Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1929, Page 10

STAR NODEL HOWE O BE OPEN TODAY “Foxall Structure Only One of 1929 Series in Class of Group Houses. The puhlic of Greater Washington is | fnvited today to_ visit the third of the series of model homes being sponsored this year by The Star and the Opera- tive Builders' Association, which will | {be opened this morning for 3 month of | { exhibition. i | This is an English group house lo- | y cated at 1573 Forty-fourth street, one of nine attached dwellings of the same | architectural mode, but each of individ- | ual design, erected on the east side of Forty-fourth street below Q street ,-in Foxall. It has been furnished espe- clally for the exhibition by W. B. Moses | & Sons under the direction of Gene- | vieve Hendricks, interior decorator, and | ‘presents many new ideas in home de- 1. sign, construction and decoration The Foxall model home is the only THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 9, 1929—PART 1. A e ——— SKIRTS AND BLOUSES The English artist is in Washington | for the purpose of painting portraits of the individual members of Presiden Hoover’s cabinet. e as completes g Suits of Printed Silk Are Much mont, Wilbur and James J. Davis. In ‘ addition he has worked on several pri- in Vogue in Paris he_has been in this city. i ! i When the entire cabinet group hac PARIS (#)—Skirt and blouse co: Ccmmissioned on Thursday, don for exhibition purposes. Next year In"general. even' long coats.sometim- - . r. Chandon plans return this simulating suit lines in their cut 1 Douglas Chandor Has Davis | country to exnibit his portraits of the e d £ b | prime ‘ministers of the British imperial skirts and tops are most affected by th Portrait Virtually Finished. et vogue for two-plece effects. . | Hisrise to fame 1n the portrait world rem O ettly the popularity of sepa America may be the land of energy 17 he ran away from his home and rate skirts and blouses are the sall and the home of speed, but its claims to enlisted in the British Army as a pr- tached corsages. ously threatened by an English war vet- | War he was mustered out, holding a Some of these black and white dresse eran and portrait’ painter who com-|commission which he won on his owr jackets, and that makes them almo: Philippines Dwight' E. Davis yesterday, | & kneccap shattered by a German bul- | indistinguishable from skirt and blous ‘ntter working on it but two days. |let and restore rass, and after Suits of printed silk are having ar art circles, was commissioned last | l;dr. Chbnndrlx‘r hffil never touched a even bigger vogue in Paris than was ex- Thursd 5 ainter’s brush until after he cai t \ ursday noon by representatives of the | D me ou e portrait to hang in the department he | years old now. | with or without sleeves. formerly served. Davis was to leave for | _The first portrait exhibited by Mr. | was explained, to take over his new post | Marshall-Hall, K. C.. was hung “on the DOUGLAS CHANDOR. |and young women, is the three-piece | there as governor general, and his for- | line” in the British Royal Academy ex-| ~———— — _— ——— [sult with contrasting tuck-in blouse of | hibition, and his rise to the front rank | before he left. of masters of portraiture followed rapid- | painted the socially prominent in New | Black., navy bilue and brown are the York, Detroft and Philadelphia. While | outstanding colors among_the printed completed. ! FOXALL STAR HOME TO BE OPENED TO PUBLIC TODAY ENG“SH PAlNT[R [ - | INFLUENCE DRESSES those of Secretaries Mellon, Good, La- vate commissions during the six weeks | been completed it will be taken to Lon- | tumes are having their effect on sty Afternoon _ dresses with _contrastin cabinet, painted in 1923 at Downing Among the afternoon dresses Whic' | has been most unsual. At the age of frocks with black skirts and white a! supremacy in these respects stand seri- | Vate. At the expiration of the World are completed by short black sat) pleted a portrait of Gov. Gen. of the | merits. As souvenirs of the war he has combinations. Douglas Chandor, a leader in English | effects of poison gas. | pected. There are many one-piec War Department to paint Mr. Davis' | of the army at the age of 24. He is 3¢ But the newest and more generally | the Philippines’ Saturday afternoon, it | Chandor, his painting of Sir Edward | mer associates wanted a portrait made | try a little more than a year and has | white or light color. Mr. Chandor undertook the task. Mr. |ly with portraits of members of the in Washington he is staying at the La | suits. Printed patterns are small and | favored costume, particularly by small Davis sat for half an hour Friday and | British royal family