Evening star., 1953-10-17
Society and Club News
Wiley Buchonons F1Ionored; !;
Waltz Series Launched

at the cocktail party honoring
the BuchananS. He entertained
in his house on @ street which
became crowded with familiar
faces soon after 6.
Mrs. Anthony McAuliffe was
there, also saying good-by to
Washington friends. Gen. Nc
Auliffe took of yesterday for
his new post as commander of
the 7th Army in Germany. His
wife will join him after a visit
on the West Coast. She leaves
Washington in a few days.
Mrs. John Farr Simmons, wife
of the chief of protocol, said
that her husband came home
one day from his comprehensive
tour with Japanese Crown Prince
Akihito, and left the next to
accompany the President on his.
trip.
Secretary of the Army and
Mrs. Stevens and Admiral and
Mrs. Robert Carney were among
those who accepted this cocktail
invitation, and so were Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Anthony Drexel
Biddle, the Norwegian Ambassa-
dor and Nine. MorgenStierne,
District Commissioner and Mrs.
Sam Spencer, Swedish Ambas-
sador and Nine. Bohemian, AS
siStant Secretary of the Treas
ury and Mrs. Chapman Rose,
Spanish Ambassador and Sonora
de Lequerica, the Costa Rican
Ambassador and Sonora de
Oreamuno and the Netherlands
Ambassador and Nine Van.
Roijen. From the latter came
news of the birth of a baby girl
to the Dutch Counselor and
Baroness van Boetzelaer. The
little one will be called Odilia
Dorothee and is currently cud-
died in comfort at George Wash
ington University Hospital.
Out-of- Town Guests
Mrs. John Burger, whom Mr..
and Mrs. Buchanan have visited
at Palm Beach, came down from
New York for the party yester-
day and for Mrs. Thompson
Montgomery'S dinner for them
the evening before. Mrs. Mar
shall Haywood of Chicago was
another out of towner present.
She is stopping here en- route
from Williamsburg to New York.
Still others who dropped by
were Mr.. and Mrs Samuel H.
Kaufman, Gen. and Mrs. Wade
Haislip, Miss Margaret Abel,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mac
Cracken who will fete the
Buchanans tomorrow; Col. and
Mrs. Hunter Drum and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lothrop Luttrell, who en-
tertained for them Wednesday;
DR.. and Mrs. William Morgan,
Miss Carolyn Nash. Mrs. Pear
sons Rust and Col. and Mrs.
Horace Smith.
Dinner Before Donce
Both the host and honor
guests at this party went on to
the Waltz Group dance after
first dining with Mrs. William
T. Mann. The Netherlands EN-
bassy dinner was also given be-
fore this dance. as were the
dinners given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Kellogg, former Ambas-
sador and Mrs. George McGhee,
Mr.. and Mrs. Burke Wilkinson
and Mr.. and Mrs. John F. B.
Mitchell. jr.
Meyer Davis and his orchestra
kept the rafters ringing to
three quarter time at the Sui
grave Club from 10 until the
small hours.
Trustees of the dance series
are the Dutch Ambassador, the
British Ambassador. Sir Roger
Makins; Mrs. John B. Acker-
man, Mrs. John w. Auchincloss.
Mrs. John M. Begg, Miss Mary
Cutler, Mr.. Lawrence Houston,
Mrs. Slocum Kingsbury. Miss
Rosalind Morgan, Mrs. Hamilton
Robinson, Mrs. Charles E. Rog-
ers, Mr.. B. Taylor Simmons, jr.;
Mr.. William Walton, Mr.. j.
Burke Wilkinson and Mr.. David
Norton YerkeS.
The next Waltz Evening will
take place November IA.
Chilean Embassy Dinner
The retiring Chilean Minister
and Sonora de Rodriguez were
toasted last evening and wished
Godspeed by the top Chilean
couple in Washington. Ambas-
Sador and Sonora de lara gave a
dinner for Is at the Embassy in
honor of the popular couple on
their staff who have been here
all of seven or eight years. They
will leave for Santiago on
the 23d.
Other guests at dinner in
cluded the hosts two house
guests, Sonora Edith Silva and
Senorita Pauline Silva, whose
Capital stay will extend another
two months; the Secretary Cen
eral of the o. A. S. and Sonora
de Lleras Camargo, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rollin Atwood and Mr.. and Mrs.
Milton Barall of the State De-
partment; Chilean Minister Ho-
racio Suarez, who is Senor Rod
riguez' successor; Mr.. and Mrs.
William Sanders, who are soon
to join the American Embassy
staff in Santiago. and Senor
Luis McKenna, the Ambassa-
doris assistant.