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...revealed that when Ethel Barrymore appeared in Washington in The School for Scandal, Senator Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut invited her and Alice Roosevelt Longworth to luncheon, forgot to appear...
...Marie Sterner, a lady of impeccable taste, was proof that the portraits of the Sisters de Hellebranth are worthy of serious consideration. Among the sitters who have had to choose between their canvases are Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary; Cardinal Seredi; Countess Laszlo (Gladys Vanderbilt) Szechenyi; Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and her daughter Paulina; Senator William Edgar Borah. After just deliberation Mrs. Borah bought Bertha's picture. Mrs. Longworth could not make up her mind, took both...
Political speechmaking is a new avocation for Mrs. Gann. Topeka, Omaha and Chicago have heard her. Women turn out to see "the girl who put Alice Longworth in her place." In substance her addresses wave the U. S. flag, laud President Hoover, belittle the Depression and exude good Republican cheer. She returns to Washington to encourage national headquarters with reports that women everywhere are enthusiastic about a Hoover-Curtis ticket this year...
...Very funny," admitted Mrs. Longworth...
Object of their merriment was Mrs. Longworth's halfbrother, Theodore Roosevelt. Back from a capable administration of Porto Rico, he had been appointed Governor General of the Philippines, was now posing for sound films with brown Sergio Osmena, president pro tem. of the Philippine Senate. With him to his new post was going his daughter Grace, 20, who takes after her mother and who has been studying typing and shorthand to fit herself to be one of her father's secretaries...