Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-11-30
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Kathleen Winsor Porter
To Be HooVers' Neiuhbor
By BETTY BEALE


Kathleen Winsor, author Of
Forever Amber, is moving
two doors away from Herbert
Hoover, jr.
The writer and her husband
of a few months, Paul A.
Porter, Washington lawyer and
former OPA Administrator,
took title of the house at 2474
Tracy place this week and
have already moved some
things in. Since August l, they
have been living at 1916
Thirty-third street, the Geo.
rgetown house they leased
from former Wage and Hour
Administrator Bill McComb.
The Porters' brand new
house is one of two constructed
this past summer on the lot
that borders the residence of
Undersecretary Of State and
Mrs. Hoover. Both houses were
built by lawyer Sidney B.
Smith, who himself moved into
the one next door to the
Hoovers.
With the paint barely dry
on the woodwork, Kathleen
instantly instituted some
radical changes with the help
of New York decorator Rosa
lind Roster. She bricked the
floor of the ground floor re-
creation room or library that
opens out onto the garden.
And she converted the laun-
dry room into a little kitchen
adjoining this library.
On the second floor, she
knocked down the wall be-
tween the dining room and
living room, making it into one
big living room that overlooks
the garden. This room is now
a pristine white. The walls
of paneled pecky cypress and
the floors have both been
painted white. There is an
other library and kitchen on
this floor, but the fact that
there are two each of these
rooms is not surprising. Next
to writing, the author of Star
Money" and 1.-THE Lovers" loves
cooking.
On the third floor she made
some architectural changes.
She converted two Of the four
bedrooms into a master bed
room and dressing room. The
bedroom ceiling, however, is
not high enough for the IL
foot high headboard on her
bed which her big New York
apartment could accommodate.
The Porters or ginal lily
planned to have a swimming
pool installed in the garden,
but the District laws for pool
building are now so stiff they
have given up the idea and will
have IL handicapped simply as
a garden.
Right now the entire red
brick exterior of the new
iwelling is being painted white.
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DANCE AT SULGRAVE-
Julie and Cam Watson have
originated custom that Wash
ingtonians hope all other visi-
tors will adopt posthaste. In
town from Los Angeles for
several weeks stay, they i'm
mediately sent out invitations
to a small dance" which they
tossed at the Sulgrave Club
last night.
Only it was far from small.
Fully $50 or 400 or their Capt.
tai friends, plus some out-of-
towners to boot. turned up for
the gay affair that lasted till
all hours. Devron's music kept
the rafters ringing and the
balloon-decorated ballroom
alive with pep unceasing.
Bars we're set up in the din
ing room and one Of the card
rooms. and a supper Of lobster
newburg and rice, salad, scram-
bled eggs and sausage was
served from after midnight on.
Tall. blond Julie, who was
formerly Mrs. Peter Ansberry,
wore white orchids in her hair
and a floor-length dress Of cas-
cading tiers of white fringe.
She and her husband greeted
Emma and Cornelius Bretsch,
the Newbold Walmsleys, Liz
Whitney Lunn, Anne and Juan
Ceballos, Liz Scrivener arriv-
ing with John Henry; the
Harold Fangboners, the Jim
WimsattS. Caroline and Tom
my Adams. Eleanor and Pete
Brady, Alice Dodge. Taylor
Simmons, Jim Mann, Connie
Mccormick and Roy Leiffien.
Verbena Hebbard Of Beverly
Hills, Calf, came down from
New York. where she's been
staying since April, and the
Paul Marshalls were in from
the West Coast. where they're
now living.