and of the Queen Broup house in the series of 1929 model dwellings. offering a study greatly dif- ferent from the detached houses now { 7on exhibition or which are to be opened |.at later dates. This is called a “dou- ' !!ble-front” house, due to the special at- | {/tention paid to beautification of the | rear elevation, in keeping with modern | trend in building of what formerly was | i known as a “row” house. Meanwhile, the first two houses of i~The Star model homes series remains | “_on_exhibition and the public_is also [iinvited to visit them. One is the large modified French style dwelling on Ken- | {nedy drive in Kenwood, Md., built by | i!the Kennedy-Chamberlin Development i’ Co., and the other, a bright colonial | | house of modest size, built by M. & R. | I B. Warren at 4509 Elm street, Le- | +'land, Md. i Supervised by Committee. | The Foxall dwelling was planned and | 7, constructed under the supervision of | The Star model homes committce, as iwere all six of the series. This com- | {mittee consists of Horace W. Peaslee, | ipresident of the local chapter of the { American Institute of Architects; Ben | {!T. Webster, president of the Washing- .'ton Real Estate Board; Maj. Donald A ~Davidson, assistant engineer commis- \.sioner; W. J. Waller, vice president of Tithe District of Columbia Bankers' As- | soctation; Monroe Warren, president of |1the Operative Builders’ Association, and | Rufus Lusk, secretary of the associa- 1} tion. | 117%6 reach the Foxall home, drive out 11Q " street through Georgetown, out {!Reservoir road to Forty-fourth street, Fsouth or left on Forty-fourth street to LUbelow Q street. The model home is the [Tfourth house from the corner. The | house also may be reached by the Bur- {leith bus from Dupont circle and the |{ Foxhall Village bus to Forty-fourth {street. The bus connection is opposite | | Western High School. i Special sttention was given to the UUsear elevation and the rear yard of | ~the model home due to its location over- ! ~looking Foundry Branch Valley, to the | {reast. The house has a double-deck rear | I porch, connecting with the living room | fon the first floor and two bedrooms on | {the second floor. i ! There are limited service facilities at | fthe rear of the house and in the rear | f1ot, but visitors will find these handled in a manner not a blight to the attrac- Ztion of the house. | . Landscaping of the property was “executed under the direction of John | H. Small. ! Arrangement of House. { On the first floor is a living room 19 feet 3 inches by 13 feet, a dining room 11 feet 6 inches by 13 feet 8 inches and a kitchen 7 feet 3 inches by 13 feet 8 inches, On the second floor is a master bedroom at the front 13 feet deep by 16 feet 11 inches wide, a “guest bedroom at the rear 10 feet 6 inches by 11 feet, a nursery 8 feet 4 inches by 11 feet and z bath with shower. There are also two other bed- irooms and a lavatory on the finished third floor. . There is a built-in garage, opening onto Park lane at the rear of the house. From the basement there is a separate door opening onto the rear garden which is on the same level as the base- ment floor. This door has an electric Jock controlled by & push button in the kitchen by which the door can be opened automatically. Due to delay in the laying of gas mains Forty-fourth street as yet has not been paved, but there is easy access to the house. Sidewalks are completed. | Hoisters Given Increase, ¢ CHICAGO, June 8 () —A wage| agreement with another group of work- ers engaged in building construction in Chicago was reached today when the | Building Construction Employers’ Asso- | ! ciation_setled with the Hoisting Engi- “_neers’ Union for a boost in scale from | T$1.56!4 an hour to $1.62!. an hour, or $13 a day. The same scale was recently | achieved by the carpenters, structural | {fron workers and cement finishers, | Wind and flood in Guatemala de- | stroyed 1,540,000 stems of bananas last Installed at once by experts, Roiler, 6 Ra'di- ators, 300-foot radiation. 10-Year Written Guarantee Come in and choose your plant and make your own terms, Ratistaction unranteed. Phone MAIN3067 . 90I-I0"StANW. Views of the English group house at 1573 Forty-fourth street, in Foxall, adjoining Foundry Branch Valley, which will be thrown open to the public at 9 o'clock this morning. Upper: Front the living room, through the dining room and out onto the valley. taken before the house was furnished, Vista from This was this work being completed yesterday. view of the house. Lower: ATTORNEY WILL REQUEST DE K!NG CASE REOPENING Aurora Man Will Petition Circuit Court for Grand Jury Probe of Killing. By the Associated Press AURORA, IIl, June 8.