Evening star., 1924-10-26
Tales of Well Known Folk
In. Social and Official Life
Spanish Ambassador, Successor of Jusserand as
Dean of Corps, Has Record of l8
Years Service In Capital.

| acroSs-the-sea" activity carries with
| it a perpetual letter of introduction
| to London clubs and famous homes,
| besides making vogue in New York
and other American cities. Mr.. Davis
was chosen president during his term
| as Ambassador to the Court of St.
! James, and since his retirement he
has continued to hold the office in
| the American branch, besides being
, president of the combined unions
here and abroad. The club rooms in
Madison avenue are comfortably
rather than elaborately furnished,
and they are the choice par excel
lence for all visitors from Britain
who are in New York briefly. The
broad buffets are always decked with
cold joints, and in the culinary parte
a spit turns n fowl or chop to
nicely besides sending forth that
, appetizing odor.
Mr.. William Loeb. who was for years
the private secretary of the first
Theodore Roosevelt, and who was
the first to be elevated to the digni-
fed status of secretary to the Presi-
dent" is very fond of young Col. Ted
die, whom he has known since the
Republican candidate for guberna
torial honorS was in his early teens.
Mr. Loeb, who has climbed high in the
political and legal sense since be de-
parted from Washington, was in
Mexico attending to the interests of
some important clients when the
news was flashed of young Ted's nom
ination. He Immediately terminated
his engagements and took the first
train home, and is now thick in the
fight to start Col Roosevelt along
| the road which led his father to the
White House. Mr.. Loeb can be reck
| oned as one of the most popular men
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gracefully filled by the Hon. G. BaS
com Slemp of Virginia. He has
keen sense of humor, a broad view of
| the human kind and its pHOneneSS to
make mistakes, and without a doubt
he smoothed down the rufi1ed plum
age of those to whom the colonel had
been a bit rough. Mr.. Loeb is the
chairman of the Oyster Bay Republi-
can committee, and is launching a
| vigorous campaign for the native son
of this section. Mrs Loeb. n charm
ing little person, who was much be-
loved by Mrs. Roosevelt, and was a
familiar figure in the blue room dur
ing her regime as mistress of the
White House, is, like her eminent
friend content to fill the domestic
role and to leave the politics of the
family to Mr.. Loeb.
Mrs. Loula Long Combs of Kansas
City has SO long dominated the horse
shows Of this section that the rising
star of Miss Jean Scott Brown, a
debutante of the present season in
Philadelphia is watched with intense
interest. Since she could walk Miss
Brown has loved horses and taken
an intelligent interest in rearing
them, and she had no sooner un-
packed her trunks after IS months
sojourn in Paris for finishing course
before her debut than she had her
favorite steeds brought up from Nir-
ginia and began to put them through
their PAGES. This handsome steed,
the Knight Commander, the best in
Miss Browns stud. has been pitted
against Mrs. Combs famous Ovation,
and the race will be cne of the out
standing features of the National
Horse Show in New York City, with
Miss Brown hoping to win handsome
ly. The progressive maiden deems
taking part in social affairs just an
interlude, and she intends to give
serious attention to her stables, get
ting the same view as men do about
gentler p1easures-that they may be
enjoyed at times, but need not be
considered a career nor an occupa-
ton. Knight Commander is an Eng
lish horse, and was purchased by Miss
Brown year ago during a Summer
passed in the British Isles. Mrs.
Combs races principally American
stock, though this year she has i'm
ported a half dozen harness horses,
several of which she drove in the re-
cent races about Philadelphia and at
the Piping Rock meeting.
New York City has some exceed
ingly fascinating candidates for So
cial honors already announced, but
possibly the most important additions
to the buds of the Winter which has
been made in the past fortnight is
that of four members of the Iselin
family, all cousins and all most
promin emily placed in the inner set Of
Gotham. Miss Dorothy Iselin, daugh.
ter of Mrs. Arthur Iselin, has con-
seDtad To Law aside her vocal Studjes