The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-17
NEWS OF CAPITAL SOCIETY
Mrs. Richards and Pretty Daughters
Returning With Motion Picture Record
Tale Of Travels Told in
Films; Made Interesting
Trip From Holland to
South America

Trip From Holland z
South America
Mrs. Ralph Richards and
her daughter, Jeanne, ex-
pect to arrive in Washington
toward the end Of September
after four months spent IN
Europe and South America.
Miss Betty Richards, who
has returned to school in
Switzerland, will rejoin her
family here in time to be
bridesmaids for Miss Mar
garet Bacon at her marriage
to John Brawner in October.
This will leave DR.. Richards
the only absentee in an IN
teresting family group, Tor
he is in Venezuela as the
scientific representative OF
a great oil company
Thirty Day Cruise
Mrs. Richards and her girls
spent the early summer IN
Europe and then journeyed out
TO Maracaibo, Venezuela, to join
DIR. Richards. They made the
Journey from Amsterdam in a
vessel which took 80 days to
reach Curacao--a long time IN
Ahis day of rapid transit and,
as they were the only Amerl-
tcans from the States who had
ever made the trip from AM
sterdam to South America, they
were objects of great interest
to the ret of the Is passengers.
Beauty and Variety
The boat stopped at II ports,
including Madeira. the Guianas
and the coastal towns Of East
ern Venezuela, Trinidad and
Curacao. 1t was a most unusual
cruise, with great beauty Of seen
cry and variety Of entertainments
from coasting the hills on sledges
IN the hot sunshine of Madeira
10 dining 1uxuriously in country
clubs along the coast Of South
America. which hight have done
credit to Paris or New York.
They visited cocoa, coffee and
sugar plantations and a sugar
factory. There five different
races were working on the same
Job, none speaking the same
language--and only the owner
holding the key to this confusion
of tongues.
Mrs. Richards and her daugh-
ter stayed with Or. Richards at
Maracaibo for several weeks. nv.
ing in picturesque bungalow on
the lake shore. They slept in
chinchurras. native hammocks,
which are so comfortable and so
easy to roll UP that Mrs. Rich
ards Is threatening to put them
into her house here instead OF
beds. The girls made numerous
trips to the interior, where oil
wells are being drilled, but Mrs.
Richards begged off because OF
the hard riding, preferring to get
her ideas Of the oil fields from
the movies.
Motion Pictures :
On all their travels Mrs. Rich
ards and their daughters had
taken a motion camera with them.
so they have an interesting record
OF their journey and are planning
70 give q series of private
views" of their treasured films
for their friends in Washington.
These record their stay in Eu-
rope az well as their travels in
South America-visits to Mochlin,
where exists the only carlton
school In the world, to quaint
Bruges and to the picturesque
canal cities and islands OF the
Netherlands.
Mrs. Richards writes amusingly
Oh L00 4DuLEh GuDbOIA VI NCoi lib
native dress-"not because they
have not progressed, but because
the tourists demand it, and easy
money is to be made by parading
in Dutch costume and posing for
photographs. One couple is mar
ried daily the entire year-and the
tourists come away with smile
Of good luck at just having hap
peneA in on this solemn cere-
Ynony. we did not have the
same luck. ] suppose the couple
was being divorced that day in
order to begin again" In Am
sterdana they were Just too early
FOR the Olympic games. but found
the crowds gathering-and the
prices going UP
Miss Jeanne Richards will re.
turn to the Friends School this
winter.