Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1935, Page 41

SOCIETY. ~ About Well-known Folk In Books, Marginal Notes of Washington and Monroe on Old Book in Harvard Library. A Titian i BY ROBERT CRAWFORD. There is in the library at Harvard University an invaluable and curious copy of a critical book once the prop- erty of President Washington and written by James Monroe, later the fifth President of the United States. The title, “View of the Executive in the Conduct of the Foreign Affairs of the United States,” is a frank exposi- tion of Mr. Monroe's opinion of Wash- ington. And it was a poor opinion, indeed. President Washington, however, came back at him in the most de- lightful marginal notes or annota- tions in this volume. “The fluctu- ating state of the executive mind,” wrote Monroe. “The Executive’s mind never fluctuated a moment,” replied Washington, in the flourishing strokes of his quill pen. “Extraordinary,” ob- served Monroe. “No one else will think it extraordinary,” retorted Washington. Further on the first President wrote of Monroe: “Impu- dent, weak and vain, curious and laughable, extraordinary, indeed,” and more spicy comments on the argu- ment, which turned largely on diplo- macy. Although Monroe was warned against entangling foreign alliances, he embraced the French as brothers | when Minister to France and gained | the ill-will of the English, besides | causing misunderstandings with | France, and by the time he was| called home the United States was | engaged in an undeclared war with | the French Republic. All this goes | to show that in assuming the great | office of President of the United | States the bitter outweighs the sweet, | and while Washington and Lincoln | are continually extolled now. during | their terms of office they were sub- | jected to the bitterest and cruelest criticism. Mr. Ralph D. Blumenfeld's second book of reminiscences is, if it were possible to be. more delightfully and cleverly chhtty than the first. and that ws one of those rare volumes | one liked to take snatches of when | he wished to be refreshed. A sort of appetizer. | In his latest. which he calls “R. D. B.'s Procession.” no band is needed, | no waving of flags, for it marks its own time, and the-e is an elan to the | way Mr. Blumenfeld has of taking one into his confidence, and then bringing his storv about some well- known person up to its climax. | ‘This one about the late President Coolidge s a fine morning,” he said. “Let's be photographed”; then Mr. Blumenfeld: “They tell me that you nevcr show a smile. you can.” Mr. Coolidge whispered to me out of one side of his mouth: “That's a libel. I'll show you that I can smile as well as any one else. Let's both smile as though we had a Joke between us.” The author adds, “The resultant photograph astonished everybody.” He wrote all over the world in his human, revealing way. He tells this story of Clemenceau and Gordon Bennett, who, by the way, was the, first to recognize in a substantial manner Mr. Blumenfeld's charm as a descriptive writer. Mr. Bennett had told Clemenceau when in New York that he was better fitted to teach young ladies French in a seminary than-to work on a newspaper; that he was too sensitive. Clemenceau ex- claimed: “Said this to me—to me, Georges Clemenceau, me the queru- lous, the vindictive, whom my ene- raies call ‘the Tiger!’ said that to me!” Fditor of Lord Beaverbrook's daily, the Express of London, Mr. Blumen- feld’s life has been rich in experience #ad fulfillment. ‘The rumor that Mr. John Mase- field, poet laureate of England, is to visit Hollywood is too good to be true. | Some one had the idea that he was coming to adapt “Romeo and Juliet” | to the films. He says g i Members of the National Geo- ' graphic Society always look forward to the lectures of Mr. Lincoln Ells-\ worth, the explorer of icy regions and Art, Politic n Detroit? big game hunter. He is one of the most delightful talkers—he talks in- stead of instructs in his lectures—the society offers as he can make even the Arctic and Antarctic regions glow with animation. It is hoped that when he returns from the present contemplated trip to the Antarctic he will, among other things, show just a few views of that wonderful old castle in Switzerland he has been living in this Summer while resting up a bit and getting ready for his venture over the South Pole. Schloss Lensburg, one of the his- toric castles of Europe in which men have lived for a thousands years is perched high on a butte which rises up out of the green hills and is reached by a tortuous winding road which passes through tunnels formed by the dense foliage of trees. One crosses a drawbridge to enter the court yard with its green maple and chestnut trees and gorgeously