Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-02
By DOLORES PHILLIPS


WARRENTON, Va.-Where
to go over Labor Day week.
end isn't a problem to most
Warrentonians. They can stay
right in their own backyards,
off the crowded highways. and
watch what is claimed to be
the hunter show of Amer
ica."
AS traditional as Labor Day
itself. The Warrenton Horse
Show spreads itself thick over
three days and two nights.
Starting yesterday and run
ming with an afternoon and
night session today, the biggest
and certainly longest, outdoor
show in the country ends late
tomorrow afternoon with the
awarding of the four-show
high score awards.
Points in different divisions
have been amassed at the
Staunton show, at Hot Springs
and at the Deep Run Show in
Richmond. Glasses won at
Warrenton will decide which
horses and owners get the
coveted trophies, thus ending
the big show circuit for the
summer in Virginia.
Sights will then be raised
to the two big eastern indoor
shows, the Pennsylvania Ma
tional at Harrisburg, and the
National Horse Show at Madi-
son Square Garden in New
York. running right into the
hunting season without q
breath drawn in between.
Parties Galore
Parties at Warrenton this
year are being given at q
hunting pace, rather than a
hand gallop. Mrs. cambridge
Kennedy, Mrs. John P. Cutting
and Mrs. Amory Lawrence, the
entertainment committee, have
filled every minute of the ex-
hibitors' time when they are
outside of the ring.
Yesterday the Board Of Di-
rectors of the show gave a
cocktail party between the
afternoon and night sessions;
the Kenneth Edwards gave a
dinner party last night, and
after the final class last night.
Devron played at a horse show
ball at the Springs Field Club
near Warrenton. Kathleen
Mckinney headed the commit
tee for the dance this year.
Today the Gregory McIn-
toshes, always big exhibitors at
the show, are giving a lunch
con before the classes start at
o'clock, for judges and ex-
hibitorS and the board of di-
rectors is giving another cock
tail party this afternoon be-
tween the afternoon and night
classes, followed by a dinner at
Col. and Mrs. C. C. Jadwins'.
Tomorrow, the Paul Fouts
are having their annual lunch
con between the morning and
afternoon classes and, around
about $50, group Of horse
men and horsewomen-own-
ers, trainers, riders. grooms
and stable boys-will start
trekking home, some of them
happy, some of them disap-
pointed but all of them feted
in Warrenton's best tradition.
Annual Reunion
While the horse show group
is disbanding over in Warren
ton, the deButts-Burwell clans.
who reunited again this year
during a week-long frolic in
and around Upperville, are also
disbanding. What started out
as a friendly reminder each
year that the deButts knew the
Burwells (no relation) has
turned out to be a major social
convention, lasting as long and
as fulsomely as anything put
on by Democrats or Repub-
licans.
With almost 100 family re-
lations and fringe relations
involved. parties started last
week end and end tonight at
a dinner given by Gen. and
Mrs. Sam Cummings for the
united. During the week there
have been floating parties"
when about 20 of the drawer
members of both families
floated down the Shenandoah
River on inner-tubes, mas