Evening star., 1924-03-16
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Sir Esme Howard to Select Site for New British
T :. Embassy Building Here-Notable
Matrimonial Events

,tinguished southern parentAge, though
iher connection with the Hewitts and
ICoopers of New York have almost
Iovershadowed her Kentucky ances-
tors. Her father, DR.. James o. Green,
lis the son OF the late Norvin Green.
who died in New Albany, Ind, as
president Of the Southw estern Tele-
graph Company. after serving in the
This Norvin Green was the first cousin
of the late Mrs. Matthew r. Scott and
iof Mrs. Adlat Stephenson, who had
been before their marriage Julia
Presbyterian clergyman, who had
devoted his life and talents to the
mountain white of Kentucky. DR..
Green married Miss Hewitt daughter
lGreater New York. when he was
practicing medicine in the metropolis
He had considerable private for
tune, but he was \ diligent student Of
for charity on the East side He is a
stately man. very punctilious in man.
ner, after the way of the old south,
and Is 2 fluent linguist. having stu
died in Vienna. Berlin and other cele-
There is a legend that Mayor Hewitt
tleft few of those exceedingly rare
bottles Of Johannisberger in the keep
ing OF his SON In law to be consumed
when his daughter Margaret became
ially clung to these priceless bottles
and will open them when the occasion
lpresents itself.
to the Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil
| rounds out the customary number of in
ternational romances which have led to
the nuptial altar annually some Of Uncle
Sans fair daughters. ever since Citizen
, Genet. one of the first envoys sent by
Y
girl in Philadelphia. Mr.. Cecil is
comparatively new member of the
! Washington corps. but he was among
the several younger diplomats who
Mrs. George W. vanderbilt at Bilt-
| more during the Thanksgiving and
Christmas seasons. Miss Vanderbilt
| seems to belong to Washington in 4
buds in the first year Of the world
war after this country Joined the fray,
and her days were passed in the Red
Cross sewing rooms or in driving
! held a post in the War Department
i for a time and did her bit and more
| in Washington and in Carolina, as
| well as in New York. Mrs. Vanderbilt
on K street just below 18th street.
| in the vicinity OF Mrs. Stephen
B. Elkins' and other domiciles where
| social history was written in it's first
I CndpterS the f1drFlSOn regime.
The mansion where Senator Quay
made his home for so long is immedi-
ately adjoining, and its garden, where
| some famous prandial events oc-
| CURED, is one of the few which sur
vive the era Of progress in the crowd
ed midcity residentiaI districts. Mrs.
| Vanderbilt keeps her home always in
readiness, and she never passes Wash
ington by on her many Journeys to
and from New York to Biltmore. She
has been here less this winter than
| for the past five, but she has enter
| tained week after week parties of
Washington's most distinguished
deniZenS.
who passed through Washington
| last week on the way to her home
| after a visit to her son-in-law and
| daughter, Mr.. and Mrs George Hyde
| Clark of Cooperstown, n. Y, Is to
/ entertain that celebrity, Roy Chap
man Andrews, whose recent discovery
Of 100000 old dinosaur eggs has
put King Tut and all his f1nery in
1.-THE background of public interest.
! Mr. Andrews as a lad of fourteen
! came out of the west somewhere in
Mr.. Borah.s home state, and finally
/ drifted into. the employ of the New
| York Museum of Natural History.
| But he filled minor parts 80 well and
| showed such a keen knowledge of
| animals and birds that he was soon
! sent to collect them in every part of
| the world. For ten years Mr.. An.
drews sailed the seven seas in search
Of whales. and he is an expert in
| curing and mounting them as wen as
| in capturing the best types. For the
| past three years he has lived in Cobb
desert. and his monograph on that
| unknown region, where 1t Is said the
| most ancient traces of human and
animal life are found, is awaited with
keen anxiety in scientific circles. Mrs.
. pyorsop entertained the eyDlOref in