Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-24
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
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/ dollars 10 the fund. One part of the
display is alluring to feminine visit
ors for it shows as many parts OF the
royal wardrobe as possible to collect
after so many years and which the
volatile young queen was offered each
morning by the first valet and from
which the raiment of the day was Sc.
lected. There are also vast piles OF
material which would go to the cos
tune designer, Nine. Berth. and from
which new gowns and cloaks would he
made. Lady Mandl spent many
months getting these samples together
and as many more on the books OF cos
tunes which the queen actually used
in making her choice. There are many
letters, some of them written in the
dark days before 1889, refusing to fly
for shelter from the impending storm
unless accompanied by her children
and close friends at court. Her knit
ting needles procured to aid her pass
the long hours of imprisonment and
a small box of sewing material are
among the intimate possessions dis
played for the first time.
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The Prince of Wales has spent al
most a year and a half transform
ing MARLBOROUGH House, formerly oc-
cupied by his grandmother, Queen
Alexandra, from the abode of a woman
who had cherished the memory of
her girhood, of her married life and
of her declining years. Marlborough
House once on time was renowned
for it's celebrated collection of royal
dolls and for possessing the largest
library of fairy tales which existed,
many signed with illustrious names.
The heir of the British throne has
made it over into a bachelor dwelling,
where nearly all the wall spaces are
covered with fishing tackle, heads of
game and sporting pictures. and his
faithful subjects-to-be groan in spirit
as they recognize in mis- a determine
ton not to change his mode of life. at
least in the immediate future. The
personal suite of the prince overlooks
the gardens and among the rooms Is
a large workshop, where the owner
intends to tinker in many ways, mend
ing his treasures to be removed from
York House, his former home. rebind-
ing books, an occupation which APP
peals to him tremendously. and try
ing out all sorts of sporting ideas.
Only the state rooms remain as they
were under the late dowager Queen.
for they were made the last word in
elegance and modern equipment. But
the prince is not much interested In
this part of his regime. Marlborough
House. built in the era of Christie.
pher Wren, has been improved by
modern sanitation, a central heating
plant run by oil and a complete cleo
trio system of lighting.
Mr.. William II. Barse of New York
City. who has recently purchased Car
vel Hall, in Annapolis, proposes to es-
tabiish on heroic scale a colonial inn,
leaving the fine architectural lines un.
touched. though an enlargement is
proposed. Carvel Hall is to all intents
club as we'll as dining hall for the
officers and cadets of the Naval Acad-
envy. and 1t stands on the site of a
much older mansion in Maryland's
history. This was the Paca house,
which, in the days when a royal gov
ernor presided over the destinies of
the province, had gardens which
reached TO the inlets and which were
the last word of elegance and seclu-
sion. Winston Churchill, the novelist,
who graduated from the Naval Acad-
envy in 1894, was familiar with the en-
vfronment, and so he made Carvel
Hall, as it figured in the. story, the
home Of the heroine, Dorothy Man.
ners. Young Churchill lived for
months in what Is now Carvel Hall.
so called in honor of his hero, Richard
Carvel, whilst he wrote the descriptive
parts and spent many hours in the
library of the academy locating the
historical background. The first Paca
house was built by that William Paca
who married Mary Chew about 1886
It was neither so old nor so imposing
as many others which had been
erected in Maryland's new capital
after the fall of Lord Baltimore's seat
of government, st. Marys City. and