The Washington times., 1930-03-04
ARTIST VISITS
PARENTS IN
CAPITAL
Miss Helen Howe, of New
York, Will Return for
Weekend

The distinguished mono
loguist, Miss Helen Howe,
came to Washington yester-
day to present a program of
original monologues for
the Georgetown Ten Event
Course at the Presbyterian
Chapel in Georgetown last
evening.
She spent the night with
her parents, M. A. De Wolfe
Howe, the Pulitzer prize bio
grapher, and Mrs. Howe,
better known as Fanny
Quincy Howe, anonymous
author of "The Notion
Counter" at their home,
1924 Eighteenth st.
Miss Howe will return at
the end of the week for a
few days rest from her
strenuous life in New York.
Artist Of Note
In two seasons of engage
mentS, Miss Howe has achieved
. distinguished place in that
most difficult department of
dramatic art. That she has
made a place for herself, within
the sphere, yet distinct from
the work of such lights as Ruth
Draper and Beatrice Herford is
no mean achievement. She did
not dream of being a mon
ologuist three years ago. There
was no dramatic background,
little of the stage, in her edu-
cation and environment. She
was born in Boston-that New
England city Of inhibitions-
and into. that particular stratum
of it which led naturally to
the most conventional surround
ings.
Attendance at a fashionable
boarding school, coming out" !"
membership in the Junior
League, and a year at college
might have cast her into he
mould into which so many So
ciety girls have been shaped
had it not been for an IN
heritance and an immediate
background of a somewhat dis,
tinctive quality.
Studied Abroad
Aside from a writer's skill
and touch, inherited from both
parents, Helen Howe possesses
a humor, a spontaneity, and a
! talent of her own. Always in
terested in things dramatic she
determined to relegate her tai
ents to the hobby" class, ana
I sailed for France.
In Paris she went to the
salon of Georges Vitray, one of
the leading actors in M. Cop
peau'S distinguished troupe at
the VieuX Colombier, for lessons
In French diction. Miss Howe
pleased him so with her work
that she Joined a class of
French students for the theater,
as the only American, and was
trained in the roles of Moliere,
Racine, and Marivaux.
She gave a performance at
. the Comedy Club in New York,
when she returned and received
immediate praise.
In England
Miss Howe has given mono
1ogues in many smart homes
for such well-known hoStesses
as Mrs. H. P. Dawson, Mrs. C..
Oliver ISelin, Mrs. A. Lawrence
Lowell, and Mrs. Bayard Van
Rensselaer,. Last spring she
made a trip to England where
she was heard by Ashley Dukes.
/. distinguished critic and play
wright; Rose Macauley, Sylvia
Townsend Warner, author, of
"Lolly Willow 81; Margaret Ken.
nedy, author of "The Constant
Nymph," and Lorna Rea, whose
Six Mrs. Greenes" has been
among the most popular of re-
cent novels. Miss Howe's stay
IN England was not protracted
though next year she hopes
Tor a season there.
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Envoy Sailing
The newly appointed United
states Minister to Albania and
Mrs. Herman Bernstein. accom-
panied by their family, will sail
Tor Europe April 2.
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The Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury and Mrs. Walter
Ewing Hope are at the Hotel
Ambassador, New York, for q
few d;.ys.
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