Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1935, Page 41

SOCIETY. About Well-Known Folk In Books, Art, Politics Some White House Gossip About New Kitchen. Barney Baruch Wri Book and BY ROBERT (‘R.\“’FORP. One does not need to tour the coun- try in a flivver to hear at first hand what the people are saving and what they are thinking about. Just join a large tourist crowd at the White House | any morning and you will hear more | candid opinions expressed in a few words on national recovery, prosperity —or the lack of it—and the Congress, than you could read in reams of new: paper print. Honest-to-goodness con- victions these are; off the record and nothing to make them afraid. Milling through the east corridor to the east room on the first floor—with its large gold piano—but oh, these lovely French vases would redeem any- thing—one hears the crowd comment- ing on the President's family, the ‘White House menage and portraits of tormer mistresses of the mansion which line the ground floor corridor. ting Autobiography. Art Talk. the southwestern postal district of London, near the houses of Parlia- ment and also contains the foreign office. It will be recalled that the builder and first owner of this most cele- brated building in the British Em- pire was a native of Boston, Mass., | and a member of the first class which was graduated from Harvard Uni- | versity. Sir George Downing Wwas the son of an immigrant from ebout improve his fortunes; that he was very | successful is evidenced by the fact | that when young George after his graduation, and after studying law, decided that Boston was too small for him and that the opportunities in London were much greater, gave him an adequate income to enable him to return to the home of his ancesters. Arriving in England young George Kent, who came to the New World to | found affairs too exciting to settle | down to the practice of law and in- | stead joined Cromwell's army, even- Why did Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt | have to borrow the late Mrs. Henry | Cabot Lodge’s black hat in which to | have her portrait painted? The charm- ing portrait of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, | tually becoming scoutmaster general in Scotland. For his services he re- in her red velvet gown much shorter | Céived a handsome pecuniary reward | & front than behind—"Couldn’t Cal|and it was with this. money that Sir allow her a vard more of goods?” | George bought the tract of ground on Delicious; natural—American wit. And | St. James Square, and built the fine | then those screens at the west end | mansion—for that day—which for | of the corridor shutting off the pas- [OVer a century has been the home | sageway to the kitchens; it is only | of England’s premiers now and then that a whiff of what| Since Sir George's time the man- the President is going to have for Sion has been Pnlax:ged and changed luncheon or dinner comes through and | 8lmost past recognition, and the pres- | the women of the party always exhibit | ent prime minister once remarked to interest in the housekeeping part of | Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, some- the mansion. | time president of Harvard, that if Sir e ‘George's ghost should come back he Come October 13, and 143 years will | would need a guide to get to his for- have elapsed since the corner stone of | mer apartments. se was laid. The cere- — e When Mr. John Buchan, now Lord mony took place at the southeast cor- 1 d ner instead of the northeast corner as | TWeedsmuir, governor general desig- nate of ~Canada, comes over to as- Attractive MRS. HUNTER LAMBERT KELLER, Who, before her marriage June 26, which took place in the has sometimes been stated. It must have been a picturesque procession of | sume office. it is hoped that he will gentlemen in Colonial dress. Free-| P8y the States a visit. for there is masons in regalia, architects and a | Perhaps no English writer of the | motley crowd that wended its why over | Present day who has a larger reading | the rough ground to the historic cere- | public here. To those who have read mony where the emblematic corn, wine | and liked the late President Roose- and oil, in silver and gold vessels, were | velt's “Cromwell.” Lord Tweedsmuir's brought forth and used in consecration, | story of the “Lord Protector of Eng- One gets a bit of a thrill at the picture. | land” seems a little tame. There is And now after almost a century and & kind of elan about the Roosevelt & half the White House is to have a “Cromwell” that carries one along new kitchen, and the new kitchen to | from page to page. In his later years keep up with the spirit of the times | Mr. Roosevelt appears to have lost will progress from the back. as the much of the verve and freshness of south front is sometimes called, to the | charm which were noted in his earlier front of the house and locate itself | Writings. right under the north portico where | foreign diplomats and pd\snng\nsh(-d It is reported that Mr. Bernard visitors from all parts of the world en- | Baruch will finish his autobiography, | ter. Under the north front portico on | beguUn a year ago, while on his pres- which the President and Mrs. Roose- | €0t Visit to England. He has had a velt have inaugurated that charmingly | life peculiarly rich in experience and hospitable custom of meeting there contact with society in its many | house guests and welcoming them. | Phases and his book is looked