Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1928, Page 63

THE ° SUNDAY ~ STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. OCTOBER.:14.. 1925—PART 3. * Tales of Wéll Known Folk | In Socia_lr _gmd Official Life| Shifting of White House Functions to Earlier! Date This Year Seen as Elimination of “Little BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. Mrs. Coolidge in pre-empting the month of November for official func- tions, which were traditionally held after the new year. has, in so re-arrang- ing the schedule. eliminated what was Jong known as the “little season.” say the social mentors. There are many who see a permanent shifting of the official eriod. for 1t will be remembered that | rs. Wilson was compelled to announce the cabinet dinner in December of 1914 Because the World War had divided the diplematic corps into two distinct groups. Two banquets to the foreign eorps had to be given, and the period between what had been accepted for more than a century as the official sea- son. the weeks between January 1 and Ash Wednesday, was in that dire year unusually brief. Yet when peace reign- ed after 1918, the giving of the cabinet nquet in December was accepted by cceeding first Ladies of the Land. Mrs. ©Coolidge is pushing the season to the earliest date on which any appreciable #ection of the legislative wing is to be in residence. and no doubt her succes- sors will follow the example of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in 1914-15. February & an exasperating month in Washing- won and to dismiss it from the scheme of formal entertaining might be the height of wisdom. But the last analysis s that the debutante season must now Pe shifted either to Spring or Summer s it is in the mojority of large cities. ©ctcber finds no one of consequence in | Washington. so that month is not to be eensidered, but there are long streiches efter Easter and ‘until late June which would prove ideal and in fact the logi- cal period for the buds to bloom. =KAo #ir Esme Howard has promptly met .~ situation of appearing at the head of the international pageant which will greet the President and Mrs. Cool- ddge the evening of November 15, and with Lady Isabella Howard is expected to arrive In New York City October 27. ¥he British Ambassador had hoped for A longer holiday, but the departure of Ar. Henry Getty Chilton. charge Wf’affaires, and the appointment of Mr. Ronald Ian Campbell, first secretary. ®ms acting charge d'affaires. curtailed his vacation, and no doubt his plans were speeded by the cabled news which he, with all other diplomats across the ocsan, received of Mrs. Coolidge's early calendar.. But whether the Spanish Ambassador will be so fortunate in changing his plans is not yet known. | M. Claudel awaited the pleasure of the foreign office in the matter of the debt funding commission and the Span- ish Ambassador, who did not sail until late in August, has many and inportant affairs to regulate. The German Am- bassador and Frau von Prittwitz und | Caffron remained on this side until late in August, and whether or not they can return by mid-November is not yet known in ‘Washington. * K k% John Jacob Astor. Col. second son ®f the late Viscount William Waldorf | Astor and brother of the preseat peer, like that member of the Lords, married a widow. Lady Violet Mercer-Nairne, ‘who survived Lord Mercer-Nairne, who, at the head of his regiment of Lancers, was killed near Ypres. He was the second son of the Marquess of Lans- downe. Lady Violet Astor is a daugh- ter of the woman of much charm, and her daughter by the first marriage, Lady Margaret Mercer-Nairne, was presented &t court with Miss Phyllis Astor, daugh- #er of Viscount Astor and his wife, Nannie Langhorne Astor, M. P.. These two handsome young maids will be in- timately associated with the amenities of the political wing, and they will take part in the activities pertaining to elec- tions. Miss Phyliss already shows much of her mother’s talent for impromptu speaking and frequently addresses the tenantry' at ‘Cliveden and the younger constituency of her mother in Plymouth. Lady Margaret Mercer-Nairne is a win- some type of beauty and takes deep Interest in the journalistic activities |8ray wolves, which he proposes to tame of her step-father. Col. Astor owns ! and publishes the London Times and | several important weeklies. Lady Vio- | let Astor is among the beauties of the | London world and is noted for her | talents as a political hostess. Like her aister-in-law, she iz conservative in politics _and is among the peeresses whom Mrs. Stanley Baldwin gathers about her at the drawing-rooms held All during the season in Downing street. BCER Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn h been entertaining man: The Notable Bride Prefers— STERLING SILVER Select her gift from our vast collec- tion of fine silver. gestion of flatware in her pattern, which you will find here, we have an unusually large and attractiye group of beauniful service pieces at almost any price you have planned