Evening star., 1946-08-18
Neayport Gay
Nth Parties
Tennis Week
Bedford Scene
Of Important
Ceremony
By Margaret Hart Candy
Society Editor


lnent-that is socially speaking
shifted from the local scene for a
while to place its rays on events
that might be of interest here.
At Rhode Islands fashionable
Newport where SO many Capitalltes
are summering there was much to
attract its bright beams. The resort
was found to be about the gayest
place ever with Tennis Week festiv-
tiles setting merry pace and par
ties for debutantes last night giving
a brilliant finale to a breath-taki
Whirl.
Then further north in New
Bedford to be exact
wedding bells rang for popular
young couple. Their marriage claims
the attention not only of top mem
bers of the service set in the Ma
tion's Capital, but in old residential
circles here as well.
The bridegroom. Mr.. Stuart
Carleton Davidson is the son OF
Mai Gen. and Mis-. Howard C.
Davidson of Washington. His love-
ly bride, Miss Polly Wheeler, the
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. Henry
Wheeler, jr, of Boston.
Reception on Lascn
The beautiful old Colonial sum-
mer home of Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler
in Bedford made a delightful place
for guests to assemble after the
ceremony. The grounds Of the resi-
dence, built in 1890, are at their
loveliest, and it was here that guests
were received and fingered to enjoy
q very pleasant afternoon.
The Bedford Presbyterian Church
was where the couple exchanged
their marriage VOWS with the Rev.
Michael Testa officiating at noon.
A simple arrangement of white
blossoms against a background of
palms and ferns was used in the
church and an organ recital was
given as the guests filled the edifice
Wearing her mothers wedding
gown and veil OF Brussels lace, the
bride was escorted and given in
marriage by her father The ivory
satin gown is designed with a fitted
bodice and a deep bertha of lace
similar to that used in the veil and
the skirt sWirls into graceful train
TIE bride carried white roses and
lille.
Miss Mary Natter of Crosse
Point was the maid of honor and
the brideSmaidS--Miss Mary David
son. sister of the bridegroom, Miss
Joan Tompkins of New York, Miss
Eleanor Cole of Boston and Miss
Bambi Merck of Orange, N. J.
The costumes of the attendants
were particularly striking. The
dresses were of yellow faille FASH
toned along bouffant lines, and
they wore matching hats of tulle
trimmed with deep delphinium blue
ribbon corresponding with the del
phinium in their bouquets of yel-
low gladioluses.
Mrs. Wheeler chose for her childs
wedding a gown of beige crepe with
which she wore dusty pink feather
hat and corsage of orchids. Mrs.
Davidson wore print gown with
matching accessories and a cluster
of white orchids.
Mr.. William Randall of Balti-
more was the best man and the
ushers 'were Mr. Francis Sherman
and Mr.. William Pilling, both of
Philadelphia; Mr.. Henry Wheeler
III. brother of the bridegroom. and
Mr.. Preston l.. Wright of San Fran
cisco.
When the couple left on their
honeymoon somewhere in New Eng
land, the bride was wearing a dark
blue ensemble. Later they will re-
side in Boston, where the bride
groom will resume his studies at
Harvard, which were interrupted
when he entered the Army Air
Forces during the war The bride
attended Chatham Hall.
Gen. and Mrs. Davidson were
accompanied by their twin daugh-
ters. Julia and Frances. when they
went north for the wedding, and
Miss Mary Davidson joined them
there. They probably will be away
from Washington for a while for a
bit of holiday. Mary has chartered
q boat and with some friends will
take a cruise in northern waters
before returning home.
Days preceding their wedding Mr.
and Mrs. Davidson were given sew
eral charming parties and among
these was one given by the bride S
uncles and aunts. Mr.. and Mrs. Leon
M. Little of Boston. Mr.. and Mrs.
William B. Snow. jr. of Brookline,
Mass, and Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander
Wheeler of Boston.
Dinner Dance Given
Now to go back to gay Newport.
Practically the entire summer colony
and many guests there for Tennis
Week attended the parties given last
evening for Miss Helen H Bowdoin
and Miss Dorrance Hill.
It was not Miss Bowdoin,s formal
comlng-out party. She was presented
on Long Island earlier in the sum-
mer at a dance given by her father
Mr.. George Temple Bowdoin. Last
nights affair-a dinner dance. given
by her mother, Mrs. Edward H
Foley, jr., and her husband who is
an assistant secretary of the Treas.
ury-was just another party TO,
the pretty debutante. 1t was very
gay at the Clambake Club. where
the function was staged. An orches.
ira played as the guests arrived a,
8. and at midnight when the guest,
all left for the supper dance giver
for Miss Hill, the musicians wer,
still at their stations.
The Foleys and the latter's daugh.
ter have been members of the sum.
mer colony at the resort for the pas
two years. They now are occuuyins
the De Rham Villa on Red Cros,
Avenue and here they have as thei,
weekend guests Miss Abby Miltor
and the Messrs. David Cromwell am
Hallett johnson.
Largest Fefe at Resort
For Miss Hill it was her forma
debut with her parents, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Nathaniel P. Hill of New Yorl
entertaining at Bois Dore, theil