Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-17
Tales of Well Known Folk
. In Social and Official Life
King Albert of Belgium, Highly Esteemed Mon
arch, Actively Promoting the Coming Inter-
national Exposition at Antwerp.

, Mrs. Oliver p. H. Belmont who came
! to New York City recently in connec-
| ton with her business affairs. has ef-
| fectually ended the rumor that she was
| returning to her native hauntS perma-
| nently. Mrs. Belmont, although not
intending to become a French citizen
will continue to reside in a fine ole
feudal stronghold which she purchased
and renovated during the past Summer
and which is set high in the mountains
about half q day by motor road To
Paris. She has extensive farmlandS
vines. olive groves, orchards OF cherry
and peach fine ranges for stock and Is
immersed in her venture and more than
pleased with results. Not half days
motor journey away Is the handsome
estate of her daughter. Nine. Jacques
Balsan, not far from Nice and on a
grim mountain peak overlooking the
Mediterranean. The ladies visit fire.
quently and make many shopping tours
to Paris. Nine. Balsan is not con-
cerned so vitality with the feministe
question as is her mother. but she
belongs to a committee which Is in
terested in the same principles as those
underlying the League OF Women
Voters in this country. Although the
feministes are supposed to have made
great progress in the French Republic.
there are few visible tokens OF their
success. They have entered the profess
sion of law and medicine and reached
some heights in bureau appointments,
but politically they have achieved no
triumphs such as have women in this
country and in European nations other
than the Latins.
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Mavor Walker and other responsible
officials of New York City gravely
ponder a new problem in Gotham's
way of amusing itself, namely the sun.
rise parties now staged at the piers OF
outgoing liners and which have been
prolonged from midnight. when the out
bound ships sail, to morning, when
others are due. Seeing the sun peep
over the ocean is deemed great sport IN
New York, and the jewellers VINO passea
the night on the piers are often REIN
forced by those who have attended
dances or late cabaret shows. If the
nolice authorities of New York could en-
force their will they would forbid the
steamship companies to keep their piers
open after the liners are we'll on their
way, but apparently they have encoun-
tered strong opposition to this simple
course. Mr.. Joseph Schneider, for many
years manager of the North German
Lloyd, now in charge of its interests In
London. afforded every facility for those
who wished to welcome the Bremen on
her maiden voyage and to speed her on
the way when she turned eastward. The
officials of the CunarderS are equally
gracious. and all of the directors Of the
more popular liners deem it fine, in
expensive way to maintain and increase
their prestige. The owls, as those who
are addicted to haunting the steamship
piers in the night have been called, are
quiet and orderly and few rowdy Incl
dents have been recorded. But it keeps
employed a tremendous force of police
whom the mayor of New York believes
could serve more usefully in other parts
Of the city.
Miss Priscilla Mullins Hallett, who re-
Gently became the bride of Mr.. Ira
Richardson Hitler, I'd, is a far-off cousin
of the Secretary OF the Navy and ltneal
descendant on the distaff side of the
Henry Adams who came from Noting
ham and landed in Boston with his wife
and eight sons In 1884. AS her name in
dicates, Mrs. Hitler can claim the strong
minded Puritan maid and the bashful
John Alden as ancestors, and likewise
that family of merchant princes, the
TalbottS, who sailed the China Seas in
the days of the clipper ship. Charles
Talbot founded a famous china house
in Boston soon after the British troops
retired after their defeat by the Con-
tinental Army, and for years they fur
nished the weather. classes with the
best grades of dinner services of Can
ton and other porcelain from the land
Of the dragon. All Talbot descendants
boast the Canton dinner service where
on the bridge over the turbulent stream
Is depicted, but with no men standing
on it, the hallmark of the genuine an
tique Canton against the spurious fash
ions of later days. Royal Canton of the
present day is not highly priced among
the porcelains, and those who wish to
get the ancient artistic varieties owned
by the Secretary of Navy and practically
all Of the Older families of Boston must
either inherit 1t or await the dispersal
OF some family estate. The revered old
vast warehouses in Canton as well as in
Boston.
Herr Erich Maria Remarque. author
OF the world wide sensational success in
the book realm, "All Quiet on the West
ern Front" less than 10 months ago
was the quiet transformations editorial
writer Of Berlin daily, meagerly COM
pensated and hence living in an unpre-
tending northeast section, in the VIII
mersdorf apartment. Now the royalties
from his book come In so thick and fast
that 1t is an effort to count them and
then have them safely tucked into the
bank. He has removed to more ex-
tensive. quarters along the Inter den
Linden and Is enjoying many comforts
denied before and since his narrowing
ordeal in the World War. Herr Re-
marque frankly confesses that the as
founding vogue of his book has al
most stunned him. For like all who
write well he felt the irresistible impulse
to give expression to the feelings which
had lacerated soul and body, and in
fact he had to write in order to ease the
enduring agony of memory. He wrote
all his memorable book on a plain deal
table in his small apartment and after
he had finished his work of the day.
He rewrote some portions, but in the
main the book Is just as it came from
his almost Keeling brain, anguished be-
yond endurance by the thoughts of what
he and other youths had suffered. Then
like the author of David Harum" he
began the difficult task of finding
publisher and he had almost completed
the list in Berlin and thought of try
ing Leipzig. when a clear-headed official
OF publishing house resolved to take a
chance. 1t has proved lucky one for
him as well as for the author, for "All
Quiet on the Western Front" has been
unique among the money-makers writ
ten by German, though with French
name and published in the Fatherland
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big Bill" Tilden of lawn tennis fame
is. like other champions past and pres
ent in athletic pursuits, rounding out his
career on the stage. He is the hero of
the play I'm Wise" which opened in