Evening star., 1927-05-22

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trait with her daughter Sylvia
i'll pastel. and by II recognized
Hungarian artist. Artur Hal
mi. has attracted much at
tention when displayed in New York
and Is. according to friends. gilt ot
the little girl to her maternal grand
mother. Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Sylvia is a uative WaShingtonian and
is beautiful child with soft blue
eyes and golden ham and with an
air OF energy and Nigor. She was
born III the Hungarian legation on
Massachusetts avenue nearly Tour
wears age hut already has made two
trips across the ocean 10 visit her
relatives in the old home beyond
Ruda .Pesth. The former Minister
from Liihuania, Dr. kazys Rizaukas,
and Mime. Rlzaukas had two children
horn in WASHINGTON who will in fu-
tuie wears be much interested in
this fact. The British Ambassador and
LADY isabella HowardS third son.
John Hubert Edward Howard, now "a
student in Cambridge. was born III
WaShinStcn in 1906 and making a
short visit 10 the embassy two years
ago. he faithfully sought out the
house at No. zoos Massachusetts ave
nue.. then the residence of the Coun-
selor of embassy under Mr., James
Bryce.
Count Andre lie ST Phalls, who
will, on June 10, marry Miss JacQue-
line Harper. sister of Raymond Har-
per. who recently took Miss Titiin
Highleyman OF Miami. Fla. for his
bride. is coming 10 Philadelphia after
short honeymoon on the continent,
= N.,I- . s.Ny.
in the Baldwin locomotive works, of
which his eldest brother, Count
Francois de ST. Phalle. is president
A third brother has east his lot with
this country. Fal de st. Phalle. and
all three have dropped their titles.
They are the Oldest of the seven
sons of Marquis de st. Phalle. That
gentleman has q longer lineage than
bank account. and sent the boys to
the technical school of the University
of Pennsylvania, with q view of their
entering business life. Francois be.
an in the shops of the Baldwins
u:ling locomotives, and has made his
way up to the presidency. Fal is on
the Stock Exchange in New York. both
having invested their patrimony from
their mothers estate in this country
Andre graduated at Cornell some five
with his parents and thus met his
future wife, whose parents have a
Summer place near Villa Fillermal,
Clermont-on- -the-Oise, the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Donald Harper The elder
Harper has lived for many years in
Paris. and in fact now calls no other
place home. He retains his citizen
ship here, however. and being engaged
in the practice of international law, the
benefits of the absentee voter have re-
Gently been extended to him and his
sons. Mrs. Jacoueline Harper was
born and educated in Paris, but as a
bride she returns to the home of her
father and will probably reside in
Germantown, where her two brothers.
in-law are located. She is a descend
ant OF Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
The young Earl of Amherst, who
recently succeeded to the honors of
his father, spent three years in New
York engaged in newspaper work
and was known to his colleagues as
Holmesdale. his courtesy title as heir
TO the earldom of Amherst being Wis
count Holmesdale. But he never used
the viscount. He was attracted to
Journalism after leaving oxford,
though he had prepared there for a
public career, and after serving for
a time on the various organs in Lon.
don and Liverpool, tried his hand at
New World ways. He is the cousin
of John Francis Amherst Cecil, who
married Miss Cornelia Vanderbilt.
and was a guest at the wedding. The
earldom of Amherst was created in
1886 by the elevation of Sir William
Archer Amherst and has continued
unbroken since. AS earl. this Fred
eric Archer Amherst will proba bly,
have little leisure to follow his chosen
profession, for he inherits a hand
some fortune and a large country es-
tate. The Archers have been famous
Journalists of London for three gen.
erations, William Archer. who was
10 excellent a dramatic critic and au-
thor of several plays, being tile uncle
Of the young earl. During his New
Cork residence he came to Washing
ton frequently and has spent as much
time as possible at the beautiful home
of his kinsman, Biltmore, North Caro-
lima.
George Voevodsky, formerly a
prince and captain of imperial Rus
sian guards under the czar is accept
ed as the leader of the exiled Rus
slams who are domiciled in Chicago.
Except in New York City, the me-
tropolis of the lakes has the most
numerous and brilliant coterie of these
Muscovites. Many of them have,
after pathetic struggles, climbed to
responsible posts and are living in
affiuence comparable to their former
estate. This officer of the czarist
army was a talented engineer. and so
when he found New York overrun
with his compatriots, he rode in bag
gage cars and even tramped to Chi.
cago and there got a place with a
etreet car company far down the
ranks, but where he soon proved his
worth. He now has a position in the
Office at several thousand a year, and
he makes as much in his piano recitals
which, given tri-monthly during the
Winter at Congress Hall, are the
smartest and most exclusive of Chi.
cago's musical events. Chicago host.
esses, who have been more than kind
TO these wanderers, divide them into
two classes, those who still hope that
the Romanoffs will come back and
so they retain their titles and keep
up q semblance of state, and those
who consider this preposterous and
who have taken over American citi
zenship and are now known as plain
mister" Young Cantacuzene be
longs to the hopeful class and is still
called Prince Michael. and so. too, his
intimate, Prince Nicholas Galitzine
who, like Cantacuzene. had enormous
estates in the Ukraine. But hope has
not interfered with the zeal or in
dustry Of either of the young men
who, beginning modeStly in business