The Washington herald., 1920-08-08
CoNr1NUEp FROM PAGE TWO.


is invariably to be counted on.
The early autumn season will be
Ushered in by the interesting
gathering OF foreigners who will
come from all quarters to attend
the preliminary Interpational Com
munieations Conference, scheduled
for September. The japanese dele
gates, the first to arrive for this
important conference, came to
Washington a week or so ago and
from now on through August fur
ther additions to the assemblage Of
foreigners are to be looked for up
until the big conference in Novem-
Der. As many of these will be en-
tertained by members of the various
embassy STATS, especially in trips
in and about the city, the Capital
will take on an unwonted air of
sayety for this time of the year.
H. c. Wells, the famous British
novelist, will come to this country
next month as one OF the English
representatives. at the tercentenary
celebration Of the landing OF the
Pilgrim Fathers. The delegation
will sail from England aboard the
Caronia on September "a, according
to present plans Marshal Foch. 1t
ton before many moons. And then
there are many other notables sure
to come that We haven't heard are
planning such . trip yet
SIR THOMAS LIPToN's
VISIT NOT MADE.
The promised visit from Sir
Thomas Upton didn't materialize.
He was expected at the British
Embassy for a few days once the
yacht races were over but the races
took so long in getting over he
didn't get down here at all.
4 number of the small informal
parties OF last week centered
around two interesting visitors,
Frederic and Fanny Hatton, who
came here to see the opening Of
their new play, The Checkerboard-"
II was at that opening that the
Peruvian Ambassador and Nine.
PeZet gave a party, as 1 told you.
Others there the opening night were
several members of Mrs. Wilson's
family. including Mr.. and Mrs. Rolfe
EOIling and their sOn-in-law and
daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Boyd,
Of Panama, and Mrs. Alexander
Hunter Gait: also J. E. Lefevre,
"harge daffaires Of the Panama
Legation; Viscount and Viscountess
Henri de Sibour, Col. Clarence Rid
ley. the Presidents aide, and a
number of others of note.
The Hattons seem to have an end
less string of friends here; l never
saw anything like it! Every time
turned around last week l ran
with them, or dined them, or been
to some sort of a party to meet
them They were both newspaper
people before they married and be
came successful playwrights. The
play Spanish Love-" to be here this
week. us bringing to town today
Mary Roberts Rinehsrt who wrote
the play. l have been told she is
going to be in town all week and
that she calls her play a COMEDY
with music" Speaking of plays,
pretty Theresa Crosson, daughter
of DR.. and Mrs II. J. CrOsson, who
will make her social debut this win
ter, will make her stage debut this
evening at the Shubert-GarriCk in
The Misleading Lady" with Irving
cummings as the shining star. Her
sister Margaret who was one OF
the most popular debutantes Of last
winter, and who has played several
lines with the GarriCk Players, Will
also have a part this week. They
are both extremely pretty girls and
are granddaughters Of the late
lanes G. Blaine.
DOUGLAS CRAWFORD,
)F ENGLAND. VISITOR.
Another visitor of interest here
iast week was Douglas Crawford.
# England. who is spending a year
here studying our election meth
DDS sHe is on the staff of the Lon
lon Daily Mail. a number of the
big Britishers who are in Ottawa
attending the Imperial Press Con
ference held there-there are about
$50 in all are planning to visit
Washington before long and will
bc entertained. I'm pretty sure. by
the British Ambassador. Among
rNcm are Lord Burnham, Sir Harry
Britain. Lord Riddle, Sir Campbell
stuart. whom we already know, and
others I can't recall just now.
By the way. l heard an interest
ing story from the Capitol the
other day. though the Capitol isn't
the prolific source of stories that
IL was a few days ago and will be
few months hence. II seems that
william Tyler Page, clerk of the
House and one of the oldest en-
ployes in point of service around
the Capitol. had a wedding ami
versary. To celebrate the event his
colleagues presented him with
historic old hat tree that had been
around the Capitol when Mr.. Page
first came there as a page boy, and
probably years before.
The gift was a complete surprise.
Mr. Page had often expressed a de-
sire to own the old piece of furni
turc, but had thought 1t was going
to Kentucky to be installed in
Henry Clay's old home. In fact, the
men in his Office had held a fake"
sishursing clerk, outbid Mr.. Page
and the other bidders. Without
knowing 1t, Mr.. Page was bidding
against himself and the higher he
went the higher went the price his
friends had to pay for the hat tree.
HAT TREE BECOMES
CAPITOL LANDMARK.
The exact date when the old hat
tree first came to the Capitol,
mutely offering its pegs to the
great men then in the House, is
unknown. Probably it was first in
stalled in the early forties, when
in the House. following his term in
the White House. and Henry Clay
was in the Senate. 1t is believed to
be the last piece of furniture in
the Capitol used by Clay and his