Evening star., 1931-12-18

the House OF Representatives has a new
clerk. who reJOlceS in the name Of Fly
Eugene Fly. He halls from jackson
Miss. IS AZ years old and it goes with
out saying. is a Democrat of Demo-
Gratis. For l6 years he was associated
IN secretarlal capacity with Senator
Fat Harrison. Before coming to WASH
lngton, he was i'll newspaper work in
Mississippi. Mr.. Fly succeeds one of
WaShlngtOn'S foremost tariff experts
Clayton F.. Moore Of Philadelphia. who
was appointed assistant clerk Of the
committee by Representative Joe Ford
ney in 1919, and since 1922 has beer
clerk. Mr.. Moore Weathered two tariff
olll SiegeS CFordney- y-McCumber and
HaWley-Smoot and four tariff re-
visions. He served as Senate aid in
two tariff-bill contests. and remains at
Ways and Means headquarters as clerk
to the minority.
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One Of the worlds greatest photog
raphers is busy at the Capitol shoot
ing important men and events in
house. Senate and committee sessions
He Is Erich Salomon of Berlin. who has
achieved international celebrity with
MS unique apparatus for taking pictures
IN indoor or electric light without the
use OF flash. Solomon came back to
America a second time this Fall. to i'm
mortalize the Laval and Grandi visits
by camera, and photographed those
statesmen IN numerous intimate scenes
at the White House. State Department
and their respective embassies. This
week Herr Salomon, soft footed and un-
obtrusive. set up his trim tripod and
lens in the Ways and Means Committee
room OF the House Office Building ard
snapped Undersecretary Mills, Chair
man Collier and Representatives RAN
KIN and McFadden in action there. The
German photographer extraordinary is
the author OF a book entitled "Celebri-
ties in UnobServed Moments" contain
ing remarkable pictures taken bv him in
Europe this year He caught Hinden-
burg, MusSolini, Macdonald. Henderson.
Bruening, Laval. BRAND. Grandi Cur
thus. Viscount Cecil. and a host of other
notables in variety of characteristic.
imposed poses.
Senator Dill, Democrat, of Washing
ton, who continues to be favorablv
spoken of as a Western running mate
for Franklin D. Roosevelt, thinks moth
ing more Symbolical of Northwestern
presidential sentiment has been forth
coming than the late poll of Seattle
newspaper. Its straw vote, covering 10
days preceding December 8. showed the
following results Roosevelt, 5,561;
Smith, 1895; Murray, 1914; Borah,
GAL; Johnson. 452; Norris, 449; Dill,
344; Hoover, 1888; Couzens, 22l; Hefiin,
1856; Norman Thomas, SO; Shipstead,
81. and Coolidge, 81. OF the 1925
voting, 1912 persons indicated they
voted for Hoover in 1922.
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Mrs. Larz Anderson, we'll known
Washington diplomatic hostess, whose
Massachusetts avenue mansion was
tenanted by the King and Queen of
Siam last Spring, has just been revealed
as an operate librettist. The wife Of
the one time American Ambassador to
Japan has written the book of the
opera Marina" which Is to be pre-
sented for the first time in Boston on
January IL and later in New York. The
musical score of Marina is also by a
woman, Mrs. Moses H. Gulesian. The
title role will be sung by Rockland,
Me-, girl Josephine Sabine, whom Ben
jamin Gigli, great Metropolitan Opera
tenor. acclaims as a find" Mrs. An
derson has written many books, mostly
of travel and experiences during her
husbands varied diplomatic career.
(Copyright. 1917