Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

congresses and important missions
especially since the World War. That
Mr.. Stimson is now to become Secre-
tary of State is chiefly due to Mr.
Roots long association with him and
, deep appreciation of his legal acumen
Although Washington associates Mr.
Stimson with public life only from 1911,
when he succeeded Judge Dickinson OF
Tennessee as Secretary of War he was
on the recommendation OF Mr.. Root
his former law mentor. appointed by
President Roosevelt in 1905 to aid in
breaking up the sugar trusts and this
at the same juncture of time that
Secretary Kellogg was engaged in the
same work with oil and railroad trusts
in the Northwest. Both Of these dis
tinguished lawyers won political recog-
milton because of the opportunity afford
ed in serving President Roosevelt S
policies. Mr.. Root when placed in
authority over decisions OF a higher
plane. regarded the proper maintenance
of the Capital City as the imperative
duty of Congress to posterity. Speaking
of his years of experience and multi
piled activities. Mr.. Root has recently
said that he regarded as his most useful
act-his patronage and aid to Augustus
st. Gaudens. then struggling against
adverse fate to win recognition in the
field Of art.
Mr.. Anthony Asquith, son of the late
Earl of Asquith and oxford, who spent
much time in this city when his sister
Princess Elizabeth Bibesco was the
chatelaine of the Rumanian legation,
suent six months in Hollywood trying
out all phases of the game there
writing, acting and directing: After
returning to London he tried acting
and also ne produced several plays. me
Joint compositions of himself, his sister
and Prince Antoine Bibesco. Like tne
plays of the Bibescos presented IN th,s
country, the offerings were only partial,
ly successful and so Mr.. Asquith 1urneo
to Aim directing, writing the scenarios
himself and taking an occasional minoI
part. He has announced plays WIN
burmese and his latest and most sue
cessful shows the brutality OF London
trafic and the savagery OF the mop
irving to get transportation as utterly
uncurbed by the law. He has received
tremendous applause for teaching TINS
lesson and his friends say that ne Is
launched upon a career which VIII De
honorable and remunerative and at the
same time, will proclaim a crusade IN
favor of civic restraint.
DIR. Ferdinand Veverka, Minister from
Czechoslovakia, who removed from zoo'
r street when that domicile was pur-
chased by Representative ana ME-;
Fred Britten, obtained the mansion OF
the late Nine. Hauge and will flno
home ready to hand for elaborate en-
Pertaining. Nine Hauge planned one OF
the noblest dining halls in any private
home of Washington, a room Az rect
square and getting the southern and
western sun. Charming at all the day.
light hours when amenities occur and
marvelously lighted when necessary by
wax tapers reinforced by the most mel
low shaded electric bulbs. She obtained
the handsome old carved interior from
a chapter house in Kent, and through
her wholesale purchase OF other inte-
ricrs drew down the wrath of the british
government and led to the passing OF
the law forbidding the removal OF
ANTIQUES from British soil. Buying vast
interiors from ancient houses of the
English midlands was a fashion in the
early 19OOs, as the late Charles F. Nc
Kim purchased the marvellous carved
oak walls and ceiling In the state din
ing room of the White House from a
chapter house In Surrey. The salons
and reception rooms of the Hauge house
are Of corresponding size, and are OF
more generous proportions than any
others in the diplomatic homes. the
property was owned by Mr.. Ross TODD
of Louisville when its title passed to
Czechoslovakian government, its first
real estate purchase IN washington.
M. Edgar Prochnik, the Minister from
Austria, who Is having legation erected
for his country on the corner opposite
the new Czechosloyakian legation,
Twenty-fourth street and Massachu-
sets avenue, anticipates removing from
Wyoming avenue in the late Autumn.
DR.. Veverka is the third envoy to
Washington who has selected this i'm
mediate neighborhood for an official
home, the Egyptian government having
purchased residence not far removed
about six months ago. Some four years
ago, the Chilean and Swedish govern
ments had acquired permanent diplo-
matte establishments. The Hungarian
Minister, Count Szechenyi, is credited
with having started the vogue OF
MASSACHUSETTS, dfCIiuC 0CyOtAd 0AACAA Aohi
Circle diplomatic domiciles. But 1t has
recently been explained that when the
Hungarian envoy came to Washington
in the Autumn of 1921, houses OF any
sort were difficult either to buy or lease
and that IL was more as Hobson's choice
that he established the Hungarian le-
CATION out Massachusetts, avenue, on the
border of Georgetown, rather than with
an idea Of making fashion. But now
the erection of the extensive British
embassy In the vicinity and the nu-
merous other purchases by foreign gov
ernments, the fashion may be accepted
\ y
David Rittenhouse of Germantown
for whom Philadelphia's most exclusive
residence section has been named, was
a matchmaker of Colonial days who
later became distinguished astrono-
Ymey, this republics first, and who serv-
ed his native State most successfully
as treasurer. He was the first director
of the mint and, having fund of local
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