Evening star., 1925-05-31

Importance anu Without parallel IN
any maritime city of this country.
The late Louis Jennings retired from
journalism some 20 years previous to
his death and made his home in Lon
don. He became the intimate friend
and for several years was the politi-
cal manager of Lord Randolph
Churchill. Mrs. Jennings was among
the most powerful Anglo American
hostesses in England and was before
her marriage the internationally
known belle of Gotham. Miss Made
leine Henriques, daughter of the
banker, David NJ. Henriques. Lady
Ritchie was educated in London and
on the continent and her marriage to
Lord Ritchie occurred within the past
10 years. This young nobleman is a
member of the firm of Ritchie & Co,
jute manufacturers of Dundee, and is
the younger brother of that Sir James
Ritchie who was lord mayor of Lon
don, 1904, and later member of the
cabinet of Arthur Balfour. Lady
Ritchie is very vivaciouS and clever
and is chairman of many civic phi.
lanthropies in London.
Broadcasting proceedings at auc-
tions is a novelty not yet attempted
in this country where the radio has
reached its height of fame and popu-
larity, but London has tried this eX-
pertinent and notable sales of paint
ings, sculpture and books and manu-
scripts are now permanently entered
on what the British public appreci-
ateS- over the wireless. That sale of
the paintings and rare books belong
ing to the Dowager Countess of Car
narvon at ChriStie'S afforded rural
England and patrons on the CONT
nent who could not be present many
dramatic moments. Such interest
was stimulated that the collection
brought almost a million dollars
much of it contributed by American
collectors. Auctions at Christie s
when such treasures as Gainsborough
Reynolds and old masters like Bel
linie and Andreas del Sarto are of
fered the public are conducted like a
solemn religious function and scarcely
a whisper is heard in the Salesroom
except the voice of the seller, the
bidders expressing their wishes by
mods and hands held up or by passing
notes to the ushers. Which would
not seem to make lively proceedings
for broadcasting, but with the utmost
diligence the names of bidders were
instantly obtained and called into
the set with every advance in the
bidding, the comments Of the spec.
tators, even though whispered, and
then the final result. Britains en-
Enthusiastically applaud the auction
proceedings and Paris is to follow
suit very soon. So far New York has
failed TO broadcast notable sales, but
this innovation may soon be expected
Baron Won der Hoeven, formerly a
member of the legation which Queen
Wilhelmina'S s government sent to the
ESoviet regime in Petrograd, is spend
e<1g -~-~h at AeS Springs. Va, TAX.
ing the cure, and this Dutch diplo
matist made the trip all the way from
Amsterdam to the Virginia resort in.
spired by the accounts which he heard
of the efficacy of these waters. So the
Old World is returning the compli
mentS of the new in this matter OF
spas. Tens of thousands of Amer.
leans go annually to the spas of Eu
ropeans who visit American resorts
are fast mounting up, especially al
the famous springs of the Virginias
and the health resorts of Michigan
and the Southwest. Baron Won der
Hoeven was recently a guest at the
Dutch legation in Washington, and
If the waters at Hot Springs prove as
beneficial as he hopes, he may jour
ney to Mexico where he has been sent
1 on consular d1dlrS- lnere are many
Washingtonian who deem that Sum
mer lost which does not permit a
journey to Carlsbad, Bohemia, though
recently many Austrians and Czechs
who are adjacent to this most ven
cradle of spas on the European con
tinent, have registered at the three
most famous thermal resorts-the
Hot Springs in Virginia, Arkansas
and in Arizona.