Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Tales of We'll Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President Coolidge Making Strenuous Effort to
Keep WASHINGTON Beautiful-Cuban Execu-
tves Expected Visit Attracting Interest.

dence in Washington. Mr.. Phillips.
who has extensive oil interests and
a large family-five Children-declded
10 quit politics and attend to his PR
Vate concerns He is the son of
we'll remembered NJ G. from Butler,
who was here also for six years. be
ginning in 1898 The elder Phillips
had established reputation for dis
eliminating hospitality. though IN
that remote year, 1898. social condl-
ions in Washington were simple ana
'cstricted and the House had about
half its present number MIS-. I'hli-
lips was Miss Alma sherman. rela-
tive of the former Vice President
James Schoolcraft Sherman. and the
marriage occurred in 1908. Mrs. Phil
lips has been active in the congress
sional set and the home on Sixteenth
street is a center of hospitality. Musi-
cal in taste and a Skillful amateur.
Mrs Phillips has been a generous
patron Of important musical events,
and those who were asked to meet
the iarming young artist, MISS
Sophia Lent, the violinlst. and TO
hear her play. were recruited from
the congressional circle mainly, and
this offered an additional occasion for
saying good-by to the host and host
ess who are about TO depart for their
home in Butler.
NJ. Paul Claudel, the new French
Ambassador, who has been definitely
announced to arrive on March ~,
ushers in many interesting and lmpor-
tant newcomers into the local diplo-
matte corps The Minister from the
Netherlands is expected about the
same date. and the successors Of DR..
Helmer II. Bryn and of DR.. Ante
Tresich Pavichich, in the Norwegian
and Serbian legations. are shortly ex-
pected. Uruguay and Paraguay, who
have been under the care of charge
d'affaires, are expected shortly to send
an envoy In the case of the latter 1t
is rumored that Senior Ramirez Will
be promoted. Nine Bryn, wife of the
retiring Minister from Norway, has
the distinction Of having lived IN
Washington longer than other chate-
laine of foreign establishment. The
two seniors of DR.. Bryn in the corps,
Eiscount d'Alte. the Minister from
Portugal. and NJ. Constantin Brun.
the Danish Minister. are bachelors
The Danish Minister had an intermis-
sion in his service, for he was sent to
Constantinople for four years, and
Count Won Molkte, who had married
Miss Cornelia Thayer of Boston,
served here. But NJ. Brun came TO
Washington first in 1894. when Grover
Cleveland held the reins of Govern
ment. and he remained until 1908. In
1912 he again was assigned to Wash
ington, and he has been here continu-
ously since. He has thus record of
90 years of service, which is unsur-
passed in the annals of diplomacy.
The Portuguese Minister soon Will
celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his arrival in Washington and the
presentation of his credentials to
President Roosevelt on May l, 1902.
Lady Beatty, formerly Ethel Field
of Chicago, has been for years trying
to find andirons such as Shakespeare
describes in Cymbeline, two winking
cupids of silver each on one foot
sta nding," and she has at last Sc
cured a pair which are cotemporary
with the Bard of Avon, and therefore
may have been seen and described by
him in the plays. Admiral and Lady
Beatty have restored their beautiful
home. the Priory, in Sussex, to the
exact counterpart of a country dwell
ing in the days of the Tudors when
the stanch half-brick half-timbered
mansion was occupied by the Cister-
clan monks Andirons and ancient
stoves have been their quest. and