Evening star., 1924-09-28
offers both from theatrical producers
and from the film magnates.

offers both from theatrical producer:
and from the film magnates.
Senator and Mrs. Med:ll Mccormick
will most assuredly be deeply lament
ed in Washington, but that does not
| prevent considerable curiosity ir
Maj. Albert a. Sprague, who won the
nomination OF the Democratic party
| and whom rumor already elects tc
| Senator McCormick's seat. Maj
Sprague, who is known all over Illi-
! nos as Al" is the son of a distin-
! guished pioneer citizen of Chicago
the late A. s. o. Sprague, who, with
| his brother, Albert A.. was powerful
| civic and business force in the great
city in the decade Immediately after
| tho fire. Mrs. Sprague, wife of the
Democratic nominee, is the niece OF
the late Marshall Field and always
has been prominent in social and
| philanthropic affairs. She is making
! distinct impression in her speeches
| in aid of her husbands candidacy
and she is, in fact. calling to her
assistance the entire Field connec-
all that relates to State politics. Mrs
SpraSue is an acceptable hostess and
the home on the Lake Shore drive is
of the roomy, comfortable type, as
distinguished from the 100-room pal
aces which surround il. Being per-
sona1ly very popular and much in
the limelisht, the candidacy of 'AF
Sprague has become a social ques-
ton as well as political one. MT
Sprague and his wife have been iden
tified with all the Field municipal
gifts and have done their bit in vari-
| Gus ways for the Field Museum and
| for the several branches which re-
late to the development of art and
music as part of its endowment
John -. Rockefeller jrs recently
has been the recipient of the uniuuc
honor of being elected to membership
IN the institute of France as mem
ber of the Fine Arts Academy. He
| can. if he elects, blossom forth on
social and official occasio in its re-
splendent uniform, which consists of
a law-ha miner coat of dark green
velvet richly embroidered in crossed
palm leaves and with designs of the
same hue similarly embroidered down
the seams, and cooked hat of hunt
ers green with long. dropping
feather of orange, and court sword
| in its venerable gold hilt fashioned in
the days of Louis XIV. The Academic
des Beaux Arts, as it is known in
France and throughout the world
holds its sessions in the old Mazarin
Palace on the left bank of the Seine.
and Mr.. Rockefellers reception has
been planned for late October. and
Will be marked with all the brillian Mt
ceremonial. The honor was awarded
to this philanthropic American be-
| cause of his munificence in contrib
uting to the fund for restoring the
| Cathedral of Rheims and repairing
the venerable palace Of Versailles
which was suffering from neglect be-
cause OF the French governments in
ability to bear the expense. This
Nations most eminent architects have
received their training from Beaux
Arts, and they eagerly took UP with
other architects the cause of restor-
ing France, but the stupendous out
lay attached to the work of the
ruined Cathedral of Rheims was a
task they could not handle. Mr.
Rockefeller gave million dollars
for this fund and about half the
amount toward the work at Yer
sailles, and he collected a princely
sum among his friends and relatives
Capt. George cambridge, who is to
! marry Rudyard kipline's only daugh-
ter. Elsie, is kept busy these days
| correcting the spelling of his name
for, with few exceptions, the press OF
the world has made him cambridge
whereas he is excessively proud OF
| his old Middlesex patronymic. Capt
Ba bridge was the military attache
on the staff of Sir Esme Howard
| when the British Ambassador to this
Capital occupied a similar post in
| Madrid, and he is on such friendly
! terms with his former chief that he
! may include visit to this country
| on the wedding jaunt. Mr.. and Mrs
KiplinG are in their beautiful country
home, Batesman, in Sussex, where
the wedding will take place, possibly
soon after Christmas. But they had
| intended to revisit old scenes and re-
establish ties with old friends in this
country before their daughters ro-
nance, the result of a casual visi,
made to Madrid last Spring, caused
| a revision of plans. Mrs. Kipling was
before her marriage Miss Caroline
! Starr Balestier of Brattleboro. VT.
and she has many friends and kins.
| people in that section and other parts
of New England. Like a loyal Yer
| monter, she had desired to return to
! this country and pay homage to the
| nguished occupants of the White
| House, whom she had known in hel
| girlhood and in Mrs. Coolidge's girl.
! hood also. When the rush and stress
of the wedding is past the distin.
euished poet and author and Mrs
| kipling hope to put this cherished
intention into execution.