Evening star., 1923-02-25
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Representative Phil Campbell May Turn Movie
Star by Posing as Sir Walter Scott

Representative Philip Pitt Camp
bell OF Kansas bears an astonishing
resemblance to Sir Walter Scott. and
Sarbed in a high loose stock and his
curly hair slightly disarranged he
might easily sit for a portrait of the
author of "Waverley' Quite natur-
ally the member from Kansas is be-
seiged with requests to pose in au-
thors' carnivals, and. since educa-
tional films are becoming as popular
as recreative ones. he is scanning
some seductive offers to appear on
the silver screen in connection with
certain Scott and Dickens celebra-
tions contemplated in this country
and in England. Mr. Campbell is
native of Nova Scotia. though he has
lived in the Sunfiower state since
his early childhood, bu; lie Is Of pure
Scotch descent and possesses the
usual clear. fine voice, both for sing
ing and speaking, that seems to be
the heritage of the sons of St. Da vid.
AS ne leaves Congress on March 4.
after serving for fourteen years, his
orers for a future career include not
only appearance in the films. but also
uoSltiouS in church choirS, in choral
societies and in folk song concerts.
MIR. and Mrs. Campbell have main
talned charming suburban home
near Alexandria,. and have been i'm
portant factors in the social coutin-
gent OF their state and of the middle
west generally.
Mrs. Sidney Small of Toronto. who
comes to Washington SO frequently
in connection with her civic actiNi-
lies in the Canadian city, has been
known to large contingent of
friends since her Childhood as Ethel
Dallas Horstmann, and though a ma
tive of Philadelphia, with her mother
and sisters and brother, She came to
both her debut and her marriage to
Capt. Small of Toronto occurred in
this city. Mrs. Small has established
an envlable reputation for thorough
methods in the work which she un-
dertook voluntarily and which EN-
braces welfare and all activities that
used to be included under the name of
Stunning" About six years ago
she proposed the establishment OF a
policewoman service in Toronto and
she spent several weeks here under
the tutelage of Mrs. Nina Z. van
Wrinkle, examining the excellent SyS-
rem established here. She also studied
the Juvenile Court proceedings and
the probationary methods and all of
these branches are springing up IN
the municipal activities of the
buStling Canadian center. Capt. and
Mrs. Small maintain hospitable
home in Walmer road, q little outside
of Toronto, and they entertain hun
dreds of American friends in the
course of the year, for its proximity
10 Buffalo and Niagara Falls place
Toronto on the great tourist route,
for those who wish TO view the
splendid vista Of the waters daShinE
over the high bank and for those
about to embark on tour of the
great lakes which begins always at
Buffalo. Mrs. Small has been In
Washington for some weeks since
Christmas. but will now be In Toronto
until she takes possession of her
pretty villa on the st. Lawrence.
Washington hostesSes are kcenly
alive to the possibilities presented in
Miss Mabel Gerry's recent experiment
In New York in giving bail at which
only waltz quadrillcs the old lance.'s
and Sir Roger de Coverly were per-
mitted on the floor. Miss Gerry, with
a number of hoSteSSeS of more
dignitied trend, deplore the rudeness
and ill-breeding which pervade the
ballroom since the Introduction Of
Jazz and the universal habit of cut
ting-in" on dances. No one denied
that Miss Gerry's effort was entirely
successful in the acid test of the
number who responded TO the invita-
ton to square dance" and their en-
thusiastic enjoyment of it. The ger
man, once as well established an
American social custom as the seTv-
ing of ice cream and cake, has
f1ourished in spite Of all changes for
the past forty years, and Is still the
fashionable habit of the Boston and