Evening star., 1950-04-09
Frank PAGES
To Be Feted
BY Groys
HuHs, McMohons
Will Be Hosts
At Dinners
By Betty Murphy

Parties are popping out on the
spring calendar like daffodils on
the lawn.
The appointment of Frank
Pace, jr.. to succeed Gordon Gray
as Secretary of the Army seemed
fitting time for the Grays to
entertain the PAGES, which they
are doing tomorrow night at a
dinner. The new Secretary and
his d-looking family, incident
ally, are spending the week end in
Bryn Mawr with Mrs. PAGES
mother, Mrs. Walter C.. Janney.
The Chief of Staff of the Army
and Mrs. J. Lawton Collins will be
guests of honor at a small dinner
which 1t. Gen. and Mrs. John E.
Hull are giving on Thursday. Col
and Mrs. John Haskell, who are
down from New York for the week
end, will be the Hulls' guests at
dinner tonight at the Army and
Navy Club.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Fred
eric w. Mcmahon will entertain
the Chief of Naval Operations
and Mrs. Forrest P. Sherman at
dinner Saturday night. and the
cocktail party that Rear Admiral
and Mrs. George c. Dyer are
giving on Tuesday will be their
first in a series.
Small Parties This Week
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Carl
F. Espe and Col. and Mrs. c. A.
Clark. jr.. are giving small cock
tail parties on Wednesday and
1t. Col. and Mrs. Aaron M. Lazar
will celebrate the formers birth
day at a cocktail party on Satur-
day.
A large group of American,
Canadian. French and British
officers and their wives will be
guests at the cocktail party 1t.
Col. and Mrs. w. T. Bennett and
Col. John o. Colonna are giving
together on April 81 at the Army
Navy Country Club.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Floyd L..
Parks will be hosts at cocktails
on April % at the Chevy Chase
Club. and Col. and Mrs. Richard
j. Werner are planning a cock
tail-buffet for April 80 in the Fort
McNair Officers Club. 1t won't
exactly be farewell party,
though they're leaving at the
end of July for Salzburg, Austria.
Capt. and Mrs. George w. An
derson, jr.. gave a cocktail party
yesterday which wasn't a farewell
either, though they're leaving at
the end of June for Europe. Andy
is going to the Mediterranean for
sea duty and his wife and family
hope to take an apartment on the
Riviera near Nice. Mrs. Ander-
sons daughter, Carolyn Sample,
who is home from Sweet Briar for
the holidays, will finish college
abroad.
Hosts Over Week End |
Col. and Mrs. Charles Wesley
Schott gave a cocktail party yes
terday. and Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Lewis Strauss were hosts to
a small group on Thursday honor
ing the 'Undersecretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Dan A. Kimball.
The Schotts son. Kent, will be
one OF the young guests of Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Ellis Reed-Hill
at the Variety Clubs rodeo show
on Wednesday.
Another group of young people
attended the birthday luncheon
and theater party that Mrs. M. D.
Burnside gave for her daughter,
Beth, on Thursday.
Capt. and Mrs. Miles H. INLAY
who came from New London,
Conn, to be Capt. and Mrs. Har-
old c. Moore's guests for a few
days during the week, and Capt.
Morris Jones, who was here from
Seattle, and Capt. Stanley Woy-
ciehowsky. who had come from
Cleveland, and were visiting Capt.
and Mrs. Kenneth K. CoWart,
were entertained every day of
their stay. The officers, who are
classmates. came to WASHINGTON
for an engineers conference.
Capt. and Mrs. j. c. Wendland
gave dinner for them Wednes-
day night. the Moores and
Cowarts entertained jointly on
Tuesday at the Columbia Country
Club. and Can't. and Mrs G II