Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1936, Page 46

SOCIETY. About Well-Known Folk -In Books, Art and Politics Fanny Hurst Goes Campaign Shopping. Louise Foraker Cushman Presents Cush- man Relics to Folger Library. BY ROBERT CRAWFORD. ltlon of Independence and no end of == ANNY HURST says the way distinguished names and deeds in his F people are going around shop- | biography in the Congressional Direc- ping for political bargains this | tory, makes the simple statement: Fall is screamingly funny—end | “Democrat—Rhode Island”—which it quote—but she evidently has done @ | goes without saying means volumes in little bargain hunting herself and has | if 10 taken quite some spin in the present | Louise Foraker Cushman campaign, having forsaken some Of Donates Cushman Relics. the merchants who formerly served | The numerous friends in Washing- her. Of course Mrs. Alfred Mossman | ton of Mrs. Victor N. Cushman, s0 Landon does not have go bargain | weil-known as Louise Foraker, daugh- hunting, but will do her shopping &t i ter of the late Seuator Foraker of the old stand over which her hus-|Qhio, and a belle of several decades band is presiding. But if she does!payo, will be much interested in & do- ‘ot toss her hat into the struggle 'nation which she just recently made pretty soon some one will grab it-and | to the Folger Shakespeare Library. twirl it for her. Kansans say at iheiyt's a very interesting and delightful foot ball game out there the other ! collection of personal relics of Amer- ddy between her alma mater, the co-|jca’s most celebrated actress of the ed Washburn College of Topeka, and | nineteenth century, who was the idol the Kansas State University, her hus- | of not only the American theatergoing band's college, she stole the whole | puplic, but of many distinguished men show from the Governor when there | ynd women of letiers of her time, and was a wild tumult of applause as the who had the same ancestry as Mrs. crowd caught sight of her. Her dim- | Cushmau’s husband. Charlotte Cush- pling smile was too much, and it man—her grave still after more than was then an uproarous cry went forth, | g half-century since her death at- “We want Landon.” The women of tracts visitors to Trinity Churchyard, the United States are taking & major 'New York, where she is buried—was part in the present campaign and it is | descended from Robert Cushman, the natural for the public to want to see ' ancestor of Victor, who was instru- any prospective candidale for mistress | mental in making possible the voyage of the White House. The President of the Mayflower to America in 1620. may be supreme in the executive office, | Finding the little vessel overcrowded but when one enters the door of the | Le gave up his place to some one else mansion, it is the wife of the Presi-| angd sailed later on. It was this Rob- dent who makes the enterlainments ert who is said to have preached the & success, whether private or public, | first sermon to be printed in America. Fanny Hurst Made Good }Pfl'hnpfl it was from this ancestor As Waitress and Saleswoman. that Charlolte got her histrionic But to go back to Fanny Hurst: She | genius. o has always done her shopping first | It seems In 1932 Mrs. Cushman hand when it came to any problem | made available to the library a good or subject in which she was interested, | deal of interesting material relating leaving nothing to the figment of her | {o the actress. Dr. Joseph Quincy brain. When she has wanted ma-|Adams of South Carolina—not of terial for a novel or magazine article | Massachusetts—who is director of the she has always gone to the fountain | Folger Library, is much elated over source and taken an active part. When | this last gift of Mrs. Cushman’s as she wanted material for a novel or he says it makes the Folger-Cushman story about certain conditions in ocean | collection the most important of its travel, she made a trip across the At- | kind in the world. It consists of por- lantic in the steerage. When she ! trails, photograph slbums—fascina- wanted to know & bit about Bolshevik | ting they are—programs, prompt Russia, she set forth and looked ! hooks, lusterware cup plates and sev- them over. She never wriles about eral albums of testimonials presented shop girls, waitresses or other work- | to Miss Cushman for her service to ing women while sitting at an elegant | hygiene in the War Between the mahogany desk with luxurious sur-| States, and containing the autographs roundings, but has always gone 0“"0! President and Mrs. Lincoln and and taken an active part in the work | many noted men and women of the itself. Modeling and mannequins be- | time, ing a subject of lively discussion just|dell Holmes—at whose house Char- now between professionals and debu- | jotte was often entertained—Long- tantes, it will be recalled that Panny ; fellow, Emerson and others. A pro- Hurst was awarded a $50,000 prize by | gram showing Edwin Booth in the a cinema corporation for her story, | cast. 