hued geraniums relieving the somberness of the gray battlemented walls. Mr. Ellsworth will have no diffi- culty in telling when its time to start to the South Pole, as there are 72 clocks in the castle and most of them are running. This was a hobby of his father, Mr. Ellsworth, sr., who col- lected the clocks in different parts of the world. Some of them are said to be very rare and lovely as works of art, as well as mechanism. Another hobby of Mr. Ellsworth, sr., was never to allow the ashes removed from the great Gothic fireplace where cedar wood is still burned and where there is now an accumulation of 22 years. He lived in the Schloss for 17 years, his son inheriting it something like five years ago, during which time he has respected the wishes of his father, until now there is a great pile of burnt cedar, the odor of which per- meates the great hall. It is reported that Mr. and Mrs Ellsworth are now on their way to Rio de Janeiro in the Graf Zeppelin. Mr. Ellsworth expects to go later to Mon- tevideo, where his ship, the Wyatt Erp, is outfitting and sail from there October 20 for the Antarctic regions. There is a rumor that detectives have seized an oil painting out in De- troit which they think is a genuine Titian, which disappeared from | Vienna during the Austrian revolu- | tion after the World War. If it is a Titian it can probably be verified by an apparatus called a amination of paintings for three pur- | poses, the detection of mistaken at- | tribution of their creation, the study | of the technique of the masters and the determination of the best means of | perserving the picture. This apparatus, or process, perhaps more properly termed, was the dis- covery of Dr. Fernando Perez, who has many friends in Washington, where he was a most popular diplomat | at one time. He dled recently in | Paris, where he was the Argentine | Ambassador. : It appears that Dr. Perez, found | —and quote: “That the brush work | and method of paint application | peculiar to an artist can be unmistak- | ably shown by means of a greatly en- larged photograph taken uader a | strong beam of light falling obliquely across the canvas.” After taking and experimenting with many thousands of such photograph, Dr. Perez, was convinced that the identification of NE Comfortably on Open DINE (Screened) Porches RELAX Under oOur Trees Acres of Cool Lawn 20 MILES NORTH OF OLNEY, MD. 33M1Lesxo HOUSE OUT GEORGIA AVENUE EXTENDED CLARA MAY DOWNEY, Ownership-Mat. Plfilipalwrn 1™ Streer i Bevwesn FE& G Our Summer Sale of FURS Features Jap Weasel $]59-50 to %295 There’s a note of elegance in these luxurious furs of the mink family . .. they’re so supple that they lend their grace equally well to both swagger and fitted lines. 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You may have heard this one Lady Nancy Astor’s colored mammy down in Virginia, who had heard much I wonder if | “Pinascope” that is used for the ex- | of the glories of the Astors abroad and the regal style in which chey supported the old castles which they bought, said: “Glory be, Miss Nannie, you jus done outmarried yo'self.” Why not let Uncle Sam do it, ap- pears to be the one hope when the neighborhood quarrels of Europ zre waxing warmer and wars and rumors | of war are casting more definite shadows on the horizon. Until needed he is just a big, overgrown, powerful country cousin who is willing to spend | lavishly, but not looked upon as an intimate. But allow affairs to get tangled up and the big boy is invited to the most exclusive family parties the world over and asked to sit above the salt; and oh, horror of horrors, Sir Philip Gibbs says Americans are so good-hearted, generous and amusing —sometimes. Isn't that awful' He| knows very well that to call a girl | good-hearted and sweet is simply damning her prospects for a successful | season, because while they are 1n L4 o accentuate th |carry force, and now —Brooks Studle. themselves lovely words they do not comes along Viscount Philip Snowden, the dis- | tinguished gentleman of Tilford, Sur- rey, England, who gives cut one of his rare interviews in which he ap- peals to America to throw itz power- ful influence to help preven. a clash of arms. If you read that hands-across-the sea article in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine you will see just how affectionate John Bull and Cousin Jonathan came become in times of trouble. Mr. James Truslow Adams and Sir Philip Gibbs laid themselves out to say nice things about each other’s country, and really they were both most interesting. 