Evening star., 1926-02-07
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Amazing Disp lay of Historic Portraits and Furni-
ture Assembled by Mrs. William Monroe-Sen-
ator Dale Has Unusual Collection of Clocks

| of producing Shakespearean plays as
| elaborately as professional houses.
| The plays are to continue all through
/ this month and March and then the
| club will have weekly readings and
! interpretations of the plays as the
| theater season wanes. Senator Short
! ridge. who is one of the most learned
of Shakespearean scholars on the Pa
| cltic Coast, will make an address to
TINS club before the members dis
perSe for the Summer.
! DR.. William II. Nichols who is one
OF the most distinguished scientists of
| the many trained by New York Uni
verSity. has recently given $500. 900 TO
( MS alma mater to be safely invested
and the income to provide an educa-
ZION along chemical lines for any
students matriculated there who show
pronounced talent. Or. Nichols who is
frequently in Washington and who
was for a time in the chemical re-
search department during the World
I War, as an associate of the venerable
scholar and chemist. DR.. Charles Ed
ward Monroe, believes with the ma
jority of scientists. that as the nine
te"nth century belonged TO electricity
in the matter of discovery and achieve
+
claim chemistry us the medium to
. work wonders The Nichols foluda-
tlof in the great popular University OF
New York where so MANY hundreds
study who have not the time nor in
come to devote the entire day to
scholastic pursuits. has always been
filed with ambitious youths ready to
wrest fame and useful service from
the sciences. and chemistry has always
led in the courses. Now. the fire OF
genius may glow brightly for the
young man who is gifted in such re
search and he will henceforth be as
Sured of the means to live and with
which to purchase the expensive ma
terialS to make his experiments. This
Gift j. universally accllimed aS an in
stance Of a fine modern spirit on the
part of the philanthropiSt. and prdc-
teal 10 the very last degree.
Mrs Schuyler Warren and Mrs.
Christ opher Wyatt are deep in their
plans for the annual pageant at the
town hall III New Work City. and as
they propose t. have their exhibition
along the end of February, naturally
the achievements OF George Washing
ton will he the theme Many signal
events in the revolutionary service of
the great patriot were staged in and
about New York and ali those illus
triouS knickerhockerS who aided nlm
will he presented in the pictorial re
view But the inauguration OF the
first President on April 81. 1889. viii
he the most important event presented
and the hall which followed will lie
produced in regal fashion and many
Of the costume Worn will be either the
genuine articles or very careful copies
from muse tmS. Mr.. Leonard Cox. who
t.I IN
mortal patriot. * an authority on the
coStumery of the closing years of the
eighteenth century and he and com
lnittee OF artists and illustrators are
busy designing garments as well as
transforming a modern ballroom INTO
an exact likeness of the Assembly
Hail in which Gen. Washington and
Martha his wife received the con
course OF guests. In the Van Court
landt de PeySter livingston and other
knickerbocker families there are
many recipes Of the edibleS in vogue
in 1883 and many will he served and
on ancient plate and china AT the
supper which Will follow the colonial
ball.
Trumhull the soldier artist Of the
Revolution. VI hose fine canNaSeS adorn
three panels in the rotunda of the
capitol. painted in the closing years OF
the eighteenth century Il portrait Of
Il reVered banker of his day. AleAan-
der Brown. who. III 1900. established
the bank of Brown X Sons in Balti-
more This portrait belongs 10 the
descendants OF the eminent tnanaCier.
nus a painting in the first quarter OF
the nineteenth century. in which The
four sons of Alexander are grouped,
some standing by a table in the count
ing house. others seated near it, and
on the opposite wall is the Trumbull
picture painted most perfectly into th.
scene. the work of j. {. Maugans.
This canvas hangs in the private office
of the president of the Brown Bros. &
Co.. in New York City. Three copies
are about to be dispatched to equally
distinguished branches of the first
bank founded by Alexander Brown.
These four sons were George. John
Alexander. William and James Brown.
/ The senior bank fiourishes in the
Monumental city. in charge of the
erandsons and other descendants of
the first Brown. who was succeeded
by his eldest son, George. John Alex
ander went To Philadelphia and estab-