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The Washington times., 1937-12-31

The strains of Lohengrin would
seem to be somewhat dimmed by
the more lusty carol at this time
of year, while holly berries and
mistIetoe supplant the fragrant
orange blossom, for the nonce. Not
for long, however, as January is
a favorite month with brides.
What with two diplomatic we'd
dings in the offing tulle and ivory
satin are bound to take a front
seat. AS yet the handsome
"Chela," daughter of the Chilean
Ambassador, Don Manuel Trucco
has not set the date for her mar
riage to the Second Secretary OF
the Embassy, Don Fernando
Illanes Benitez. However, the
daughter of the Minister from Fl
Salvador and Sonora de Castro
Beeche, Senorita Maria Eugenls
Castro, has set her date.
The marriage will take place or
Tuesday, January 20, at 5 o'clock
with picturesque st. Patrick
church as the setting. The bride
groom-to-be, Senor oscar Rodrl
guez, arrived here from Costa Rlca
on the twenty-third.
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Sculptor Here

Mrs. Elizabeth Stone Hastings,
the sculptor who uses Elizabeth
Stone as her professional name,
and her aunt, Mrs. William G.
Schauffler, of Princeton, N. j.,
are at the Shoreham for several
days. Mrs. Hastings makes her
home in Rome, and is engaged
now in making two statues for
the Azzisi there. She has two
statues in st. Matthew's
Church.
Mrs. Oliver Bowles gave a
luncheon at the Shoreham yes
terday for her house guest, Mrs.
Frank Fitch Grant, of Mime
apolis, MINI. Others from out
of town included Mrs. Arthur
Bevin, of Charlottesville, Va:
Mrs. Clifton Thalen, of Syra-
cuse, N. Y, and Mrs. C. R.
Staufer, of Minneapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry C. Spur,
of Rochester, N. Y, have ar
rived at the Shoreham and will
remain in Washington over
New Year Eve. Their daugh-
ter, Miss Laura Spur, who ar
rived Monday and has been the
house guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Stedman Hills, will return to
Rochester today.
Mrs. Norma M. Brown, who
spent the holidays in New York
with her son. Cadet Elmore G.
Brown, Of the U. S. Military
Academy, is stopping at the
Dodge en- route to her home in
Sacramento, Calf.
x X
Mrs. Albert L. Fletcher, Of
New York City, is stopping at
Wardman Park Hotel.
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Miss Wilson
Will Marry

The Secretary of Labor, Miss
Frances Perkins, has announced
the engagement of her daughter,
Miss Susanna WinSloW Perkins
Wilson, to David Meredith Hare,
of New York and Colorado
Springs.
Mr.. Hare, a son of Mrs. Mere
dith Hare and the late Meredith
Hare, of New York, is graduate
of the Fountain Valley School
and attended Bard College. He
is working in the field of color
photography.
Miss Wilson, whose father Is
Paul Wilson, of New York. is a
graduate of the Brearly School,
New York, and attended Bryn
Mawr College.
Last year Miss Wilson was
here the entire winter, serving as
receptionist at the Phillips Me-
mortal Art Gallery. The past
fall she accepted a position in
connection with the Dance In
ternationale at Radio City. She
has, however, made frequent
trips to Washington this season.
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Return Today

Mr.. ard Mrs. James w. Healy,
who arrived in Washington
Wednesday morning by airplane
from their home in Miami
Beach, Fla, and have been
stopping at the Shoreham. ex-
pect to return to Florida today.
\ x
Capt. and Mrs. j. w. Waf-
ford, of Fort Levenworth. Kans..
have arrived in town accom-
panied by their two children
and while here for a visit are
stopping at Wardman Park
Hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Holmead,
of Philadelphia, are again in
town for a few days and while
here are stopping at Wardman
Park Hotel.
The Misses Eloise and Helen
Greene, of Rock Hill, S. c., are
in Washington for a stay OF
several days, and are stopping
at the Martinique.
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PETER CARTER
White House Scene of Dance for Young Set Xxx Pc
Says

The Stanley Suydams gathered in several
i of their friends yesterday from until 7
and guests early and stayed late Mrs Suydam has
casual gracouness of that makes feel very
much home and Stanley has nice habit of appearing
one s elbow with the very cocktail hghbal wishes
Brilliantly shaded and spicy carnations gay splash of
color on the table and the most delicious food invited
one to lnger right there.
The long living room, which beautifully restfu with pale
green walls and SOFT golden draperies somehow
crowded once in the afternoon with the great number
guests Mrs Sterling Ely intrigued with her stunning
black black crepe sashed up the front
and black hat which turned up both sides and lined
riouS1D uitbo
The Washington times., 1937-12-31

