Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-08

Angie Holmes of Pasadena, Margaret
Lee, Harriet Severance, Alice Gwynne
and Sarah Boothe of Los Angeles,
bridesmaids. Clyde Guyer, a brother
OF the bride-to-be, is to act as best
man, and the following young men will
act as ushers: Edward Groenendyke,
Don McGilvray, Volney Craig, Mr..
Andrus and Marshall Wotkyns of
Pasadena, and Barbee Hook and Tom
Rife of Los Angeles. Among Los Ange-
les people who will entertain for Miss
Guyer are Mrs. Dwight Whiting, who
will give luncheon next Monday; Bar
bee Hook, a dinner Tuesday evening;
Miss Gardner, a matinee party, Satur-
day. and Mrs. Mark Sibley Severance
at the Mason on the following Mon
day.
If King Solomon had lived in the
twentieth century he would doubtless
have inserted in the book of proverbs
a verse to the effect that dinner and
theatre be two things that agree not
together; and this being the case, the
conscientious playgoer, who does not
wish to miss any of the piece, is fain
to be content with a meal eaten snatch-.
lily and in haste, the sweets and the,
coffee being thrust remorselessly aside
Jas the clatter of the hansom's wheels
is heard at the door
The inevitable corolary of the made
quate dinner is of course, the after
theater supper--an entertainment that
is held by physicians to be the reverse
of eupeptic, but which, from other
points of view, has. "a good deal to re-
commend it. For the theatre goer
even when affecting bored and blase
air. iseavowedly out for the evening in
search of entertainment, and endeavors
to atone by the gaiety of supper for
the (supposed) dullness of the theatri-
cal show.
The restaurants that make special
ity of supper do all that is in their
power to make the scene as bright and
cheerful as possible. The discreetly
shaded lamps, the flowers on the table,
and the gaily attired band all add thir
quota to the general liveliness of the
scene, which is further enhanced by
the elaborate gowns and shimmering
jewels of the lady guests, who form the
real raison de'etre for the whole affair,
the sombre-hued men simply being.
there to dance attendance upon the fair
women.
And first word on the subject of
food. On the whole this hes improved
a good deal to be desired. The beef
tea, labelled consomme en- tasse, is gem
orally all right, and the ice that con-
oludes the banquet is invariably above
suspicion; but the intervening items
are not always all the Imagination of
the composer of the menu has painted
them.
Only few nights ago, for instance,
at restaurant which firmly believes
itself to be zone of the. best" If not
the best, in London, the sole a la
(something with a very long and en-
tirely meaningless name) was so very
obviously a poison of quite another
description that a certain gilded youth
was heard to murmur. plaintively, 81
wonder how the menu dares to lie so
complacently about It'll"
AT supper one can always be sure of
seeing plenty of variety, and any
woman may always feel confident that,
however gorgeous on the one hand. or
dowdy on the other, her attire may be,
there will always be at least one more
gorgeous and several more desolat-
ingly dowdy than anything she has
ever even imagined in her Widest
dreams.
The many friends of Charles Byram
of Chicago, but who has divided his
time for the past year between here
and his mining property in Nevada.
were grieved to learn by dispatch on
Friday of the tragic death of his sister
Miss Muriel Byram Of Michigan ave-
nue., Chicago.
MI Byram has been visiting his
mother and sister for the past fortnight
and II was their intention to return
with him to the coast to spend the re-
of the winter at Pasadena.
The trio had intended to leave today
for the west. The young helress was