Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-29
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
France-Blue Flower Garden at Newport.
American Consul General in London.

Lake Forest which was used by the
Adds Players for the revival of Lady
Gregory" a shorter drama, Bernard
Shaw's earliest work. and many of
the now famous dramas. some few by
Oscar Wilde. AS Countess GiZycka
and as Miss Eleanor Patterson, Mrs.
Schlesnger was one of the most tai
ented in the cast, and she derived
much pleasure in the new prOduc-
tons which We're, however, the work
OF Mrs Adds and of her talented
daughter-in-law. Mrs. Graham Adds.
Mrs. Arthur Adds formerly took part
in the plays and acted as stage direc-
tor at the same time, but she has
given place to the younger set now
ard expressed her gratitude that so
many responded to the call for re-
hearsalS, and WINGED much pleasure
at getting away from the inevitable
jazz evening brigade and the Charles
ton set. Mrs. Schlesinger declined
place in the cast. Among the former
performers who were the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Adds during three sue
CesSiVe evenings last week were Mrs.
Samuel r. Chase. Mr.. and Mrs.
| Charles Atkinson. Mrs. Cecil Barnes.
Mr.. Benjamin Carpenter. Mr.. Muir
ry Nelson and Mr.. }. Dorr Bradley.
Mr. Horace Lee Washington. who is
now consul general at London. is
proving hospitable to the many Wash
ingtonianS who are in England this
summer and who knew him during
, the years when he was clerk in the
State Department just at the begin
ming of his career and later in the
various posts which he filled in
Europe and in Egypt. Mr.. Washing
ton was for years a consul at large
a i,,oY, VT INF oSoC -
! where his services we're demanded.
| He went from Liverpool a year ago
| to take the most important post in
| the American consular Service-that
at London. Mrs. Washington. whom
| he married in Geneva. was Miss
Helen Stewart Williams Of Richmond.
and the wedding occurred in 1897.
! Mr.. Washington spent several years
studying at the University of Geneva.
and his wife was engaged in the
same task when their romance be-
gan. They are both socially accom-
! plished and have taken part in all
! the amenities which were extended
! Americans by the British court and
| by the celebrities of London'S official
world. The consul general is the son
/ Of the late Richard Washington and
! his wife Katherine Lee, and he was
born in Washington and received his;
| primary education in its public
schools. He was among the Capitals
/ gallants in his young days and was
one of the organizers of its first Ger
man Club, afterward the Bachelors,
a dancing organization which flour
| ished in the lS90s and which gave
the most exclusive and beautiful cotil-
! Ions in the city. Mr.. Washington
! reports are considered text books in
| the State Department and have been
made into brochures for the guidance
! of embryo conSulS and conSulS gen
eral.
Mrs Arthur CurtisS James. in her
| Newport home, has proven to the
! ialtheSt point of discussion that a
color scheme in the garden carried
/ out to perfection is quite as effective
as one in a house. Her blue garden SO
captivated Princess Louise of Sweden
that she asked many details of plant
| ing and has announced her intention
| Of having Il similar flower plot at her
home near Stockholm. At intervals
Mrs. James has introduced white
! blooms. like the tall, graceful spikes
of the plume poppy. which are glori-
| Gus just when the delphinium is at It's
! best. The Shasta daisy also empha-
| sizes the beauty of blue flowers, and,
g. course, there are the great heavy
headed clumps of Miss Lingard phlox
This charming hostess of Beacon
House, one of the social centers of
NCwp1rt, has marvels of planting in
blue and mauVe rhOdodendrum against
the solemn background of spruce and
lex hedges. and she is much inter
ested in the news Of blue daffodils
which comes from Holland. Early
Spring produces many lovely blue and
purple blooms in hyacinths, especially
the graceful grape variety, and in the
c.'OcuS and iris. Lilac bushes in soft
lavender and white make a splendid
border for the bulbs, ard Mrs James
frequently takes relays of friends from
her New York home just to see these
! exquisite blooms of the opening year.
The old William Douglas house. on
the corner of Fourteenth street and
Sixth avenue. in New York City,
which was for so long familiar Us
the headquarters of the Salvation
Army, and where the habit of serving
those smoking hot delicious dough-
nuts originated with the "Sallies,"
has been demolished during the past
month to make way for sky-scrap-
ing office building. This venerable
mansion, which had survived it's
former neighbors for more than a
nan century, WAS curing the me-
| time Of its builder, William Douglas.
! the originator of another hospitable
| custom, that of having formal break
| fasts In the early '70s, social news
was but sparsely reported. yet there
are chronicles of the handsome
! breakfasts served in the mansion and
| the brilliant companies which at
| tended. These functions were set for
in the afternoon and We're in all