The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-27
SOCIETY LISTENED
TO omar KHAYAu
in a Persian Garden Was
the Theme.
Dinners Given by Several Notable
Hosts Last Night.
Mrs. ChiId's Tc. the Event of the
Afternoon-Nrs. GOrmRn's
Last At Home"

The first of the series of musicales to
be given under the direction of Mrs Ber-
man. attracted to Rauscher's yesterday
morning the most exclusively fashionable
music lovers that have been brought to-
Gether this season. Women who dominate
and lead the social world of the capital
were there in numbers enough to entirely
fill the ballroom and pink parlor. and in
terspersed among them were men whose
names are famous in the world of litera-
ture, music, and art.
The programme was opened by Mr..
David Bispham. whose song recital of five
numbers was so versatile in character as
to ipclude poems by Shakespeare, Brown
ing. Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Rudyard
Kipling. Each solo elected the apprecia-
tive recognition due so eminent singer
but it was in the grooming pathos of Dun
bars Corn Song" and in Kipling's ballad
of The Hanging of Danny Deever." which
he gave with splendid dramatic effect
that the basso achieved his most pro-
nOunced triumph.
The second part of the programme con-
sisted of a song-cycle, In a Persian Gar
den" the novel and beautiful work which
was performed for the first time in New
York about a year ago. The title is Sc
lected from the Rubaiyat of the Persian
poet and philosopher Omar Khayam, and
was Interpreted yesterday by Miss Florence
Turner. soprano; Miss Marguerite Hall.
contralto; Mr.. Mackenzie Gordon, tenor,
and Mr.. David Bispham. bassO The quar-
tette of voices mingled with exquisite har-
mony and effect and each solo was en-
Enthusiastically applauded. Miss Turner is
gifted with a marvelOusly fresh and pure
young voice. and Miss Hall possesses one
OF the most eXpressively sweet contralto
voices that has ever been heard in con-
cert here. Among the audience We're Mrs.
Hobart, Mrs. Cushman X. Davis, Mrs.
John Davis, Mrs. Richardson Clover, Mrs.
Wetmore. Mrs. Faulkner, Mrs. Audenried,
Mrs Mum. Miss Burleigh, Mrs, George
Lothrop Brady Miss Gale, Miss Kibbey,
Miss Porter, Miss Florence Stevens. Mrs.
Camp, Mrs. Keyser, Mrs. Stanley Mathews.
Mrs. McKenna, Mrs. Allen. Mrs. Shaw. the
Misses Patten, Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale,
Mrs. Hansbrough. Miss Mcmillan, Mrs.
Dean, Miss Mcintyre, Mrs. Ward,
Mrs. Adds. Mrs Ledyard. Mrs. Austin.
Miss Lambert. Mrs. Hazeltine. Mrs. Nc
Kim Mrs Radcliffe, Mrs. Jones, Mrs.
Noyes. Miss Phpps Miss Harlan. and Miss
Davis The patronesses of the series of
musicales are: Mrs. Robert Hobart. Mrs.
Gray, Mrs. Alger, Mrs. Gage, Mrs Board
man. Mrs. Hit. Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge,
Mrs. Glover Mrs. Harriet Lane johnson.
Mrs. Richardson. Mrs. Ffoulke. Mrs. Letter,
Mrs. McLane. Miss Gwynne. Mrs. Loundes.
Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. McLanahan. Mrs. Nc
MILAN, Mrs. Mackay Smith. Mrs. George
Frazer Mrs. Warder Mrs. Stilson Hutch
ms. Mrs. Halliday. Mrs. C. A. Williams,
Mrs Thomas Nelson Page Mrs Wat
mough, Mrs. Slater. Mrs. Westinghouse.
Mrs. Audenreid, Mrs. Nicholas Anderson.
The Vice President and Mrs Hobart are
brilliantly maintaining the distinction they
acquired in the early days of their resi-
dence at the National Capital for the hos
pitality which they so frequently and so
graciously dispense. Last night they en-
tertained large company at dinner, and
tonight they will give another for young
people delightful prelude for thea
tire party, for which Mr. and Mrs. Hobart
have taken boxes. Their guests last night
were the Chinese Minister and Madame
WI, the Attorney General and Mrs. Griggs
Senator and Mrs. Frye, Surgeon General
and Mrs. Sternberg, General and Mrs
Henderson. Mr.. and Mrs. Bartlett of Bal
timore, and Mr.. and Mrs. Boldt OF New
York.
The British Ambassador and Lady
Pauncefote entertained a number Of guests
at dinner last night. The company in
Guided Senator and Mrs. Davis. the Vene-
zuelan Minister and Miss AndFade Lord
Herschell. Sir Wilfrid Laurier. senator
Allison, Senator and Mrs. Mcmillan, Sen
ator Bacon. Miss Patten, Miss TucGsrman
Representative and Mrs Sprague, Mrs
Mulligan. Miss Biddle. Mrs. HObson
Colonel DENLY, Mr. Langley. and Mrs
Neyins, Lady Pauncefote's house guest
The silver dish OF ferns which formed the
centre of the superbly appointed table was
circled by Dresden china iardinieres, in
which were growing cyclamen blooms that
shaded from delicate pink to maienta.
In the massive government candelabra the
lights burned under rose and silver shades.
Mrs. Fairbanks as usual, held one OF the
largest receptions of the afternoon. The
hostess in an artistic at home toilet Of
heliotrope satin. received informally. as
sisted by Mrs Steele. Mrs Belknap. the
Misses Faulkner, Mrs. and Miss Mitchell,
Mrs. Skunk and Miss Davenport, who is
a guest Of the house. Mrs. Fairbar ~ will
entertain at a luncheon today in honor If
Mrs. Daniel Manning, president general
of the Daughters OF the American Revo u
ton.
The Solicitor General and Mrs. Joh1
| X Richards we're among the dinner host:
missioner of Pensions and Mrs. II. c a!
Evans: Major and Mrs. Hiestand, MIR. anC
| Mrs. Thomas W. Cridler Colonel and Mrs
| Haywood Professor and Mrs. Wilson, Mr.
| and Mrs. Perry $. Heath, and Colonel anC
Mrs. Bingham.
| Mrs Farnsworth and Miss Farnsworth
| of Sixteenth Street. will not be at HON,
today, but will receive the following Fri
| days until Lent.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Calyer 1921 P Stree
| northwest. entertained at dinner Tues Ii,
| evening Misses Buckingham. Smith. Cal
lamer. and Fawcett, and Messrs. Moulton
Maupin, Bartlett. and Vail.
Mrs. Lorena Barber Davis. who with he
infant daughter has been spending severa
weeks with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Barber, at Belmont" returned to ne
| home. at Ardsley- on Hudson.
The Cheyalier Trentanovc and Prime
Troubetskoy have cards out for au at hom
and musicale Wednesday, February 8, a
o'clock, at their studio in the Corcorai
Building
Mrs. A. L. Barber will not receive a
Belmont today.
| Official and social Washington WIS bril-
liantly represented at the O'Clock te
| f,tyN