NO. 84-MIss CAROLINE CECIL, daughter of Col
Joseph s. Cecil u s. A. retired, and Mrs Cecil She has
great deal of quiet charm and tremendous amount OF
fascination for everyone She is regay SLIM wears her
dark, wavy hair brushed dramatically back from smooth
wide forehead her dark eyes, which intensely quiet
look from beneath thkY frnged ashes and brows
that delicatey arched her skin has warm and yet
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WIFI
The Sidney Taliaferros, with
Mrs. Taliaferro perched on the
piano bench like a small girl
and busy talking to Jim Wright.
L,othrop Stoddard, who is always
so nice, the Jay Haydens, and
one woman said she (Mrs.
Hayden) was the most stunning
person there; the Russell Arun-
dels, the Prev Savoys, Mrs.
Wayne Wirgman in rich green
and smiling very saucily,
Scoop" Wilkerson, and he was
the first person to describe to us
the intricacieS of the Big Apple,
without ever having stepped a
single measure of it, himself.
The Eugene MeachamS, Capt.
and Mrs. Edward c. Dyer, she
was the former Frances Hill,
and she looked as lovely as
ever in hunters green and
matching tiny hat atop her
blond hair.
"Lassie," a magnificent and
gentle white collie, with one
tiny brown spot on her head,
looked as though she might
have been freshly laundered for
this occasion, and moved quietly
through the. rooms greeting
everyone there. Jim and Anna
May Nichols were there and
very pleased over a two weeks
trip to Florida within the next
few days; Duff Merrick, in the
gayest of humors, was seeing
everyone he knew and had
missed by being in New York the
last several months, and ever so
many more people arriving as
we left a very, very nice party.
THE WALLACE CHISWELLS,
L gave a very large soiree,
Wednesday afternoon, and not
at all incidentally celebrated
the birthday of pretty Mrs.
Arthur De Titta. Mrs. De Titta
had forgotten that Mrs. CHS
we'll never forgets- anything
so when she arrived at the
party she was no end surprised
at the greeting, and the greet
ings were decidedly original. In
stead of the usual corsage bou-
quet being given Mrs. De Titta,
she was presented with a long
and beautiful lei Of scarlet and
white carnations. In fact the
minute she peeked into the CHS
well door, the lei was clasped
around her neck, and there it
stayed throughout the party and
the dinner which followed after
wards.
EDWIN A. HALISEY, JR., son
II of Col. and Mrs. Edward
Halsey, in true traditional man.
ner, was host at aye Old Dart
mouth Straw Ride" during the
recent holidays. Young Halsey,
who is a student at Dartmouth,
gathered all the local boys who
also attend this college together,
insisted that they and their
femme dates wear the Oldest
sport clothes they had, and
asked them all to meet at his
house.
| They did, and found a nice
comfortable truck filled with
straw to take them on their way
and finally to Boulevard Farms,
which had been taken over for
this one evening, just for the
youngsters party. Bill Shelton,
Victor Whitlock, Jack Bowie and
Bill Parkhill we're some of the
boys on this gay party and Nan
Brereton, Marjorie Wellington,
Carol Jordan and Marguerite
Justament were some Of the
pretty girls who thought straw
ride in this modern day was
quite a bit of all right and
plenty Of fun.
X X \
DRIEN MCMAHON, Assistant
ID Attorney General in the De
partment of Justice, and Walter
Gallagher, Executive Assistant
are two people who must have
. been born under a lucky Stal
and who have it shining on
them right now. For both oi
them are, at the moment, ir
Florida, at the Miami-Bi1tmore
and there not for the trip, which
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Najera Host
ToGeologlst:

A group of out-of-town geolo-
gists who came to the Capital
for their convention and, subse-
quently, the I'D Rather Be
Bright" skit, were entertained
yesterday by the Ambassador Of
Mexico and Sonora de Castillo
Najera.
The guests were shown through
the spacious embassy on Six
teenth Street and shown DR..
Najera's collection. The Ambas-
sador is somewhat of a geolo-
gist himself.
Following formal introduc.
tions and tour through the
embassy the guests were served
champagne.
Mrs. Philip M. Stimson, Of
New York City, has arrived in
Washington from her home, and
while here for a visit of several
days she is stopping at Ward
man Park Hotel.
X
Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Snyder, of
Canada, are at the Hotel Raleigh
for a few days while in Wash
ington.
X
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Open
heimer. of New York, are stop
ping at the Raleigh.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31

8, Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Rollow
will entertain at a party in honor
of the engaged couple.
Senorita Rosie will attend as her
sisters maid of honor in the cere-
monY. A bevY of beauteous young
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
PARTY, JANUARY 8

Naturally, there is much merry
making at the Costa Rican lega-
ton these days. Yesterday, tea
was given for Maria'S attendants
(there are nine of them) at which
the all-important question OF
clothes was discussed. On January
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
Out-of-Town Guests

The younger members of the family up until the
sma hours today having between four and five hundred of
their friends join them for dancing in the East Room of the
White House Many of the guests from out of town,
all of them friends of Ethel and Franklin Roosevelt Jr,
and John Roosevelt and his fancee Anne Lindsay Clark.
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beautiful clothes She rides with expert and often as
bracelets that are heavy with bangles and likes ewelry
that original in design she adores pretty cocker spaniel
that her constant companion she sserousy studying
lesson at the Bertz School, and her voice enchanting
with nearly Southern draw mellow deepness and an in
onation that at times reminiscent of English duchess
The Washington times., 1937-12-31

Roosevelt faml1Y, thOse memDeIs OF the
clan who are in town. will gather the White House this
evening and will have quiet celebration of the coming of
the New Year Long distance phone calls will be put through
the absenees John and Anna Boettger Seattle and
Ruth and Elliott Roosevelt in Fort Worth and Happy New
Year will resound the wires
Even though the First Lady does enjoy abundant good
health she welcome time to relax and catch up
family news and her rush trip to Seattle and back took
her away from the Yuede celebration when heaps of things
happening.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
National University
Law School
Winter Term Begins

Winter Term Begins
January 3, 1888, at $3.50 r. NJ.
Standard three-year course lead
ing to degrees of LIB. and I'D.
Graduate courses leading to de-
grees Of LIN, MPL., and SID.
All classes held at hours con-
venient for employed students.
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
President and Mrs. Roosevelt Will
Entertain at Dinner Monday in
Honor Of Vice President
BY Flora Macdonald

In accord with their usual custom, the
Roosevelt family, those members Of the
The Washington times., 1937-12-31
School of Economics
and Government

College courses offered in Political
Science, Government, Economics,
Psychology, History, Fin nee,
Accounting. Business and Lam
guageS.
Address Secretary
National 6613 S18 18th Sc. NV
The Washington times., 1937-12-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Open
heimer. of New York, are stop
ping at the Raleigh.
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SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Carbon County news., 1937-06-25

course, by this time photography
had been developed to such a
state of perfection that it was
possible to record, through the
eye of the ca1Aera, history while
it was happening. That is what
Matthew Brady, the 'first news
cameraman," did from 1861 to
1865. But Brady could not be
everywhere to photograph all the
scenes worth preserving. Forum
ate1y for posterity, the pencil and
brush of Felix Daley admirably
supplemented Brady's camera in
preserving for it a pictorial rec
ord of that great conflict.
Civil War Pictures.
Most famous of all of Darley's
Civil war pictures is his "Sher-
mans March to the Sea-" steel
engravings of which hung on the
walls of so many American
homes Gin the North, of courseD
until changing tastes in pictures
for-the-home relegated them to
the attic. Nearly as famous as
this picture was Darley's "Dahl-
gren's Cavalry Charge at Fred
ericksburg'' which attracted uri-
versal admiration when it was
exhibited at the Paris exhibition
in 1867.
Darley was already well known
abroad by that time, for he had
visited Europe in 1864 and added
largely to his stock of pictures.
Many of these were published in
book form in 1868 under the title
of Sketches Abroad with Pen
and Pencil" His water colcr
''Street Scene in Rome" was one
of the outstanding canvases at
the Centennial exposition in Phil
adelphia in 1876-Which proved,
for once at least, that a prophet
is not without honor in his own
country!
But for all the fame that he
won as a painter, barley re-
manned a great illustrator to the
last. In 1886 he produced a not
able series of drawings to illus
trate Shakespeare's plays. Then
two years later death stayed his
hands. He died in CIaymont, Del,
on March ~, 1888.
painting Of scenes from COM
mon life is of late appearance
in America" observes Frank
Jewett Mather, Jr., in the chapter
devoted to "Genre Painting be-
fore the Civil war" in the "The
American Spirit in Art" (Yale
University Press CHRONICLES of
America'), "The interest which
our forefathers felt in themselves
was not extended to their social
and business relations. Appar-
emily they were too busy doing,
to observe themselves in action.
Even the early illustrators, bar
ring a, few political cartoonists,
avoided genre at a moment when
England and France were leaving
the fullest and ablest records of
their everyday affairs. The glo-
Carbon County news., 1937-06-25

