Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1935, Page 41

SOCIETY. Tales of Well-Known Folk In Literature, Art, Politics Shrove Tuesday and Lent Bring Out Quaint Customs—Diplomats and Laborites Greet Secretary Perkins at House Warming. sleeve. He was talking to the Danish Minister, Otto Wadsted—maybe about Danish butter or cheese, of which the United States is getting a good deal. Especially the former. BY ROBERT CRAWFORD. "Tid, Mid and Misera, ' Carling, Palm, Pase-egg day.” By this fetching jingle children used to be taught the Sundays in Lent, and once getting the swing of it, they were | never forgotten. You know by experi- ence thi't the most uninteresting dates when put in the form of a merry lilt will be carried in mind for many years. Mardi Gras down in New Orleans, will be ushered in on Tuesday next and the merry carnival and revelries of Shrove Tuesday will begin. New Or- leans with its romantic history, its French quarter, with its old world at- | mosphere, is unique among the cities of the United States. In the whirl of the carnival season ane could almost imagine himself in Rome in the earlier centuries when high carnival, which was held during several days, culmi- nated at midnight on the Tuesday be- fore Ash Wednesday. But to return to Secretary Perkins’ |debut party in her new building: | There were bouquets everywhere, bas- | kets of Spring flowers, two enormous | exquisite ones filled with Easter lilies | | tied with broad. floating ribbons—just like a streamlined train., These came from the National Organization of Lo- comotive Engineers—that may not be the official name, but they were from the men that Presidents always shake hands with when leaving the train. | Flowers in the reception rooms back |of the auditorium where the visitors were received after the ceremonies and given fruit punch—no stick—and lit- tle cakes. Just a modest repast such as befits the period of unemployment. The whole building was open to in- spection—and did you see that stately | conference room next to the Secre- tary's private office? Tomato red rug Pancakes used to be the piece de resistence of the Shrove Tuesday din- ner, and some of the quaint recipes showing & touch of classical lore, are perhaps more delightful as literary than culinary compositions. Here is one of them: “There is a thing called wheaten flour, which the cooks do mingle with water, eggs, spice and other tragical, magical enchantments, and then they put it little by little into & frying pan of boiling suet where it makes a confused, dismal hissing (like the Lernian snakes in the reeds of Acheron) until at last by the skill of the cook it is transformed into the | form of a flip-jack called a pa‘ncnke_ which ominous incantation the ignor- | ant people do devour greedily.” Now, however, that wine flows again, delicious white flour pancakes. thin and light and hot from the griddle and served with sherry, will be luscious— | better than crepe suzette—King Ed- | ward VII's favorite dessert ’ Churches of ali communions | throughout the country are coming | more and more to the belief that the | observance of the Lenten season is good for the body as well as the soul and a strong effort is just now being made to make it a season of prayer. Do you recall that beautiful hymn of Thomas of Celano? “Day of wrath, oh, day of mourning! See fulfilled the prophets’ warning! Heaven and earth in ashes burning.” And Ash Wednesday comes on the sixth. Diplomats hobnobbed with labor; cabinet ministers and governors gave the glad hand to men in miners’ over- alls and everything went merry as a marriage bell at the house warming | Mme. Secretary of Labor Perkins gave on Monday last at the dedication of the gorgeous new Department of La- | bor Building, that cost $4.500,000 to build and furnish. | Some building: There are scarcely | enough adjectives in the English lan- guage to describe the beauty. stateli- ness, elegance and utility of this build- | ing dedicated to the men and women of industry. commerce and trade who make the wheels go round and who are the backbone of America’s success. —soft—same color draperies, walnut furniture, chairs covered with tomato red leather, luxurious divan, fine fire- place and flowers, too. One of the visitors did not see the sanctum sanc- | torum but hopes to another time when | Mme. Secretary has more leisure. The private office is in blue. The premier of Mr. George Ber- nard Shaw's new play, “The Simple- | ton of the Unexpected Isles.” which | took place in New York on the 18th, marked the 50th anniversary of Mr. Shaw as a playwright. It's a ques- tion whether Mr. Shaw's prefaces to his plays would not fill more volumes than the plays themselves. The preface to “Getting Married” has something like 84 or 86 pages, tak- ing up the question from the time of Adam and Eve, poligamy, divorce in the earlier times, and on down to trial marriages. He believes with the pres- ent progressive advocates of women in business, in public