The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-16

MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1886.
MAGNIFICENT MRS. MACKAY.
A GLOWING PICTURE OF HER LATE
LONDON ENTERTAINMENT.

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palatial residence in London a dinner
party, followed by soiree musi-
Gale, in honor of the Prince of
Wales. The house occupied by oul
fair countrywoman is the town resi-
dence of Lord Sudeley, and is one
OF the best adapted for entertaining
in London. The reception-rooms
are of colossal dimensions. OF
these there four-the library and
dining-room on the ground floor and
the grand drawing-room and ball
room on the floor above. The last
named splendid apartment, which in
size and proportions and decoration
would do honor to Versailles, is
paneled with oil paintings executed
in Italy expressly for this room. A
gallery for musicians extends across
one end and row of large windows
at one side, opening to the floor,
gives access to a spacious balcony.
On Monday night the whole house
seemed transformed into vast con-
servatory. The staircase was lined
with tropical plants, and at every
curve were placed great masses of
white flowers, chiefly lilies and hyd-
rangeas. The upper flight was
transformed into bower of ver-
dure, long and tender branches of
exotic trees being so placed that on
looking up, the eye met vault of
overarching boughs sparkling with
lights. In the drawing-room each
window was filled with groups of
palms and Towering plants. The
mantelpiece was bank of ferns,
studded with rare orchids, and the
fireplace was one vast bouquet of
crimson roses, white hydrangeas and
large white lilies. The ballroom.
transformed for the evening into
miniature theater, was exquisitely
and profusely adorned with flowers.
AT either side of the mantelpiece
was placed a spiral column, some
eight feet high, formed of tearoses,
white hyacinths and pale pink or
chids. The fireplace was filled with
masses of ferns, white lilies and
crimson meadow-sweet. The bal
cony was shut in from the street by
mirrors and draperies and in each
of the recesses thus produced at the
was placed column formed
of great superposed blocks of ice,
surrounded with palms and light
feathery ferns. Behind each of
these columns was ruby-tinted
lamp that shone through the crystal
blocks of ice with soft and roseate
glow. The railing of the music gal
lery disappeared under fringe of
many tinted fuchsias and long sprays
of ivy. The temporary stage was
bordered with white flowers, rising
out of fringe of ferns. Mrs.
received her guests in
toilet of white satin embroidered
with silver thread and seed pearls,
the skirt front being covered with
draperies in mousseline de sole.
The guests at the dinner were the
Prince and Princess di Galatea-
Colonua, the Duke and Duchess of
Manchester, Maria, Marchioness of
Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of
Gosford, the Count and Countess
Tyszkiewicz, Lord and Lady Charles
Beresford, Lady Vaudeville. Lord
and Lady Sturt, Miss Stonor, Sir
Sullivan, Sir Christopher
Sykes, Colonel Clarke, Colonel Bra
bacon and G. de Murrieta. About
one hundred persons were invited
N the evening.
The performers of the occasion
we're the Russian choir singers, some
,wenty in number; M. Coquelin
md Nine. Blanche Pierson, of the
Jomedie Franchise, Mile. Rejane of |
he Vaudeville, and Mr.. Edward |
Oudin, the American baritone. The
whole affair passed off brilliantly,
Mrs. Mackay being a hostess be-
1ond compare. The Princess Co.
onua, who, with her husband, came
rom Paris on visit to her mother
few days before, is in brilliant
health and is looking charmingly,
Ter delicate brunette beauty never
having shown to greater advantage.
She would have been the beauty of
he evening had it not been for her
mother, who is one of the fairest of
'ur many fair female representatives
n European society. Mrs. Mackay
las petite and perfectly proper
Toned figure, her neck and shoulders
icing what the Germans call "sta-
ue-lovely" in mold and whiteness.
Ter features are fine and delicately
nut, her hair dark and silken, with
natural ripple in it's glossy masses
Ter eyes are most lovely, being of
lark transparent blue, too pure in
'olor to look black even under the
hadow of their thick, dark lashes.
Ter hands and feet are of the true
american type, being remarkably
mall and well proportioned. She
5 one of the most accomplished
american ladies in Europe, speak
ng French and Spanish with as
much ease and fluency as she does
english, while, as vocalist, she is
considered by Nine. Marchesi, her