Evening star., 1954-10-03
Social | ist
Will Stir
Salons
1855 Book
Reflects This
Year S News
By Daisy cIeIond

The Social List of Wash
ington. d. c., 1b55. is of the
presses and In the mail.
This event in the towns
party~giving circles is met with
mixed emotions. A peek into
some Of the hundreds of sa-
Ions that grace the Nations
Capital and are the scenes for
entertaining the great, near
great" and ''Want-to-be-
great" might be most reveal
ing. For entertaining in this
town is a business and not to
be taken lightly.
There will be the lady long
socially prominent who will
receive her copy routinely and
look upon it merely as a phone
book. Others will sigh with re-
lief that their names appear
once again in the green book"
Another who purchased the
book will flip through the
pages hurriedly to look for her
own name only to find that
she, horror of horrors, is one
of the 800 who have been
dropped"
The Casual Approach
There are also the casual"
types. These persons didn't
even purchase the book. Their
iistings may be in it or may
have been .deleted but they
will restrain their curiosity
long enough to look in a
friends copy.
According to Mrs. Carolyn
Hagner Shaw, the publisher of
this controversial volume, the
five and a half thousand names
listed do not represent "blue
bloods" alone by any means.
It is simply an attempt to COM
pile the names of people who
go to parties, give parties, do
both or should. They might be
officials, members of Congress,
diplomats, the military, just
people living in Washington,
D. c.. or people recently In the
limelight. such as General
Counsel of the Department of
the Army John G. Adams,
whose name was added this
year.
A look behind the emerald
covers will show you the pot
pourri of this city. The listing
starts with the President, Su-
preme Court, Cabinet, diplo-
mats, members of Congress
and then alphabetically lists
other personageS.
Couses Furor
There are hundreds of
changes from last year in this
last category, additions and
subtractions. and this is the
part Of the book that will cause
all the furor-after all, the
President of the United States
is never dropped, or at least
not for four years.
The reason for families be-
ing deleted varies. They might
leave town. die, fail to send in
their questionnaires or answer
their phones. But the blacklist
of all black reasons is that
they might be part of "un-
pleasant notoriety."
According to Mrs. Shaw (al-
though rumor has long had II
otherwise) a board of COVER
nors decides on who should be
listed or dropped. When they
receive a new name they send
the person a QUESTIONABLE
which states that they are to
be considered for the book
after consideration of the
board. They may purchase the
book or not but they will not
know II they have made the
grade until it is published
They may not purchase the
book and still be listed.
Hoovers Added
Among the new listings this
year are former President
Hoover and his son and daugh-
ter-in-laW, Assistant Secretary
of State and Mrs. Hoover, jr,
From the entertainment world
come. for the first time, Col
and Mrs. John Coulter (she is
Constance Bennett) and Song
Writer Hank Fort, formally
listed Mrs. HankinS Fort.
Others who do not appear
this year are Mr.. and Mrs
Norman Amour. jr., Mr.. ano
Mrs. Tracy Barnes, Mrs
Thompson Biddle, DR.. and Mrs
Tomas Cajigas, Mrs. Katherine
Edgar Byron, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Rediker and Mrs. White
Fields.
The daughter of the Nor.
wegian Ambassador and Mime
Munthe de Morgenstierne hal
a new listing as Mrs. Marjori,
M. Coleman.
Editor Goes
Former Senators Brewster
and Cain are still among tn,
chosen but with the end o.
the Washington Times-Heralc
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