Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-29
lspeclal Correspondence.

VI oNpON, May A.-Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney are due
here in a few days. He is ON
ing especially for the polo sea-
son, rs he means to take part in every
important match of the summer. He
is said to be in great form. The Duke
of Roxburgte and Harry Payne Whit
ney are friendly rivals in the game, but
a good many experts prefer tho Amer
ican's performance. He has one par
| ticular stroke which none of his friends
Seem able TO emulate. Last season the
| queen and Princess Victoria, having
heard much of his play. paid a surprise
visit to birmingham to see ii. His polo
ponies are as good as the Duke on.
RoXburghG's. which are the finest at
any of the clubs.
Harry Payne Whitney is the beau
ideal of the perfect sportsman to the
! Cockney enthusiast. After having seen
him play cricket, at which he is as eN-
pert as at polo, a number of young
clerks from BriXton decided they would
| write and ask him to become president
! OF their little club, the subscription TO
which was about S1.25 a year. On re-
| ceiving the offer of this distinction the
American millionaire promptly wrote
back. SAYING che felt much honored
| and a great pleasure in accepting"
1t is said that. the Payne Whitneys
may take the house which the Duchess
of Marlborough rented for a short time
last season at Roehan,pton for the
sunmer, it being very central for all
the polo clubs. Mrs. Payne Whitney
is one of the American women who
cannot stand the atmosphere OF London
for which reason she never stays III.
town long, flying off to Paris. which
she adores in season or out, on the
slightest provOcation. Nor is she too
partial to her husbands home. HolwicS
Hall, Yorkshire. 1t is called "a shoot
ing box but like other houses which
are dubbed the same. It is palatial. Dur
Ing the shooting Jseasnn last wear the,
enormous amounted luggage which ar
rived at the local station for tho Amer
lean ladies staying at the hallwas tho
talk of the county. Pending removal
10 Holwick Hall. special accommoda-
ton had 10 be engaged outside for it.
tho station capacity being too limited
TO hold it.
SUBLIME OPERA CLoAI<s.
OF all garments tho one which excites
most interest in the breastsof,tle smart
woman, be she young or old, debu-
tantc or natron. plain or beautiful, is
the opera cloak, Gowns are the mer-
est detail as compared with the im-
pOftancc of evening wraps. Whicn are
reritabIe poems. 1t is no cxaggera-
ton to say that at no time in the his
tory Of dress We're such fortunes ex-
PENDED IN cloaks as just now, Thu
merest lvisp of chiffon or rag of satin
gracefully cut and draped. does for d
frock. But your cloak must be sub
lime if you aspire to be really chic.
And certainly sublime was the price
less CONNECTION in which Mrs, Oliver
Belmont was wrapped the other night
when she came 10 Covent Garden with
her daughter, the Duchess of Mari
borough. They entered towards the
end of the first act o2 MADAME
Butterfly" and as, they did so. every
one within seeing distance of them
forgot to listen to the music in their
admiration OF Mrs. Belmont's wrap
an amazing and exquisite thing in
chiffon in the combined mauves and
blues of the sweet pea. II seemed
TO be mounted over something SHIN
mering. subdued glimpses OF which
could be seen as the wearer moved.
At the low cut neck was a diamond
and amethyst clasp from which de-
pended long ends of the combined
jewels after the manner of a piece
of passementerie. Enormous buttons
of these stones We're placed
in at intervals. The garment fell in
the most beautiful and u~nstudled
folds, simple as those of a nun habit.
When at the end of the performance