Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1930, Page 40

108305 20meETE From Life, Among Tr Germantown Resident. F BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. Mr. Thomas McKean of Germantown, that historical and beautiful suburb of | Philadelphia, has over the mantel of his drawing room the most precious portrait which this Republic can boast— the original of the full-length canvas of George Washington painted from life by Charles Willson Peale by order of the Supreme Council in 1778. The portrait ‘was intended to adorn the meeting room where so many illustrious foreigners as- sembled and pledged their support to the patriotic cause. Several members of the McKean family were prominent | in the momentous events of the revo- ::um-ry era and the canvas was ob- in¢d by purchas> after Peale had made numerous portraits of the first patriot during the struggle and after the Victory of Yorktown. Meantime, Con- had commissioned Gilbert Stuart % paint the later full-length picture more familiar than was the first b Charles Willson Peale. In recent the portrait now in the Germantown | home of the McKeans has become more #nd more admired and its priority gi it unique value, but no offer has been fempting enough to persuade its owner 1o sell this coveted painting. Fernhill, the nam: of the McKean place, makes frequent sallies into social and political Bistory through the entire eighteenth Century and during the last quarter of | the seventeenth. The Charles Wlld:nn of Art is a copy of Mr. McKean's and Was sold by the artist to Count Charles Manon, an officer army of alliance. Eventually the paint- g was_purchased in Paris by Mr. harl-s B. Calvert of Riverdal> Manor | Dear Hyattsville, who bequeathed it in | his will to the Smithson:an Institution. = 5 i The Japanese Ambassador and Mme. Debuchi with their interesting son and daughter have in previous Summers found the Blue Ridge Mountains a de- Jightful resort for the warmest days of the Summer. This year ail their interest is cent-red on the new embassy and va- caticn plans have until recently been | Telegated to the future. But it will be two years or more before the diplomatic Zstablishment of Japan will take on the Bemblance of a hcme, and Congress no gloubt will soon adjourn. This may give the Ambassador a period of travel, and his family may go farther afield than Bucna Vista, even to the North Shore or th Maine coast. With the passing of the Japanese embassy, once the home of John Sherman and the seat of a fashionable social life, only the mansion of Col. Henry May will remain of all th-se notable demiciles on K strect near Fourteenth strect. This will likewise mark the passing of the last but one- the German on Massacausetts avenue— of the down-town dipiomatic hom's The Mexican embassy on I street, near Fifteen'h street, was abandoned almost 20 years ago. The Germans have se- lected a site and wnen the financial skies clear a little, they also will build at a point about 25 uity blocks beyond ‘ales of Well Known Folk - In Social and Official Life Rare'portra;t of Gen. Georde Washington. painted in Rochambeau’s { easures of Prominent their pres:nt location on Massachusetts avenue between Fourtecnth -and Fif- teenth streets. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney is among | the several prominent women of New | York City who have discovered that Alken, S. C., is a delightful place to| spend May, or even June, so the season | in that lovely little city has taken on a new lease of life and promises to con- | tinue until the dog days are imminent. | Cities of the South are excessively warm | through the day, so Mrs. Whitney finds, and so do Mrs’ Oliver Iselin and her popular daughter, Miss Hope Iselin, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Mellon and Mr. Samuel S. Sands, but the most re- | freshing breezes begin to blow at sun- down, and dinner in the open is al- as restorative as a plunge in the surf. Dances are not the collar-wilting, | exhausting exercise that they prove in Gotham or in any of the social centers along the Atlantic seaboard when the mercury runs high and nming arties are pronounced preferable. Time was when the modish world of Havana fled its precincts cven as early as in March. Now President Machada and the official circle and the residential set are content to remain until July. No city in the New World is so abundantly provided with clubs on the ocean front, with wide balconies overlooking the wa- |ter and pavilions for dancing erected after the manner of the piers at resorts in this country. Havana is proclaiming that it has a climate “to sell” all through the year, and its continual corl- ing breezes at sundown have led to the estabiishment of Summer schedules for visitors as brisk as in the Winter. * x Sir William and Lady Ingilby of Rip- ley Castle, at Harrowgate, in Yorkshire, have had the most astonishing luck dur- ing a recent overhauling of the tower of. this famous country seat. Sir Wil- liam is something of an antiquarian, and as his ancestors have lived at ley Castle since the opening g the eleventh century he ha library some fine old documents relat- ing to early history. One vellow perch- ment told of the mammoth firepl 1 the top tower room, but n C has been seen for five centuries at Iy . So the walls were tapped and finally the old chimney was revealed, 6 feet deep and of the most stur crudely set in and with iron chimney equipment which would price in muscums. The mantel been carefull; and the room is now used for ancient des and in later frays English kings and their followers. Sir Wilham and his wife are of a retiring nature and the publicity thrust on them in uncovering one of the oldest fire- places in Yorkshire has not been en- tirely agreeable, nor the