The Washington times., 1936-04-01
NOW
Vandenberg's
Journal
HISTORIC TOWN
By HELEN ESSARY

ny AAGAAIGN GSOAAASA
Senator Arthur Vandenberg, like
several other Washingtonians OF
Importance, keeps a daily journal.
In it he writes briefly his own
Interpretation of events, certain
conversations and thoughts, and
intimate records of situations he
happens to know about,
h The journal Is a sort Of persona!
reference book. The Senator from
Michigan never means to publish
1t. But it's nice to have, in any
event.
Gen. Friedrich Won Boetticher,
military attache of the German
Embassy, has travelled over most
Of the United States and finds the
most. American town to be-Lex-
ington, Va.
General Won Boetticher feels that
he would like to take all strangers
to this pleasant place and let them
see the soul of America" He loves
the old college there. Washington
and Lee University, and thinks it
honors the two men who in many
respects were the greatest Amer
leans.
He cannot take all Of his
visitors to Lexington, unfortun'
ately, the general says, but he
does drive them to Arlington
where, as he is, they are deeply
impressed with the Confederate
monument.
About the town: Senator and
Mrs. william Gibbs McAdoo' VINO
live at the Mayflower, COOK thelr
own breakfast together.
The Minister of Colombia and
& his attractive wife, Madame
Miguel Lopez Pumarejo, have SIX
children. Their ages are 81, 10,
II, 16, Is and IL. Madame Pun
arejo says the only Washing
tonians she has met with a
family as large as hers are Sen
ator and Mrs. James j. DAVIS
OF Pe0QSylVaulas
Mrs. Lloyd P. Shipper, whose
GEORGETOWN dancing class has a
great vogue now, suffers over
one group of sub-sub debs and
young men of corresponding age.
The girls don't decide to come
to the class until they find out
what boys will be present. ana
the boys can't make up their
minds until they know what girls
are coming.
Hundreds, actually hundreds OF
china animals crowd the shelves
lining one room of Friendship"
the home of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean. The animals are weird
in shape, color and size. There
are long legged cats, short noseo
elephants, bow legged giraffes, ex-
aggerated flies. monkeys and pigs
and creatures never seen on land
or sea-only in Friendship"
Mrs. McLean's book, Father
Struck It Rich" is being talked
about at practically every dinner
and cocktail party in washington.
Having an open mind on all
things, I know nothing about land
q closed mind to what fear is
true), am enjoying that numer-
ology story about Agna Enters,
the young dancer and mime who
is appearing on Monday night at
the King Smith School.
Miss Enters, who was born in
Washington, was christened Anita.
A numerologist to whom she went
for reading told her that she
should change her name for better
luck.
So she selected Agna, pro-
nounced with a soft &C." It means
something like an angel, which
those who have seen Miss Enters
dance among their members OF
the Washington Wellesley Club,
regard as a charming description
Of her art.
In any event, Miss Enters her
self says she has had much
greater success as Agna than she
did as Anita.
DR.. and Mrs. William Boyd Car.
penter Of Chevy Chase personally
import their own coffee. They
freshly roast and grind it before
each serving so that every cup
will have its share of flavor and
aroma. DR.. and Mrs. Carpenter
are likewise fastidious about tea.
Their house is one in America
where the visitor from the Orient
may get tea prepared as it is in
his own home.
DR.. Carpenter is the specialist
In Oriental lore in Georgetown
UniverSity's foreign service school.
On Sunday afternoons you will al
ways find in the Carpenter house
Q group Of foreign students.
The Better Films Committee of
the District of Columbia, made up
Of members from organized groups
Of women and committees of
mothers, is busily studying Motion
Picture Review Digests.
Reports on previews suggest
recommendations of worthwhile
pictures and disapproval of poor
ones. A similar Maryland group in
existence for over a year believes
that it has secured more whole.
some Saturday programs for chill
dren than were shown before they
began their crusade.