Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Drive for Milion-Dollar Endowment for North
ampton School for Deaf, Promoted by
Mrs. Coolidge Nearing Success

| that ne has earnest dramatic aSpira-
| tons, and intends to east vigilant eye
over the field. AS Lord Kilmarnoch he
was a popular figure in the fashionable
world of Gotham and along the Florida
coast. He succeeded to his fathers
title less than year ago and is the
youngest earl in the British peerage.
According to the records, he has entered
| his twenty-nineth year, although he
does not look to be 90 The late Earl
Of Enroll made fame and something of
fortune on the British stage and one
of his plays, THE Dream Kiss" had a
Broadway vogue and so also THE
Anonymous Letter" Whether the pres
ent earl proposes to write or merely to
become a producer is not yet plain.
His father left many manuscripts,
which, according to critics, have po-
tential value artistically and in the
roll was Lady Idina Gordon of the
Scotch Gordon family and is in her
early EOS. graceful and pretty, and, &C
cording to London opinion, has distinct
leaning toward the footlightS, where she
has been seen in private theatricals.
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DR.. Foxley Norris, dean of Westmin-
ster, has brought new note into cleri-
cal life by founding shortly after his
transfer from New York to London the
The dean, how unlike his colleagues at
st. Pauls, Is the reverse Of gloomy and
relates that he Is by nature an artist
and a dean by accident. He performs
his ecclesiastical duties with diligence
and then he INDUCES his hobby of
painting. Scarcely were the formalitieS
relating to his induction into Office over
before he hired raft and, covered with
smock. he anchored under Waterloo
Bridge and proceeded to sketch the dis
tant Westminster. He has excellent
ideas about extending this venerable
pile and his various views of the exist
ing Quilting with the graceful additions
he would make have excited enthusi-
astic support from architects and art
lists alike. Besides this DR.. Norris is
sued an invitation to all clergymen
with taste for sketching or painting
to meet him and aid In forming the
parsons society Of painters. He has
gathered an astonishing number of
supporters. London never suspected
that so many spiritual shepherds were
given to drawing and painting, although
a literary association of clerics who
write poetry and other things has been
in existence for so years.
Mr. Harry Worcester Smith, who holds
supreme position In the world of
near Barre, Mass, to the tip of South
Carolina, where he maintains a Winter
estate, recently embarked on one of the
most impressive hunting trips an
nounced for the coming year. Mr..
Smith goes for his own pleasure and
instruction without mandate from any
museum or learned society, as the case
Is with the Roosevelt brothers, Theodore
and Kermit, and with the expedition of
young Crane Of Chicago. Mr.. Smith
has gathered one of the most compre-
henSive libraries on sports in Massa-
chusetts and one of his detectives is
to increase this collection by the classic
works Of other lands, that Is by q per-
favor Of sport and against 1t. The
genial essayist. E. v. Lucas, of London
has recently published an onslaught on
the present trend toward sport, and
asks in his preface how many through
the purr Of the motor miss the voice of
the nightingale This pleasant writer
favors return to the sedate pedestrian
ism of the past, more ardent gardeners
and for the gentle art Of conversation
as against the pell-mell of ball games
and the insane rush Of speed every
where apparent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Julian Moulton,
who maintain an all-the-year home at
the Chateau de Ia Verriere, near Mesnil,
France, are Americans of the second
generation established across the ocean.
They are the center of colony of
Americans so imbued with love of home
that practically every member pulled
up stakes early in December and sailed
for New York to pass Christmas IN
whatever part Of the United States
beckoned in that name. This was ap-
parently bewildering and not a little re-
sented by their Gallo neighbors, who
failed to understand if these Americans
found France so inviting at other times
why they crossed the ocean to spend the
Yuletide. Among these were Mrs.
George Blumenthal and her sister, Mrs.
Elise Stern of New York, who usually
arrive in France some time in January
and are in the forefront of social activi-
ties from then until December. Mrs.
Stern has a beautiful home, formerly
the scene Of the social triumphs of the
Duchess de Ia Rochefaucauld, who was
Matte Mitchell, daughter of the late
Senator Mitchell of oregon, and IA
nous belle of Washington in her girl
hood. Another who returned to pass
the Yuletide with his own kith and kin
was Mr.. Ralph Beaver Strasburger of
Philadelphia, who has immense racing
interests in France and is always con-
spicuous figure at the Spring meets both
in France and England.
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Many social contemporaries of the
former Courtney Let's, now Mrs. John
Borden of Chicago, are reading with
intense interest her book, THE Cruise
of the Northern Light" being an account
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