Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-29

| and charming matrons have been chate-
lame for Uncle Sam In the official pal
| ace Of San Juan, but undoubtedly none
| who appears SO youthful has ever before
been established there. Mrs. Roosevelt
Is addicted TO colonial gowns in sprig-
ged material and to wearing round Leg
horn hats wreathed In roses. fashion
eminently becoming to her youthful ap-
pearance.
Mr.. John o. Crane, a resident OF
Prague, Czechoslovakia, always has
been regarded as one of the rarely
eligible young men who habitually lived
abroad, and this much to the displeas-
ure OF the maidens of Chicago, his
proper home. The son of Charles r.
Crane, once Minister to China, but bet
ter known as one Of the most powerful
captains Of industry in the western
world, he had accompanied the first
philanthropic exposition to Europe with
an idea of using some Of the Crane mil.
lions in the most worthy schemes OF
rehabilitation. Mr.. Charles Crane many
years before the catastrophe which set
all Europe aflame had known and adj
mired President Masaryk, and he was
among the first to prove his confidence
in the Czechoslovakian government by
aiding in its finances. So interested was
this Chicago manufacturer that ne
placed his younger son in Prague to be
on the field and to give first aid to all
deserving enterprises. Mr.. Crane had
the right to an apartment in Schonborn
Palace, where Is situated the legation
bought by the Government some hve
years ago. This was inserted IN the
document, and no matter what changes
or improvements are made to modern
ize the palace as legation and chan
celery, Mr.. Cranes rights must be re-
garded. But now that he is going to
marry Donna Teresa Martini Maras-
Gotta, daughter of the Duke and Ouch
eSs Ruspon Of Rome, he will no doubt
voluntarily renounce. his rights. HIS
bride, according to rumor, would prefer
living in Rome or Paris, and Mr.. Crane
can direct his fathers philanthropieS
in any center in Europe as he has from
Prague. But his absence will be In
tensely lamented in DR.. Masaryk's capt.
tai city, where he has lived since 1919.
Mr.. J. Ramsay Macdonald is the first
actual British premier to visit the
United States during his term of office,
but Mr.. Lloyd George. with his wife
dLlO uduBL1OCI, N11oo 1fACS1Ai, WIZ NuAA
now write M. P. after her name, were
entertained In the National Capital less
than a year after he had been defeated
by Mr.. Stanley Baldwin. Eminent
guests from the British Isles came to
Washington even in the days of its
building and while Philadelphia was
still the Federal city. There was Thomas
Law, son of the Lord Bishop of Lincoln
and associate of Warren Hastings in
some financial operations in the East
Indies, who brought fabulous fortune
in those days-almoSt $100,000-to in
vest In the Federal District. He lost
that fortune and died in perjury, but
he attracted many Britons of travelling
tendency, who told the world what they
thought Of the United States. Since
the opening eighteen hundreds every de-
gree of British celebrity has come to
Washington, and the list of the digni-
taries sent on official business and 9TH
ers of the mighty who came merely to
investigate would reach astonishing
proportions. The study of persons so
catalogued would make a comprehen-
sive essay on finance, international re-
lations and the chief actors on the po-
litical stage of the day.