Evening star., 1933-10-08

Last week when the British Ambas-
sador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, presented
Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, chief eco
nomic adviser to the British govern
nent, to the Secretary of State. there
was renewal Of the pleasant relations ms
begun when Sir Frederick was IN
Washington last Spring with the
British Prime minister, Mr.. Ramsay
Macdonald, and later in the Summer
at the London Conference.
Secretary Hull, with his quiet,
scholarly appearance and Southern
voice contrasts agreeably with the
dynamic personality of Sir Frederick,
who is past master in the art OF alter
dinner speaking and manages to Gre
ate an atmosphere OF friendly good
humor while seldom broaching the
more serious aspects of the mission on
which he is sent This he reserves for
the council table where, when and If he
speaks. his statements are clear and to
the point
Sir Frederick is here to present
Britain case at the Ang!O-Amerlcan
war debt negotiations. On his first visit
he met many men in public lie ana
even here, where men and events move
rapidly one could but wonder at the
number of things he has managed to
CIONu llIlO lilS 'lOi DIN yCdio, AoA AZ
has not yet reached the prime of life.
He began his career in the treasury
and later became private secretary to
Prime Minister, Lord Asquith; then
British representative on the finance
board of the Preparations Commission,
chief British representative at The
Hague conference in 1929-l930 and
chairman Of the International Com
mittee on Intergovernmental Debts in
1881.
Sir Frederick's favorite amusements
are swimming and dancing especially
the latter. On the voyage over he was
nightly found on the ships dancing
f1oor-usually until the last note was
played The younger dancing set are
hoping he will have time for parties.
Balliol College. Oxford, where Sir
Frederick was educated in the classical
course and where he won high scholas-
tic honors. is almost tantamount to
career in State affairs. He is a COM
mander Of the Bath and Knight COM
mander of st. Michael and George.
The autographed memory album
which was presented to Mr.. Wilbur j.
Carr, Assistant Secretary of State, after
his completion of forty years Of service,
by the members of the foreign service.
is beautiful reproduction of historic
examples of the engraver's art.
There are already over 1900 auto
graphs in this album and there are
many more who wish to add their
signatures to this appreciation OF all
that Mr. Carr has meant to them as
mentor and friend as well.
Washington with its seething political
life has long aspired to be known as
literary center. and while the situation
has been analyzed from time to time
In more or less learned articles in maga-
zine discussions, they usually ended by
the remark that Washington has never
had anything approaching a salon or
even a studio where literary people
gathered. for the Nations Capital. in
spite of its efforts in that direction has
not looked graciously on Bohemian
gatherings. Society in America has not
yet mellowed into the poise and con-
fidence in itself that has lent charm to
the salons of the old world.
Since the advent of the Franklin Del
ano Roosevelts in the White House.
there has been feeling throughout the
country in artistic and literary circles
that there is one place in the Capital
where "the rank is but the guinea
stamp-the mans the gowd for a that"
and the occupants speak their lang
uage Washington has, however, gone
literary these past sixty days for there
has been a succession of books put on
the market by Washington women. some
Of whom are seasoned writer's like Mrs.
Roosevelt. and others new to the pro-
fession of letters.
Mrs. Roosevelt's editing of her faith
ers letters is a delightful contribution
to the library table, and one after read
ing it regrets that the art of letter
writing has been SO lorgely surrendered
in favor of the telephone and airplane.
Her graceful preface to the letters
Of Elliott Roosevelt, many of which were
written to her when she was a little
girl. takes one back to the early and
middle eighteenth century in France
and to the time when Thomas Jeffer-
son wrote his letters to his motherleSs
daughters, setting forth in charming
manner rules for their conduct both
at home and abroad.
Mrs. Roosevelt instead Of putting tire
some notes at the bottom of her pages
interpolates with interesting paragraphs
for the information of the readers. Her
naive little story about swallowing the
penny when at the convent in Paris
where she went to school as a very
little girl, is simply enchantingly ma
tural. 1
Reports are that Mrs. Dolly Cams
book created widespread interest parti-
cularly in the West and Middle West,
where she is so well known and liked.
for they had felt that the charming
Dolly had perhaps not been treated as
she should have been. She however,
sets at rest any feeling about the Long
worth-Gann episode by describing it as
tempest in teapot. Whether Mrs
Nicholas LongWorth will elucidate this
episode in her forthcoming book,
Crowded Years" remains to be seen.
Mrs. keyes, long contributor to
periodical publications, is launching a
new novel-naturally of Washington
life with which she is SO familiar, and
Natalie Summer Lincoln. popular mys-
terry story writer Of Washington. will
soon have new stories off the press In
foreign countries Mrs. Henry Wilder
Keyes is looked upon as a sort of un-
official ambassadress of good will.
Washington as well as Boston has
shown keen interest in the advent into
the cinema world of a scion Of one of
the elite of old Back Bay society. and
those familiar with the late Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge can but make men,
tai picture of the Senator's surprise
and discontinue if he were living to-
day and saw the name of his clever
grandson, John Lodge-he has left off
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