Evening star., 1955-02-23

QaSut uAQ
a quiet len
Betty Beaie. ten season
in decades. Washington hasn't
had q quiet season, period. But
last fling or no, the Henle
party wound UP G. WIS birth
day with a flourish.
Since the r Street Club says
its capacity crowd Is . COM
Portable 125 and Ray and Mar
ian wanted to have 400, they
had a heated tent erected in
the garden to take care Of the
overflow
Inside the ballroom, Sidney
and q six-piece orchestra,
spruced up in white tie and
scarlet coats, beat out the
rhythms that Washington likes
best. But that was after 1880.
Dinner for 40
Before that the ballroom was
the scene Of a festive dinner
for 40 given by the hosts. The
guests were seated at two long
tables each centered with a
long continuous bouquet of
spring flowers.
The white-tie attired guests
who dined together included
the italian Ambassador and
Signora Brosio, the Belgian
Ambassador and Baroness Sill
vercruys, the Chinese Ambas-
sador and Nine. Koo. the
Peruvian Ambassador and Sc
nora de Berckemeyer and the
Venezuelan Ambassador and
Sonora de Gonzalez.
The Attorney General and
Mrs. Brownell and Postmaster
General Summerfield-his wife
is out of town-represented the
cabinet at the bread-breaking.
Senator and Mrs. Tom Hen
nings and Mrs. Bourke Hick-
enlooper were there from Sen
ate circles-Senator Hicken-
looper is attending the Batista
inaugural in Cuba. And two
well-known hostesses. Perle
Mesta and Gwen Cafritz, were
both at the dinner-the latter
with her husband Morris hav-
ing just checked In yesterday
from the Dominican Republic.
Out-of-towners at the dinner
were Mr.. and Mrs. John G.
Pew of Bryn Mawr, Pa; Mr..
and Mrs. James Monahan Of
New York who are both Read
ers' Digest editors-she Is Lois
Mattox Miller. and Herbert
May of Pittsburgh who squired
Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer.
Shepherds Entertoin
Other pre-dance dinners
dotted the town. Marine Com
mandant and Mrs. Lemuel
Shepherd entertained in honor
of Admiral and Mrs. Jerauld
Wright, bringing their guests
on to the party afterwards
British Ambassador and Lady
Makins, Secretary Of the Navy
and Mrs. Thomas. Chief of
Naval Operations and Mrs.
Carney and Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Neil Dietrich.
Bill and Beulah Foster gave
O dinner beforehand and 50
did the Harold Stuarts, Marcy
DUPONT and the Bill Mac
Crackens who arrived at the
club with Jerry and Arthur
Hill, the Fletcher Plumleys.
Alice and Ham Haislip and the
Albert Thomases.
Wearing a Marusia gown Of
swirling white chiffon and
peau de sole, the hostess
greeted new arrivals for fully
an hour. There were the Swed-
ish Ambassador and Mime.
Bohemian, the Clark Thomp-
sons, Les and Glade Biff1e, the
Fred Vinson, jrs.. Eleanor Ty-
dings, Charles Tompkins, and
the new First Secretary at the
Italian Embassy, Count Gui-
seppe de Rege who arrived
here with the new Ambassa-
dor. and will be joined by his
wife later.
The dancing continued long
after the midnight supper that
offered bouillon. hams, turkey
Tettrazini. salads. coffee and
hot chocolate. All this
whirl and only the middle of
the week, too.
\ 4
Perle Mesta will be honor
guest and speaker at the Jun
ior Leagues annual spring
luncheon next Tuesday at the
Chevy Chase Club. She'll give
her talk on Russia. The
Soviet Embassy has its Army
Navy day party tonight.
Mary de Limur's and Neil
Carothers' wedding invita-
tions are out. They'll be
married on the 18th at Christ
Church in Georgetown at 4
o'clock followed by q reception
at the beautiful de Limur
home on r street. -.
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