Show A Capital ital Aristocracy r ci Stakes HerL H L In Contest est With With Presidents President's Presidents President's Sister Dolly G Caun r J I b v FOR 25 I Ia a A WAS 1 LW Alice Roosevelt L Longworth upper left has a a worthy opponent in Charlie CharI Curtis who's sh shown wn lower right with his half sister half Mrs Dolly Gann For Jor Cu Curtis has his official position to back ba k his fight for Mrs Ganns Gann's prec precedence ence and Alice Alic has many years of unchallenged social leadership hip As the fiancee of Nichola Nicholas Longworth she's pictured upper upper right when nearly 25 years ago she entered a carriage carnage g in in Cm Gin Chi to drive to the Longworth h home me At the extreme extreme- left below you see her trying t to get gel Baby Paulina aulma to smile for the photographers A Alice Longworth tl Unquestioned Unquestioned ques Social Social- t Leader de Faces So Society War Stoically By RODNEY ROD tD ER ERNEA NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON When Mrs Alice Mice Roos Roosevelt velt Longworth let it be known that she wouldn't attend any iny functions functions' where she would be outranked outranked out out- ranked by Mrs Mrs' Dolly Curtis Ga Gann m. m the he social War val became a struggle le bet between een t two to o o of ot the best p poker ker players players play play- ers ens in the capital The self Alice is playing a lone hand in trying to keep the place cards from being stacked against her The Theother other poker player is Vice Pr President Charlie chanIe Curtis himself His sister half and hostess host host- k knows littler little about ess ess Mrs Mrs- Gann os o's the UtA game and md unaided would be lost in the shum shuffle of official prece prece- dence Both Alice AUco and Charlie have their heir aces in the hole Charlie has bas his ms official position which is supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to outrank that of Alices Alice's husband Speaker Nicholas Longworth Long Long- worth SHE TOPS THEE THE DECK ECK But In her own right Alice Longworth Is Iz the big ace ae of Washington Wash Washington ington society While While the the rest of Washington has dev devoted t d itself al alternately alternately at- at to Item kowtowing towing slavishly to the rules rules and and scrambling for higher position Alice Mice has has' been a a. ahw hw iw unto herself Partly beCaUSe of ot her VIvId personality and partly because of her apparently unshakable unshakable unshakable able position at tho the top of th the heap her presence at any ny party party- has alwais always al al- ways wais made that party Darty a s success The The lat latest st encounter nc unter In In the battie battle battle bat bat- tle tie for social s supremacy result resulted d din in a draw Both Mrs Longworth and Mrs Gann d declined to attend the d dinner given by Mrs Eugene Meyer Mejer ife of ot the retiring member member mem mem- ber her of the farm loan board But Buta a draw drator for or Alice amounts to a a defeat defeat defeat de de- de- de feat for Mrs Gann because the litter letter had Tx-on Tx rn accepted as second second sec see ond mid lady of ot the land by the diplomatic diplomatic dip dip- corps c and this skirmish would seem to to leave her status still an open question Poker sessions such as Alice and Charlie pIa play in are distinctly ex exclusive ex- ex elusive and private so one ono is not notable notable able to say tI that tt either elther has a record record rec rec- ord of ot th the other Nevertheless Nevertheless Nev Nev- Alice Alko is regarded as a a- shark by her friends A New NewYork York Tonic columnist once ance wrote a magazine mag magazine magazino mag mag- azine story In Iii which h he said all aU women women were wel punk poker pl players Y He Ija Je met Mrs Longworth subsequently quer and she he hung raspberries neck Come down downto to to Washington If lf you ou want to l l learn arn how women omen can can play play ilay pok pole poker said Laid in effect e Well VeU take your sh shirt t INVITATION 11 ACCEPTED So when the New Yorker was In n Washington Jie ho t telephoned Ali Alide and a a poker party party was s' s promptly organized to begin late in the evening after th tho s cial tu functions The Che game lal lasted latec te a lon long time Truth compels the admission that the columnist won a substantial sum but but- buthe he went away admitting that he lie had been In in a a. big time gam game ganie There has bc been en- en enmore more gossip about Alice than any other woman lt in n to town Clean gossip of course course but lut Alice has ahva always s 's provided plenty of fuel for it by her unconventional unconventional actions