The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-03-20

a lawn of green velvet and a sun diaL''
It seemed a far cry from Broadway, and I
the actors work 70 this home OF his, and 1
as I was welcomed by Mr.. and Mrs 1
Faversham, my first question was. rs /
it really true that this is your country !
home. and how did you find it?'
Then I heard a pretty story, page (
out of d hitherto unpublished romance /
Faversham, as a young boy, lived at 4
Working. village a few miles distant +
He often rode 20 hounds, following the
mace at Chiddingfold and in his boys
mind was an intense admiration for this
manor house. with its shady park
stretching beyond the rose garden, and
the tantalizing high brick walls that hid
the orchard and vegetable gardens II
seemed to the young Faversharn, The
ideal of a home and he often built cas-
ties in Spain as he galloped past or m
gered 10 admire the old stable yard.
where in his boylsh mind he still saw
the knights OF Elizabeth's day gathering
over the stone Pavements,
But America and the stage called hiF'-
and not until two years ago did ne turn
his way toward the Surrey country
Then he had almost forgotten the great
white house in ivy. To his surprise on
visiting Julie OPP and her mother, he
found that they had taken this very
house, and when the following January
his marriage 10 Miss OPP took place.
they acquired possession or the estate
as their future country homestead So
the rese garden in the ~Old Manor had
a new chapter of interest added to It's
already well seasoned pages Of romance
Elizabethan and Georgian.
The house is in part early Eiizabethan.
with wings added TO 1t Of the Georgian
period. The front is entirely covered
with ivy. II chambers into the win
dows. tenaeiously elinE;s 70 roofs and
drags its green leaves triumphantly over
bricI, and wood. and even tries TO push
/ its way into the erevices Of the doors
leading TO the main hall
! To ny great pleasure. through letters
of introduction, II had been arranged
that 1 was TO stay over week end
/ a typical English Saturday 10 MONDAY
] AS / stood entTanced By the beauty OF
the green and white Georgian hall the
/ tea gong called us to the garden
Under the rose arbor L found assem-
bled representative gathering of beau
~. brains. and social charm Ethel Bar
rvmore. in a lavender crepe gown Wltn
a face far more beautiful under her vio-
llet hat than any stage picture has ever
given her laughingiy played Badminton
with Anthony Hope while the haunting
| ..Dick Helder." Forbes Robertson, Of
| Einling's Light That Failed, talked
bforeign politics with Spencer Eddy, one
NJ our attaches at ConstantinOple- Ea-
earIv excited at Il game of crOQuet were
Harry AInIey. Gertrude Elliott CMrs-
Forbes Robertson) Mrs, Craigie John
Oliver Hobbs, and Harrison Rhodes.
There they played and talked in this
walled garden centuries old, with
lapcient trees-one a thousand years old
Here was the latest venture of Mrs.
lFaversham in gardening. a large bed
Of exquisite standard roses, with car
net of white pansies. While close to
the back Of the house flaming beds Of
nasturtiums flowed, and the weather
beaten sun dial redoIent of the lords
land ladies CT yester-year brooded ike
a white ghost over its present day set
ting
The Home and the Stage
The life Mr.. and Mrs. Faversham lead
in this Surrey hamlet forms direct
antithesis TO their lives in the new
world The busy player of eight per-
formances a week. rehearsals. study.
!
we find here Faversham transformer
into an English squire. directing MS
stables, personally experimenting the
! haying, and the presiding spirit over
r the strawberry beds that are the Won
Z der of the country side for miles about.
] w.,ile in the hennery he proudly points
( to a hen as curious and interesting as
= Emily" in owen Wister's The VIZ
t ginian.
Dinner at the old manor was heralaeo
e Inv a soft toned dressing bell halI an
] hour before, and when l descended 10
T the low ceiled. oak-beamed dining room'
= with its setting of Elizabethan furni-
ture the windows looking over the gar
lden the beauty OF the place allee me
with glows OF appreciation. What stories
: of mast romance might the yawnlns
!, bsartb reveal-a hearth where great
\ trees trunks were nightly offered 10
: bring cracking cheer TO the merry
= eroups about us over the fireplace IN
old English letters is the motto Bet
, ter dinner of herbs where love is,
; than stalled OK and hatred herewith
When dinner was over we adjourned
, 10 the library. a room which also IN It's
!, furnishings held US in the sixteenth
2 century atmosphere. 1t seems 70 ms
| that the motto of the library hearth
Il East. West Homes Best gave ms
q the keynote 10 the wonderful peace en-
veloping a guest OF the Favershams al
n the sold Manor" And when towaF'
S, midnight with lighted tapers We mad'