The San Francisco call., 1910-03-25
BRIDES ELECT TO
BFRONORfD GUESTS
Two HOstesses VIII Entertain
Informally for Miss K. Hales
and Miss S. Hayden

OAKLAND, March 24.-In honor Of
Miss Ruth Kales and Miss Sevilla
Hayden. two brides elect, Mrs. T. B.
CoghiI and her daughter. Mrs. John
rreanor. win entertain informally on
Tuesday, asking Is friends to meet
their complimented guests. game at
bridge. followed by tea, viii offer the
diversion OF the hour. Miss Hayden
viii marry Clarence Shuey the coming
month in St. Paurs Episcopal church.
The betrothal of Miss Kales and
Thomas Knowles was told early in the
winter. The wedding viii follow this
summer. Mrs. Treanor, who was for
merly Miss Bessie Coghill. viii remain
.n Oakland three weeks longer before
returning to her home in the southern
part Of the state.
One of the luncheons of the early
month viii be that for which Mrs. Ed
son Adams has sent out cards, making
Miss Sevilla Hayden her guest of honor
Mrs Adams will entertain at the resi-
dence Of her mother, Mrs. Moylan c.
Fox. the afternoon of Tuesday, April D.
Miss Marguerite Buffers has COM
pletely recovered from the effects of
the serious operation 10 which she sub
mitted early in the year, and is again
taking her place among her closer
friends. Miss Buffers had expected to
accompany her sister, Mrs. Georgiana
Cook. to the orient, where her marriage
with Colonel Lincoln Karmany will be
solemnized next month, but her con-
valescence prevented. She is expecting
10 go to Manila later. however, to be
the house guest of Colonel karmany
and her sister before they return to
California, probably travelling with
them.
James Dryden Of Seattle. well known
IN the Washington lumber trade, and
Mrs. Dryden were guests at dinner
Wednesday of Mrs. J. F. Whinnery.
2l29 Carlton street. Berkeley. The
Brydens have been touring in southern
California.
Mr.. and Mrs P. r. Stahl of Centralia,
Wash. who have been wintering in
southern California, visited with Mrs.
J. r. Whinnery at Berkeley Tuesday on
their way home.
The wedding of Ralph Merritt and
Miss Earina Morrow will be a notable
event late in May. although it Will be
simple.
Mrs. James @. Allen and Mrs. Fred !
erick Hathaway viii share in the hon
ors of the informal tea over which Mrs. |
Charles 5. Houghton Will preside at
her home in Adams point on the after
noon of Wednesday, March 80. Mrs. !
Allen is leaving next month for a sum-
mer tour abroad. Mrs. Hathaway is
bidding her friends in Oakland farewell,
expecting to establish her home here
after in the north.
visit in Oakland next month, coming as
the house guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Prather. Later in the season
the Prathers viii reopen their charming
summer place in the Yosemite where
this year they will entertain extern |
sively.
AS fitting observation of Good Fri |
day Miss Eleanor .Connell will give an
interpretative talk tomorrow afternoon
on "Parsifal" in Mowbray hall. The
theme viii be illustrated at the piano
by Miss Nellie Hobart Carpenter. While
studying abroad Miss Connell witnessed
the production of the sacred master
piece at the Wagner festival in Bal
reuth and brings to her own interpre-
tation some OF the atmosphere Of the
world famous presentation.
Those who crossed the bay last even |
ing to witness the interpretative rem
dering OF "Lohengrin" by Mrs. Hei sert
Sanford Howard of Berkeley, who was
presented by Nine. Ada Dow Currier in
Kohler & Chase hall, are agreed that
the dramatic presentation OF the mas
terpiece was the finest which has been
given about the bay This gifted
Berkeley woman has devoted herself to
the study of -Lohengrin" for several
months under the well known protege
of the late Joseph Jefferson. and was
enabled to give a remarkable and
unique presentation, assuming herself
in a finished style the various charac-
ters of the drama.
II was an honor to Mrs. Howard to be
the first western woman to be intro
duced by Nine. Currier. who claims s
her protege Julia Marlowe, Maud Adams
and a number Of others. Mrs Howard
was assisted by Walter Manchester,
riolinist, and Frederick Maurer Jr.,
pianist.
-Lohengrin" will be repeated in the
near future in Oakland and in yaca-
Vile on the evening of Thursday April
Z.