Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-28

years in training at the State Depart.
ment in Washington. His younger
brother. Paul, married the sister
| of the late Mrs. John Pierpont Nor
gan, and he resides in London per-
manently, and has recently purchased
and equipped a home in ST. James
place near that of Mr.. Richard c..
Pennoyer and Lady Pennoyer. This
| fine old New England family, printi-
pally identified with New Hampshire
and then with California, has now be-
come British.
Lady James Douglas, one of the
striking figures in the world Of sports
and known in every part of it, has
been compelled through illness to can
cek her plan of coming to this coun-
| try in March and travelling every
irch of it from New York to San
Francisco-that is, all parts where
sports thrive. Lady Douglas is the
only woman who ever won the Derby,
and recently she captured the much
sought racing purse, the Oaks. Her
stud farm, in HARDWOOD, has been
! visited by hundreds of Americans in
| terested in horse breeding, and it was
! to return some of these visits that
! she was coming to the United States.
| L HIS SuCCeSSlul DteeuSE Oh horses Is
| he daughter of the late Frederic
! Hennessy, the manufacturer in Eng
| land. Ireland and France of one of the
| most famous brands of brandy on the
| market. The HenneSsyS are a noble
| family of BallmOney. near Cork, and
| they have been making their yellow
| fluids since the middle of the eight
eenth century and supply all the
| royal cellars of Europe. Lady Doug
| las, having been reared in France has
| recently established a fine stable on
the estate inherited from her father,
| Monte Stuart. at Beaulieu- sur Mer
| Her home in Paris is one of the great
social centers for Anglo-American and
| Anglo-French society. 1t is in Avenue
| MeSsina and is a grand palace of the
Bourbon days of France, remodeled
and modernized. Her husband, the
| late Lord James Douglas. was the
brother of the Marquis of Queens.
berry.
Marshal Petain. who was asso-
ciated so closely with the A f. F. in
France and Belgium and is well
known to all American public men
and women visiting Paris, has Just
received the wardenship of Chantillv.
one Of the most delightful posts in
the gift of the French army. Chan
! tilly was the home of the Grande
| Condo, and its splendid feudal castle
| and large wooded domain, kept In the
most perfect order through the cen
| turtles. makes one of the most valu-
! able possessions of the French gov
| eminent. 1t was given to the mill
| tary wing of the Third French Re
| public by the conqueror of Algeria,
the Due d'Aumale, who desired that
| i
guardianship of some warrior who
had retired from active service after
comforting great benefits on his coun-
try. In the opinion of the powers
that be in the ministry of war, Field
Marshal Petain fills all these require
ments. and he has taken possession
of his new home located amid bril-
| liant and historic scenes. Not far
| from the estate of the Grande Condo
| is the pretty village of Chantilly
| famous for it's fine lace and hand
woven linens. and where a renewed
activity has been apparent in these
ancient industries because of the in
tereSt displayed by the French gov
eminent. These lovely laces are not
used so frequently on ball gowns as
! formerly, and so there is now a we'll
organized crusade, sponsored by noted
! hoSteSSeS of Paris, to bring back
| lace gowns in black and white and
! there is to be Spring carnival fea-
! turing them to be held in the French
capital and possibly in London.
| NJ. Roger Boutet de MonVel, a pop
ular Partisan writer, has been spend
| ing the past month in New York City,
! his first visit in ten years, and he is
writing his impressions of the vast
changes which he observes, and this,
/ seemingly, to the great content Of the
denizenS Of the worlds unique city.
NJ de Monvel wrote in French what
was the classic in that language of
| the heavy output of biographies Of
Lord Byron called forth by the recent
centenary of his death. This Gallo
version Of that marvellous poets
| career, with critical review Of his
works has not yet been translated into
| English. but is on the way, so say the
wise ones, to displace the very popu-
lar GLORIOUS Apollo" NJ. de Monvel
is in several of his published essays
gracious to the various new types Of
architecture which are now manifest
in the New York skyline, and he finds
a vague resemblance to the pictured
| cities of the dim past, those almost
! legendary centers Of population along
the Nile and about the Mediterranean,
| where an irregularitv existed which
was harmonious and was the obvious
| result of the existing needs Of the
| times. The author Is the brother Of
'he a~tirt Maurice Poutet do NOVEL,
!