Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1930, Page 48

Tales of Well In Social and Official Life BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. The President Hoover rose and the You Henry Hoover rose, which blazed into popularity through winning the first prize for new specimens in the recent annual display of the American Rose Society in New York City, have have been duly entered in the Spring catalogue and doubtless will be widely purchased this season at least. Some of the hardiest plants have been sent to the White House, and will be planted in the rose garden between the west end of the mansion and the executive offices. Once upon a time some hun- dred bushes of the Florence Kling Harding filled this space. Now less than half a dozen survive, and their bloom has deteriorated. The President Taft, 8 large deep pink double rose, has proved to have the best staying qualities of any named for a Chief Magistrate in t memory. This rose is found mlng and blooming profusely in the White House grounds and in many other Washington gardens and in Mur- ray Bay, where Mrs. Taft planted round bed of this species. Mrs. Cool idge, though a lover of roses, had always lved in a climate where only a few hardy perennials survived the long bit- ter Winter. She liked iris, chrysanthe- mums and the Summer bulbous flowers. Her garden in the former Northampton home, though small, was in Spring gay with the gorgeous yellow and crimson tulip named for her, and the various kinds of iris, white blue and bronzy, which have been named in her honor, had been planted in profusion. B ‘The United States Ambassador to Chile, Mr. William H. Culbertson, lived for some years in Washington and was an assiduous follower of the hounds in the paper chase hunts from the Chevy Chase Club. It is not surprising that he has been an enthusiastic advo- cate of such sport about Santiago de Chile and where the weekly meets have been a huge success. The Ambassador sometimes handles the horn, and his daughter, Miss Junia Culbertson, who made her bow to Washington society last Winter, is one of the intrepid riders. ‘The personnel of this hunt club is mnn'lg recruited from the diplomatic corps, although many of the Chilean Army officers and their wives, who are charter members, have interjected much sociability and a gay note. The paper chase club is in a fine old mansion with a patio as large as that in the Library of Congress. The hunters are given coffee on their arrival and a de- lectable dish called empanada. This is a large plate filled with chopped and ly spiced meat of several kinds ed with rich gravy and ground vegetables, and, as it is eaten piping hot, usually while sitting the horse, it is something of a feat which, however, Mr. Culbertson and his daughter per- form with the deftness of the Chilean. ‘The riding ground is gloriously pic- turesque and the sport generally as ex- citing as would .be the following of a real fox. DTSR Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh are demoralizing polo season at Del Monte, for so engrossed have their fellow guests at the famous hotel there become in gliding that t{:;er the ‘;onu the games on nies are neuema.mum easy does colonel make gliding seem thdt a wave of en- thusiasm has ensued. converis are reported. But the Lone Eagle proves as illusive as ever and few draw an opinion from him, and none can boast of getting a single line of instruc But there are many on the scene who are willing to teach the rudiments. Mrs. Harry C. Hunt of San Francisco, who always goes to Del Monte for the polo games and gives many handsome fetes for the players, have the gliding craze. Mr. Cow- is from New York, but each March finds him with the poloists Monte. He still holds his place teams, but he hastens away to gliding fleld, from which he takes now with grace and ease. Mrs. is a glider and has secured . L. and Mrs. Lindbergh, who passed weeks at Del Monte Lodge, recently glided away to a distant ranch owned by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney W. Fish in the Carmel Valley. The colonel is testing out gliding scientifically, and the hordes who crowded the flelds about De Monte seemed to interfere with his schedule. Mrs. Lin h has proven & capable glider and she was more ap- hable for instruction than her husband. * ok k¥ When Mr. Norman H. Davis was Un- dersecretary of State during President Wilson's term his daughter, Miss Mary Paschall Davis, who soon is to marry Mr. John Clarkson Potter, was a young but diligent student at the Cathedral School for Girls. When Mr. Davis ac- eomm:ed the American commissioner to she was placed in a private school there and finished her education in music and the languages. She made her debut three years ago and