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AMERICAN GOSSIP IN LONDON
Marshal o. Roberts wedding the Most
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LONDON. May 16.--(New York World Ca
blegram-special Telegram)-The wedding
OF Lieutenant Marshal o. Roberts and Miss
Irene Murray has been fixed for June %
and will be IN the Guards chapel.
II is remarkable that the bridegroom, a
former New Yorker. who never has been
naturalized as a British subject should
have been granted commission in the
Scots Guards, but influence can do any
thing with the War Office.
Miss Van wart and Miss Huntingdon
dined with his mother. Mrs. Ralph Vivian,
Thursday night, to meet the bride-elect.
In addition TO a ten-horse Panhard auto
mobile, Lieutenant Roberts has given to
his fiancee a magnificent pearl and dia-
mond tiara
Chicago Smith is due In London May
2 He has taken a large suite of rooms
at Claridge and will bring with him a
party OF Americans, mostly women. He
means to drive them in a coach to the
Derby, give them an insight into English
modes and customs for three weeks, then
take them to Scotland and cross to Dublin
to see the automobile race.
Bourke Cochran also is coming to Lon
don for the Derby. He has been taking
excellent care Of himself n. Rome During
King Edwards visit b a not accept
any of the invitations on him from
members Of the lay & erican colony,
now residents in the City.
The Lawrence IS are now here.
They will have isitors from New
York, coming on : and they will also
make a party : races
Foxhall kee iother sportsman who
xryfII H,fr.o :
transatlanu IS.
The twot sisters, Gladys and Au-
drey, have tals London society by storm
with their beauty and accomplishments.
Mrs. Deacon has come over from Paris and
taken No. John street Mayfair. for the
season. Gladys went to Mrs Adair's great
ball as Pompeian flute player and was
greatly admired. She presented a striking
contrast to her younger sister, Audrey, who
appeared as a Greek flower girl. the draper
les swathed tightly across her body, dis
playing her magnificent figure to perfec-
ton. Everybody wondered who was she
with such Spanish look in her deep-set.
dark eyes that sweep about in the most
searching way. Her complexion is the most
beautiful maginable-creamy white, with
carmine cheeks, full red lips, revealing per-
feet teeth. She is the same height as
Gladys, but not so thin, and is quite as
well informed on all subjects Audrey was
at the same convent as her sister, showed
the same line of knowledge, attended
courses of lectures at the Sorbonne in Paris
on the most obstruse subjects, and in con-
versation can control any question that
arises.
Gladys Deacon, who looks startiin9lv
thin. is very popular here and will go out
little more than her sister. who has not yet
been presented at court
= Mrs. Deacon herself is a most beautiful
woman. looks astonishingly youthful.
dresses exquisitely and has a reserved. dig
nifled manner, mASs like a Parisian ..Haute
dame than the ps = .Y,nodern mother OF two
very modern, daissiiiirS,. ~The servants IN
their little Mayfair house are all French
and were brought over from their Versailles
home.
The girls will be chaperoned princinallv,
by some of their many married friends.
Lady Clifford Of Chudleigh will take GLADYS
everywhere, as she has done for two wears
AT Lady Warwick's big party on Thursday
Miss Deacon was great success. She
showed herself to be a perfect waltzer n
crack bridge player and an expert with
the billiard cue. she was easily the hest
looking girl present and was surrounded
by all the 'smartest'' men, including the
son OF the house, Lord Brooke.