The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-09-11

Newport has seen many flower fetes
Oh many sorts, but the affairs which Mrs.
James B. Haggin is giving this season
are astonishing even to the languid gaze
oI the 400. At one of her flower fetes
Mrs. Haggin decorated her home, Ar
leigh with 1900 lilies and 1000 American
Beauty roses. Mrs. Haggin has under
contemplation another flower fete which
VIII even Guido this.
The marriage of Miss Irene Sherman
ana Lawrence L. Gillespie is to take
place at the Newport home of the bride S
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Watts Sher-
nan, on September s. Miss Mildred Sher-
man will be her sisters maid of honor,
md the bridal attendants will include
Miss May Hartman, Miss Margaret
steward. Miss Edith Starr Miller, Miss
Helen Reeves and Miss Dorothy and Miss
Ruth King
Mr.. Gillespie's best man will be his
brother, Robert Mem. Gillespie. and the
ushers selected are w. Rhinelander Stew
art. Jr., j. Laurens Van Allen, ]. Stew
art Barney. w. Forbes Morgan, Jr, Har-
: 7. Peters and John W.. Prentiss.
Mr. and Mrs. william K. Vanderbilt
will soon arrive In this country for the
winter. They have been spending a few
weeks at the villa lie Channiere In Dion
Vile, France.
Mrs. William B. Leeds, whose house at
Newport is closed is at Trouville, Nor
mandy, in a cottage. Mrs. Oliver H. P.
Belmont, whose two Newport residences,
Eelcourt and Marble House, are unoc-
cupied, Is with her daughter, the Duchess
or Marlborough, at a little French re-
scrt. They are likely 10 return togeth-
Ell in the autumn. Mrs. Vanderbilt and
Mrs. Henry Payne Whitney will meet at
the country place in Hungary of Coun-
tess Laszlo Szechenyi. Crossways, the
usual Newport home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Stuyvesant FISH is also unoccupied Mr..
and Mrs. Fish are on a flying visit to Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Lehr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills and their
daughters, the Countess of Granard and
Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps will remain
in Newport until September 10. Mrs.
Mills sister, Mrs. w. George Cavendish-
Bentinck of England. is spending the
season with her. Mrs. Maturin Livings-
ton, the mother of Mrs. Mills and Mrs.
Bentwick, has greatly improved in health
since her return from abroad. The Earl
of Granard is expected very soon.
Countess Thamara de Swirsky, who has
been taken up by Newport's smart set
Slav and Russian dances~a bare feet,
If they want to do as she does-has been
a professional dancer only two years,
having adopted that means of livelihood
after finishing her piano course at Mu.
Mich conservatory, where she won the
first gold medal In 1908 of 100 competitors.
Her success as a dancer was instanta-
neous in Europe. The New York pub
lie confirmed 1t last year, when she ap.
peared at the Metronolifan Opera house
and the New theatre as solo dancer in
Gear and Zimmerman" and IN Eysian
Field dances in Gluck's "Orfeop
Her specialties have been Russian and
Slav dances with bare feet. She appeared
in them after the opera season this year
at Nazimova theatre, and since then she
has been in brisk social demand She
has a creation of her own that she calls
''Tangara," which has been greatly ad-
mired. Her style combines the ideas of
Isadora Duncan and the traditions of
the classic ballet. She wears while per-
forming the minimum of dress, but that
only emphasizes her rare grace of move
ment.
Her mother, who accompanies her, is
the widow of the Count de Swirsky of
Russia, and is now the wife of Professor
Podersisky, a noted Russian scientist.
The dancer is only q.
Miss Flora Wilson, daughter of the
Secretary of Agriculture of the United
States government, has been visiting in
Newport. Miss Wilson sang at num-
Der of social affairs, at which the Count
ess de Swirsky did her famous dances
in brief attire.
Paul J. Rainey the society sportsman,
is expected back fro mhis hunting trip
in Labrador in January.