Evening star., 1924-07-13

did wide concrete avenues in any city
are, finding the motor much mixed
blessing and there Is constant dis
cussion everywhere OF blocking off
certain thoroughfares for travel and
making others only for the use Of
those who live therein or have busi-
ness there. Such a thing could never
be accomplished in Washington, but
have satisfactory zoning system
against constant travel In certain
streets One by one various owners
of handsome homes in 10th street
sell to less experience s aweiiers Ms
and move further out. DR., and Mrs.
Loren Johnson are among the recent
departures, but then they lived just
in the bed Of the street beyond
Florida avenue and received the full
benefit of travel going all four
ways.
Mrs. Harry Graham Brown OF Pitts
burgh, who spent several seasons In
Washington and was one of Its most
lavish -hostesses, has achieved the
impossible in that she has induced
the Duchess of Norfolk to lease her
Norfolk House. in st. James square,
and has already taken possession OF
some months ago, the duchess and
her agents issued denial, through
the press, that she intended to lease
the place at all, still less 10 an
American, but seemingly she mas
Welded to u golden inducement. the
duchess never uses this vast palace
during the season, as her country
place is within motor ride OF LONDON
and she iAually entertains there and
stays ut hotel with her daushters
when she comes up Tor sociai pur-
poses. Mrs. Browns beautiful home
in SewickIey, Pa, is well known to
many Washingtonians, whom she has
entertained. and she has lovely
villa at Palm Beach, where she
spends part of the winter Her sum
mer home has usually been at Prides
Crossing on the north shore, but THIS
summer she was lured to London
Norfolk House is Il rather gloomy
pile rebuilt on the foundations of an
older mansion in the seventeenth III
century Mrs. William B. Leeds, who
pher of Greece. tried in vain to lease
the place and so. too, the late Mrs.
Potter Palmer. The Duchess of Nor
folk, who is the guardian OF her
son. the fifteen-year-old duke. has
three daughters, two Of whom are In
society and the other about to be
presented, so she evidently feels the
need of an added income.
Copenhagen is, according to the
opinions of scores of Washingtonians
who have visited it this season, the
most charming and delightful city
in Europe and everything there is
one third cheaper than in any other
everywhere received with distinguish
ed consideration. The American en-
voy Mr.. John Dynely Prince has
proven magnet for his many friends.
and a 8 he maintains bachelor estab-
lishment and entertains most lavishly.
his guests are a constantly moving
procession. Cab hire in Copenhagn
is what it used to be in the golden
days before the war. The gayety is
Of a milder type than in Berlin, Paris
or Vienna. or the Swiss cities, and the
cafes furnish music, even light
opera. during the evening hours and
dinner which is splendid and of
many rich courses, costs less than a
meal in an American cafeteria. At
the nearby resort. Tivoli, a kind of
spiritualized Coney Island and Luna
Park and the father of all such sum-
mer attractions, mirth and frolics
and on the whole it would seem that
Americans in general and Washing
tonians in particular have just dis
covered the fine old Danish city.
where artists always go to study the
works of Thorvaldsen. NJ. Constantin
Brun. the Danish minister who has
recently returned from Copenhagen
says that there are more Americans
there this summer than in the pre-
vious twenty years all combined.
Summer in Copenhagn is cool and
bracing, surf bathing is possible all
the time and for this reason many
American residents in London during
the year are there this year rather
in the Dutch and Belgian resorts
which they usually frequent. The
John Hays Hammonds and Miss Natalie
Hammond are to pass August in the
Danish capital. and several members
of the American embassy have
secured quarters at the beach hotels.
The American ambassador to Rome.
Mr.. Henry =. Fletcher. has been sending
some recent photographs of himself and