The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-20

in New York for the season beginning
next November. Now. fashionable folk
well understand what the possession of
a box in the New theater in the me-
tropolis will really mean, says the gos-
sip of the day. In word it gives about
the same prestige. as box in the par
terre at the Metropolitan brings to the
fortunate holder-a social blue ribbon,
as il were. Society in New York has
been much interested since the an
/ nouncement that there was 20 be a
81. 100000 theater. and since the list of
box holders has been published there
have been many heartburnings among
the social elect in Gotham.
The list reveals the fact that there
have been many disappointment among
| those who could not find place among
the elect; not that they were left out
purposely, but because there were not
enough boxes to go around the authentic
inner gossip explains. As they had ex-
pected the 80 founders-all men prom
inent in society, clubdom and finance
places at the Metropolitan opera house.
There are 90 boxes, and Miss Crocker
with her brother and Mrs. Charles B.
Alexander have box % for the season
1t will be worthy of note that James
Hazen Hyde has box % as one of the
founders. This is the choice of all the
boxes and corresponds to the one which
j. P. Morgan has at the Metropolitan
i opera house
All this detail of box % and box %
makes New York seem rather close to
San Francisco. does it not, We who
aspire for the greatest social honors in
two cities?
Mrs B. F. Norris is home again after
her delightful sojourn in the east.
where she attended the wedding of her
son, Charles Norris, and Miss Kath-
leen Thompson. Mrs. Norris chaper-
oned the bride elect on the eastern trip
and was one of the few guests at the
wedding. Mr.. and Mrs. Norris are de-
lightfully situated In New York, where
they will remain for a year or more
before visiting here Mrs Norris
younger sister. Miss Margaret Thomp-
son, who has been travelling for sew
eral weeks with Mrs. ]. Walker Benet.
wife of Colonel Benet, u. S. A., has
| been entertained by friends in Omaha
Pittsburg and New York After a
visit in New York Miss Thompson is
going to Maine, where she Will ioin
her relatives, Admiral and Mrs. Lyon.
who are passing the summer at their
home in New England
| Baron and Baroness Uriu. who were
here not very long since, We're enter
tanned extensively in Washington. The
reception given the distinguished for
eigners by Representative and Mrs.
John w. Weeks will, be of particular
interest to society in the city that they
have just left. At the affair Just mem
toned the visiting dignitary appeared
in the full uniform of his rank. the
fact that he would wear uniform on
that occasion having been announced
we'll in advance Yet, of the one hun
dred or more American officers present.
nearly all We're in ordinary evening
dress, the exceptions, who saved the
occasion, being mostly members of the
class OF 81 of the United States naval
academy, who had already been asso-
ciated for several days with their dis
tlnguished classmate and realized the
obligations of the evening
| although swords and epaulets were
less numerous than expected, and gold
lace and gilt buttons missing from
many gallant forms they might prop
erly have adorned, there were enough
of these appurtenances in evidence to
raise the occasion in appearance, in
fact, far beyond the ordinary evening
reception OF even the most brilliant
season.
The hostess, who returned to town
from her country home in New Eng
land to do the honors. wore one of the
handsomest gowns of the evening" a
cobwebby creation of the highest of
gray crepe or tulle slightly colored
as to appear almost white. This was
made along extremely smart lines with
draped tunic and round deeolletage. all