Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
Society

TH1 HE first of the subscription dances
will take place tonight in the as
Il sembly rooms, and the event VIII
be, without doubt, one of the most Drill
liant that has ever taken place in Los
Angeles.
There is promise Of a variety OF
"stunts'' with which to bid farewell TO
the old year and to welcome the new.
Society leaders who will be patron
esses of the evening are Mrs. Michael
D. Conneil, Mrs. 70. I. Earl, Mrs han
cock Banning, Mrs. Walter Newman,
Mrs. Walter Jarvis Barlow, Mrs. Alfred
Solano, Mrs Wesley Clark, Mrs. l. N
Van Nuys. Mrs. Adna II. Chaffee, Mrs
Ernest Bryant, Mrs. William May car
land, Mrs. Guy Cochran and Mrs MILO
M. Potter. Mrs. Hugh Livingston Mac
Neil, who was to have been among the
hostesses, is in the east.
About 275 guests are expected.
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Mrs. Lewis Clark Carlisle has Issued
cards for a reception with which she
will entertain at the Ebell CLUB mouse
the afternoon of January 10, the func-
tion event, which will be one of the
largest of the season, being a cornph-
ment to group OF deputants' MISS
Edith Witherell, Miss Agnes Hole, MISS
Helen Thresher and Miss Ada Seeley.
Between 400 and 500 invitations have
been issued.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlisle. who have re-
&. sided in Kingsley drive since dispos-
ing of their South Alvarado street res
idence last summer, are building at 614
Ardmore, where they will be at home
soon after February 1.
A wedding of interest to many
friends was celebrated yesterday after
noon when Miss Eleanor Hammack,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ID. M. Ham
mack of East Avenue So, became the
bride of Robert Caldwell Northcross,
Rev. w. b. Gantz of the Highland
Park Presbyterian church officiating.
The wedding music. which included
selections from Mcdowell, was played
by Miss Helen Spencer OF Hollywood.
The bride was gowned in imported
white silk crepe, hand-embroidered and
trimmed with lace. A cross of tur-
auoise and pearls, an heirloom in the
<dmily, was her only ornament, ana
she carried a shower bouquet OF lilies
of the valley.
Miss Katherine Nevius, cousin to
Miss Hamnack, was maid of honor,
/. and bridesmaids were Miss Mary
Nevius and Miss Courtney Johnstone,
All being gowned in pale pink silk and
Il CARRYING pink roses. Marshall North
cross stood with the bridegroom, and
/. Messrs. Dan Hammack and John
Northcross served as grocmsmen.
A group of small boys and girls who
held the white ribbons, whlch torineu
( an aisle to the altar. were Julia Park
en-. Rebecca Joplin, Marguerite Angus,
1cleanor Gantz, Edwin Hammack.
BOYD Joplin, Marshall Parker and AL
pert Angus.
MI. and Mrs. Northcross VIII make
their home In Orange, where MT
Northcross owns large walnut ranch:
Mrs. Northcross is graduate OF
Eerkeley and a member of the Delta
my Delta sorority OF that college.
II. Northcross after attending Berke-
~ for two years went TO the Philip
Zines. where he served in the Spanish
american war for three years.
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Mrs. c. l.. Higbee OF West Nlnth
street was hostess last evening at
dinner where covers were laid for Mr..
and Mrs w. o. Morton, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Guthrie, Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
q. Keeler, DR.. r. N. Thomson OF Dal-
las. Tex. and Mr.. Higbee.
Mrs. IIiRbee will entertain at dinner
fonfbhf after which the party VIII ad-
tourn to the residence of DIR. and MRS.
Ralph Hagan on Lake street, wnere
they will celebrate the advent OF the
New Year.
Beside Mr.. and Mrs. Higbee covers
will be laid for Mr.. and Mrs. E. J:
Brent, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Boswell
ana. Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Hagan.
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Invitations have been issued by Mrs.
walter d. Gibbs of Thirty-seVentn
drive for a luncheon and whist, with
which she will entertain Thursday IN
compliment to her mother, Mrs. CEN
evieve Walsworth, who is her guest for
several months from her home in Sc
attic.
stanford Alumnae club entertained
with dance last evening In Kramers
han for over 400 Stanford and Berke-
ley students now In Los Angeles.
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Many theater parties are being ar
ranged for this evening and at the
Orpheum the boxes and practically the
body of the house were sold weeks
ago.
Among those who are entertaining
friends in the boxes are Senator Rob
ert N. Bulla, Gen. M. II. Sherman, Sol
Davis, Bert Stafford, Sam Behrendt and
T. II Thompson.
There are from a dozen to twenty
five in many of the parties and tables
have been reserved at downtown cafes
where supper will be served later.
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Mrs. John c. Render of West Thirty
third street entertained the Thursday
Whist club yesterday with a luncheon,
covers being laid for seventeen.