The Washington times., 1933-09-25
MERE TEMPEST
IN A TEAPOT,
SAYS BOOK
She Likes Alice and Hopes
Alice Likes Her; Curtis
Sister TELLS All
BY DOROTHY DUCAS

NEW YORK. Sept. Is u.N.SD
The Alice Longworth-Dolly Gam
feud was no feud at ALL" and
"the outcome of the controversy
never was in doubt among those
who knew the rules"
So says Mrs. Gam herself in
"Dolly Cams Book, Life in So
ciety and Politics." which is the
first literary venture of former
Vice President Curtis sister.
Teapot Tempest
There Is whole chapter on
"a Tempest in Teapot which
Mrs. Gam describes with Kansas
downrightness. The book. to be
published October 4, says:
"Just how it came about that
Alice Roosevelt LOngwOrth'S
name first appeared, 1 don't
know. If she ever said any
thing about it, then or later.
I never heard of 1t. We had
known each other for years. We
know and like each other still
at least, I like her, and I hope
she likes me.
"The uniformed reader of
the dispatches would have
thought that Alice LOngwOrth
and myself, as venOmOus as two
jungle women, were poised to
strike at each others thrOatS
.. .Ah, those were the days of
big news! We had no political
campaign. in the Offing for an
other four years, and the war
had been over so long that
people had wearied of talking
about it,"
Nevertheless, says Dolly, she
had more laughs out of the sit
uation than annoyance, and ap-
parently came out with her ad-
miration for Alice unscathed. She
writes:
81 have always admired Alice
Longworth, since the time when
we had barely a bowling ac-
Quaintance. She does what she
chooses and cares not a snap
of her finger what anybody
thinks about her"
Still. there is a shade of caution
in the praise, for the book goes
on:
Long before it became the
proper thing for women to
smoke, she would light a Gig
arctic whenever she felt like it.
/ used to say to myself: My,
that girls independent So it
happens, Oftentimes. that we
envy or praise in other quail
ties which would not become
ourselves, and which. if we could
suddenly acquire them, would
not suit us at ALL"
Besides smoking, Mrs. Gam
does not approve of drinking
for an American.
"As 1t Should Me"
Referring to her refusal to sip
wine at the British Embassy she
writes:
81 had not taken any out of
consideration of my country
and my brother. Which was all
as it should be-"
Once before, she sacrificed
something to eschef alcoholic
: liquids; that was when, as a
bride, she discovered the recipes
in Kentucky cookbook ad-
mired by her husband, called for
whisky or rum.
The pages are full of refer
ences to Billy" who is her hus'
band, Edward Everett Gam.
ashington attorney, and
'Brother," who is the former
Vice President
Mrs. Gam tells how she went
to political conventions to help
make Brother" Vice President,
although when she started work
ing for him she thought he'd be
. President.
Other Figures in Book
She tells how she and Billy"
and Brother" entertained and
what they ate and what they
wore.
other figures fit through the
pages: Calvin Coolidge-"How
he could talk when the notion
struck him" says Mrs. Gam;
Mrs. Coolidge, whose smile, it
was said, was worth million
votes to the Republicans; "
President Hoover-"No wonder
women like President Hoover. He
understands them" President
Harding, who. had he lived to
complete his term, would have
= had an administration remem-
bered as among our safest and
most conservative periods.