to pay. COMPOTES The New Petal Design— Early American Stvle 512 Inches Across Top $7.50 A Targe X Bud Vases $1.50 up Earl of Minto and is a| ve this . SCESOT\.. eties of guests in_their beautiful home | at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Is- land—musical friends of their sons, po- litical and financial magnates and art- ists and writers without number. The home at Cold Spring Harbor shows how deeply early memories have impr: sed this successful naturalized citizen for it is like hundreds of the high{ nabled stone houses to be seen in Mann- heim, Germany, Mr. Kahn's birt place. The house is nearly one hun- dred feet long and sits squarely before an inner cove and. with its high-pitched roof pierced with many windows. so strongly resembles those in eastern | Germany, where traditionally a stork sits placidly on the tall chimneys. that only this feature is missing from the typical picture. But the grounds are en- tirely in comformity with the section of | Long Island and range from the formal | sunken garden to the wild wooded spaces where the natural flora has not been disturbed One of the glories of the place is the spacious music hall, where concerts are given by visitors which attract the entire countrvside. I the water side of the Kahn house resembles the ancient sione dwell- ing of Mannheim, the entrance to the state is reminiscent of the castled Rhine. After entering stately gates a | long avenue of clipped ewes leads to the | porte cochere. Back of the rose garden | and the pools is a vineyard on the short | stout oaken poles. which adorn the hills along the lower Rhine. and the vines have been taken from the old | plantings near Bingen. 1 | * ok ok % 1 | Mr. Wesley Frost. who was recently | appointed as consul general of this coun: try in the, Dominion of Canada to su ceed Mr. Albert J. Halstead. who has | been assigned to London, is well known | in Washington, where he prepared for his successful career. He is familiarly | lled the consul of submarine reports, in that, being stationed during the most | active ‘part of underseas warfare at | Cork, he made the final reports on no | less than 81 attacks by the German | boats on the sovereignty of this Repub- | lic and its rights as a neutral nation to | sail the seas undisturbed. Mr. Frost's | name was known all over the world | through his untiring efforts in behalf | of the victims and relatives of the sur- | vivors of the Lusitania tragedy. He | likewise reported the attacks on the California, the Imric, the Arabic and the Hesperian, the details of which were ; | vitally interesting in this country. Mr. | Frost was born in Oberlin, Ohio. and studied at the college of that town. He came to Washington soon after and | took a course in the George Washington University. He married here Miss Mary Priscilla Clapp, daughter of former Senator Moses Clapp of Minnesota. There are three daughters, who have lived in many parts of the Dominion of Canada and of Europe with their parents. For a time Mr. Frost hovered on a literary career, and was for a year the literary secretary of Representative Theodore E. Burton, then in the Senate. He served as assistant in the Bureau of | Statistics to the late O. P. Austin before | entering the foreign service in 1909. * ok ok % Lord Auckland, who has passed a vear with his family in Canada, where | e has large agricultural interests, is| | very well known to denizens of Florida as the Hon. Frederick Eden and he | | one time spent much of bis time at Fort | Lauderdale and in Palm Beach. It was in 1917 that he succeeded his father and acquired a handsome fortune as| well as much valuable property in the | English midlands. Duing a period of invalidism he crossed the Atlantic to | marry Miss Susan Hartridge of Jack- sonville. to whom he had been engaged | before he joined his regiment at the beginning of the World War. He is the sixth baronet of Auckland and a lead- ing authority on agriculture. He was once associated with Lord Rodney and | the British ranchers in Alberta, and |owned land in the vicinity of that of the Prince of Wales. From his jast visit td Canada, he brought a pair of and keep in a special inclosure on his stock farm. He has long oeen con- vinced that in a country utterly lacking wild wolf hunting in packs here. as | in England, individual animals may be | domesticated. The experiment will be | followed with vivid interest from | | Canada. where wolves are a menace to | stocks and even to barnyards in the | long cold Winters. g | * K kK | Mr. Myron T. Herrick has at last sue- ceeded in divorcing his private home ‘rom the chancellery of the United States | Besides the sug- 415 Inches Across Top $5.00 6% Tnches Across Tap $10 DIRECTOR OF PAGEANT | and the game preserves. The foremost | golf architect is in charge, and when Spring opens in 1929 another private | oIt course will attract the many who | keep all-the-year homes at Manhasset. Louis Sherry patterned this lovely estate after Trianon, and his pools and deep | woods were electrically lighted to