Felix Octavius Carr barley
was his name and three
quarters of a century ago the
signature, 'sDarley," on a
picture was familiar to more
Americans than that of any
other man. But with the
passing years both the artist
and the importance of his
work have been forgotten
and they are known only to
the few who are interested in
more than just the obvious
facts of American history.
Darley was the son of an Eng
1ish actor, named John Darley,
who came to America soon after
the close of the Revolution. The
senior Darley intended to have
his son seek a mercantile career
and at the age of fourteen the
boy was placed in a business
house in Philadelphia. While en-
ployed as a clerk, his talent for
drawing became apparent and
his fellow employees had many
a hearty laugh at the caricatures
which he drew Of them and of
his employer.
Some of these caricatures at
tracted the attention of the editor
of the Saturday Museum who
bought them, paying young Dar-
ley a larger sum for a few
sketches that he had dashed off
at odd moments than he could
earn by a weeks work as a clerk.
Encouraged by his success, the
Carbon County news., 1937-06-25
IchabOd Cranes School.

color and some in black a n d
white, generally employing what
is known as the aquarelle method
in his work. He was one of the
original members of the Arneri-
can Society of Painters in Water
Colors and a member of the Art
lists Fund Society of New York.
In 1852 he became a member of
the National Academy of Design.
A Pictorial Historian.
Of greatest interest to Ameri-
cans of a later generation are his
pictures of historical scenes. In
these he covered the whole sweep
of American history from Co
lonial days down to his own time.
One of his most famous pictures
is that of the wedding procession
as described in Longfellow's
''The Courtship of Miles Stand
ish" which appeared in 1859.
Noteworthy, too, were his paint
ings depicting scenes in the Rev.
olution. They included such pic
lures as ''The First Blow for
Liberty" which shows group of
patriots firing from behind a
stone wall at the British red
coats as they retreat from Lex
ington; ''Washington at the Bat
tie of Monmouth; and his STIR
ring wyoming Valley Mas
sacre," showing an attack b y
Iroquois Indians on settlers in
New York and Pennsylvania dur.
ing those dreadful days, made
memorable by the romances of
Harold Frederic, RobertW. Cham
bers and Walter D. Edmonds.
Better known, perhaps, than
any of these Revolutionary war
pictures are those which Darley
made cornmemorating the hard
ships and heroism of the emil
grants across the great plains
of the West. Although idealized
in some respects, yet it is prob
able that no other artist has come
as near to depicting faithfully
those days Of the covered wag-
on" as did Darley.: One of his
pictures, Immigrants Attacked
by Indians" was among the four
ordered by Prince Napoleon when
Darley's reputation had spread
across the sea and it is often
reproduced in books dealing with
life on the western frontier as
typifying that romantic era in
our history. &:E.@
The next period in history
which engaged Darley's atten-
ton was the Civil war and he
made many pictures descriptive
of its outstanding incidents. OF
Carbon County news., 1937-06-25
l0F INTEREST TO
| TILE HOUSEWIFE

Clearing the Atmospheric
Burn a few drops of vinegar on a
hot shovel for a quick way Of
clearing the smell of stale smoke
out Of a room.
Washing LinOleum. - Oilc1oth
and linoleum will dry with
brighter finish if a lump of sugar
is dissolved in the scrubbing
water.
Washing WOOlens.-Rinse wool
ems in warm water to which a lit
tie olive oil has been added. This
helps to keep them soft.
Removing Spots From TiIe.-
Spots can be removed from the
tile bathroom floor by rubbing
with a cloth noistened with kero-
sene and then polishing with one
moistened with parafffn. -!
Quick MayOnnaiSe.-The yellow
part of an egg is thoroughly beat
en- up with a teaspoon vinegar.
Add some salt and pepper. Pour
oil over it and whip the mixture
thoroughly. Then add two des-
sertspoons Of vinegar and one
tablespoon boiling water.
WNU Service.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-25

again he was the only conceiv-
able American illustrator of the
broad humor and melodrama
of Charles Dickens. Though later
American illustrators have sur
passed him at certain points, he
still remains the most universal
illustrator we have produced.
e.. The slight but telling touch
of antiquarianism is characteris-
tic in Darley in historical illus
tration. His broader humor is
well exemplifed in the vignette
for Whittier's 'tCobbler Keezar'
published in New England Bal
lads in 1870. Such a thing looks
simple and even obvious, b u t
such simplicity rests upon the
most thorough preparation, a S
Darley's innunerable trial-draw-
ings and sketchbook notes attest.
&C. He was eclipsed in his
later years by. the new genera
tion of illustrators, but in a larger
sense he left no successors.
Great as an illustrator and lith-
ographer, Darley had still an
other claim to distinction, in
that he naturally. turned his
Carbon County news., 1937-06-25

