Evening star., 1923-04-01
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Flowers of Many Hues Will Appear Throughou
Capital During Celebration of Glorious
Easter Tide

| more, near williamsburg. is about to
be purchased by the Historical So
ctety Of Virginia. The Mrs Lawrence
Lewis of today is a keen sportswoman
and Il fearless rider She belongs to
AL the hunt clubs. Of Virginia where
| she passes part OF the year and is
an enthusiastic golfer and tennis
player. Kirkside has glorious
every variety of fora found about
81. Augustine in the wild and trans
formed into sunken gardens and in
the dense palm groves which wind for
miles about the park Cactus usually
considered tall at ten feet frequently
Lecome shafts Of twenty-five or thirty
feet and are quantity interspersed
among specimens OF gigantic yucca
In the open ground.
Mrs. Rockefeller Mccormick Is
bending every energy 70 make the
summer opera Of Chicago Of the same
artistic excellence and popular ap-
/ peal as the recent successful engage
Inents of the winter. The summer
venture Is a municipal activity, and
VIII be staged In the handsome audi
torium at Ravinia. under the direc-
ton OF Mr.. Louis Eckstein. Il Will
! open possibly in May. and continue
throughout the summer, and as late
IN the autumn rs the spectators can
/ endure the nipping breezes from the
/ lake Chicago has become Il center
| or commercial activity In every way,
| and many Of the retail houses from
the west and middle west make all
| their purchases through agents there
rather than make the journey to New
! ork, as formerly. Not only Is The
opera to have long open season,
but the municipal centers are busy
/ with sylvan plays and stock com
panies for comedies and vaudeville
/ Sketches. Mrs. Mccormick is, how
nnl 2W,S
and she is almost daily at Lavinia
IN conference with the city author
! tiles, who have the affair in charge
IN these days OF simpler living, Mrs.
McCormick strikes a vivid contrast.
| She has always two liveried men on
her car In the showiest OF plum vel
Vet and gold embroidery, and her car.
painted the exact hue of the retain
ers garments. has silk tasseled cur
taihs. and great masses OF American
beauty roses arranged window-box
| Fashion between the attendants and
the body OF the motor.
Another distinguished candidate for
professional honors as a solo dancer
is Lady Alexandra Curzon .younges,
Caughter OF the British minister of
foreign affairs and of his late wife,
Mary Letter OF Washington and chi
! CaSo. Lady Alexandra first engaged
! IN dancing under the pnystcian's or
| GERS. as she IS not deemed sufficiently
rooust. She has passed the entire
winter Win the second Lady Curzon,
the daughter of the late Monroe Kinds
| or Alabama, at st. Moritz SuItzer-
| land. spending the days in the omen.
Hhilns. stating and snow rolling, that
HM3eWeSt OF sports; and, with Miss
Marcella Duggan, Lady Curzon'. $
daughter by her first marriage. She
mas become most efficient in these ac-
complihhments. The evenings have
@oeen @ given % pageants and exhibit
tion dancing, and Lady Alexandra
has been d leading spirit in this en-
te! t%inment, too. \ mi-careme car
nival had as its chief attraction q
.eries OF tableaux dances called
Spring unde- l. silver moon" in
"hitn this charming young danseuse
appeared as a nymph. with her splen
ala black hair twiacd with silver and
ner garments shimmerng with silver
sIarS' and after executing = sort OF
sLahow dance. she vas Joined one by
! one py other nymphS, and they played
ana hopped and skipped all in unison
10 d lively Stringed orchestral ac-
compartment for almost an hour
! me fete was given in the great ball
room OF the Palace Hotel, and an ad-
| nfittance fee added generously to the
! inlIk fund for Russian, Austrian and
German children.
group Of art critics and d4alers
IN curios OF all descriptions, Ameri-
can ana British. have compiled sta
stSt;cs sSd6 proving that more than
SSoe'ooo has been paid during the
past year ny Americans for fake can
! asses and other objects of art This
applies only 70 those who have dis
covered the fraud and complained OF
IL ana there may be other thousands
OF dollars wasted by those who have
SIDE or the ledger. Better than the
quoting Of figures, this seIf-consti-
tuted committee has listed a number
OF commercial concerns on both sides
rnanufactures Tarfous ' obfae3sNfeEyy bfe9rafeIy
niture. bric-a-brac and carved wood 9
i-"hlch buy up odds and ends Of old
glass, orass and pewter and then
! plant them in old houses In Great
Britain and on the continent to lure
the unwary traveller. These houses
are, of course, inns and boarding
places under the same management
as the manufacturers of the curios
and many the piece Of pewter and
glass is proudly exhibited in band
! some homes Of this country which
are no more ancient or historic than
; the wares offered IN any hardware or
china store. AS for canvasses by old
masters. the committee expresses as
constituent that SO many Of the re-
puted levelheaded Americans are
victims OF fraud and that they pay
exhoroltant prices without taking
general history OF the painting A
distinguished householder of Long
Island has but recently taken down
a canvas alleged to be by Andrew
goodly sum about three years ago
in London Some friends finally
convinced him that the genuine
painting had been sold by the heirs
of the italian master to the British
government and had hung for a cen
tu-y and half In Hampton Court.
! Mr.. Htlaire BelIoc. the distin.
guiShed British author, who will be
In Washington during the present
week to lecture and TO visit friends
has. among many other interesting
'characteristics, passionate love OF
nature and desire to enjoy it in the
Wild He has tramped almost every
foot Of soil in the British Isles, in.
Variably alone and with stout stick
and notebook as principal luggage
and only such articles of apparel as
he could send by parcel post to such
rural inns as he sought in his travels
! But as he frequently would change
his route after dispatching his par.
eel, he spent many hours on his re-
turn to London claiming his raimen;
from various post Offices. An ad-
mirer of Dickens. Mr.. Belloc fol.
lowed the entire trail Of the two idle
apprentices In that inimitable sketch
OF the same name, and he added much
graphic detail to the great masters
description of the wild country about
the Scotch border. He recently pene-
trated into abandoned passes in and
about Cumberland and thence over
into Wales. Mr.. Belloc will lecture
in several cities besides Washington
He is making his way westward
where he will pass some time in Sar
Francisco, the home of Ills late wife
Miss Elodie Agnes Hogan of tha
city, a Journalist, who transferre et
her field to London and there met ant