Evening star., 1924-12-21

best 1924 offerings in jazz to be en-
tered on the Library catalogue but
Mr.. Putnam has ordered at the same
time an exhaustive study into the
rise of the jazz variety of sounds
for he disdains TO have them called
music-the gradual development and
the extent OF its popularity. Ac-
cordinS TO the signs of the times jazz
has reached the crest of the wave in
this country, and it's popularity is
slowly receding, though IL climbs
high in favor in foreign lands. But
such lively strains and jerky accom-
paniment are not entirely a TWEEN
tieth century discovery. Mr.. Putnam
las recently received the original
manuscript Of A song by Stephen G
Foster, one of the earliest American
song writer's The Merry. Merry
Month Of May which shows all the
frolicsomeness and syncopation of
the present jazz. Mr.. Foster. irnmor-
tai author of -"Nfy Old Kentucky
Home" and other well known ballads.
was deemed quite advanced in the
musical compositions of his time
The Minister from Panama and Sc
nora Alfaro have revived some of the
cherished traditions Of the homo
which they recently purchased for
shC Ice dt4Cu OI IHelE country ana for
Inerly the residence of the late Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Richardson Glover
The houSewarming was A ball and not
the formal reception of the usual type
and no residence in Washington is
moro Identified with dancing parties
than this particular dwelling. During
the Eirlhood of her two DAUGHTERS
Miss Eudora Glover and Mrs Thomas
fiolcomb, who was Beatrice Glover
H~ fap u
had national reputation. Mrs. Glover
possessed a. talent for pa geantry and
she invariably selected some Eastern
fairy tale as the background of her
ballroom and all the little folks at
tending were requested to dress in
conformity with this idea. One Of her
famous parties was founded on the
legend Of the Blue Dragon of China
and many who attended, now sedate
neads OF families. will never forget
the beauty and charm of that scene.
Senor and Sonora Alfaro are among
the most accomplished dancers of
washington and their small dauRh-
ters trip like fairies on the green
so that dancing parties will be a fea-
xure OF the Glover residence, now the
Panama legation, as in the past
That Elizabeth, who won the
cordial approval of the f1ower-lovinc
world by her skillful management of
her German garden, has transferred
her activity to home in the high
Alps above the Rhone Valley and
not far from the picturesque small
town Of Montana. She has called her
place Chalet Soleil, for this spot has
been celebrated throughout the age
'ror the strong sunshine which en-
Telops the hills, Winter and Summer
and naturally Montana has a repu-
tatton as cure for the delicate, and
almost every second house is a sanf-
tariun. But Elizabeth, who is
Countess Russell now, the Man of
Wrath" having been killed during the
World War, has perched her hall
right on the edge of a precipice and
some miles from the village and her
nearest neighbors for six miles are
the roaring cataracts and the solemn
pines and cedars She had expert
Tnented in roses in almost every other
part of the world. and has estab-
1ished that even the most suscep-
tiole of tea roses may. survive the
Winter of the North Sea, notably long
cold and tempestuous. if they are
properly chilled" and protected by
leaves, that her experiment. in the
Alps is watched with much interest
She lives most of the year in Chalet
fsoicil, iHohlHS oHiy necessary visits
to England when publishers REQUIRE
IL or her duties as chatelaine of the
Earl Russell's home in Dorset demand
her presence. The chalet is typi-
cally Swiss with the usual hospitable
legends carved over it's portals and
every detail of it's Interior copied
from the nearby houses The gilt
rering SUBMITS of Reischorn and
Goshorn of which Dickens and Mark
Twain have written SO entertainingly
rise above the window where she
habitually writes and to the west are
series of soul-inspiring ravines and
cataracts.
That there is a British invasion of
American fields of endeavor has been
evidenced very strongly in the
Countess Of Lauderdale, who, as Wis