Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Sir Esme Howard British Ambassador Is Classed
as Enthusas site Antiquarian Sketches
of World Notables

/, rection the national headquarters-en-
| tire twenty-second floor of Hotel Bafbi-
ION in New York City-has been deco
result wonderful in every aspect. The
vast suite shaws whitewashed walls.
| Towering plants, Venetian blinds, blue
! carpets and black and orange Powered
cretonne furniture. Confidently with
! taking possession Of the first national
| headquarters the league ahnounceS its
| membership consists of 10000 young
women all over the country with for
| eign affiliations impending of fascinat-
! ing varieties. Pretty colleens of ireland
have expressed a desire to found such
an organization, and national officers
| soon will sail for Dublin 10 enroll them.
Canada has many branches of the
| league and a large and influential
Honolulu and others are in formation
| in other parts of the insular possessions.
X X X
Mr.. Ogden Livingston Mills, undersec-
! rotary of the Treasury, recently was
elected president of the New York
Jockey Club. In partnership with his
sister, Mrs Henry c. PhippS, Mr.. Mills
has created g. racing stable called THE
Wheatley," and will enter horses in all
the major races of this country and
possibly in England and France. Mr..
Mills has a passion for hunting and
riding and nothing rests him like day
with the hunt. He proposes to study
carefully many details in the manage
ment of the jockey club which have
needed attention and to enforce many
of the old rules more sternly. Mrs
PhippS makes an all-the-year home in
q resident
proprietor, and she has a fine eye for
good stock She is the twin sister of
Lady Granard and will entertain her
with her husband and four children for
about a fortnight toward the end of
November. The Earl of Granard sits in
the upper house of the legislature iL
the Irish Free State and is an indie
fatigable member of its fiscal and eco
nomic reform committees. Lady Granard
is an intense horse lover and belongs
to the most noted hunt clubs about Dub
lin and she is much interested in thc
breeding experiments of her brother,
and sister, Mr.. Mills and Mrs. Phipps.
X X < X
Mr.. Alexander P Moore, Ambassador
from this Republic to Peru, has discov-
cred a new way of making nations I'M
derstand each other" differing from the
usual diplomatic methods. Since taking
up his residence in Lima, Mr.. Moore has
invited large companies to see films
which he brought as part of the en-
baSSy equipment, all carefully chosen
and presenting busy and typical scenes
in centerS of population and spirited
action like those seen in gun plays and
detective thrillerS. 1t is easily recalled
that all of Latin America protested
against the style of play which went
from the capital of moviedom, Holly
wood, and 1t was Shrewdly Surmised
that films which failed to get the in
dorSement of the State cenSors were
worked off in alien countries. But Mr..
Moore effected a reformation and at the
same time established the vogue for
the light, wholesome comedy and the
funny things which may be extracted
even from the life of criminal. Trav-
elogIeS rarely interest those south of
the Equator, and as for scenery they
have it in such magnitude and spec
tacular effects that this sort of amuSe-
ment is not appreciated. Mr.. Moore
is enjoying his residence in Lima, hither-
to not reckoned one of the gayest OF
Latin capitals, and little out of touch
with the other parts of the Western
World. The Ambassador will spend
some time in this country. He will come
TO Washington before he returns to the
southern half of the Western World.
X X X
That Statuesque lady Of Northern
Scotland who is in her own right Duch-
ess of Buckingham and Chandos.is, in
addition to being beauty and of lofty
station, one of Britain's leading water
color artists. The duchess uses her
family name of Anne Alice Montgomery
on her canvases and has turned her
genius into source of revenue to main
tain her lofty station. She not only
sells her portraits at good figure after
they are exhibited in the best galleries
but she has orders which will keep her
busy for several years. For three or
four Summers past she has been
sketching a majeStic-looking old wom-
an, nearing the nineties, whom she
has dubbed Ceramic of the Moors."
These portraits in serial form have
proved most lucrative and the demands
for "Grannie" make even this work.
loving duchess spend all her daylight
hours before her paints. The duchess
is one of the higher intellectuals of
London who has established her home
over the news, or stables, of her former