Evening star., 1936-07-19
About Well-KnOwn Folk
In Books, Art, Politics
,The Donkey and the Elephant Trekked East
and West-Post Office Department
Is Empty These Days.


Press Club Building. Where once
there was a beehive Of activity, whose
rooms echoed to the tread OF once
seekers and politicians, there are now
only . few pretty stenogs and young
men gathering up the odds and ends
of files and campaign paraphernaIa.
Mr.. Charles Michelson's suite Is more
or less intact for he commutes back
and forth to the Bi1tmore hosiery IN
Manhattan. Miss Mary w. DeWsons
vice chairman Of the Democratic Ma
tional Campaign Committee, IN
charge of the women's division, ana
Mrs. James H. Wolfe, director OF the
women's division, have also shut up
shop and departed for the metropoiis.
Mrs. Wolfe is the wife Of one OF Utahs
distinguished lawyers, her husnano
being Justice Wolfe Of the supreme
Court of that State.
Miss Dewson Is q Tennis Champion'
This Summer Miss DeWson expecS
to call home wherever she nangS up
her hat-most likely In the West'
where Mrs. Hoyal of the Repuplican
committee will hang hers. Miss Dew
son will probably stop in now ana
then at her 58-acre place down IN
Maine where she raises Shetland
sheen dogs. She Is a sportsman OF
the first water and twirls mean
racouet-in fact, Is a tennis cnam-
pion up in her State, or rather STATES.
for she claims both Massachusetts ana
Maine. and boasts that having
reached middle life and a year OF
two over, it's great fun to beat oepu-
tantes and young men at tennis.
Mrs. Kelley a Sculptor and Politician.
Mrs. william Fitch Kelley, presi-
dent of the District League OF He-
publican Women. is working on
statuette of her little granddaugnter
which she hopes to complete by Fall
unless campaigning takes too mucn
of her time. She Is an amateur Sculp-
tor who studied in Paris under the
famous Bourdelle, and who, while
her husband was consul general 10
italy, spent much time in the gai-
leries Of Rome and Florence, running
over to Greece to study the ancient
art there.
Her studio out in Bethesda. Is tWo-
century old church whose auoltoflum
she has converted into the tr1ckiest
workshop where she keeps her beloved
tools. and woe be unto the person VINO
NEEDLES there even in trying to dust
the place. If one is awfully fortunate
he ia invited to take cup OF tea IN
the studio, and Mrs. Kelley has been
known to hold political meetings tnere.
She is petite and exquisitely dainty
and when she rises to address po-
litical gathering one wonders tnat SO
much elegant feminity can pour fortn
such scathing epithets at her oponents.
She is always pretty fair. Her voice
and manner is more the drawing room
style. but she makes a good chair
man. Just now she Is heart and soul
with Gov. Landon, and goes out to
Chicago the week of the 30th to near
her old friend, Col. Knox, make ms
acceptance speech. From there she
will 20 to Geneva-nearby, to see her
new grandson, Alexander Graham
kelley. who was named by his father,
Mrs. Kelley's only son, after an oid
Scotch ancestor of whom the family
are very proud.
! The Chinese Ambassador, Mr.. Sao-
. ke Alfred SEE, could not be asked
/ about it as he is away from town, put
/ there is still much speculation as 10
whether the great exhibition OF Cnl-
nese art, which was lent last year 10
London by the Chinese government TO
the British Royal Academy, and shown
at Burlington House. would be brought
| tn New York. OF course, II brought
to this country it would doubtless be
exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. This exhibit of the various
arts and crafts of China covering
period of 5000 years. includes arcni-
lecture, works In bronze. In jade. IN
clay, in porcelain, various metals, IN
textiles and silk as well as IN call
graphy and painting.
sneculation is rife as to whether
President Roosevelt took advantage OF
the old Danish custom ana Kissed tiie
bride. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde-
IN the forehead-when the wedding
party arrived at the Val Xii cottage at
HYDE Park, where Mr.. and Mrs. Roose-
welt gave them an informal reception,
Capt. Boerge Rohde is reported to have
expressed himself as astonished that
30 much simplicity could surround the
head of a great Nation. and he thinks