The Washington times., 1937-02-03

senator. III # "a
mediately there
after he said to Sz
himself: Senator Green
Nov I shall obey that impulse
thwarted during my job as Gov
ernor-at last-I shall go to the
movies! For four years I've been
constantly on view. I've been to
a thousand banquets. Made miles
of speeches. Almost everywhere
I've gone, motorcycle policemen
have ridden by my side. Every
moment has been State occasion
-. But tonight, Heaven be praised,
I'm a free mani shall go to the
movies" The last sentence was
spoken out loud. His secretary
heard it, and said:
perhaps you would like me to
go with you"
"Oh, no, no. Not at all, but
thank you, thank you" said the
brand new Senator Green-he is
as debonair as a spring morning.
IT shall go quite alone"
Soliloouizing somewhat after
the manner of Mr.. Gielgud in
Hamlet" Senator Green con-
tinued:
First, however, 1 shall get
the sort of a dinner I've been
wanting also for four years"
Thereupon senator Green
he's Harvard and Brown, son
of the Cincinnati and a Phi Beta
Kappa-went to a drug store.
Climbed up on stool and bought
35 cents worth of first-class food.
It was a blissful experience, the
gentleman from Rhode Island
said. In Providence, if he'd sat on
q stool and called for "a cheese
on rye, toasted, please" his con-
stituents would have said "Our
Governors gone quite mad"
After dinner the Sena tor
strolled across the street and
spent two pleasant hours with
Greta Carlo and Robert Taylor In
Camille"
I've a feeling that Senator
Green's burst of freedom is
bareback to Roger Williams. But
such independence can't survive
in Washington.
Already he's been discovered. I
understand he's eating Holsters,
capon and biscuit Tortoni almost
every night now. However, he con-
tinues to like the Y. M. C. A.
better than any club he knows.
The Congressional Record says
he'll be 10 in October, but if you
look in at the Y pool almost any
day you will see this gentleman
from Rhode Island doing his
morning crawl.
Edith Nourse Rogers, seven
times a Republican Congress
woman, is another New Englander
who inspires thought on an honest
to-goodness wintry morning.
Certain dishearte ed Demo
cratic gentlemen who have been
trying since 1925 to take the Fifth
Massachusetts, district away from
Mrs. Rogers, wonder how she con-
tinues to add to her majority at
the polls on voting day.
I heard some of the answers
yesterday. In the summers of off !
years between campaigns, Mrs,
Rogers sends cards to each Of her
constituents in 40 towns. There
were about 81 900 at the last count
ing.
She says something like this:
Il shall be in your town hall
on Wednesday, July 2, from 8
o'clock in the morning until IL
at night. If there is any legisla-
tive matter that is worrying you,
come in and talk things over. We
shall see what we can arrange"
They come and they talk in each
Of the 40 towns. Mrs. Rogers and |
her secretary remain in the halls |
all Is hours of days promised.
Many of the requests Mrs. Rogers
is able to do something about. |
The others she earnestly conSid-
ers.
No wonder she is that rare per.
son, a Republican who held on
during the Roosevelt landslide.
While she is in Washington Mrs.
Rogers lives in the same high cell
inged, big-roomed apartment on
Sixteenth Street to which she
came with her husband, the late
Col. John Jacob Rogers, whose seat
in Congress she now holds.
X
The French Ambassador and |
Madame de Laboulaye, who are re-
turning to France on February Is,
have time to eat exactly II more
luncheons in Washington. Eleven
of these IL will be farewell par
ties. Their dinner program has
about the same intensity.
Mrs. Robert Lincoln O'Brien,
chairman of the Tariff Commits
sion, who is a member of the Pu-
liter drama committee, says that
he has seen 40 HamletS, the first |
when he was about IL years old.
And that Gielgud's is the best of
them IL.
Hampson Gary, General Counsel
Of the Federal Communications