Evening star., 1936-10-25
About Well-KnOwn Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
Mrs.~Rohde Campaigns From Her Sick Bed.
Royalty Does Not Overawe Exclu-
sive Baltimore Society.

and an authority on that puzzling
subject, when he goes to Buenos Aires
in November, he will be found sitting
above the salt discussing reciprocal
tariff and peace.
Baltimore Thinks, After All,
Honi soft qui NAL y pense.
It is not to be denied that over In
Baltimore in old-fashioned. exclusive
drawing rooms where the shades are
drawn just to the proper position and
the freight causes the old George III
silver services to sparkle and twinkle
on the Chippendale tea tables. there
will be talking over the tea cups about
Wallis Warfieled Simpson. and her So
eial career In London, and her friend
ship with King Edward. Some OF her
charmingly conservative family friends
and relatives over there have known
the old nobility OF England and the
Continent, and they know the quakes
and quavsrs Of court society. but they
all agree that Wallis is pleasure-loving.
gay and unusually companionable, and
II a congenial companion happens to
be the King of England. Emperor OF
India and Defender Of the Faith, its
just too bad for he can't help the
throne being thrust upon him. and he.
too. likes the society OF congenial souls.
There Is Peasant Blood
In Edwards Veins.
Let's look at the record. as Mr.. AL
Smith would say: II and at some
time the King should marry the
charming commoner, Mrs. Simpson,
there would be precedent for the ac-
tion. Then. too, 1t will be remembered
that a strain of the blood of the Ber-
nadottes, the peasant founders Of the
present reigning family Of Sweden,
runs In the veins Of the British royal
family-as well as in many Of the
royal families Of Europe. II there
should be morganatic marriage there
is the case of the lovely Mrs. FitZ-
herbert and George ~, the first gen.
tleman of Europe. 1t Is true he was
| only crown. prince when the marriage
took place and the fascinating, but
staid. Maria was twice q widow. and
not q diyorcee: when George III took
his son over the Goals for his connec-
| ton with Mrs. FitZherbert, 1t Is said
he asked his kingly father about his
alleged marriage to Hannah Light
foot. his friend and companion. After
all. maybe 1t Is only honi soft qui NAL
pense.
Sir D. B. Barton's "Bernadotte
Prince and King" portrays Napoleon's s
marshal in an extremely interesting
| and understanding way. Bernadotte,
who rose from the ranks to be a mar
shall of France and later became
Charles XIV of Sweden and Norway,
was the son Of a country lawyer: he
married Desiree Clary, daughter of a
rich merchant of Marseilles, who was
the sister Of the wife of Joseph Bona
parte. and whose hand had been
sought in marriage by both Napoleon
and Joseph. She became Queen De-
| siberia of Sweden. the country OF her
adoption, preferring the Latin termi-
nation of her name. Her son, Oscar I,
whom she outlived, married a Princess
Josephine Of Leuchtenberg. and she
lived to see her grandson, Charles XIV
on the throne of Norway and Sweden.
The Bernadotte dynasty became
united by close family ties with the
ancient house OF VaSa and with the
royal house of England. Gustavus v
was a great-grandson of Bernadotte.
Col. Melvin C. Hazen
Gives a Party.
That was quite some party Col.
Hazen. president, Board of Commits
sioners of the District, and Mr.. John
| Ihlder, executive officer Of the Alley
Dwelling Authority, gave down in
| Southeast Washington-down by the
vinegar works-last week 1t was
kind Of preview Of what had been ac-
complished by the Alley Dwelling
Authority, and something like 1000
invitations were given out. To those
| who had seen the place before, it
seemed more like a miracle than q
twentieth century wonder. Distin-
guished guests were present, many of
whom had long been interested in
alley clearance and who had studied
the housing proposition in both this
country and Europe. They were fa-
miliar with the technique, the