Evening star., 1949-10-05

About two subjects that can't be
dropped. The latest dope straight
from Capitol Hill says that Con-
gress will adjourn Thursday, Oc-
tober 20, and just two days later,
Mrs. Carleton Hadley will become
the bride of the Vice President OF
the United States.
Who the seer is who dares to
prognosticate can't be revealed
here. He prefers to remain anony-
NOUS. Probably cause if he turns
out to be wrong. he'll look foolish;
if right. he'd have let the cat out
Of the bag. But it's no secret that
Jane Hadley is as smitten with
Alben Barley as he is with her.
This is moving time. Whereas
some people just move the old
rocking chair from the porch to
the living room, Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. E. c. B. Danforth, jr., are
moving to Japan, Dottie and Ned
Foote are moving soon into the
Julius Holmes house on Wood
land Drive which they have just
bought-the Holmeses whipped off
to our embassy in London year
ago; Elaine Gordon has moved
back to town from Maine and
never looked healthier in her life;
Mrs. Gustav Stewart is moving to
Washington next week and OPEN
ing her house here, and Argentina
and Bob Dudley will move in
three weeks time into their newly
acquired abode in Spring Valley.
It was dormitory for Mount Ver-
non Seminary during the war so
must be kind of roomy. Its getting
period furniture inside. a special
manicure outside for its l u acres
Of ground.
The Danforths. who leave on
the 18th, will be PARTED like mad
all next week. Starting with the
Jouett Shouses' 6 to 8 affair on
the 18th and working backwards,
there will be the John W.
Jefferies' cocktail party on the
18th, the William M. Robinson's
on the 18th, the w. H. H. Joneses'
dinner on the 18th, the Edmund
Purvis' dinner on the 18th, Col.
and Mrs. o. ]. Posey's cocktail
party on the 10th and on the 11th
the dinner to be given by the
Secretary of the Army's Disability
Review Board of which Danforth
is the retiring president. . You
may not get rich in the Army,
but you sure have fun.
The way to get an opera house
for Washington is now quite clear.
Have Mary Garden address Con-
gress and ask for an appropria-
ton. The 72-year-old former
opera star still has enough charm
to sell a toothless comb, and she
Is convinced that this Capital of
ours should have a small, not very
ornate or sumptious, opera house.
What do you have to do to be
able to address Congress in per-
son? Be invited to do so, says
their parliamentarian, by Con-
gress itself. that's all.
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The Capital has, apparently, a
terrific reputation as a center Of
imbibing. Whether merited or not,
I don't know personally I prefer
lemonade), but here's story that
makes a Washington cocktail
party sound like a meeting of the
w. C. T. u. And it comes straight
from the horses mouth-the Alas
ka Branch of the Interior Depart
ment.
: You may have thought ration
ing on this side of the Atlantic
Ocean was a thing of the past
but it amt. Up there in that great
territory of the United States
where the gold-diggers are men
and the grizzly bears numerous,
drinking whiskey is rationed. The
law In Alaska says that the sale
Of liquor to each person must be
limited to 10 gallons day! Isn't
that just too bad!
Are those he men up there su-
permen, or are they just trying to