Evening star., 1934-01-14
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Art, Literature, Politics
Sir Ronald Lindsay Successful Broadcaster
Miss Bonney Makes Museum Collection.
Daring Air Flights of Mr. Tinkham.

brought from Africa by the late Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt, there Is Z
realism and grouping that Is truly Won
derful and reminds one, In their grue-
someness, OF Holbein's Dance OF
Death" This display also includes ex-
amples of pottery and leather work
collected by several other travellers, in
cluding He'll Chatelaine, p. Werner. Miss
Ellen Burk and others.
Representative George Holden Tink-
ham of Massachusetts, and the tiger
but the tiger Is missing-is back from
his second trip around the world. While
his tiger hunt In Indo-C China was un-
successful there were other thrills, for
he few into typhoon of the coast OF
Japan. During this trip of 165 days he
travelled over $4,000 miles and through
10 countries. Mr.. Tinkham is reported
to have said Japan was the most pros
porous country that he visited. He had
made all arrangements to fly with the
japanese Army from Manchukuo to
Jehol but the solicitude of the American
and japanese officials prevented him.
The Representative from Massachusetts,
seeks only big game-and is very proud
of his collection of trophies bagged in
previous hunts in Africa and the Far
East.
With rlmors of war floating around
and much writing on the subject, it
seemed a most gracious attention on
the part Of Mr.. Toshihiko Taketomi,
Japanese charge d'affaires, and Nine.
Taketomi, to meet their old friend Mr..
Troyanovsky, the Soviet Ambassador, on
his arrival at the Union Station. It
was a renewal of the friendly, personal
relations between the two men. Judg-
ing from his news photographs the Am
bassador is delighted with his reception
at the Capital, and his naive manners
completely disarmed the official routine
of the Department OF State. On his
first arrival there he did not wait to be
but introduced himself to
Mr.. Southgate, acting chief of the di-
vision Of treaties and protocol. There
was, however, no proletariat, flve-year
plan about his excellency's dress, for he
was quite de rigueur in striped trousers,
and topper. Mr.. Bullitt, Amer
ican Ambassador to the Soviet Repub-
lies, told newsmen the new Ambassador
was "a swell fellow"-and added they
sky's presentation to President Roose-
welt in the blue room at the White
House he was taken to the red room,
where he was presented to Mrs. Roose-
welt. While he does not as yet speak
very fluent English, Mrs. Roosevelt was
able to talk with him in French. He is
just one month older than the Presi-
dent, having celebrated his SD birthday
on the lst Of January.
The enthusiasm for the Presidents
birthday ball on January 80, which is
to be observed in thousands of towns
and cities throughout the country, to
celebrate his SD birthday anniver-
sary. grows daily, and benefits for
the Warm Springs endowment founda-
ton fund. are taking different forms,
such as the card party to be given by
the st. Marks Ladies' Emergency So
ciety, on the oath, at the Waldorf
in New York. It is hoped that
Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the
President. will be present. It has
seldom fallen to the lot of a mother to
witness the affection and honcrs of an
entire country, being showered upon
her son, as it has to Mrs. Roosevelt.
The New York insurance men are
determined that no one shall surpass
them in doing honor to their former
associate, and hope that their ball at
the Hotel Astor. New York, On the
10th will be the biggest Roosevelt ball
10 900 guests. Mr.. John A. Griffin.
chairman OF the Insurance division Of
The national committee for the BIRTH
day ball, says that President Roosevelt
was an insurance man before he was
Governor, and long before he was
President. Mr.. Griffin was associated
with Mr.. Roosevelt, and intends the
New York ball to be a rousing send-off
for the endowment fund. Not to be
outdone. Mr.. Henry Latham Doherty
has sent to Warm Springs, gigantic
cake which contains 548 eggs,
IS pounds of sugar, so pounds of but
ter, 3 quarts of rum. besides other
ingredients. In many States an effort
Is being made to make it an all
American ball as to costumes, refresh
ments and decorations. This certainly
would give an impetus to trade.
On Friday, January 19, the 125th an
of the birth of Edgar Allan
Poe will be largely celebrated by poetry
societies and some garden clubs. Poe
had wei known views on landscape
gardening which are recalled in Ian
doris Cottage" "The Domain Of Arm
helm" and other Of his writings. Down
in Richmond. Va, in the back yard Of
Richmond's Old Stone House on Main
street. garden in memory of Poe was
started some time in the 1920s. fash
ioned in part as suggested by that line
in well known poem. "a fountain and
q shrine, all wreathed in fairy fruits
and flowers" and dedicated to the
of the man who wrote the
poem. In this garden has been plant
ed the flowers and shrubs mentioned in
Poe's various writings, and inside the
Old Stone House is the chair in which
he sat, the desk at which he wrote and
even the door latch is the one he raised
each time he visited his first sweet
to have been the original
of the yellow-haired Lenore.
The little sunken court on which the
visitor steps on entering the garden is
paved with hagstones brought from
that other garden, o few blocks away
where years ago he walked and talked
with Elmyra Royster, the woman he
loved, but who would not marry him.
Poe's loves were many, and it was about
the roses in Elmyras garden that he
wrote so tenderly in the poem ITO
Helen; roses that grew In an enchant-
ed garden. Except in Richmond and
at the University of Virginia there have
been few monuments to the memory OF
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