The Washington times., 1936-03-26
NOW
Mrs. GreenWGy'S
NeU Romance
POOR ROSSO
BY HELEN EssARY

said to supreme court JuSGlce
Harlan Fiske stone:
''What do you think, Mr..
Justice, are the years OF ma
turity?"
Not for a second did the pro
gressive member of the Court
hesitate. He replied:
Maturity comes between 70
and 80"
''But the years between 40
and 5O?"
"They, I fear" said Mr..
Justice Stone, "are the years
Of IndiscretiOn."
Mrs. Greenway, telling the
story at dinner at the German
Embassy the other night. pro
tested that she had passed all
the important years.
She was so last Sunday.
Isabel, of Arizona is still q
gorgeous looking person. She has
beauty and dash and looks like q
goddess on the prov of ship.
She is also fascinating. Natu
rally, since she has decided not to
run for Congress again, people are
asking if she is going to be
married.
Various fortunate gentlemen
have been mentioned as her pos
Sible fiances. I myself have been
thinking over Washington candi-
dates and suspect no one here.
But I keep remembering tele-
grant, think I mentioned it once
before in this column-that Mrs.
Greenway once told me she had
received. The message, from g
man Of obvious discrimination, in
quired: .-.
"HOw are your beautiful eyes?"
Mrs. Greenway's secretary called
the telegraph company for assist
ance. She thought the message
was in cod.. It probably was.
The gentlemen of the Senate
and House, married and single,
are greatly concerned over Repre-
sentative Greenway's possible
Suitor.
They crowded around her in
Congress yesterday and demanded
to know who the lucky man was.
Repres esentative Greenway
laughed and said she had never
been so flattered in her life. She
loved such q rumor, particularly
at her great age. But there
was no one. Absolutely no one.
She was Just going back to
Arizona and farm.
A triumph as great as this
talk Of new beau, Mrs. Green.
way said at the German Embassy
dinner, came to her the day be-
fore she was SO. She was asked
to model In a Fashion Show at
the Women'S Democratic Club.
After q lifetime Of waiting for
appreciation, somebody had at
last decided she could wear
clothes properly. Enchanted with
the offer, she rushed home and
told her family. The family
thought the offer was a mistake,
that mother would go in too
much for bouffant taffetas and
Gibson girls things" However,
they were pleased at the com.
pliment.
Mrs. Greenway, to the distress
of the Democratic Style Show, and
the sorrow of an audience in
terested in beauty and grace, de-
clined to model.
The German ambassador, DR..
Hans Luther, and the italian am.
baSsador, Augusta RoSSo, were dis.
cussing apropos the Isabella Green.
way romance, their own rating as
Washington bachelors.
DR.. Luther protested that he was
far behind Senor RoSSo in stand.
ing. In fact he was $50 many
pages behind in the State Depart
ment list"
Mr.. RoSSo, in his best manner,
declared that nothing would make
him happier than a chance to
marry a beautiful American"
Mr.. Rosso, like other Italian dip
lomats, can never marry an
American nor any woman who is
not italian. It is the ruling of
MuSSolini.
Mrs. Malin Craig, wife of the
Chief of Staff Of the Army, is a
fine horsewoman, and a delight
full person. When her husband
was stationed on Western coasts,
Mrs. Craig rode many miles over
the plains and up and down
mountains and across streams.
She won several prizes in long dis.
tance riding contests Mrs. Anna
Roosevelt Boettiger is helping
edit the New York State News.
This publication has recently
Joined the Democratic Digest,
published monthly by the Wom.
ems Division of the Democratic
National Committee Senator
and Mrs. Key Pittman are dis.
tressed over one of their six police
dogs which is sick. Five veterina.
rianS having said the dog cannot
be cured, Mrs. Pittman is nursing
the dog herself. She says he is
getting better.
The Jackson Day dinners of
happy and prosperous memory
have added, to date, $320,062 to
the Democratic National Commit.
tee till; $4,000 more has been
collected in the States and will be
sent to Washington in a few days
To collect all this money-supply