The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-24
News of Society
Across the Bay

OAKLAND, Aug. 23.-Mrs. Luella
Wager Coplin, who has been abroad
since the early summer. has sailed for
New York, expecting to reach Califor-
MIA early in the coming month. Mrs.
Coplin and several friends have been
spending most of their time in Lon
don, where they have been working
hard under the direction of William
Shakespeare, the we'll known English
critic and teacher. 1t was during his
visit to the coast last winter that
Shakespeare met Mrs. Coplin and en-
couraged her TO go abroad for study.
He was enthusiastic over her voice and
prophesied brilliant career for her
in her art, as well as in the field of
instruction. Mrs. Coplin is an Oakland
woman, her studio in Telegraph ave-
hue being the center of a delightful
musical life.
/ Mrs George Gross and Mrs j. Loran
Pease have sent out cards for a large
tea the afternoon ofeFriday, Septembe
8, in honor of Mrs. W. II. Richardson,
who is visiting her father, Stephen A.
Gage, from her home in Dallas, Tex.
The occasion will also be by way of
celebrating the eighth marriage ami
versary of Mr.. and Mrs. Gross. A large
number of guests have been included
in the invitation. Mrs. Richardson
will also be the motif for bridge
luncheon on Thursday afternoon of this
week, for which Mrs. Henry Rosen-
field has sent out cards.
Tomorrow Miss Beverly Mason will
be a luncheon hostess, including a
number of close friends in her invita-
ton to meet Miss Alice Maurer, the
pretty fiancee of DR.. William Bacon.
Miss Maurer has been one of the most
extensively feted brides elect of the
fall. Her wedding is arranged for the
evening of Wednesday, September 1.
at the Maurer residence in Alameda.
Miss Nason's guests will include be-
sides Miss Maurer, Miss Roberta Has
lett, Miss Alice Teller, Miss Adele
Ehrenberg, Miss Gladys Emmons, Miss
Frances Amann and Miss Gladys
Amann. Miss Mason has recently re-
turned to California after a year in
New Jersey, where she attended one
of the exclusive finishing schools.
Already plans are well under way for
the various assembly clubs of the win
ter season, cards for which will be out
in a few weeks. The first dance of the
Berkeley assembly is being arranged
for the early November. About 300 of
the most exclusive of the bay city folk
will be included in the personnel of the
Mrs. Henry Martinez, Mrs. Clinton Day,
Mrs. Carl Plehn, Mrs. E. J. Ralston,
Mrs. Charles Buffers. Mrs. E. j. Wick
son, Mrs. Sidney Smith, Mrs. S. e.
Woodwork and Mrs. Benjamin Ide
Wheeler.
The Lorel-Cosmos club will give an
elaborate dance the evening of Friday,
September "a. The patronesses-Mrs.
ron, Mrs. Thomas Hogan, Mrs. George
Pardee and Mrs. E. r. Folger-have
carefully arranged. the guest list, in
Guiding in the series of dances for the
winter a large number of the younger
set
The Seminole club has already an
nounced the dates for the five dances
which will be given during the sea-
son, the first taking place the evening
of Friday, October s. The cotillons
will this year be given in Maple hall.
Several hundred cards have been is
sued for the assemblies.
Miss Louise Eastman, the charming
fiancee of Samuel Weston, has chosen
half dozen close friends to attend
her in the bridal party on the occa-
sion of her wedding the evening of
4 uCcudys OcpbciuDci co. MISS f1elen
Weston, a sister of 'the bridegroom.
who with her mother, Mrs. B. F.
Weston, has just returned from two
years abroad. will be the attractive
maid of honor. The sextet of brides
maids will include: Miss Ethel Wick
son, Miss Rowena Elston, Miss Mar
garet Hayne, Miss Mary Downey, Miss
Helen Godfrey and Miss Ina Hughes.
Several hundred friends will be in
cluded in the invitation to witness the
marriage ceremony, which will be SOL
emnized in st. Johns Presbyterian
church.