Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
British Ambassador in Washington Heads Con
spicuous Diplomatic Body-Sketches of Dis
tinguished People Here and Abroad.

take part rather than the gypsies
and peasants. The proceeds of the
fete go to the municipal charities oil
different Spanish cities. This year
the beneficiaries were Cordova, where
the leather workers need ad
and Segovia and Murcia, where
there are hospitals and clinics. MT
Carter and his son have handsome
villa in Biarritz acquired some TWEEN
tv wears ago. The elder Frederick
Prince eff Boston is a year-round
resident of B.arritz and Mr.. and Mrs.
Anthony Drexel, jr., spent the past
season there and are seeking a suit
able permanent home.
Viscount Knebworth, eldest son of
the Earl of Lytton, is among the
latest titled recruits to the political
arena and to the lecture platform.
He is now filing a lecture engagement
in the rural part of England. and may
come to this country in response to
the invitation from several political
institutes desiring the Interpretation
of certain new developments in Brit
ish public life. The visc0lnt is the
grandson of the novelist, that Lord
Bulwer-L ytton who spent some years
as Minister in Washington, and whose
nephew and secretary. Owen Mere
dith, wrote part of Lucille" in the old
garden of the British legation, known
as the Dolly Madison mansion, and
now the Cosmos Club. The present
Lord Lytton has dropped the hyphe-
mated Bulwer assumed by his father.
because as Sir Edward Bulwer he had
achieved literary fame. He has had
distinguished career In diplomacy,
having been for many years Viceroy
to India and later Ambassador to
France. There are two children. the
Niscount knebworth, and a daughter,
Lady Herminone Lytton who writes
verses which have been favorably re-
ceived. and who is also a dramatic
critic of some ability. She and her
brother are both fine polo players. for
they spent their youth in Simla, India,
where the game flourishes more than
does any other form of sport.
Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge
of California takes an enthusiastic in
terest in the presidential aspirations
of the Secretary of Commerce, Mr..
Herbert Hoover, because both are
Iowans as to birth but consumedly
Californians in their present inclina-
lions. The Junior Senator from the
Golden State was born in Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, and is the son of Rev
Elias w. Shortridge, well known in
Civil War days. From his youth up
ward the Senator was accustomed to
books. and in his very early years he
became a student of Shakespeare.
Few men have the bard of Avon so
completely committed to memory, and
many are the calls which the legis-
lator gets to identify passages in the
plays and sonpets. Just as often he
is engaged to mark off suitable pas
sages for various occasions. Recently
he has been collecting all Shakespear-
can references to the horse TO be
PLACID on posters and other announce
ments of equine shows, polo games and
country fairs. Knowing every line of
the collected writings, this has been
comparatively an easy task and a phe-
nomenal number of quotations have
been placed at the disposal of the sew
eral committees. In an era where slo.
gans have such large commercial
value, the Californian believes that
some marvelously apt. phrases can he
obtained on every conceivable sub
ject by studying the lines of Shakes
peare in the text and not in quota
tons as the usual procedure is.
Washington city fathers, the Com
missioners of the District, who have
been perturbed in spirit trying to
find a proper location for Centre Mar.
ket, must envy the ease with which
London has solved the problem.
Covent Garden Market having grown
inadequate for its purposes, the mu.
nicipal council lost small time in sug.
costing that the Covent Garden The.
alter viii have to wing its fight into
whatever quarters are available
There was loud cutlery and protests
from every quarter, but the reply
was that London must eat and the
central market had to get more elbow
room. So the old opera house and
subsidiary buildings are to be torn
down and all the spaces given over
to stalls and booths Three years
are allowed for the operate and the
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