Evening star., 1936-03-22
About Well-KnOwn Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
The Sad Tale of Mrs Keyes' Donkey-A
Seventeenth Century Trunk-The
Race Track Goes Literary.

KeyeS Is the proud poSSeSSor Of two
of the most beautiful examples Of the
period when the famous French var
nish gave TO the highly decorated
fans of the first empire that mellow,
shadowy look of old mahogany wood.
Near these two beauties is a rare
historic fan with carved mother of
pearl sticks given by the ill-fated
Carlotta, consort of Emperor Maxi
milan of Mexico, to one Of her ladies
in waiting. and many years after pre-
sented to Mrs. Keyes by the friend
into whose keeping it had come.
Every now and then Mrs. Roosevelt
will carry a handsome fan to COM
plete the ensemble of some special
costume that needs the artistic touch,
but not for the reason that the
dowager queen of Rumania carried
one the night she dined at the White
House. when touring America. 1t
was in the day when ladies wore very
short skirts and the lovely queen,
feeling that hers was a trif1e ab5revi-
ated, draped her large feather fan
gracefully over her knees.
Speaking of the fan hobby: Take
turn around in the National Gallery
Of Art-get Miss RoSenbush to 60
with you-she knows lot-and look
at the collection there-not as large
as it used to be, but some exquisite
fans once owned by the late Mrs.
Julian James, that charming woman
whose small dinners were the envy
in her day-fans belonging TO Mrs.
HoWland, one given TO Mrs. James
Pinchot by the late Duke of Albany.
and mourning fan of the time of
Charles x.
Now there goes another one. This
time it is that awfully nice Mr.. Peter
Grimm-not of the fairy tales,
although he may have had that con-
oept of the Government housing plans
he took over for the Treasury Depart
ment, but of New York real estate
fame-who came to stay for three
months but the lure of Washington
was too great, so he remained eight.
Well, Spring is in the bones and one
just naturally takes to the road or
Broadway, and real estate in Man
haitian is on the up and up.
Horse racing is becoming highbrow
and academic, so this Spring and
Summer followers of the races will see
literature going neck and neck with
the we'll known nomenclature of the
track.
The J. Keene Daingerfield, jr.,
stable of Lexington, KY, have recently
named two likely colts, Free Forester
and Rome Haul. for the novels by Mr.
Horatio Colony and Mr. Walter Ed
mondS, respectively. And that re-
minds one that Mr. John Hay Whitney
has arrived in England to witness the
running of the Grand National
SteeplechaSe at Aintree on Friday
next-get out your rabbit foot He
has three eligibles for the race-Royal
Ransom, Double Crossed and Rod and
Gun, and has decided to race under
his own colors in England, as we'll as
here this year, instead Of running his
horses under the colors of his wife,
Mrs. Whitney.
1t has not been verified whether or
not Mrs. Roosevelt is to contribute to
the new weekly magazine devoted to
the women of Greater New York,
which will make its debut early in
May. Mr.. James Monahan, formerly
associated with the Century Co.. asso-
ciate editor of Esquire and more re-
Gently public relations director of
World Peaceways, will edit it. The
magazine will have some "a woman
writer's and editors now employed on
metropolitan newspapers and mag
azines. The company is known as the
New York Woman, Inc.