Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

time she followed a theatrical and
musical professional career. M. and
Nine. Orlowska were married a year
and a half ago in the home of the
latter's mother, Mrs. Kate Brady
Harris of New York City, and have
been living in Washington for the
past year. The former was for time
consul of Poland in New York City.
Mines Orlowska is one of the best
golf players in the Congressional
Country Club and possibly one of the
best in the diplomatic corps.
Samuel Price Wetherill's fine old
mansion on Rittenhouse Square in
Philadelphia has recently been trans
formed into an art. music. literary and
social center by the Philadelphia Art
Alliance, to the satisfaction of all who
know anything of the beauty and per
lection of this home. Kent Wetherill.
a later owner. was a successful mural
artist, and, with Richard Blossom
Farley, he adorned the walls of the
series of drawing rooms with some
exquisite paintings of the sylvan
type. There is an Italian atmosphere
in the dwelling enhanced with num-
Der of intimate little galleries with
fretted iron railing, with Cupids f1ut-
tering on the tiers and symbolic
paintings in the inches above. Emf
nent American artists of today have
given their best to this new home
of the Philadelphia alliance, which
has accomplished so much for the
higher things. The dining rooms
have been adorned by Elmer Scofield.
Helen Turner, Gardner Symons and
Leopold Seyfert There are two gal
leries on the second floor, where at
the present time many canvases of
John Carroll are hanging, this artist
having received a prize In the last
international art exhibit in the Car
negie Museum in Pittsburgh. This
club, like the Arts Club of this city,
proposed to hang canvases of others
who have secured honors in the in.
ternational sense. The Art Alliance
has in it's membership all of the great
leaders of Philadelphia and especially
in the social realm, and it's entertain
! ments are Of paramount Importance.
accorded priority at every opening
season.
While the Countess of Suffolk. for
merly Miss Marguerite Letter Of this
city, is engaged in a legal battle with
her brother, Mr.. Joseph Letter, for
the control of the exeCutorship of her
fathers enormous fortune, her son.
the young earl, is fighting battles Of
his own in a ough-and-tumble fash
ion in the depths of the Australian
wilds. There he has been associated
with Lord Apsley in studying the
conditions which emigrants face in
that distant land. This grandson of
Levi u. Letter, Charles Henry George
Howard, who is the twentieth Earl
of Suffolk and the thirteenth of Berk-
shire, attained his majority last
March, but he declined to return to
the ancestral castle and has remained
in charge of the large interests estab.
lished by Lord Apsley. This searcher
after facts has recently returned to
London and sits in the House of Com
mons for the borough of Southampton,
| whence so many emigrants depart for
the South Pacific, and young Howard,
who has worked in the fields, in the
mines, on ranches. everywhere, to OBJ
tain firstclass knowledge of condi-
tons, Is to keep up Apsley's work.
Lord Apsley bought se'~nral ranches,
but the Earl of Suffolk, though he
does not use his title at present, has