Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Washington Sculptor to Model L'Enfant Statue
on New York Order-Ambassador
Houshton's Niece in Opera.

Miss Jessie Norton of Louisville, Ky.
| and her reputation as being one OF
| the noted beauties Of q State re
nowned for handsome. accomplished
women has preceded her to all the
cities where she has lived since her
marriage some il years ago. The
Castiemans are also Kentuckians
since the pioneer days and both the
naval attache and his wife Were
leaders of the equestrian circle IN
Rome and members Of the Hunt
club on the Campaigna, of which the
former Ambassador Prince Gelasio
Caetani is president. Mrs. Castle
man and her family have gone to
Kentucky for the Summer, but she
will go to San Francisco In time to
see the fleet sail. She may spend
part of the coming Winter in Wash
ington before leaving for the East to
Join her husband at Toxic. where
Admiral Bristol will make his resi-.
dence for some months. For those
devoted to horseback riding as Capt.
and Mrs. Castleman are, Rome is one
Of the most delightful assignments.
and the Young Roman mobiles and
the ladies of hteir families are even
more active in this field of sport
than are the British.
Col. John B. shuman, the executive
officer of the adjutant generals office,
has given much time during the past
three years to ferreting out the fine
collection of adjutants. OF the Army
since the first served under Wash
ington in 1776. The first was Gen.
Horatio Gates. and his portrait shows
him the dashing commander at Sara
toga. Col. Shuman'S task has been
far from easy, since the post OF adj
jutant changed so frequently during
the War for independence, and
many of those who performed this
crucial task left few avenues from
which an authentic likeness could be
obtained. But with the exception OF
some three or four of those who
served during the first war the United
States waged against the mother
country, these pictured adjutants in
neat corresponding frames form a
complete sequence from 1776 until the
current year, these pictures occupy
ing all the wall space in Col. Shuman'S
office, in the anteroom and in Maj.
Gen. Wallis office, which adjoins.
Aided by Maj: Gen. Lutzwahl, the
immediate successor Of Gen. Robert
c. Davis, what seemed almost insur-
mountable difficulties were overcome
in tracing the adjutants Of the open
ing years of the Republic.
Miss Alice Bigelow Tully, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William J. Tully,
formerly Of Locust Valley, Long
island, and, niece Of the Ambassador
to the court of st. James, Mr.. Alan
son Rigelow Houghton, has recently
passed through three most exciting
episodes. She was in early May pre-
scented at court and had fingered on
to enjoy a short vacation from her
musical studies in Paris, when she
was in the thick of the amenities for
Col. Lindbergh and was a guest UNI
der the same roof as that hero. Dur
ing the past week Miss FULLY made her
debut on the concert stage of Paris
and received a cordial welcome from
both audience and critics.
/. She proposes to continue her studies
and eventually to attempt opera. Mrs.
Tully is the younger sister of the
ambassador and her husband in the
early childhood of her talented daugh.
ter took over the management of a
prominent American insurance bust
ness in its Paris branch. Possessing
charming lyric soprano voice, Miss
uily When III uSE TEENS WAS aCCuS'
toned to sing for numerous Ameri-
can friends and especially at the
American Woman's Club in the
French capital. About three years
ago she decided on a professional
career and has devoted herself untir-
ingly to vocal practice and to dra.
matte art, pausing only for such i'm.
portant events as presentation in
court. the reception to the heroic flyer
and the recent marriage of her cousin
Miss Matilda Houghton to Chandler
Anderson, jr.