Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Sportsmen Pay Tribute to Jusserand. Who VIC
lated Foreign Precedent to Defeat President
Roosevelt at Tennis.

of the San Mateo Peninsula. Mr..
Tobin will come to pay his respects
to the President and to the Secretary
OF State, and will, after a brief stay
here, take quick run to San Fran
cisco. where some personal affairs
demands his attention. Mrs. Duval
will accompany him and will remain
in the San Mateo mansion and dis
pense the hospitality at the late Win
ter tournaments in place of her
brother. This is her first visit to her
own land since the World War when
she went to Paris with her late hus-
band. a French banker of the Pa
cific Coast, to aid in the Red Cross
work. During the past year she has
resided at the American legation at
The Hague. and presided over it's fire.
quent amenities.
Cannes, which attracts so many
Americans all through the Winter
and which now can claim more than
$500 of Uncle Sans children who
own their villas, besides five times
that number at hotels and pensions,
is making huge preparations for the
battle Of flowers staged for January
6. Mrs. Harry Lehr and her sister,
Mrs. Drexel Dahlgren, are among the
prominent American patronesses of
the fete and, of course, Harry Lehr
with his acknowledged talent for pa
geantry, is busy with the spectacu-
lar features of the event. The after
noon of flower parades. called the
fete du mimosa because the fragrant
feathery mimosa blossoms are so
much used. will be followed by a
colorful Venetian night with Condo
las galore on the water front and
typical carnival emblems in great
profusion. Lady Alan tombstone. for
merly Miss Antoinnette Pinchot,
daughter of the late James and Mrs.
Pinchot of this city. who is a resident
of this neighborhood. will be among
the patronesses of the first flower
show, and will have with her a num-
Der of New York and London friends.
Sir Alan tombstone retired from the
diplomatic corps two years ago and
lives for three-quarters of the year
in a somber old chateau which he and
his wife bought and have modern
lied. The round towers were built
in the tenth century and command d
marvellous view of the sea and of the
great valleys surrounding this part
of France.
The Honorable Capt. Alexander
Ramsay and his wife, once so we'll
known to the Western world as
Princess Pat, daughter of the Duke
of Connaught and a royal highness of
Great Britain, who has absolutely
discarded all royal prerogaties and is
now known simply as Lady Patricia
Ramsay, have leased the fine home
of MIR. George A. Plimpton of New
York and will pass the Winter on the
Western Continent. For the former
Princess Pat life in the New World
was always alluring and she pro-
poses to pass the Winter and Spring
with her husband and small son, al
ternately in New York City, with a
run down to visit many friends in
Washington. then to Ottawa and lat
err to bermuda. Capt. Ramsay has
recently been military attache of the
British Embassy in Paris and his
handsome wife chafed under the re-
strictions of the arduous social life
there, for, despite her efforts to free
herself from the eternal red tape of
etiquette pertaining to those of royal
birth, Lady Patricia found herself
the victim of tradition and can only
hope for complete individual liberty
in the Western Hemisphere. Capt.
Ramsay is celebrating a sort Of sab
batical year and has long leave
from his martial duties. the first
asked since the armistice. He and his
wife have only a modest competence,
he being a younger brother of the
Earl of Dalhousie. who has a half
dozen sons of his own and the primo
ess yielded her income from the Brit
ish treasury at the same time she
renowned her royal rank. In Paris
the young couple lived in a small
apartment out the Issy way, far re-
moved from the hubbub of the boule-
wards and keeping out of touch as
much nnSaihle with the ROinRS on
In Vanity Fair.
The Grande Duchess Cyril's brief
stay in this country has been followed
by the usual outburst of criticism
which all royal visits to this part of
the world seem to call forth. British
papers have only just recently ceased
commenting on various phases of the
Prince Of Wales sojourn here In the
Autumn. The former Empress of
the Car has formally protested
against Cyrirs ambition. and so, too.
the oldest living member of the
Romanoffs, the gallant commander of
Russia's imperial army during the
World War, Grand Duke Nicholas.
American diplomats in Europe report
that the majority of the royalist
press published in various capitals Is
for Nicholas. and that Of Paris, the
most numerous and influential In the
group is solidly so. 1t Is pointed out
in recent comments that however al
truistic were the motives of the
Grande Duchess, wife of Cyril, in COM
ing to this country, she damaged his
cause very materially with the aris-
tocrats of the old regime because it
was so f1aring a publicity feature.
But close students of Russian affairs
native and sympathetic outsiders, see
no indicatio that the people of the
vast Muscovite empire cares any
more for a return of the czarist era
than they do to continue the Soviet
system. They all predict an all-im-
portant change in the next five years.
but this points the way to a real
republic, such as are established all
about the frontiers of old Russia
Poland, the Baltic States, Czecho-
slavakia, which are doing extremely
well under the new form of govern
ment. Cyril, say the hordes of
thoughtful Russians in this country,
has as much chance to recover the