Evening star., 1922-09-03

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One OF the very old estates along
Rock creek and just above Pierce
mill, belonging to the Shoemaker
family and in their possession for
recently by Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Par
son Irwin, the latter formerly Miss.
Helen Blodgett, daughter of Mrs. De-
los Blodgett of 18th street. AS the
tract contains almost twenty-five
acres. those public-spirited men who
tracts. rather than city lots, In the
fine rolling country about the creek
are delighted The Irwins are to
erect spacious house and then to
use part of the timber land as a
park and preserve. with flower gar
remainder given over to dairy and
truck Produce. aft r the manner ~.
country estates in more populous CEN
ters. Glass houses for winter fruit
VIII be among the novelties attempt
cd and the more sumptuous flowers
of the south. like gardenias and jas
mines.
Mrs. Irwin is rather serious minded
and never exhibited a consuming in
terest in Vanity Fair. This particu-
lar section has many handsome
estates already established. Former
acres well planted facing the BROAD
Branch road and Mr.. John H. Bart
lett. second assistant postmaster gen
eral, is living ranch fashion on the
thoroughfare to the east. The Irwins
are to call the place Dumbarton Hill.
Many Washington friends have fol-
lowed with seme anxiety the attempt
which Baron Serge Korff is making
to re-enter Russia and to attend to
some pressing personal affairs. The
baron. who was of the imperial official
staff in Siberia, when the crash Of the
Romanoff throne startled the world.
was compelled to fly without a mo-
ments warning and with only such
articles as he could conveniently
carry. His wife, who is the daughter
of the former surgeon general of the
Navy. Admiral William X. Van Rey
pen and whose wedding here was a
brilliant event of some fifteen years
ago. was fortunately able to leave
Russia more comfortably. as she was
not in Siberia in that memorable
February. 1915
Since coming to this country four
years ago Baron Korff has taken out
the first papers for citizenship and
has accepted a professorship In the
School of Foreign Service of the
armed with papers from the State De-
partment that he Is attempting to set
foot on the soviet republic and to
save some remnant of his fortune.
The attitude of the world at recent
conferences in Genoa. and The Hague
inspires the hope that he will get
some semblance of justice through his
appeal. The baroness, after visit
to her parents, Admiral and Mrs. Van
Reypen at Quoque. l.. l.. has Joined
her husband. but awaits on the Polish
frontier. the news of his success in
nj ntaiy nil
He will at once begin legal proceed
ings for the recovery Of valuable
possessions. family papers. deeds and
other documents of great historic i'm
portance.
ST. Mortz is crowded to the last inch
and mostly by Americans, lured per-
haps by the hope Of catching glimpse
of the internationally celebrated lovers,
Miss Mathilde Mccormick and her rid
ing master and fiance. Max osler. Mr..
Mccormick and his bride are due at the
great hotel. the st. Moritz. toward the
end Of September. Among those who
have a villa well placed on the lake. the
lovely Constance Of song and story,
is the former Miss katherine Birney.
now Baroness Won Schoen. who has
been at the Swiss resort since the
1st of August. Baron Won Schoen was
able, for the first time since his mar
riage. in 1917. to take his American
wife to visit his parents in Munich.
After some six weeks in their fine
of the Bavarian capital. the v4n
Schoens took up their residence in s..
Moritz, where the Won Schoens have
owned the villa for several genera
tions.
Baron Won Schoen was attached to
married the daughter Of the late
Theodore Birney and his wife. the
latter well known and much beloved
for her philanthropic work. He was
then transferred to Mexico. where he
served all the time this country was
at war with Germany. Recently he
was attached to the German en-
bassy in Rome as frst secretary. but
is now on the waiting list and will. 1t
is presumed. soon be promoted to the
grade of minister. Baron Won Schoen
belongs to an old and opulent family.
the fortunes of which were not af-
fected by the war.
London theatergoers are chilled to
the very marrow of their bones by
the weird play of Mary Hoyt Wiborg.
called "Voodoo," which Mrs. Patrick
Campbell is presenting at the Black
pool. 1t is a negro tragedy and Is
reported to be as spooky as "The Bat"
which sent Washington audiences
home last winter utterly terrified and
unable to sleep. Mrs. Wiborg, who is
from Cincinnati and quite we'll known
here through her many visits to Mrs.
Taft. tried in vain to get her drama
produced in this country. but the fact
that the principal characters are of
the African race initiated against it.
Managers of f1rst-class theaters re-
fused it and in the negro playhouses
the subject is deemed too gruesome
and awe-inspiring to become pay
ing proposition. But Mrs. Wiborg,
who spends much time in the British
succeeded in interesting Mrs.
Campbell. and now--it is 1.-The rage.
though, being a mystery play and
the stage in darkness nearly all
it's length. il fails to draw
forth the handsomely clad audiences
usually in attendance at. Mrs. Camp
BELLS productions. -
All Of the younger members of the
royal family have gone to see
"Voodoo." for it touches new string
and gives the most exciting evening
of all London theaters of the month.
Seldom has the divergent viewpoint
between the British and their Amer
lean cousins been more apparent than
in the way in which England's fore
most actress has popularized some
thing which was refused from Maine
to California by American managers
of playhouses.
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