Evening star., 1948-04-26


IN the city of Washington, has b.
herself, known to be an expert on
no effort to have loveliness greet tn
Deep red azalea bushes altern
the driveway up through the wood,
light and white petals. On top of
looks out over wide sweeping eme
with tulips-pink, white, red and
pansies with varicolored velvet peta
guerites, etc. Indoors it was like a 8
in every room. Large, exotic law
ender orchids growing in porcelain
vases adorned photograph OF
President Truman on the table in
the drawing room and in the en-
trance hall long-stemmed spray
Of tiny brown and white butterfly
orchids added a decorative Oriental
effect.
The flowers inside came from Mrs.
Davies greenhouses which she re-
Gently added to when she had the
large ones on her RoSslyn, N. Y. es-
tate moved down here, in anticipa-
ton OF selling her Long Island home.
Mrs. Davies stood in the sun room
at the entrance to the terrace to
greet her guests who were arriving
continuously from'5 to 7 o'clock. She
looked very lovely in a black satin
afternoon dress handsomely trimmed
in jet. Nearby on the terrace, talk
ing with one friend after another,
stood Mr.. Davies, tanned and rested
after their long cruise on the Sea
Cloud.
S,Oedish Tycoon Present
Mr.. Axel Wenner-Gren, world IA
nous Swedish industrialist, was
being introduced around. Down from
New York just for the party, he
spent the weekend at Tregaron and
went back to Gotham today. Tall,
suntanned and white-haired. the
much talked of tycoon divides his
time between Nassau, Mexico, SWe-
den and his yacht, which is second
only in size to the Sea Cloud.
Standing outdoors around the buf-
fet on this heavenly spring day
for the first time at this annual
spring party the weather had prom
ised to be so perfect that no mar
quee had been erected-were Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Dewey, the Secre-
tary Of Agriculture and Mrs. Clinton
P. Anderson, the Cuban Ambassador
and Sonora de Belt-she adding a
decorative note at one end of the
tea table when she took her turn
pouring; Associate Justice and Mrs.
Stanley Reed, Nine. Eriksson, wife
Of the Swedish Ambassador; and
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. A. c. McAuliffe.
Mr.. Davies daughter. Mrs. Bur-
dette Fitch, and her husband, Brig.
Gen. Fitch were there, Mrs. Fitch,
an amateur photographer of note,
swapping color pictures of her most
colorfully-clad friends The hosts
other daughter, Mrs. Millard Tyd-
lngs, was on hand, too, with her
husband and son, Senator Tydings
and Joseph Davies Tydings.
Chinese Ambassador Wellington
Koo accompanied his wife, who wore
yellow flowers in her hair and q
heavy gold necklace with her print
dress. The Greek Ambassador and
Nine. Dendramis walked about the
garden, as did many of the guests,
to see what the various paths led
to. In fact, it was difficult at this
party to decide what to do-devote
ones attention to the scores of
friends present or to the refreshing
beauty of the endless gardens.
The French Ambassador and
Nine Bonnet greeted Senator Alben
Barkley with much warmth
whether French or Kentucky style
wasn't definitely decided. Mai.
Count IVAN Du Monceau de Ber-
gendal. the Belgian Military and Air
Attache, escorted his fiancee, Miss
Lorraine Dresselhuys of New York,
and Lady Butterfield came with
Judge and Mrs. Clarence Norton
Goodwin.
Nine. Rosso Sees 'TtCin'
Nine. Augusta Rosso, who poured
tea for a while, came face to face
with Mrs. Homer Ferguson in a
smart brown and white checked
dress Identical to the one Nine.
RoSSo had on, and discovered that
one was bought in New York and one
in Washington. Senator and Mrs.
Tom Connally, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, Mr.. and Mrs Robert Woods
Bliss, Mr.. Clarence Hewes, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Vance D. Chap
line, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. William
Ritchie, Col and Mrs. Horace
Smith and Capt. and Mrs. Charles
Maddox were all enjoying the after
noon thoroughly, Mrs. Maddox
sporting fashion note-a daisy
muff to match her daisy trimmed
hat.
A whole group OF Gridiron Club
members and their wives were pres
ent. the President of the club and
Mrs. Phelps Adams, Mr.. Walker
Buel and his pretty wife; former
president. Mr.. Harold Talburt, and
Mrs. Talburt and Mr.. and Mrs.
Norman Baxter. A number of
guests gathered on the brick ter
race, where a bar was set up, and
others, like Mrs. George Tyson.
wandered over to see 'the Russian
house, the log dacha with its white
gingerbread trimming. The Fin
nlsh Minister and Nine. Jutila were
inside, the Minister pointing out to
Senator Ferguson the fine points
OF an Oil painting of white uni
formed troops fighting in the snow
The painting was presented to
Ambassador Davies in Moscow in
$50 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.