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CAN'T LOOK LIKE MANNEOUIN,
EXPERT ADVISES u. S. WOMEN
Mile. Chanel, Paris Couturiere, Declares It
Is Impossible In Clothes for
General Wear.

well dressed woman. In the movies, 1t
seems, each evening gown is provided
with series of slips. One is used when
the lady wearer is standing up. 1t in
sureS proper draping of the skirt. An
other Is worn when the lady sits. 1t
permits of a>bit of give here and there
and keeps the upper part of the cos
tune properly in place.
To Design Clothes For Movies.
All this is very well in the movies,
but, Mile. Chanel points out, in real life
q woman can't change to another slip
each time she wants to sit down.
Mile. Chanel has been engaged by
Samuel Goldwyn to design clothes for
the movies he produces. 1t is her job to
keep screen ladies six months ahead of
the modes so that when pictures are
released they will never be behind the
times.
Designing for the movies is different
than designing for real life, Mile. Chanel
finds. Costumes must be more striking,
must be pointed up, just as lsuman joys
and sorrows are pointed up to make
material for screen and stage. Extra
doses of sex appeal are one of the
methods of making theater clothes
dramatic, she says.
Tomorrow she'll look at New York's
Easter parade.
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FREAK LONDON PARTIES
STILL ARE PATRONIZED
Victorian Drawing Room" Draws
Crowd Dressed in Styles of
Former Day.

LONDON IN. A. N A)-The freak
party is still patronized, if only it be
bizarre enough, and the Victorian
drawing room" which was held in Chel-
sea recently drew a lively and enthusi-
astic crowd.
The idea was to come dressed as an
nlustrous person of Queen Victoria's
day, and in case guests had not quite
enough enterprise to think out their
costumes beforehand, there was a room
IN the house set aside as a sort of
dressing room where the costumes and
props" could be borrowed and dnnned
Etraightway.
The party was notable for the fact
that in the midst of the presentations"
a girl suddenly rode into the throne
room" on a small pony which trotted
about amongst crowds of people
dressed either in trains, wells and
feathers. or in weird uniforms. Three
Of the guests arrived In a handsome
cab, with a fourth riding position,
while q well staged arrest by neck po-
licemen further enlivened the proceed
ings.
(Copyright, 1881
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ENGLAND GETS BOOKS
BY WOMEN WRITER'S
Sheila Kaye-Smith and Countess
Russell Bring Out New Fic-
ton Volumes.

LONDON (NANA).-Two famous
English women novelists-Sheila Kaye
Smith and Countess Russell, better
known as the author of Elizabeth and
Her. German Garden"-have just
brought out new books.
Miss Kaye-Smith's is said to be the
best thing she has done since Joanna
Golden" 1t is called Susan Spray,
and deals with the life of a woman
preacher In the latter half of the nine
tenth century. The background, as
usual, is Sussex, and the figure Of
Susan is a finely drawn and penetrat-
ing story.
Countess Russell's book Father" is
bright. malicious and extremely clever.
It tells the story Of crushed daughter,
boorish father and a comic, heroic
clergyman.
Michael Arlen's new novel MEN
Dislike Women" is the usual mixture
of cynicism and sent:mentality which
will, no doubt, prove extremely popular;
and Gilbert Frankau probably will do
equally well with his recently published
volume Of short stories Concerning
Peter jackson and Others"
The most popular book OF memoirs
at the moment is Sir William Rothen-
STEMS Men and Memories" which
seems to be making its author far more
widely known as a writer than he ever
was as a painter. His description Of
the Bohemian London and Paris Of the
80s and 90s certainly makes fascinating
(Copyright, 1879
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fence of the property. The fence IN
closed the grounds of three houses on
P street and two on Twenty-eighth
street, where in one Of the latter, Mr.
Daw lived.
A few years ago a story was circu-
lated that the fence had been put up
after the War Of 1872 This story is re-
futed by Mr.. DAVIS granddaughter, Mrs
George King of 1911 Twenty-eighth
street, who explains her grandfather
did not come to this country from Eng
land until 1916 or 1917, when he was a
small boy of 8 or 9 years.
Named for Two Georges.
Another erroneous impression, which
exists among many supposedly well-in-
formed on civic history, is that George
town was named in honor of the King
of England or after George Washing
ton. So far as can be determined, the
early settlement on the banks of the
Potomac was named in honor of George
Gordon and George Beall, the original
owners of the 60-acre tract. later pur-
chased by Maryland commissioners fol-
the founding of the little town, which
soon became one of the most impor-
tant and busting trade centers of its
time.
Water street. now Wisconsin avenue
below M, is the oldest business street
in the District, and over $50 years age
was the scene of the greatest CONNER
cial activities, the chief commodity OF
trade at that time being Virginia to-
bacco, shipped to European ports.
Georgetown, however, was not only
an important business center 1t also
was a leader in colonial society life
Letters written from visiting English
men and Irishmen declared that no.
where we're there to be found prettier
girls or handsomer homes than those
in the Potomac River town.
Dancing was in great vogue among
the bellies and beaux of $50 years ago
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GERMANY TO GET
S75,0)D,OlO ORDER
Soviet Plans to Buy Heavily
From Europe to Keep Ma
tons Friendly.

