Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-24
BY BETTY BEALE

Washington ballroom season
Saturday night.
The first dance Of the 1867
social whirl to be given at the
Sulgrave Club was brilliant.
gay and totally unlike most
successful soirees held in the
Nations Capital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert White
law Wilson we're hosts to some
400 friends, who included not
a single foreign diplomat and
only three politicoes who we're
invited by virtue Of having
been friends before attaining
any Golitical prominence.
Indeed, their guest list read
like the roster Of the leaders
of the city of Washington, not
the Capital of the United
States. They provided the an
swer to the oft-repeated ques-
ton Of visitors-who are the
real Washingtonians. and do
they have any life Of their own
or are they swallowed up in
Government?
Dancing to Cy Delman's
peppiest music were the presi-
dents and vice presidents of
Washington's best-known COM
panies, plus leading lawyers
and doctors.
1t looked as though the
boards of the Metropolitan
Club, the Chevy Chase Club,
Burning Tree Club and Sui
grave Club were all gathered
in one room.
Distinguished Guests
There we're President Of
Pepco and Mrs. r. Roy
Dunn, crab" Wilson is vice
president of the same COM
pany), President of the Bank
of Commerce and Mrs. Tom
Groom, President of Garfinckel
and Mrs. Dick Dunn, President
of The Evening Star and Mrs.
Samuel H. Kaufman, Pres
ident of H. L. Rust Co. and
Mrs. Rust, President of Folger,
Nolan brokerage firm and Mrs.
Clifford Folger, also the Jimmy
Nolans. President of Federal
Storage and Mrs. Ed Morris,
Mrs. Rowland Chase, pres
ident of the Sulgrave Club and
her husband, who is a governor
of the Metropolitan Club. Bill
Hunter, head of the Washing
ton branch of Merrill, Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner and Beane. and
Ethel Hunter, and dozens of
other top officials of banks,
real estate. legal. and architec-
tural firms.
The pretty hostess herself.
one of the best liked women in
Washington, is the head Of all
the volunteers for the National
American Red Cross for her
fifth successive year, and
recently became president of
the Smith College alumnae
association.
The three political excep-
tons noted were Senator and
Mrs. Bill Fulbright, whom the
Wilson's knew before he became
a Senator; Atomic Energy
Chairman Admiral and Mrs.
Lewis Strauss, longtime
friends of Janet's family, and
United States Information Di-
rector Ted Streibert and his
wife, Margaret, who was a
college friend of the hostess.
OF course, Cliff Folger is
G. o. P. Finance Chairman
but that's his hobby" not his
occupation.
Anniversary
Although the invitations
didn't indicate that the party
was in celebration of their
25th wedding anniversary,
clusters Of big silver bells
hanging from garlands in the
doorways and around the walls
of the ballroom told the story.
Janet and Rab started out
with a dinner at the Sulgrave
Club that drew most of their
wedding party of September
10. 1881. There was Rab's
brother and best man Eugene
S. Wilson. Dean of Admissions
at Amherst, and his wife, who
was matron of honor The
maid OF nonor, Mrs. Leland >.
Brown, and her husband from
Bedford Village. N. Y. /.
An usher. brother Of the bride.
Walter B. Mahony, jr., Of
Chappaqua, N. Y senior
editor of the Readers Digest,
whose wife is the former Mar
got Lee of D. c., daughter of
Mrs. Cazenove Lee An
other usher, Harold Fang
boner, who with his wife, Jean,
gave a cocktail party at the
Chevy Chase Club Saturday
afternoon for the Wilson's and
their guests And three
bridesmaids-all Smith class
mates of Janet's-Mrs. Robert
Clements and Mrs. Hale Ham
of Cleveland. Ohio. and Mrs,