The Washington times., 1936-11-24

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EMBASSY be- Mrs. Frances Bunker
lieves that it will:
Romance in high places is thrill
ing and dramatic in the year 1885.
Plain people must necessarily
feel that by contrast, their mar
riages though agreeable are
slightly muggy.
Which reminds me that they
have been asking Hugh Walpole,
the English novelist, now lectur-
ing in the Middle West, what he
thinks about Mrs. Simpson.
To which question, of an audi
ence or an Individual, Mr.. wal
pole has had the same answer.
"MrS. Simpson? Who is SHE?"
So superb has been Mr.. Wal
poles manner when he thus dis
cussed the most famous Anglo
American alliance of all time that
not even a KanSan has had the
. courage to pursue the "techy SUBJ
ject" further.
Senator and Mrs. Arthur Van
denberg are relaxing and thinking
things over in Florida on the yacht
of Mr.. George Getz.
Mr.. Getz is probably thinking
things over, too. He used to be
treasurer Of the Republican ma
tional committee.
It was Mr.. Getz, you remember
or do you?-wno had that big
ZOO on his summer estate at Hol-
land, Mich. Some Republican con-
Stituents thought it. wasn't patrl-
otic of Mr.. Getz to buy so much
red meat for lions and tigers when
the depression was going on ana
banks were closing and everything
and, everybody was shivering. So
Mr.. Getz closed his zoo.
I don't know exactly how one
could close a zoo. Maybe you give
I the beasts to other ZOOS or to Pres
idents of Pan-American republics
and chambers of commerce. Maybe
you make the bears and seals and
muskrats into fur coats, cut the
deer into veniSon and have party
and turn the other animals loose
in the deep forest and let nature
do the rest.
Senator and Mrs. Vandenberg
will go to New York on December
16. They will return to Michigan
where the pretty Betty Vanden-
berg is to play at a concert OF the
Detroit National Symphony Or
chestra.
This charming duty accom-
plished, Senator and Mrs. Van
denberg will come to Washington
for the winter.
The Bishop of Omaha, Right
Reverend James Hugh Ryan, has
left washington after a visit that
delighted his old friends, and has
gone to Palm Beach. Few mem
bers of the Catholic clergy have
4 been as popular in the Capital as
has this handsome prelate, for.
merlN the president of the Catho
lie University.
Bishop Ryan came to town, to
participate in the ceremony which
inducted his successor, Bishop Cor
rigan, into the presidency Of the
Catholic University.
While the Bishop of Omaha was
here, he was the guest of honor at
as many dinners and luncheons as
the hours of the day would per-
NIT.
It is not generally known that
Mrs. Genevieve Forbes Herrick
wrote many of the best Democratic
campaign speeches. These speeches
were delivered by all sorts of peo
pie. BY men and women and
maybe a few of those dear little
children who were heart and soul
in the Youth Movement, or the
First Voters League.
It was pretty fine of Mrs. Her
rick to do this fearful job. Since
her automobile accident in New
Mexico, which resulted in the
death of Mrs. 1ckes, Mrs. Herrick
hasn't been as strong as seven
tractor engines.
And this reminds me of a
funny story.
During Mrs. Herrick's conva.
lescence hundreds of people who
make the washington world GO
round have called on her. Sent
her messages, flowers and gay
presents. So much attention has
impressed one of Mrs. Herrick's
handmaidenS deeply, and caused
her to say:
81 was jus sayin' to my
friend on my day off las
Thursday, Mrs. Herrick, that I
sertinly does like to be with
people where there amt never
a duII moment. Big autOmO-