Evening star., 1935-06-16
About Well-Known Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
Baby Senator Hollis Birthday-Mrs. w. F
Kelley, SuperO Orator-Ch Charles Edison
Interested in Old Inns.

meaning from the ground up. and out
in Iowa the farmers are digging up
culture instead of crops. Word comes
that $50 men and women have re-
versed things and have exchanged the
ploughshare and the milk pail for light
opera. and on June 10, are going TO
give q performance of the Bohemian
Girl" Amateur singers from 10 Iowa
counties are to take part.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace
was made an honorary LII. D. recently
at Columbia University and at the
luncheon later, in a little speech pro-
tested against q foSsolized Constitu-
ton, while DR.. Nicholas Murray But
Ter, president of the university-the
Barnard girls call him Nicholas the
Miraculous''-hailed the defeat of N.
r. A. ." as q setback for those
who would bring in despotisr under
the glise Of reform" No ofense was
meant; everything goes at an aca-
demic feast and these learned gentle
men have right to speak their minds.
Ais fair in love and war-ard poll
tics. and Gov. and Mrs. Talmadge Of
Georgia have invited Mrs. Roosevelt
to visit them at the Governors man
sion, when she expects to attend the
convention OF the American Prison
Association at Atlanta october 27-3l.
It's a great stunt to have the wife Of
thesPresident, who claims Georgia as
his second State, a guest, and whose
paternal ancestors on the distad side
were of the old aristocracy of that
State and loved the Southern cause.
Mrs. Roosevelt's grandmother was
born and reared in Georgia.
Omaha, Mr.. William Woodward'S
horse that won the Kentucky Derby.
is going to have his portrait painted.
He can afford to, for he has won for
his owner something over $l00, 900 and
is still going strong. Any horse that
can win the Kentucky Derby, Preak-
ness and Belmont-and is looking to-
ward the Ascot Cup-should have his
picture in the hall of fame.
Since the P. w. A. gave the i'm
petus every one is having his por-
trait painted. During the past fort
night not only comely young por-
trait painters, but opera stars have
been causing riot of gayety up on
Capitol Hill, with their pretty speeches
and mimosa glances. The young
woman who painted Vice President
Gamers portrait and said his eye
brows were breath-taking. that he
simply was marvellous, that he SIM
ply kissed her hand and said bless
your heart, my dear" has sailed away
on the giant boat Normandie-with
memories of those eyebrows: and then
the other young portrait painter. who
said Senator Pat Harrison's smile was
Just too contagious. and he the most
accommodating sitter she had ever
had, and then just like that-pre-
sented him with her l1andiwork.
That's not all that happened to the
solons in the halls of legislation: The
fascinating Rosa Ponselle, who sings
herself into the hearts of her friends
and the public, sang % Solo Mie."
to the Speaker of the House, Mr..
Byrns Of Tennessee. and then. before
every one in true European fashion,
planted a kiss right on the mouth
Collectors and connoiSseurs all over
the country have become much in
terested in two rather unique museums
which are being established at York
town and jamestown, Va. for col
lections of antique glass. 1t will be
recalled that the first glass factory
in America was built at jamestown
during the first settlement. Its pur-
pose was ostensibly to make window
glass and bottles for domestic use,
but it also had a commercial value,
for beads in large numbers were man.
ufactured for trade with the Indians,
and 1t seems there was some little
export trade.
Glass blowers were imported from
Germany, Poland and Italy. The lat
ter were skilled Venitian workers and
there are still In the South examples
Of their art. The Jamestown Museum
will be devoted to seventeenth century
glass, while the Yorktown exhibit will
be devoted to eighteenth century ex-
amples
The excavations at Yorktown and
jamestown have been the means Of
supplying historians and antiquarians
with some valuable original data. New
England is particularly rich in ex-
amples of Colonial glass, much of
which. however, was imported from
the mother country. One of Mr..
glassware which he puts in his inns.
Mr.. Ford has a rival in the Inn"
business as Mr.. Charles Edison, who
Is expected to follow the Blue Eagle
out of offlce, is apparently mucn in
terested in little side venture of his
own-as he terms IL. The president
of the great plant known as the
Thomas Edison Industries has opened
a small tavern, or inn, as he calls it
Beverwyck Inn, on South Beverwyck
road. New Jersey. This inn is not,
however, for the purpose of collecting
antiques in glass and furniture, but
is to be a rendezvous for sportsmen
and particularly the so or more
writers and sportsmen who attended
.he opening ceremonies when a wind
ing stream which traverses ii mile
and a half of the Beverwyck Inn
grounds was stocked with a large
number of rainbow and brown trout
the kind one puts on the broiler the
moment they are desd, as gourmets
believe they lose their flavor If al
lowed to lie. When Mr. Edison came
70 Washington to do his bit In the