Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1930, Page 38

Tales of Well Known Folk In Social and‘foicial Life Incidents and Personal Sketches of Special Interest Grouped in Review of Events in World Circles. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. During the nine years that Mrs. Hoover has been in residence in Wash- ington she has heard many times. doubtless, the plaint that while every one who receives an invitation to the White House levees deems this a priv- ilege and an honor many have frankly asked why it could not be made a pleas- ure also. In planning the state recep- tions with additional occasions and fewer guests, the First Lady had dis- tinctly in mind the uncomfortable crowds which resulted, the east room providing no place to sit except a half dozen unupholstered benches. Although the schedule for more numerous state receptions was unhappily disrupted through official mourning, Mrs. Hoover has seen 100 handsome chairs arranged along the walls oI wne east room. these are not available for the waiting line. they at least afford an opportunity for those who have passed the Chief Magistrate and his lady in the blue room and have chatted in the green room with the exalted guests always gathered there on state occasions, to form in cozy groups and get some en- joyment out of meeting their friends. This hitherto had not been possible and this arrangement also obviates the criticism that guests at the White House receptions hastened to leave as soon as they had greeted the President and Mrs. Hoover, or the Chief Mag- istrate and First Lady of the time. The diplomatic corps voiced this criticism and many members asked plaintively what they were to do. Every spot was crowded, there was no place to sit and they believed the wisest course was to g0 home. Now they will have a more comfortable environment. * ok ko ‘The Secretary of State and Mrs. Stim- son will recoup from the arduous weeks of activity in the privacy of their country place a half hour from London. Britons regard all such feasts as Christ- mas, Easter or other religious observ- ances as wholly family events and they rarely give entertainments to which those outside the circle of kindred are invited. Mrs. Stimsoa would no doubt have liked to join Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Morrow in their homeward trek, but she always clings steadfastly to the duty at week . . . hence the reduction. shop early. hand, which is to remain by her hus- band’s side. HlV\hLfln children, she can indulge this Klrt lity, whereas Mrs. Hugh Gibson, who left Iittle ones in a nursery in Brussels, could not endure the absence any longer. The Ambassa- dor, Mr. Gibsor has not been the close friend of King Albert ever since the Hoover Relief was established in Bel- gium without becoming an air enthusfast. He will depart from London Thursday afternoon and be on hand to witness the excitement of Easter morning when his children discover that their white bunnies have supplied them with col- ored eggs. Mrs. Morrow had o pressing engagement vith her voung daughter Constance in school at Englewood and Mrs. Adams was frankly homesick for her children. ERE ] The Secretary of the Interior, Dr Wilbur, who has just.received the latest national historic reservation into hi domain of public parks and monuments, that at Wakefleld Manor, as it appears in old records, is prepared to meet sll critics of the mansion to be erected. A scholar of unusual exactitude, the Sec- retary has collected all the documcnts issued by the Wakefleld Manor Asso- ciation and all the notable speeche: made on various occasions while thic worthy local association was being formed. The most superficial examina- tion of these papers will show np InteL- tion to have 1t appear that the Wake- field Manor which will be In ceadiness for the bicentenary of George Wash- ington’s pirth is a replica of the vener- able house which was burned in 1746. On the contrary, it has always been stated that no actual picture, sketch or drawing has been known to exist and that those so widely published had been founded on houses of the era when Augustine Washington bullt Wakefleld, and there are houses which still exist, for a rather general type of country home existed on both sides of the Poto- mac. But the most interesting details are that the Army engineers who ex- y followed in the plan for the new house, also all the brick found on the lot have been used in the new model, and this results in the perfect truth of the de- scription now current of old material THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL being embodied in the new. Wakefleld Manor rebuilt necessitated the removal of the monument to Mary Ball Wash- ington erected by the United States Government in the exact center of the site of the former mansion, and which will now be in the foreground of the park. * x x % Mrs. William Graves Sharp, widow of the former member of Congress from Elyria, Ohio, who was for two years Ambassador 1o France, spends much of her time abroad, and this Easter she is in Paris and the recipient of much at- tention from the members of the United States embassy. Mr. Warrington Daw- son, one of the legal experts under Am- bassador Edge. is to give a large recep- tion for Mrs. Sharp during the Easter week and she is to dine with Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Edge in the villa they have temporarily rented near Ver- sailles previous to levee. Al through the Winter months this Ohic lady has been trying the efficacy of the hot sands of the desert along the Nile and, according to letters received by friends here, has been greatly benefitea Mrs. Sharp has passed several Winters at Cannes and, like many others, had almost succumbed to the charm of the Riviera. But to spend the Winter on the Nile is a simpler affair, since only & tent is needed in the day and a motor car to get to Cairo’s hotels for food and shelter. Pine basket luncheons are pro- vided for the midday meals, and the