Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Art, Literature, Politics
Mrs. Roosevelt Sanctions Tea-Set Campaign
for Jobless Architects-President' Mother
Brings Portrait to Him Kentucky
Mountain Folk Songs.

| is expected in this country during the
Summer, was among the gayest of
the gay, and Mayfair-"in the fair
month of May"-never looked more
enchanting.
The Marquis de Polignac, popular
on this side Of the water, at a recent
luncheon in London said that 100000
bottles-they were not splits-of
champagne were drunk in England in
the first three months of this year,
which, he said, was just four times
the amount consumed in the first
three months of 1882.
The beverage of the gods must be
cheaper there than here, for the
other night small supper party, |
having ordered a delicious broiled
guinea hen, the hosts bethought them |
selves that bottle of extra dry would
go we'll, but when the startling figure |
of 50 per was put before them they /
took domestic red wine instead.
Many an American housewife, as
we'll as business man, would like to
know just how Mr.. Neville Chamber
lain, chancellor Of the British ex-
chequer, balanced his budget. He has
assured the crown that national |
finances are in good shape, and that |
the empire has every reason to re- i
jo1ce at the coming jubilee of the |
popular King and Queen and that |
prosperity is on the up and up.
Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the |
President, is to be the guest of honor |
at the Mothers day dinner tonight |
at the Hotel Astor in New York. This |
dinner is under the auspices of the
World Peaceways Organization, and !
Mr.. cambridge Colby, Secretary of |
State in President Wilson's cabinet,
is to be the POSTMASTER. BY the way, |
Mr.. Colby, received honorable men, |
ton In the Pulitzer prize contest for |
his editorial on the Freedom of the |
Press" published in a New York |
paper. /
When Mrs. James Roosevelt slipped |
so quietly into town last week for just |
glimpse Of her only child she
brought him SurpriSe-She still likes |
to surprise her boy Franklin, and this
time it was a portrait of himself |
painted by Polish artist. How fine |
it would be If new portraits to be |
hung in the White House could be
displayed in the east room for time |
SO that the general public could see |
them, too. OF course these portraits |
are sometimes exhibited either in the |
Corcoran Galleries or the National |
Museum. When Cecilia Beaux COM
pleted her portrait of Mrs. Theodore |
Roosevelt, then mistress of the White |
House, and her daughter Ethel, the |
portraits remained on view in the east !
room for some time.
Dear, beautiful old jamestown, Va,
is almost in tears over the Presidents |
inability to be there today, so they will |
just have short celebration and hope |
for better luck next year. The mother |
of Presidents had primed herself for |
grand celebration in honor of PreSi- |
dent Roosevelt, and people were to |
come from the most remote parts of |
the State, but it is realized how siren !
uouS the Presidents work will be from |
now until the close of the Congress.
There will be lively and lonesome |
tunes, wassail and warning songs, sea |
chanteys and jiggy tunes to the &C
compartment of the dulcimer, fiddle, |
jewsharp and flute, down in old Ken
lucky Sunday, June 10, when the |
American Folk Song Festival will be |
held.
The cabin Of Jean Thomas, founder |
Of the Folk Song Society. situated
on the Mayo tran in the foothills of |
the Kentucky mountains, will ring |
with Barbara Ellen" Cruel Lover" |
Pop Goes the Weasel" and other |
favorites heard in those mountains |
since the Scotch Covenanters trekked |
down the Alleghanies and spread over |
the Southern ranges.
These Kentucky mountains are
peopled largely with men and women
of pure Scotch and Anglo-Saxon |
blood, and many of the ballads to be |
sung at the festival were gathered |
by their forebears from the wander
ing MINISTRIES of ShakeSpeare'S time,
still retaining their primitive charm |
and beauty. These Southern high |
landerS are extreme in their loves |
and hates and unrelenting in their |
warfare.
The Governor of Kentucky is ex-
pected to attend the festival-maybe |
with a lot of his colonels-and the |
entire program is to be filmed for |
the Library Of Congress archive of |
folk music.
Doubtless the oldest incorporated |
group of women in America, the |
Mount Vernon Ladies Association of |
the Union, is holding its sixty-eiehth |
business meeting at the historic man |
sion on the Potomac River, and is !
reveling in its new quarters - the I
old servants quarters-which have |
been wonderfully modernized by Col !
Harrison Dodge, the good angel as |
well as the splendid business mana
ger of President Washington's old |
plantation.
Mrs. Alexander C. Troup of Ne |
braska, Mrs. Benjamin S. Warren
of Michigan, Mrs. Horace Brown of |
Vermont, Mrs. Alice H. Richards of |
Maine, regent of the association, and
Mrs. J. Fairfax Loughborough of Ar
kansas are among the vice regents |
who are attending from different |
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