The Washington times., 1937-05-28
NOW
England Sends
TWO Visitors
THE MARLEYS
BY HELEN EsSARY

ana Lazy marley, ms WA4S' VIII
have been travelling back and
forth across the continent in an
effort to raise money for refugees
of present European disasters, are
In Washington for a brief visit.
Lord Marley is one of the most
remarkable of English peers. Edu-
Gated in the public schools and
commissioned in the Royal Artil-
lery, he served brilliantly during
the World War and resigned from
the Army in order to fight the
battles Of labor.
He has held almost every public
position Of Importance possible to
an Englishman. He has been
justice of the peace in his own
county, member Of parliament,
under secretary of state for war,
and lord-in-waiting to King
George v.
To better the misfortunes of
the underdog has been Lord Mar
ley's particular passion. He has
written on the oppressed in Rus
sia, Germany and the Far East.
At the present moment he is con-
cerned with the future OF German
Jewish refugees.
A mild hammered, gently spoken
fellow is Lord Marley. He has
q neat, gray mustache and the
thin face and body traditional
with his countrymen.
During his travels in the United
States this English humanitarian
has dipped into many American
customs. In Nebraska he was
made a member of the States
proudeSt society, the Aksarben. 1t
spells Nebraska backward. Texas
ways and means the MarleyS
found fascinating.
Lady Marley is slim and grace
full, has gray hair, a throaty voice
and shares her husbands anxiety
for the happiness of political ex-
lies.
She was in Washington in 1908
when the other Roosevelt, ct. R" "
was welding his kind OF a big
stick.
Martha Gelhorn, the prettiest
and youngest blond literary lady
in
returned to New York to work on
her new book about Spain.
Miss Gelhorn's first book, "The
Trouble I've Seem" was a SenSa-
tional but sympathetic picture of
the difficulties of certain unfor-
unate SouthernerS.
In her forthcoming volume on
Spain she will take no sides in the
present civil war. She is going
to write a picture of the revolu-
tion; what she has "seen, heard
and smelled." She will visit this
troubled country again in August.
Certain Washington gentlemen
are going hatless. The May
breezes, like those Aegean wines"
Of Lord Byron, are blowing
through their dresses uncon-
fined"
Mr.. Robert F. Kelley leaves his
hat at home or behind the door
of his office eastern Europe Of
the State Department. when he
goes places.
Mr.. Noel Trentham, financial
counsellor of the British embassy,
has been forgetting his hat ever
since he came to Washington from
Newfoundland.
Representative James A. Mead,
Of Buffalo, New York, has lost his
hat more than a dozen times since
he started leaving it in odd places
at the Capitol when sudden i'm
pulses to go bareheaded overcame
him. One such disappearance
drove one of Mr.. Mead's friends
to the protection of the Buffalo
gentleman's chapeau.
Watching one member OF the
House after another pick up Rep
reSentative Mead's hat to see if
it were his own, as it lay forgot
ten in the House chamber, the
friend printed this card and
stuck it inside the hatband.
"The hell this is your hat.
1t belongs to me. Jim Mead"
Brig, Gen. and Mrs. Charles Bur-
nett will again be interesting resi-
dents of official Washington. Gen.
eral Burnett left here six months
ago as Colonel Burnett to head a
regiment of infantry at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Georgia. He returned on
Monday with q promotion to brig
adler general and new billet,
chief Of the Bureau Of InSular Al
fairs.
General and Mrs. Burnett lived
In Japan several years when Gen.
eral Burnett was U. S. military at
tache at Toxic. They have many
rare japanese relics. Mrs. Bur-
nett, who is visiting her sister in
New York, will rejoin the general
in Washington shortly. General
Burnett is temporarily at the
Army and Navy Club.
Senator and Mrs. Warren r.
Austin had rhubarb pie for deS-
Sert, the only night they dined at
home in weeks. The rhubarb was
sent from the garden of their Yer
mont home.
Mrs. Austin, by the way, Is an
ardent digger in the soil. She has