The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-02

"Au con. D.,.n &c.
traire, the n'''n N''A
American voice is soft and beau
/, tiful. And so low that I have
difficulty understanding what is
being said to me. Your tele-
phone operators are most kind
and we'll spoken. And I think 1t
very charming to have a nice
voice when one calls up some
business firm:
This is Jones, Browns and
Company! Good morning"
The Princess, who is slim
and fascinating and very
chic, wears the sort of clothes
one wishes to heaven one
had the taste and the peck
etbook to undertake. Although
she has a distinguished reputa-
ton as a novelist and essayist,
the Princess thought last sum-
mer she would try her hand at
journalism, which she says is
"life." Under a nom de plume,
she sold a dozen articles to
European papers.
Also the Princess, at cocktail
time, in a hotel, orders sliced
oranges!
This last, my dears, is intelli'
gence undisputed!
Leading characters here and
there;
The American Ambassador
to Rome and Mrs. Broken
ridge Long, who are arriving
in New York on the Rex,
Thursday, for their first visit
to the States since they left
to represent their country in
Italy, are bringing back Span
ish automobile. CThis sounds
like the automobile speaks
Spanish or at least wears a
mantilla. I doubt that this IS
true. But its chauffeur is a
Basque and wears a beretO
Mrs. Duncan Cameron, who
has been visiting in the Valley
(the valley of Virginia, natur-
ally) has taken an apartment
at the Ritz in New York ana
will reopen her home on Massa-
chusetts Avenue January l.
Mrs, Lawrence Groner and
Mrs. Jock Whitney are wearing
smart suits to the football
games and races. The suits
are light blue and green tweed,
with big, fluffy collars OF Polar
wolf. Mrs. Whitney's is green
and Mrs. Groner's blue.
Miss Agnes Webster of the
Bureau of Fisheries of the De-
partment of Commerce is COM
piling a practical volume on
how to cook fish. Before Miss
Webster writes her recipes she
tries them out on officials and
employees of the bureau.
It is said, on unimpeachable
authority, that the fish, big
and little, in the departments
aquarium, alarmed at MISS
Websters zeal. spend their
nights and days huddled in
the darkest spot of their big
glass house. They're afraid
Miss Webster will serve them
with drawn butter and parsley
sauce some Friday at one
o'clock.
When Governor Ely of Mass
achusetts asked a Boston or
chestra to stop playing The
Man on the Flying Trapeze,"
he said the tune made him
nervous. It reminded him OF
his recent struggles to nomi-
nate a governor in the State
campaign when, no matter
how bravely he swung out, the
man who was supposed to have
his hands up and catch the
governor when he jumped,
wasn't even at the meeting.
Governor Ely's candidate didn't
last through the primary.
Mrs. Sol Bloom and Vera are
in New York helping Sol pile
up another victory in the con-
gressional election Tuesday.
Big Samuel K. Martin and
his exquisite wife, whose Italian
villa, out by the Great Falls
of the Potomac, Joseph P. Ken
nedy, the chairman of the Sc
curities and exchange commits
sion, is now occupying, visit
Washington four times a year.
Joe Kennedy, by the way.
has definite ideas about food.
Good ideas, one might say, and
consistent with his general de-
pertinent.
Every day at the same hour
there appears at his office his
butler bearing a large con-
tainer of steaming luncheon.
Mr.. Kennedy doesn't like hotel
or restaurant food. His cook
prepares his favorite midday
dishes at his country place.
And Mr.. Kennedy enjoys them
at his desk.
Phyllis says there's no limit
to what an energetic widow
with a cocktail shaker can &C
complish-particularly in Wash.
1ngton.