Evening star., 1928-09-09
BY HELEN FETTER.

"A N old adage has it that "a cat.
| N may look at a king" So, too, "a
! A chef who is an. artist may make
4 "A or mar the appetite of many
famous folk. Such chef is
living quietly in Washington, D. C., at
present. He is M. Louis ChaEdouard,
originally of Paris, France, but at this
time owner of home in Bethesda.
M. Chaudouard has directed the COM
plicated culinary affairs of regal vice
roys in their palaces in India, of titled
ladies in castles in England and of
American millionaires in their luXu-
rious and numerous homes in the
United States. One of his most recent
patrons is Gov. Alfred Emanuel Smith
of New York, Democratic candidate for
Americas supreme Office.
M. Chaudouard is true magician.
Ee sits quietly in the little living room
of his present home, where an immac-
ulate tortoise shell cat curlS content
edly beside the door and framed pic
ture of the Pont de la Concorde, facing
the Chamber of Deputies in Paris,
hangs over the mantel, and with eyes
upon the toy reproduction of an ele-'
phant in all the caparison for a royal
hunting party for tigers that stands
upon the mantel, monsieur can carry
his audiences completely into active
participation in one of Lord Curzon'S
most brilliant hunts, near the Summer
palace in Sinlla.
1t is stories of his experiences while
chef to Lord Curzon, eleventh Viceroy
of India, with details from the many
kinds of curry that contain 38 in
gradients and are used for every food
eaten in that land and eolorful anec-
doteS of the lives of the natives of
wi
| lights in telling in his excellent French,
with an occasional pause for explana-
ton or amplihcation in few English
phrases.
The detailed fund of knowledge that
this Frenchman has acquired, not by
reading and study of the usual kind,
but only through experience and OBJ
| servation, IN his SIS years of living, is
| truly amazing.
Louis Chaudouard was born in Paris
in 1853 and little thought, when he be-
gan to seek apprenticeship with
sm&n bakers and later at caterers
shops, such as Maison Josephine, that
he would one day be private chef to
some OF the great people of the world.
He became an expert in many of the
teXacting and varied divisions of the
culinary art, of which the French are
recognized masters. Patisserie, rotiS-
serie, cuisine, glace and confectionery
are all branches of the art which he
has mastered. He shook his head sadly
even as he mentioned these things, for
ne has found that while in Europe and
India chef is acknowledged as a great
artlst and his abilities appreciated and
generally recognized, in the United
states a chef is just another cook"
ana, ot course, cook is a cook, and
that's that
M. Chaudouard fastened to explain.
however, that this was not true of Gov.
smith and his attitude while NJ Chau-
oouaro was In his service. On the con-
trary, this American, whose humble an
ceStral home Is located in Cavan, Ire
land, and shows primitive thatched
ROOF, was thoroughly appreciative of his
chefS artistry, with an intelligent an
probation that won the admiration of
the Frenchman.
x X **
M CHAUDOUARD'S life began to
become really eventful in 1884.
when he became chef to Lord CurZon.
who. five years later, became the elev-
enth Viceroy of India, and took his chef,
along with the rest of his household, to
the palace in Calcutta and, during the
proper season, to the Summer palace in
, Simla.
The career of Viscount Curzon while
viceroy, from 1899 to 1905, when he re-
signed that Office, was an exceptionally
brilliant one, filled with many unusual
, experiences. In 1899 he dispatched
, about 5000 British troops to South
Africa, and the next year about 10000
! were sent to China.
, One of the worst Indian famines on
) record occurred during his service as
. viceroy, and it was generally period of
reform and reconstruction. King Ed
ward was proclaimed emperor at Delhi
: January /, 1908. There was an impor-
tant political mission that Lord Curzon
directed to Tibet in 1904, and. in addi-
ton to all the political events, nature
: chose to punish the land with seven
= earthquakes in April, 1905.
2 During THIS period. however, there
. was great variety. with much color, in