Evening star., 1924-07-27
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President and Mrs Coolidge Alone of Govern
ments High Official Circles Remain Content
edly as Summer Residents of Washington.

, which he graduated in 1895, and
| where he was assistant professor of
| law from 1896 to 1897. The Demo-
| cratic nominee, being of athletic
mold, SaS not averse to the court
| costume which Mr.. Harvey spurned
with scorn. He looks very well in
| his satin small clothes and silken
hose. The present Ambassador, Mr..
| Kellogg, has taken over this style.
| too, without objection, and ap-
| peared at recent functions in ST.
James Palace looking as gorgeous as
| any prince or duke.
Mir. Walter Winans, winner of the
| worlds championship for this coun-
| the olympic game; of 1908 and 1912.
! has for years lived at the Carlton
| Hotel, in Pail Mall, London, with a
! Summer retreat at Ostend, in Bel
! gium He is the son of William l..
| WinanS of Baltimore and "A cousin of
| that Miss Beatrice WinanS who>mar-
| ried Prince de Bearn and who died
| II years ago. Mr.. Winans has been
| all Summer in Paris, an enthusiastic
| spectator of the games at which his
! countrymen have made such a fine
| record. He has received perhaps
more foreign decorations than the
average sculptor, literati or athlete.
| and recently had conferred on him
! from the fair hands of Queen Marie
/ the royal Rumanian Order of the
| star. He received the decoration of
commander in the Spanish order of
! Isabel the Catholic. and was also the
recipient from the late Car of the
! medal and lash OF the Russian order
| of st. Stanislaus. In his student days
MI. WinanS spent much time at the
| Corcoran Gallery here. and as he was
also interested in rifle shooting he
| often competed with local teams and
| ct the Army rife practice meets. He
! has lived abroad for the past 10
years, however, though he makes
| frequent visits TO his former home in
baltimore.
One Of the most distinguished for
| eiSnerS touching these shores during
| the present Summer is Mr. Pierre
| WertheimerS great race horse. Epi-
| nard. This renowned equine arrived
! from France the second week of July,
| and. like many q celebrity from The
| same parts, he went Immediately to
| Saratoga, where he is spending the
| heated term and no doubt profiting
! for three events in September all at
| BELMONT Park, and the first to be on
| Labor Day. Naturally this will focus
| attention from the utmost confines
and down into Mexico. But for
! Washingtonians September. it is con-
! fidenty forecast, will witness the
! first steps in that effort which Gen.
| making to have the polo field on
| Potomac. Park converted into
worthy memorial of mans greatest
! friend in the animal kingdom and
! his immortal companion of chiValry.
According to Gen. Pershing, such
| memorial has been long overdue. and
| for this reason the plans to procure
| 1t should be fastened as much as pos
sible. II is proposed to flank the
| park with groups Of horses by great
| masters representing every type
known to fame, and then to feature in
! statuary great events in which the
| horse played the leading heroic role.
! 1t is to be a universal appreciation
of the horse in all ages and in all
| ClimeS, with due regard to American
productions which have been entered
| into the equine Nalhalla.
Young Prince Michael Cantacuzene-
Speransky and his wife, who was
| Clarissa Curtis of Boston, are show
cred with admiration for the plucky
way in which they are striving for
| success in Chicago, where Potter and
Honore Palmer have started their
cousin-young Mike, as he is called
| in a business way. Prince Michael is
| the son of that noble Russian exile
| who had married Julia Dent Grant
(, and whose future at that time seemed
as well assured fortune and hered-
! itary rank could make it. But all
was swept away when the Romanoff
| throne crashed. and the elder Prince
| Michael reared in the frozen North
| and loving all things of the North.
| had fate thrust him into an orange
plantation in Florida, where he is
| row making a successful farmer.
Young Michael preferred business,
| and so his cousins, who hold large
| interests in Chicago, placed him very
modestIy. but with a chance to get
| rich if he made good The. young
couple live in tiny apartment on
| the lake front. Princess Clarissa per-
forms nearly all of the labor needed,
and they both stick close to base all