Evening star., 1934-05-27
Tales of We'll Known Folk
In Art, Literature, Politics
Big Treat Awaits Skipper Roosevelt in Review.
ing U. S. Fleet Thursday; Marine Views in
Galleries Garden Fete at British Emil bassy.

quently has a detached air as If she
were oblivious to what it was all
about. But just 60 up and speak
to her, and look straight into her
eyes, and you will understand why
she so frequently brings men and
women around to her way of think
ing. There is straightforward,
sympathetic look in her eyes and q
handshake that is not perfunctory.
One who goes about a good deal
must notice what a devitalized hand
shake many public men and women
give.
That Miss Perkins has an eye to
arresting headlines Is shown in eher
articles and frequently in her pub
lie speaking.
In a current monthly publication
Good Housekeeping-she writes about
THE Biggest Job of ALP and sets
forth the necessity of making re-
covery permanent. She tells how her
department can help do it; it "can
be a factory of opinion-a source of
information widely distributed etc.
The library-not large-in the
Labor Department is certainly a
source of convenience to those who
want quick and ready information
relative to labor conditions at home
as we'll as abroad Information about
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and SO
on.
The art Of interviewing was never
more delightfully."- illustrated than in
recent monthly published by wom-
ans college, in which Amy Loveman,
associate editor of the Saturday Re-
view. was interviewed
When the interviewer entered, the
to-be-interviewed looked up with a
Mona Lisa smile, which might mean
something or nothing. The questions
were short and the answers terse and
most informing.
Information: Novels in the last
decade are more serious. The novel
of the younger generation is now full
of interest in economics. The Land
of Plenty by Robert Cantwell, as
different as possible from Scott FitZ-
gerald's This Side of Paradise The
French women-yes, served on the
American branch of the Prix Femina
Committee-gave the prize to villa
Gathers Shadow on the Rock Sim
clair Lewis has a large public. His
latest book. Work of Art appeared
simultaneously in II languages. E.
V. Lucas, the biographer of Charles
Lamb, came in today, but went of
Immediately with Christopher Morley
to see the city"
Did you meet E. M. Delafield?"
Miss Loveman was asked. WAS she
like her Provincial Lady? Was she
as beautiful as F. p A. declared?"
and on through a category of best
sellers. Tabloid interviewing.
The Ambassador of Great Britain
and Lady Lindsay are to have a gala
garden party on June 4 to celebrate
the birthday of King George v. 1t
was on May 6 that King George and
Queen Mary began the twenty-fifth
year of their reign. Next year, when
the King celebrates his silver jubilee,
there is planned celebration such
as the empire has not seen since
Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in
1897.
Plans are already under way to
make the celebration in 1885 universal
in the empire and the climax will be
a great durbar in Delhi. capital of
India. The plains of Delhi are to be
turned into an Arabian Nights camp
with gaily colored silken tents, ele-
plants with gilded tusks, caparisoned
in the richest brocades embroidered
in bullion that will rival the robes of
the native princes, many of which
are woven with threads of solid gold.
A member of the official Belgian
mission which came to this country
to inform President Roosevelt of the
death of King Albert and of the
coronation of Leopold III, told a
charming little story illustrative of
the affection in which the late King
Albert was held by the Swiss guides
and tourists which he frequently met
and talked with on one of his noun
tain expeditions.
A little old man who had been
talking with the King and exchang-
ing views on several subjects, finally
looked at him in a puzzled way and
said, You look like the King of Bel
GUM" Albert said that he had been
told that before. and sometimes it
made it bit awkward for him.
When two Alpine tourists who had
met him and given him cigar which
they found later was not a. choice
one, made excuses, King Albert told
them he remembered them quite well,
but that he was SO interested in their
exchange of views about the glorious
sunset and the fine points of climbing
that ne had forgotten about the bad
cigar.
The French war museum in Vim
cenneS, France, has an exhibition of
King Albert.
The famous "scrap of paper" the
treaty guaranteeing Belgium neutral
ity, and moving order of the day,
signed by King Albert on October Is,
1914, in which he wrote: "If need be,
will shoulder a rifle myself" is a
part of the exhibition.
The College of Arms in London,
which is now opened for the first time
to the general public, has many relics
of interest to Americans. Among
them a drawing of the procla-
nation by Heralds of the Peace of
Versailles in 1888, whereby the inde-
pendence of the American Colonies
was recognized. There is also a sew
enteenth century pedigree of the Lee
family, from which the Confederate
general, Robert E. Lee, and other
members of that family distinguished
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