The Washington times., 1919-07-27

] dressed up like Christmas trees when
| they attend official functions.
Mabel Kip Lewis
Back in America.
A week or two ago told you some
thing of Mabel Kipp Lewis work as &
Red Cross director of entertainment
| in France. She herself reached
America last Monday. and is with her
mother, Mrs. Eden Kipp, at 1740 Riggs
| place, and is full of interesting de-
| tails of her work over there. After
! the institutions for convalescent sol
diers in her territory were closed,
about the middle of May, she availed
| herself of the opportunity to travel
through Brittany and Belgium, and
visited the battlehelds of scissors
and the Chemin des Danes district,
and saw the heartbreal<ing ruins Of
| the great Rheims Cathedral. She re-
| turned to the United States on a
transport with $500 trops, keeping
up her welfare work while on board.
Another returned traveller whose
work has been in the line of enter
tainment is Miss Vera Barstow, a
I New York and Philadelphia society
girl, who has made so good as a pro-
| fessional violinist that she has APP
peared under StokowskPs direction
with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
which is going some for a society
girl. They so rarely go in for things
as seriously as that even if they
have the talent.
She has been over for some time as
a member of the Overseas Theater,
organized by 'the profession" and
made up of real musical and dramatic
stars, people Of real professional
achievement-the same organization,
for instance that Elsie Janis be-
longed to. In fact, they came home
together only a few weeks, ago, and
are full of the wonderful experience
they have had. Why Miss Barlow
but there! 1 haven't time, and il
get launched on her adventures,
won't know when to stop. Get Jessie
MacBride to tell you about them.
VIII Make Vaudeville
Debut In Washington.
One things sure, the experience of
singing to the boys who were fighting
to make the world safe for democracy
has had a democratizing effect on her,
and she has decided to go into vaude-
Vile, and has picked out Washington
for her debut. She is opening tonight
at Keith's, and I would not miss IL for
good many others who feel that way
| about II. and some well-known New
Workers. and Philadelphians, some of
whom have not been in Washington
since their men folks gave up their
dollar-a-year pobs, are coming down
not merely from New York and
Philadelphia-but from their summer
retreats, to give prestige to the
launching. Which is what call gen.
uine devotion.
That by the way, reminds me that
Ethel Camp, Nine. Emil Hugh, Of
Berne, Switzerland, she is now, is On
her way home to make an extended
visit to her mother, Mrs. A. z. Camp,
Of this city. So Washington can add
another singer to its list of attrac-
lions. She is due to land tomorrow
and she has written an amusing ac-
count of the amount OF red tape she
had to cut before she was allowed to
come, from which one gathers that
1t is anything but q simple thing to
travel overseas these days.
Being married to a Swiss may have
been some of the difficulty, or per-
haps it is just the regular procedure.
Anyhow, Here Il
Story She Tells.
At any rate she writes an interest
ing. account of it all This is her
story:
THE steps one must take to get
permission to leave Switzerland, cross
France and then the ocean," she
writes, "are many and various. After
taking a few useless ones just to find
out where really must begin, 1 was
told that 1 had first OF all to get the
written permission Of my husband
before anything could be done.
IT had begun with the American
consulate, was sent to the Guild for
my papers, and from there to the
police for preliminary documents,
which couldn't be delivered until the
chief of our quarter made out a piece
OF paper-which he said he couldn't