Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1936, Page 48

SOCIETY. About Well-Known Folk In Books, Art, Politics England Joins in Celebrating the Tercen- tenary of Harvard University. Booth Tarkington Once Indulged in Art. * BY ROBERT CRAWFORD. HE crimson of old Harvard never flaunted iiself more ma- jestically to the breeze and “Fair Harvard” was never ging with more feeling and gusto than last Priday, when Franklin Delano Roose- velt, President of the United States, addressed his alma mater. It was & real homecoming for him and on ev- ery hand “Hello, Frank” was heard. In remote lands and even the islands of the sea the tercentenary of the famous university is being celebrated. Over in England the bells of South- wark Cathedral, which is near the site of John Harvard'’s home, pealed forth errily in his memory R last Tpurs- day morning, and there was a special service in the chapel which bears his name. The Bodleian Library at Ox- ford University, which was, by the way, the first European university to recognize the Harvard degree, cele- brated the tercentenary with an ex- hibition of rare books and manu- script illustrating the relations be- tween Oxford and Harvard in the seventeenth century. Although John Harvard was graduated from Cam- bridge, the first graduate of Harvard was Benjamin Woodbridge, an Oxford man. One of the rare books is “New England’s First Fruits,” published in 1643, and describing the Harvard bullding as “very faire and comely with-in and with-out.” The Puri- tans of the time must have looked upon Oxford as & wicked and corrupt place, for it is recorded that English Puritans sometimes sent their sons to Harvard that they might escape from “exposing them to prelacy and temptation to lewdness at both Ox- ford and Cambridge.” The Library of Congress Exhibits the Beautiful Rogers Bible. It is delightful to read Mr. Bruoe Rogers’ own account of the concep- tion and making of the Oxford Lec- turn Bible, also known as the Bruce Rogers Bible, now on exhibition in the rare book division of the Library of Congress. The rare simplicity and beauty of the binding and the format of this great book can only be most thoroughly appreciated by those fa- miliar with the infinite pains, art and skill in craftsmanship which were necessary to produce one of the great~ est masterpieces in twentieth century printing, and indeed can compare favorably with book making in any century. One'’s ego rises considerably when permitted to turn over the pages ‘of this beautiful book and have an expert explain all the intricacies of its makeup. One of the most gra- cious attributes of a scholar or an artist of any kind is to make the other chap feel he, too, knows some- thing, or at least has an intelfigent understanding of the subject being discussed. The curators of the rare book division have this charm. The atmosphere surrounding the making of the Bible, the reposeful contemplation of creating the work is attributed by Mr. Rogers, to the de- lightful days at Oxford, spent in company with Mr. John Johnson, printer of the umiversity, amd his staff of executives, He speakes of the lovely English countryside, the effect of the long and deepening twilight, and says after the day’s work they would go to see some splendid old country house near Oxford, or some church or alms house and then drive home in the twilight to Mr. Johnson's pleasant house and garden at Old Headington, where the next day’s work would be discussed, and he adds: “Surely no book has ever been produced under happier or more auspicious circumstances.” Mr. Rogers ®xplains that the proj- ect of making a new folio Bible origi- nated in, or at least it was precipitat- ed by, the request of Mr. O. F. Mors- head, librarian at Windsor Castle, for a Bible that should make a fitting present from the late King George, to the Memorial Church at Ypres— the place where s0 many gallant British soldiers gave up their lives. Mr. Morshead, after visiting the three English Bible printing houses, ex- pressed the opinion that none of the folio Bibles shown him was hand- some enough for the purpose so near to the heart of the King. He how- ever finally chose one printed some years before at the University Press. It was a little later, Mr. Rogers says, that Mr. Humphrey Milford decided 1t was time to plan & new Bible that should, in its arrangement, combine practicality »s a pulpit book with beauty as a specimen of printing. It was in 1929 that Mr. Rogers was called in council. Rogers Bible Printed On Unique Paper. The search for what Mr. Rogers considered suitable paper on which to print the Oxford Lectern