Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-05-03
Beautiful Newcomer Here y
By lsobeIIe Shelton

A svelt, slim golden blond, who
is heiress to two fortunes and
looks as pretty as picture post
card. That is Mrs. Stanley M.
Rumbaugh, jr., wife Of an assist
ant to the Secretary of Com
merce, undoubtedly one Of the
most striking additions to the
local scene in many a day.
AS handsomely endowed as the
proverbial fairy princess, the
newcomer is the former Nedenia
Marjorie Hutton. Her father is
Edward F. Hutton, a wealthy
Wall street broker and uncle of
the fabulously rich Barbara Hut
ton. Her mother is Mrs. Joseph
E. Davies, one of the Capitals
top hostesSes and one of the
Nations Wealthiest women.
Still in her tWentieS and the
mother of three children, Mrs.
Rumbaugh also has been a
Broadway actress, an overseas
performer for the wartime USO,
and a good enough tennis player
to be entered with her husband
in the French national doubles
championship and the Forest
Hills doubles championship in
this country.
Imagine - all that money.
and talent and beauty too,"
sighed one of her friends en-
viouSly.
SoiIed Seven Seas
Young "Deenie" Hutton spent |
much of her early childhood in
proper fairy princess fashion
sailing the seven seas in her
mothers palatial yacht, the Sea
Cloud, said to be the largest and
most luxurious private yacht in
the world.
The Caribbean, Tahiti, the
Galapagos Islands were as IA
miliar to her as the neighbour
hood playground is to most |
children.
A 5-foot model of the Sea |
Cloud stands in the large en-
trance hall Of the Rumbaughs'
new home here. and other treas
ures from her sailing days hang
in brick walled room off the
living room.
The latter include a walrus
head, complete with tusks, and
two immense sea turtles, each
well over two feet in diameter.
Prize of the collection, the COM
plete jaw of 12-foot shark
young Deenie watched caught |
off the Galapagos Islands, has
not yet arrived from the Rum |
baughs' home in Locust Valley,
Long Island.
New York Debut
Young Deenie spent most of |
her youth, when she wasn't at
sea, at one or another smart |
boarding school, including Mt.
Vernon Seminary here, from
which she graduated in the
spring of 1941. She was one of
New York's most beautiful de-
butante's that winter, although
the party, which was given by
the Davies, was kept very SIM
pie because it occurred just
two weeks after Pearl Harbor.
Her wedding, in March of 1916.
was another big social event in
New York City.
Before the marriage she spent !
a few busy years as an actress,
in summer stock circuits in
Bucks County and several New
England communities, and on
the subway circuit in Brook
lyn and the Bronx.
Il was always the ingenue,"
she says. MY best role was as
Eileen in My Sister Eileen That |
will tell you what kind of parts
I played"
She toured the Pacific Islands
In the USO'S Moss Hart pro-
duction of The Man Who Came
to Dinner" early in 1945. and
returned that fall to appear on
Broadway in THE Mermaids
Singing"
Il was the leading lady's I'M
derStudy and also had few
lines of my own" she says.
Now q Sportswomon
Her marriage to Mr.. Rum
baugh the following spring
pretty we'll ended my theatrical
career" she declares. I've been
pretty busy ever since, having
children and learning to play
tennis and golf.
She did appear on one TV
show last year. a dramatic skit
with Dick Powell on the Kate
Smith show, which kind of
gave me the itch all over again."
she says. IF we had stayed in
New York I guess I might have
done some more radio and TV
work, but it's hard to do that
and live an organized life with
a family. The hours are so bad"
I've become real sports
woman since I married STAN"
she said with a laugh. Il didn't
play hardly at all before. Just
a little tennis. But he's so good
at everything that I just had
to learn. He taught me tennis,
golf and skiing"
A row of silver trophies in
the family library attest to the
young commerce officials Prov
eSS at tennis and sailing. He COLTS
in the low 80s GIVE just cracked