Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Ambassado and Lady Howard to Surrender
Embassy Home Pending New Construc-
tion-Personal and General Notes

! heard in this country. THE Ruins of
Athens" Strauss has trained the
singers and he also will revive the
opera of "F'idelio." Gluck's ballet in
| Don Juan" will he given with Fl
delio, and all through Vienna for that
week there will he Beethoven cOmpo-
sitions performed by the orchestras.
/ Goethes "EgmOnt." p cla ssic dram
which many critics consider Is great
as Faust" will he rendered 10 the &C.
comma niment OF Eoethover music.
| Vienna ia crowded % he doors with
| lovers of the TyroIese musician. and
| in his native CITY. S1izhurg, once In
! the Austrian Tvrol. hut now a part Of
Italv. trnrn viii he stately comment
! ora i've services on the anniversary of
! his death and for three DAYS after.
Mrs Charles ~. Sahin. who spent
! her girlhood in Washington as Miss
/ Polly Morton. daughter o. the SeCre-
ta~v Of he Nayv under President
! Roosevelt. has recently devoted much
time 10 colonial furniture. and she
was chosen. with one or two other eX-
perts. to aid n selecting articles for
| the new Republican Club. About q
year ago Mrs Sabin relinquished the
presidency of the New York City
! Women's Republican Club. though she
still holds the chairmanship OF the
| executive committee. Not even MIS-.
| Coolidge haS gone into the colonial do
| nestle revival more enthnSia sticallN
than she. end she has on several occa-
sionS obtained the permission Of the
! aut horities Of the Metropolitan Mu-
| scum 10 have copied sonW of the To-
/ nous pieces IN the American wing.
! According To Mrs. Charles Sahin. it
was with this precise end in view that
/ the memorial le collection was made
/ that Americans. seeing the best. should
! strive to niaCe similar pieces in their
/ homes Permits to COPY are granted
/ only to recognized experts in hand
made furniture and some Of the pieces
copied AT Mrs. Sahin's instiea don were
bookca ses and tables for libraries and
small offices. New York City has al
ready been influenced to such an eX-
tent by the exquisite equipment TO he
admired in the American wing that
several new hotels have furnished
their drawing rooms and bedrooms en-
| tirely after these ideals.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac n. Stauffer. ir.,
of New Orleans have recently had re-
moved from an old plantation on the
Mississippi River one of the most
beautiful mansions built in the days
Of French occupancy or LOuiSian ma. 1t
/ has heen placed in Metare lane. the
new fashionable quarter of the Cres-
cent City, and Is perhaps among the
most admired mansions there. This
Stauffer house. in the bayou. WAS re-
nowned for the splendor Of it's red
Louis Philippe roses. once the favorite
in all Southern gardens. hut now rare.
ly TO be found: vet its chief glory was
its venerable wrought iron work on
numerous balconies and windows and
doors and used in massive gates and
to form q porte cochere. All these
have been placed in the New Orleans
house in their original places. and the
carved mahogany interior has also
been carefully removed. Much of the
house proper. however, had to be built
anew. for the Stauffer house was a
center of hospitality on the river when
the War of the Revolution was in
progress. This family is one of the
oldest in Louisiana. and it will he re-
memhered that the beauty and charm
of one of its daughters. Celeste Stauf-
fer. aroused the chivalrouS. though
platonic. regard Of Samuel j. Tilden
and that he left her a handsome leg
acy in his will This beautiful lady
was the aunt of the present head Of
the family and splendid portrait of
her by Cahanel was removed with
0G0er IA lnliN urea SNfnS from the DaNon
and is now in the New Orleans resi-
dence. The Stauffers. with the VIC
let's. the Eustises and the De Saulles,
have invariably married into American
families since the purchase of the
Louisiana territory by this country in
1903.
Mr.. Henry S. Redmond of New York
City, who will graduate at Princeton
this coming June, already has made
such a success in the Glee Club and
in private theatricals that he is as well
known in his big home city as though
he were a professional. AT the per-
Torrance of the comic opera "Samar-
kand." at the Metropolitan Opera
House. MIR. Redmond was the pianist
of the orchestra and had composed
many of the songs which were popu-
lar favorites. AS member of the
Triangle Club his talent for popular
song writing has been conspicuous and
there appears to he no doubt that he
will follow the muses. when he leaves
college. The son of a well known
artist in Gotham. his mother. Mrs.
Henry s. Redmond. is the daughter Of
the late Robert w. Parsons and she
began to paint in oil while still in her
teens. The late Henry Redmond
came Of an artistic family. but he gave
most Of his time TO yachting, both as
pastime and as a designer. The Red
monds are well established in New.
port. and young Henry spends the
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