The Washington times., 1934-09-25

many subjects.
Has Resided Here Before
Born in Greece, where her
parents, M. and Nine. Richard
Paulaky made their home for
some years she received her
early education in Italy. She,
as the result of her travels both
before and after her marriage,
is quite linguist, speaking Eng
lish extraordinarily we'll, French
even better, for her father was
a native Of that country. also
italian, for that was her
mothers tongue. Long a resi-
dent of Greece, it is natural
that she speaks the language
of that country: and Spanish,
her husbands native language,
is equally well known to her.
With a little laugh, she re-
marked that since her marriage
13 years ago, her distinguished
husband had Ileld eight posts,
and it was while he was in
Salonika she met him. At that
time he was serving as Spanish
consul, in Greece.
Washington is quite familiar
to the new envoy and his wife,
for they were here in 1881, at
which time Senor Calderon
served as Commercial Counselor
Of the Embassy. They are
happy to be back, for they are
both very fond of America, and
they apparently are perfectly
contented with the Embassy, for
Sonora de Calderon remarked,
when asked if they contemplat-
ed remodeling it in any way or
making any changes in it's fur
nishings. "Oh, no, it is very
we'll equipped"
They have, however, brought
some very fine Oriental rugs
with them. ana one can easily
see these are especially liked by
the new Mistress of the En-
bassy, for the private sitting
room in which this interview
was held, on the second floor
of the mansion, had some ex-
quisite ones hung on the walls
and scattered about on the
highly polished floor.
The great hall on the first
floor is hung with crimson
damask draperies with century
old oak settles and high-backed
chairs, some of them very elab-
orately carved. arranged about
the walls. One particularly fine
old piece, which must have come
out of a Cathedral for it has
the three seats with an extraor-
dinarily high carved back, is
flanked on either side with
wrought-iron standards topped
with antique lanterns. A wide
curving stairway of stone leads
to the floor above.
Is Very Chic
Sonora de Calderon is ex-
tremely fond of reading, particu.
larly books of travel, and she
is musically inclined as well. 1t
was with great pleasure she re.
called several operas she heard
at the Fox Theater during her
previous residence here.
Also, it was here she was
taught to drive a car. and when
she took her road test, or
passed her exams" as she put
1t, she was accompanied by not
one but two policemen. How
ever, she has not driven much,
except a little in Spain, where
traffic is not so confusing, but
London was too congested for
her.
Sonora de Calderon pur-
chased part of the wardrobe she
assembled for the coming sea-
son in London, and if the cos
tune she wore on Tuesday is an
example, it is a very colorful
and modiSh one. She was at
tired in heavy crinkled crepe
model of a deep shade Of purple,
with rather full sleeves reach.
ing to the wrists, with a wide
band of brown wool embroidery
halfway to the shoulders. Two
dull silver buttons formed the
only trimming, one at the neck
line and the other on the belt.
Her pumps of seal brown suede
were a perfect complement to
her gown. She wore one or two
rings set with diamonds and a
number of thin tortoise shell
bracelets.
ReWarking on the difference