Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-03-03

Minister, Otto WadSted-mayDe ABOUT
Danish butter or cheese, of which the
United States is getting a good deal.
Especially the former.
But to return to Secretary Perkins
debut party in her new building:
There were bouquets everywhere, bas-
kets of Spring flowers, two enormous
exquisite ones filled with Easter lilies
tied with broad. floating ribbons-JuSt
like a streamlined train. These came
from the National Organization OF Lo-
connective Engineers-that may not pe
the official name, but they were from
the men that Presidents always snake
hands with when leaving the train.
Flowers in the reception rooms back
of the auditorium where the visitors
were received after the ceremonies and
given fruit punch-no stick-and lit
tie cakes. Just modest repast such as
BELTS the period of unemployment.
The whole building was open to In
spection-and did you see that stately
conference room next to the Secre-
tary's private office? Tomato red rug
-soft-same color draperies, walnut
furniture, chairs covered with tomato
red leather, luxurious divan, fine fire.
place and flowers. too. One OF the
visitors did not see the Sanctum sane
forum but hopes to another time when
Nine. Secretary has more leisure. The
private Office is in blue.
The premier of Mr.. George Ber-
nard Shaw's new play, THE Simple
ton Of the Unexpected Isles" which
took place in New York on the 18th,
marked the 50th anniversary Of Mr..
Shaw as a playwright. It's a ques-
ton whether Mr. Shaw's prefaces
to his plays would not fill more
volumes than the plays themselves.
The preface to Getting Married"
has something like "a or So pages, TAX
ing up the question from the time of
Adam and Eve, poligamy. divorce in
the earlier times, and on down TO trial
marriages. He believes with the pres
ent progressive advocates Of women
in business, in public life; marriage
between men and women, decent and
honorable by making women eco
nomically independent of men. and tin
the younger son section of the upper
classes men economically independ-
ent of women There is also ques-
ton in some minds whether or not
his forewords are not more delight
fully amusing than some of his plays.
Letters of world famous men and
women are being dragged from safety
deposit vaults and all kinds of hiding
places and turned over to publishers
to be thrust upon cruel. curious
world always eager to devour whom
ever they may.
Letters from Napoleon to Josephine:
now letters from the prisoner at
Longwood to Marie LouiSe-distress-
ingly pathetic-and now letters from
Honore de BalZaC to Nine. Zulma Car
raud. who was his platonic friend and
worshipper, but whose later epistles
would indicate a growing, warmer af-
lection. Nine. Carraud, was the wife
of an artillery officer at whose home
at Saint-Cyr BalZac was an honored
guest. and it was there that he is said
to have heard the stories from which
he later made 1.-THE Country Doctor"
one of his most famous novels. "Pere
Goriot," perhaps the most wonderful
of his Coincide Humane" was writ
ten later. Pere Goriot is so strikingly
like the story Of King Lear that one
naturally turns from one to the other.
The deathbed scene of the old father
Is one of the most wonderfully tragic
pieces of literature ever written.
The Napoleonic letters seem to
have only whetted the appetite for
more and now Macmillan Co issues
THE Pinnacle Of Glory" by Mr..
Wilson Wright, who writes dra-
matically of the Emperor's last days
at st. Helena. He tells in an amusing
way about Sir Hudson Lowe. the new
Governor of the island. sending a
letter to Napoleon shortly after his
Gowe's) arrival, in which he an
nounces that he will call upon Gen.
Bonaparte at o'clock the next morn
ing The Emperor watches the Gov
ernor'S arrival through the curtains
of his bed room window, then turns
about and sits down in his hot bath.
The result of several hours of wait
ing on the part Of Sir Hudson was
a message that he was to call the
next day, when the Emperor would
see him. Once Napoleon always Ma
poleon.
Mr.. Ludwig Bauer's Leopold the
Unloved" is a little too severe on
that much-berated King who was
maybe more sinned against than
shining. Leopold II, whose infatua-
ton for the dancer, Cleo de Merode,
gave him the nickname of "Cleopold,"
was refused all spiritual consolation
on his death bed by the great Car
dinal MERCER, until he consented to
marriage with his final infatuation,
Caroline Lacroix, the daughter of a