The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-10


offered striking competition to the
colorful array of ribbons and uni
forms. Here and there were MANY
ranking officers who like General
and Mrs. Wheeler, have called
North Carolina ''home". Major
Gen. Edmund w. Hill and Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Ralph Wooten were
enjoying the French fried potatoes
and oysters, and Mrs. Jasper VIII
son, who came up from Durham
last week appeared engaged in an
interesting conversation with How
ard Small at one of the small
tables. Guests fingered long be-
yond the parting hour, enjoying the
music and the fellowship with our
southern neighbors, -finding their
soft voices and accents pleasant to
the ear.
Embassy Party
And, as follow-up of last weeks
noted success, another and per-
haps, more delightful cocktail
party was given at the magnificent
Greek Embassy Wednesday after
noon. AS is usually the custom the
guests gathered for the most part
in the dining room, where a beauti-
full buffet was served. In contrast
to the giant cake that graced the
table at the last party, large
platter of symmetrically arranged
pate de foie gras formed the in
teresting centerpiece. Among the
early arrivals were Mrs. Thomas
A. Walden, Mrs. Lothrop Stoddard
and dair-haired Mrs. Oscar Cox
formerly Miss Louise Black, who
is one of the most fascinating of
the Tar Heel femme contingent in
Washington.
Washington society, so used to
the unusual, is never casual when
something new comes along. Last
Saturday they found something de-
lightfully different in prenuptial
parties at the. luncheon to which
they had been invited by Mrs. Will
liam c. Murray (the former Mrs.
Novella Horton Caps, Of Farm
vile and Raleigh.) Mrs. Murray
had cleverly issued her invitations
in honor of Mrs. Murray's daugh-
ter, Miss "Novie" Capps, the cards
looking very much like it might be
debut. Guests found Mrs. Muir
ray looking quite handsome in a
black frock topped with a black
flared hat and the young guest OF
honor smiling in most disarming
manner around a shoulder corsage
of large lavendar orchids. And,
it was not until the guests opened
the placecards, tied with small
sprays of orange blossoms flown
up from Florida by Miss Caps
aunt, Mrs. Madeline Rountree,
that the real import of the occasion
began to dawn on them. Frank
and Novie' rippled down and
around the long table with its 80
guests, all close friends Of the
young bride-to-be and her mother.
After the first course was well I'm.
derway, Movie slipped around
among the guests, receiving felici
tations-and answering a thousand
questions such a popular and soon
to-be-married girl is heir to!
That very afternoon, with 9
group Of the luncheon guests she
was off for Annapolis to attend {
special concert with the lucky
young midshipnan, Frank Mont
gomery Adams, and half dozer
or more of his friends. The wed
ding will take place in June in the
Bethlehem Chapel of the Washing
ton cathedral, with the Rev. Jacl
Rountree coming up from Kinstor
to perform the ceremony.
Guests at the luncheon included
Mrs. Clarence Bowman, of Ra'
leigh: Miss Beverly Parker, Miss
Elizabeth Farmer, Miss Ann Jones
Miss Elizabeth McNair, Miss Har'
riet Cooley, Miss Brooke Stiedel
Miss Mary Broadus, Miss Mary
Ogden, Miss Sophia Alexander
Miss Jeane Miles, Miss Love Diffee
Miss Terry Speaker, Miss Eloise
Vanstory, Miss Patricia Meyers
Miss Mary Calvert, Mrs. Lee Grim
Mrs. Ann P. Neel, Mrs. Oliver
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