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Mr. Adams, as he looks at England, where he has spent much time during » half century, is inclined to make more comparisons than one might like, but on the whole he gives a picture of John Bull and his continent that is fair. He calls attention to the American crises, which he dates from 1929, while he compares the succession of crises in England since 1910; then the four years of the terrible war, which, he says, brought the British Empire together, when the loyalty to King and country, the adn irable team work of all classes of pe.ole, demon- strated the honest social solidarity of the empire. “On the whole, they obey the laws and even mere government requests because they believe them to be just, and that every one will not get the same deal, but that each one will do his part.” With the present discus- sion in the United States of when to tax, where to tax and how to tax, Mr. Adams cites the team work in England: “When, three years ago in a financial crisis, the people were asked to pay taxes ahead of time they queued up to a tax office to do 80" He says there is more freedom of speech over there. The soap box orator in Hyde Park, who has the protection of the police while he advo- cates everything from the abolition of monarchy to marching on Buck- ingham Palace—and was not this where on one occasion the London bobby said, “All who are in favor of marching on the palace take three steps to the front.” Mr. Adams speaks of the laws and penalties suggested in this country for any one who criticizes the Consti- tution; he deplores the lawlessness here and tells of the story of the young American mother who, arriving I don’t have to worry about my chil- dren being kidnaped now.” In summing up, the writer evidently agrees with Viscount Snowdon and Sir Philip when he says: “I do no! believe in international sentimentalitv. Relations must be realistic. But for those of us Americans today who wish to see the ideals of our ancestors maintained in a changing world order there seems to me no question as to the necessity of the United States and the British Empire, especially the | dominions, working together as clusely as may be.” Uni\'»e:ei't) Women Give Dinner, Bridge The junior group of the American Association of University Women en- tertained at a dinner-bridge Thurs- | day evening in the wistaria room of | the club house at 1634 I street north- west. Miss Virginia Kinnard was hos- tess. The guests included Miss Mer- cedes Berry, Miss Nancy Duggar, Miss Christine Fassett, Miss Elsa Fowle, Miss Maxine Girts, Mrs. Lanier Gray, Miss Virginia Kinnard, Mrs. McKin- ney and Miss Winifred De Voe. |Phi Sigma Kappa Dance Wednesday A dance will be given Wednesday, | August 21, at the home of the George | Washington University Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa. It will be the first of a | series of entertainments to be spon- | sored by the pledge class. Novelty | dances are planned with prizes to be awarded the winning couples. in England, says: “Thank heaven, | H. Nelson Spottswood To Wed Miss Hart A wedding of interest to many Washingtonians will take place Au- gust 30, when Miss Catherine Anne Hart of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mr. H. Nelson Spottswood of 1523 Allison St. are married in the Church of the Transfiguration at 5:30 o'clock p.m. Miss Hart is the daughter of Mrs. Frances B. Hart and the late B. But- ler Hart of Santa Anna, Calif. She is a talented young artist who has been engaged in work at the Holly- wood film studios in connection with colored motion pictures. Most of her art studies have been pursued at the Axt Center School in Los Angeles. Miss Hart is the niece of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Davidson of 3603 Thirty-fourth street. Mr. Spottswood is the son of Mrs. Margaret Judge Spottswood and the late Henry N. Spottswood of Washing- ton, and is a direct descendant of Gov. Alexander Spottswood, the first Governor of Virginia. He is a gradu- ate of the University of Maryland, class of 1928, and is a member of the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. Mr. Spottswood is an outstanding figure in Washington tennis circles. He is manager of the Columbia-Adams cen- tral offices of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. Mr. Benjamin B. Hart, brother of Miss Hart, will give the biide away. The matron of honor will be Mrs. Robert H. Davidson, and M:. E. L. Wilshin of Baltimore will act as best man. Rev. J. J. Queally will officiate | at the ceremony. {Mrs. Martin to Speak In Church of Pilgrims | 'The Woman's Auxiliary of the| Church of the Pilgrims will hold its monthly meeting at the church to- | morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. | Mary Martin of Virginia City, \v'n.I who for many years has worked in the | mountains of Virginia, will be the | guest speaker. 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