Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-22
TAKING AN ACTIVE PART IN THE
QUEENS JUBILEE FESTIVITIES.
WILL ENTERTAIN LAVISHLY.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsTOR To KEEP
OPEN HOUSE ALL THE WEEK.
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain One of the
Foremost American Entertainers
Duchess of Marlborough
to Receive Few
Guests.

London, June 21.-The Americans will
have all the best of 1t during the jubilee
week. as they will enjoy the hospitality OF
their English friends and reciprocate their
attentions after the tumult is over. Din
ners, receptions, balls and afternoon teas
will follow each other in quick succession,
interspersed here and there, when the
weather permits, with garden parties and
river trips.
William Waldorf Astor has already set
the ball rolling by entertaining the masses
before he receives the aristocracy. He has
published jubilee edition de luxe of the
Pail Mall Gazette, for l penny, against
6 pence and l shilling charged by the
other newspapers. He has done this with
out any hope of possible gain, as there is
no chance of profit accruing from 1t. In
addition, he will receive royalty and any
distinguished foreign visitors in finished
style at his town mansion. Carlton House
Terrace will have its doors open wide all
this week. while three especial functions
will occur during the week following.
Mrs. Mackay, one of London's greatest
American hostesses, will remain secluded.
This is matter of deep regret to many Of
her American and English friends, but she
is preserving her strict mourning.
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, formerly Miss
Endicott will be one of the foremost Amer
lean entertainers. Her house. once the
mansion of the late Sir Julian Goldsmith,
has been brilliantly decorated, and will be
the scene of several elaborate balls, the
first of which is TO occur on the 2Sth. 1t
promises to equal. if not eclipse, that Of
the Duchess of Westminster, which pre-
cedes II, on the 25th.
Mrs. ogden Goelett, whose dinner for the
Prince of Wales at Wilbourne house was
pronounced the social success of the sea-
son, will repeat the affair on still more
gorgeous scale. The long rows of German
kings and Russian princes will fill her spa
cious corridors and listen to prominent op-
cratic artistes free of charge, for carriage
hire even is being provided for them by
the British government, whose generosity
has been excited by the occasion Of the dia-
mond jubilee.
The Duchess of Marlborough will enter
tain very little. 1t is said, however. that
Spencer house will be open to her intimate
friends the week following the jubilee. In
the meantime, 1t is said in some quarters,
that she will not be in town on the great
day itself, but will wait in the country un-
til the first outburst of loyal turmoil has
subsided.
Mrs Eugene Kelly has taken house in
st. James square. 1t Is her first season as
a full-hedged hostess in London society,
and she has signalized 1t by having her
residence adorned by perhaps the most
startling illuminations of any private
dwelling in the city. At night 1t is one
blaze of colored lights, in which the in
itials ~. r." are most prominent. Strange
to say, there is not the slightest vestige
of any American device in the whole set
of decorations. Most of the other Amer
leans sport the stars and stripes consptcu-
ously, sometimes lovingly intertwined
with British emblems, and in other cases
alone, as a national display.
Mr.. Jefferson NJ. Levy, of Monticello, will
entertain a party of Americans at Walls
ingham house. Piccadilly, where they will
have an excellent view of the procession.
1t will be an all-day affair, during which
luncheon, tea and dinner will be served.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gould are at pres
ent al the Savoy hotel. They have not yet
succeeded in getting a suitable house. They
will speedily do so and not be behind in
he spitality.
at Longs hotel. He has one of the high
est priced seats for the parade and will
be a guest at some of the affairs of Mrs.
Goeiett and Mrs. Chamberlain. Beyond
that, he will do little but drive daily in the
park.