Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23
About Well-KnOWn Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
President Roosevelt Visits His Alma Mater
Water Colors Appeal to Mrs. Roosevelt
Mrs Wolfe's Last Roundup
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt was going up last
night to that big school in Yankee
land to a party. at the Fly Club, and
to see his baby son, John, buzz around
bit-minus his tomobile-and
have a good laugh at dear old Har-
ward, whose crimson colors never float
so proudly to the breeze as when the
Files" swarm around a distinguished
guest, such as the President of the
United States.
This is the third 6-foot son of the
President and Mrs. Roosevelt to be
initiated into the exclusive precincts
of Harvards swanky club. Several
years ago the eldest son, James, was
admitted, and last year Franklin
Joined. Counting the President there
are 2412 feet of Roosevelts in the
Fly Club.
Those Files" at Harvard are not
for trout fishing, although some of
them may be cast in the political
streams of the mountainous Western
country this coming Summer, and do
bit of angling There are mighty
big fish to be caught out there when
the season opens in June, and Senator
Borah. and Colonel Knox and Cover
nor Landon know pretty we'll the
depth of those streams-then there is.
too, Representative Hamilton Fish,
who is an all-around sport and who
can reel off a right good line himself
Crimson is an off color down here
Just at present with some of the
members of committees up at the
Capitol, and the tired school teachers
OF the District, who are all in the
filters and who are having themselves
q time just now as to whether there
Is anything red in the books of the
public schools, or bordering on red
or whether it is overanxiety because
the entire world seems to be on tip
toe waiting for something to happen.
Word comes that Mrs Roosevelt
has not enjoyed anything as much in
long time as she did the Washing
ton Water Color Club exhibit at the
Corcoran Galleries last week, when
the 40th annual showing of the club
opened. It's a charming show that
holds the attention from the time
one enters the room until he leaves.
The walls are filled with color, life
and a certain buoyancy in their
charm-the joy of living because
everything is looking fresh and gay.
The Lady of the Mansion has a dis
eliminating taste in art, and has had
the advantage CT seeing it at first hand
In the famous galleries of Europe. In
spite of her crowded hours she goes
20 art exhibits whenever she possibly
can, and last week spent some time
walking about and enjoying the water
colors. She is also a helpful patron
OF home talent and now and then
comes away with a favorite or two.
In truth there is a picture hanging
on the line at this show-by the way
1t is on until March (which seemed
to appeal to her. It's lovely Holland
scene, Along the Canal" with more
Of a dreamy freshness than one
usually sees in the landscapes of the
country of the bikes. 1t is the Dutch
countryside in all of its loneliness
with the clear water, a bit of misty
atmosphere such as one expects in a
Holland scene, and in perspective a
touch of an English landscape is visit
BILE. The mist of England's coast and
that of Holland differ, and yet much
of the charm of the landscape of the
two countries is attributable to the
moisture which lends that fresh, and
yet that hazy indescribable something
that one finds at times in the canvases
OF Corot and Cazanne.
At the ends of the room is Sails"
one of Eleanor Parke Gusts views
which always bring up memories of
Marblehead Neck, the coast around
Manchester and sometimes the more
rugged coast of Maine. Sails" is
simply billowing in the breeze. with
the waters mite choppy, the sky be-
yond with floating cloud banks and
the figures on the boats in the fore
ground full of action.
One has longing for that Court
yard at Cuernavaca"-perhaps not
only because he has dreamed away in
many one just like it in the beauty
spot of Mexico, where the Austrian
archduke Ferdinand Joseph became
Macmillan of Mexico, and dreamed
and loved and lost the beautiful Aztec
maiden, but also because Jessie T.
An1es' picture has the arrangement,
color and draughtmanship pleasing
to the technical side as we'll as to the
poetical. Several delightful interiors
are shown; one very attractive pic
ture of dining room in Italy. The
impression of space which it gives;
the musty old world influence in the
mellow tones of the furniture cover
ings of dusty red-or maybe pink
the arrangement, the drawing, the
softness of the velvet upholstering,
and at one side the suggestion of a
picture of the Virgin in an open,
shattered frame which gives the final
artistic touch to the tout ensemble.
The Dining Room, Villa il Frullino,"
is one of Marjorie Garfield's, also the
"Moslem Market Sarajevo' ooh, the
tragedy Of the House of AustriaD
which is noticeable for its color, it's
old cloth hangings which protect from
the sun the vegetables: the market
vendor in the foreground and the bas-
ket or tray of enticing red fruit.
There is riot of intriguing pictures
in the water color exhibit, but if one
has only an hour to spend, it's just too
bad more cannot be at least men
toned by a wandering visitor who
loves to wander in off the street and
enjoy himself in the crowd. Just these,
please: "Hollyhocks," Iona M. KEEP
linger, artistic in their arrangement,
natural in their deep pink color, which
Is enhanced and brought into relief
by the pottery vase and the Chinese
mat on the table. Every one can judge
Of the beauty of the hollyhock, but
only few know orchids. Another
flower piece is Japanese Ounce Bios
sons" by Elizabeth Muhlhofer, which
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