forward Quite a logical place for the kitchen | 10 with much interest. Unfortunately | as it not only vacates a room over- it is perhaps too early to shed light looking the lovely green south lawn On many events connected with his and flower gardens but it is in keep- Association with the late President | ing with the present day fashion and | Wilson and affairs here and abroad | things are sort of topsy turvey, as during and after the World War. old Aunt Charlotte used to say when The public will expect a great deal the free Negroes crowded her off the front bench in the meetin’ house, “The bottom rail certainly am on top. because of the premeditated manner i office in Wall Street, moved up town Buture generations of White House | and deliberately set himself about mistresses will rise up and call Mrs. | telling things—maybe some things the Roosevelt blessed for advocating this | pyblic have long wanted to know change in the household arrange-| about certain happenings during the ments, for the new kitchen is to have | war—how about it Mr, Baruch? Con- every kind of modern improvement gressional committees have not found —and it is hoped enough steam tables | you very fluent in conversation. But to keep the food from getting icy en| they do ask so many questions. If fts route to the state dining room. Of | about munitions, there is no rapid fir- course, those bright and shining old | ing gun ever invented that can keep copper cooking utensils will be moved | yp with them. forward, for they are things of beauty. | Perhaps never before has an Amer- | __, | ican author, or as for that a writer | Dame Lloyd George.'when she first | oo ony country, been so universally BODNEd S0 § L0 D_““‘b‘;‘““ 5""‘; honored as has Mark Twain, during London, was said to have been amazed ¢ vear which marks the celebra- | at the inadequacy of the kitchen I~ jon of the centenary of his birth, | quirements and conveniences. The ypici’ ocoured in November. 1835, British Empire held its breath—as peginning in the early Spring, there it were—when she had some modern | pag peen an almost continuous suc- | equipment installed, and after some | .eqsion of honors and tributes paid quibbling the home office—England's |5 the beloved humorist, and now, as | Controller General McCarl—paid the | g gelightful climax to the celebration, | bill. But when Miss Ishbel Mac- nr Albert Bigelow Paine has edited Donald had flower boxes put in the gnq arranged Mark Twain's note- front windows the home office posi- | pooks, which Harper and Brothers tively refused to pay for them and have announced, along with other politely told her if she must have| fresn Mark Twainiana, will be ready them she could pay for them herself. | for the Fall season. Miss MacDonald's window boxes were, however, not a circum-| The difference between a notebook stance to the consternation created | 8nd a diary must be that the former, when the Countess of Oxford and | Where one's thoughts are spontane- Asquith—then plain Mrs. Asquith—or | OUSlY ~jotted ~down offhand, more Just “Margot.” invited West End society | N€arly reveals the true state of the to e dress show at the official resi- ‘”“"fi-‘ "_’}’]"fl- kWhU; a diary, e;;‘ dence of England's prime minister | Pecially when kept by a person of —the very symbol of the British gov- | distinction or some note. is too fre- | ernment. Now Mr. Stanley Baldwin, | Quently a premeditated offering to a| from Mr Baruch's story of his life, | | in_which he began it. He closed his | who succeeded Mr. MacDonald as pre- mier, will move into No. 10 Downing . street, for the third time. He seems always to have left arrangements in | the old house just as he found them. future audience—as witness Mr. | Pepys: And Mr. John Evelyn, founder | of the Royal Society. To many people, both old and| He is 50 typically John Bull, that to | YOung. the piece de resistance—with change what has lasted through a | Whipped cream—will be Clara Clem- century or two might seem sacrilege. | €NS ofrerlng of a new edition of her_ g | father's translation of “Slovenly Pe- In passing, No. 10 Downing street, ter,” which will be illustrated in color | the unpretentious, modest-looking | by Mr. Fritz Kredel. To this very| residence of the British prime min- | free translation of Hoffmann’s classic ister, is located on a short street in| the humorist lent his most fetching OUR COOLING SYSTEM MAKES SHOPPING HERE A JOY Jurius Garrincker & Co. 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Derns Plan Journey To the Philippines (7clnt_llu>ed From First Page.) have with them for a short time Judge J. R. Brice of New Mexico, who recently returned from a tour of Europe. Senator and Mrs. Key Pittman will return tomorrow from Jeckyll Island, where they spent the holiday and week end. Mrs. Donahgy, wife of Senator Vic Donahey, and her son, Mr. Vic Dona- hey, jr., will leave tomorrow or Tues- day by motor to return to their Ohio home. Mrs. Donahey came here a week ago and with the Senator moved to another apartment in the Broad- moor, where Mr. Vic Donahey, jr., will Join his father later in the week to re- main until Congress adjourns. Senator Pat Harrison will join Mrs. Harrison in their Washington home tomorrow after spending the holiday and week end with Mr. and Mrs. Merle Thorpe at White Sulphur Springs. The ' Undersecretary of State, Mr. William Phillips, will return to Wash- ington Wednesday from Beverly, Mass., where he joined Mrs. Phillips