The Washington times., 1936-03-17
NOW
SWift Hangs Up
Fine Record
THERE'S EMMA"
By HELEN ESSARY

Mr.. Swift is the new vice chair
man of the American Red Cross
Society, in charge of insular and
foreign operations. This post is
one of the most important in the
organization and was held for
merly by Col. Ernest P. Bicknell,
whose assistant Mr.. Swift was for
eight years. Mr.. Swift has a
fine record in Red Cross work.
During the World War he was
director OF relief in European
countries In the United States
he managed the area east Of the
Mississippi and directed hurricane
and earthquake relief in the
Philippines. Haiti and Panama.
In Paris Mr.. Swift was secre-
tary general of the League Of Red
Cross Societies and increased the
leagues membership to 81 coun-
tries.
Mrs. Swift, small and dark
and very pretty. is quite happy
Just now because in addition 10
returning to her old house IN
Georgetown she has been given
THE perfect present. The friend
who had her cook while she was
abroad for five years has just
said:
"My dear, 1 am so glad to
see you back. I am giving
Emma to you S a home COM
ing present"
Gene Buck, who has been
sitting about Congress lately
while Rudy Vallee and George
Cohan testified at hearings OF
the Patents Committee on the
rights of song writer's, thinks
Washington is always the same
old show.
'The actors change" says
Mr.. Buck, who used to stage
The FOllies and ought to know
about good theater, "but the
script is the same. It's the
same setting year after year.
The plot is the same. The
lines are the same. Sometimes
the actors wear gold braid on
their suits. Sometimes they
put on black faces. B ut the
play never changes.
"The voice of Washington
Is a monotone" says Mr.. Buck
sadly.
People keep telling me stories
about the breaking down OF an
tique chairs and the subsequent
fall of greatness. The latest OF
such yarns comes from California.
The hero of this tumble is Mr..
Herbert Hoover. At the time OF
the disaster, Mr.. Hoover was ar
IDENTIFY discussing unemployment
insurance with a friend from
Washington. When the chair
crumpled and Mr.. Hoover slid
down, he kept on talking without
a seconds pause, so the Washing
ton friend tells me, about unem-
ployment insurance! And when
assisted to his feet. the former
President continued to hold forth
on this delightful theme.
This occurrence is probably an
indication of a SlapStick note in
1886 oratory.
Or is it hint of a non-collap-
sible platform plank? I wouldn't
know.
From London, by way of Pamela
Murray, photographer and writer
of gay stories, comes this descrip-
ton Of Mrs. Victor Mallet who,
with her husband, the counselor at
the British Embassy, has lately
arrived in Washington. Says Miss
Murray:
eff you haven to mention
Mrs. 1allet SuperlativeS are de-
served. She is charming. intelli-
gent and full of humOr. Her
slim, NOrdic looks are well
suited at the moment to court
mourning. Three little children.
the eldest just going to school
in England. Her father, H. A.
Andreae, has raced in the -
class for years with Candida
and has now bought SOpwith's
sEndeavOur L. Her mother is a
most musical woman, so rare in
London. But then, she is half
French and half German. Peggy
MalIet is gay and friendly and
Washington will adore her."
Mrs. Sumner Welles, wife Of the
Assistant Secretary of State, drives
her seven dogs to her country
place, Oxon Hill. every morning,
regardless of rain, snow or SUM-
shine and walks five miles with
them. Mademoiselle Therese de
Laboulaye has the fragile blond
beauty of a canvas by Greuze e.
When Lord Balfour was in Wash
ington last, he visited GunSton
Hall, which George Mason built.
and told Mr.. Lewis Hurt]e, who
so beautifully restored the house
and garden, that he had travelled
everywhere and had seen magnifi-
cent lockwood. but never any as
fine as the great bushes at Guns
ton. :.
In the Theodore Gill's attrac-
tive home the other night, I met
in addition to the Ernest j. Swifts,
whom have told you about today,
the Edward Lyons. with the glow
of years of life in Europe still
1Inon them. She is very smart look |