Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-11
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Mexican Ambassador Presides Over What Is
Cassed Among Most Active Diplomatic
Establishments In American Capital.

, ment buildings as L'Enfant placed them
| in the Mall and in extending the
boulevards and streets which now END
| In blind alleys TO their original ma.
jestic proportions.
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Mrs. Urban H. Boughton, who wa,
before her marriage more than 40 years
ago Miss Clara Leland Rogers, daughter
of the elder Henry n. Rogers, has Gre
ated another shrine for her country people
to visit on occasion. The fine country
seat. Ashridge House, at Fairhaven tr
public and beautiful memorial chapel
has been added to the mansion. Under
the high altar lies her husband, the late
philanthropist, and in an imposing
mausoleum nearby is his life-lone
friend and political colleague. Andrew
Bonar Law, late Conservative prime
minister. Mrs. Boughton intends Ash
ridge House to be a sort Of training
college in the matter of books. docu-
ments and historic trophies for the
Conservative party and to keep alive
the spirit which animated such men as
her husband and his associates. She
will, during the coming Summer, when
the gift Is turned over permanently to
well of Morristown, N. j., Andrew Bonar
Laws daughter, as her guest. Mr.. Col
we'll Is the son of Capt. John Charles
Colwell, u. S. NJ, and he met his wife
during a visit to England when her
father was premier. FaiIhaven, by q
coincidence, is the name Of Mrs.
Boughton's birthplace, as was the older
English town that of her distinguished
husband. Henry H Rogers, associate
of John D. Rockefeller, erected many
majestic buildings in his natal place,
which Is busy, thriving, commercial
point on Buzzards Bay, a splendid
library, an inn, which will perpetuates
the famous New England cooking. and
a group of hotels and offices worthy of
New York City Fairhaven in Hartford
remains a medieval country village, rich
in Tudor memories.
X
Prince william Of Sweden, literary
scion of the royal house of Bernadotte,
who has travelled the ends of the earth
giving lectures, has retreat on the top
Of Eze, once strongly fortified defense
of the valley along the Mediterranean
in the French Riviera He has two
close neighbors, Mr.. Samuel Barlow, a
clubman, originally from New York,
but claiming many places as home, and
the talented violinist, Zlatko Balokovic,
whose American wife is the Sprightly
artist of New Jersey, Joyce Borden.
Prince William has Joined their forces
to bring their elevated estates, overlook
ing Monte Carlo and Mentone with q
superb view of the Mediterranean, up
to modern standards. Uniting their re-
the peasants about look on them as pos
sessing the secrets of black magic. From
immemorial days, all water for Eze was
carried in jugs from springs below the
fortress on the heads of the agile men
and women. When the laundreSs who
serves the violinist and his family saw 1t
coming hot from pipes into q tub, she
uttered q loud scream and rushed
away. However, the peasants are being
familiarized with these new-fangled
things, and the nearest neighbors Of
this happy triumvirate have pipes in
the back yards and they are envied all
UP and down the Riviera.
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The young Duke of Grafton, who at
the age of 16 has succeeded to the
honors of his grandfather, the eighth
duke, holds o number of titles which
pertain very interestingly to famous
estates In this country as well as In
England. He has among a half dozen
other designations of nobility that Of
Baron Arlington, with fine seat ut
Northampton called Wakefield Lodge.
Both these names proclaim a link with
the family of Gen. washington either
through kinship or friendship. Mount
Vernon, as Is well known, was called
by its first owner, Lawrence Washing
ton, in honor Of his naval chieftain,
Admiral Vernon. No one with docu-
~. = a.
reason for George Washington Parke
Gusts calling his handsome estate Ar
lington, but evidently 1t had q similar
sentimental origin. The Dukes Of Graf
ton claim Charles II as their progenitor,
for the first to bear the title was the
son of that lively Stuart king and the
beautiful Barbara Villiers. The second
duke married Isabella Bennett, only
heir of the Baron Arlington, and thus
that title came into the family. The
new Duke of Grafton now Is the only
one 81 that rank who has not yet be-
come of age. The title would have
passed to his father, the late Henry
william Fitzroy. Viscount Ipswich, who
died as the result of an accident to
his plane just few months before the
armistice was signed. A fearless avia-
tor, the viscount had piled up honors
from the moment the British Empie
had entered the World War. Lady
Auriol Brougham, mother of the young
duke, win act as his guardian during
his minority.
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While President and Mrs. Hoover and
the former President and Mrs. Coolidge
are dedicating the mammoth head of
Washington carved by Borglum In the
impertshable rock, the Earl Of Athlone
and the recent visitor to this part of
the world, Gen. Jan SHUTS, will be en-
gagged In consecrating to its purpose
an impressive monument to the World
War victims. This is Q natural peak
on the Table Mountain, beyond Cape
Town, South Africa. The South Afri-
can Mountain Club has assumed the
financial obligation of carving the names
on the granite which has been smoothed
with a space inclosed like a tablet.
The names listed will include all those
members of the club who died in the
holocaust Of 1914-1918, and it is entirely
distinct from the national monument
erected by the South African Union to
all who fell in the war and which has
been raised In the harbor. The Earl of
Athlone, who Is governor general of
the South African Union. and his wife,