countless offers | received to sell the entire chimney and its implements. Ripley Castle is, how- ever, this approaching July to be the cene of a historic pageant founded on gl Just consider the curious MRS. WILLIAM ALEXANDER SAMOUCE, Who was, before her marriage vesterday to Lieut. aughter of the c de, and Mrs. Whitside, events 1550. pertinent to the family about Mr. Charles have New York- lling, built on Riverside D just where that once-famo boulevard begins its march along the Hudson to the upper reaches of the great city. That was just 20 years ago, but Mr. Schwab, not having relished this residence in at least a decade, has begun demolishing it as the site for an apartment house. Riverside Drive ha f of the Remount Service of the Ar: Miss Lillian » Col. W. W, nderwood Photo. mouce, U. S. in fact, been given over to apartments and hotels and has lost its vogue en- tirely as_the region of private resi- dences. But 20 years is a brief term of istence for the splendid domicile on which the magnate of Bethlehem spent several hundreds of thousands ! brick and stone mansion which Mr. Edso Bradley spent so many years in erecting on the triangle of Connecti- cut avenue and Nincteenth street. The late Charles Bell had originally built a leasant . home on the site, but this ouse was demolished and the entire space filled with the Bradley residence proper, and in a few years a private theater was extended over what had been a pretty side garden. Mr. Bradley probably gave 10 years to the building ‘and he lived there about the same length of time. = The site is now covered by a business arcade, and all the lnvely trimmings were sent to the Bradley villa in Newport, * K ok ok Mgr. Fumasoni Biondi, apostolic dele- gate to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the United States, has served at this post for considerably longer than the usual term of such a papal representative, and his elevation to the cardinalate, recently rumored from Rome, has been anticipated for the past two years. He is a Lombard |and resembles'a German more than an | Italian, but the people of Northern Italy. which is so close to the German border, have many characteristics of the Teutonic folk. Mgr. Biondi has had a quiet, successful sojourn in this coun- try and has made many friends. Be- fore his appointment this Republic had passed from the list of mission coun- tries and had become incorporated with those which are governed by canon law. This removes all the great ecclesiastical trials from Washington to Rome, and the reverberations heard some years ago have entirely ceased. The present dele- Our Guarantce Every garment we sell fs guaranteed as to correct- ness of style, fabrics and workmanship. Your money back instantly it you are not entirely satisfied. and the demolition is causing almost as | much comment as that of the finc marble mansion of the late Senator Clark, which required 12 years to con- struct and which served as a home for the copper king less than 10. Washing- ton can offer but one parallel, the fine would immediately bring hundreds of complaints gate is the fifth sent from Rome since Leo XIIT sent the first in 1890, the late Cardinal Satolll. The next was Cardi- nal Martinelli, also dead, as are the re- malning two cardinals, Falconio and no. Cardinal Bonzano was in Washington for nine years before being elevated to the Sacred College. Mgr. Biondl will soon complete his eighth year in Washington in the papal service, under Ben t XV, who had appointed him, and under Pius XI, present Pope. Mr. Charles Davila, as the Minister from Rumania prefers to be called' rather than in the prevafling half- French, half-American way, is one of the present corps’ most sociable and ac- complished bachelors. Pleasantly situ- ated for the Summer in a villa in New port, the Minister is a prominent figure in the amenities of Gotham and the modish resorts along the sound. He | was among the guests at the series of functions given for the President-elect |of Brazil and is constantly a patron at musical events and at art displays. At the legation in Washington on Twenty- | | third street overlooking the Q street | bridge, the Rumanian Minister main- |tains a high standard of huspitlllty.; | He brought many exquisite possessions | from his home in Bucharest, and this | establishment is one of the most ornate in Washington, where one may admire | the arts and crafts of this country in | perfect specimens. Although a bachelor | | Mr. Davila has taken over the entire mansion as his home, and the chancelry | jonce on the ground floor and in the | wing which runs toward Q street, has| been established in a large brick house | next door. The Minister recently r turned from Bucharest and, indeed, he has traveled back and forth several times during his two years of residence here, but he h to be a more settled member of the foreign circle during this coming year. As he was appointed by the dominant political powers now gov- erning under the new King, Carol, it is unlikely that he will be disturbed. statesman and diplomat of pronounced abllity, Mr. Davila won fresh laurels in recent negotiations with the Soviet gov- ernment, to which he was accredited prior to coming to Washington. . o * % King George and his only grand- daughter, small Princess Elizabeth, are daily seen in Windsor Park, the latter on the chubby Shetland pony, which was her birthday gift 1rom the King. The duke and duchess have departed for their own home, but at the request of the sovereign Princess Elizabeth re- mains until the rudiments of riding are fully perfected. She is just 4 and rides very well. Like all of present-day .r alty, this potential heir of the British throne is being reared in the simplest way. 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