Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1926, Page 55

Tales of Well Known Folk | In Social and Qfficial Life! Items of General and Special Interest Relating" to Wosld Notables—Wide Field } Passed in Review BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. The British Ambassador and Lady TIsabella Howard honored many menl bers of the Howard family, who were | among the assoctates of Ciov. Leonard | Calvert in foanding Lord Baltimore's | palatinate, when they accepted the | invitation to be present at the cere- | monies held in Baltimore on Thurs- day Matthew Howard, cousin of lhpi Duke of Norfolk, was the immigrant | of the famous British fumily ¥ hlch} holds the premier rank among its ducal houses rund he came to Mary- | land in 1650, Matthew was an im-| portant man in the history of the province, and held a place at the Go Council Board. His first estate W in Arundel County named | for Anne Uoward, daughter of the 1arl of Arundel, wife of Cacilius. sec ond Baron of Baltimore, and likewise among the far-away Kindred of the Ambassador. Subsequently Mr. How- ard took a land grant in what is now | close to the City of Baltimore and his sons and grandsons were repre- sentative men in the rising city. Gen ger Howard was the grand- | son of Matthew, and he was a gallant | <oldier in the Maryland Line and rose to the most exalted rank during the War. This American Ambassador - | blood, | Senate. The Howard family was ltke- | wise connected with the Calverts in ny ways and Sir Esme is deeply erested in the preparations for the celebrution of the tercentenary of the landing of the Catholic pilgrims n what is now Marys City, on March o 634, and which will be | commemorated eight years hence. to Cuba, e German Minister Franz Carl Zitelmann, has filled | arious posts in the fore'gn service bis country under the Kalser and | and he has found it im- cotain bis knowledge of the anguages acquired in his professional career. He has taken a novel way 1o keep his family as well as himself on familiar terms with five different languages, which are spoken dally and often in the home. Mme. Zitelmann | Is an American, the daughter of the tate Dr. Karl Von Klein, of Chicago, ind she can provide the English and, of course, the Minister takes care of | the German. The chauffeur is Spanish and each of the three daughters and the Minister and his wife have a turn 1t giving him directions and mapping routes they wish to take. The housemaid iss m Geneva nd speak enough to keep in | practice and there is an Italian teaci ey for tha entire family. Mme. Zitel- mann was educated in Rome and she has always kept up her ltalian. but for the others it vequires a little ef- tort to follow the teicher conversa- | tionally. The eldest duughter of this vann, ma of Havana 5 the fact that she has just made her debut and is in a whirl of gayety, she | lee up law studies and intends | when she gets her degree to take a | post-graduate course at Harvard, and | to become a practicing lawyer in | Havana. Mrs. Ogden H. Hammond, who, with ler husband, the new Ambassador to Madrid, spent some time in Washing- ton, is among the youngest chate-| laines who have occupied such a lofty | and exacting post. Mrs. Hammond was, before her marriage, less than 10 years ago, Miss Margarita McClure of New York, and she had been most | carefully educated at home and in| France and Switzerland. But so far | as languages are concerned King Al- | fonso's court may be described as lingual. since Queen Victoria is Eng- lish, and in compliment to her that tongue is spoken almost as much as is Spanish. Alfonso is a keen sports- man and has spent so much time in England that he speaks without a| trace of accent and is besides partial | 1o the language of his wife. Mr. Hammond is the possessor of a hand- | <ome income and he will need every | lollar to maintain the standard which | ander Moore and Mr. Joseph | established in Giovernment does not ov and_Spanisl lings. exalted digmitary like the S from the United States could occup: re exceedingly rare. There are enor- | ous palaces without number, some with a hundred and more bedrooms and requiring a retinue of from 23 to | 50 servants, but few are equipped | with modern conveniences. Madrid lies on & high- cold plain and Winter (| can be nipping at times, as in this Capital. Mr. Moore had a_beautiful sid palace quite near the King's city | viome and he fitted it up at his own ex-| pense and scoured lLiurope for the nest sort of household retinue. For he present Mr. and Mrs. Hammond | will live in a hote. arly and th bastian in May diplomats, the Hammo he court and the p ! with them now ix to tind o suitable illa on the Mediterranean coast ad- || jacent to the royal City of San Se- | bastian follow | Capt. Thomas E. Y. Seldon of New Zealand, one of the prociaimed heroes of the Ypres region, has been in this country for several months in the hope of securing a new variety of polo || ponies for the club at Auckland. This | organization' is famous on the vast| continent of the South Seas; and it | has for some years reared an oviginal | strain of ponies which bave proved | both rong and swift B as t)\ei Auckland team intends to enter the juternational championship contests, | was decided to try out both British | and American ponies in the coming | practice games. Capt. 