and their family early last week. The Assistant Secretary of War, Mr. | Harry H. Woodring, has been joined at his estate, Woodlawn, Alexandria, | Va. by Mrs. Woodring and their in- fant daughter, Melissa. The economic adviser to the Secre- tary of Agriculture and Mrs. Morde- cal Ezekiel have with them at their home, Old Loughborough, on the River road, in Montgomery County, Dr. Eveline Burns of New York City. Dr. Burns has been for the week ln‘ Charlottesville, Va., where she spoke at the Institute of Public Affairs now in session. She will return next week 2 N , was Miss Eleanor Mae Quinn, 1n and the late Mrs. Quinn. After July 15 Mr. and Mrs. Keller will be at home at 7418 Georgia avenue. ——Harris-Ewing Photo. wit and appeal to the children and the grown-ups as well. Mr. J. B. Priestley, lately sailing from these hospitable shores after freely expressing himself about Amer- icans in general and their shortcom- | ings in particular, is very wrought up over the fact that neither Mr. Shaw nor Mr. Wells was made a member of the Order of Merit—by many consid- ered the most real distinction handed out by the crown—by King George this jubilee year. Many of the true friends of Law- rence of Arabia are very much wrought up over the announcement that there will shortly be issued from the presses in England a large edition of “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom," which was formerly available to only a limited few. Recently displayed a copy of the limited edition in a bookseller's window on F street—not for sale—neither to be read—but just as a matter of interest A letter in tne Loudon Times of June 11, signed “Oxcniensis,” makes a fervent appeal for the further keep- ing of Lawrences “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" from general distribution, writing: “The mete fact that Law- rence both decided to write his story in full and to prevent, as far as he was able, its gencral circulation, is but one more proof of the soundness of his judgment and the excellence of his taste * * *. Let no one imagine that he will find in ‘The Seven Pil- lars of Wisdom' either military se- crets or sensational scandal.” Fur- ther: “* * * what remains hidden is an intimate revelaiicn of experience which Lawrence wished to give to the few and did not wish to give to the many."” Marjorie Fischer's “Street Fair.” for boys and girls, must be a juicy peach full of advencure ana unusual hap- penings. Perhaps some mammas will thinks it too enticing for 11 and 12 year olds, but after all it’s just a de- lightfully refresning story of two chil- dren who got tired of mcseying around in picture galleries in Paris with the old folks and decidea to take the reins in their own hands and go places and see sights. After all, it's not nearly as inclined to put notions in the youngsters’ heads as the cine- mas they see daliy. It's more excit- ing than Mr. Tarkington's sagas of child life, and the English is simpler. It's so satisfying these hot days to sometimes just wander around a little in the Freer Gallery of Art, and look at the things one likes best—a story is told of the late Mrs. Mina C. Van | Winkle of Washington, who said she received the greatest comfort and con- solation for the sorrows of the world in looking at the “Sistine® Madonna” and the “Last Judgement”; so she was known to have made several trips to | WHITE . 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After enjoying the princess, turn around on the bench and look at the | rich and poor peacock which, of course, you know Mr, Whistler meant for him- self and his rich client who always | seems to have peeved him almost be- | yond endurance. “O cup-bearer, give wine; suffer no grief for friend or foeman; for to our heart's desire, the enemy has gone and the true Beloved (God)—has come.” Two pages of the Couplets from the | odes of Hafiz are among the exquisite- ly illuminated manuscripts in the | Near East display in the gallery. Book | | bindings of rare beauty and an in- ! | describably beautiful big vase of soft dense, white clay covered with a thick translucent lapis-lazuli blue blaze and | decorated with plants, animals, birds, | peacocks and the most adorable and | amusing polo players on horses whose | like was never seen on land or sea, is one of the masterpieces. But those ponies have cropped tails just like the | polo ponies of today. 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Plans Made for Wed- ding of Miss Jones The wedding of Miss Ruth La Mar | Jones, daughter of Mrs. John Francis | | Jones, to Mr. Robert Henry Hunter, | |son of Mrs. Robert Clinton Hunter, | will take place at 10 o'clock Wednes- | day morning in the St. William's | Chapel, Copley Hall, Georgetown Uni- | versity, the Rev. Arthur O'Leary, who | was recently made president of the | university, officiating. Miss Mary Lil- | lian Boyland will be the bride’s only | attendant and Mr. Joseph Aloysius Davis will be the best man. Mr. Staf- | ford La Mar Jones will give his sister away. Among those who have entertained for the bride-elect, besides her sorority, are Miss Mary Boyland, Mrs. Felix Belair, Mrs. John Colgan Shaw and | Mrs. Robert Violett. The bride and bridegroom elcet are | lifelong residents of the District and after August 15 will be at home at 4831 New Hampshire avenue | Owing to the recent death of the oride’s father the plans for the wed- ding will be quite simple. 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