Evening star., 1948-02-29

had guests for dinner last evening
some from Bethesda and two addit-
ional guests, Mr. and Mrs. George
Schmucker, who came over from
Baltimore for the dinner.
Before the dinner the guests went
out to Pine Acres, the new home that
Mr.. and Mrs. Nader recently built
on Seven Locks Road, for cocktails
and then they went back to Be-
thesda for the dinner party at the
Cape Cod Inn.
A birthday cake at Mrs. Mader's
plate told the guests that the dinner
was birthday party for Mrs. Nader.
Guests at the dinner were Mr..
and Mrs. George T. Condron, Mr..
and Mrs. @. A. Conatser, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh B. Johnston, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Cook, and Mrs. Mader's
mother, Mrs. Susanne Atkinson, and
her sister, Miss Florence Atkinson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schmucker will re-
main over the week end as guests
Of MIR. and Mrs. Johnston.
Birthday parties are very much in
the news just now. Earlier in the
week Mrs. Marquis w. Childs gave
a luncheon for Mrs. Rufus E. Miles
jr., who celebrated her birthday last
Monday. At the luncheon were Mrs.
Errett c. Albritton and her house
guest, Mrs. Avis Walker; of Philadel-
phia, Mrs. r. E. Gibson and Mrs
Maxwell Conklin.
And speaking of birthdays-there
is to be a party in Somerset to-
morrow for a woman who has had so
few real birthday anniversaries she
can almost count them on her fing-
ers. She is Mrs. Alex Krynitsky and
her birthday falls on February 20.
Mrs. John B. Shepard, hostess at
the party for Mrs. Krynitsky tomor-
row, has invited Mrs. George E..
Farrell, a former Somerset resident;
Mrs. Paul Galtsoff and Mrs. Willis
]. Nolan to a luncheon in Mrs. Kry-
nitsky's honor to help her celebrate
the day. Another guest at the
luncheon will be Mrs. Shepard's sis
ter, Miss Constance Churchyard,
who is spending the winter in Som
erset with Mrs. Shepard.
There was an interesting group
Of Bethesdans at the home Of Mrs.
John Mann yesterday who were
asked there to have a cup Of tea
and to meet her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. John Mann, jr.
Those at the tea were some of
Mrs. Mann's friends and a younger
group contemporaries of the
Younger Mrs. Mann-who was be-
fore her marriage Miss Betty Rog-
ers, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Halsey Rogers of Wilson lane.
Assisting Mrs. Mann and taking
charge of the tea table were Mrs.
Eugene Stevens, jr., and Mrs. P. H.
Royster, who alternated with Mrs.
Rogers, and Mrs. Charles Schultz.
Mrs. Mann's guests at the tea
also had an opportunity to say
good-by to Mrs. Eugene Stevens,
III, who is sailing this week for
Normandy, France.
Mrs. Stevens came here year
lgo as a war bride and she has
made many friends here who were
Interested in hearing of her pro-
,osed trip back to her former home.
Each year the international flower
;how held in New York takes a
number of local residents to that
.ity. Mrs. e. Barrett Prettyman
md Mrs. Preston G. King will leave
or this years show Tuesday of next
week and will stay until Friday. OF
curse they will take time out for
hopping and to 60 to some of the
,ood plays while they are there.
Mrs. Harvey Bolton of Kenwood
S leaving today for q fortnight's
Jacation in Florida.
Another Kenwood family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Westel Willoughby, are just
Jack from a Southern trip. They
started out from New Orleans on
January 2 on the Stella Polaris
md they spent % days cruising
around the Caribbean with STOP
,vers for sightseeing trips in Ha-
,ana, Guatemala, Curacao, King
;ton, and The Barbados and other
places.
They came back home last week
% find a letter from their youngest
laughter who while they were va
,ationing in the warm sunny waters
If the Gulf, was having an equally
enjoyable time skiing in Turin, one
If the Upstate New York towns
where they go in for winter sp~rts.
Miss Willoughby is a freshman
1t the University of Rochester,
which is not far from Turin.
Bethesda doesn't hear so much
bout skiing but it 50 happens that
his week, another of its residents,
Mrs. William Eddy, is on a skiing
rip up In New Hampshire.
Mrs. Eddy spent several winters
It Hanover and on her frequent