Evening star., 1936-04-26
About Well-KnOWn Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
Miss Dewson, Politician, Tennis Champion
and Dog Fancier- Junior Leaguers Are
Puppeteers in Intriguing Alley Studio.
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.
"ELL it not in Gath nor IN the
Mary williams Dewson, dis
i tinguished politician and
chairman of the General Advisory
Committee of the women's division
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, was all a-twitter and enthused
over the seventh annual dog show
of the National Capital Kennel Club,
at the Meadowbrok Saddle Club yes
terday.
Notwithstanding she was not long
returned from a speaking tour through
the West and Middle West, where she
chumed with farmers wives, women
industrialists and other prospective
voters, she could talk Of nothing else
but her glorious, aristocratic, sporty
Shetland sheep dog entry In the show.
She has a place Of So acres down IN
Maine, where she raises Shetland
sheep dogs. Being an authority on
the subject, she says, the finest stock
is imported from England and not
Scotland-where they must have
originated.
And now for her prize dog story.
which she relates with some emotion:
He was beauty; affectionate, faith
full, and a loyal comrGde, who trav-
eled with her through % States and
Is countries. He climbed the Alps,
the Carpathlan Mountains and the
Pyrenees; her constant companion,
whether walking or motoring through
Europe. He has gone to the happy
hunting ground to join that faithful
company of dogs, Of which Bobby OF
Grey Friars and the late beloved
Bishop Alfred Harding's dog are cele-
brated members. The Bishops dog,
so familiar to Washingtonians, Is
memorialized in marble and rests at
his feet on his monument and re-
cumbent statue in the Chapel OF the
Resurrection, out at Washington
Cathedral.
Miss Dewson Is Tennis
Champion in New England.
A thorough believer in sports, Miss
Dewson Is a tennis champion up In
her State, or rather States, As she
claims both Massachusetts, and Maine.
She thinks having reached SO and
wear or two over it was great fun to
beat the debutantes and some OF the
young men. She says to keep ut Tor
her work, which just now is very stren-
uous, she must take exercise, so when
ever possible she puts in few games
of tennis. She is not so fond OF golf
but she does like onio, soup-brown
onion soup made as the great French
man, M. Clemenceau liked it. Her
recipe was solicited for Southern
cook book-and here is where truth
must triumph-the recipe belongs to
her cook, for Miss Dewson is a sad
failure when it comes to cooking.
Sports Minded Turn Eyes
Toward Kentucky Derby.
Next Saturday, come May 2, will see
the sporting minded OF Washington
and nearby Virginia en- route to Louis
vile to witness Americas greatest
racing event-the running OF the sixty
second Kentucky Derby at Churchill
Downs. The date has been pushed
forward bit this year. Gov. Chand-
Ter appointed the new State Racing
Commission last week, and also took
occasion to sign the legislative act
which provides q consumers tax on
Kentucky's good old bourbon OF 13
cents a pint-which is to 60 into effect
Just two days before the derby-how
could you, Governor?
American women are going their
English sisters close second in their
interest and activity in the turf. Mrs.
Payne Whitney-nee Hay-and Mrs.
Dodge Sloane are expected to have
five entries each at Churchill Downs
on Saturday. Twenty Grand, Mrs.
whitney's horse won in 1881, and
Mrs. Sloane's Cavalcade in 1884. Mrs.
P. A. B. Widener, I'd, and Mrs. Silas
3. Mason are two other well-known
women who indulge in that most ex-
pensive hobby-the turf. Really not
a hobby; just red blood, human in
terest, and one of the worlds Oldest
sports.
Mrs. Ellen Woodward Finds
Jobs for Men and Women.
Finding jobs for men and women,
and not men and women for the jobs.
is the slogan Of the assistant admin
istrator of the women's division Of w.
P. A. Keen intelligence, executive
ability. heavenly blue eyes, Irish au-
burnish hair, lovely voice and person.
ality with a capital "P," and what
have you? Why of course, Ellen Sui
livan Woodward, ex-member Of the
Mississippi Legislature, and Mr.. Harry
Hopkins right-hand woman. Mrs.
Woodward is the widow OF a distin-
guished Mississippi Judge and daugh-
ter of the some time United States
Senator from that State, the late VIII
liam Sullivan.
When seen the other day in her Of
fee in the Works Progress Administra-
ton, Mrs. Woodward might easily have
been taken for one of Robin Hoods
merry green foresters in her green hat,
gloves and shoes-a most refreshing
picture, in spite Of the fact she is said
to work from IL to IA hours day. She
only began active public work after
the death of her husband It was
then she was elected to the State Leg
islature-the second woman to hold
that office-became director of civic
development of the State Board of De-
velopment. which was an organiza-
tion devoted to industrial, agricultural.