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The Viscountess Harcourt, who has been spending March with her rela tives in New York City, is the widow of the statesman, the Hon. Lewis Wil- ltam Ldward Harcourt, well known In the days of Lord Roseberry. Her son, | the present viscount, is not deeply in- | terested in public affairs, but is giving | his attention to industrial and agricul- tural problems. Lady Harcourt is the granddaughter of Junius Spencer Mor- gan, founder of the greit banking | firm of Morgun, and la the daughter | of the late Walter Burns, a New Yorker whom Mr. Morgan sent to| London to represent his interests Besides this large portion of American Lady Harcourt’s mother was the granddaughter of John Lothrop Motley, the historiun. This eminen man of letters went to London Minister in the first years of Grunt administration, and being summarily reculled because of the President quarrel with Charles Sumner. he co sidered himself affronted und never again returned to his native land. Sumner was Motley's intimate friend and chief political influence and the historfan had spent much time in Washington and had gotten to know President Grant personally. Motley great work, “The Rise of the Dutch Republic was mad era and indeed his historical e guined in vogue with the ng years. Mr. Motley's ibree | Gaughters married into dis*inguished British families und thetr descendants are among the intellectuui leaders of the day. Besides the Morgans, Lady Harcourt is related to Cubots #nd Lowells of Boston snd to the large family of Benjumin and Rogers in New York City. Her present home, | Mymms Park, Hatfield, was inherited | from lher father. ter . Burns. Vice Admiral Tloger passed mearly all Winter bor of Villetranche. near parted about the middle his flagshin, the Pittshur tian waters and will Cairo until sfter the Kaster season. The vice wdmiral and Mrs. Welles, who is now at Sheppeard's. will be onn central figure in the gayeties alcpz the Nice. he vice udmiral. in command of the Mediterr: nean fleet, is a near-Washington'an though he is really a son of the Nut- meg State, and descends from two of | its ploneer familie: Delanos an Welles. Commanding the Vermont and the Wasp during the Spanish- American War, Lieut. Welles, as he was then, was among the heroes of that conflict and he passed several vears afterward in the Navy Depart- | ment in Washington. At close inter- | vals he was assigned to bureau service and was from 1916 to 1920 in charge of the Naval Intelligence Bureau. For eminent services in this post he | received the highest decorations which this Nation and Great Britain | confer, and besides the Order of King | Leopold from the Belgian King and of the Rising Sun from the Emperor { of Japan. Vice Admiral Welles mar- | ried Miss Harriet Ogden Deen of | Staten Island, N. Y., well known lit- | erary woman whose sketches and | ghort stories are familiar to readers | of the more serious class of maga- | zines. Mrs. Welles has been a charm- ing hostess in the villa which she occupied in Villefranche. and her de- parture in the wake of the American fleet was deemed a doudle blow to tie colony of her country people who re main on the Iliviera until Muy Lady YFrederick Treves, w nerible medico Sir Treve: bo has been chief elles. who the hur of the Frederick surgeon | Charles < y | commander of the Connaught Regi- | bassador from King Victor E THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 28, 1926—PART 2 for British royalty since the latter days of Queen Victoria, is, with her daughter, Ledy Delme Radcliffe, about to leave Mentone, one of the gay spots of the French Riviera, to experiment in the attractions of the Florida Riviera, so-called, and which extends along the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscayne from Miami Beach beyond Fort Lauderdale. A large British colony Is established at this latter point, and all through the Winter and opening Spring the residents there have bsen entertaining their friends from London, many of them prospec: tive aotiiers. his resort has one of the few good deep water harbors in the Miami sectlon, and those loyal cubjects of King (ieorge who object to prohibition can easily get up steam and make Nassau within a few hours. Fort Lauderdale already possesses u formidable list of titled folks who are in many instances engaged in selling ren) estate and doing quite well at it. Muny sufferers of the war, delicate and unfit for active duty in the Army and Navy. have on retirement gone o Fort Lauderdale, where they have as fine climate as the Mediterranean resorts furnish