Evening star., 1947-12-22

final curtain rang down, all the Hs
debutantes and their escorts (there
Crib hurried on to the after-theater>
supper which Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Gay Hooker, jr., and Miss Katherine
Hooker gave in their attractive
Georgetown house. Also acting as
host at this amusing affair was Mr..
Hooker III, who is at present a
member of the Hasty Pudding Club.
About 800 members of Washing
tons residential society thronged to
the Nicolson's home between and
o'clock. In order that there would
be room for all, they had invited the
debutante group to come between
and and all others between 4 and
s. The house was gay with holly,
mistletoe, Christmas greens of all
kinds.
The good looking brunei deb
utante received with her mother
in the drawing room wearing pale
blue point d'esprit dress with a very
full skirt, off-the- shoulder shawl
effect and scalloped peplum, the
soft color charmingly constrasted
by the violets in her fashioned
bouquet. Mrs. Nicolson looked very
lovely in an American beauty crepe
gown and corsage Of green orchids.
Assistants to Miss Nicolson were
Miss Alice Diggs. Miss Mary Rapley,
Miss Carol Bradley. Miss Anne Lee
Riddick, Miss Marthinson, Miss
Anne Fitzpatrick, Miss Frances
Sternhagen and Miss Marguerite
MCGEE from Spartansburg, S. c.,
house guest of the debutante.
Navy Capt. and Mrs. Fahrney and
their daughters received from S to 7
o'clock in their house on Wyoming
avenue. 1t, too, was bright with
Christmas decorations.
Mrs. Fahrney received with her
daughters wearing an length
gown of silver lame and corsage of
brown orchids. The debutantes were
dressed exactly alike in ballerina
gowns OF white and silver brocade
and carried old-fashioned bouquets.
Assisting at the party were Mrs.
Thomas Washington and Mrs.
Meredith Colket, jr., of Westtown,
Pa, where the Fahrneys have a
farm.
Miss Dawn Fahrney was gradu-
ated from the Chevy Chase Junior
College in June and her younger
sister is student for her second
year at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art.
MarfhinSOnS Hosts
At noon yesterday 80 members of
the young set gathered at the Chevy
Chase Club for the breakfast given
by Mr.. and Mrs Marthinson. A
huge table was set up in the mems
grill which was turned over to this
party alone. An accordionist kept
music in the air and there was some
Christmas carol singing. After
breakfast some of the Hasty Pudding
men, just off the train, joined them
and the entire crowd moved down
stairs near a piano.
Guests at the party were the
Misses Diggs, Rapley, Bradley, Rid
dick, Fitzpatrick, MCGEE, Agnes
Dunn, Beatrice Blair, Laura Win
slow. Patricia Emery, Jane Walsh,
Patricia Morgan, Frances Dear,
Geraldine Merchant, Mary Jane
Cotton, Elizabeth Henry, Bland
Glover, Nancy Slocum, Abby and
Helen willard, Mary Pearl Alex
ander, Monica Gaillard, Phyllis
Evans, Frances Haynes, Patricia
Marsh, Ruth and Robin Sickle,
Frances Carter, Margaret Wiley,
Joan Rowecliff, judy Snowden, Bea-
trio Macarthur and Jim Marthinson,
sister of Miss Sherrard Marthinson.
There were three young married
couples present. Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Allen, Mr.. and Mrs. Brian Donovan
and Mr.. and Mrs. James Morrison,
ir.. and on the stag list were Mid
shipmen Robert Wanderlick, William
Graham, John Stump, William
Emery and Stewart Beck, and
Messrs. Cornelius Bull, Stanton
Henry, Dana Belser, Haywood Sid
dons, William Rollow, Dion Birney,
Arthur Birney, David Semmes, Eus-
tace Florence James McHugh, Harry
Ong, Hayward Chappell, Mark Wen
ley, Ralph Lee III, Samuel B. Ster-
rett, Frank Harman, Halbert and
Jonathan Sloat, Deborne Piggott,
Burrell Marsh, Peter Gaillard. Fran
els Colt de Wolfe III. Hans and
Caspar de Lange, Winfield LIE
Grande Perce III, Snowden Stanton.
William Mcclure, MacFarland Gates,
Carroll Morgan, jr., John Boyle,
Myrton Gaines, Theodore P. Noyes,
jr., Emery Peter Smith, o. B. Hardi-
son, jr, John Pitt, Kenneth Evans,
Frank Allen, Thomas Manfuso, jr,
Lester Barker, George Kriner and
Thomas B. Hopper, jr.