life; marriage | between men and women, “decent and honorable by making women eco- nomically independent of men. and (in the younger son section of the upper classes) men economically independ- ent of women.” There is also a ques-; tion in some minds whether or not his forewords are not more delight- fully amusing than some of his plays. Letters of world famous men and women are being dragged from safety deposit vaults and all kinds of hiding places and turned over to publishers to be thrust upon a cruel, curious world always eager to devour whom- ever they may. Letters from Napoleon to Josephine; now letters from the prisoner at Longwood to Marie Louise—distress- ingly pathetic—and now letters from Honore de Balzac to Mme. Zulma Car- raud, who was his platonic friend and worshipper, would indicate a growing, warmer af- fection. Mme. Carraud, was the wife of an artillery officer at whose home at Saint-Cyr Balzac was an honored guest, and it was there that he is said but whose later epistles | THE * SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 3, 1035 PART THREE. AUTHENTIC COSTUMES TO BE WORN AT BAL MASQUE to the bal masque. concierge who had been created Baroness Vaughan. The new president of the Woman's National Democratic Club, Mrs. Ed- ward Browning Meigs, will be a charming and efficient successor to Mrs. Charles Sumner Hamlin, who for the past two years has presided with infinite grace and fairness over the meetings of the club. And may one | add that this is saying a mouthful, for Mrs. Hamlin is noted for her devotion to the Democratic party and all that it stands for. Her naturalness and simplicity of manner has the stamp of Vere de Vere, or rather one might say—to be literal—of a Van | Schaick-Pruyn of Albany, New York. Her father was the late John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn, a prominent lawyer and outstanding Democrat of his time Mrs. Meigs is also well known to ‘Washington through her many civic and charitable activities. She is ac- customed to presiding at meetings and conferences and has an ease and cor- diality of manner that will be an adjunct to the elegant Democratic Club in New Hampshire avenue, which has more of the atmosphere of a private house than a club. It is Mrs. Meigs' purpose to carry out many of the policies of the club inaugurated under Mrs. Hamlin's regime The delightful get-together dinners which Mrs. Edward Keating, is so tactful in arranging—in fact, she Left: Mrs. Barbara Merwin in the Russian costume she will wear at the bal masque given by the Russian colony in Washington for the benefit of the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodoxr Church, Saturday, at the Shoreham. Right: Mrs. Frederick B. Colby shown in the authentic costume she will wear —Underwood Photos. |Benefit Lecture for Virginia Antiquities | A benefit lecture, entitled “The Virginia Tradition,” by Dr. Douglass 'be given under the auspices of the Washington branch of the Assocjation |for the Preservation of Virginia An- | tiquities in the west ball room of the Shoreham, Friday evening, March 29, at 8:30 o'clock. Dr. Freeman, editor of the Rich- mond News Leader, has long been distinguished in Southern journalism. He has been prominently identified with various movements and associa- |tions for furthering Southern historical study and for perpetuating Southern tradition. He is presiden. of the Southern Historical Society, and is the author of “Robert E. Lee,” a mon- umental biography of the great South- ern leader, having devoted 20 years of closest application in research on !thls work of love. The association is | most fortunate to have a lecture by | and times of the work. SOCIETY. | ! Dr. Freeman on this fascinating sub- | | ject, bearing as it does on the thought | E3 S I Purple Iris A HOUSE Southall Freeman of Richmond, will 4K '.uucn%tns—nn—mnzn 3200 Rittenhouse St. N.W Cleveland 1135 Kk kkhk Ak hkkkkk Self-Setting Permanent Waves Given by i Katharine Lee Ogilvie Require NO Wave Lotion ard Do Not DISCOLOR White Hair Personal Attention 1325 Conn. Ave. North 1306 Dec. 5098 Only ONE Washington Office E ok, velous in thinking of everything and everybody connected with labor or industry that would add to the in- terest at the dedication of the build- ing of which she is so proud. Mr. Jo Davidson's portrait bust of Mother Jones, & labor saint, and another of Andrew Furuseth, presi- | Colorful Tradition of Old |Galtsofft and other members of the dent of the International Seamen’s Union of America, were loaned by ' the owners. Gov. Marland of Okla- homa owns the one of Mother Jones. Curley’Club to Give- Mardi Gras A Mardi Gras masquerade dance will be held in the ball room of the | Continental Hotel Tuesday evening, under auspices of the Curley Club. | The dance will be the last social affair | until after the season of Lent, and | the proceeds will be applied to the scholarship fund of the club. The ball room will be elaborately decorated, and many unique features, appropriate | of the Mardi Gras season, will be | enjoyed. Prizes will be awarded for ;the most grotesque and the prettiest costume. An enlarged orchestra will| furnish music. Dancing will continue from 9 o'clock until midnight. Mr. William J. Boyd, chairman of the Entertainment Committee, is in charge of arrangements, assisted by Miss Emily Hodges, Miss Mary McKay. Miss Helene Gingras, Miss Margaret McKay, Mr. John Townshend and Mr. Ball | !to have heard the stories from which You know this building is just a con- tinuation of the wonderful new Post- office Department where Postmaster General Farley holds forth; and it's annexed to the Interstate Commerce | Building, another work of art. One | can go in and out through bronze doors and promenade through Grecian pillared pergolas and arrive right at Mme. Secretary’s side door. She was beaming with happiness as she received her guests. The United Mine Workers’ Band of West Virginia, which has played on the picket lines | during strikes, in blue overalls and | miners’ caps, played with zest, giving | the audience a rousing welcome, and even Mr. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, forgot collective bargaining. shorter hours and higher wages for the mo- he later made “The Country Doctor,"” one of his most famous novels. “Pere Goriot,” perhaps the most wonderful of his “Comedie Humaine” was writ- ten later. Pere Goriot is so strikingly like the story of King Lear that one naturally turns from one to the other. The deathbed scene of the old father is one of the most wonderfully tragic pieces of literature ever written. The Napoleonic letters seem to have only whetted the appetite for more and now Macmillan Co issues “The Pinnacle of Glory,” by Mr. Wilson Wright, who writes dra- matically of the Emperor's last days at St. Helena. He tells in an amusing way about Sir Hudson Lowe, the new | Governor of the island, sending a'! letter to Napoleon shortly after his | has been largely responsible for the cordial, hospitable air which prevades the club—will be continued, and dis- tinguished visitors and speakers will be a part of the social activities. On the 4th, 5th, 6th, of April the Women's Democratic Clubs of the States which are afliated with the National Club | . The Becretary of State and Mrs will meet in Washington for a series | COT ell Hull, Mr. Justice James C. | McReynolds, the Speaker of the of conferences on matters and legis- | | House of Representatives and Mrs. lation relating to the party and there | will also be a series of public dinners, | J0SePh W. Byrns, Senator and Mrs. |Nathan Bachman, Senator Kenneth In honor of Washington's birthday | McKellar, the Representatives in Con- on the 22d of last month, his favorite | gress from Tennessee and their wives sport of fox-hunting was visualized |and Gov. Hill McAllister of Tennessee Luke O'Reilly. Tennessee Society Banquet Saturday in the Alexandria assembly room in |are among the distinguished guests | the American wing of the Metropoli- |'Who will attend the banquet and tan Museum, New York, by some of the copies of sporting prints that hung on the walls at Mount Vernon. It is not recalled just which hunting ganized Tennessee State Society at Wardman Park Hotel Saturday eve- ning. ment and joined in the gayeties of the party. Everybody looked happy. Sec- retary of War Dern smiled. and Sec- retary Perkins wore a sort of Michael- angelo-Henry VIII beret or tam in (Lowe’'s) arrival, in which he an- nounces that he will call upon Gen. Bonaparte at 9 o'clock the next morn- |ing. The Emperor watches the Gov- ernor’s arrival through the curtains place of her Napoleonic tri-corner. of his bed room window, then turns { which she had discarded for the about and sits down in his hot bath. | nonce in honor of the coming Spring | The result of several hours of wait- and the housewarming. |ing on the part of Sir Hudson was @ cabinet rtfolio has lovely eyes; . e po‘;‘;ic' i ey | see]emm. Once Napoleon always Na- cept when they flash fire as she ar-fp" o gues with some adversary—the look of | Mr. Ludwig Bauer's “Leopold the one who visions a millennium for all | Unloved” is a little too severe on the things she has worked for and |that much-berated King who was hoped for. She has a pleasing voice | maybe more sinned against than and speaks pretty English. * * * Pre- | sinning. Leopold II, whose infatua- sides in a businesslike way as one | tion for the dancer, Cleo de Merode, who has not too much time. * * * | gave him the nickname of “Cleopold,” President Roosevelt’s letter expressed | was refused all spiritual consolation in true Rooseveltian style and to the | on his death bed by the great Car- point was read. * * * He could not| dinal Mercier, until he consented to be there. * * * Ana the West Vir- |a marriage with his final infatuation, ginia miners and the United Textile | Caroline Lacroix, the daughter of a Workers of America from South Car- | olina looked about for the Ambas- | sador from the Soviet States Repub- lic, but