The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-06

"ith the 1aII party Tour years ago
this summer, is one of the most promi-
! nent personages in the history of the
! Red Cross relief work in the Italian
earthquake districts. Miss Boardman,
who is a Washington girl, viii be pleas
antly remembered by many Honolulu
! society people.
| Miss Joel Scobe who recently arriv-
ed in Honolulu from the mainland is
visiting at the home of Mrs. Gurrey,
Manoa.
! Mrs. Walter F. Frear with over fifty
/ society ladies have consented TO act as
!, patronesses for the two Shakespeare
recitals by Mr.. Marshall Darrach of
! New York. who win recite at the
Davies Memorial Hall, ST. Andrew s
cathedral, on June 81 and June %. A
/ number of receptions are planned fer
| Mrf Darrach when he arrives on the
Siberia.
Miss I. Marguerite Creighton. who
has been attending the University of
California, for the past year, has come
home to spend her vacation with her
mother, Mrs. [. L. Creighton, at 1445
Keeaumoku street.
| The great round table in the private
! dining room of the Alexander Young
| Hotel was occupied Friday evening by
/ the guests of Captain Goodwin, late of
| the Dirigo, who gave a dinner in honor
| of Mrs. L. Tenney Peck. The decora-
tions and the menu were both exquisite.
The guests wer Mr.. and Mrs. L. Tenney
Peck, Capt. Chapman of the Dirigo, 1t
Com. and Mrs. Moses, U.S.N., Paymas-
ter and Mrs. Hornberger, U.S.N., Major
| and Mrs. Wadhams, U.S.A., DR.. and
Mrs. Mackan and Walter G. Smith.
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! Mrs Bickerton and Spencer Bcker-
I ton leave on the Manchuria for San
Francisco They intend spending the
summer in Seattle and Vancouver.
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Mrs. Edwin s. Gee, wife of the clerk
to the army paymaster, is the most
recent acquisition to the ranks of anna
teur entertainers in Honolulu. She re-
Gently arrived from Manila with her
husband Mrs Gee is a graduate of the
Ralston University of Expression of
Washington, DC, and pupil of Leland
| T. Powers. She is a. reader of excep-
tional dramatic ability and comes with
| fattering press notices from Washing
| ton Philadelphia, Baltimore and Manila.
Mrs. Gee is equally at home in tragic
and humorous roles, her rendition of
Enoch Arden with the Strauss musical
accompaniment and Midsummer
Night IS Dream with Mendelssohn IS mu-
| sin hai of rnihif
undertakings, while her repertoire en-
braces numerous monologues and
sketches by Riley, Eugene Field, Kip
ling, Phelps and others. Mr.. and Mrs.
| Gee have also a number of one act
farces and burlesques with which they
usually finish their program. Mr.. Gee
is student of Chopin, possessing ex-
, ceptional technique and playing with
feeling and expression.
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DR.. and Mrs. Hartland Law, who
have been spending some days at
| Haleiwa, will return to town tomorrow
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Miss Juanita Hardaway and First
Lieutenant Philip Wrightson, TWEEN
tieth Infantry, U. S. A, were married
| at st. Andrew Cathedral on Wednes-
| ddy OFChluS, IolouUp IItHI DOHu mes
tarick officiating. It was pretty mil
itary wedding, the best man and the
quartet of ushers being brother officers
of the groom from Fort Shafter The
bridesmaid was Miss Frances Gillett,
and the best man Lieutenant Chiffon,
Twentieth Infantry. The ushers were
Captain Exton, Captain Ship, Lieu
tenant Pardee, and Lieutenant Nc
Cleary, also of the Twentieth. The
bride was given away by DIR. c. B.
Cooper. Following the wedding a re-
ception was held at the McGrew resi-
dence on Lunalilo street, after which
a wedding supper was served. The
bride is niece of DR.. and Mrs. J. S.
McGrew, and has resided here for the
past two years. Lieutenant and Mrs
Wrightson are spending their honey
moon at the General Davis bungalow
on .Tantalus. They will sail for Ma
Mia on the transport Logan about June
-. The groom, after his recent pro-
motion, was assigned to one of the
companies in the two battalions ordered
to Manila on the Logan.
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The Diamond Head Athletic Associa-
ton gave its fourth anniversary dance