-—Attorney Robert A. Milroy of Aurora today an- nounced he would petition the Kane County Circuit Court for a reopening of the grand jury investigation into the killing of Mrs. Lillian De King in a | dry raid last March. | Attorney Milroy, counsel for the De | King family, said he based his action |on the report of the State legislative committee which investigated the fatal dry raid and reported it found condi- tions such that would warrant a re- opening of & grand jury inquiry. | . The first grand jury exonerated Roy Smith, the deputy sheriff who shot Mrs. De King. State’s Attorney George | Carbary, whose special investigators ob- | tained the evidence which led to the | fatal raid, prosecuted the grand jury | investigation and the State legislative committee reported he did not produce all the evidence. Cuban Secretary of State Sails. HAVANA, June 8 (#).—Dr. Rafael | Martinez Ortiz, Cuban secretary of state, embarked for Europe today by way of New York, on a three-month leave of absence. Dr. Francisco Maria Fernandez, sanitation secretary, will aét | as state department head. Dr. Martinez | Ortiz will visit Paris and the Hispano- | American fairs at Seville and Barcelona. Masaryk, 111, Postpones Trip. | PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, June 8 () | —President Masaryk is suffering from a | throat affection brought on by a chill | He has postponed his visit to Southern Morabia, scheduled for tomorrow. FREDERICKSBURG “The City of Shrines” De Luxe Motor Tours Sundays and Wednesdays From Willard Hotel 10 A.M. including ss'oo entrance fees. Special Trips Also Arranged C. C. Drake Travel Bureau Willard Hotel, 14th & Pa. Ave. M. 4420 HOIC PIANOS » FOR_ EN WORCHS 1110 G EST.1879 Here Monday! A tremendous new importation Woven Sandals Plenty of Those Rare WHITES'! Hundreds of women want these dainty, airy sandals, in every imagi- nable color or combi- nation of colors. have them. We Thousands of women want them in white. quaint We have them. The Czecho-Slovak- ian wrappings are be- | 2AARMAANAAN ? $10.50. Colors, ing removed as we write these words. huge, new importation is being apportioned to all our shops. be ready for you bright and early Monday morning. The We’ll Beige at $3.85 to White and $4.90 to 0.50. again for half an hour yesterday. When | of Rumania. he left the city at 2 o'clock yesterday | ‘ Salle Apartments, 1028 Connecticut ave- nue. design on a dark ground. Mr. Chandor has been in this coun- WICKER FURNITURE for Sunroom, Porch and Summer Livin_g Room ESIGNED for both beauty and complete relaxation and sturdily built to.withstand years of use, Wicker Furniture is found in an interesting grouping on our Main Floor. There are many styles in cane, reed and rattan, finished in either the gay summer colors or the more subdued,’ conservative tones and upholstered in charming, harmonious summer fabrics of skillful design. And, too, the prices at which these various suites or pieces are marked, are reasonable. L Outdoor or Porch Suite of split cane or rattan consisting of settee, rocker, table and easy chair finished in waterproof colors of blue and yellow 310 00 and having removable cushions. Complete ;o cop 57 o2 >'70n ' ko 5 $ 00 180 270% The *“Washingtonian Sun Room Suite’ is of French peasant design. It con- sists of a.settee, wing chair, casy chair and medium size butterfly table—all of maple finished in soft antique colors and upholstered in “Poppyland” sunfast cretonne. Also, there is a coffee table in green and an end table in red lacquer both ¢ 40000 harmonizing with the upholstery coverings. This suite is marked at A Burnished Rattan Suite upholstered in linen covering, com- prising a settee, two easy chairs and a table is o co: o T S8 10 A Stick Reed Suite of four pieces—settee, table and two casy chairs finished in cool jade green is marked ., .o; o: o7 o. oz & 0. (While prices quoted above are for complete suites, single pieces may be bougbl separately.) L 4 COOL SUMMER RUGS Imported Japanese Rush Rugs with figured centers and colored borders $ 1 500 in three sizes béginning with 6'X9" at .- .y &7 ey 6T o1 0" s o & o7 o ea $G%® Belgian Mouzourk Rugs in the room sizes (9'x12) n sy mwi @ & + s2 500 Japanese Oval Rush Rugs in four sizes starting with 3'x6' Rush Blocks of extremely durable material, come in two sizes (12”& 18’/ square) and are offered in black, green and patural colors. TR W. & J. SLOANE *The House with the Green Shutters” 709-711-713 TWELFTH STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. STORE OPEN FROM 9 A. M. TO 3 P. M. SLOANE ENDORSED MERCHANDISE CARRIES DAILY, 12 NOON SATURDAY AN ASSURANCE OF SATISFACTION CHARGE ACCOUNTS CONVENIENTLY ARRANGED Ld not _conspicuous, the rule being light