~ the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, April A Soviet COM
mission will leave here for Berlin
shortly after Easter to place an order
for $75,000,000 worth of goods as the
first step in a new program to keep the
major European nations friendly toward
Russia.
Credit for this amount has been ar
ranged in Berlin and the purchases will
be largely electrical equipment and
heavy machinery needed to supply the
industries which are part of the Soviet
1ive-year plan. =,
The government, it was indicated, will
seek also to curry favor in Italy and
England with larger orders.
Economic Blockade Feared.
The present skeleton in the Russian
reset Is the fear of an economic Euro
pean blockade and subsequent military
Intervention. Consequently it is felt that
If increased business is given the Euro
pean nations friendly relations will be
easier to establish and economic indie
pendence easier to achieve.
In government circles the reason
given for curtailing purchases in the
United States is alleged American anti
Soviet movements and embargoes. For
eign observers. however, believe the rea-
son is shorter available credits in
America.
Editorial Raps America.
Apparently American Government
circles believe the best method OF Stlnu-
lating trade with Soviet Russia is to de-
stroy with the left hand what has been
built with the right" says an editorial
in the publication Economic Life, which
refers to the American refusal to pro-
long an Amtorg officials visa and to the
lumber embargo.
America thinks the Soviet govern
ment cannot exist without its help and
will capitulate," the editorial continues.
'"Those who think this forget that the
Russian government has reconstructed
O country which was destroyed by war
and is successfully completing its five
year plan. The United States Is like
the cock who thought that the sun rose
because he cried 'cock-a- doodle doc?
But great was his disappointment when
he oversight and found that the sun
rose anyway"
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closest friends. This book, entitled,
"Une Amitie Historique," in addition to
the funds raised by her concerts for
French postwar charities, gained for
Mrs. Batcheller the decoration of the
French Legion of Honor.
When IA years of age, Mrs. Batcheller
spoke four languages f1uently. She now
speaks seven and at present is studying
Chinese and Greek. Her knowledge of
foreign languages has enabled her to
make foreign contacts which would
otherwise have been impossible.
Although she is justifiably proud of
the honors conferred upon her by
European countries, Mrs. Batcheller is
proudest of her membership in more
than a dozen American societies, in
Guiding the Colonial Danes, the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution, the
Daughters of Cincinnati and others
equally distinguished.
Friend of MuSsolini.
Asked If, among European notables,
she had met Italy'S famous premier,
Mrs. Batcheller smiled.
Il knew Premier Mussolini when he
was an unrecognized editor" she said.
IT assisted him at that time in trans
lating many of his articles, and I be-
heve was one of the first to prophesy
the heights to which he would ultimate
~ rise"
As young girl, Mrs. Batcheller met
the late Emperor Franz Joseph, at
court ball in Budapest, and later be-
came delightfully."- acquainted with the
beauties and fascination of Vienna court
life Her friendship with royalty in
clude the King and Queen of Spain and
the King and Queen of Italy. She has
also been the recipient of royal favors
from the King and Queen of Belgium.
Mrs. Batcheller is now considering an
invitation to write her memoirs for a
leading American publication. She ex-
poets to complete negotiations with the
editors before sailing for Paris some time
in Nav
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 4.-Private ad-
vice to every American woman: Quit
trying to look like dress model.
1t can't be done.
Take that on the authority Of Mile.
Gabrielle Chanel, Paris couturiere, who
Is in New York on her way home from
Hollywood, where she had been reform
ing the style sense of the movies with
the view of making feminine screen
clothes more dramatic and endowtng
them with more sex appeal.
1T is impossible for any woman to
look like a manneQuin," said Mile.
Chanel, for the reason that the man
nequin does not live in the costume she
displays Her clothes are fitted to her
with one purpose in view-that she may
look charming during a brief walk be-
fore her observers.
Comfort Not Necessary.
she does not have to be continually
sitting down and standing up, she does
not have to have comfort in her clothes
for she wears them only a short time
With the company In ordinary life, that
is not true"
1t Is similarly impossible, said Mile
Chanel, for either Judy O'Grady or the
colonel's lady to look like the sanematic
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GEORGETOWN TOUR
IS SET NEXT WEEK
Visitors to See Famous
Fence Made of MuSketS
and Historic Homes.