imi- tate the wonderful effects which the un- hayyp Mary Antoinette attained in her rural retreat by flambeaux. Mrs. Van- derbilt, however, has her lighting de- signed to flood the isolated parts of the estate and thus lessen the danger from burglars * ok ¥ K Mme. Elinor Glyn. who some time ago purchased one of the old houses on P street above Thirty-third in George. town, intends to have a high brick wall built about her property and this she deems an essential to an English resi dence in fhe city. The sprightly no clist and many others besides have crit- | teized the name “English | es of houses surrounded ; by a hedg: onl dows, not to mention the garden. in full view of the passer-by. Not so in a | true English village, where the low brick wall stretches across the entire inclosure and this is usually reinforced for pri- vacy by a tall hedge or bushes and from | | the street only a vista of greenery may {be seen. As'in nearly all of Geor town's older mansicns, Mme. Glyn's | front door came in line with the street ! and all the grounds are on the sides and to the rear This is to be obviated by !'a postern gate in the wall and the out- | side steps will give way to descending !ones to an English basement. Mrs | Glyn has drawn all the plans herself ! with the aid of an architect from Los i Angeles and for the interior she has en- | 2aged the services of a skillful artist | | of Greenwich Village. There are so | many walls to be torn out and additions {zn be made that it seems unlikely that | ! the house will be made livable until | next Summer or Autumn. and the doors and win- | | Alanson Bigelow Houghton and Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Parsons Anderson of this | city achieve the dignity of grandpar- ents. The small daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Chandler P. Anderson. jr., 11, of course. come to Washington in course of | time to visit the parents of the young | father. Mr. Chandier Anderson. sr.. | has been ever since its creation by act | of Congress in 1922 counselor of the Mixed Claims Commission. He had previcusly a long experience in the State Department and in various com- missions which sat in foreign countries. Miss Mathilda Houghton's marriage to Chandler P. Anderson, jr. a brilliant affair of 18 months ago. was sol- emnized in London before an au- gust assemblage. After a prolonged wedding jaunt the young couple went to New York City. Mrs. Houghton is at present visiting her parents in the Summer heme at Da‘tmouth, Mass., where the ambassado: and his family have lingered through October. They will all go later to the nandsome estate at Corning. N. Y. The= Ambassador to Grea’ Britain, say his friends, has def- initely determined to resume his Home avocations regardless of the result of the November electior:. He has been abroad almost six years, having served as representative of this country to | Berlin for two and one-half years be- fore, upon the retirement of Mr. Frank Kejlogg. now Secretary of State, he was transferred to London. He is essentially a lover of his home and he has made it a point to be at his residence in Corn- ing. either for Ghristmas or for Thanks- giving, during his years of diplomacy. Butterflies Invade City. Durango, Spain, recently had an in- vasion of butterflies. Smokers were as sailed by swarms of the white flutterers apparently attracted by the lights of the cigarettes or pipes. So dense was the cloud of insects that people had to flee the streets. Although street car win- dows were closed, thousands of butt A Shop of Individuality Conn. Ave. &M St Formerly located at 1211 Comnecticut Avenue Now Located at Connecticut Ave. and M St. Offering The Season’s Smartest . Creations in Distinctive Apparel for Every Occasion Embracing Dinner Gowns Daytime Frocks Evening Gowns Evening Wraps Coats, Suits, Sportswear, Hats, - Also— Bags, Jewelry, Hosiery and Novelties From the World’s Foremost Producers. i * ok Kk K | MRS. MARIE MOORE FORREST, General director of the gigantic pageant, “The Cross Triumphant,” to be gives at the Washington Auditorium Friday evening and Saturday afternoon of thi: —Harris-Ewing Photo. | — | 1 embassy in Paris. He is one of the ex-| alted, who prefers to ride some distance to his office rather than step into it from a corridor leading from his man- sion, as the Ambassador to Britain does. In the new embassy to be erected on Rue Boissy d’Anglais the chancellery will be adjacent to the residential part, and | there also will be a separate building for the consular offices. In the present embassy in Avenue d’lena the Ambas- sador has been greatly pressed for room | and privacy, and the situation was much as the White House was before Presi- ' dent Roosevelt asked for the executive offices. Meantime, Mr. Parmely Her- rick, who has been scouring Paris in be- | half of his father's comfort, has found a commodious and conveniently situated dwelling for the chancellery, and the re- | moval of the archives is already under | way. 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