has been g!mmem in art and music circles and planning fetes for chairity. The en- gagement was announced in March and the wedding bably will take place in early September. Mr. Potter is in the ninth generation of his family, the first member being Robert Potter of Coven- try, who came to Massachusetts in 1634. In the seventh generation of the family came the two bishops of the Episcopal Church—Elonzo, who served for 18 years as the Bishop of Western Penn- sylvania, and Horatio, the eminent di- vine of New York. The bridegroom- to-be is a grandson of the Pennsylvania has and and ‘who din and gagee I TO WED NEW YORKER | MISS BERENICE thers | cities, Known Folk prelate, a son of that cleric’s eldest son, Clarkson Potter, who lives in New York City. His mother was Miss Amy Hol- land of Long Island. * Kok K Mr. Philip Guedalla, the London writer, who has as much of a vogue in this country as in England, has been | intriguing his friends about a hand- some, unusually large tortoise shell cat. Whenever the author invites friends to tea in his apartment on the Thames embankment this cat is stretched out full length on a leopard skin rug and adds that touch of color and life so highly prized by the artistic. The cat will lie in the most graceful pose for several hours at a time, and the query among Mr. Guedalla’s friends is whether he has trained Master Tom for the part. It also is a much debated question whether the author first got the cat, a gift of his friend, the late Sir Edmund Gosse, and then furnished his home as a background. He never replies to such queries, but no company ever assembles about his hospitable hearth, and con- sequently around the cat, that these questions are not discussed. Such a fad by so well known and popular a man has of course influenced others in the writing or dramatic world. Talulah Bankhead, the Alabama girl who hls‘ such a firm hold on the affection and admiration of the British theatrically in- clined public, has a most gentlemanly “Pom” who will pose for hours, and he | wears a ribbon bow matching the gown which the actress wears and the flowers | which deck the drawing room and tea | board. But cats are more quiet at a tea than any sort of canine, and they are having the vogue at present, al- though Mr. Guedalla’s is given first | honors*in his role. * ok K K Mr. and Mrs. George Bullock re- cently completed a water garden in their estate, Yeadon, in Oyster Bay, Long Island, which in size and general contour resembles that most famous of aquatic pleasure grounds in all the world, that of the Villa d’Este, near ‘Tivoli, a suburb of Rome. These older gardens have the tallest cypresses in Europe surrounding the falls and pools. This feature Mr. Bullock has been un- able to reproduce, although he has had cypresses of considerable size trans- planted from an ancient manor house in Maryland, and those who own Yeadon 50 years hence may be able to_boast the tallest cypresses on Long Island. Villa d'Este, which every conscientious visitor to Rome visits twice, once for the splendid gardens and once for the art treasures collected by Cardinal d’'Este in the sixeeenth century, was the property of the Austrian Emperors untfl the Ttalian unification, and it now is owned by the government and has been turned into an arts and crafts museum of the medieval years. Mr. and Mrs. Bullock, who are active in sporting circles of the Sound, are close neighbors of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill and are often her guests. Their water garden, which is now the point of interest in that sec- tion of the island and visited by hun- dreds of its denizens, differs from the Italian model in that it has been placed in full view of all the rooms facing the Sound and is within a few hundred yards of the house along a winding ! also motored all through the villa gar- dens which are soon to make the papal Summer quarters. Mr. Simmons | first, the King next and the prime by special invitation spent a busy morn- | ister last. ing with King Victor Emmanuel. The Italian monarch, it appe: sumed with interest about that affair of last October when stocks went tumbling and caused severe losses all through Italy. Mr. Insull's errand was with the accompanied by Signor Giorgio Polacco, director of Chicago Civic Opera, the ins and outs c("su&p‘:nti'nog music priv- ately as against s unty was ex- ‘nh(‘x’led. Although barriers have been|chial work in New England. wiped away by the Lateran treaty, it path. In Villa d’Este the gardens are aloof, as in all Itallan landscaped spaces. L Mrs. Edward Savage Crocker, 2d, was before her marriage Miss Lispenard Seabury of New York City, and was known for artistic tendencies expressed in remodeling ancient houses and lens. Mrs. Crocker