Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-11-15
THE
COUNTRYSIDE
School
Dance
Planned
DOLORES PHILLIPS
Contributing Writer


though it's almost a month
or. the drums have started
beating to draw in sponsors
for the annual Hill School
Dance, given by the schools
Parent-Teacher Club for its
scholarship fund.
Invitations to sponsors are
out for Friday night, De-
cember IL at Middleburg's
Community Center. Dinner
parties are being planned to
round up the countryside,
and the stage is being cleared
for Sidney and his bandsmen,
Mrs. Charles Morgan, who
seems to be carrying a heavy
charitable load this year -
she was vice-chairman Of
the Christmas Shops pres
ident Of the Hill School PIC
and is in charge Of reserva-
tions.
An in the groove Devron
duo played far into the night
at the Tony Wilson's dinner
dance last Friday night. held
at their farm near Delaplane.
The Wilson's well-run, elab-
crate home on top of one of
Fauquier County's rolling
hills could hardly be called
a farmhouse, nor was the
party a home-run-up affair.
Novel Fete
While Emily was travelling
around Greece, and on her
way home, Tony, between
rounds of his excellent golf
at Burning Tree, decided to
give the party for her. With
the expert help of the Morris
Parrises, it turned out to be
an amusing, delicious and
rather novel way of enter
tanning.
-Four tables, seating some
OF the so guests, were spread
out in the long drawing room,
presided over by Alexander
Brooks portrait of Emily and
by Emily. Two more tables
were at either end of the long,
wide hallway, and there was
a seventh in the dining room
with Tony. Dancing, during
and between courses, was
taken care of in the rest of
the hall.
A bar, set up before dinner
in the long, f1agstoned down.
stairs room, lined with EN-
ily's collection of excellent
paintings and drawings, some
OF them her own, gave a low
ely uncrushed feeling of NOV
ing from one party to an
other.
Among the dinner guests
were many members of the
Orange County hunt, includ-
ing the Matt Hayes, the Her.
bert Shaws, the Prentice
Porters, the Charles Bairds
II, Morris Parrises and
Thomas FurneSS. The NAL
lory Washes and Henry Kali
tenbach were there from
Warrenton, the Frank Burk-
holders from Winchester,
R. H. Dulaney Randolph from
Washington and the Marshall
Exnlcioses, who were staying
at the Holmes MorisoAs' We'll
bourne near Middleburg.
TailyOur Party
Another party last week
more than a little out of the
ordinary was the cocktail
party given by Col. and Mrs.
Norman Tailyour of the
British Military Mission, to
meet the Commandant Gen.
eral of the Royal Marines
and Mrs. I. H. Riches. The
Tailyours, who frequent the
countryside during the point
to-point and race meet
season, gathered almost as
many people into their
charming Alexandria home
as the Wilson's did on Friday
night.
Gen. and Mrs. Riches, who
have been touring Marine
bases in the United States
before returning to England,
left at the appointed 1000
O'Clock for dinner but left be-
hind, in Norman's temporary
keeping, a charming framed
plaque of individual, hand
painted watercolors of United
States Marines in uniform,
from the late 1700s to the
present day. An engraved in
scription at the bottom
presented the plaque to Gen.
Riches, from Gen. Randolph
Nice. Pate, in memory of the
lasting friendship between
the United States and British
marines.