'hl:l::::dq:h\. This she Wrote from | (o oo it of Charlotte Miss Grace Abbott, known through- | Cushman i the Collection. out the civilized world for her nernc” ‘The outstanding gift in the collec- in the interests of women and chil- | tion is Sully’s portrait of Charlotte dren and who for 14 years was head | in her early teens, in ‘which her sunny of the United States Children's Bu- |face and witching eyes are portrayed reau in Washington, seems to have fin- | in all their loveliness. This is just ished her Fall shoppiig aud an- | the head coiffed in some light, soft nounces that she is first and aways | material, the hair drawn away from 8 Nebraskan, and after that—this | the fac Fall—a Progressive Republican. S(!p-!llld shadows which Sully knew s0 ping out with Miss Abbott is Dr.! well how to use to bring out some dis- Valeria Parker, the noted physician, | tinguishing feature—in this portrait writer and social hyglenist; going |1t is the eyes which were said to be along with them hunting bargalns on | $0 remarkable. There is in the collec- the Democratic counter is one of | tion s miniature, “Study of Charlotte the gold spoon guild, Mrs. Eva San- | Cushman’s Eye” painted in Rome by derson Child, former wife of Mr. Rich- ({8 Mrs. Young. Another miniature ard Washburn Child, Ambassador to | which is by Silly, when Miss Cush- Italy under the Harding-Coolidge |Man was more mature is set in an regime and author of that most read- | old-fashioned hair bracelet made from able biography of II Duce, in the | the hair of Fanny Kemble. The little The signatures of Oliver Wen- | and the lovely charm of light i writing of which Mrs. Child assisted | She maintains delightful es- him. tablishments at Newport, New York and in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Peter Gerry Is Still Mrs. Vanderbilt in h Carolina. It's very amusing and sometimes eonfusing that down in Asheville, N.C., where the magnificent George Van- derbilt estate and the home industries which he and his wile established some years ago, Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry is still called by & number of | the people “Mrs. Vanderbilt.” and to her devoted admirers and the recip- dents of her bounty down there she will always be that. Her marriage to the junior Senator from Rhode Island, after the death of her first | husband, has not changed her former status with them. The fact, however, that Mr. Gerry is a Democrat goes & long way to reconcile them to her spending so much time out of the | State. luster plates which were specially a small head of Shakespeare entwined |in the decoration. While the history of the theater shows that it has not been unusual | for severul members of a family to take part in the same play, it re- mained for Charlotte and her beau- tiful sister, Susan Cushman, to play opposite each other in male and female parts. Their most noted performance together was when Susan played Juliet to Charloite’s Romeo. The London Times of the '40's pronounced i Charlotte’s Romeo far superior o any | ever seen in England and Susan a | | beautiful and soulful Juliet. Over in | the National Museum—the old mu- | | seum—packed away in mothballs, is ! the costume Charlotte wore when she | | played the part of Cardinal Wolsey, | one of her greatest triumphs, and the black velvet gown she wore in the part of Katherine, Henry VIII's first | made for her by admirers, have each | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON Among the Recent Brides | Nelson Bradshaw of Chevy Chas Tuesday in Cumberland, Md. to the museum by Mrs. Allerton S.I Cushman of the same family. Charlotte Cushman always said that she was & born tomboy and took | | naturally to male characterizations. | She was a great lover of horses and | ardent horsewoman. When fn | ngland she rode to hounds and de- | scribes realistically in her letters and | memoirs a chase over the Campagya | |at Rome. When she donned riding | { togs they must have seemed a part | of her for there is'a delightful picture | | of her in the Victor Cushman collec- | | tion at the Folger, showing her in the part of Lady Gay Spanker. {Silver Tea to Aid D.A.R. Chapter Work The Col. James McCall Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolu- { tion will opén its Fall activities with | & silver tea Sunday, October 25, in the home of the regent, Mrs. Claude | Allen Cook, at No. 8 Baltimore road, | Silver Spring, Md. Proceeus frem this event will be used to further the chap- | ter's educationul and patriotic work | Slate and national officers will be | present. | ‘The committee in charge of ar- ;rmxemmu is headed by he regent, Mrs, Cook, and includes Mis. A. J. Slaugkter, Mrs. Orren F. Hunter, Mrs | Horace Woolf, Miss Catherine 1Ll | Mrs, Laurence White, Mrs, Wairen | Shantz, Mrs. Jasper M. Beall. Miss | I. E. Allmond, Mrs. F. E. Ballard, Miss O. Keiley, Miss Sarah Johnston, Mr. | F. Miller, Miss M. Moler, Mrs. Rita Nicholson, Mrs. Dorothy Roberts, Mrs. Alton_Schreiber. Mrs. L. Snyder and Mrs. Paul Wuttke. Miss Emily Nicklas And Fiance Honored Dr. and Mrs. Edward Wilson Nicklas { were hosts at a dinner party at the | Shoreham last evening for Dr. Nicklas' sister, Miss Emily Nicklas, whose mar- riage to Mr. James W. Buffingion will take place at 4 o'clock tomorrow after noon at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Foxhall Village. ‘The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Danicl 8, Terrell, Mr. and Mrs, Ray- mond Matson, Miss Edith Smith, Miss Eileen Yoder, Mr. John Raymond Buffington and Mr. Robert Buffington. By the way—lawyers, of course, Queen. These costumes were presented know—it was not discovered until re- cently by a frequent visitor to th new Supreme Court Building that th splendid law library in the Justices’ Library there, which comprises some | 30,000 volumes, was willed to the Su- preme Court by the late Elbridge T. Gerry, father of the Senator. 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During the last week, several groups of friends of the orchestra were actively engaged in extending the symphony’s regular following, and the result of their efforts points to audi- ences that will fill the large concert hall for each of the 20 programs announced by Dr. Hans Kindler, con- ductor of the orchestra. Princess Ourusoff, who heads the Box Committee, reported at the end of the week that many of the box accommodations for both Sunday and midweek series of concerts have been reserved, and with the aid of her committee she expects to fill all avail- able box space before the opening concert, October 25. Two groups of season-ticket com- mittees met last week. The National Symphony's Suburban Committee met D. 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