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the taking over of docks and the di-
verting OF German patents into Amer
lean business. After taking compre-
hensive view of the situation, Herr
Leverkuenhe very pleasantly inter-
rupted his duties for the Summer and
in June was married in st. Paul's
Lutheran Church, in New York City, to
Fraulein Renate Riedel of Berlin and
with her sailed for the Fatherland.
They have but recently arrived in
Washington and are at present in
Wardman Park Hotel and in between
times both are diligently seeking a
home.
Frau Leverkuenhe is talented artist
and naturally desires to continue her
work in ceramics and in molding, and
she greatly desires house where well
lighted studio is possible. This gifted
young matron has lived in New York
for the past two years and her romance
with the financial agent began several
years ago when he was attached to the
Washington embassy. She is ma
tive of small town below Berlin,
Bauhaus, and her father is an extensive
agriculturist. She made her studies
privately until ready to enter the Uni
verSity of Berlin, after which. having
decided on an art career, she studied IN
several institutions in Bavaria. Frau
Leverkuenhe specialized in ceramics and
studied for some time in one Of the &C
copied schools of that art in Weimar.
She took up molding in clay and so
proficient did she become that until
deciding to try her fortune in New
York. she was one of the specialists
employed in the vast porcelain manu-
factory which Is located in the center
of Berlin, just off the Tiergarten. In
former years it was known as the royal
porcelain works and splendid exhibit
ton hall showed the various designs
manufactured for the imperial family.
Now it is taken over by the state and is
maintained on a more extended basis.
Though not 50 well known as the DreS-
den china, this porcelain of Berlin has
wide vogue in Central Europe, end
only artists are employed to design or
to paint the separate pieces.
Herr Leverkuenhe and his wife speak
English perfectly and they will be
among the most interesting additions
to the foreign corps. AS the mission
Of the former Is from the ministry OF
finance and not from the ministry of
State. so, although he has large and
pleasant quarters in the German chan
celry. he does not figure as member
of the diplomatic corps. This, how
ever, will not prevent Frau Leverkuenhe
from mingling on pleasant terms with
the social world, especially in its art
and music circles.
Herr Leverkuenhe is graduate OF
several of Germany's best known uni
versities, Berlin and Gottenburg among
the number He studied law in the
University of Edinburgh and received
his LII. D. in that eminent institution.
His present mission is entirely distinct
either from the embassy activities or
the Mixed Claims Commission wh1Ch
was called into being by the ace of
Congress in March. 1922. This ccm-
mission continues to function. but the
new act called the war settlement
measure will use the tremendous sum
set apart for that purpose to repay Ger
man citizens for the losses which the
claims commission have approved and
for which they have ordered the awards
Those patents for dyes, paints and all
the various causes of grievances OF
which the country has heard much
since 1919, will be harmoniously and
equitably adjusted, and Herr Lever
kuenhe will continue as the direct rep
reSentative of the claimants through
the treasury department of Berlin-or
the ministry Of finance as it is known
there