gave free rein to this predilection during the service | of her husband as secretary of. the United States legation in Budapest. The stately capital of the Magyar coun like so many of Europe's older & superabundance of palaces, but few comfortable houses of smaller dimensions. Mrs. Crocker, however, found a comj tively modest house on a high hill comman winding turn of the Danube, built 1400 and apparently architecturally unchanged. There were 30 rooms, many even of the sleeping apartments of heroic size, but undaunted she set out to transform the interior while leaving the exterior ! lines unbroken. Mrs. Crocker, who superintended the work. drew the plans and chose every detail, frowned on any attempt to tear out old walls for the necessary heating, lighting and ven- tilating of the modern home. Super- ficial wood partitions divide rooms and conceal pipes, while hardwood floor performs the same task for heating paraphernalia coming from below. ‘There were, of course, magnificent chimney pieces which were retained in many rooms and which give the needed anclent touch. Mr. Crocker, who entered the fore! service about 10 years ago, has n transferred to Stockholni, and the handsome mansion which he and his wife spent two years in changing and two in occupancy is now being negotiated for by Mr. 8. Pinckney Tuck, who succeeded him in Budapest, and whose charming wife is the former Beatrice Beck, daughter of the Representative from Pennsylvania. * kX Such eminent citizens of this Re- public as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; Mr. Edward Harriman Simmons of the Stock Exchange, New York City, and Mr. Samuel Insull, well known financier of Chicago, were in Rome at the same time during the first week of April. Dr. Butler and his wife and daughter were received in special audience by | the Roman Pontiff and spent a pleasant hour looking over some newly-acquired art and book treasures, and they were HELENE SIMON, Daughter of Mrs. Louis Simon of 2620 Connecticut avenue, who announces ?l:: to Mr, Merryle Stanley U Columbis. University, 1n New Rukeyser, gradugte and York, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 27, 1930—PART THREE. ars, was con- is still etiquette for strangers in Rome | Erle, Comm to pay qulpect to the Roman pontiff | he is nationally of interest, and in odore Oliver Hazard Perry, min- | Washington many descendants on the distaff side, as Mr. Perry Belmont, are distinguished residents. Bishop Perry, Although Right Rev. James De Wolf | Whose seat is the metropolis of Rhode Island, Providence, enters upon his ex- Perry, the recently elected Primate of acting’ dut; y in full prime and in sound | the Protestant Episcopal Church in the | physical shape. He is the third presid- United States, has never touched the|ing bishop of his church who has been M. Benito Mussolini, and |region about the Potomac in the per-|exalted in the past year and a half, his Sheer Princess Foundation —just four layers of peach net and matching elastic performing figure-molding miracles. A Gossard creation—$8.50. panels but capable of sonal sense except as an occasional vis- | immediate predecessors being Bishop itor, he is well known to many church | John Gardiner Murray who died in members here, due to his early years in | October, 1929, Germantown, Pa., and in his first paro- | Palmerston Anderson, who died January and Bishop Charles As al30 last. Mrs. Perry has as well estab- lineal descendant of the hero of Lake lished Yale traditions as her husband has of University of Pennsylvania and of Harvard. She was before the mar- riage in 1908, Miss Edith Dean Weir, daughter of Dr. John Ferguson Weir, dean of the School of Fine Arts at Yale. A violinist of exceptional talent, Mrs. Perry also sketches and paints, and about the Summer home at Princeton, Mass,, a colony of studios, serious so- journers look on her for direction. The bishop and Mrs. Perry have a beautiful garden which they tend themselves, and as additional exercise, the felling of trees is a favorite sport for the prelate. The primate will at\end the four-week session of the Lambeth Conference. which will be held in London in July. A FASHION INSTITUTION Darig Washington NewYork The Duke of Richelieu, whose wife was Miss Eleanor Douglas Wise of Baltimore, a charming vocalist who has sung before all the courts of Europe and the East, recently presented to th French government the fine old Cha- teau de Richelieu, which is 12 miles from Paris near the picturesque village of Chinon. This villa was a retreat of the famous cardinal who was the founder of the family fortunes in the national sense, and who, as the creator of the Sorbonne, is considered the most important figure in the cultural history of Paris. Chateau de