native servants are declared the lasi word for diligent and efficient service The tent colony of Egypt has grown continuously during the past five years, until it now looks like a vast army encampment. * % ok Joseph _ Hopkinson of Philadelphia, brother of the signer, Francis Hopkin- son. is entering the picture as a strong candidate against Francis Scott Key. author of “The Star Spangled Banner,” a production which apparently millions of citizens wish officially named as the national anthem. Hopkinson composed “Hail Columbia” in 1798, when war with Prance was in the air, and recently a | letter which he wrote to his friend, Rev. Rufus W. Griswold, which was lately | discovered in the archives of the Uni-| versity of Pennsylvania, stated that he | wished to write a patriotic song which would be above the passions, policies | and interests which inspired war and| excited only the desire to preserve the | national honor and its rights. This| letter, which was dated from 132 Spruce | street, in the Quaker City, where the| composer made his home for many years, had led to the formation of a Hopkinson soclety. which has the dual aim of restoring “Hail Columbia” to its olden popularity and of transferring the house of the author into a shrine. It| has been found that what was formerly 132 Spruce street is No. 338 in the new way of numbering the streets, and it is in perfect repair. It is one of the| fine old brick houses, with large gar- Demonstration Models of ‘NEW HOME' JEWING MACHINE/ This selling presents a wonderful opportunity to get a machine at a reduc- tion of $40. 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The Hopkinson house has been given over entirely to business, as all of Spruce street is now up to For- But only superficial changes will be needed to transform the house into the elegant mansion it was when the Signer Francis Hopkin- son, a resident of Jersey, directly across the Delaware River, visited his brother during the exciting days of July 4, 1776. * ok x Mr. Charles C. Glover, at Westover, on the Ridge road; Mrs. Charles J. Bell; at Twin Oaks. and at perhaps the owners of all extensive country estates about Washington, and certainly at the Arlington Farms’ experimental rose gar- den of the department, have American Beauties on trellises and arbors, over verandas and in bush shape in the perennial beds which will soon excite admiration. Just for the name and for its loveliness of form, color und fragrance, every pretentious garden has been for years a glorious sight when the climbers are in bloom. Mrs. Bell can cut 50 superb blooms from one of her trellises and no one could detect it. Those who bother about rose tece- dents always accepted that this superb offering came from the famous John Cook, distributor of the Radiance, of “My Maryland,” who died in Baltimore Jast Autumn. But now comes a claim from Prance that this rose was intro- duced in 1875 by the eminent rosarian Ledechaux, and it decked the gardens under the name of the Mme. Ferdinand Janin. This was fully 12 years earlier than the American Beauty appeared in the gardens of this Republic and 20 years before Cook announced that he had obtained the renowned gift flower through grafting the Grus am Teplitz 01 the native wild rose about his green houses. Cook was the most extensive importer of his day and the most orig- inal producer of new varieties. ) Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, master of University College in Oxford, has been a passing visitor during the cherry blossom season. 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A hobby quite apart from pedagogy is the educator’s love for pic- Possessed of only modest means, he by selzing opportunity at every turn, has collected a fine array of paintings, and of all ages. He delights to treat his pupils to a private view in his spacious library and to interject perti- nent remarks about not permitting utilitarian projects to crowd out love of beauty or the pursuit of truth. An ac- complished scholar of Dante, the Dan- tean collection of books and some sketches of the Dante pictures by Gab- riel Rosettl, is the chief glory of the Sadler library. * ok ox % Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, jr., consist- ently spends a generous sum each year purchasing works of art and she is one of the several who aid in disseminating knowledge of pictures, tapestries—cu- rios of any sort—to a group of con- noiseurs in search of such. Mrs. Rocke- feller is not therefore despondent over the figures, recently made public, that the citizens of her land during the past year spent nearly two billion dollars for cosmetics, perfumeries and such frivols and only $250,000,000 for the support of art. On the contrary, with Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney who buys as well as produces, she rejoices that the tribula- tions of Wall Street in the Autumn did not react disastrously toward the guild of artists. This past year, so woeful in many other directions, was the best which art has known since pre-war days. Institutions with large sums to spend came forward in numbers. The Phillips Gallery of Fine Art at Andover, Mass., expended nearly $1,000,000 .nd all in behalf of American paintings in all periods and the Anderson Galleries were almost as liberal in the same di- rection. There are now some eighteen or twenty private collectors who are crowding the Huntington Gallery of Pasadena for first honors and the one who attracts the widest interest is the appears as an eager buyer of etchings, lithographs _and old prints_and _the Cranbook Foundation at Bloomfleld, Mich., corners the market for decorative and Seriptural art. oo x Count and Countess Paul Mercati are imminent in the great world of Paris, and also in Cannes, where their splen- did villa Fiorentina stands on the great cliffs over the Mediterranean like a sentinel. The countess was for a time well known in Washington, for she had married Newbold Edgar, the elder son of Mme. Jerome