Evening star., 1936-03-01

poor dinner party indeed that has not
a few coronets and .lordly guests to
grace its board. Col. and Nine. Bal
san, former Consuelo Vanderbilt, have
led the way, and madame as the
years 60 by must suffer bit from
nostalgia, as she of recent years
comes home more frequently than
she did as the Duchess of Marl-
borough. She is said to still have
that wistful loveliness Of expression
that she had as a girl.
The Earl of Carnavon-could he be
the grandson Of the noted Lady Car
navon who wrote those snappy, de-
lightfully risque memoirs of several
decades ago?-has been the lion Of
the season in Florida as the guest Of
the Americana born Mrs. Frederick e.
Guest, formerly Amy Phipps, sharing
honors with Nine Balsan's son, the
Duke of Marlborough.
Ambassador and Mrs. Bingham
Made Valuable Gift to Stratford.
Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, wife
of the United States Ambassador to
Great Britain, crossed the ocean to be
present at a meeting of the Robert E.
Lee Memorial Foundation, held week
or so ago in New York. Mrs. Bing-
ham is chairman of the House Fur
nishing Committee of the foundation,
which is restoring Stratford Hall, at
Stratford, Va, the birthplace OF Gen.
eral Robert e. Lee.
Ambassador and Mrs. Bingham re-
Gently presented to the foundation a
full-length portrait of Queen Caroline,
wife of George II, which is to be hung
in the Great Hall at Stratford. It's
a charming thing to have done, for
it is said that the Queen gave $500
| for the restoration of Stratford Hall,
after it was destroyed by fire early in
| the eighteenth century. The portrait
| of Caroline in her royal robes Of velvet,
brocade and facings of ermine, painted
by Charles Jervas, is regal looking.
Beside her on table is her crown and
through the open window one glimpses
the English landscape. The Irish por-
trait painter, Jervas, was the subject
of Pope's "Epistle to Jervas." Caroline
was a woman of forceful personality
who absolutely guided, by her adroit-
ness, the affairs of state, in which she
took a powerful part during the life
Of George II and until her death in
1887.
| There was some compensation in
not being able to get to Mrs. Edward
A. Harriman's tea early in the other
day when she entertained in honor of
Miss Hilda Scudder, the Boston sculp-
tor, who is the guest of Mrs. William
Barrett Ridgley-formerly the beauti-
full Kate Deering, whose Spanish type
of beauty was made famous by de
Lazlos portrait of her-because going
later one had chance to talk en- tete-
a-tete with Miss Scudder, who was an
animated picture herself in brown
velvet frock with gadgets of green
gold metal cloth-apologies to Patou
for any intrusion.
Miss Scudder talked delightfully."- of
her art-she talked to the visitor just
as if one knew all about it, and spoke
of her work in Paris. She is just up
from Winter Park, Fla, where she did
several portraits in baS-relief of we'll
known men. She did not mention
having made one of the Tennessee
born United States Ambassador at
Large, Mr.. Owen d. Young, who made
the address at the founders day con-
vocation, at Rollins College in Winter
Park, of which DR.. Hamilton Holt is
president.
Ye brave men of Columbia Uni
versity, bare your manly breasts to
the icy breezes of the Hudson and
take it standing, for the petticoats
have come to stay and although you
have an honored tradition of AZ years
back of you in which the Columbia
pony ballet has been made famous,
it's now the fair maids of Barnard
College who are coming in for the
limelight with you.
It's been a long fight and hard
struggle the men of Columbia have
made against sharing their shows
with Barnard and Teachers College,
| and this last stroke has rocked the
campus from one end to the other
and while q Washington Barnardite
said, with an appropriate gesture-veni
vidi vici, she also said the girls did
not want to take part in the mems
show as they were quite famous
enough in their own. Was it the
faculty? Or the need Of chorus legs?