The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1950-11-25
SOCIAL CALENDAR

One of the pleasantest social
affairs of the season was the
autumn dinner party which was
hostessed by Mrs. Lillian Rich
ardson of 234 w. Canton st. and
held in the beautiful and we'll
appointed Sunset Dining Hall OF
the Western Lunch Box. AIT
Mass. Ave. The large list OF
guests included not only resi-
dents of Greater Boston but
others from Lawrence and Low
ell, Massachusetts and also from
Alexandria, Va. and Washing
ton, D. G. Boston guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. George Worthing-
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. William Love,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Riggs, Mr..
and Mrs. Alonzo Kelley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Jones, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. M. Berkeley, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Burch; Mesdames Mabel ].
Dean, Stella Vance, Burt Glib
son, Helen Mann, Eleanor Perry
Laura Atkinson, Allie Knox, Mar
tina jackson, Estella L. Crosley,
also, Misses Geraldine E. Frank
lin, Margaret Mitchell, Doris
Jackson, EStelle ClemmonS, Eliz-
abeth Carter, Annie Atkinson,
Miriam Jaulcon, Fannie Lee Bell,
Beatrice Robinson; also, Mr.. and
Mrs. Redgey Holt, MesdameS
Florence Hegie Taylor, Nettie
Archer, Florence Sievewright,
Mr.. John Warner. Cambridge
guests. Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Ben
son, MesdameS William Beverly,
Jane Yancey; Mr.. Berlin White.
West Medford: Mr.. and Mrs.
William Matthews, Mrs. Is0ltie
FUR, Mr.. Gene Taylor. From
West Somerville: Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Kimball, Mrs. Grady Tall
ley, Miss Lille Hammond. Also,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lawrence
of Lawrence, Mass; Mrs. Mary
D. Gibson and Miss Ruth Gibson
of Andover, Mass; Mr.. and Mrs.
Godfrey Hall, Mr.. and Mrs Har-
old M. Wingood and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harrison Pierce of Lowell;
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry C. Brooks,
Alexandra, Va; Mr.. and Mrs.
Preston Russ and Mrs. Bertha
Jones. Washington, D. G. =.
Pretty Amy T. Ransom, daugh-
ter of Constable and Mrs. LOUIS
B. Ransom was appointed
Clerk Typist at the Registry Oh.
Motor Vehicles last week. AMY
did very efficient work for Gov
Dever at the Boylston st. Head
quarters during the recent, cam
paign. Miss Ransom was as
signed to Boylston st. by Ralph
E. Johnston, Executive Secretary
of the Governors Council. Her
brother, Louis Jr., will be gradu-
ated next week from the U. S.
Army Chemical Warfare School
in Maryland. Sister Arlene
Patricia recently passed an audi
ton for Television sponsored by
the Community Opticians. Ar
lene will be remembered as the
singing and dancing star who
stole Mildred Kennedy's dane
ing recital last May with her
talent. These youngsters come
naturally by their progressive
spirit, as their father, a former
Guardian columnist, was, as he
says. one of Editor Trotters
(W.M.) boys" and he has always
been pushing towards the top
goal. The seventeen friends,
who sat down to tea at the
Western Lunch Box recently to
honor the memory of Bessie
Trotter Craft, of New York,
native of Boston, who passed
away a year ago, paid most elo-
quent and unusual tribute to
her graces of mind and heart;
her beauty and charm, her
friendliness and generosity, as
well as her unusual ability in SO
many lines. She was a born
aristocrat, they said, who, new
ertheless, had learned to be a
good mixer, with the aristocrat's
tact and lack Of condescension,
so that the lowliest regarded
her as one of themselves. Mr..
Walter Stevens said she was
tu,,inallu Rnstnnase and had