Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Some of the correlated reasons for
President Coolidge's remuneration of
another term are beginning to seep
through from the Black Hills in adj
vance Of his impending return to
Washington. They reach this observer
from persons who visited the Sum-
mer White House just before and just
after the immortal I-do.not-choose- to.
run dictum. AS his South Dakota vaca-
ton proceeded, Mr.. Coolidge became
progressively irked--these informants
report-by the sort Of publicity his daily
doings received. The attention the
country bestowed upon his fishing
with worms nettled the President.
Then came tidings from the East that
the movie audiences were laughing at
Mr.. Coolidge's appearance In cowboy
chaps and at his other Wild West
stunts. BY and large, Black Hills
callers found the Chief Executive con-
siderably upset over his apparent in
ability to enjoy well earned rest
| without having the simplest activity
chronicled and news-reeled. These
| things were not, Of course, the gov
erning motives Of President Coolidge s
| 10-word ukase of August 2. But in
siders are convinced they were of
great influence in precipitating an an
| nouncement which nobody expected
| to be made--if at all--until many
months later.
Still another impelling factor dis
cerned by certain Summer White
House guests was Mr.. Coolidge's
seeming acquiescence in the view ut
tered by Senator Moses of New Hamp-
shire, a bare. two weeks before the
| Presidents statement. Moses, it will
be remembered, declared that Cool
| idge could undoubtedly be renomi-
mated and reelected, but that he
| would be "sullenly accepted" after
March 4, 1929. The President is
| thought by men who saw him to
have reached a conclusion of the
same sort They believe he came to
| the realization that the country would
| be ready for a new deal two years
| hence. Mr.. Coolidge, these witnesses
| aver, feels he can leave office with
| full honors and amid universal re-
| spect in 1929, but that 1888 might
| register an entirely different story on
| top of all these considerations, real
or fancied, is the impression created
upon many of their Summer callers
| that both the President and Mrs. Cool
| idge are tired, overWorked and not in
| endowment of as rugged health as
might be wished.
| Monday night of this week witness
ed the first performance in Phlladei-
| phia of the stage version of "Revel-
nv, "t the book purporting to deal with
| IL Js.ty IF Harding
| ministration. Critics say that the play,
| while probably not destined to stand
| ont as dramatic production, is
bound to occasion comment because
of it's graphic Interpretation OF men
| and matters that dominated public
| thought five years ago, and after
ward. Charles Waldron, who por-
| trays President Willis Markham, en-
acts, in the language of the Phila-
delphia Records reviewer, "a person.
age of weak, but generous, impulses.
| In appearance and makeup Mr.. WAL
dron is unquestionably Hardingesque.
The acting triumph or "Revelry is
| the work of George MacFarlane, in the
| role of Dan Lurcock. The play Is
headed for Broadway.
| Baron Ago Nathan, now in his
third wear as German Ambassador to
the United States, has just let cat
out of the bag, over in Germany.
about his name. He discloses that
ago" isn't his given name at all, al
though he's used it since childhood.
When his noble Mecklenburg father
and mother christened Nathan. they
gave him the triple-barreled name OF
Adolf George Otto. Eventually the
| family came TO the conclusion that
no promising German youth ought to
be handicapped like that, SO it was de-
cided to take the first letters of the
| three names and merge them into
Ago. The Germans have a penchant
| for manufacturing names that way.
The official title OF the great Ham
sburg-American Line is Hamburg.
Anlerikanischs Pakstfahrt Aktisn.