Evening star., 1948-05-02
Exclusively Yours,
President Appoints New Skipper;
Various Notes on the Titled Trade

The presidential yacht is getting
a new skipper. Beginning in June,
Comdr. Donald Macdonald will take
over the luxurious Williamsburg
which is one Of the pleasanter jobs
the Navy has to offer. Don's wife,
the former Cecilia Vom Rath, one
of the twins famous for their humor
and beauty. is delighted, of course.
1t means that her husband will be
around most of the time and that
they can continue to live in WASH
ington.
The President. who selected the
commanders name out of several
submitted, was heard to say that he
would much rather have Don,s
record in the last war than be
President. :. Wonder why any one,
as a matter of fact, would want to
guide the ship of state-the pas
Sengers are so critical.
X X X
About to set sail for Europe any
day now are Prince and Princess
Christian of Hesse and their daugh-
ter, Princess Olga of Hesse. They
are going to Paris, to their villa
at Cannes for the season and then
to their home in Switzerland, but
they'll be back here next year. The
Princess of Hesse, the former Eliz-
abeth Reid Rogers, returns to her
home as an American citizen, says
she wants to spend half of every
year from now on in the United
States.
Remaining in this country are the
two sons, Princes Waldemar and
Rupert, who for the past year have
been working for Will Claytons cot
ton firm in Dallas. It would be
interesting to see what change the
wild, wide open spaces has wrought
upon the quiet, correct, and formal
young Princes. They'll be on hand
for the exhibit this week in Dallas
Of portraits of their mother and
sister by Alfred Jonniaux. The
Princess Of Hesse was painted in
a silver lame gown. pearl coronet
her bright personality shining in
her face. A shimmering gown also
clothes Olga, a dark-haired enig-
matte beauty, who is a talented
sculptress.
AS result of her brilliant per-
formance with her marionettes in
the Junior League Follies, Ootie
Woolley will appear at the Capitol
Theater the first week in July
Ellen and George Arnold left We'd
nesday for New York, where they
will visit the formers mother, Prin-
cess Felicia Gizycka, and the West
Coast, where they are going to make
their home. They went month
later than Thurman Arnold. ir,
and his wife Jane, who are already
settled in San Francisco. George
and Ellen left their 7-month-old
son, Andrew Pearson, temporarily
with his grandmother, which is the
reason why she's grinning from es1
to ear.
4 x x X
In town this past week on bust
ness and incidentally promoting a
marvellous idea for making ERP aio
to Italian farmers really effective
was Count Paolo Mancini. The
Italian nobleman, who speaks and
loves everything American, thinks
that all Italians, including the
would-oe Communists. would feel
the same way and vice versa if
the two peoples knew each other
better. Looking at the 6-foot-4
handsome young Tuscan, one
couldn't help agreeing.
Count Mancini wants to see agri-
cultural centers established in Italy
where American specialists will live,
learn the problems of the land and
apply modern American equipment
and methods to its cultivation.
Italian farmers would learn from
this experimentation and SO would
the Americans; friendships would
blossom and so would prosperity,
and communism would go down the
drain, not ERP money.
Something must be done right
away, says the Italian landowner
who exports Chianti wine to this