Bible, is described in an interesting way; “Some time before the Bible was even contemplated I had discovered at the Hayle Mill of Messrs. J. Marchan Green & Son, London, a small lot of very beautiful paper which they had made a number of years earlier from fiber from the Orient. For whatever Teason, no more had ever been pro- duced and this experimental lot was all there was in existence. When ‘work on the Bible was well under way 1 recollected this paper, and I found on investigation that there was enough to print a single copy, provided that no more than 20 or 30 sheets were spoiled in process. After con- siderable persuasion the Messrs. Green agreed to sell me the lot and it was shipped to Oxford just before the printing began.” In describing the excellency of the work he goes on to say that not a single sheet was Lord Apsley, without the The Rogers Bible, which contains 1,288 pages, the type page being 9 by 13 inches, printed on a leaf 13 by 18Y, inches, was planned, the format estab- lished and the typographic layout made by Mr. Rogers and printed at the University Press, Oxford. The text is the King James authorized version, including the Apocrypha and the translators’ preface. Four years were required to complete the work and the cost of printing was approxi- mately $1,200, which amount was paid by voluntary contribution and the great Bible was presented to the Lie brary of Congress by Bruce Rogers. The list of contributors who made the ‘gift to the Library possible in- cludes something like a hundred names of well-known collectors, writers and noted book clubs. Mr. Rogers’ Friends Who Made the Gift Possible. Mr. I N. Phelps-Stokes, the archi- tect and writer, who is the author of that voluminous and wonderful “Icon- ography of Marhattan Island” which is not only invaluable as a reference book, but contains a rare collection of memorabilia consisting of old prints, engravings, maps, beatifully repro- duced, a brother of Canon Anson Phelps-Stokes of Washington Cathe- dral; George Ade, a classmate of Mr. Rogers at Purdue University; Mr. Elmer Adler, who established the Colophon; Mr. Willlam R. Castle, jr, some time Assistant Secretary of State; the famous Ggolier Club of New York and the Caxton Book Club of Chicago; Carl H. Pforzheimer, the great book collector, and other well- known men and women are among the contributors. Booth Tarkington Once Indulged in Art. The rare book division has lately come into possession of a rather in- teresting year book of Purdue Univer- sity—maybe 1891—which is largely illustrated by Booth Tarkington, Bruce Rogers, J. T. McCutchen and several others now distinguished in the literary and art world. No con- siderable talent is shown by either Tarkington—who signed his name “N. Booth Tarkington"—nor Rogers, who signed “Albert Bruce Rogers.” The “N” in Mr. Tarkington’s name stood for Newton and has long since been discarded. Both Mr. Rogers and Mr. Tarkington seem to have been imbued with the sentiment of the mauve pe- riod and were quite gay blades of the time, Benjamin Franklin Visions Flying. Air delegates to the World Power Conference recently held here, must have been interested and amused by an original letter of Benjamin Franklin’s which is in the exhibit in the Library of Congress, which was arranged in honor of the visiting scientists. It reveals Franklin's vision of present day aeronautics as well as his delightful humor. It is dated August 30, 1783, passy, and addressed to Sir Joseph Banks, on the subject of balloon ascen- stons -1y~ which France was ex- perimenting at the time. As to the possibilities of flying he says: * Some suppose flying to be now invented, and that since men may be supporte " in the air, nothing is wanted but some light handy instrument to give and direct motion * ¢ *” and that & running footman or s horse slung and suspended under such s globe (balloon), 0 as to have no more weight of pressing the earth with their feet, than perhaps 8 or 10 pounds, might with & fair wind run in a straight line across countries as fast as that wind, and over hedges, ditches and even waters. Mr. PFranklin also suggests in this letter that people may keep such globes anchored in the air to which by “pullies they may draw up game to be preserved and water to be frozen when ice is wanted.” . He also visions commercial flying. * That to get money, it will be contrived to give people an extensive view of the country, by running them up in an eblow chair a mile high for & Gunica.” Read “Bridleways Through History” And “A Hunting Go.” October is almost here and down in Old Virginia and Maryland the sound of the horn