and yet without temptations such as are offered at Monte Carlo and other resorts of the Mediterranean. Iudy Treves and her | dnughter anticipate golng to Tavana | also, and probably will make the voy- age on & F an capitai and cross over to the “osda const In April Gen. Sir Delme-Radcliffe, formerly ment. har been in Florida all Winter. Prince Gélaslo Caetani, =o plea 1y remembered in Washington as Am- nman- uel, has just published a bulky vol: uma, dealing, not as the public hoped with knotty problems of diplomacy. but with the history of the ancient castle of Sermoneta, the first strons hold of his family and at present the dower house of his mother. Tt was to incrense the vulve of the estate | about Sermoneta that Prince Gel- asio begun those marvelous engineer ing onerations in the Pontine Marshes, for this eleventh century tu inated by the great grim fortress lies ut the edge of the marshes about 45 miles from Rome. During the past centuries nearly all the land was worthless and was hesides given credit for those ravaging Roman fevers and the malaria which debilituted all the dwallers nearby. Thunks to the skil! and energy of the former Ambassador the Pontine district now blooms with ! truck and flower gardens and ther: re neat homes of the owners along the old Roman roud. The dowager duchess of Sermonetu is I'nglish und was Lady Ada Bootle Wibraham. daughter of the Earl of Lathom when, in 1848, she married the thirteenth Duke of Sermoneta, ud of the powerful feudal House o’ Cpeani. The granddaughter of the scholarly Lord Skelmedale of Oxford, the Duchess from her earl married vears studied the old fortress and en desvored to make it livable and this she interested her son and wit results eminently valuable to Ttal: to the historian und the antiquariar Prince Caetan! intends tu make <haustive siudy of fortresses Turk Ages of which Sermoneta type and this first volume, is me nd pertaining to hile the remaining scientific and will cover the subject from Romun days until the era when private possessions were de fended by the stute and not by over lords. Many will recall the visits of the lively young Ear! of Lanthom to his cousin, Prince Caetani, some threec the four Winters ago and the fact that this | | budding dramatist was studying stage land from the American viewpoint. He has just placed on the Prince of Wales Theater in London his most ambitious play, called “Wet Paint,” and a storm of protest is assailing the ears of the Lord Chamberlain against its continuance. But the noble author is not disturbed and calmly points to certain pluys of Shaw and Oscar Wilde and others which were bharred domain of Uncle Sumi. The earl is the grandnephew of the venerabls Duchess of Sermoneta and is he: frequent guest. She has another nephew in letters, that Leo Kennedy son of Lady Florence Kennedy, w hes just publishe@ « wmuch-praised study called “Diplomacy—Old and New." Lord Lathom spent three months in New York last year and at- tended the theater tirelessly—mat. inees and evening performances—so 18 manner snd ivie A din with # delighifal of am K lemius atmospher B, e ZMM@@§m§ Incorporated WASHINGTON'S LE Zirkin individuality for Easter COATS ---For H =1 EVELOPED i of the new i fabrics cach depict- ing an clusiveness that is the result of the fine ta; loring and touches of fur and _trimmings which ZIRKIN cre ates, Moderately priced is a group at New Easter DRESSES 1958 1 1304 is the price of a spe- cial collection of new frocks to wear on the Easter promenade. Each is fashioned from the newest fabrics. All sizes in the assortment. 821 14th $ K2 % ADING FURRIERS Costume Easter 0 Others priced higher according to quality New madels — every one.an individual crea- tion in the mode—all of the favored shades and fabrics. Sizes to fit the miss or matron. St. N.W. ach liner dlrect to the | n dom- | some | from the | fl fl fl | | fl fl clet; | tha ten sor ! ark Wi car; usual bouquet. of wre ora i six of | themu! ros ons. bor seh [d[e———[a[——]a[——n[c———[p[———]a[ = Philipsborn ELEVENTH ST | | | | m | m | | charmin few University Girl MISS RUTH BARD Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Grant S. Barnhart of 1434 Rhode Island avenue, & sophomore at George Washington University, and popular in local so- t “Wet Paint” dency and is 0 scener) and to.let fes, Dives Keep who was Miss Helen It litcomb of East Oange, tashion at her weeks ago by | rying of floral Oliver ring tips with th thed in a colonis mers ot lily nge blossorn in number, small yellow and some of ebuds, some of pin All had streamers on ostrich 1et liey The wi tiny 15 carry inbow eme. The vogu The French Room 1s dedicated to this display on Mon- day. and extra assistants will be in attendance to serve vou shows a Belasco onderfully well put’ ucces New ymond et wedding a 1 of the The bride used w fan handle with aids, | vied fans, some chrysan sweethe: k und red errna § which blooms were Tastened on knotted rib 3 ol of the fan ix re turning at