The San Francisco call., 1909-08-17
The Smart Set
HE dance this evening at t


street occupies the place of honor
on the social calendar with the at
tendant festivity in the way of din
ners and supper parties which are
always a charming accessory to these
evenings at the attractive clubhouse.
The dancing party this evening is a
special compliment to the officers of
the Thirtieth infantry. with their
wives, daughters and friends, while a
large contingent of society folk will
be present to extend greeting to the
guests. The Army and Navy club has
a reputation for hospitality that is
difficult to parallel in social annals.
and this evenings function will not
be an exception to the rule.
Mrs. John McMullin and her grand
daughter, Miss Eliza McMullin. are on
their way to Seattle, where they will
and other attractions of the season in
the northern cities. Mrs McMullin
and her granddaughter will be extern
sively entertained during their trip, as
they haye been feted wherever they
have gone this summer and have had
delightful season out of town.
Mrs. ]. r. Pourie. wife of Captain
Pourie, q. S. A, is enjoying an outing
at Santa Cruz, where she has been
| entertained durinu tho lost fory do We
and has been the complimented guest
at a succession of luncheons and din
ner parties. Mrs. Pourie will remain
several days longer at Santa Cruz be-
fore going to Del Monte and other
places in the southern part of the
state, but her friends in town are try
ing to persuade her to return here for
brief visit before sailing early in
September for Honolulu, where Captain
Pourie is stationed.
The engagement of Miss Alice Boggs
and Charles Dutton is of particular in
terest to the musical coterie about the
bay. and while the formal announce
ment has not been made, the young
couple are receiving the fluctuations
of their friends upon the interesting
secret. Miss Boggs is talented harp
ist and Dutton is a pianist who has
many friends in Berkeley, where he
resides. Miss Boggs is charming
girl and will be at the Fairmont this
winter with her mother. Mrs. John
Boggs.
Mrs Horace Crocker is at Glen Al
pine. and will remain there for an in
definite stay, or at least until much
later in the season, when she will re-
turn to town for the winter.
Miss Nellie Ord has returned to town
after delightful stay at the Pre-
sidio of Monterey. where she was en-
tertained almost constantly, as she is
very popular in the army set and has
a charming personality that wins new
friends wherever she is a guest. She
is a daughter of Captain Ord, U. S. A.
The group of girls who are summer
ing at Santa Barbara were guests at
Hotel Potter, and several of them at
tended the dinner party given for Miss
Harriet Alexander preceding the dance.
Miss Nina Jones was hostess at the
dinner, and among those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. William Miss Margaretta Park
May Garland Miss Harriet Alexander
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Miss Louise Clark
j. Connel Miss Margaret Stow
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Miss Elizabeth Newhall
Salano Miss Marian Newhal
Mr.. and Mrs. e.. A. Miss Martha Calhoun
Gilbert Miss Lolita Burling
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Fred Phelps
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell John CLARK
Taylor Arthur Woolworth
Mr.. and Mrs ]. W. Robert Gilmore
Barnard William Frew
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Harry Gregory
Hicks William WolterS
Mrs Carol Brown Edward Gilbert
Mrs. c. o. Alexander Melville Bowman
Miss Elizabeth Walters Robert Wagner
Miss Dolly McGavin lEldridge Green
Mrs. Washington Aver and her
daughter have taken an apartment at
the oxford in Berkeley, and will be on
that side of the bay during the greater
part of the season, but will be frequent
visitors in this city, and will be enter
tanned great deal by their friends in
town.
Mrs. Arthur Judd Ryan, who is visit
ing here from New York, has been the
incentive for several of Cthe informal
affairs of recent date in town and at
San Mateo, where she is passing much
of her time at the Bromfield home.
Among the notable affairs for Mrs
Ryan was dinner party given by Mrs.
Thomas Churchill at her home sin De-
visadero street, and those who met the
guest of honor on this occasion were
Miss Marie Churchill Miss Grace Brom-
field, Hooper Churchill, Martyr Haencke
and Jack Bromfeld
Mrs Samuel Ever Simmons left last
evening for an extended visit in the
east, going directly to Washington, D.
c., where she Will be the guest of her
sister, Mrs. Bradford Marshal where
she will pass several weeks. Mrs. SIM
mons has been enjoying a brief stay in
this city before her departure for the
east, and large number of friends at
tended her to the depot yesterday to
say farewell, among them being Mrs.
G. L. Simmons. who is visitor here
from Sacramento, and will remain for
several days longer with friends about
the bay before returning to her home.
The reception this afternoon at the
San Anselmo orphanage in compliment
to DIR. and Mrs. Robert Mackenzie will
attract crowd of friends who are
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