Evening star., 1923-08-12
Tales of Well known Folk
In Social and Official Life
German Envoy and Family Likely to Take Promi-
nent Place in Washington Society
Events This Winter.

were the Beau Brummels of their
era.
The French Jockey Club has re-
Gently acquired full title to the
splendid property on Faubourg st.
Honore, Paris, for which its officers
have been negotiating for nearly
three years, and will move into its
new quarters early next year. This
spacious palace, once the home of
Baron Henri Rothschild. has re-
Gently been occupied by the Inter
allied Club, an organization which
has declined in popularity i'll the
past four years and is now almost
defunct- The head of the French
Rothschilds bought the property
Baron Gerard. whose family had oc-
cupied it during a century and
half. when the glory of the Bourbon
kings was at it's height during the
Napoleonic regime and in the first
years OF the republic. This grand
old feudal house of Gerard is now
extinct, except on the diStaff side,
and its fine mansions and estates in
Paris and its environS have been sold
in various parcels. At one time the
! Gerard palace and grounds included
tho extensive gardens about the
! ElySee Palace, which is the official resi-
dence of the President Of the French
{ republic. but these grounds and the
building proper were acquired by the
government in the early 7Os The Jockey
Club will own beautifully arrang-
as IS usual in the older dwellings,
Of Paris. where al freSco amenities
will be possible when the spring
/ racing events are pending.
y brilliant young American artist
and writer. Mrs. Isa Urquhart Glenn
Schindel Of Atlanta, has secured her
self a permanent place in letters
through her friendship and profound
| admiration of Whistler. In the pub
| lished letters of the eminent artist
are many to this favorite pupil and
many of hers in reply figure in the
output of volumes compiled from
various sources. Mrs. Schindel who
writes under her maiden name, is the
! daughter of the late eminent lawyer
Of Atlanta. Thomas Glenn and the
niece of the brilliant editors. Thomas
| and Howell Cobb. She is a cousin of
the late Mrs. Hoke Smith and was
| always intimate in the group of the
! Hoke Smith family and friends For
more than ten years Mrs. Shindel
! studied under Whistler. and her
| ardent affection for him and her
sympathy in his growing loneliness
through age and i'll health were, if
, his letters are an index. Que of the
chief inspirations of his declining
years. Called from London where
/ she hfd established a studio and wa.
! climbing high in art circles. the then
! Miss Glenn returned to Atlanta. and
! in the same year. 1891. married Capt
/ j. Bayard Schindel of the Army. He
! died in 1921 as a brigadier general
| and reckoned one of the heroes of
| the Moro revolt in the Philippines
Mrs. Schindel had then turned TO a
! literary career and has been puh-
! fishing some delicate and compre-
! henStve sketches of Whistler and Of
! his circle in London in the late SOS
! she has marvellous studio apart
| ment III 55th street. New York which
/ is filled with the possessions gath
cred during thirty years of foreign
! travel, besides the fine heirlooms
| from the old Glenn home in Atlanta.
| No recent visitor to London has re-
/ Ceived the ovation accorded Yolande
/ now Countess Calvi di Bergolo. who
/ came with her husband to attend the
! August horse show and test riding
/ held in connection with the Olympic
! games. The eldest daughter of the
/ King and Queen of Italy has entirely
| discarded all the trappinGs of royalty
/ and insists on being Countess di Ber-
! COLO and nothing more. 1t caused
! broad smiles that the former princess.
! hearing that her coming to London
! was causing some commotion in the
| Italian embassy there and that the
/ ambassador and his staff planned to
| meet her at the station. as would
! have been customary in the old days.
! deliberately changed her itinerary to
! head this movement off. Taking an
! earlier channel boat and train TO the
/ metropolis, she had been two hours in
! her hotel before the embassy staff
! were to set forth to meet her in Pad
| dington station. To save them
! trouble, however. the countess called
| the ambassador and, having assured
! him it was Yolande herself speaking
| and that she desired no honorS what
| ever during her stay in England, she