Bonaparte, and fre- quently was the guest of her mother- in-law at the home on K street. After Mr. Edgar’s death in Europe five years ago she resided in Paris and there met and became the second wife of the opulent Count Mercati of the ancient poblesse of Savoy. An impressive mar- riage ceremony took place in mid- Lent in the old Mercati palace on Quay d'Orsay when the count’s daughter by his first marriage to Princess Daria Karageorgevitch, whose name is also became the bride of M. Andre Firmenich of Zurich, Switzerland. Since the modish world of Paris, Catholic or Protestant, does not approve of home weddings such an event is widely her- alded and draws universal attention. Countess Mercati, who has been very fond of her young step-daughter, arranged an artistic ceremony, with many of the lovely maids of Paris, several from the American colony, in the pageant, and the reception which followed was of dazzling brilliancy. Countess Daria, through her mother, is allied with a younger branch of the reigning house of Serbia. Her grand- parents left the Balkans many years ago and now reside at Richmond-on- the-Thames and in Paris. LR Miss Eva Le Gallienne, is according to the estimate of serious Gothamites— like Mr. Otto H. Kahn, John Davison Rockefeller, jr. Adolph Lewisohn—one of the great city’s leading exponents of dramatic art and the creator of Man- hattan’s most conspicuous civic virtue, the Repertory Theater. Miss Le Gal- llenne has been signally honored in Washington and by many classes of people. and these admirers rejoice that the critics have ceased to allege ihat she has attracted only women like her- self who dress in mannish garments and carry canes. In 1926, the Pictorial Re- view achievement award of $5,000 saved her venture from disaster and now her Repertory Theater pays its own way and lays money by for the proverbial rainy day, Miss Le Gallienne is the daughter of a poet and of a journalist and she has inherited strong traits from each. She studied and took high honors from College Sevigne in Paris, where she be- came celebrated for her linguistic ac- complishments—French, German, Dan- ish and Russian coming easy to her both in the spoken medium and in print. So she reads all that the world produces in the way of drama and can make her selection according to the needs of the hour. The best seats at the Repertory cost only $1.50, and this alone has singled out this intrepid young Briton for hostile criticism from those who are prone to ask $28 for good places at first performances. Summed up the philosophy of the civic repertory as announced by its founder is that every five or six weeks a worthy new play must be produced and that those already on the list shall be repeated at stated times during the season. Mrs. Dimock Promotes Plans for Musicale Mrs. Henry F. Dimock has loaned her home, at 1301 Sixteenth street, for the musicale to be given the evening of April 24 by five American Woman composers of the National League of American Pen Women, to which cards have been issued. Many mem- bers of official, diplomatic and resi- dential goclety have accepted the invi- tation to attend. Delegates to biennial convention of the Pen Women are invited, and badges must be worn. Of particular interest will be the playing of the prize-winning string quartet of Mary Howe of this city and the rendering of Mariann~ Genet's new “Arabjan Caravan Suite,” which is still in manuscript, and the words of which were written by Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton. Mrs. Dorothy De Muth Watson, national chairman of music for the league, has arranged thc program. Linen Shower Honors Miss Collins, Bride-Elect Miss Dorothy Saunders, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Odmund Saunders of Klingle street, was a recent hostess for & linen shower and bridge in honor ot Miss Elise Collins, daughter of Col and Mrs. Robert Wilbur Collins of the Argonne Apartments, whose marriage to Midshipman Glen G. Herndon, U. 8. N., son of Mr_and Mrs. Alvin Herndon of Norwood, Colo., will take place in June. The guests were Miss Helen Hender- son, Miss Jane Henderson, Miss Roberta Wright, Miss Marjorie Brockett, Miss Helen Drew, Miss Mary Harriman, Miss Eleanor Branson, Miss Gladys Stenen, Miss Marion Zeigler, Miss Sue Gibson, Miss Ruth Remon, Miss Jane Bogley, Miss Isobel Alexander, Miss Peggy Padgett, Miss Lee McNeill, Miss Mar- garet Evans, Miss Marion Butler and g Miss Elizabeth Saunders. Dr. Catherine McHale Guest Speaker at Dinner Dr. Catherine McHale, educational director of the National American As- sociation of University Women, was guest speaker at the College Park branch of the A. A. U. W. Monday. Celebrating its first birthday, the College Park branch gave a dinner in the University of Maryland dining hall, attended by 40 or more members and associate members and also several guests of the Washington branch. Co- eds in the graduating class were guests of the local ization at the lecture, which followed immediately after the dinner. Dr. McHale chose for her subject “The Proj Study in Adolescent#’ Psychology,” a study being sponsored by the educational policy committee of the A. A. U. W. and in a number of accredited colleges and universities tn that organization throughout the coun- try. The speaker was introduced by Mrs. C. O. Appleman, president of the local tion. Dr. Margaret All- tucker Norton, assistant research di- rector of the National Educational As- the | soclation, and Miss Belle Rankin, exec- utive secretary, A. A. U. W., also were present. Other officers in the College Park branch are Mrs. R. A. Skelton, vice president, and Miss Kathleen Smith, secretary-treasurer. Files Bankruptcy Schedule. A schedule of the assets and liabilities of Edward Simon, a salesman who re- cently filed a petition in bankruptcy, was presented to the District Supreme Court yesterday. He lists his liabilitivs at. $34,362.50 and estimates his aesers at $3,553. 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