Evening star., 1962-03-25
BY BERNARD O'BRIEN
Contributing Writer

~ DA1ASANAAND " DAOAGAN
Contributing Writer
PALM BEACH, Mar. ga
few years ago nobody dressed
for Sunday night unless he
was going to the fashionable
Everglades Club.
Nowadays, virtually every
things black tie in this resort
except the Everglades on that
evening. But, in the old days.
the Everglades was strictly
formal and its activities were
compressed religiously into
those three months from
December 81 to March 81.
There wasn't much else to do
on Sundays but to go to the
gala dress-Up party at the
clubs Orange Gardens, or
the second show at the
Paramount.
World War II was really
responsible for starting the
custom of evening attire at
cocktail parties. In the days
of gas rationing and black
outs no one could go dashing
home after cocktails to dress
for the evening. In fact, any
one was lucky to have enough
gas to make one round trip
for strictly social affairs.
One of the biggest black tie
affairs of the season was last
weeks Continental Ball where
the husbands of the CO.
chairmen-Benson Ford and
Frank McMahon-picked up
the entire party tab so that
the cancer and heart cause
would receive the full benefit
from the 500 tickets.
Seven hundred and fifty
members of the old guard in
Palm Beach rubbed shoulders
with cafe society and the in
ternational set.
When it comes to glamour,
there is nothing like a pala-
tial home of an earlier era as
a setting for a large ball.
Though it may be known
now as the Henry Morrison
Flagler Museum, it was as
though Whitehall, the home
of the great south Florida
developer, built as his own
personal residence, had come
to life again for the Con-
tinental Ball.
There were cocktails in
the picturesque patio, dining
in the sunken dining room
and adjoining corridors. But,
the great golden ballroom. set
only with a platform for Les
ter Lanin's band and a few
low upholstered benches
around the wall, was used
only for dancing.
Zsa Zsa Gabor and her
mother, Jolie Gabor, at
tended. But, Zsa zsa caused
her real stir at the Palm
Beach Towers. According to
the hotel staff, no figure
staying there ever caused
such a stir with people
lining up in the lobby await
ing her arrival and the cir
cular stairways filled with
onlookers. Her arrival had
the typical Zsa Zsa flutter.
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THE INVASION OF STU
DENTS has started in 1.-THE
Land Of Sunshine" Miss
Gene Richardson arrived
Wednesday from Madeira
School in Washington to visit
her parents, the junior Henry
F. Richardson's.
Mrs. Paul Healy of Chicago.
London, Paris and Palm
Beach, is entertaining her
great nieces, Misses Patricia
and Wendy Baker, and the
girls cousin, Miss Lisa Baker.
students at Garrison Forest
School at Garrison, Md.
Miss Bettina Boss of the
Capital arrived last Monday
with her Vassar roommate,
Miss Suzanne Walton Baird,
to visit the latter's grand
father, Charles S. Walton,
at Ocean View Hotel.
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DOWN THIS WAY, little
was ever said about the home
where President Kennedy
q stayed a couple Of weeks ago
in Miami Beach, other than
to give the address.
The enormous waterfront
home on North Bay road is
up for sale. and so is the late
owners magnificent collec-
ton Of jewels, valued at
$500,000. She was Mrs. Her.
bert w. Young, widow of the
founder and president of
Delta Star Electric Co. of
Chicago, who died just a year
ago this month. Mrs. Young
sold the firm in 1851. It
. built heavy-duty equipment
to electrify France and the
boulder Dam.
Mrs. Young was a part Of
the Miami Beach social scene
for many years. There were
no heirs to the estate when
Mrs. Young died in her mid
90s. In her will, she made a
number of individual be-
quests, but the residue of her
estate goes to the aged, the
young and her church.
The ironic thing is that
she purchased the home from
Joseph A. Richter, whose
firm now has her jewels for
sale. In the collection are
an emerald necklace with an
85-carat deep-green emerald
and earrings, ring and