Evening star., 1934-09-02
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Art, Literature, Politics
Mrs. Roosevelt, Sr.. Creets President In
Boyhood Home-Representative Byrns Back.
Senator Glass Stirs Shakespeare-Bacon Talk
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt was the
happiest woman in America last Sun.
day as she stood waiting to welcome
her European trip and his aunt, Mrs
Forbes, in Paris. and show him the
goods for his new suit. In the midst
of all the royal entertaining she en-
Joyed abroad, she bethought her that
Franklin would need q warm suit of
clothes for the Winter, and Scotch
tweed would be just the thing. Then,
1t was nice compliment to Scotland
to dress the Dutch Roosevelt in a
Scotch suit, for there's q wee bit of
Scotch blood on his mothers side.
Mrs. Roosevelt has been described
by her intimates as a most normal
person. Nothing erratic in her move
ments; just a little jolly planning, a
keen survey Of the situation at home,
and she is OF for visit or whatever
else engages her interest.
Rita S. Halle has a delightful
honey story about the mother of the
President in the current number of a
magazine. Tells how, after her we'd
ding at Algonac, the Delano home in
Newburgh, N. Y, she set out for Hyde
Park with her husband in the Delano
victoria, with the old family coachman
driving; then, the bridegroom wishing
to take his bride home in his own
conveyance, they were met halfway
by his tea cart and coachman, "who,
top boots and all, climbed up the little
steps into the rumble" while Mr.
Roosevelt drove the future mistress of
Hyde Park home
Now the President of the United
States has turned the family library
Of that same home into an executive
ONCE, and the same walls which
echoed his boyish laughter and fun
now are silent witnesses Of the affairs
of the greatest Nation in the world.
Not big room. The walls are lined
with books, and it's said the President
can go in the dark and put his hand
on any book he wishes on the shelves.
Postmaster General Farley is ex-
pected to be present at the dedication
Of the new Post Once Building in
Allentown, Pa, on Thursday. He is
much interested in this particular
building because it was designed by q
local firm Of architects, being one of
the few Federal projects in which
local architects we're employed for the
work. While $32s,o00 was given for
the building, the local firm is boast
ing that the careful planning by the
architects and Federal inspection by
Mr.. j. w. Palmer, representing the
nnFl0 rft
imately $4,000 on construction cost.
A few years ago hue and cry went
up from architects throughout the
country that they did not get q look
in on Federal buildings; now. however,
it seems more and more the policy
to employ local talent wherever pos
s.ble. It helps unemployment.
Mr.. Joseph w. Byrnes of Tennessee,
leader of the majority in the Seventy
third Congress, has come up to town,
he insists, to look after his duties as
chairman Of the Democratic Congress
sional Campaign Committee, but he
has been seen to look through the
glass door at the Speakers rostrum
several times since he arrived. Watch
him, boys, when he takes OF his
coat-there may be more up his
sleeve than you think. There is noth-
ing backward about the gentleman
from Tennessee when there is some
thing he has set his heart on.
Senator Carter Glass has started
out to get the scalp Of one William
Shakespeare, and If he can prove his
contention that Francis, Lord Verulam,
Viscount st. Alban, Sir Francis Bacon
and not the bard of Avon wrote the
immortal plays and sonnets he will
fulfill a long cherished ambition.
He has taken his chum and medical
adviser, DR.. Cary TraverS GraySon,
along, and they are going right to
the heart of the Bacon haunts-St.
Adams, where Bacon was buried;
Hampton Court and other places
where the philosopher lived. The Sem
ator, of course, knows what Bacon
says about suspicion. In case he does
not recall, here goes: Suspicious
amongst Thoughts, are like Bats
amongst Birds, they ever fly by
Twilight-they cloud the mind-they
dispose Kings to Tyranny. Husbands
to JealousieS, Wise men to Irresolu-
ton" Ignatius Donnelly, several
decades ago, worked long and hard
at Francis Bacon's cipher on his
tombstone, and now this bulky book, in
the Library Of Congress, which once
created such o sensation, lies dusty
and Is seldom called for.
It is not written Just what passed
between Ben Jonson and Shakespeare
at Ann Hathaway's cottage that last
night Of the playwright's life, when
they sat long and drank hard and
johnson left In the early dawn to
walk to London.
After wandering around in the old
National Museum for years, it was
not discovered until the other day
that there are cases of the most in
teresting and historic theatrical cos
tunes there, which are located in
rather a crowded room and none too
light space.
The widow of the late Richard
Mansfield gave his theatrical ward
robe to the museum and there one
sees the wonderful Russian costumes
he wore In Ivan the Terrible" the
Richard III" costumes and many
others.
A weIl-krown WaShingtonian, Ma
dame Sophie Radford de Meissner.
widow Of a former Russian diplomat,
made the English translation of
Count Alexis Tolstoy's play, Ivan
the Terrible" which, through the
good Offices of the late Mrs. Nathan
S. Lincoln, was brought to the at
tention Of her friend, Mr.. Mansfield.
and accepted by him. The models for
the costumes Madame de Meissner
had made in Russia and she also fur
nished colored Russian photographs
of the interior Of the rooms in the
Kremlin and the great square now
made famous by the tomb of Lenin.
The saving grace of a sense Of hu-
NOR is almost abnormally developed In
Miss 10 CONN, assistant to the United
States public printer, Mr.. Geigen-
gack. Her surname certainly bellies
her exquisite sense of humor, but she
need not think she can put an in
terested reporter of by sending him
on a wild goose chase to some one
else in the Government Printing