The second annual tour of historic
Georgetown will be held this year on
April 10 and IL under auspices of the
ladies of st. Johns Church for the
benefit of the church.
A similar tour was held for the first
time last year and proved such a sue
cess that it was decided to repeat the
visits. This year, however, specially
rehearsed guides will point out the
places of interest, giving a brief sketch
of the history of each.
Stretching across the grounds OF
three houses in P street, starting at the
northwest corner of Twenty eighth, is
what the casual paSSer-by might take
to be an iron fence Actually it is one
Of the most unusual fences in the Dis
trict. The pickets in reality are old
gun barrels and in many cases the
sights may still be found on the muZZles.
Used Old Army Rifles.
At the close of the Mexican War,
Reuben Daw, wealthy business man.
purchased a lot of old muskets left in
Government arsenals and, stripping
them of the stocks, used the barrels to
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D0UGHB0Y'S OCEAN GRAVE
GETS MOTHERS FLOWERS
Louisiana Woman to Scatter Mag
nolias in Atlantic Near Spot
Where Boy Was Buried.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, April IA Gold
Star Mother, Mrs E. D. Folse Of New
Orleans, will scatter Louisiana flowers
next month on the spot in the North
Atlantic where her soldier son was
buried at sea in 1913
She will sail away with other Gold
Star Mothers on pilgrimage 70
French cemeteries, where they will lay
tokens of love on well kept graves But
the Atlantic will receive Mrs. Folse's
offering, made of magnolias, oleanders
and other Summer flowers which the
boy learned to love at his Louisiana
plantation home.
Four days out Of Hoboken, from
which her son sailed, at a spot
reckoned as closely as possible by
longitude and latitude as the place
where he was buried, the mother will
stand on the deck of the steamship
President Roosevelt and scatter her
flowers.
Pvt. Arthur Folse died Of double
pneumonia March %, 1918, while
crossing in the transport Ordund to.
fight in France His body was sealed
in a metal caSket and dropped into
the sea.
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ALASKA COMMUNITY HIT

POINT BARROW, Alaska. April
R).-Four new cases of diphtheria, a
scarcity of antitoxin and word from
Juneau that it will be impossible to
send additional serum served today to
lower the morale of this community,
which has been fighting the disease for
weeks.
DR.. Henry A. Griest, Presbyterian
missionary, who with his wife has bat
tied the epidemic increasingly. was
forced to use old-fashioned methods on
two cases, saving enough antitoxin for
any exceptionally bad attacks that
might develop.
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second husband was Secretary of War
Eaton under President jackson. AS Mrs.
Eaton the lovely Peggy, whose father
had been the proprietor of famous
Georgetown hotel, almost broke up the
cabinet. AS a result, President Jackson
thought 1t wise to remove the faScinat-
ing lady from the presence of those she
had charmed, and promptly sent her
husband to distant Spain as Minister.
After Mr.. Eatonis death Peggy inglori-
ously ended her social career by marry
ing an Italian dancing master, many
years younger than herself, who soon
deserted her. departing for his native
land after helping himself to Peggy's
worldly goods
A pamphlet giving a brief sketch of
many of the places to be visited on the
Georgetown tour will be given to each
person making the tour. Tickets may
be procured from Mrs. Jefferson r.
Kean, 1904 N street.
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VETERINARIAN DIES

