Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Britain's Queen Warmly Espoused Cause of
Women Barristers Who Were Denied
Right to Practice Law.

warning is gaining wide vogue with
the self-determination wing OF the
Younger circle, whether 1t be in royal
families or plain everyday citizens
Acknowledged to be the reigning beauty
in kingly homes. this fact may Ia
given Princess Martha an inherent RICH,
10 choose her own mate. dispensing
with the Intervention of chancellarles
and all the form and ceremonies at
tending royal engagements. At any
rate she and Olaf decided the affair al
ter the manner Of the Jones girl and the
Brown boy, and when every detall was
perfected. they informed that part OF
the world which would be most m
terested. This innovation III royal fam
lies has, instead Of mourning cenSure,
inspired enthusiasm IN both sweden
ard Norway. 1t will be a strong in
fiupnce in healing the wound caused
by the political divorce of the two
nations after more than q centuryS
union Outwardly the two Kingdoms
maintained friendly relations during the
% years since their separation. but both
governments believed that dangerous
sources of diScord and misunderStand-
ing existed which the charming romance
between the Norwegian Kings son and
the Swedish Kings niece will practical
ly nullify.
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Mile. Halma Kanopach OF Warsaw,
whom all those who saw the Olympic
games or followed the accounts of them,
will recognize as the champion discus
thrower OF the world was married last
week 10 Col. IGraoe MatSuSZeWSki. who
now Is Polish Minister TO Budapest. The
ceremony occurred III warsaw and was
y brilliant SOCIAL event and WAS attended
largely by representatives OF the athletic
world in which the bride had been
prominent. Acknowledged the leading
sportswOman of Eastern Europe, Nine.
MatSuszewski has won laurelS i'll litera-
ture. and especially in poetry. She has
much charm in the social sense. comes
Of fine old family of Warsaw and is
n graduate of its womanS college. where
for a year IN two she was physical di-
rector. Col. MatSuSZewSki and his bride
are passing q few weeks on the French
Riviera On tllsir. arrival in Budapest
they will receive unusual honorS from
the corps and from the resident society.
while all the .womep'& clubs. and ath-
letic unions viii give special entertain
ments for this graceful. slender woman
who possesses the strength Of a. giant
and who SURPASSED m the former cham
pionS in the famous old Roman game
Of throwing the discus.
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Mr.. William White Howells. whose
ENGAGEMENT TO Miss Mufiel Seabury
recently was announced Is the grand
son of two men honored and revered III
letters and in journalism. william Dean
Howells, the novelist, and Horace
White. for many years editor of the
Chicago Tribune and later OF the New
York Evening Post. MIR. Howells is
SON Of Mr. and Mrs. John Mead
HoWells and is III his senior year at
Harvard Miss Seabury comes of the
family Of the revered Bishop Seabury
and has many connections among the
Hollanders and Huguenots so numerous
i'll the early annals of New York. The
Lispensrds, among the earliest and most
prominent Of the French religious exiles.
married into the Seabury family on
several occasions. They acquired large
possessions In the outskirts Of New York
City and at one time their principai
country seat occupied the noble
eminence now crowned by Mount ST.
Vincent's Catholic College for Women.
This property. after passing first from
the L,ispenardS and the Lispenard-
Stewards, was purchased by the actor,
Edwin Forrest and by him left to the
Sisters of Charity, who now conduct the
Sesbury shortly after receiving his de-
gree and with his bride will sail soon
after for Paris where he intends to take
ND his fathers profession OF architec-
ture.
Mr.. John Pierpont Morgan and his
associates on the Preparations Commits
sion have been most luxuriouSly IN
tailed by the officials of the Bank OF
France on Place Vendeme, and accord
F, ing to local authorities the vast council
chamber was once the salon OF Ia
nous modiste who designed the gowns
of the Empress Eugene. Place VEN
dome has been for more than cen
fury and a half the recognized financial
center OF Paris. and in the last days OF
Louis XVI no less than 10 banks were
sumptuously quartered In special build
| ines about the statue of the Grande
/ Monarche, a site now occupied by an
equestrian figure OF Napoleon !. At
the present time nine foreign banks
four of them founded and maintained
by citizens of Uncle Sam, are domiciled
in these same fine houses. The
Reparations Commission meets in what
was the old Hotel Bristol, where the
famous John Law of Mississippi Bubble
fame had his Offices. 1t is now covered
by the Bankers Trust Building and on
the second floor back Mr.. Morgan has
q private office and meets the financial
giants in conference. Just around the
corner is Rue de la Paix, for many hum
bred years sacred to the modistes and
miliners, creators of fashions for all
the world Several of the members of
the commission are accompanied by
their wives, and that they are so close
to the shopping district is accepted with
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