Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1929, Page 42

Tales of Well Known Folk | ial and Official Life . In Soc breaident Hoover's Latin American Tour Held Factor in Attracting American Students to Famous Spanis BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. President Hoover’s tour of Latin| America prior to his inauguration and | the recent emphasis which the State Department has placed on the benefit 10 be derived from courses at famous Spanish universities, continued all through the Summer, has filled Spain with ambitious young men and women from the domain of Uncle Sam. At| .Segovia, Saragossa, Salamanca and at| geveral of the learned academies in Madrid courses are offered which make | a special appeal to what is designated | as the proper training for those with | a leaning toward colonial Spain, the former vast dominions in the Western | world where the language and commer- cial methods still hold. The President evidently realized the strong hold which | Spain has upon what were once deemed | Her rebellious children, and that to understand them politically it was necessary to study Spain. As the HExecutive has exceptionally eager and | competent diplomatic and consular offices in the Iberian peninsula, he has been kent well informed of the pres- ence of 50 many who will in the future be associated with the foreign service | and follow the doctrine he has incul- cated. Such experts as the Ambassador to Rome, Mr. Henry F. Fletcher, have | made it plain that the Spain of today resents the designation hitherto ap- plied that she is a picturesque country with a glorious past, and she wishes to be classed with the modern progressive lands with as splendid a present and future. Hence, besides the potential members of the State Department serv- jce are those training as ambassadors of trade to introduce American ma- chinery and industrial methods which are gradually to replace the ancient ways which have held for centuries. * ok % * The late Myron T. Herrick’s memory was signally honored during the recent fete held in Rheims when St. Jean d’Arc’s entry into that eity was com- memorated; for a square hitherto known as that of the Palais de Justice is here- after to bear his name. Mr. Herrick, it will be remembered, always mani- fested a chivalrous interest in the heroic rand foot h Universities. she was kept and where many relics had been stored and forgotten during many hundreds of years. votion, rosary beads and scraps of writ- ing had been collected and sent to Rome previous to the canonization, and when they were returned to Rbeim: they were placed in fireproof, beauti- fully finished cases, personally furnished by the deeply regretted diplomat. The | prison now has been made accessible, and in the cell where the intrepid hero- ine languished before her tortufe and death may be found the exact replica of its furnishings in her era, and in the corridor leading to the steps is an altar where many times a year expla- tion prayers are offered by the devou for the dread sufferings inflicted on the innocent. Mr. Norman Armour repre- sented this Government when square was ‘dedicated. * % x Mrs. Frederick Murphy of San Fran- cisco, who was so frequently the guest | of Mrs. Jack Biddle in Washington, has been with her sister-in-law, Miss Esther Murphy, who last month ‘married the son of the distinguished British jour- nalist and author, Mr. John St. Loe Strachy, have been spending June at the Trianon Palace Hotel in Versailles. One day last week they invited several British and American guests to tea, and imagine their astonishment when glancing at the Parc de Versailles across from their hotel they saw Marie Antoinnette and all her fair volatile attendants strolling about with their valiers resplendent in the garb of the 1780s, and innumerable flunkeys s rushing around. All watched the scheme breathlessly, en- Jjoying it tremendously, until the simul- taneous appearance of the cameraman and a hotel official explained the film- ing of “The Queen’s Necklace.” The French government has permitted the use of the Little Trianon Palace for a robing room for the actors and actresses, and some of the scenes have been taken by strong flashlight in the historic palace, after it had closed to the public. Mrs. Jefferson Davis Cohn, & semi-American married to a native of Louisiana and a prime favorite of the Paris public, is to make her debut maid, and he led the campaign which finally restored the tower prison where Glorious White Shoes Glorious Fourth as_the unfortunate Austrian queen in this production. for a Books of de- | | the tennis court, near Bois du Boulogne, | the | j tieth |as a member of the World Court at | THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. JUNE 30 1929 PART 3. Helene Wt made her,] golden of Hotel | George V in Paris last month the eyes of the fashionable world were fastened on the scene and particularly on the bud, in_the interests of the score of fair maids who will fill a similar role { all over the realm of vanity fair. Miss Worth wore a filmy robe over shim- mering silk suggestive of the sunrise, plain and loose in lines with an irregu- lar edge, some parts reaching the floor, | other