Evening star., 1923-03-04
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
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Zealand-Florida Most Brilliant Season Is
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Learning at Historic Oxford.

the presence there of the President
and Mrs. Harding will lend fitting
climax to a phenomenal gayety. The
Greek royalties, Prince Andrew and
Princess Alice, occupied Il large part
of the limeliEht naturally because of
the keen anxiety which swept the
world when the fate of the Greek
commander hung in the balance, and
great at-granddaughter OF Queen Vic
toria, lost her entire fortune, which
was conflscated by the parliament at
Athens. Prince Andrew has been
almost constantly the guest of Col
Robert NJ. Thompson and, with his
advice, is about to embark on a com
mercial career in this country, but
whether in the orange groves of
Ponce de Icons realms or in the
more prosaic stock business of New
York Is not yet divulged. This topsy-
turvy condition which affects the
husband Of a royal princess of Britain
and of a small German principality Is
among tn" many reverSes of fortune
so apparent IN Florida as in every
other part Of the world. Prince
Andrew, 1t is said, refused an offer
to enter the tin plate industry OF his
brothers wife. Princess Anastasla,
wife of Prince CHRISTOPHER of Greece.
Young William Il. Leeds, says rumor,
will settle down 10 humdrum life
Of business after his Florida holiday
with his royal bride Is ended. All
the royal Greeks have been enter
tanned at Ell Mirasol. the splendid
Spanish mansion of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Stotesbury, and among the
guests were several British notables,
the Eiscountess Maitland and Mrs.
Frederick Guest. formerly Miss Amy
Phipps of Pittsburgh and niece OF the
senator from Colorado.
The Governor of PENNSYLVANIA and
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot are familiar fig
ures in Washington's Vanity Fair.
Young Clifford. who spent the first
years of his life in the home of his
grandmother, the late Mrs James W.
Pinchot, is always an object Of inter
est and his career at Harrisburg is
already more marked than is that of
the usual boy of nine. Gift" as his
playmates call him, has gone in for
modelling in clay. and, in fact, has
set the craze for this paStime at IA
high rate of speed. He makes fish
and glazes them and tacks them on a
board, to the vast admiration of his
chumS. He essays rabbits, squirrels,
and even owls, but fish seem his ia
vorite. He loves all outdoors. and
has never been known to return from
& tramp with his hat or cap: IN fact.
head covering IS nor provided for
him any more. Gift" declares ne
will be II sculptor and max the fin
est statue in the world To behold
his efforts at the ag. Of nine, and
without any instruction. II would
seem that he might maxi good his
boast. Politics make no appeal. but
he is th- best kind of mixer. aud has
brought more adverse kinds Of peo-
pie to the executive mansion in Har-
risburg thar the oldest retainer
there can recall. And he always in
sists that they be received by the
governor. He sometimes recruits lit
tie girls in droyes and asks them 10
tea. And he sees that they get II,
too. with plenty OF cake
Lord Clifford. son and heir Of the
Earl Of Darnley. has been spending
much time in New York. He is one
of the peers recently freed from
matrimonial ties by the British par
Lament. The former Lady Clifford
is the daughter Of Lord Dunleath,
was Miss Daphne Mulholland. and
frequent visitor In this country.
Lo d Clifford served with distinction