Evening star., 1952-02-22
Society News:
Mrs. BurkIey
Is Hostess
At 7 eu
By Katherine M. Brooks

ny kothoFine M. BROOKS
Mrs. Alben w. Barkley was hos
tess at tea yesterday afternoon
entertaining in the Congressional
Club in honor Of DR.. Howard
Mitchell, conductor Of the National
Symphony Orchestra. The party
Immediately followed the concert
of the orchestra, one of the
series presented Thursday after
moons in the Lisner Auditorium.
Mrs. Paul Magnuson, chairman
of the Lisner series. stood with
Mrs. Barkley and DR.. Mitchell to-
receive. greeting the several hum
dred guests at the top Of the
gracefully winding stairs. Mrs.
Barkley wore a becoming frock
Of black crepe. pale pink petals
Of lace forming the top of the
bodice in front. The petals were
outlined with tiny rhinestones.
The Dominican Ambassador and
Sonora de Thomen were among
those from the diplomatic corps
at the party and Nine. Erkin,
wife of the Turkish Ambassador,
who is a cultivated singer. and the
Military Attache of the Iran En-
bassy, Brig. Gen. Vail Ansari were
others.
Mrs. Clinton Anderson and Mrs.
Homer Ferguson were there and
others included former Ambas-
sador and Mrs. George Angus
Garrett. Mr.. and Mrs. Orme VIII
son, Mrs. Walter Gawler, before
her marriage a leading singer in
the Capital as Ethel Holtzclaw;
Mr.. Bainbridge Crist. famous COM
poser; Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Leslie
Fraser, DR.. and Mrs. Daniel S.
Brooks, DR.. and Mrs. William
Collier Shirley. Mrs. Richard M.
Cults, Mrs. Edmund Purves, Mrs.
George F. Howe. Mrs. Philip NJ
Rhinelander, Mrs. Bernath Phil
lips. Mrs. Tracy Barnes. Mrs.
Emory Scott Land, Mrs. Freeman
Marshall, Mrs. H. H. Sims, Mrs.
/ McCook Knox, Mrs. Fred Prev,
/ Mrs: Thomas Brooks, Mrs. John
washington and Mrs. Harold Faye.
Colombian Official Feted
i The Minister of Foreign Affairs,
DR.. GonZalo ReStrepo- -Jaramillo
was the guest in whose honor the
Assistant Secretary of State. Mr..
Edward G. Miller. jr., entertained
at luncheon yesterday at the May
flower. The honor guests brother,
DR.. Cipriano Restrepo-Jaramillo,
Colombian Ambassador in Wash
sington, was the ranking guest and
members Of the embassy staff in
the country we're the Ministers,
DR.. Jorge Mejia-Palacio. DR..
Misael Pastrena and Senior Don
Eduardo Gallego- Gutierrez. the
new Military Attache, Col. Pablo
Rodriguez Achury and the First
Secretary DR.. Fernando Gaitan.
Mai. Gen. Robert L. Walsh, of
the Inter r-American Defense
Board, was present and others in
cluded Mr.. Malcolm Slaght Of the
National Production Authority,
United States Ambassador to the
Organization Of American States
John c. Drier and Mr.. William
Sanders. Mr.. Maurice M. Bern
baum and Mr.. Albert H. Ger
berich Of the State Department.
Forewell Teo
Sonora de Penaherrera, wife Of
the retiring Ecuador Ambassador.
shared honors yesterday with
Senorita Elvira Arias. who will
leave today to return to Ecuador,
at a tea yesterday afternoon. Mrs.
Ulen, wife of Navy Capt. Francis
Graeme Ulen, was hostess in her
apartment in the Westchester,
her guests numbering about 1875,
many of them members of the
Spanish Portuguese Study Group.
Receiving with Mrs. Ulen and
her honor guests was Mrs. Clar-
ence Norton Goodwin, founder Of
the study group and assisting
through the reception hours were
Sonora de la Colina. Mrs. Alexan-
der Kirk. Mrs. Clark Woodward
and Mrs. Vladimir Rybar.
Alternating at the prettily ap-
pointed tea table were Sonora de
Castro. Sonora de Nieto del Rio,
Sonora de Mora, Mrs. Thor Thors,
Mrs. Leslie Biff1e. Mrs. Olive Per-
kins, sister of Sonora de Penaher-
rera, and Senorita Arias' sister,
Sonora de Nicholson, wife Of the
First Secretary of the Peruvian
Embassy.
Mrs. Charles F. Brannan, wife
Of the Secretary of Agriculture,
arrived toward the latter part
of the party to take her turn at
the tea table. Others assisting
there were Mrs. Leslie Bifhe, Mrs.
Robertson Marshall. Mrs. Myron
Cowen, Mrs. Emil Hurja. Mrs.
Stephen Caspar, Mrs. George
Forte. Mrs. Gerald Parke, Mrs.
Tomas Cajigas, and Mrs. Herman
Delany.
Austrion Porties
The Austrian Ambassador and
Mrs. Max Loewenthal have cards
out for a cocktail party Monday,
March 3, in honor of the Austrian
Vice Chancellor and Mrs. Adolf
Schaerf who will spend a month
in this country. The Vice Chan
cellor and Mrs. Schaerf will ar
rive in New York March /, and
come to Washington the following
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