Misunderstanding" :" and had fixed
in it's mind real concept OF
Cooper's ''noble red man." Dar-
ley also prepared a set of skeches
for Dickens novels and caught
the spirit of the English writer's
immortal characters quite as
successfully as any English artist
could have done.
While carrying on this work of
book illustration, barley was also
engaged by a number of illustrat-
ed magazines and newspapers
and within a short time the cred
it-line of drawings by F. o. c.
Darley," or simply the name
''Darley" on a picture, was as
familiar to the reading public
of that time as some of the we'll
known trademarks are to read
ers of today. Next he was en-
ployed by the United States gov
ernment to make designs for gov
ernment bonds and national bank
notes and they were also used
on a great variety of commercial
paper. If you will dig into that
old trunk up in the attic some
day and find old promissory
notes, receipts, etc., which are
embel1ished with steel engrav-
ings of Indians, symbolical fig
ures, such as columbia" and
the like, the chances are that
you will be looking at pictures
which were made from. drawings
by Felix Octavius Carr Darley.
In addition to his outline draw
ings, Darley also produced a
number of other works, some in
Carbon County news., 1937-06-25
or HIS TINE"

ington Irving's rip Van Winkle'
and Legend of Sleepy Hollow
and after Judd's Margaret are
among the best things of the
sort that the century produced
anywhere"
&c. Through all this period
TYPOGRAPHY was serving a useful
subartistic purpose. Books on
geology and botany, needing col
or, were usually thus illustrated; !;
so were scientific government re-
ports and the books on the In
dians. But the results, while Of
ten excellent for their purpose,
do not concern the student of art.
For standard sets of American
prose writers, notably Irving and
Cooper, ine-engraved illustration
seemed indispensable. It was,
however, generally limited to a
frontispiece or title vignette.
"Darley can be tragically dra-
matte, as in 'The Death of King
Philip for the Artists Edition
of Irving's Sketch Book n d
Carbon County news., 1937-06-25

youthful artist determined to
make this his life work.
His first commission was to
illustrate a number Of humorous
works for a Philadelphia publish
ing house. Darley was a keen OBJ
server of human life and his apt
ness in sketching humorous situ-
ations and in telling jokes without
words made him popular with
the public who began watching
for his drawings. In this respect
he was the first of a school of
distinctively American pictorial
humorists which was to include
such men as E. w Kemble, A. B.
Frost, Oliver Herford and some
of Our modern cartoonists.
E'Ichabod Crane" Comes to Life.
In 1848 Darley moved to New
York and two years later the
American Art Union invited him
to illustrate Washington, Irving's
humorous writings. He prepared
two sets of designs, one depicting
the scenes in "Trip Van Wrinkle"
and the other F'The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow. In the latter
America saw for the first time
that scarecrow-like school teach
er, "Ichabod Crane" come to
life and America was delighted
with it. Darley'sd sdelineation of 9TH
er characters in Irving's stories
did much to increase interest in
that authors work and although
his illustrations were only out
line drawings they at once took
the popular fancy and estab-
1ished Darley's fame.
In 1856 he made outline
sketches for Hawthorne's novel,
"'The Scarlet Letter. and in the
same year prepared similar il
lustrations for another romance
of New England life, Sylvester
Judd's Margaret" One interest
ing fact about these drawings is
that he undertook them on his
own responsibility, since t h e
publishers had not ordered them,
and therefore they possess more
of the characteristics Of the auth
or's genius than almost any Of his
ether sketches. But even though
she publishers of Hawthorne's
and Judd's books had not Or
dered Dar1ey's drawings, they
were quickly accepted when he
submitted them.
Next barley furnished m orr
than 500 designs for the works
Of j.. Fenirnore Cooper and, as
III the case Of "I "Ichabod Crane"
America saw for the first time
a picture of that romantic hero,
Carbon County news., 1937-06-25

infancy he made for them pictorial record of contepo
rary life and of historical interest which
are almost Photographic in their fidelity to fact
Carbon County news., 1937-06-25

ries of the style (in Anerica) were
not in painting at all but in the
copious and always excellent il
lustration of F.. o. G. Darley.."
A Versatile Genius.
And elsewhere in the same vol
urne are frequent references to
this versatile genius, as for ex-
ample: 49,. =
"For his albums of outlines af-
ter American authors, the famous
illustrator, Felix o. c. barley,
employed lithography very sue
cessfully. His plates after Wash