Evening star., 1925-10-25
By MARGARET Il. DOWNING.

The amba SSador to France who
spent Il more prolonged vacation in
this country than he has known in five
years, on his return to Paris, will
occupy in the residential sense the
handsome new embassy at No.
Avenue de lena, illustrious in French
social annals as the home and scene
of the brilliant hospitality of NJ. Jules
Grevy, prior to his election as Presi-
dent of the French Republic. Mr..
Herrick made use of the state rooms
of the embassy for the fete given July
d and the staff of the Paris mission
has been working in the chanCelry
all Summer. But the first diplomatic
establishment which this nation has
owned on the banks of the Seine will
not be entirely equipped before the
early part of November
Mr.. and Mrs. Parmely w. HerriCk
have been busy all through their usual
vacation with the final details of in
terror decoration and furnishing Mrs.
Parmely Herrick. who is the chate.
laine of the American embassy in
Paris, as the amba ssador has been a
NldoWer for some years, is a charm
ing young matron who, as Miss Agnes
blackwell of st. Louis. received care
iul training in the social sense She
Is the daughter of Mr.. Alexa nder NJ.
blackwell and with her sister Mar
Eeory attended the Mary Institute IN
her home city and then studied FOR
TWO years in Paris and Dresden. Mr..
iierrlck s purchase Of the Grevy palace
which has extensive grounds beauti.
fully adapted for al freSco entertain
ing, so popular in Paris, is in the
center of mid-city residential section
and on boulevard which has been a
laVorlte OF American diplomatistS since
the days of Benjamin Franklin.
Baroness OrCZy's visit to New York,
Washington and other large cities is
among the first of the eminent E,u-
ropean noveliStS due here during the
next six months, bound on the usual
mission of getting impressions for a
forthcoming volume. The clever au-
thor of The Scarlet Pimpernel" has
thousands of admirers in Uncle Sans
domain who are planning to honor
her in the most signal way This
popular novelist has several times
visited Canada, and a volume of her
experiences in the Dominion will be
published in a few months She is a
hungarian and uses her fathers
hereditary title as a nom de plume
He was Baron Felix Orczy, a terri
torlal magnate of Tarnaors Her
mother was Countess Maria Wass,
also of a famous Magyar family and
well endowed with agricultural lands
The young daughter showed talent for
painting and began her career as an
artist and several of her canvases
may be admired in the Royal Acad-
emy IN London and in the art gallery
OF Brussels. In 1900 she deserted art
for letters and published what proved
TO be one of the most widely read and
prohtahle of the mystery stories of
that year. THE Old Man in the
corner The Baroness at the height
OF her literary fame married Mr..
Montagu Barstow and has cozv
nome in Chelsea. London, and a fine
country estate in Yorkshire She is
exceedingly attractive in appearance,
is In her early forties, and possesses
the gift of languages.
Miss Dorothy Schurman. daughter
or the American amba ssa dor to Berlin.
has reluctantly consented to forego
What remains of her course at Bryn
Mawr TO aid her mother. Mrs. Jacob
Gould Schurman, in the exacting So
clal duties which fall to their lot.
Miss Schurman would have entered
the Junior class of Bryn NIawr. and
she is one of the most fervent adher-
ents of the new president of that
institution Of learning Helen Taft
Manning. She wished of all things to
take her degree in the regular order
oil Things. But no one can Sympathize
more heartily with her young friends
thWarted ambition than Mrs. Manning
AS Helen Taft, the grave Young
daughter of the then President of the
United States, this now renowned
educator simply had to crush down
obstacles with an iron heel in her
grim determination to go through
college. Miss Dorothy Schurman,
VINO is remarkably pretty young
girl just entering the twenties two
years ago, declared emphaticallv
against allowing her fathers diplo,
matte career to interfere with her
education, and she turned her back
squarely on the allurements of the
foreign colony of Pekin and sailed
home to enter Bryn Mawr. She is
a Keen student and has won all hon
ors SO 1ar in her classes. Life will be
TOO full of distractions in Berlin this
WINTER to permit much intellectual
effort, but Miss Schurman plans pri
Eate study with good tutors and a
summer course at Bonn to keen her
IN readiness to return to her Alma
Mater in the Autumn of 1926. one
or the fervent leaders in the Junior
League, the daughter of the ambas-
sador Is keeping up her interest and
performing many Of her duties in its
extensive correspondence
Miss Elizabeth Burgess, daughter
OF Mrs. Theodore Burgess of Boston
is another American singer in Fran
MISS Burgess almost from her baby
hood declared that she would be a
great singer and as her late father
ana her mother We're among the
music loving people of Boston thew
frequently. had renowned artists
among their guests Jean de Res<e
was one of these and the little girl
sang MN some nursery rhymes. and
the eminent tenor confirmed her be-
iel mat she would reach fame with
ner voice. For four years de Reske
taught Miss Burgess and then turned
her over to great dramatic trainer
NJ. jacques Coini. At present Mrs
burgess and her talented daughter
are the guests of Count Emmanuel
De La Rouchefoucauld, in Dinard
ms coming American prima donna
mas been filling concert engagements
IN AiN-les -Bains, Deauville and Other
fashionable French resorts and she
mas been we'll received even by the
critics. Mrs. Burgess hopes to induce
ner daughter to take a good rest at
nome before she ventures into opera
ana both are expected to spend some
time in Boston and New York before
returning TO Paris in January. Miss
Burgess is but one of some 20 or
more American girls who have ar
rived in the musical sense in France
and Italy and who have turned the
tables by obtaining as good financial
results in concert and light opera
as the many musicians of Europe
have in this country for the past half
century.
Sir Reginald Stubbs, the recently
appointed governor and commander.
in-chief of Jamaica will in the early