The Washington herald., 1918-01-20

they won't forget for q long time
in which he declared he and his
people have an unwavering faith In
the power OF the United States tc
bring the war to a successful ter.
mination.
The list OF interesting newcomer.
to Washington grows with each
week; no, with each day. Among
the rather recent arrivals are Maj
and Mrs. C. D. Cheney. They are
staying at the Lafayette until they
the month OF the apartment which
they have leased from Mrs. W
Riley Deeble, at 1902 Eighteenth
street. Maj. Cheney is In the Or.
dnance Corps. o. r. c. They are
from Manchester. Conn. Mrs. Deeble
is planning to go South for the re-
mainder OF the winter.
The Cabinet women seem to be sin.
gularly quiescent just at present
Mrs. Daniels will return today from
Philadelphia, where she went with the
Daughters Of the Confederacy, fol
the luncheon given there yesterday
celebrating Lees birthday. Seems
funny for Philadelphia to be celebrat.
ing Lees birthday. doesn't st?
Mrs Baker was rather annoyed by
reports that her brothers wife, Mrs.
Ralph Leopold" was to arrive early in
the week from Cleveland for a con-
siderable stay; and then a few days
later an announcement that Mrs.
Ralph Leopold had arrived and would
be the Bakers house guest for a
while. Everybody was calling her up,
including Mrs. Leopold" in any invi-
tations that might be out to Mrs.
Baker, and offering various little hos
pitalities to Mrs. Bakers supposed
relative and guest. As a matter of
fact there is no Mrs. Ralph Leopold.
Ralph Leopold is a bachelor brother
of Mrs. Bakers, who did arrive and
spend a couple of days with them on
his way from Texas where he is in
structor in conservatory of music,
to Philadelphia where he was to play
at a concert. Mrs. Baker explained
that her brother had been in Germany
until the outbreak of the war drove
him home, and had been with them in
Cleveland until they came to Wash
ington, when he went down to Texas
to take this conservatory position, and
was simply passing through Wash
ington to keep an engagement to
take part in a Philadelphia orches-
ira concert. Mrs. Baker herself, by
the way, sang at Wilson Memorial
School Tuesday night at an entertain
ment given by the Civil Service Club
OF that community and tomorrow night
she Is to take part in a concert in the
navy celebration to be given at the
Billy Sunday Tabernacle.
Mrs. Baker had planned a little din
ner Tuesday night, for some of the
orchestra musicians who We're coming
up to practice with her brother, and
were to be kept to dinner-but that
OF course was knocked into a cooked
hat.
Mrs. Baker seemed to feel early in
the week that her brother,s really
playing at that concert was more or
less on the knees Of the gods, depend
ing on whether or not the Philadel-
phia Orchestra got dug out Of the
snowdrtft in which 1t was at that
time reported stuck somewhere in
Michigan" That was Tuesday. Her
brother was expected that evening
from the South. and he got here. But
the orchestra, which had been sched-
uled for concert right here in W..sh-
ington that afternoon, was snow
bound out in the Great Lake country,
though Its local representative hope
fully announced that he believed 1t
would be able to keep its next en-
gagement here on March 26!
That was certainly a relief to music
loving Washington. For the Phila-
delphia Orchestra is about the most
popular high-brow musical aggrega-
tion that comes here-and there was
a distinct feeling of relief when It was
learned that the Presidents enemy
alien proclamation making a barred
zone of the District of Columbia,
which shut out Muck and the Boston
did not affect seriously
the Philadelphia Orchestra. For Leo
pold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski-with
all that name-was an Englishmau
before he came to America; born in
London. graduated from Queens Col
lege, oxford, and even studied .instru-
in Paris rather than in
Germany. He has been over here for
more than a dozen years as director
or the choir Of st. Bartholomew's
(known as the Vanderbilts' church, in
New York, and as leader of the Gin
cfnnau Orchestra before he took the
Philadelphia Orchestra.
From all Of which 1t may be inferred
that he has no earthly objection to his
orchestra's playing the Star Spangled
Banner. And they certainly can play
~ and get more out of II than most
of US ever dreamed was In It. So
much 50 that one woman as she sat
down after 1t at his last concert here,