Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-02

| good taste of those who have
| patronized good sound plays and let
| the usual catering to depraved ideas
| and these offerings in theaters which
| have been for years playing at loss
! Lord Stanley who is the heir of the
| Earl of Derby. is. as he should be, an
| inveterate breeder of race horses and
has won some excellent prizes during
the past season, The Earl OF Derby. 1t
will be remembered. won the grand
prize In Paris this year in conjunction
with Mr. Ogden Mills. for the War
Cry. a Steed which has brought about
flood Of equine literature praising his
points. Lord Stanley. who is a pleasant
writer and is devoting much time 10
the literature of the horse has been
informing the world of another debt
which is owing 10 France. The War
Cry is the son of the great stallion
Martial. one of number winch the
French government lends gratis 60 small
breeders i'll order that the best strain of
French and Arab horses may be pcr-
petuated on the race track II is pos
Sible to buy some of these horses OUT
right. if such is desired, Lord Stan
lev. who has been with his father Earl
Derby. whose family name has been
given 10 Great Britain'S most cele-
hrated sporting event. is a champion
of the new system of taxation which is
stirring all England to the depths.
When Mr. Winston Churchill. minister
of the excheouer, levied tax on the
racing bet. the state, is was alleged. had
given recognition 10 the legality of bet
ting on horse races and this new sys-
tenn is 10 faSten the tax SO firmly on
all who make wagers that evasion OF
the contribution To the national treas
ury will be impossible.
MIR. and Mrs. Gilbert A. B. Eliot
recently purchased the ancient manor
house of the GelbertS near the English
border of Scotland. Mrs. Eliot was be-
fore her marriage to this last heir OF
the illustrious Scotch family, Miss
Tourney Hopkins of Atlanta. Ga, and
she was so well lowered that the pur-
chase of the hall from an Edinburg
merchant who had owned it for half
a century was possible. When the bor-
der wars ragged Eliot Hall was a rally
ing point for the Highlanders and chap
tiers from its annals may be found in
the Waveriey novels and in authentic
Scottish history. The title has been ex-
tinct for nearly two hundred years. but
the owner of the manor house is about
to take up the matter with the Heralds
College. He descends from a cadet
line, for years established in Canada
and New YORK, and he has no claim
ants against him for the honor of writ
ing Sir" before his name, while there
is no patrimony except what Mr.. Gil
bert Eliot has earned himself and the
handsome dover of his wife. MIR, Eliot
Is an American citizen and owns a
handsome home at Port Washington,
Long Island, and practices law in New
York City For some years the new own
ers have been quietly seeking oil paint
ings of the Eliots and Gilberts and have
now an excellent collection of family
canvases as well as many notable gifts.
These are now about to be hung in the
long corridor of the manor house.
Among those portraits is one of George
II and Queen Charlotte. by Allan Ram
say. presented by the HanoVeTlan mon
arch to the Sir Gilbert Eliot of that
day who had entertained the royal
couple in his home.
Mrs. William willoughby Sharp. fire.
ouently a Winter visitor 10 Washing
ton, is occupying her country home,
Stonewall at the mouth OF the ravine
which forms the Natural Bridge OF Vir-
gina. Miss Elizabeth Sharp. her daugh-
ter. spent part of her debut year in
the Capital and has since then become
a seasoned globe -trotter. She studied
for two years in. Lady Margaret Hall.
in Oxford, and last June received an
A. B. degree. During her course in the
English University. Miss Sharp became
engaged to Mr. Neal Levin of London.
ana he had planned TO come to this
country for the wedding in October.
But he was hastily sent to India by
the colonial ministry, in which he Is
employed. and without time TO have
his bride to Join him for the wedding
in London Mrs Sharp and her daugh-
Ter will therefore journey to Simia and.
as that jaunt requires some 10 weeks, II
good connections are made, they intend
to start the first week in September
Their villa near the Natural Bridge is
perched on q lofty eminence and sur
rounded hy giant trees, and 1t had been
Mrs. Sharp's intention 10 have the mar
rage take place in id-October, when
the foliage taxes on the vivid Autumn
hueS.
prof Charles E. Fay, who has served
Tufts College for half century, Is stil
hearty and tfds Summer he has MADE
new record among the Alpinists from
this country who are climbing over the
eternal SHOWS between Mount victoria
and Mount LEROY In the Canadian
has nFPvHniHd MS
participation in the perilous adven-
lures OF the Alpinists seeking new
routes in the Swiss and Austrian chains,
but ne set up his tent near Lake Louise
i'm late June and has I0urneyed up Inc
mighty pass between Mount Victoria
and Mount LEROY and in August ne
o,lshed on to Abbot'S Pass. Prof.. ray
takes things easily, and like the snail,
he covers his ground by few hundred
feet each day. Twenty-SeVen years ago
ne was the very first to CLIMB over the
marvellous peaks which add sucn pleas
IRE to visit TO Banff and Lake Louise
and. few Summers have passed SINCE
that he has not visited THESE delectaDis
mountains. which he prefers 10 tne
more spectacular climbs offered In the
Alps and Apprentices He has visited
South America and the terrible ranges
near the volcanoes Of Mexico. Like The
late Edward Whymper an ardent Al
/ pinlSt. he asserts that age should not
! impede the experienced climber, and
while ne does not advise men entering
/ the late sixties 10 begin climbing. he
/ feels safe in continuing his favorite
| sport.
+ Il
: Hrazii's first lord Of admiralty Is ad-
yocaling the diseontinuance Of the age
old nautical terms Of starboard and lar
board and substituting In their place
! the simple terms right and left This
change Ii deemed most radical and the
entire board Of admiralty will not be
able 10 accomplish II without a fiery
! controversy and a deluge OF protest
1 Those who believe In the well Of the
! English undefiied" are making the
I weikin ring because such change VIII
not lessen the confusion OF those on
I ghipboard but rather will add TO 1t, II
| is claimed While carrying the economy