Evening star., 1936-09-06
About Well-KnOWn Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
President Hoover's Prophesy Comes True
Harvard Graduate Represents Canada
at World Power Conference.
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.
LECTION day is but little more
l. than two months of and not
withstanding the fact that
- the past Summer was one OF
the hottest on record, grass Is grow
ing In the streets of old Georgetown
and President Hoover's phophesy that
Il Franklin Delano Roosevelt, were
elected, grass would grow in the
streets. has been fulfilled. In one To-
cality, at least this Is 50, for some Of
the artistic ancient red brick pave
ments are showing quite crop. To
the weary, foot-sore pedestrian who
goes stumbling along over the uneven
pavements, the green turf is bless
ing, as well as an artistic adjunct to
the historic bricks whose charming
brick-dust red make some OF the
century old houses and iron fences
stand out in bold relief. Over in
Alexandria, Va, it is still the custom
with some of the old residents to have
the brick pavements in front of their
houses scrubbed and a brick-dust
wash applied-but not so in the old
town.
Georgetown has a great many rare
charms besides grass-grown pave
ments, red brick walls. picket fences
and colonial houses. It's full of curl
osities of an interesting kind such as
antique shops, an old English sad
dlery and the only honey shop" in
the District-as for that it is doubted
If there is another such shop in the
whole country. Besides, there are
statesmen, diplomats. artists and au-
thors who enjoy the atmosphere of
conservative content. They all come
and go-but usually return and 1t Is
wondered if Senator Tydings will not
again take the charming house and
garden there in which he spent some
of his bachelor days few years ago.
Senator Tydings Has an
Old time Democratic Rally.
Yesterday the Senator's handsome
estate Darlington, which he bought
before his marriage to the lovely Mrs.
Cheeseborough, was simply alive with
Democrats from all parts of Mary
land. It's been some time since Har-
ford County has seen such political
rally. Mrs. Elizabeth R. Menefee OF
Cumberland, Democratic national
committeewoman, sent out a clarion
call weeks ago and with the aid Of
Mrs. James Gustavus Whitley, wife OF
the Consul General of Belgium, and
q former committeewoman, not only
Democrats came in hundreds but
other constituents as well. for Senator
Tydings is very popular in his State.
BY the way, Mrs. Whitely's new book,
s'Washington and His Aides-de-
Camps" is listed with the best sellers.
OF Colonial ancestry and an inter-
ested student of the times of which
she wrote, she was particularly fitted
for her task.
Great Britain's
Distinguished Representative.
Evelyn Hugh Boscawen. eighth Wis
count Falmouth, who heads the Brit
ash delegation at the World Power
Conference, being held here this
week, Is not only one Of England's
most distinguished scientists and
technic;ans, but is said to be per-
son of rare social charm. Part OF
his title really goes back to twelve
hundred and something, and the won
derful old castle in which he lives.
Tregothnan, Trure in Cornwall, Is
one Of the most historic in England.
It Is not far from Falmouth.
The viscountess, who came to Wash
fngton with her husband, was Mary
Margaret Desiree, daughter of the
late H. Frederick Meynell, whose wife,
Lady Mary Meynell, was the author
of that delightful book, Sunshine
and Shadows Over a Long Life"
which came out several years ago.
The viscount, who is still in his for
ties, is governor of the Imperial Col
lege of Science and Technology, at
South Kensington. He Is also mem
ber of the Development Association
of London, and a member Of the ex-
elusive Athenaeum Club-whose por-
tails are almost as hard to enter as
the Golden Gates.
Canada Sends Harvard
Man to Power Conference.
Great Britain is sending OF her
best to the Power Conference and
among the list Brig. Gen. Sir Harold
Hartley, noted writer on chemistry
and other scientific subjects. While
Canada, the good neighbor to the
North, sends a former Harvard Uni
versity man, Mr.. Charles Camsell,
who not only attended Harvard and
was a charter member and fellow OF
Harvard Travellers Club, but was
also a student at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Mr.. Sam
sell feels that it is almost like going
home to come to the States as he
counts his friends here by the scores
and is particularly well known to
geologists and the Geographical So
ciety-he has made extensive explor-
ations in Northwest Canada.
May Be Agriculture's
Secretary in 1887.
Those who have been looking upon
the handsome face for some six years
of Representative Clifford Hope of
Kansas, did not know that they were
perhaps gazing on a future Secretary
of Agriculture-that is what people
out his way say he will be, if Gov.
Landon is elected. With the reputa-
ton of the "handsomest man in the
House"-he is married, girls-one
would pick him from Park avenue,
instead of the busy West. He is the
ranking minority member of the
House Agricultural Committee, and an
economist of parts. In appearance
he Is not unlike Gov. Winant, chair
man of the Social Security Board,
and q New Hampshire Republican.
The Governor and Mrs. Winant oc-
cupy that perfectly charming house
in Georgetown which belongs to Mrs.
Louis Lehr, sometime one Of the bellies
Of Baltimore and who for several
years has forsaken the classic shades
- Ala eld <ouy, for pork avonIle