Evening star., 1947-06-15
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dreamed up In the Capital. Maybe
one should say Georgetown because
that's where it is to be. For some
reason or other, people in little old
Georgetown insist on differentiating
between their part of town and the
rest of Washington.
Anyhow this is something really
new and it could be terrific. An inn
posing list of sponsors has been
lined up, architectural plans drawn
and an option secured on a marvel
Gus site near Dumbarton Oaks. It's
to be called The Tennis Club and
will boast two indoor tennis courts
and two outdoor ones, two indoor
badminton courts, 30 by so club
room for entertaining purposes, a
bar and an indoor pool that can be
turned into an outdoor one by rails
ing the glass walls.
1t sound out of this world, but, Of
course, there's the little problem of
raising the required funds. A nom
profit making project, it won't 60
into construction until its financial
backing is a surety, but it is already
incorporated and recorded In the
District of Columbia and the money
is now being raised. Judging from
some of the names backing 1t, it
looks as If anything could be ac-
complished. The sponsors include
Robert Woods Bliss, Henry Benning
Spencer, Keith Merrill, Coleman
Jennings, Nancy Weller Dewey, Will
liam s. Youngman, jr., Asa Phillips,
James L. Karrick, Mrs. j. Laurence
Barnard, Stephen Dorsey, Jean Wal
lace Douglas, Mary Morrison and
Bob Breckenridge.
The social world is really small.
Tasha Mayo is just back from New
York, where, incidentally, she keeps
an apartment and spends about
half her time. While there she
lunched at the chic Colony Club and
saw somebody from Washington at
nearly every table. The funny part
of the story is that generous Tasha
had told three friends, either in
Washington or New York, that they
were free to borrow hat from her
collection, which Is q large one, all
from the same exclusive New York
house and most of them original
models.
One by one. entirely unpremedi-
tated and unexpected. each of the
three hats walked in. Eulah Morgan,
who didn't even know Tasha was in
Gotham, had on a dreamy grey
straw sailor: Ruth Dubonnet (of the
French wine fame) a blue felt;
Manhattan scribe Helen Thompson,
q white straw. 1t was tf1ree-ring
millinery circus and nearby, wonder
ing what the joke was about, were
United States Ambassador John
Wiley and Mrs. w. on their way. to
his new post in Portugal; Felicia
Dewey sitting with friends: Frances
Rosso, just before sailing for Italy;
and Mrs. William C. Gwynn with
daughter, Louise Harrison Drake,
wife of Fred Drake, publisher of
Harper's Bazaar. The brakes have
one of the show places of Connecti-
cut. Eulah, by the way. will leave
the 22nd for two weeks at Biltmore,
Forest. N. C.
y \
The Robert Guggenheims are
leaving July l, with skates in hand,
to spend the summer at Sun Valley,
Idaho. The famed winter resort ap-
parently functions just as well in
the summertime as during the freez-
ing season-better even If you're
not wild about skiing. The most
fascinating thing about 1t is that
there's ice skating there all year
around. When the suns up in the
sky the rink is covered with canvas
It's uncovered before sunup, and
again at sunset, when the skaters
begin to twirl to music while their
friends sit about at tables watching,
and slipping the evening aperetif.
Sounds easy to take.
News comes that Wahwee Bark
ley Macarthur, wife of Doug Mac
Arthur who Is stationed at our EN-
bassy In Paris, has taken a villa at
Cannes for part of the summer. It
Is the one that Grace Moore used to
1see BEALE, Page b-s3