Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-05
PeIIs Own Renowned Art
In Their Georgetown Home

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IN an art show and remarked
to the owner that she had
the original at home. Since
then there have been many
requests from art galleries
TO borrow it.
In the drawing room there
is a charming portrait of the
Senator as a young boy with
his father, the late diplomat
Herbert C. Pell. 1t was paint
ed by Claiborne'S talented
Stepmother, Olive BigeloW
Pell, and was on loan to the
New York Historical Society
until this past year.
THE PELLS spend their
summers in their house in
Newport. Their teen-age sons,
BERTHE and Toby, are board
ers at st. Georges School
there. The two little girls,
Dallas and Julia, begin the
school season in Newport and
in January when Congress
reconvenes they re-join their
classmates at Potomac School
here thus the Pells solve
one of the many problems
that are the lot of most leg
islative families.
In one corner of the great
hall that stretches from the
front door to the garden en-
trance, old family photo
graphs and miniatures are
hung Sentimentally and
IN apparent disarray. Actu-
ally they are hung according
to generation and relation
ships. Bill Walton has prom
lsed to paint a family tree on
the wall behind the pictures
a charming idea that de-
lights the Pells, who are old
friends of the artist.
The broad oak staircase is
guarded at the landing by
two huge suits of armor,
which were recently returned
to Senator Pell from the mu-
scum which had borrowed
them. (Close inspection pro-
vldes the viewer with a start
there are faces inside
the helmets, and life-like
eyes above the visors return
stare for stare).
The walls along the stair
way are hung with drawings
and etchings that are also
part of the Pell collection
that has been on loan. The
Fogg Museum in Boston had
a large number of them, in
Guiding some of the fine
Rembrandts and Durers.
Some of this collection has
been presented to the Ma
tional Gallery.
The Pells lived here before
his landslide election to the
Senate last year, and are one
OF the more popular couples
IN Washington. They enter
tain often and their lovely
house is the scene of some
OF the most delightful parties
in town.
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MARIE RIDDER, wife OF
publisher Walter Ridder, who
was recently reported pack
ing her bags for a trip to Co.
lombia is still packing
but no longer for the Colon
bian jaunt.
She leaves on Friday to &C
company Mrs. Kennedy and
her party on the trip to India.
The otherwise delighted and
excited Marie is desolate over
having to miss seeing Walter
play the role of the Wash
ington Bachelor in Friday
nights MS. show at the
Shoreham. If he is half as
good as he was last year,
she'll hear the applause in
Rome.
The male lead that night is
being played by Sir Kenelm
Guinness, who has starred in
many ~Haxagon productions
but has never before ap-
peared on the MS. program.
AS his role is terribly, ter
ribly British Can English
newspaperman in Washing
tom, the terribly American
author, Scottie Lanahan, has
had to call on him to all but
write his own lines.
This authentic British view
of Washington has been
whipped into shape in the
very French atmosphere of
the Rive Gauche during re-
cent lunch hours and it's
wonderfully funny