets of varying widths, each
set with diamonds.
Mrs. Hull, looking particularly
well after her recent illness, was
in black crepe, the hip-length semi
fitted jacket embroidered in gold
in. the front. Mrs. Vandenberg, also
wearing black crepe relieved its Sc
verify with tiny beads of dull red,
blue and gold.
Tables Seating 10 Each
Placed in Dining Room.
Tables seating 10 were placed In
the dining room and in the sun
parlor, each with a tall vase filled
with spring flowers and about the
base more spring flowers. There
were no place cards except at Mrs.
McIteans table where Mrs. Hull sat
at her right and Mrs. Vandenberg
at her left. Also seated at her
table were the presidents of the
Women's National Press Club and
of the Newspaper Women's Club
with other officers of the two Or
ganizations, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson,
an active member of both groups;
Mrs. Eugene Meyer, an active mem
ber of the Newspaper Women's
Club and its honorary president,
Kate Scott Brooks; with Repre-
sentative Edith Nourse Rogers and
the Director of the Mint, Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, both associate
members of the Newspaper Women's
Club.
Coffee was served in the drawing
room after which a motion picture,
"The Girl in the News" was shown
In the sun parlor.
House Guest of Hostess
Wears Gown of Gray.
Miss Inez Robb of New York,
house guest of the hostess, wore
gray. The lace of the gown, fash
ioned with a short train and having
cape-like ruff1es over the shoulders,
exactly matched the gray of her
softly waved hair.
Others at the party, all of them
affiliated with one or the other, or
both, of the local clubs, were the
civil service commissioner, Mrs.
Lucille Foster McMillin; Mrs. Daniel
C. Roper, Mrs William N. Doak,
Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mrs. Clar-
ence Norton Goodwin, Mrs. Perry
S. Heath, Mrs. Emil Hurja, Mrs.
Clarence M Lea, Mrs. Jacob
Leander Loose and Mrs. Atherton
Macondray, associate members of
the Newspaper Women's Club; Mary
Patterson Routt of Pasadena, Calf;
Mrs. Roderick Triplett of Ports
mouth, Va; Jane Eads of New York,
formerly of Washington, and Mrs.
Julia Lee Richart of Alexandria
were among nonresident members
attending the party.
Mrs. Dougherty HOnors
Chinese Ambassador.
Other dinners last night included
the one which Mrs. John Allan
DouphertV gave. when her ranking