Evening star., 1921-06-26
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life

I Importance in two great cities con.
Germs the detection OF Marshall Field
Sd. from the late city to New York.
was an acknowledged belle and the
| only daughter of the late Charles H.
Marshall Mr.. Field has purchased
vast estate on Long Island and IL
about to erect a mansion which will
neighbors. Mrs. Field, like all New
Workers., suffered keenly from home.
sickness and could never reconcile
herself to the exile. The death Of her
father and the fact that she In the
natural companion of her mother led
I cago society is quite affronted, es-
| pecially since the Fields have sold
| their wonderful home on Lakeside
Drive to Mrs. Philip d. Armour and
1t is evident that they will center
| their business interests only in the
shall was Miss Josephine Banks and
| has been power in the Long Island
set since her girIhood. She is a re.
| markably handsome woman in the
early f1fties, and now that her son-in-
| law and daughter have become per-
| manent dwellers in her section she
| will assume her social leadership
| again.
Long Island is now the serious rival
OF Newport, and so excellent a Judge Of
what social life should be, Mrs. William
Il Vanderbilt, jr., has entirely deserted
| the stately resort for the Southampton
district, where there are abundant at
fractions, among them plenty Of men
| from one end Of the summer to the
other. None Of the famous Vanderbilt
| villas in Newport will be occupied by
| their owners this season. Mrs. o. H.
| p. Belmont. who still retains the title to
the one she used during her queenship
as Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, ST.. has
| leased it to a Cleveland millionaire.
while she has set all the tongues wag-
ginE by renting the modest little cottage
down near the life-saving station
where DR.. and Mrs. Joseph Blake have
lived for several summers. Mrs. Bel
| mont expects the Duchess of Marl-
borough. now the dowager duchess. to
pass the summer with her. but she has
explained that both her daughter and
herself are content with simple living
and lofty thinking during the heated
term. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and
| Mrs. Payne Whitney have fine homes
in Newport. but both will spend the
summer in Southampton. Among the
Washingtonians who are established
there are the Robert NJ. Thompsons and
the Edison Bradleys. Mrs. H. H. Rog-
! ers has taken possession of her home
near Roslyn and will entertain through
| the summer many Of the friends she
formed during her residence in Wash
| ington.
The Italian ambassador, Signor Ricci,
| who passed several days in New York
while the beautiful fiesta at the Frank
c. Henderson home, Villa Marina, at
Roslyn. was being prepared for the
benefit of free milk for Italian babes.
has expressed the greatest admiration
for this part of the world. The fete
was worthy of one of the old pageants
in Versailles or Trianon, and the dense
| .11ayc ad hx the h,Db-c1inned hed0eQ
were easily transformed into court
scenes and tableau settings, while the
open garden was respiendent as Boule-
wards des Italiennes in Paris with in
umbrellas and where the daintiest sort
| OF French dinners could be ordered. Mrs.
Henderson secured, through the good
offices of the French consul. the pres
ence Of Georges Carpenter. and. though
the French champion did nothing more
spectacular than wave French flag.
his mere presence sent the price Of
! everything on the grounds soaring up
ward. Thousands of dollars were poured
into the fund and the committee in
charge are certain that the suffering
children of Italy are provided for dur
ing the heated term. But what inn
pr ressed the Italian ambassador pro-
foundly was the beauty Of the spec
tacle and the grace and affability OF the
company where an admittance was
| asked and where all classes could enter.
All those in attendance behaved ex-
actly as the courtiers would at a royal
assembly.
Mr.. Basil Blackett, who was an i'm
portant figure on the British embassy
staff all through the war and who was
the special representative Of the British
treasury during Lord Readings sojourn.
has recently been knighted. and as Sir
Basil Blackett, is the controller Of
finance in the treasury department in
Whitehall. Sir Basil spent much time
in New York in consultation with the
bankers there, but he had quarters in
the Metropolitan Club here for more
than three years. He belongs to an old
family of baronets in northumberland.
the title being vested at present in his
eldest brother, Sir William Blackett.
He is the cousin and the close friend Of
i Lord Eustace Percy, and frequently as
sisted him in the Boy Scout activities.
His eminent services to the British
crown pertaining to the American loan
were the immediate cause Of his being
honored with the knight Commander
ship OF the Order of the Bath.