Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1928, Page 42

‘Tales of Well Known Folk In Social and Official Life Mrs. Hoover Untiring Countess Szecheny1 Friend of Girl Scouts. to Visit Her Mother in Newport. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. Mrs. Herbert Hoover last April re- linquished the post of chairman of the executive board of the National Girl Scouts in order that she might devote her energies more exclusively to the duties devolving on her as first vice president _of this character-building agency. Despite her many preoccupa- | tions, the wife of the Republican nomi- nee has concentrated much thought on this society, which she aptiy describes as underwriting the young girl that she may develop into a healthful, home- loving and useful citizen of her coun- try. For many years Mrs. Hoover has given much re to the Girl Scouts than the prestige of her name, though that was an exceedingly valuable con- tribution. As executive chairman she kept in personal contact with the Scouts, and was indefatigable in her efforts to make every detail of their program effective. She visited camps in every section, and through careful inspection and helpful suggestions brought the Scout activities up to a full realization of the needs of each com- munity. Thousands testify to her un- tiring endeavor to discover and put in force the most efficient formula. True to her most pronounced conviction, Mrs. Hoover has bent her influence in estab- lishing courses in Scout leadership in the principal co-ed colleges and univer- sities and in many women's colleges. ‘This is deemed her most valuable con- tribution to the organization, and the idea embodied in that crusade has been heartily indorsed by the governing board of the entire society. First Ladies of the Land are represented on the honorary board of the Girl Scouts, in- cluding Mrs, Coolidge, Mrs. Willlam Howard Taft, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Thomas Preston also is in the list. * k% x Countess Szechenyi, wife of the Hun- garian Minister, will, according to let- ters from Budapest, precede her hus- band and daughters to this side of the Atlantic by a few weeks and will make a lengthy visit to her mother, Mrs. Cor- nelius Vanderbilt, at the Breakers in Newport. The last weeks of September find many titled visitors in that resort, among whom are Lord Fermoy and his | twin brother, Mr. Francis Burke-Roche. | The former remains a bachelor despite the increasing rumors of his engage- ment, and apparently he finds his coun- trywomen quite as fascinating as the British belles. As lads the Anglo- American peer and his brother spent much time in his mother’s home in Newport. This _handsome villa, buiit by Mr. Frank Work, is now occupied by his sister, Mrs. Lucien Carey, as Mrs. Burke-Roche rarely comes to Newport, and passes the Summer usually in Os- tend or on the Lido. Mrs. Paul Fitz- Simons is entertaining her sister, Lady Cheylesmore, and a friend, Lady Horne. During the mellow days of late Sep- tember Newport, according to those who have had long experience, is at its best, and many who pass the Midsum- mer in more secluded places arrive in large relays. Mrs. Vanderbilt has the habit of staying at the Breakers until ‘Thanksgiving time and of entertaining a family group composed of as many of the children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren as may be persuaded to leave their own firesides. The Hun- garian Minister and his daughters will join the countess after they arrive in New York in late October. * ok x X Mme. Lipa, wife of M. Jaroslav Lipa, counselor of the Czechoslovakian le- gation and charge d'affaires, has just returned to Washington after a de- lightful Summer spent in Prague, the home of her uncle, Dr. Tomas Masaryk, who is president of the republic. He lives in a part of the largest palace in east Europe—the Hradchin, capitol of the Czechoslovakian Republic, as it was of the ancient kingdom of Bohemia. It is a quadrangle, in the center of which is an immense grass plot ex- tensive as a city park, and on the other sides are the former Toscana place of the Hapsburgs, now the president’s resi- dence and also the seat of his private offices and those of several of the min- isters of state. The grand old Carme- lite convent occupies another side of the square, and the superb palace of the Princes Schwartensburg, or the archiepiscopal residence, and the Metro- politan Church of St. Vitus adjoining the archbishop’s home. Mme. Lipa, who is the daughter of President Ma- saryk’s younger brother and who was reared in his home, has always regretted that comparatively few tourists from this country visit Pragne, acknowledged one of the ioveliest and most picturesque cities of Europe and abounding in inter- esting historical memories. Her early home was near the splendid palace of Count Waldenstein, famous general of the 30 Years’ War, and which still be- longs to his lineal descendants. Until a new Minister is appointed to succeed M. Zdenek Fierlinger, Mme. Lipa will act as chatelaine of the legation, a role which she has often and most accept- ably filled during previous intermissions. * k k% Condessa Berlanga de Duero, wife of the scholarly attache of the Spanish embassy, who had attained literary fame in his own country before coming to ‘Washington, is, according to judges, one of the beauties of the foreign contingent, and indeed she had the reputation for loveliness in her own land, Andalusia, where beauty”abounds. The condessa, who has spent the Summer in the home of her parents not far from the sea port of Malaga, was, according to the poetical description