Evening star., 1926-12-26
Tales of Well known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Descriptive Stories Given and Pleasing Reminis-
cences Rehearsed to Distinguished Per-
sonages of United States and Europe.

garden. which leads from the water
to the mansion, q superb marine view
is possible, while the shrubbery and
| flowers are marvellous all through
the year. Just now n special plant
ing of peonies and narcissus is near
the end OF the pergola over the sea.
These flowers, which come only in
spring in this climate, are almost half
the year earlier in this enchanted
land. while the larkspur and forget
me-nots keep up a continual bloom
ing. and roses all through the year
in soft ochres and pink cover the
pergola and give n background to
the purple and lavender of the
wistaria. All the planting is informal
and there is a riot of color against
the old stone wall which protects
the terrace. When the season proper
opens Sir John and Lady Ward oc-
cupy their handsome home Dudley
House, in Park Lane. London, and
give proper attention to their socia!
duties, and this ended they return
to the Riviera for the remainder of
the year.
Plus Nj. Roman pontiff. has selected
DR.. Charles Rufus Morey, dean of
the department of art and archaeology
In Princeton to prepare the catalogue
of minor works of art in what is called
the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican.
These statues, carvings and crude
paintings of the opening Christian
era in the cultural sense are highly
priced by scholars. and IT has been
subject of regret that they were
marked in rather a haphazard way,
sometimes the date being century or
two amiss. DIR. MOrey was at one
time a fellow in the American School
of Art in Rome, and thus came to
know the head of the Catholic Church
In the days when he was a librarian.
first at the Ambrosian, in Milan. and
later at the Vatican. A profound
scholar, the present pontif always
made the little museum. as it was
called. a special study, and last year
he raised 1t to the first rank by or
dering removed to it all the objects
found in excavating the catacombs,
and he had the curios taken from one
single room in a remote wing of the
papaI palace and placed in fine large
airy rooms near the more famous
Vatican collections. To possess even
enc authentic work of early Christian
art was deemed a triumph in such
rich and well endowed institutions as
the Metropolitan of New York and the
Boston Museum In the latter but
three and in Boston but two may be
found, while the Museo Christano Of
Rome has nearly 150. DIR. Morey and
his associates have been given full con-
troll of the indexes of this work, as
well as of the catalogue. and they be-
gin their labors next June. The dean
of tile art and archaeology department
in Princeton is from Hastings, Mich,
and he made his collegiate studies
in Ann Arbor. After completing his
course in Rome in 1903, he went to
Princeton and has been at that seat Of
learning ever since.
Nine. Schumann-Heink in the early
days Of December celebrated her fifth
eth anniversary as singer, and in her
entertaining "reminiscences, recently
published, she recalls that it is also
so years since she began to sing III
public, Christmas eve. that most beall-
tiful of the many hymns OF the Ma
tivity, "Stille Nacht" c'Silent Nfght').
To hundreds of thousands throughout
the world Christmas would not be
Christmas without this glorious song,
and since ii now comes on the radio
and on the records. unavoidably to
those away from church Aservices, 1t
would appear that long after the great
voice, which made it's popularity at
least in this country. is stilled, it will
continue to proclaim the Yuletide
spirit. The author was Franz Gruber.
the organist and choir director of a
small Catholic church at Hallein, in
upper Austria, quite near Salzburg.
where Mozart was born. His pastor
had gotten up a. Christmas celebra-
ton and he asked his organist to pre-
pare a special hymn for the occasion.
AS spontaneously as stephen Foster
composed his ballads, so the musician
sat at his task, and in an hour had