Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-22
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Ambassador and Mrs. Edge Apparently Are
Enjoying Parties Under Attractive Environ
ment-May Delay Home Visit.

! Dixie. Miss Alice and Miss Jane Riggs
lived all their lives in the old home and
in late years, they led a perfectly Sc
cluded existence, seeing none but the
closest friends and entertaining no one
Their nieces, Alice and Jessie Howard
daughters of the former Cecilia Riggs
their older sister, have not come to
Washington in the past 10 years, this
| by the wish of their aging relatives
who cared for no company.
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Former Senator James d. Phelan has
recently completed one of the most
complete roof dwellings in San Fran
cisco and this on the top of his own
! fine Office building bearing his name
and high over the picturesque section
of Chinatown, overlooking the bay.
Along the Pacific coast such habitations
are called roof bungalows, which IS
plain and direct, and the same is true
of the Middle West, where they are
identified as studio roof apartments.
But in New York the term penthouse
has been adopted, taken from French
term - "pentice" - an outbuilding or
projection, and pentice also in turn
comes from the familiar Latin word
appendix. Mr.. Phelan has planned an
elaborate formal garden from the en-
trance of his abode down its length in
a series of arches covered with flower
ing vines. principally roses and the
mysterious moon-flower. The last arch
Is screened heavily with ivy against
which a laughing Satyr rises from a
granite pillar. Close by are famous
roof bungalows. That owned by MIR.
Templeton Croker on the top Of his
community apartment house has a
large flower garden and a compact Or
nate one-storied house, and the north
ern end is entirely enclosed in beveled
glass which acts as a wind dehector.
Mob Hill, once the favorite section for
handsome mansions, now aboundS IN
hotels and apartments and the roof IS
often divided into four parts with am
pie room for all.
President Rubio of Mexico is the first
to announce the results of the COM
mittee on selection of proper candidates
for the Latin American scholarships
provided by the John Simon Guggen-
helm Foundation. The fortunate candi-
dates are Mr.. Alfonso Napoles Gandara
and Dr. Arturo Rosenbleuth, they hav-
ing won the highest marks out of the
so examined by the committee. Mr..
Dwight Morrow was one of these exam
liners and also the former President,
Senior Portes Gil. The applicants came
from every State in Mexico, but the
winners Of the prize are residents OF its
capital city. DR.. RoSenbleuth will enter
Harvard and continue experiments in
physical and biological chemistry and
physiology. Senior Napoles' fellowship
is in the domain of higher mathematics
and harmonic analysis and he will enter
the Massachusetts, Institute Of Tech
nology this Autumn. Both will ulti-
mately go into the National University
as professors -Four scholars from this
country will 60 to the southern republics
to engage in research work relating to
the aborigines, and this also under the
terms of the Guggenheim Foundation.
Two of these four special students will
spend the first year of their course in
Mexico City.
Mr.. William Adams Delano, the emf
nent architect, was in Washington for
two weeks recently in attending the SD
convention of the American Institute
of Architecture and to details of the
new japanese embassy which his firm
has in charge. He is not related to
the well known Delanos who have been
here for some time-Mr Frederic
Adrian Delano. publicist and member
Of the Fine Arts Commission, and his
half brother, Mr. Lyman Delano, a rail-
road nagnate, who comes from time to
time and Is a member of several wash
ington clubs. Mr.. Delano, the archi-
tect, Is from the older branch of the
family still identified with New England,
and his home, at least in Summer, is
near Norwalk, Conn. He was a stu
dent OF the great Carrere and is a
graduate of which the Institute deS
Beaux Arts in Paris is very proud. Mr..
Delano designed and built the entire
Labrador Mission Plant of the Grenfell
Association, foundation which at
tracts philanthropiSts, doctors and gen.
eral travellers to the bleak coast of the
North Atlantic. The japanese Ambas-
Sador selected the Delano-Aldrich plan
from q number of competitors, infiu-
enced by the recent success of this firm
in the State Departments bids for the
new embassy in Paris. This is to be on
what Is called the treasure street of
Partisan architecture, the Place de Ia
COncorde, and the city fathers of the
French capital are wary about the de-
signs for new ediflces, lest they con-
f1ict with the age-old balance and
splendid perspective. But these plans
OF Mr.. Delano and his partner have
passed at least six different commits
SionerS and the first United States en-
baSsy built in Paris will take shape In
early Autumn.
Robert z. Lees birthplace at STRAIT
ford-on- Potomac, the old way of plac-
ing this estate. which is to become a
memorial to all the Lees will, according
to the intent OF the foundation in
charge, be not only q splendid monu-
ment to the illustrious family but 1t will
be a worthy monument to Southern
plantation life. Incidentally much his
toric information will become familiar
to those spurred by the ancient treas
ures placed before them in Tidewater
Virginia who will begin a pilgrimage to
such revered points Stratford was not
acquired by Richard Lee, the first of the
name to take up residence in the Old
Dominion in 1850. 1t was his son
Thomas, first native Governor of Vir-
GINA, in l725, who had the fine domain,
presented as gift from Queen Caroline,
wife Of George II, at that period Regent