Evening star., 1925-01-04
Many Americans Quit
Europe for Homeland
! At Holiday $ Dawning
Paris, However, Note S
: Throngs of Incomers to
Enjoy Winter Festivities.
} 'Washingtonians in List.

PARIS, France.-With the arriva'
OF the holidays there was a general
exodus of Americans from Europe
homeward bound for the festivities
while incoming boats have been
bringing hundreds of others here for
the Winter season along the Riviera
in France and Italy and in Egypt
and for the Winter sports in Switz-
er1and.
With the return of Mrs. Alanson b,
Houg hton and Miss Mathilde Hough-
ton to Berlin from a visit to the
United States and the arrival of fam
ilies of members of the embassy
staff and the Dawes Commission, So
cial activities in the German capital
have taken on renewed color. Among
the visitors is Nine. Wolcott- Gilbert
of Washington. who comes of the
Won Buelow family. She is the guest
of relatives.
Egypt again is calm after the re-
cent government crisis and is
drawing its quota of American
visitors. Among those stopping at
the Continental-Savoy Hotel in Cairo
are Mr.. T. Bitterman of Washington
and Mr.. Julien d. Roussel, American
consul in Smyrna.
Osborne Wood. son of Gen. Leonard
Wood, Governor General of the Philip
pines, who a year ago won fame and
nearly a million dollars while a leuten-
ant in the Army by playing the Wall
street mark ct by cable from Manila,
has arrived in Paris on Il trip around
the world. With him comes the re-
port that he was on the right side
of the recent uptrend of the market.
Montague Glass, who in 1910 created
the chara cters of Potash and Purl-
mutterr which since have grown to
be almost standard characters in
American fiction and on the stage,
has arrived in Paris to spend the
Winter
Mr. and Mrs. l. Pittman-Springs
of Washington spent the holidays in
Paris at the Hotel Brighton.
Bright weather is taking many
Americans south into Italy. Among
Washington people stopping in Flor
ence are Mrs. Avery Coonley and
Miss Coonley.
Maj. and Mrs. A. w Brewster and
Mrs. Brewster's sister, Mrs. Edward
c. Walker of Washington. are stop
ping in Paris at the Hotel Plaza
Athenee.
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Garrels of
Washington are guests of the Hotel
Crillon in Paris.
Miss Katharine Chauncey of Wash
1ngton is stopping at the Hotel France
ct Choiseul, in Paris.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Burnap of
Washington sailed for home on the
United States liner Leviathan to spend
the holidays. They were married in
Paris recently. Mrs. Burnap was Mrs.
Ralph L. GalIinger. law
of the late Senator J. II. GaIIinger, of
Concord. n. H.
Sinclair Lewis, author of Main
Street and "Babbitt-" has arrived in
Paris from London to study the eco
nomic and moral status of the Ameri-
cans living in the French capital as ma
terial for his forthcoming novel which
it is said, will revolve more or less about
the vanitieS and foibIeS of the boule-
wards.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Rout and Mr. J.
Rout of Washington are at the Hotel
Majestic in Nice.
The Countess of Suffolk. formerly
Miss Marguerite Letter of Washington,
is recovering from a hunting accident in
which two of her ribs were broken. The
countess, who is a famous sportswoman
and much prefers the country, lives alto
gether at her Maimesbury place, near
which she had a bad accident about a
year ago.
Among those stopping at the Carlton
Elite Hotel, in Zurich is Mr.. Chester
Willoughby of Washington. Mr.. Samuel
Gassenheimer of Washington is regis
tered at the Grand Hotel, in Nurem-
berg. Maj. f. J. Atkinson is a. guest of
the Hotel st. James and Albany, in
Paris, and Mr.. and Mrs. William Wilson,
jr., are spending the Winter in the south
of France.
Mrs. Peter B. Kyne, wife of the ia