Evening star., 1923-12-07
TALKS and TALES
Fith and 4bout
CAPITALS GUESTS
IS VIC live We grow. "

a s VIC live We grow.
Time was. and not so far back, that
certain of the citys most fastidious,
especially among the rich and grand.
when in search OF fineries. looked
with disdain upon Washington estab-
lishments. and If asked what local
shop they usually patronized would
become highly indignant and as
rule, reply: Really, I find shopping
in Washington perfectly abominable.
Aside from u few necessaries for the
house ! buy everything l wear either
in New York or Baltimore"
That day has gone-gone with
many other little ten-twenty-and-
thirty-cent small-town drawbacks
that used TO permit the great heart
of the nation to be referred To as
provincial, for with the remarkable
growth of the District following the
outbreak of the war no greater
strides were taken than those by the
stores OF our city.
Not only has this fact demonstrated
10 the most particular of Washington
the folly of going elsewhere for
fashions and materials. but has been
the means of drawing hundreds of
outsiders to the city, until today it
from nearby communities strolling
through our great department stores
in quest Of the latest
Only yesterday when entering the
Hotel Washington who should be en-
countered starting for F street but
stately Julia Lydig Hbyt, who made
such a hit as Clarina in The Red
Hawk" at the GarricE last week.
Gracious Sakes alive. Miss Hoyt,
what are you doing here now was
asked the former GDCicCv leader =
she made for her motor.
Lust woman's failing. smiled the
dark-eyed one with d tug at her
glove. You see. when we were here
last week ] spied certain fruck in
one of your shops which greatly APP
pealed to me. At first ] resisted buy
ing il. but after going TO Baltimore.
where We are this week, 7 felt l
must have 1t and motOred over today
TO make the purchase.
What do you think OF our shops?"
was then asked as the other glove
was pulled on.
Wonderful They compare ia
Torably with the best in the country.
Oh Washington is so marvellous in
every respect. and the New Yorker
sighed.
As hers was not tai, no COM
pulsion was felt in delaying the ac-
tress long enough to learn that she
loves country life. has county
place. Mulberry Corner. at Woodbury.,
bury, l.. j.. which was built in l75I
and is mentioned in the history o.
wrapped up in her work she ha-
little time TO spend there. Miss hoy,
furnished this house herself %ID,
early American furniture, as she dio
her new studio. The Stable. in Nc
Douglas alley. New York city.
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Should the young man behind the
desk display a bit OF peey yishness
when you return to your hotel to-
night, or seem impatient while lis
tening to that bum joke you've Caved
all day for him, don't chalk it up TO
lll-humor. temperament or dysp@p-
Sia but remember that this is the
night OF the Greeters' ball az the
Wardman Park Hotel, when several
hundred OF the city's hotel forces,
with their best girls, VIII sing, dance
and make merry.
The Greeters of America is an in
ternational organization composed Of
soIne 2l5 charters in the United States
and Canada. with a total membe berShip
of more than 5000. and the enter
tainment tonight is being held under
the auspices of the Washington Char
ter. of which Russell Conn. assistant
manager OF the Shoreham Hotel, is
president
Mr.. Conn, Morgan English. assistant
manager of the New Willard. and
fattgably to make the dance a sue
cess, and judged by the advance sale
OF tickets the local organization.
which attends 10 the welfare of hotel
employees, will he greatly benefited.
Besides the dancing, which will be
the principal feature Of the enter
tainment, EthelWyn Johnson. western
premier danseuse. and Gladys Wilbur,
q noted interpretive dancer, will give
special numbers. Boerustein's Orches-
IRA will supply the music.
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With thoughts still set on interpre-
tive dances, stadium demonstrations
and the like, a skip around to the
Hotel La Fayette was made just in
time to catch Katherine Tingley,
leader and official head of the Uni
versal Brotherhood and Philosophical
Society of the World, with thirteen of
servatory of Art, Music and Drama,
Theosophical University. Point Iona.
Calf, registering at the house.
Accompanying the lecturer on her
trip TO Washington. where plans call
for al least two performances from
THE Aroma OF Athens" A Greek
symposium or Athenian flower fes-
tival. possibly at the city Club, is
musical director and pianist, fresh
from London. Rollins enga cement
will be his first public appearance in
America. He, too, is at the La
ayette.
Speaking of music. the head of the
Theosophical Society said, Music is
often regarded as an amusement a
relaxation and nothing more At
Point Iona II becomes a part of life
itself. and one of those subtle forces
OF nature, which, rightly applied,
calls into activity the divine powers
of the soul. There is held 10 be an i'm
1neRsc correspondence between music
on the one hand and thought and
aspiration on the other; and only
that deserves the name Of music to
which the noblest and purest aspira-
tions are responsive"
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Hot-footing over to the Lee House
20 beat the rain. Elwood J. Turner of
Chester, Pa. lawyer and prominently
mentioned as the next president of In
rsrnational kiwanis, was met in the
doorway with the same purpose in
mind.
The jovial Pennsylvania had hard
~ finished telling of the wonderful
prosperity now being enjoyed in his
part of the state when newsboyS