Richelleu has been many years a favorite subject of artists and from every angle it may be admired at every annual exhibit in the French salon and at private displays. The chateau was walled and defended by 10 towers. Now in a romantic decay, and for years tenantless, the aspect 1§ a lure to painters from all countries. ‘The Dukes of Richelieu have not resided at Chinon for more than a century and since the war, taxes have mounted too high to permit any but the most opulent to retain property which is not pro- ductive. The chateau and its marvel- ous parks and gardens will become & national monument and personal pos= sessions of the churchmen, warrior ang statesman will be sent there to deck thg restored rooms. We Park Your Car! When you shop here, let our doorman park your car for you. Itis but one of the Jelleff services particularly appreciated by women. Women Turn to Jelleff’s for Women’s Fashions Imagine buying a coat with blue fox for $30.50 That’s only one of the outstanding fashions in A Sale of Women’s Coats Tomorrow Regularly $55 to $110 Tomorrow— A typical Jelleff event of successful fashions developed in fabrics of un- usually fine quality—vio crepe, serapheen, telga, starella...with such gorgeous furs as blue fox, black galyak, beige and white ermine, Rus- sian caracul, broadtail, squirrel. These fashions include: the straightline coat, the seamed side panel, the wrap-around coat, the jabot coat, the cape coat in its many modified forms. Sketched left: Navy blue telga, with cape. collar of blue fox, the coat cut on straight lines. $39.50. Other important models are blue telga with blue fox ..crepe satin with beige ermine...black faille silk with black broadtail. ermine Sketched right: Tan telga, with deep cape collar of olack galyak, and long front shawl of galyak. $39.50. black vio crepe with white Sizes 36 to 44, 40V, to 501, Women’s Coat Shop, Third Floor In an Unusual Sale Your choice at $8 Similar hats have sold all season at $12.50 to $17.50 Copies of Paris successes—models that you will recognize as the impor- tant leaders. A type for everyone there are brimmed and brimless hats—cartwheel, Directoire, poke effects, jaunty berets. . . plenty of youth- ful, smart large headsizes, and many matron hats. 30 colorings that include every new shade shown this spring, with plenty of the classic black, navy blue, and the new brown. Fabrics and straws. Imported light-weight Baku Straw Picot-Luciole Imported Hair Braid Porte-Bonheur Chanvre-Soie Felt and Baku Combinations Stitched Taffeta Combinations of Baku and Lace, and Plenty of Sport Straws Millinery, Street Fldor —and Jelleff's have dresses designed especially for women, successfully refuting the statement that the new fashions are just for the young things. \woman’s ASTHOI Here is an outstanding group of dresses, cut on straighter, slimmer lines, with pleated skirts, soft lingerie touches, especially designed for women who have outgrown “young” clothes, who want fashions of their own . Center: Accenting the tucked, snug hipline with waist slightly bloused over it. ' ‘The skirt is pleated in the very new manner. $49.50 . . youthful, yet mature . . . dignified and smart. Right: The jabot dress, scalloped a la Chanel, and featuring the lovely deep vee necklipe with gilet of creamy lace. Leit: The bolero frock, which accents the most becoming lines in a wom- an’s figure. The collar of embroidered batiste is both new and attractive. $49.50 Alencon $49.50 design Other Smart Crepe Elizabeth Dresses $39.50 to $125 Women’s Dress Shop and the French Shop—Second Floor I’s Sheer Dress Time—and Chiffon Stocking Time Chiffons, of course —for where else could $9 one find such an array of costume shades? Such exquisite texture? sureness of wear, even from the sheerest? And where, other than in Gold Stripes, could you find such perfect from garter runs? “No Run That Starts Above Can Pass the Gold Stripe” $].50 to $2.95 pair Silk _Stocking Shop, Street Such protection black. Floor Additional Gold Stripe Shop, 1013 Conn. Ave. Just arrived from France Longer Gloves Our own direct importation . . . eight-button length in wash- able suede. crushed at the wrist and pulled over the cuff of your sleeve. In pink beige, putty, beige claire, pearl grey, white and Worn smartly Glove Shop, Street Floor We’ve heard you say, “Oh, for a cool, comfortable shoe in the spring!”’ so we herewith present The Nile A soft, cool sandal $10 You see it on Fifth Avenue...and now it’s here. . .the soft calf shoe with cut-outs and perforations. It’s a tie sandal, the smart- est spring style. . .it comes in tan, green, or white calf, and it has the much-in-demand all leather heels. For sports or street wear. Only at Jelleff’s in Washington—Footwear, Second Floor