PHILADELPHIA, April 4 P).-Dr,
Harold z. Bemis, professor of veterinary
surgery on obstetrics and dean OF the
School of Veterinary Medicine, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, died today Of
pneumonia. He was AZ.
DR.. Bemis was graduated from the
Iowa State College in 1908 and for 19
years was a member Of the faculty Of
that college, later becoming vice dean
OF the Veterinary School He joined
the faculty of the University of Penn
sylvania in 1927 and was elected dean
last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
WESTERN UNION MARKS
ITS 18TH ANNIVERSARY
Veteran Morse Operators, Many Re.
tired, Participate in Diamond
Jubilee Celebration.
~ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 4-Today was
one of Renaissance for many old-time
telegraphers proud veterans of a craft
that is bowling to the development Of
mans inventive genius.
The Western Union Telegraph Co. is
rs years cld-April 4, 1856. it was born
at Rochester, N. Y. Gray-haired opera
tors, many of them retired, were taking
prominent parts in diamond jubilee OBJ
seryances in many cities throughout the
country tonight.
Glories of another day when the army
of Morse operators formed the back
bone of the communications system
were recalled. Now 80 per cent Of all
the telegraph messages carried by the
company are handled by automatic ma
chimes.
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Among ancient documents preserved
from those days is quaint note writ
ten on pale pink paper by q Miss
Letitia Padgett of Georgetown to her
friend, Miss Julia Marks at Ormond
Manor, Md. The letter, dated George
town, 1901. says:
Although we have four select dane
ing academies in our town, we are about
to have another, as Prof. d'Arville,
just from PariS-think of its going
to open one on High and West streets
wisconsin avenue and street, on
the first of October"
AS far back as 1855 GEORGETOWN was
looked upon as an important center by
the British. Although founded only
four years before that time, it was al
the foot of old Water street that Gen
Braddock landed with his forces that
year, and obtained great many re-
cruits for his army, which was fighting
the French and Indians.
The tour of eighteenth century
Georgetown next week will include
many places reminiscent of persons
prominent in the early part of the
nineteenth century. Among these is the
old Russian embassy at 1914 o street
now owned by Mr. Francis DeWolf,
which once echoed to the sound of gay
parties given by the Russian Minister,
Baron de Bodisco, who in 1889, at the
age of SO, married beautiful 16-year-
old Harriet Williams, the daughter of
Brooke Williams, whose old home stood
on the present site of the Home for the
Blind
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
CHOOSES PHILADELPHIA
Physical Education Association
Picks 1882 Convention City.

DETROIT, April CP).-The Ameri-
can Physical Education Association to-
day selected Philadelphia as next years
convention city. Columbus, Ohio, was
chosen as TIKI 1882 meeting place OF
the MidwesteTn section.
06lcers were elected today for the
H6idwestern section. Miss Emil Rath
president Of indianapolis College, was
elected president; Miss Blanche Trillingr
university Of Wisconsin. vice president
and DIR. @. o. Molander, University OF
Chicago, secretary-tTeasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
NEW LINER LAUNCHED
Third Of Four Craft Being Built
for Line Takes to Water.

CAMDEN, N. j., April (P.-The
Exeter, third of four liners being built
by the New York Shipbuilding Co.
for the American Export Line, was
launched today.
Thousands cheered and river craft
whistles shrieked when the new 1900
gross ton freight and passenger liner
slipped into the Delaware River. Miss
Olivia Prick, daughter of H. E. Prick,
vice president in. charge of operations
for the American Export Line, was
sponsor.
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J. Ford. a paralytic, rescued q man
from drowning in a rough sea ut
PenZance, England
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viii Visit Cemetery.

A visit also will be made to Oak Hill
Cemetery, once part of the estate of W.
w. Corcoran. Among the famous per-
sons buried there are John Howard
Payne, author of Home, Sweet Home"
who died in Africa, far from the home
he loved; Mrs. Southworth, the novelist
and beautiful Peggy O'Neale, whose
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