Evening star., 1942-03-02

tllc ldlC MI dIlu Vl1S. OOIlil N. NC
Lean for their house on I street,
now the site of the Federal Security
Building. These tall pillars gave
the only light in the ballroom in
the house on I street and have
been in storage since the destruc-
ton of that house.
Mrs. Mclean has reassembled her
large collection of china animals
and placed them to greater ad-
vantage in their new home than
they we're in the older house Now
they are against a background of
pale blue walls and ceiling and have
much more room than formerly.
The new Friendship estate, which
occupies city block between r and
Thirty fourth streets and Wisconsin
avenue, originally was known as
Mount Hope. the main part OF the
house having been built by Col.
William Robinson about 1880. From
the Robinson family it passed into
the hands of Joseph Weaver, whose
descendants leased the property to
the old Dumbarton Club, which had
used property now known as Bur-
leith. After taking over the Weaver
estate, the club developed consid-
cradle fame for athletics, having an
outstanding baseball team and ten
mis- squads Delightful dinner par
ties and dances were held in the
old house. After the demise OF the
Dumbarton Club the Weaver estate
sold the house and grounds to Mr..
Alexander Kirk, who enlarged and
remodeled the house to its present
proportions.
Guests Seated at Small
Tables in Dining Room.
Guests were seated at small tables
in the dining room. each table hav-
ing a large mound of pink snap
dragons, tulips, jonquils, freesia and
mimosa. Mrs. Mclean sat at table
In smaller dining room on lower
level and sitting with her were the
presidents of the two clubs, Mrs.
Esther van Wagner Tufty of the
Press Club and Mrs. Marie McNair
of the Newspaper Womens Club.
Also at the hostess table were the
vice presidents of the clubs. Miss
Elisabeth Ellicott Poe and Mrs.
Sophie Pool Kepner of the News
paper women's Club. and Miss
Patricia O'Malley and Mrs. Elisabeth
May Craig OF the Press Club; the
honorary presidents of the News
paper Womens Club. Mrs. Kate
Scott Brooks; Mrs. Helen Essary,
former president of the Press Club;
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, and Mrs.
Robert Low Bacon, an associate
member of the Newspaper Women's
Club.
Among the out-of town members
Of the organizations who we're at
the party were Mrs. Mary Patter-
son Routt who arrived the end of
the week from her Pasadena home
for her annual spring visit in the
Capital, and Mrs. Roderick Trip
lett from Portsmouth, Va. who was
the guest over Sunday of Mrs. Ran
dolph Hopkins, making the trip es-
pecially for last nights party.
Motion Picture Shown
After Dinner.
Following her custom, Mrs. Nc
Lean entertained her guests after
dinner with a motion picture, Call
Out the Marines" and through the
evening numbers of the guests
gathered in the bar, to the right of
the entrance from Thirty fourth
street. The room is larger than the
one used in her former home and
permits more small tables, where
guests fingered after the showing
of the picture.
Among others at the party were
Representative Edith Nourse Rog-
ers, the Director of the Mint, Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross; Mrs. Daniel c.
Roper, Mrs. William N. Doak, Mrs.
Edward Everett Gam, Mrs. Charles
M. Lea, Mrs. Atherton Macondray,
Mrs. Perry S. Heath, Mrs. Luther
Sheldon, jr.;; Mrs. Emil Hurja, Mrs.
Charles Stanley White and Mrs.
Clarence Norton Goodwin, associate
members of the Newspaper Wom-
ems Club.