Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14

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The Marquis of Curzon has hitherto
evaded the taxation which all the
other Letter heirs have bornA and
now the councilman is out for him
IN vehement terms and the threat Of
dire things, like confiScating his In
come entirely, If he does not comply
with conditions The city council
has, in fact, used most undiplomatic
language in citing the minister of
foreign affairs in the Bonar Law
cabinet to answer its charges, and
the result is awaited with keen rel
ish. Levi u. Letter left his large
estate in trust with the income to be
divided equally between the heirs,
10 be justly shared. Mrs. Colin Camp
bell, who was Miss Nancy Letter,
found the taxation and special lcvies
so draining that she and Gen. Camp
hill took up their residence in Santa
Barbara, Calf. thus cvadinG the
British regulations.
The growing group of ST. Louis
People resident at the National Cap
ital this winter has received a nota-
tilt. wife of Lieut.. Commander Pettitt.
She WAS Mrs. Stella Wade Scullin.
daughter of one OF the important
bankers in the Mississippi valley
Fes'us J. Wade. who was in Wash
ington for months during the war as
one of the dollar-a-year counsefors
of the Secretary of the Treasury, Mrs.
SCulltn, after several years of widow
hool, was married last April in her
fathers home to Lieut.. Commander
Pettitt. who belongs TO the we'll
known family OF which Mrs. Stimson
Brown is member, and to which the
late Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, wife OF
the hero of AppomattoX, was related.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry b. Halves and
their daughters. Miss Eppes and Miss
Peyton Halves. have also taken up
their residence in Washington during
the past month and will remain for
the spring season. Both young ladies
were presented to St. Louis society
two years ago after a careful prep
aration in a New York school and in
Europe. Miss Lenore Scullin, who has
been a pupil in Connecticut. spent the
Christmas holidays with her grand
parents in St. Louis, but will come to
Washington shortly to Join Com
mander and Mrs. Pettitt.
Since Washington was the scene of
the brilliant nuptials of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Damrosch. the latter formerly
Miss Margaret Blaine, their talented
daughters are always an object of kind
~ interest The two unmarried ones,
Miss Polly and Miss Anita Damrosch,
have been here at times, but always
for some musical event and not for the
usual social season. No one is aston
ished nov that both have renowned
Vanity Fair and are to prepare for a
professional career Directly after
Christmas Miss Anita Damrosch enter
ed the American Academy Of Dramatic
Arts and will train for a histrionic ef-
fort, while Miss Polly Damrosch has
gone TO Boston for voice culture and
the fundamentals OF music The eldest
daughter, Mrs. Thomas knight Finlet-
ter, has been writing scenarios with
considerable success. Her sister. Mrs,
II. Peasants Pennington, has now per-
manently joined the actresses of the
silver screen. and it is a matter of wide
spread interest that she will take the
stellar part in n film from her sisters
pen. Tangled Hearts," soon to be re-
leased in New York. Thus the entire
circle has selected the stage in some