Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.

Count Laszlo Szechenyi, minister
from Hungary is, according to persist
ent rumor, soon to be called to the
foreign office Of Budapest 10 give Ills
country the benefit of his eight years
of residence service in the Capital OF
liShed diplomatic intercourse between
Hungary, restored to sovereignty, and
this republic It was in January, 1922,
that he presented credentials to PreSi-
dent Harding, but of all of the imposing
group of diplomats who came during
that year there remain in the local
CORPS only Count Szechenyt, the min
lister from Colombia, Senior Enrique
Olaya, and the minister from Panama,
Senior Ricardo Alfaro. Members OF the
Hungarian legation have shown pro-
nounced trend toward selecting wives
from this nation, so that WaShingto-
mans have not become familiar with the
UNIQUE customs of the MagyarS. But
in one way Count Szechenyi will inquire
permanently in the annals OF the Ma
fional Capital. He was the f1rst mem
Der of the corps to establish MS cnan-
celry out Massachusetts avenue, sec
ton eminently popular now and con-
stantly threatening the prestige OF SIX
teenth street. But the minister pougnV
land and erected the handsome legation
necessity than of choice. and he had no
idea of starting a fashion when he dlo
60 Coming to Washington In the
aftermath of the World War, he found
the CITY overcrowded and what ne ana
his wife formerly Miss Gladys Wander
hilt. considered essential was a nome,
not to be rented, leased or purchased
Massachusetts avenue has also mace
strong appeal to Sir Esme HOWARD any any
the fine group of buildings which W. S,.a
become the British embassy snow tne
cIear-siehtedness of the Hungarian
envoy.
President Hoover, in the years ne was
secretary of Commerce, slgnSo nLs
name Herbert G. Hoover, &c. lot CAaLA,
the maiden name of his mother. 6ut
he has followed the lead OF Il out OF
the 81 Chief Magistrates and now uses
his first and last names onty, uS Sol ~
o,1incv Adams was first in the llst OF
those Presidents who took once VIII
three names but there were scores OF
the name of John Adams, descendants
of the immigrant who brought eight
sons to the New World. Like the
charles CAROLS and Daniel CARROTS OF
MARYLAND he was compelled TO place
himself. william Henry Harrison
makes the next departure from the SIM
ple fashion begun by George Wasnmg-
ton. Then came James Knox FOLK;
Nearly quarter OF century elapSed d
before ULYSSES S. Grant appears ana
then in succession Rutherford b.
HAYES. James A. Garfield, Chester A.
Arthur. Grover Cleveland and woodrow
wilson having had three names, tne
former Stephen and the latter Tnomas'
hut they had eliminated them before
reaching the supreme office. Wllllam
Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding
complete the list of Presidents with
three names, If the present Executive Is
excluded. He signs only Herpert
Hoover" and began to do so during MS
campaign.
MFR. Arthur wilson Page, son OF Wal
ter Hines Page, wartime AmoaSSaooi
from Washington to London, VINO re-
Gently was appointed persona "a, aao ave- a.
mower naval conference to be helo III
london. was well known in Washing
ton during his fathers service at the
Court of st. James. Though ne was
editor of Worlds Work. the monthly
publication through which the late Am
bassador gained national fame curing
nearly all his diplomatic years, ne 1ouno
time to visit London as well as WASH
ington. He was particularly neipIuI "
President Wilson's activities IN framing
public opinion through the press. In
recent years Mr.. Page has deserted the
printing business in all its forms ana
has become potent in business now De
ing vice president of the American Teie-
phone & Telegraph Co., and owns
fine estate on Long Island. Altnougn
much younger, he was frequently the
companion of Mr.. Stimson, now Secre-
oil a
prefers golf, he frequently joins IN a
game Of tennis. He also owns large
country seat In New Hampshire in what
is called the literary belt, in which VIM
ston Churchill has a home, as nave
Booth Harrington and others OF equal
fame, and where President Wilson spent
the Summer of 1918, after taking over
his manifold duties. Mr.. Page attended
all of the conferences in Paris and
Versailles in 1890, and has been a
student of the various treaties growing
out of those aimed, like that to be held
in London in January, outlawing war
on land and sea.
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Prince Louis Cesar Maurice, Duke de
Broglie. who a few weeks ago received
the Nobel prize for physics, is perhaps
the most aristocratic beneficiary OF that
celebrated Swedish fund. The duke
had a Observation-Disclosures, after
ward a marshal of France, in Rocham-
beau's army of alliance, famed as Prince
Victor Claude, who won laurels at York
town and was received as hero at the
court of Louis XVI. This scion OF the
ancient house De Broglie turned Jacobin
after the French revolution got under
way, but he opposed the tyrant Robe
sphere and died under the guillotine
near the end of the terror era. The
present Duke de Broglie graduated with
honors from oxford and then entered
the French Naval Academy. He soon
resigned to devote his time to the study
of physics. He returned to the navy
during the World War, and his tnven-
ton of a wireless receiver for submerged
submarines brought him first the COW
eted rosette of the Legion of Honor and
$46.75O of the Nobel fund. The De
Broplies were mobiles of Turin in 1854,
and they are written into the Golden
Book of Italy's ancient regime. The
illustrious scientist was born in 1875
and married Countess Marie Camille
Bernou de Rochetaillee in 1904. AS
there are no heirs, the title and estate
will pass to Prince Louis Amedee Eric,
son of the late Prince Amedee Eugene,
uncle of the present duke. The family
retains much of its wealth and possesses
large landed estate in Piedmont, near
Rome, and the historic Chateau de
Broglie at Eure in France.
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Lady Patricia Ramsay, so well known
as Princess Pat of Connaught, Is Eu-
ropes most accomplished royal needle
woman, especially in the exquisite en-
broideries known as "groS point and
petit point" Lady Patricia draws her
own designs and then paints them, after
which she does the crewel work so per-
fectly she sometimes declares that II
evil days fall upon Briton's royalty as
it had upon the Romanoffs, she could