given of this local- ity, born *where folly grows on the green vines” and where history and tra- dition are centered about the fragrant grape. She is of the acknowledged type of Andalusian beauty, being slender and tall with blue black hair and eyes of the same deep hue, and she invari- ably adopts for evening wear the grace- ful head dress of her country, a tall comb on which is draped either a black or white mantilla. She s an outstanding figure at all assem- blages. Conde Berlanga de Duero who, while serving as an attache of the embassy, is the correspondant of the most prominent Spanish dailes, including those of Madrid, Barcelona and Valladolid, hws been accomplishing marvels in interesting people of this country in the Ibero- American exposition, which will open jointly in Seville and Barcelona next March. Forty per cent more Americans traveled in Spain during the past Sum- mer as the result of the intensive cam- paign conducted by eminent Spanish Journalists and authors. * Xk X % Miss Doris Francklyn and Miss Agnes Keyes, who have been managing South- mpton’s unique benevolent_organiza- tion, the Shinnecock Needlework School. made a stunning success of the open-air sale of linen, held traditionally on the lawn at Redcroft, in the ox pasture. Fair weather, clear, if not always cool, has been the fortune of this al fresco sale of the products of the Shinnecock Indians and their pupils in_the modish colony of Southampton. While there is always a handsome dis- play of homespun linens and every con- ceivable sort of basketry and fancy articles, the main source of revenue is what might be called futurities—that is, the generous patrons cheerfully pay for a tablecloth and napkins which are yet to be spun. They enter their orders and pay the price, and so far not a case of disappointment has been regis- tered. Miss Francklyn and Miss Keyes acknowledge that their system is all their own and that they fear it would not be approved by economic experts, but it works like a charm, just as satis- factorily as if their orders were filed in cases and catalogued according to prevailing methods. Many of the Sum- mer guests at Southampton rely on the sale to provide the needed table and room linen for the year, and many are just as willing to wait until the diligent workers have time to create new de- signs and novelties as to have them delivered every year. This open-air sale, for which the weather man has for 20 consecutive years promised and delivered a fair day, maintains the women on the Shinnecock reservation not only in needed comforts, but alsd the material for their work. * K kX ‘When Miss Ruth Marie Breining was married a few weeks ago to Mr. Harold Boynton Bergen, the ceremony was held in the quaint garden surrounding St. John's Lutheran Church, in upper New York City, and this because the family of the bridegroom is recorded among the founders of this parish and repre- sent the oldest owners in this section of Gotham after the redman. The immigrant of the family, Hans Hanson Bergen, arrived in New Amsterdam from Norway in 1633 and took out land grants under the Netherlands governor. ‘The descendants of this stalwart son of the Vikings still owns part of the old estate, and the site of St. John's was a free gift in the middle of the eighteenth century. This environment for a wedding, the church close, is THE something unusual in this country, but in Norway it is frequently a privilege granted to benefactors to choose any part of the church property for a re- ligious ceremony. It has been suggested that no loveller spot for a wedding, especially in Spring or Autumn, could be found than that about the Cathedral of §S. Peter and Paul. The nuptial scene for Mr. Bergen and his bride was set apart by tubbed palms and flower- ing oleanders, and the arches of roses already in place were decorated with genuine buds and sprigs of white clematis, which gave an exquisite and natural appearance to the scene. * x x % Mr. Joseph James Tunney’s home outside of Greenwich, Conn., is now one of the attractions of that charming re- sort, and of equal interest is that of Mrs. George Lauder, jr., whose pretty daughter, Mary Josephine, is to become the bride of the scholarly boxer. These estates lie side by side, and a close friendship, if not something warmer, has existed between Mr. Tunney and Miss Lauder all this time, which is now more than four years. The Tunney estate was a show place of Greenwich and was owned by Mrs. Clara Louise White, who, some 20 years ago, had purchased about 170 acres of heavily timbered rolling land and then em- ployed the most renowned landscape gardeners to arrange flower plots, sunken gardens, pools and rock gardens. Mr. Tunney takes great pleasure in the dense woods of oak and tall pines and he has a small den built in the thick of them where he has placed some favorite books and some old etchings, and here he passes as many hours as he can spare from his other avocations. Miss Lauder, who is the granddaughter of that George Lauder who accom- MARRIED THIS MONTH S MRS. ROBERT LEWIS TERRELL. Formerly Miss Adeline Alexander, daughter of Mrs. Richard Baxter Alexander. —Harris-Ewing Photo. panied his cousin, Andrew Carnegle, from Scotland and was associated in all the business ventures, likewise is a lover of nature and of forests, and it is said that this fascinating romance was entirely an outgrowth of their love of gardens. Mrs. Lauder, mother of Mr. Tunney’s fiancee, is a native of Green- wich and a daughter of Mr. George Rowland of that city. But her late | kne husband was from Pittsburgh, and it was about 25 years ago that he pur- chased the estate