Evening star., 1933-12-03

rooms were always the resort Of dis
tinguiShed men and women in science,
literature and art.
The American colony in Paris was
largely represented at the recent show
ing of replicaS of sculptures which
Malvina Hoffman made originally for
the Hall of Man of the Field Museum
in Chicago, and which are now being
exhibited at the Trocadero in the
French capital. Dr.. Harvey Cushing,
the eminent surgeon who recently re-
ceived an hon>ary degree at the Sor-
bonne, and his daughter, Mary. were
there. In the American Who's Who
the space devoted to DR.. Gushing is so
crowded with the letters representing
his earned and honorary degrees in the
learned societies and universities of the
world that it looks like a page from a
Chinese book. President Roosevelt's
daughter-in-law. the wife of James
Roosevelt. is daughter of DR.. Gushing.
Her husband is very much like his dis
tlnsulsheo father, and they are both
much like the Delanos in appearance.
After the opening of the exhibit Malvina
Holman was the guest of honor at a
tea given at the Ritz in Paris by Mrs
A B. Spreckles. at which Mr.. and Mrs
James Walker, the former, sometime
mayor of New York. were present.
When the Cunarder Berengaria
docked at New. York the other day
several former Americans with British
titles descended The gang plank and
were whisked away for visit to their
native shores. The Countess of Suffolk,
AstoT A or: the only bona hde American
rlght OF succession, were among the
passengers. ViScount Astor's father,
the late William Waldorf Astor, became
a naturallzed EngliShman. His mother
was Miss Willing of Philadelphia. The
children of Lord Astor are also of
american blood on the distaf side,
their mother being Nancy Langhorne of
Virginia
Lady Nancy. who is nothing if not
merry and amusing. made a gallant
fight recently in the British House
OF Commons to save British women
who marry aliens from having to take
the nationality Of their husbands. She
1ought almost Single-handed-she likes
that-so far as the government parties
were concerned. and had the support
OF the Labor party. but the govern
ment beat her on second reading by
vote of 179 to 43.
During the course of the debate LADY
Nancy shouted, If any of YOU mar
rled German woman you would not
ike to become German, would you?"
When she was twitted because if she
had not lost her American nationality
on her marriage she could not sit in
Parllament, her answer, fired back, was.
WIVES influence their husbands more
than husbands influence wives, there
fore 1t is more dangerous to have an
EngnShman married to a foreigner in
Parllament than an Englishwoman with
a foreign husband" When a member
rose to say that if husbands and wives
were of different nationality their chill
Gren might be chaffed about it and
become ashamed of their parents, Lady
Nancy replied. 'As for children being
ashamed of their parents-they always
are, as any parent discovers who sees
his boys at their school,"
Just the other day the University of
London paid the American Ambassador,
Mr.. Robert Bingham, signal honor by
comforting upon him the honorary de-
gree of doctor of laws. the first time
this distinction has ever been accorded
a foreigner Prof. Butler. public orator
OF the university, paid tribute to Mr..
Bingham, as "a worthy successor to a
long line Of distinguished men who
have represented their great Republic;
men whose service to their fellow coun-
trymen has been enhanced by their un-
derstanding of those to whom they have
been sent
In the death of Mr.. Augustine Birren
in London in November, England and
the world of literature have lost one
Of the most delightful of English
humorists-this is said advisedly-as
well as a brilliant essayist and success
full statesman. His writing in an easy.
graceful manner gave rise to the word
'birrelling," now a much-used eX-
preston in London His series of
"Obiter Dicta' perhaps first revealed
him as an accomplished essayist.
When President Roosevelt smiles and
says to the press. "Of the record, boys"
maybe Mr. Frederic William Vile. the
noted correspondent and fact finding
Droadcaster, would call that an obiter
dicta.
There is nothing that can express
ones feeling about the Folger Shake
speare Library SO exactly as the trite
quotation, "A thing of beauty is a JOY
forever" During the past fiscal year
there have been some notable gifts to
this library to which sentiment is
attached. Former Supreme Court Asso-