The San Francisco call., 1910-03-27


not crowded with brilliant af-
fairs as in past seasons, but the
usual group of weddings and
elaborate post Lenten entertain
rlents form an attractive array par
ticuIarly for the younger set. The
wedding Of Miss Maud Bourn and
Arthur Rose Vincent viii be an event
OF the week that viii take large
crowd of guests to the Burlingame
home of the BouIns. There viii be
several smaller affairs in the way Of
1uncheons and teas that show re-
Vival Of the spirit of an earlier sea-
son. but none of the large receptions
that ordinarily precede the departure
of society folk from town have yet
been announced. The social clique or
at least a great number of the people
who keep the round Of entertainment
going al Burlingame have been at
Coronado during the week and have
had delightful time at the pole
games. They will ali return practi-
cally during the next few days and
will prepare for the annual flight from
. the city Those who remained in town
during the last month have been re-
hearsing strenuousIy for the tableaux
Vivants to be given early in April at
the St Francis. The box parties are
to be an important part of the occa-
sion, and there will be the usual round
of dinner parties with the hostesses
. entertaining in costume to vary the
usual order of affairs.
- The rehearsals for the tableaux
vivants that viii be given April and
in the colonial ballroom at the st.
Francis have absorbed the attention of
Society almost to the exclusion of other
interests. The selections for the vari-
GUS portraits was a matter that con-
cerned the committee for many days
ana some of the types were exceedingly
dif7cult to discover. It took a discrim-
mating eye and no little knowledge of
things artistic to find the types and
then the question of tact and diplo-
macy came into play. There were fa-
Fored poses, to be sure, and the favored
poses were not always the character
istic ones, so that the subjects had to
be led gently toward the view of the
picture that would best exhibit a dis
tinctive charm. Every one seems
agreed that the couch picture of Nine
Reca mier could not have had a better
exponent than graceful Miss Helene
Irwin with her classic lines, and the
selection of Miss Mary Keeney for the
ticularly appropriate. The dark beauty
Of Miss Keeney and her manner of in
genuous wonderment will make a pic
fure worth remembering when she has
studied the background and the pose
that completes the composition. The
fact that Miss Helen Jones is to pose
as Miss Simplicity" has caused varied
comment but most of the girls are
agreed that her blonde type of beauty
is specially adapted to the Greuze por-
trait The choice of Mrs. Henry T.
scott as Marie Antoinette has met with
universal approval, and Mrs. w. K.
Vanderbilt is expected to be a ravish-
Ing "Carmencita." Mrs. Walter Martin
and her charming little daughter Mary
are to pose in the picture of Nine le
Brun and her daughter That was
happy selection also, but there are
many more and all of them extremely
effective.
II seems carly. perhaps. to discuss
the debutante of next season, but her
friends are looking forward with
pleased expectation to her initial bow
that event that means so much to the
bud just stepping into the frivolties
Of her first season. and the subject is
one Of never falling interest. The