Evening star., 1935-01-20
Tales of Well-KnOwn Folk
In Literature, Art, Politics
Confusion Over New Designation of Persia
Students Study Anew Eastern Literature.
Town Hall Meetings Interesting.

know" are somewhat hazy about |
the difference between communism, |
socialism, anarchism and all the other |
isms which they think of as suf- |
fused with brilliant red glow. They |
are prone to imagine that the fol-
lowers Of these different isms lead /
the simple life and dress accordingly. |
Not so, however. At the Soviet En- !
bassy the other afternoon, the scene
took one back to an afternoon at |
the royal Russian Embassy of days |
gone by. There was no simple life /
at the beautiful reception given by |
M. and Nine Skvirsky. No Russian
blouses, but afternoon clothes, caviar |
and delicious food in abundance
refreshments fit for Lucullus. Both |
the counselor of embassy and Nine. |
Skvirsky are delightful hosts, and the |
embassy dining room is one of the
loveliest rooms in the house.
Nice party the League of Republi-
can Women gave last Tuesday after
noon in honor of the Republican
delegates to the national convention |
of Federation of Women's Clubs. The
leagues club house at Sixteenth
street and Scott Circle, is more of
meeting place for business activities
than for social intercourse, as the |
rooms are large and airy with but |
little furniture. The surroundings
do not invite intimate or cosy con-
versation, but with Mrs. William |
Fitch Kelley as hostess at the head |
of the receiving line, graceful hospl- |
tality is all-pervading. AS president |
of the league Mrs. Kelley greetS each |
visitor with the same manner and
cordiality she shows in her own draw
ing room.
The way these women are working |
for a comeback in 1886 is most in
teresting. The men of the party !
might follow their program a little
and take heart. There is no down. |
heartedness among the women of the
Republican League, for they are daily
preparing for future campaigns and
educating the youth of the party in
the principles of good republicanism.
Is Senator Borah going Jeffersonian?
He is saying awfully nice things
about the Sage Of Monticello, and
rather intimating that the Democrats
are straying from the principles OF
their great leader.
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
has laid out a program for the re-
building of the Republican party
along progressive lines. He does not
seem downhearted and so maybe he
will be the Lochinvar who will come
out of the West to lead his people to
victory He does not exactly agree
with the Senator from Idaho about
Hamilton, and he knows whole lot
about Alexander, having written two
books about him.
LaSzlo's portrait Of Gen. John J.
Pershing, now being exhibited in the
Corcoran Gallery of Art. is as charm
ing as the Laszlo portraits always are,
but it does not seem to have the vim
and action and alertness one Is accuS-
toned to seeing in the generals face.
The portrait has dreamy, far-away
look that is not usually associated
with BLACK Jack" Pershing. The
hands are Laszlo hands and not those
of the fighter.
The celebration in Philadelphia on
the 18th Of the 229th anniversary
of the birth of Benjamin Franklin
recalls that the portrait of Franklin
in the White House was presented to
this Government through the late
President Theodore Roosevelt by Lord
Grey on the 200th anniversary OF the
birth of the great philosopher and
diplomat. The most interesting story
in connection with the gift is that it
was taken from this country by a
distinguished forbear of Lord Grey's
during the Revolutionary War, and
was given to Lord Gray's great-grand-
father, Gen. Sir Charles Grey. by Maj.
Andre, who took it from Franklins
house in Philadelphia.
That was a pretty bouquet of COM
pliment DR.. w. Coleman Nevils, S. j.,
president of Georgetown University,
brought to President Franklin D.
ROOSEVELT when he returned from
Europe recently. He says everywhere
he travelled he found great interest in
the President and his New Deal.
Hopefulness was expressed in Roose-
velt's powers of recovery-especially in
England. As they told him in London.
"You people are getting your moneys
worth out of Roosevelt"
DR.. Nevils left here in the Fall as
delegate to attend the conference of
the International Red Cross at Tokyo.
While away he visited Shanghai, Ma
Ivan Peninsula, Arabia and Egypt;
at each place he was entertained by
alumni of Georgetown University.
The doctor Is delightful, clubable
man and much sought after as din
ner guest.
Before reading "Sutter of Califor-
nia," by Mr.. Julian Dana, it might
interest one to first read Grim
Journey" the story of the Donner
party crossing the plains from Inde- |
pendence, Mo-, to California in 1846.
John Sutter was one of the rescuers
of the party of men, women and chill
dren who started out with high hopes
and ambitions, brave and gallant
hearts, and who, in the course Of
almost inconceivable hardships and
suffering, both mental and physical,