Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-21

purely dinner club and the only eX Ipense attached to it will be an assess ment for dinner whenever one i given. These dinners are not to be helt
 at stated intervals, but only on the oc
 easion of some distinguished person wis ting London. who will be the gues
 of the evening,
 Great care will be taken not to hay,
 the dinners too frequently In all like ihood there will not be more than three or four year.
 An effort will be made to have eael dinner unique in some way, either ir
 the style of the dinner itself, the man,
 ner of speech making or in the accom-,
 panying entertainment The idea of
 the whole scheme will be distinctive,
 ness and novelty.
 Young, pretty and talented, Miss
 May Kinder, who came from her nat. i've city of Philadelphia about two
 years ago to seek an engagement on
 the London stage, has now found a husband. He is Mr. Henry Jacob De
 laval Astley, a youth of twenty-one, who has close family connections with
 the peerage. Mir. Astiey is son of the late Mir. Bertram F. Franklan- Rus, sell-Astley, of Chequers Court, Bucks, and of Lady Florence Asley, daugh. ter of the third Marquis Conyngham, and now the wife of Major the Hon. Claud Heathcote Drummond Wilough- by, third son of the Earl of Ancaster. Miss Kinder has played at Daly's the ater in "The Merry Widow, and was understudy to Miss Gabrielle Ray. Last winter, by Mir. Edwardes's s permission, Miss Kinder played the part of First Twin in "Peter Pan' at the Duke of York s theater, and in April, before returning to Daly's theater, originated one of the parts in "The Arcadians at the Shaftesbury theater In the pro duetion of 'The Dollar Princess, at Daly's, she was given the part of Dull eie Du Cros, the California girl. Miss Kinder's marriage to Mir. Asley was kept secret for some weeks. and was only known generally few days ago.
 The jubilee of M. August Escoffer, chef of the Carlton, was a matter of international concern. He received messages of congratulations from the principal hotels in Europe and America and expressions of good will have also reached him from South Africa and India.
 At luncheon he was presented by the heads of departments at the Carlton with a handsome travelling writing port folio,
 Fifty years ago, at the age of fifteen, NJ. Eseoffer entered the hotel of his uncle at Nice-his native place-and began to learn the rudiments of the art of which he is now the acknowle edged master. During tht FrancoPrus- sian war he acted as chef to Napoleon III, and was taken prisoner at Metz. He is now the proprietor of an hotel at Ostend, he has a sauce fac tory in RidgemOunt street, and it is said he earns from f4,0OO to s5,OoO a year,
 The Cathedral of Mantau has been the scene of remarkable occurrence. The cathedral was crowded in the ex- pectatiOn that sermon would be given by popular preacher. To the astonish- ment of those present two preachers in place of one presented themselves in the pulpit. Their amazement was increased when one of the men commenced to speak of Spain, King Alfonso and the pope in unmeasured terms in relation to the execution of Senor Ferrer. Subse- luently the second man expressed him self strongly against christianity, and only then did the majority of the con gregation recognize that two Mantuan were occupying the pulpit. Confusion almost amounting to panic ensued, and the archbishop sent for carabinieri who, however, arrived too late to capture the intruders. 1t ap. Deared later that the expected preacher had been unable to leave the house for Inc reason that the doors had been nail l ed up.