did not recognize the e]egnnti gentleman in afternoon dress. They were doubtless not'aware that all proletarians do not dress alike. They must have expected the see the Am- bassador in Russian blouse with a red star, sickle and hammer on his WARDMAN HAT SHOP Millinery, $1.95 up WARDMAN PARK HOTEL CO. 2000 Remodeling Done The "Palmyra” 370 Last scenes—favorites of the President— iare now at Mount Vernon; there are, however, in the photostata of lists in the Library of Congress unpub- lished lists in his own handwriting, | giving dates and price. of the prints, as well as careful measurements of each with dimensions of the plate | mark. He kept a detailed account of all his purchases. An interesting exhibition of the paintings by John Kane, the steel worker and coal miner of Pennsyl- vania, who rose to considerable prominence in the art world and whose pictures are now owned by several museums and private col- lectors, are now being shown in one of the beautiful rooms of the new Labor Department Building. They are given a place of honor. They are a loan from the memorial ex- | hibition of his work recently exhibited | at the Valentine Galleries in New | York. Secretary Perkins was mar- Mrs. Lyon at Home Today A! G]enview Farms. Md | Mrs. James Alexander Lyon of Glen- view Farms, near Rockville, Md., will | be at home this afternoon at 5 o'clock | and will be assisted by Miss Ida Guffey, Miss Pauletta Guffey and Mrs. Car- roll Miller, sisters of Senator Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania; Mrs. Henry Rowland, Mrs. Chester Wells, Mrs. Lewis Owsley, Mrs. Lorin Johnson, Mrs. S. Wallace Dempsey and Mrs. Harry Meem. Mrs. Lyon will not be at home April 6 because of expected absence from the city. THE _ FIRESIDE 1618 H St. N. New to Washington Imported Scotch and Irish Sport Materials SHOP Distinctivel ] = Choice Silver Fox =on a'tw&-piece suit 12.75 alent... with a personality Why be content with the time- worn Patent of yesterday. when you can choose from I. Miller “Personality Patents”? 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Mr. Boris Timchenko | and members of his committee will | convert the ball room into a scenic | reproduction of a Russian fairy tale in | which Tsar Sultan, famous character | in Pushkin's delightful “Ruslan and Ludmile,” will be the central figure Mr. Alexander Taranin, Mr. Christian | Heritage and Miss Natalie Scheffer are working on these great panels, which will serve as a background for | one of the gayest of balls ever held in the Capital. Characters from old Russian folklore and fairy tales, court ladies in costumes of the seventeenth century, dashing Cossacks and stately courtiers of the old regime will pass in review before the judges. The entrance to the ball room will carry out the decorative scheme with its great dragon, and other mythical figures of “Maslenitza,” the last day of celebration before Lent on the old Russian calendar, will be depicted by the artists. Miss Lisa Gardiner will dance the famous Obertass, by Wieni- awski, with Miss Alice Louise Hunter, | and a group of Miss Gardiner's pupils will present Dvorak’s Caucasian dance. | Mr. Mischa Markoff, baritone, well | known in Washington for his golden | voice and delightful gypsy ballads, | | will give several numbers. Miss Tania de Blumenthal. chairman of the En- | tertainment Committee; Dr. Paul Galtsoff and Mr. Peter Rouzitsky have | other surprise features for the guests. | Gen. Vladimir Levandowsky. chair- man of the Floor Committee. will have | assisting him Mr. William Laird Dun- {lop, 3d; Mr. Frank Urban Wolpert, Mr. Redmon S. Brennan. Mr. George Belicovitcof, Mr. Jack Stafford, Mr. Edward Becker, Mr. Simon Whitney, | | Mr. T. Bayard Schindel, Mr. John R. | Wheeler, Mr. George Riggs, Mr. J. Binford Valentine and Mr. George Mishtowt. In addition, there will be| & Girls' Floor Committee, members | of which will appear in colorful cos- tumes. Among this group are Miss | Jane Maitland, Miss Diane Maitland, | Miss Helen Rodgers, Miss Marjorie Tolman, Miss Florence Harris, Miss Lucy Sharpe, Miss Helen Walker, Miss | Natalie Keeney, Miss Mary Broy:n,\ Miss Annabelle Essary, Miss Ann Sal-' Many churches and gregational singing. THE NEW MODEL GortHic- (Electric Motor Incorporated) is the “last word” in small organ construction. The expression pedal is an in- novation in reed organ construction. A grand or- gan pedal is also provided. As the complete electrical blowing apparatus is in- closed in the organ the in- strument may be moved at will, Action 98. In walnut. committees to come in—to lens, Miss Chitot Arguella and Miss Tina Brennan. Members of Mr. Timchenko’s com- mittee include Mrs. Alfred Myer, Capt. and Mrs. 1. V. Mishtowt, Mrs. Frederick B. Colby, Mr. Walcott Wag- gaman, Mrs. Charles K. Moser, Mrs., Paul Scheffer, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Russian colony here . Young Democrats Plan St. Patrick’s Day Dance ! 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