and the cry of the hounds will soon fill the air with what is always celestial music to the sports- man. If on a week-end party when every one comes in from the field dead tired and bored to extinction, take out a copy of Lady Apsley’s “Bridleways Through History” and sneek off up stairs to bed and enjoy yourself. Its a classic. She is the wife of Lord Allen Algernon Bathurst Apsley, whose early ancestors lived at Apsley House, which by the way is mentioned in Vanity Fair, and which in later years was the residence of the Duke of Wellington, and came to be known as Wellington House. There is a very funny story con- nected with Apsley House: The land on which it was built was given to Allen a soldier at Dettingen—maybe the one who stopped the run away horse of George II—who built & small house there. After his death it re- verted to the crown and later. was owned by the Earl of Bathurst, third Lord Apsley. The son of Allen who had come to be a practicing attorney put in & claim on behalf of his mother for compensation on the grounds of unlawful ejectment. The case came up before Lord Apsley, who was chancellor at the time and the owner. ‘The resul} of the suit was that Mrs. Allen was awarded 450 pounds & year. ‘The house was evidently pl by of an architect and there was no stair- ‘way from the second to the third floor. He later called in the assistance of A Bride of Next Month 7 MISS MARY HELEN GWYNN, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Summers Gwynn of Clinton, Md., who announce her engagement to Mr. Luther Voight Wi stead, son of Mr. and The wedding will take place in Christ Episc Clinton, October 7. Mrs. William Caley Winstead of this city. al Church in —Harris-Ewing Photo. Of Personal Note Mrs. Sylvan Bensinger to Be at Home This Evening—Other News. from 8 to 10 o'clock at her apartment in Wi Park Towers and will have with her her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bensinger, whose marriage took place August 22. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Kaufman, with their two daughters, Miss Eliza- beth Ann Kaufman and Miss Joan Kaufman, arrived in New York ‘Thursday on the S. S. Conte de Savoia and are now in their apartment in Woodley Park Towers after a six-week stay in Europe. Mrs. Victor Strasburger left for her home in Norfolk, Va., Tuesday, after a visit with her sister, Mrs. Robert Meyer. Mrs, J. A. Weinberg and her daugh- ter, Miss Rosalie Weinberg, who sailed on the S. 8. Normandie early this month, are now in Paris and will be abroad until October. Mrs. Florence Engstrum of Los Angeles, Calif,, is the guest of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Newmyer of the Westches- ter and will go to New York during the week to visit her mother, Mrs. Armond Cerposs. Mr. Edward Kohner and his son-in- law, Mr. Harold Singer, motored to Atlantic City Friday to join Mrs. Koh- ner and Mrs. Singer, who are spending several weeks at the shore. They will be joined today by Mrs. Blanche Singer of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, who spent the Summer at Far Rock- away, Long Island, and & week in New York with the latter’s sister, Mrs. Blanche L. Singer, returned to the ‘Westchester Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Maser and their son, Aaron Masser, are now lo- cated in their new home, 3145 Adams Mill road northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Samuels and their daughter of Nashville, Tenn., motored here today, where their daughter will enter the Marjorie Web- ster School. Mrs. Sigmund Marks and Mrs. J. B. Simon, also of Nashville, accompanied them and will be the guests of relatives for several days. Mrs. Samuel Mundheim of New York is visiting her son-in-law and daugh- ter, Rabbi and Mrs. Norman Gersten- ;;;1 of Spruce street, Chevy Chase, Mr. and Mrs. A. Liebman were hosts at a dinner party Monday night at the Woodmont Country Club, cele- brating the former’s birthday anni- versary. A cocktall party preceded the dinner at their apartment in Woodley Park Towers. Miss Aline Lansburgh returned on the steamship Normandie Tuesday from Europe and is spending a week in New York before coming to Wash- ington. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Lansburgh and two sons, Mark, jr., and James Lans- burgh, are spending the week at the Claridge, Atlantic City. Mrs. Sidney H. Reizenstein®is in New York until Tuesday. Mrs. Melville Fischer is back from Escanaba, Mich, her former home, where she spent the Summer with relatives. Dr. and Mrs. Fischer are now residing at Woodley Park Towers. Mrs. Rose Saks is at the Shoreham after spendingthe Summer in Vent- nor, N. J.,, where she had a cottage. RS. SYLVAN BENSINGER M will be at home this evening Her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Saks, and two chil- dren, who were with her, are back in their Chevy Chase home. Mrs. Evelyn Lane of New York, who was the guest of relatives during the week, is in Atlantic City before re- turning home. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cohn and their two daughters of New York are now making their home here and have taken an apartment on Adams Mill road. Mrs. M. Hano is now located at 2701 Connecticut’ avenue, where she has taken an apartment. Mrs. William Wolf and her two children, Peggy and Billy Wolf, will return shortly to Thirty-fourth street weeks' stay at Mrs. Meyer Loeb is back in her home on Columbia road from s three- month stay at Berkley Springs, W. Va. The engagement of Miss Ann Zalkind, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Zalkind, to Mr. Orville I Alexander, son of Mr. and Mrs. Her- man Alexander of Waterbury, Conn.,, has recently been announced. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kruft an- nounce the engagement of their daughter Ray to Mr. Julius Jay Kol- tun, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Koltun of New York. Mr. Koltun is a graduate of Lehigh University and St. John's Law School. Miss Bonita Lester To Wed Mr.Kramer In Church Tonight TKI marriage of Miss Bonita Ver- trees Lester, daughter of Mrs. Caro- lyn Lester of San Francisco, to Mr. Kenneth G. Kramer, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Kramer of Batesville, Ind., will take place this evening at 6 o'clock in the Foundry M. E. Church, the Rev. Frederick Brown Harris offi- ciating. A reception will follow at Woodley Park Towers. Mrs, Frances Mahoney will be Miss Lester’s only attendant and Mr. Bere nard Kilgore, chief of the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal, will be the best man. After s short wedding trip Mr. Kramer and his bride will be at home at the Hay Adams House. Mr. Kramer is news editor of the Washington bu- reau of the Wall Street Journal. SANITARY DIAPER SERVICE gl ol St .#\g r?t‘u!ir and ample supply CE Sl RS PHONE NAT. 3992 Residential Social Notes —(Continued Prom Pirt Pags) Mrs. Timothy Tincher has returned to the city after a two-month automobile trip to California. will be the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Julius A. Koch. Dr. Koch is emeritus dean of the School of Pharmacy, Uni- versity of Pittsburgh. Former Secretary of State and Mrs. Henry Scotland for the Summer, will sail Beptember 30 to return to this coun- try. They will be at Highhold, their estate at Long Island, through the Autumn and come to Washington to open their place, Woodley, for the early Winter. Former Postmaster General and Mrs. Harry 8. New are expected to re- turn to their place, Hemlock Hedge, in Edgemoor, the end of next week after spending the Summer in their log cabin on Turtle Lake, Mich, Mr. Benjamin der Thoron will be joined the end of next week by Mrs. Thoron, who has been in Colorado mer and he returned some weeks ago after a brief vacation. Miss Priska Kaspar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Kaspar, arrived in Baltimore Thursday aboard the City of Baltimore, from Germany, where she has been since early Sum- mer. Mr. and Mrs. Kaspar went to Baltimore to meet their daughter, who returned to Washington with them that evening. Miss Frances Elsie Cunneen, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Cun- neen, will leave this evening for California where she will enter the freshman class at Leland Stanford University at Palo Alto to study medicine. Miss Cunneen is a graduate of Western High School where- she completed her studies in February. Before entering Western High School she was a student at the Shanghai- American School in China where Mr. and Mrs. Cunneen lived for some years. Mrs. John Kempton has returned after & week’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Darrin in Spartansburg, N. C. Mrs. Darrin and Mrs. Kempton were fmn.mm af school in New Milford, Mr. Gordon W. Smith, accompanied by Miss Eugenia Smith and Miss Eliza Lloyd Smith, have returned from Europe -where. they spent the Sum- mer. They arrived in Baltimore Thursday. aboard the City of Balti- more coming from Germany. Miss Gussie La Salle entertained at luncheon yesterday at the Dodge Hotel in honor of the Executive Board of the Business and Professional Wom- en's Organization of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church. Dr. and Mrs. Henry Cook Macatee have visiting them their niece, Miss Marths Anne Brasurer of German- town, Pa, and Mrs. George Allen Lippincott, and her daughter, Miss Jane Lippincott of Chestnut Hills, Pa. Mrs. Lippincott is the sister of Mrs. Macatee. The visitors came for the wedding of Miss Mary Macatee to Mr. Kenneth Donaldson, Saturday, September 12. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Jenkins " THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SEPTEMBER 20, 1936—PART THREE. -To Wed MISS ANN ZALKIND, Daughter oL Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Zalkind, whose en- gagement- to Mr. Orville I, Alezander of Waterbury, Conn., is announced. returned last evening from their wed- ding trip and are in their apartment in Kew Gardens in Georgetown. They were married in Pittsburgh, Septem- ber 7 in the Holy Rosary Church, in the presence of s large number of relatives and friends. A nuptial mass was said and later Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, the Ilatter formerly Miss Catherine Croack of Pittsburgh, sailed for Florida. Miss Ruth E. Kruger and Miss Prances E. Proctor, both of Washing- ton, sailed from New York yesterday on the Monarch for Bermuda where they will spend their vacation. Miss Mary Cullen of O'Neill, Nebr,, and Elizabeth, N. J., has been the guest of Miss Mary L. McGee in her apartment in Wakefield Hall re- cently. Miss Evelyn Foster is recuperating from a serious operation on her throat and will open her studio on Rodman street this week. Miss Jeanne Butler will arrive on the Queen Mary tomorrow morning following 14 months’ travel in the Orient and Europe. She will return to Washington Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. D. K. Butler, who has gone to New York to meet her. Mrs. E. E. Bishop, accompanied by Mrs. R. Lamphere of Lyme, N. H, arrived yesterday and is at the Dodge for the G. A. R. encampment, which meets this week. Mrs. Esther Sonneborn and her daughter, Mrs. Alfred Bennett, and her granddaughter have returned to their apartment after spending the Summer in Vemtnor, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Jeter of Hartford, Conn., are visiting Mrs. Jeter's mother, Mrs. E. E. Pabst, at her home at 4622 Fifteenth street. i Miss Earhart at Purdue. LAFAYETTE, Ind, September 19 | (#).—Amelia Earhart, noted woman fiyer, arrived at Purdue University in her “flying laboratory” airplane from North Platte, Nebr., this afternoon. She will stay at the school for six weeks to continue her experiments with the new airplane. She said she has several new devices to try out as well as something to work out in the way of new flying methods. British railways have ordered 369 locomotives, double the number now building. OLNEY, MD. ao..‘b-nm.lml N N White House, out Geurgio Avenve, astended LUNCHEONS—DINNERS NEW COCKTAIL BAR OWNED ana MANAGED by CLARA MAY DOWNEY SOCIETY. ° Rockville Social Notes Of the Week Miss Ella May Linthi- cum Bride of Mr. Henderson. OCKVILLE, Md, September 19—8t. Mary's Catholie Church, Rockville, was the scene Thursday morning of the marriage of Miss Ella May Lin- thicum, dsughter of Mrs. Nellle Faw- ley of Travilah, Md., and Mr. Francis Earl Henderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Henderson of Potomac, Md. The Rev. Pather Miltonberger, assistant pastor of Our Lady of Vic- tory Catholic Church, Conduit road, performed the ceremony in the pres- ence of a small assemblagt ‘The bride, who wore ‘s -gown of blue crepe, black hat and black shoes, was attended by her cousin, Miss Ma- bel Mossburg of Arlington County, Va, and Mr. Albert Henderson of Potomac, brother of the bridegroom, Was best man. Immediately following the cere- mony, breakfast was served in the home of the bride’s mother, only members of the two families being Ppresent. Miss Mary Elizabeth Farmer, Miss Mary Nicholson, Miss Martha Rick- etts and Mrs. Loraine Walker enter- tained at a shower in the home of Mr. Nicholson’s mother, Mrs. James Brawner Nicholson, in honor of Mrs. ‘William T. Nicholson, who recently returned from her wedding trip. Mr, and Mrs. Nicholson are making their home with the former’s mother until the completion of their new home in the western section of Rock- ville. Miss Catherine Smith, Rockville, sailed from New York a few days ago for & trip of several weeks, during which she will visit Panama and other places of interest. Mrs. William D. Clark entertained at two bridge parties in her home near Rockville during the week. Mr. Anderson Willlams of Pit WITH BENCH fleld, Mass., was & recent visitor in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. 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