Evening star., 1942-08-16

Large parties are out for the dura-
ton in the Bethesda communities
and in their place has come what
the women call small and early
evening affairs.
Usually these parties are planned
on the day they are given and con-
sist of only few intimate friends
who get together for supper and
perhaps game of bridge. But. it
is these little parties that keep alive
Bethesdas reputation for neighbor-
Lness and sociability.
A typical Saturday evening party
In the Bethesda community was that
given last evening by Maj. and Mrs.
George E. Pariseau in Battery Park.
Their son-in n-law, Mr.. Julian Culver,
of New York, who is spending the
week here, celebrated his birthday
anniversary yesterday. And yester-
day was also the birthday anniver-
sary of Mr.. Oscar Smaltz, an old
friend of the Pariseau family.
To celebrate both anniversaries,
Mai. and Mrs. Pariseau invited IL
guests for an evening party with a
buffet supper first. At the party
were Mrs. Culver, the former Miss
Pauline Pariseau, who came to Bat
terry Park Friday with Mr.. Culver;
Col and Mrs. J. L. Gilbreth, Mr. and
Mrs. E. M. Willis, Mr.. and Mrs.
Smaitz and their daughter, Mrs.
Horace Lowe, and Mrs. j. B. Met
calfe of Louisville, KY, who has
been with Col. and Mrs. Gilbreth
since the early part of the summer
Another of these so-called small
parties will be given in Bethesda
tomorrow by Mrs. Woodson T.
Birthright who has invited few
friends to lunch to meet her sister
in-law, Mrs. w. J. Birthright, of
White Plains, N. Y. Mrs. Birth
right and her two children, Suzanne
and Lynn, have been the guests of
DR.. and Mrs. Birthright for the past
two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis w. Hill, jr.,
were IN Baltimore last evening to
>attend a buffet supper following the
wedding of Mrs. Hills cousin, the
former Miss Gotten Skinner, OF
Greenville, S. c. Miss Skinner
marriage to Mr.. Bass Shepherd took
place yesterday afternoon at the
Church of the Redeemer in Balti-
more. Mrs. Shepherd has fire.
quently visited in Washington and
several years ago she spent year
here at the King Smith School.
Mrs. O. H. Gish, who has been
with her father in Nebraska for the
past three months, returned to her
home in Somerset, Md, yesterday
Mrs. Gish's daughter, Miss Lois
Eileen Gish, will be married next
Saturday to Mr. Donald Charles
Scott of Washington.
Speaking of brides Mrs. George
Grkovic. the former Miss Jean
Warn. who was married in July, had
an exciting trip to San Francisco
last week. She had been with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Madison Warm
of Greenwich Forest for a few days
and left Monday to join Ensign
Grkovic who had been assigned to
duty on the West Coast. But when
she was half way to California Mrs.
Grkovic learned that Ensign Grko-
vic had been transferred to another
post. However, she continued her
trip and is now visiting her cousins,
Col. and Mrs. l.. A. La Garde, in
San Francisco.
Miss Elizabeth Jardine of Wax
haw, N. c., has come to Bethesda
to be the guest Of Miss Annabel
Embrey. Miss Jardine and Miss
Embrey have been roommates for
the past two years in the Woman's
College of the University of North
Carolina.
Miss Kathleen May of Edgemoor
has gone to her former home in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, for visit with
relatives. She will return in Sep
tember before the opening of the