The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-12-22
Honors Up to Date Are About
Evenly Divided Between
Jackson Gouraud and
Robert BaqueS.
STAGE FAVORlTES
Ridden AS GUESTS.
Bizarre Dances and Other Nov
elites for Bored Pleasure
Seekers-GuestS Wore Pa
ianaS at One Feast.

Broadway's swagger set this year
has gone back to an old but the sur
est way Of letting OF the steam OF its
holiday enthnsiasm-its mem ers are
running on each others heels to see
who can give the smartest, most ex-
pensive, elaborate and the freakicst
dinner or supper Imaginable.
Scarcely a night has passed for the
past three or four weeks when at one
of tho restaurants or hotels along the
Man Lane there has not been an affair
at which the guests have been princi-
paily actresses from tho musical COM
edy stage and rich men whose days are
spent IN battle for the thousands they
throw away al night. Broadway Is pos
sessed OF q dinner-g5v!ng fever with
daring featur-es One OF the latest Is a
pstAme party, and at another an &C.
t0ess present did a sword dance in co.,
tune with her boot stuck full of table
knives. Tho ambition among the hosts
seems to have been TO see who could
spend the most money on an entertain
rnent
These Take Lead.
So far honors appear TO be even be-
tween Mr.. and Mrs, Jackson Gouraud
and NJ. Robert Baques. Mrs. Gouraud
was the enormously wealthy Amy Crock
err, OF California, and she and her hus-
oand are among the most persistent
af-x4 ,'ryh
town. Their parties at their country
Mace at Larchmont in the summer and
their entertainments in town IN the win
ter have been conspicuous for their
lavish display and novelty of the dishes
as wei! as OF the guests, and when NJ.
Raques, OF London and Paris, gave 2
dinner al tho Knlcker booker three weeks
ago at which thousands Of dollars was
invested in foods. wines. cigars and mu-
sic. the GOurauds determined 10 so him
one better # possible and gave the ca
tersr a Martins free rein.
VI. Raques is Z wealthy bon viveur
who has been In New York on visit.
His generosity quickly made him pop
ular with Broadway's elite and his
supper before lie sailed was intended as
IN honor OF Miss Edith Whitney. a
beautiful young womau-so beautiful
that her likeness is on souvenir postal
cards-whose latest engagements on the
Stage have been with sam Bernard and
Mime. Adelira Genoa
For this dinner the entire drawing
room floor of the Kn!ckerbocker Hotel
was engaged There were innum erab BILE
courses, a dozen brands OF rare vintage
vines. cigarettes especially imported
from Russia and Turkey n great ex-
pense by N Baques. cigars az "A dollar
a throw" and 20 crown It all tho famous
set OF gold plate was used.
Fifth Avenue and Stage.
TIE guest lis. at this dinner touched
Fifth avenue. Frank Gould was there,
and s. We're come OF New York's
wealuhlest and most venturesorle brok-
egs. Charles Sands was among these
after VINO hel2ed raise the social tone.
" 80 Anna Hold and her husband and
n li.u ger, EtOr-na G!eSto!I IT,: NA.eska
Lillian Carleton, Bessie Whitney, Lulu
Ea4luuT William GC aid and BertIa Hol-
lander were some OF the stase folk who
contributed TO tho gayety OF the occa-
sion.
N 50 Suratt did a sword dance to-
ward the shank Of the evening with her
boots stuck fun Of table knives, and
BeFIie H0.lander, a young Engllshman,
did bur,esque Russian dance, wearing
N a. Waitneys seal coat and her muft
tied on for nat. This dinner was 80
luAur!lls an affair that certain courses
had special rooms to ne served IN,
For instance, the tees We're taken in the
green room, the coffee IN Turkish
room ne Liquors in another and 40 on:
The GOurauds were al tnis dinner. and
tnat very night they extended invita-
tons for souper buffet 10 be given
They had the private dining room and
ballroom, and II they had no gold plate
they egua.lod, II not excelIed. NJ.
haques In tie variety and rar-ness or
the dishes provided. Mr.. Reggie de
Noullc, the young Eneiishman VINO
does the naughty wiggly dance IN The
Queen -. the Moulin Rouge" and who
was guest OF honor at this supDer and