at Greenwich as a Summer home. Mrs. Lauder spends part of each Winter in Pittsburgh and New York, but for nine months of the year she calls Greenwich her home. * K K K When Miss Libby Chase, one of the belles of Chicago, joined the Ringling circus for a few weeks of exhibition in adjacent Illinois towns she set a prece- dent even in a region so noted for originality as is the Lake City. Miss Chase is one of the accomplished riders of the Lake Forest set and she carried gives them a margin to buy wholesale |Off honors so persistently that she KAPLOWITZ NINTH ST. . GaoH FASHIONS DE LUXE EXCLUSIVELY ON ACCOUNT OF SACRED HOLIDAY STORE CLOSED .. MONDAY . . TREMENDOUS . . GIGANTIC SALE TUESDAY APPAREL SPECIALISTS SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER 23, 1928=PART 3. deemed it quite an easy matter to ride in the cf ring. Not only that, but this talented young woman wields a graceful pen and she had contracted to write a series of articles on circus riders. So to gain first hand informa- tion and the needed atmosphere, she was for six weeks a drawing card for Ringling Brothers and she has just used all her experience not only with her pen but also in conducting country club horse shows. During the past Summer Miss Chase and her sister Janet were among the noted riders at Pau, and they received many honors in the vari- ous shows held on the French Riviera and along the Spanish coast. They also visited several of the British equestrian exhibits and assisted in ar- ranging several pageants of the horses, when she used all the tricks which were such spectacular features during her sojourn with the circus. Miss Chase and her sister intend to pass most of the Winter with their sister, Mrs. Pres- ton Boyden, in Berlin, but at present they are at home in Lake Forest. * K ok K Mrs. Grace Elliot Gibson, a member of a prominent Boston family, but for many years resident in Los Angeles, is considered by critics an unusually ver- satile composer of music which carries the rhythm and pathos of the Nile. Living for several years in Luxor, the melodies of the workers on the cele- brated river caught her fancy as being something very fine and utterly un- known in this part of the world. Mrs. Gibson has just won the cash prize offered annually by Miss Katherine Yarnell for the most original and worthy composition presented at the Hollywood Bowl musical contest, by her concert overture called “En Rapport,” arranged for full orchestra. In this spirited overture, many of the melodies of Egypt, some of them dating back to the days of the Pharaohs, according to folklore, have been introduced as fan- tasias and with marvelous effect. Critics aver that the spirit of Holly- wood is well interpreted by this pot- pourri of alien songs and ballads. Miss Yarnell, donor of this $1,000 prize, which has several times furnished the means through which ambitious com- posers have studied at famous music centers, is a descendant of one of California’s oldest Spanish families, the Caystillos and much of Hollywood has been bulilt on their former ranch. She is the daughter of the late Jesse Yar- nell, founder and first publisher of the Los Angeles Express, and she began her music career by writing on such themes for her father’s music department. EE Mrs. Fay Ingalls, whose English stock farm near Hot Springs, Va., is so well known to the visitors to that celebrated spa, has been receiving congratulations on the success of the Bath County Horse Show, held the last week in August and of which she was both the manager and the inspiration. Interest in horses had almost vanished about Hot Springs when Mrs. Ingalls pur- chased “The Yard” a glorified stock farm near the village, and began to breed in_a scientific way, hack and harness horses. Her farm gradually took over the name by which it is now best known, “Hobby Horse Farm,” and many owners of adjoining estates be- gan to emulate her example by raising stock. Finding Hobby Horse Farm too small for her ambitious intentions, Mrs. Ingalls now has a large tract on Warm | Spring Mountain, where an English trainer is in charge. Mrs. Ingalls is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Holmes of New York City and Cleve- land, Ohio, and has been a conspicuous hostess in Hot Springs, where so many distinct branches of the Ingalls family are established. She had been trying to arrange a horse show for the past five years, but this Summer was the first time she received any appreciable sup- port. A grandstand was erected and 36 boxes were well filled, whiie all horse lovers, many from Washington, who pass the Summer in Hot Springe ex- hibited or attended the two-day per- formance. Now that she has made an opening, Mrs. Ingalls plans to enlarge the stalls and to place the Bath County Horse Show in the same category with adjacent organizations in Virginia. Daring Thieves From the Air. Explorers in Abyssinia report that there are many birds of prey in that country, the most daring of which and the most common, is the kite. Flocks of them will sit for hours in the trees near the camp waiting for an oppor- tunity to steal a meal from the cook tent. In this they will often take great chances and they have been own to dart across the cook’s fire and steal food from his pans on the stove. They have no hesitation in steai- ing the food from any wild animal they encounter which happens to be enjoy- ing a me: “Try Sworzyn’s First” SWORZYNS 716 13th St. N.W. Just Above G Street Hemstitching 10c Yd. t Service. Pleating. oidery, Smocking. Tucking, Shir- Buttonholes, Fagoting, Pockets and Bound Butionholes. 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