Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
Tales of Well known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Mrs. Taft Wife of Chief Justice, Greatly Inter.
ested in Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,
Which She Founded.

| and having their marriages celebrated
| without benefit of clergy. Indeed, ex-
cept in the titled classes, few weddings
are chronicled, and even in that priVi-
legged class a tendency is displayed to
have the nuptials at home without the
pomp and circumstance which tradi-
| ton has decreed for the peers of the
realm and their kindred. The solid
middle class of Britain has proved the
largest factor of the new matrimonial
ways, and the London prelate attrib-
utes this to the present lack of religious
belief and to some degree dislike of the
spectacleS which church weddings be-
come for waiting crowds, and this de-
spite all efforts to guard their privacy.
The bishop finds that Londoners are
marrying very caSually-take half day
of from their business, visit the reg
ister's Office and postpone their honey
moon until convenient leisure offers.
Civil marriages so far outnumbered re-
ligiouS ceremonies last years that rec
tors and curates find such a deficit in
the exchequer that marry in your own
church" has become a slogan with
those who wish to turn the victims of
Cupid into the old way of celebrating
their capitulation.
X \ X
Mrs. Burnaby, wife of Mai. Algernon
E. Burnaby of the British army. who
was Miss Minna Field of this city be-
fore she married Preston Gibson and
then the Briton, to the great delight of
those who believe in the aScendancy of
the American woman, has been chosen
as master of the best known English
fox hunting pack, the Quorn. She is
the first woman so honored. and she
had the pleasure of opening the last
hunt with the Prince of Wales riding
at her side. The British heir since
his early boyhood has been a rider with
the famous pack of Quorn, and he
rarely misses a fox hunt when he is
in that part of the midlands when
Reynard is given a chase. Mrs. Burn
aoy succeeds her husband Maj. Burn
ably, who has led the Quorn for the
past six years. He has been appointed
joint aid of his wife and will share
responsibility with her. Mrs. Burnaby
is daughter of the late Mrs. Thomas
Nelson Page, and she followed the fox
In many Virginia hunts when she was
In her early teens. She is an accom-
plished and fearless rider and has been
identified with hunting clubs ever since
her second marriage Her eldest son.
Henry Field Gibson, had his name
changed by Chicago courts to Henry
Field only, the name of his maternal
grandfather, who was the brother and
associate OF Marshall Field in founding
the business which yielded so large a
fortune. He. divided his time between
England and Chicago, but as he has
entered business in the latter city, he
naturally claims it as legal residence.
Young Field served CALAMITY under his
stepfather during the World War.
x
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has album
oant company from the official world of
washington in those who travel practi-
cally in no other way but flying. Mr..
and Mrs. William P. MacCracken, ir.,
the former until recently Assistant Sec
rotary of Commerce for Aviation, had
taken over that practice before the
Lone Flyer winged his way across the
Atlantic to Paris. Mr.. MacCracken. an
accomplished lawyer of Chicago, had
drawn up the first code of national
aviation laws before President Hoover
who then was Secretary of Commerce
invited him into the flying cabinet"
MIR. Frederick Trubee Dawson of the
flying branch Of the Army made a
heroic record during the Warld War
and he uses a plane as easily as he
would horse or a motor car. Mrs.
Dawson and the young members of the
family enjoy spin In the air and fire.
quently take one. Mr.. David S. ingalls,,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was a
flying ace during the war and in the
piping days of peace returned to his
plane with avidity and made a stirring
campaign for the Ohio Legislature, us
ing his cockpit from which to deliver
eloquent speeches. Indeed, the As
sistant Secretary of the Navy is as firm
~ committed to an airplane as his chief,
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, is to a boat
as the best way to move from one place
to another. The Assistant Postmaster
General. Mr.. w. Irving Glover, who is
in charge of the air mail, flies when he
moves about inspecting his widely sep
arated bases. Senator Hiram Bingham
is perhaps the only high official who has
written a book about flying, IAN Ex-
plorer in the Air Service" published
soon after he received his pilots license
in 1917. Senator Arthur Capper flies
habitually on his trips from Washing
ton to Topeka to look after his extern
sive publishing interests.
X X x
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers
is the first flying Congresswoman, but