Evening star., 1924-09-14
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President and Mrs. Coolidge Establish Vogue Of
Patriotic Motor Tours, With Getty ysbure
asFavorite Objective.
ors have come frequently to Judge
O'Brien, father of Kenneth.

ors have come frequently to Judge
O'Brien, father of Kenneth.
One Of the splendid estates of Cali
being a private home and has be-
come a country club, when the late
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst's place near
Pleasanton. in the vicinity OF Berke-
ley. was sod a few weeks ago. Mrs.
Hearst, who was a student of the
Spanish mission, architecture and
landscape arrangement, has built a
typical Spanish villa and surround
ed it with a garden which might have
been in old Seville. The banquet hall
OF the villa was particularly effective
and the walls were hung in alternate
panels of gold-threaded garnet vel
vet and fine old hunting scenes in
tapestry. All the equipment was
very ancient and had been gathered
with expert care in the oldest coast
cities Of Spain. In the patio is an
ancient well which came from
around Granada and which had been
shipped to this country with every
detail of its former situation and
erected as it had been in the days
when the naughty Moors held this
portion Of Spain under their domin-
ion. This fine country seat has been
seldom tenanted since its owner died,
and the Berkeley Country Club pur-
chased all the furnishings and hand
some exterior decorations.
La Belle France is taking time by
the forelock in the active prepara-
tions already afoot for that interna-
tional exposition of decorative art
which will open at the Trocadera
next Spring. AS distinguished a con-
tingent will answer that summons
as did when the lawyers went over to
London in thousands during early
July. For while the arts as decora-
tion will be the main motive Of this
exhibit, all manner Of artists will be
interested and Paris expects a numer-
Gus and brilliant response to her IN
vitation. Not that the past Summer
has found Americans neglecting their
Summer paradise. for. on the con-
trary. not since Gen. Pershing, with
the expeditionary forces, arrived on
French soil have so many been regis
tered as during the past four months
AS a token of the increasing num-
bers of Americans in Paris and their
influence and Importance. there are
now five daily papers published in
the English language, whereas pre-
vious to the World War the Paris
edition of the New York Herald held
forth alone. But spurred on by the
brilliancy and success of the Olym-
pic games, Paris is making ready to
have some grand polo tournament
next Spring, along the time when
great crowds center around the race
tracks and sculling matches. The
Olympic polo games created the wild
est enthusiasm and many graceful
French pens have depicted those
scenes and likened them to the ages
of chivalry and the jousts and tour
L.
tions made an outstanding reputa-
tion for horsemanship-the American,
the British, the Spanish and the Ar
gentinian-and the French, Italian
and other continental Europeans are
determined to break into that cate
CORY.
Mrs. Henry Hartman and Mrs. Will
liam X. Vanderbilt. jr., have given a
splendid example of the best sporting
spirit in their recent gift, of an am
bulance, equipped in the most COM
plete fashion, which will take care
of injured horses on the track or in
the more proSaic tasks which fall
to their lot The gift was made at
Saratoga, where equine traditions are
of the best, and to raise q fund to
maintain the ambulance and to create
interest in the venture the ladies
arranged light harness trotting
match open to all entries. no admit
tance. charged, but light refreshments
for sale. The ambulance had to be
called twice and the injured animals
were quickly and deftly removed from
the scene. While this ambulance is
intended primarily for horses which
become disabled while racing, If 1t is
not in such use when animals not
racing are in need, it will be at their
disposal. This country, according to
Mrs. Vanderbilt, who has recently
come from abroad. is a long way be-
hind Europe in such matters. But
no doubt with this opening wedge,
every race track in the country will
have it's equine ambulance and medi.
cal staff and every city the same.
Lieut.. Jean Waddingoon of the
French cavalry was among the deep
ly disappointed Army men who could
not attend the polo games during the
past two weeks. He is the head and
front of polo in the French Army,
and is well known to all the Army
men from this country who have been
in Paris during the Summer. The
grandson of that, brilliant Nine. Wad-
dington, who was Miss King of
Georgetown, his wife is likewise an
American. and was Miss Gladys Oh
colt, daughter Of Mr.. Dudley Olcott,
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tons. as their name indicates, are Of
English origin, but as long ago as
when the Grand Monarch ruled in
France one had entered the French
foreign service and was gaining a
fine reputation in Spain. That NJ.
Jean Waddington. who is the great
grandfather of the polcist and a
courtier Of Louis XVI, built the first
cotton factory on the banks OF the
Seine and began the export OF cot
ton from Egypt long in advance of
such enterprises on the part of other
nations. Lieut.. Jean Waddington and
his wife expect to come to this coun-
try in October and will be entertain
ed in Washington by the poloist Of
Fort Myer. Nine. Waddington Is an
expert polo player and her romance
with the dashing semi-American Of
ficer began in 1922, when he was vis-
iting on Long Island and riding like
a centaur in the games Of that season.
Love of the horse being the consum-
ing passion OF both, Lieut.. and Nine.
Waddington are known from one end
of France to the other for their fear
less riding and devotion to all the
sports which may be enjoyed astride.
The lure Of the sea is apparently
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