Evening star., 1951-12-21
2OId Washington Fonoiliesm
Present Daughters at Fetes

Knox. Mrs. Eugene Smith. Mrs.
William Kearn, Mrs. James Heis-
kell. Mrs. Eldred Dickinson, Mrs.
Smith Blair, Mrs. Richard Miller
and Mrs. Albert w. Walker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert w. Walker
will host a buffet supper Sunday
for the debutante.
Festive Boord
Earlier in the day, the debutante
set f1ocked to the Washington
Club for the luncheon in honor
Iof Miss Larson and even bitter,
wet weather, could not dampen
the spirits Of the girls collected
around the festive board.
At each place, the guests found
small red-ribboned corsages of
English holly heavy with clusters
of bright red berries and center
ing each table was e larger bou-
|quet of the holly. Red tapers in
|glistening silver candlesticks
lighted the room and set the holi-
day motif for the day.
The pretty, green-eyed, auburn
haired debutante received her
guests with her mother in a draw
ing room just off the dining room
She wore a simple dress of navy
wool high1ighted by a corsage Of
holly and pert blue felt hat.
Mrs. Larson chose black for the
occasion.
Guests at the 1870 o'clock
luncheon were seated at tables for
I12 around the spacious dining
room and they included the debut
tante's sub-debutante, debutante
and post debutante friends.
In Attendance
Miss Dorothy Latimer and Miss
Betsy Latimer of Paoli, Pa, were
the only out-of-town guests at
the party. They both are cousins
of Miss Larson.
The Washington young set was
represented by the Misses Louise
Perry, Mimi Clark, Mary Foskett,
Joyce Mills, Elizabeth Payne,
Barbara Hughes, Mary Winslow,
Phyllis Church, Monica Bohemian,
Ann Brott. Kathryn Bowling,
Phyllis Fritchey. Lucy Grady,
Irene Pawley. Mary Lou Smith,
Eithne Heffernan, Sibyl and Vir-
|ginia Devereux, Anne French,
ISheila Vincent. Betsy Laws and
Louise Clarke.
Others invited to break bread
with Miss Larson, a freshman at
Bryn Mawr College who attended
Potomac School and graduated
from Mount Vernon, were the
Misses FRITZ Nykopp. Julie Will
Iliams, Molly Holden. Jane Hadley,
Alice Freer, Mildred Coe, Sunny
ISturtevant, Angela Penson, Mary
McGrath, Sally Robinson, Betsy
Price. Sidney de Shazo, Kitty Fish
back, Alison Norton, Pamela
Dawson and Carol Olive.
Propensity for Tennis
The debutante is an excellent
tennis player so it was not sur
prising to see that Julie Arnold.
who enlivens the Chevy Chase
Club courts with her fine game
during the summers, was at yes
terday's party. ... ..--
Also on the guest list were Mimi
Grafton, Beverly Kinnard. Davi-
cite Hill, Anne Coe. Ceci Carusi.
Patricia Wideman, Janet Knox,
Ann Butrick, Ellen Lttlepage,
Emily Tribble, Beth Scherer. Linda
Learnard. Stuart Smith, Sally
Pyne. Nina Stuart, Daphne Mayo,
Gladys Roberts and Miriam
Fulton.
Miss Larson is the granddaugh-
ter of the late Mr.. William James
Latimer, jr., and Mrs. Latimer Of
this city. and Of Mr.. o. J. Larson,
former Representative from Min
nesota, and the late Mrs. Larson.
Her grandfather Larson holds
Finland's highest decoration, the
Knight of the Order Of the White
Rose and is also Comandatore
of the Crown of Italy.
Later this year Mr.. and Mrs.
Larson plan to give a tea to intro
duce their daughter to group Of
their contemporaries.