Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10

| since F'uad assumed royal rank, is the
most brilliant court Of the Near East,
and has a numerous and important
! diplomatic corps, every major nation
of the world being represented.
Mr.. Vincent Astor, who has given
much thought and expended much
money on the development Of the
| Port Washington section of Long
| Island, is unreservedly in favor Of
the group house on large estates and
! it's modified smaller Queen Anne cot
| tage. The new British embassy fur
nishes the first type of the group
! house in the limits Of Washington
proper, but no doubt it will have
| many imitators as the years roll by.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic A. S0ldwedel
! the former a distinG uished artist and
| architect OF Swedish origin and the
| latter formerly Miss Jean Potter, well
! known in Washington in childhood
when her grandfather, Paul Morton,
was Secretary Of the Navy. have
! been helpful in carrying out Mr.. AS
| tors ambition. They have a small
| estate Of only four or five acres and
| their house is the Queen Anne type,
! with a few English touches, and the
| frontage is fully 60 feet along the
| beach, with but one stately entrance
the rear are doors to the culinary
| parts for stewards and housekeep-
er's quarters. Storehouses are we'll
| back among clumps Of cedars and
! low-growing shruhbery, and there is
model dairy, with what seems
| spring house Of the olden day, but
| supplied with refrigerator run by
electricity. The Soldwedels propose to
| live at Port Washington all the year.
| and an ideal studio has been made
on the north side, where gable win.
dows pierce the high pointed roof.
| Some Of the group houses have
| frontage of 100 feet in the Port Wash
| ington section, and these, like the
! British embassy, make four or five
distinct portions.
! The late August Belmont had a
| powerful and wholesome influence on
horse racing, and there is a sugges-
| ton to honor him by calling the
most prominent races in this coun-
| try 'Belmonts," as the British call
| their affairs "Derbies." These Eng
| lfsh races We're called after Lord
| Derby and the distance covered is
invariably IL miles. whereas in this
| country what are dubbed "derbies"
| may vary from mile to ~ or to s
| furlongs. There are those who con.
tend that it is misleading to call any
American horse race q Derby" that
term being exclusively English and
| applicable only to the conditions
| which hold on British tracks. The
Belmonts. father and son, introduced
| the running of three-year-olds at Bel
| mont. and for 1 II miles. as is done at
| the Derby. They made this system
| or racing an example, not only for
I,,+ 80.
the entire Union, and the fact that
this major event in Belmont Park has
occurred annually since 1867 gives it
an added reason TO take over the
Belmont name, instead of using Lord
Derby, who had not the remotest con.
nection with 1t, as to rules or any
other feature. The English some
times speak of a French derby" but
the Parisians have never adopted the
term, even in conversation, still less
In their printed announcements. They
have always called their major 'le
grand prix," using the name of the
place where the race is run TO specify,
as lie grand prize du Jockey Club"
or lie Diane" when it is run at the
Oaks or at Auteiul.
The Secretary of Commerce Is called
on to settle many sorts of controver-
sizes. but one doubts IL he will take
that plant about the price of theater
tickets in New York City, and, in fact,
everywhere. as logically coming in his
held of activities. Rather, if the ag.
grieyed wish to drag their woes into
the cabinet set it would seem that
the Attorney General might be the
proper person. At the present mo-
ment there is no outstanding patron
of the stage holding high office who
can take up the cudgelS for the op.
pressed in theatrical matters, as Mr.
Vincent Massey, the Minister from
Canada, once did for the theater low
ers of OttoWa, Toronto and Montreal.
Mr.. Massey made it plain to theater
owners and producers that they could
not Jeopardize their good name by
permitting ruthless speculation in the
buying and selling of tickets, and he
soon curtailed the profits of the scalp
ers to such an extent that it ceased
to be profitable business. New
Workers have paid SIS a seat for some
OF the musical review premieres, and
during the crowded season the sky
was the limit for opera seats when a
visitor was determined to have one.
The governor Of the State has tried
at Albany to regulate this matter
and the mayor of the big city and
his council have invoked the law all
in vain. These authorities are seek
ing a compromise between the value
the producers put on their offering
and that which the public thinks it
worth.
Princes and princesses now are
prepared for a business career, and
that lovely young Maria Josepha of
Belgium, who is acknowledged to be
one of the most beautiful maidens of
Europe, irrespective OF her high es-
tate, has learned not only all the
accomplishments which a queen must
have, but all that an American girl
acquires in a business high school.
For without doubt she is destined to
wed some of the Catholic heirs-ap-
parent. But should royalty suffer
the reverses in the next decade which
it has In the past 10 years, this lovely
girl has several ways of earning a
good living: stenogra ply, tipping and
bookkeeping, not to speak of a thor
ough musical education which would
fit her for teaching. She excels in
dancing and in tennis. and in more
strenuous forms of athletics like golf,
riding and canoeing. This Belgian
princess and her brothers are not
deemed excessively we'll prepared for
the battle of life, for royal parents
make ready to meet every condition
which the future may bring. The
young Spanish Princess Beatriz,
whose name is so frequently coupled
with her cousins, the Prince of
Wales, is so clever with her pen that
she could easily dispose of her
sketches, were there occasion to do
so. Queen Mary OF Britain is an
a.
the House of Windsor knowing all
about modern business conditions,
and her youngest son, Prince Henry,
has recently taken an intensive
course under private tutors in high
err finance and he had already stud.
led sufficiently to get diploma as
an expert accountant.