parts just touching the knee. M. | and Mme. Jacques Worth are considered | artists and are tendered all the homage | due to them. But they did not combine | business with pleasure. Their guests were all friends, although many of the film stars from Hollywood who spend large fortunes annually on their rain- ment were given the unusual privilege | of seeing a large assembly all gowned after the models of the famous fashion | creator. Mlle. Helene is rather robust | looking, as French girls go, and likes | sport tremendously. Her appearance on ‘When Mile. debut in the brings forth a battery of cameramen | and causes the scribbling of notes by fashion writers. She is an excellent | linguist, and as she will inherit a good | fortune she is not giving attention to | anything but having a good time. She | 2xpects to visit this country next Winter and possibly her mother will accompany her, { * oK * X | The former Secretary of State, Mr. Charles Evans Hughes, arrived at The Hague on the heels of the long cele- | py, brations which had followed the twen- | Lirthday of Princess Juliana, | only child of Queen Wilhelmina and to the throne of the Nether- Judge Hughes, as he is known, alled with age-old ceremonial | The Hague, representing his country | in & new role after having filled so | many other positions with distinction. | The World Court convened in the beautiful Peace Palace, the gift of An- drew Carnegie, and Wwhich causes as much satisfaction to the citizens of the Dutch capital as the Hall of the Ameri- cas, another Carnegie benefaction, is to those of Washington. The Hague is & densely shaded city and, owing to much rain this Spring, its setting now rivals the verdue of the Emeraid Isle While Queen Wilhelmina and her court will entertain continuously for the au- gust members of the World Court, a | lighter strain will enter into the round of fetes for Princess Juliana, for now | the season of prospective suitors will | begin, the good burghers being of the opinion that their princess should seriously contemplate marriage and the responsibility which will eventually be hers. 1t is to be presumed that now will_ start the avalanche of rumors which will connect her name with every eligible prince of Europe who is not heir or next heir to a throne. The constitution of the Netherlands sternly forbids the prosp.. tive ruler from mar- rying where the realm might be ab- sorbed in another. No doubt Judge and Mrs. Hughes and members of their family who plan to visit them during the Suminer, will enjoy it all immensel; 2Rk % M. George Henrl Riviere and his bride, who was Mrs. George Stevens of Toledo, Ohio, who passed part, of March in Washington, have now taken possession of their new home in the Boulevard Beausejour in Paris. M. Riviere is the curator of the ancient museum of Trocadero and he mingles on the most intimate terms with the large American colony in that section of the French capital. Trocadero after nearly & century of isolation from the modish regions, suddenly became a center of activity in the real estate line and its fine old houses were pu chased by Americans living in Paris modeled and modernized to suit_their fancy. Mr. and Mrs. Gurnee Munn were pioneers in this field. Mr. Munn bas a taste for architecture and Mr: Munn for interior decoration, and they reaped a golden harvest through their activities besides setting the tide back of Paris. During their visit to Wash- ington, M. and Mme. Riviere inspected Georgetown, also ignored by the modish world for 5o many years, and they in- spected some if its most beautiful houses. As curator of the Trocadero | museum, M. Riviere had met many members of the American Foreign Serv- ice—as Mr. Robert Woods Bliss and Alexander Kirk—and he and Mm Riviere saw the Oaks and Mr. Kirk's 1214 F St. Including The important Sleeveless Dresses . . . Capelet Dresses . . . Two-piece Dresses « «« Long Sleeve Town Dresses . . . Flower Prints . . . Polka Dot Prints . . . Leafy Prints . . . Dolly Var- den Prints . . . Black and White Prints. either on business or pleasure, and re- | to what was once a fashionable part | handsome home, the old Dumbarton Place, in Georgetown, under the hap- plest auspices. * ok x % ‘The Maharajah of Kapurthala, once | the idol of Parisian boulevards and the | purchaser of the finest jewelry on Rue |de Rivoli, has transferred Iris allegi {on the fine avenue Unter der Linden He is lured by the opportunity to pur. chase the historic old gold and silver services done by the masters of Nurem- |burg and Gothenburg in the golden | days of the guilds, and has already out- | bid many eager American and British | collectors &Y the most ancient speci- | mens of the silversmiths. If there had . been no World War, the owners of such treasures would never have parted from them. The reason for their doing so now, as learned by guests who fre- quent the hospitable home of the Amer- ican Ambassador and Mrs. Jacob Gould Schurman, are most amusing. Many who inherited the splendid work of the Nuremburg maste: old them for finan- cial reasons, but a greater number | parted with their treasures because in these leveling days cervants are not | what they once were, and it became a | tremendous struggle to have the silver 1kepl clean. Selling to the enormously |rich Indian potentate meant a good |sum to put in bank and the ability to buy the plain modern silver service which may be kept in immaculate con. dition in one-tenth of the time and |labor. In between his foragings for |ance to Berlin, and may now be seen | Hotel Adlon. Mr. Otto H. Kahn and his family have been in Berlin for weeks, and they are always included in the brilliant tea and theater parties given by the Indian ruler. | * Xk % % Mr. H. Seidel Canby, the esteemed literary critic and editor of the weekly ublished in New York and devoted ex- clusively to affairs in the realm of | letters, will represent the United States |in one of the largest and most repre- | sentative international conferences ever held and which is now beginning its | sessions in Vienna. Britain's most emi- nent novelist, John Galsworthy, has | been chosen presiding officer, and_the |list_of other’ celebrities includes Ber- nard Shaw and H. G. Wells. Canada gallantly has named a popular woman | eritic, Georgia Sime, to be her spokes- man, and the Union of South Africa | has "done_the same, appointing Miss | Gertrude Millin, who was in Washing- ton during the diarmament conference and whose home is in Cape Town. Sweden has sent a feminine critic, Barbara Ring, and Finland another in Helma Krohn. The conference will | deal at length with copyright laws and | will make suggestions to the national | bodies of various countries, exchang- ing views on the sweeping changes ap- | parent all over the world in regard to | literary standards and ‘what constitutes | literary success. Mr. Canby, an au: | tere critic of literature, pure and sim- | ple, and representing the United States, successful movels as possible film crea- tions. * kK K When Gov. Roosevelt stgned the bill for the preservation of the house where “Yankee Doodle"—accepted for more than a hundred years as the national anthem of the republic—was written, he performed an act which thrilled all his country people at home and abroad. Only $4,000 was needed to sustain Fort Cralo against the inroads of time, and when this work is accomplished the New York Historical Society will take over the restoration of documents and upkeep of the building. It was while the British Comdr. Abercrombie with a force of regulars was holding the Van Renssalaer flats opposite Albany, and just before their unsuccessful sally on Fort Carollon—later known to fame as Ticonderoga—that the jingle was writ- ten. 'Its author appears anonymous, although, as traditions say, he was a medical man in attendance on Gen. Abercrombie, the historians of the State Society hope eventually to discover his | name. Amused by the rural populace who gathered about open-mouthed, un- | couthly garbed asking for news, the genial medico scribbled off the words and set them to an old martial tune used in the times of the Civil Wars in England. _“Yankee Doodle” was dur- ing the World War entirely shoved off the program by “The Star Spangled Banner,” but its revival is imminent. It was peculiarly the tune of the foot soldiers and the fife and drum corps of the Revolutionary Army stepped out ‘nm‘h’nt and historic silver the Maha- | brought reams of pamphlets from Hol- | briskly when the army moved. Litera- rajah has been entertaining regally at'lywood relating to the acceptance of ture of the most enticing kind gathers N.W about the old tune in the tremendous conflicts which marked the defeat of the French and Fort Carillon as a Brit- ish' defense, its later capture by th~ patriots and its honorable record as Fort Ticonderoga. * kX * Mr. and Mrs, - Aksel Wichfeld, the latter formerly Mrs. Clarence Moore of this city, will not spend much time this Summer in their handsome villa in Beverly, Mass., unless they change their plans, They are at present in Paris and | with th=ir sons expect to make & lengthy tour of Spain by auto, remaining for a time Jater at San Sebastian. Mr. and Mrs. Wichfeld have given up the lease of the fine estate they had for five years in the Scottish Highlands. that climate proving a little difficult because of the continual rain. Neither cares especially for the hunt, the supreme at- traction for those who acquire homes on the Scotch border, and their sons are too young to take much interest. Although' they have sold the beautiful home on Massachusette avenue to the Canadian government, it is possible that Mr. and Mrs. Wichfeld may return to Washington within the next two years. On completing their education, Mrs. Wichfeld desires her sons to enter busi- ness in their own country. She is the daughter of an eminent member of the Swift family and her large fortune is invested in the affairs of that impor- tant Chicago firm. She, however, spent; all her life until her marriage in Bos ton, Where her father was in charge of the eastern division of the firm's ac- tivities. ON SALE The Greatest Dress Event of the Summer Season Phenomenal Sale of 800 ew Printed Frock Actually $15.00 and $16.50 Dresses ! MONDAY . ... . On the Second Flogr $10.75 ONDAY ... begins the climax of the dress events of the season. 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