every formal occasion and after the inevitable. scarf to match the toilet, the fan is the-next impo: tant adjunct. This has been apparent fjn the famous horseshoe of the | | Metropolitan opera house where fans | of every hue and shape add more | color and animation than the wonder- | ful jewels for which this circle is | known from one end of the world to | the other. There are, of course, many | jeweled fans to be seen"in the opera house, soma of them of intrinsic value and some of historic worth, Mrs. | Harold Pratt has been collecting fans | for some years but not with the idea of laying them aside in rose-leaves | or presenting them under glass in | | her drawing-room but to use on cere- | | monial occusions. She hus some | dainty little carved ivory affairs which | are used by the noble ladies of Japan, Jand some scented woods which are | | the treasures of belles of the South | Sewu Isles. But Mrs. Pratt's Spunish | fans, like her embroldered shaw represent every era and every variety | | of the accessorie Mrs, Benjamin Hurrison's appear- ance in court in New York City long ago to plead for an erring I maid for whom she felt deep = | pathy, called attention to the fact that |she 18 one of four women who are | sometimes described as widows of | President’s of the United States. But her status is comewhat differ from | that of the former Mrs. {land, now Mrs. Thomus J. Preston, | who caunot be counted in the c |gory of relicts though in the sense, Mrs. [arrison cannot be said |to be the widow of u President. She | married a former chief magisirate of the Nation after he had ceased to be.| |such, but the Government, wiways chivalrous, gives her the sime pen- | sion It hus ussigned to the others. | | Mrs. Theodore Toosevelt und Mrs. Woodrow Wilson are in reality the only living widows of presidents and both had a long caveer In the White Houte, Mrs. Roosevelt for more than reven veurs mm! Mrs. Wilkon for al- most six. Hurrison lives quietly in New City though nov in_ her sixty-seventh y und th est of this exceedingly interesti group, she dld not shrink from at tempting an +ct of mercy which took ier into the - ice court of the great politan city. The muid had rob her mistress and the theft was Ly detectives who the loser Mrs., Harrison wa much moved by the unfortunate girl's confesgion und attem but In va to have her relea bonds . Cf Personal Interest To \V’asllington Residents Mr returne and Mrs, Theodore Peyser have o their wedding joumer | attractive prize for each table 608 to 614 nd are settled in their ‘athedral Mansion: The Sigma Omega Pi Sovority gave A charliv mah-jong and bridge part at Wardmah Park Fotel Friday after- | noon. which brought together a large company. The affair was man- aged by the young ladies of the so- | ‘rority, who ucted as hostesses. There was @ prize for each tuble. tending | ing her Easter vacation on v | street | hosts last night at dinner man I at her to celeh annive 30, enjoyed Franc_were | evenin, at Ward- | dances. A huffe | from an attractive Leon was hostess | centerpiece of home, 1232 te her fourteenth sary. ‘The guests, dancin and there Audrey Rosenberg, who is at-| nllege in Boston. is spend- Biltmore | Fairmont with her parents. Mr. and Mrs, Walter Hotel. Miss Ruth Emil last night at a young folks’ dance | Spring flowers Mrs, James Lansburgh and Mrs. | Bertha Coblenzer, with her daughter, Mrs. Ladislaus Detre, and her young | daughter, sailed Wednesday ~from | New York on the S. 8. Republic {frs, Detre and daughter are return- ing to their home in Budapest. Aus tria, after spending several months liere with jher mother, Mr. and*Mrs. Harold Price of Okl loma, whose marriage recently took place, are spending théir honeymoon in the Last. They are the guests of | Mr. Price’s brother-inlaw and sister Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Kuntz of the | Beicon. The Town and Country Club gave | & dinner dance last night at the Country (lub—+a dance in old Ma drid"—which was well attended. A number of out-oftown guests were present. Mrs, Philip May, who has Lbeen the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Leopold Behrend, rveturned yesterday harleston, W, p George Shuler of New York and her young duughter are guest: of the former's mother, Miss Lin luncheon her apart entertaining at followed by muh-fong at ment in Beverly Court Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Kaufmann nding the week end in New Miss Iisther Sherby. who is attend- ing Goucher College, is spending the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. [arry Sherby, and has as her guest, Miss Eiza \Wolf. Miss Gertrude Sherby will huve as ho et duimg he du Miss Dorle Myers of Philudelphfa. in i whove honor she will give a dance Suturday night at lher home on De 4; catur street. | Omexn Cuapter of Sigmu Theta || Pi Sorority's second shnual charity || teu Monday at the Muyflower Hote was lurgely attended. 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