The Washington herald., 1918-07-07

for the season. The Phillips estate,
known as the Moraine Farm, il the
summer home OF the William Phillips
at North Beverly. Mrs. Phillips left
here today to rejoin her children there
for a while. She says that Mr.. Phil
lips can't get away until some time
in September. The Reginald de Ko-
vens are among the Nahant cottagers
this summer. Last season they were
at Manchester and the season before
at Beverly.
Mrs. William Boardman and Miss
Mable Boardman have opened their
summer home at Manchester this sum-
mer. The Joseph Letters have been
Joined at their place at Beverly by
I Mrs. Letters sister, Mrs. John Pit
ney. wife of Capt. Pitney now in
France.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Frederick H. Prince,
jr.. have as their guests at their cot
tage at Wineham, the Misses Harding,
daughters of W. p. G. Harding. and
sisters of Mrs. Prince. Lieut. Prince
is a brother of Norman Prince who
lost his life while flying for France
Talking Of summer homes. I want
to repeat a description Of Pablo
Casals' summer retreat on the shores
Of the Mediterranean as Louis Siegel,
a close friend of his told It Casals
Is going to return to this country.
according to his present plans, much
earlier than last year: about October,
believe. for he is to make a long
concert tour in this country and South
America. I think Washington may
be lucky enough to hear him first,
perhaps early in November. The gen.
eral Washington public has not had
the privilege of hearing that wonder
ful 'cellist in a number Of years
though he played here last winter,
with Mary Garden at Mrs. Thomas T.
Gaffs house for the benefit Of the
British-American war relief fund.
Louis Siegel is also an artist Of much
ability; is a very clever violinist, and
we are also to have the pleasure of
hearing him here in concert next fall.
He is we'll worth hearing. He lives
in New York, but just now is visiting
his family at their home near Roches-
ter, N. Y.
Louis Siegel SAYS:
The blue Mediterranean. where he
lay.
Lulled by the coil of his crystalline
streams,
Beside a pumice isle in Balae's Bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and
towers
iQuivering within the waves inten-
ser. day"
cannot do better than to quote
these lines Of Shelley as a begin
ming to an attempt at describing the
place In which Pablo Casals, the
famous Spanish 'cellist, spends his
summers. 1t is of his life in his
own home that I wish to give a
picture. But it will be difficult to
approach the splendid reality Of the
glorious days that 1 have spent
there,
Each year Mr.. Casals returns from
his arduous winters work to his
own home near Barcelona in Spain,
a haven of beauty and rest, that
brings to him renewed vigor and
musical inspiration. His villa is
situated on the sands of the Medi-
terranean. thirty yards away from
the water. No more ideal spot
can be imagined than that in which
rests this wide. low house, gleam-
ing white against its background
or green hills and its setting of the
sapphire sea.
Directly in back Of 1t are the long
vineyards of the estate and. very
near, Mount Serrat raises its sheer
peak against sky that competes
with the Mediterranean for depth
ana brightness of color. The rambl-
Ing vertndahs overlook natural