Evening star., 1946-06-30
Betty BeaLe

her mother to South Dartmouth,
Mass, for q months stay with Liz
Houghton, whose summer home is
there. In the meantime, DR.. Mont
gomery Blair, as a member of the
American Academy of Pediatrics, is
doing bit of travelling helping with
a survey of child health services.
Monty's brother and Jenny's sister,
in short, the Bill Blairs, will stay
here to enjoy their country place
Box Hill, just above Great Falls. 1t
is famous for its magnificent old
English box and, during the summer
months, the swimming pool.
This seems an appropriate time
to say why Virginia Blair rates
SO high with Capital penwomen.
In this socially publicized town (and
the experts say there is more So
ciety news in Washington than in
any other city in the world, she is
one of those rare people who neither
seeks publicity of any nature, nor
doth she protest too much. She
apparently does not think she is
SO important that it can make any
difference whether or not her name
appears in print, and yet she OBJ
viously and justifiably feels suffi-
clently secure so as not to be con-
cerned about what might be said.
Those nice people who are sincerely
fearful of the written word should
follow Vlrginia's intelligent ex-
ample.
~ Il --z
Due back here next week from a
visit in Holland is DR.. Andre van
Wagenberg, q former member of
the Netherlands Economic Mission.
He and his attractive wife Aino, who
have been making their home here,
will be moving to New York next
month, where Andre will be vice
president of new firm just start
ing called the Foreign Advisory Cor
poration. The president is an
American, John Rudolf, a partner
in the Fahnestock banking firm.
At the present time the van Wagen-
bergs have fabulous visitor, Amos
grandmother, Nine. Leena Grun-
berg.
Nine. Grunberg, an Esthonian, is
remarkable because she's "a years
old and still is the way she is.
After living through the stark hor-
rors Of war, and she has seen the
very worst of it, when DR.. van Wa
genberg went to Germany to get
her last winter, he found a keen,
bright-eyed woman. straight as an
arrow, with her hat and coat on,
ready to go places. On the long,
ocean voyage to this country, and
it took 18 days with things not too
comfortable, she was the only per-
son on the entire ship who never
got Seasick. She will spend the sum-
mer with Aino and will also visit
the latter's parents, the Kaarel Pus-
tas, who live on Long Island Mr..
PuSta Is the former Esthonian Min
lister to Paris.
just completed is the portrait by
Seymour Stone of one of the most
beautiful women in Washington,
Rosemary Mcmahon, wife of Sena-
tor Brien Mcmahon of Connecti-
cut, with daughter, Patty McMa-
hon. The painting, which is beau
tiful-it couldn't fail to be with
such subjects, will be the reason
for Mcmahon party in the near
future. Seymour Stone is the ar
tist who has painted Gen. Ike
Eisenhower, Tom Clark, Sam Ray
burn, Admiral Chester Nimitz and
1t. Gen. Ira Eaker. Something
out of the ordinary and fraught
with interest, amusing comments,
ETC., would be a portrait party
which some one in this town ought
to give. On the walls could be the
painted likenesses of as many of
the people present as was possible,
and in Washington that would
mean scores Of pictures of some OF
the most prominent people in town.
It would be a critics field day.