Evening star., 1923-10-21
Tales Of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
beautiful New White House, Keepins Tradition.
Hallowed Rooms of Old, Designed by
San Franciscan.
San Franciscan.

A qulckening of interest in the
White House seems apparent all over
the country since the thirtieth Presi-
dent and his family took up their
residence, and, whether they desire it
or not. some eminent architects and
artists are determined to have a new
mansion, more spacious and commo-
dious than that erected by James Hoz
han between 1898 and 1897. The So
ciety of the Partisan Institute of
Beaux Arts, architects, which includes
the most eminent in the profession,
has offered two handsome prizes for
the best model for enlargement of the
4 white House on the present lines, and
the first has gone to Mr.. Lee Romotis
i OF San Francisco. Mr.. Romotis has
i produced a marvellous building, fol-
lowing Mr.. Hoban's plan, but with
the roof lifted to obliterate the small
windows of the third half floor in the
front. but with abundant light and
ventilation provided in three other
directions. The wings extend on
ne floor and will remove the present
1lces entirely to the south of the pres
ut building and the additional space is
gwen to salons and corridors, now so
much needed for an official world
which has increased twenty-fold since
the Dublin architect planned for state
levees. One admirable feature is that
not an inch of the present home. hal
lowed by SO many memories, VIII be
affected either in size or arrange
ment. The familiar lobby with the
great seal of state in the floor, and
which opens into the state drawing
rooms and dining room, will remain
just as 1T has been, as three genera
tions of Americans remember and
hove visited it.
While Washington has been the
scene of recent important interna-
tfonal wedding, one has been staged
in London and at least one or two
others are impending. Miss Edith
Mary Prendergast, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Arthur Prendergast, for
merly of st. Paul Mimi, but for many
years residents of the British capital.
was married in st. Georges Church,
Hanover Square, two weeks ago to
Sir Timothy Eden and has gone to
Bucks Lady Eden is still in her
teens and was regarded as one of
the loveliest maids who made her
bow to Queen Mary last spring. Mr..
Prendergast owns fine estate on
rhe Isle of Wight and always enter
tains royalty during the aquatic
sporting events. Lord Leigh of Stone
leigh Abbey, in Warwickshire head
Of the historic house founded by
Charles Brandon, and so graphically
depicted in when Knighthood Was
IN Flower will be married early in
daughter of the late Alexander Camp
bell of New York and of Mrs. Will
liam Converse of Boston. Miss Camp
bell has been living in London for
the past ten years and her home in
.Iermyn Court has always attracted
her visiting country people. Lord
Leigh is in the early sixties and looks
the typical English squire. being
fond of the hunt, and during three
fourths of the year lives practically
\ In the saddle. He is the brother of
the eminent barrister, Hon. Rowland
Leigh. who married Miss Mabel Cor
don, daughter of Gen. w. w. Gordon
of Atlanta Ga, of Confederate army
fame. Their pretty daughter. Miss
Peggy Leigh, has been frequently the
guest of her cousin, Mrs. Richard
Wayne Parker, in her Washington
home.
Prince Alexis, the son of Prince
Alexander OboIenski, who during the
first years of the world war acted as
president of the Muscovite Red Cross
and was so intimately associated with
the Secretary of Commerce, Mr.
Hoover, in aiding suffering Europe, is
about to make his debut on the Ameri-
Prince Alexis has recently arrived in
New York and will make some per-
Sonal visits in Washington before be-
ginning his professional career. AS
a youth he possessed a fine voice,
which, now that the soviet govern
ment has stripped him of every
vestige of his once vast fortune, he is
have been grand mobiles of Russia for
500 years. and Prince Alexander.
father of the concert singer, was most
liberal minded politically and was