acton her snappy Wise Wisecracks racks cracks an and her c complete ence Every few weeks a new Alice Longworth story spreads all over the capital So Some ot of them then probably originated elsewhere but good stories her here ar are cr credited to to Alice Alice- just as us us used d d' to be tacked onto Mark Twain or Abraham Lin coin coln Her Her- most f famous wisecrack was the he suggestion th that t Mr Coolidge It lad had b een n weaned on a a. pickle tier Her latest Is yep rep reported to be a a. re remark remark remark re- re mark that the color calor opposing her Blue in the social waris war warS war Is is the the- Gann Green Much has been whispered about Alices Alice's supposed gr great at political i in influence in- in fluen fluence Q In Wal ton in-ton b but its ef effect ef- ef feet tec probably h has sj b been exaggerated ne Th The only imp issues in which she has intensely interested herself herselt h have v b been en tile the League eague i of f. f N Nations Uon l land and the he World Cou Court Coutt t which she violently opposed opposed-a as did h her r closest friend Mr lIr Ruth Anna AnnJ She he is a a. great admirer and warm friend Jend of pf f Senator Borah and is al always ale al- ways in the gallery when he speaks I Sh She has played a a. a natural l unofficial unofficial I cial part in politics because so many politicians have hav had great admiration f for r the w woman nian herself hersel and arid her Judgment ent ISha She i is th the only one o of ot Theodore Roosevelt's children who inherited T. T R Rs Ros s 's electric personality and drive She exhilarates all aU those who come como in contact with her hei Like her father she puts a punch into everything she says and does and also ha has the happi happiest st of or dispositions Alice always always' has has' had a flat fiat rule rul against interviews fand and magazine articles She has been beca besieged e for tor both by virtually every large newspaper newspaper and mag magazine in the country Once she broke roke the rule In in effe effect t. t by ac accepting for fot use of of her name and portrait in iii in pi- pi promotion of ot a a. facial cr cream m. m She's She is s said to have U ta fallen n for the suggestion ISUg- ISUg sug eug- estion that the would make a a. at nice nest egg nest for her little daughter Pa Paulina llna I IA A H PICKED HAND SET The Longworth set is regarded as the smartest and and most exclusive STOUP group in the capit capital I. I Alice has al always at- at ways chosen its members to suit herself a and d without regard gard to rules ules of ot pr precedence and position Within With With- in those limits the tho Lon do doa doa doa a great deal of entertaining Her ller reputation f l' l b being in late parallels that of Mayor layor Jimmy Walker Watker Some who mow know her say she has never been on tine time anywhere any any- where But no no in matter ter r how late she may be bo nor how frantic her hostess she never apologizes The way ay she he has marched Into the Great Gann War indicates that with all aU her cr vivacity h her r vi vitality vitality vi vi- and h her her- r. r Mice Alice considers herself an aristocrat of ot aristocrats and ad is even eve i. i quite a a bitof bitof bit of ot a snob Her ller friends friends' dont don't deny that she sho is snobbish and arid arrogant ri gant but t they ey insist that its it's her enthusiasm enthusiasm and brilliant personality which carries her lier through in spite of It All Alice e has always been that way As Princess Alice daughter of pr president esp especially dear taher to ta her father because of ot tho death of or h her r mother In childbirth In 1884 she was was' the pet of f the capital In her late teens sho she gave Washington Washing Washing- ton shock after shock as as as' she sEe dashed about town with the tho Countess Casini Ca- Ca sini niece of ot the R Russian sian dor don In s the ge public spec spectacle ole ta-ole of f Alice and Casini sitting down to enjoy a and a cock cock- tall tail was was' enough to t take ke the town by the ears But ut Alice gt g t away nay with It it-as it as she always has he and and N Nick he ck- ck she e alwa always s. s calls callshim him hini Nick k In speaking g. g of ot him him lim- Were married in 1906 J while th the nation cheered Eighteen ye s slater later In in February came little Paulina Mrs is Longworth was tremendously excited at th the pros prospect prospect prospect pros pros- and admitted it as early as as November The nation again cheered the arrival of Paulina which incidentally was was was' Just ten years aft after r Miss Mis R ine Elkins had presented pres the with a Tare old cradle cradleS u |