The Washington times., 1936-10-15

the Ambassador
and Madame
Saito now are
the Baron and
Baroness Okura NINE. SAITO
of Tokyo. Baron Okura is one OF
the important financiers in Japan.
He is also an ardent golfer. Like
Baroness Okura, he can play SO
holes on stretch without getting
too tired. The Baron and Baron
ess spent yesterday at the Chevy
Chase Club links with the Am
baSSador.
Madame Saito is keenly inter
eSted in the theater. She is hop
ing to persuade two of Japan's
most distinguished actresses to
visit her about Christmas time.
She wants them to study the
American theater.
Women actors are new on the
japanese stage. Until recently
all the feminine roles were played
by men.
Madame Saito, we must not
forget to mention this-iS looking
extremely we'll this autumn. She
has been exercising and dieting
and is now as slim and dainty
as q japanese doll.
All the stories that the attrac-
tive Mary Allen. wife of the Dis
trict Commissioner, George Allen,
tells may be true. We doubt it.
They are too amusing not to have
been spiced by her own magma
ton.
However. true or not, this is
one of Mrs. Aliens minor anec-
dotes.
It's about her husband, whom
she makes the hero of many a
yarn. Commissioner Allen was
about to make a speech on Tues
day. He stood expectantly before
not only a microphone, but
talking machine recorder and
waited to be introduced to the
world-at-large by Young Demo
CTdIlC CIld1II1ld1l.
Said the chairman:
Ladies and gentlemen, have
the pleasure of introducing to
YOU this evening the Honorable
the HOnOrable-the Honor
able -" Then came a hOr
rible pause.
'Well, here he is, anyhow
added the agonized chairman.
He had forgotten the Commits
SiOner'S name.
When Dorothy Garfield Fisher,
critic, educator and novelist, was
asked to make a speech at the Wo-
mems National Press Club lunch
con. she smiled and said she would
talk if she could choose her sub
ject-the pleasure of being a
grandmother for the third time.
Mrs. Gretchen Smith Butler was
called on by Miss Mary Hornaday
the club president. Mrs. Butler,
former newspaperwoman and now
the wife of Rear Admiral Butler
bll1shed. And looked about Is
wears old in slick little black
suit and hat with a perky quill.
She said:
'T'd love to talk, but I've only
one idea at the moment. You
see, I too am about to become a
grandmother"
Such confessions were enough to
send any woman out to borrow
baby merely in the hope of achiev-
ing youth and a mind.
But today at luncheon we heard
a third revelation that made one
realize even more surely how be-
coming descendants may be.
Mrs. John Oliver La GORGE, be-
tween bites of a gorgeous cocoa
nut, whipped cream and angel
food at Mrs. CaldWells wicker
table, was talking about trip to
Mexico, trip to China, the Chi
nese stage, Guadalupe glass and
her recent flight from California
in the same plane with Tallulah
Bankhead and Ricardo Cortez.
Then fitting her speck Of a hat
and veil down a trifle over one eye
she said:
ooh. by the way. did you
know we we're about to have our
fourth grandchiId?"
Almost no quality equals the
pride of a youthful grandmother.
We know an exciting New York
woman who's had two or three
husbands, half dozen beaux, and
written a play and looks like she
could repeat each performance if
she wanted to. She told us once
that being a grandmother was the
most fun she had ever had.
Such talk would make us think
that the strictly modern woman
was in danger of disappearing like
the Dodo if the afternoon mail
had not brought notice of next
weeks activities at the Woman'S
National Democratic Club.
On Monday. Capt. Rhoda Mil
likin, Of the Woman's Bureau OF
Metropolitan Police Department,
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