Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-23

II II TX. AND AINos GOCA'
NJ and members of their company
LIZ have many friends in Los Ange-
les. and were widely entertained last
week while they We're presentlhs
Shakespeare's Henry WIZ and 'Mer-
chant of Venice" at the Mason
TeRov swaine, a member of the com
many who was the guest of his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. f. L. Swaine, was heatt-
ilv welcomed by boyhood trlends' VINO
kept his leisure filled with dehBitluiy
informal affairs. For their son ana
Mr. and Mrs. James, Mr.. and Mrs.
Swaine entertained with an II o'clock
breakfast of ten covers yesterday morn
ing. and prior to the matinee the party
were received for an informal halt
hour by Lieut.. Gen. Adna h. Chaffee
and Mrs. Chaffee at their home in Mag
nolia avenue
Can't Bertrand Rockwell, a banker
and capitalist of Kansas City, Mo, IS
expected to arrive in Los Angeles to-
morrow for a visit of several days with
Lieut.. Gen. and Mrs. Chaftee. captain
Rockwell, Mrs. Chaffee's brother, is
veteran of the Civil War, and made a
fanous record in the Thrty-frst Iowa
regiment. and among other historic en-
gagements was with Grant at Nicks-
burg.
one of the especially attractive feat
ures promised for the approaching klr-
mess is the flower booth which IS TO pe
located in the foyer of the Auditorium.
Several of the leading florists of Los
Angeles have promised to furnish flow
ers. each being responsible for one
evening, and warning is hereby served
on the men who will attend that they
must come literally supplied with-not
pennies. but big round dollars ana shlh-
ing gold pieces, to purchase of the beNy
of young women who will beseech
them to buy.
Mrs. e. Avery Mccarthy and Mrs.
Walter r. Leeds, who are in charge,
will have the assistance of fifteen
charming young women OF the young
er set.
Young men and women who are to
take part in the Tarrantella dance, one
of the Kirmess groups, are Miss Carlta
Metzger, Miss Hazel Beatus, Miss Rose
Cohn. Miss Freida Goldsmith, Miss
Beatrice Goldbaum, Miss Ruth cox,
Miss Gertrude Epstein, Miss Nellie
Krakaner, Miss Alexander, Messrs Ar
thur Baruch, Arnold Sparks, Ross van
Cleve, Herbert Green, George German,
Gordon Duncan, Ivan Kahn c. f. MIN
er, Serrario Harold Mosher.
Mrs. Jules Kaufman is chaperomnS
the young people, and assisting her are
Mrs Maurice Hellman, Mrs. Alfred
Stearns, Mrs. John Kahn, Mrs. Max
1saacs.
Five hundred invitations have been
issued for the bal poudre to be given
bv the Ladies' auxiliary of the Good
shepherd at Kramer's the evening of
February 1, and those in charge Of ar
rangements say that the ready re-
sponses and rapid sale of tickets in
dicate that this seasons event VIII
equal. if not surpass, the one given
Shrove Sunday of last year. Under
the able management of splendid
CORPS of committees the women are
exerting every effort to make this
charity ball a social triumph.
Hostesses win be Miss Lynch, Mrs.
James c. Hayes, Mrs. p. G. Cotter,
Mrs. Lewis A. Grant Mrs. Dan Muir
ply. Miss Marie Rose Mullen, Mrs c.
L. Whipple, Mrs. Nora Mccartney
Mrs L. N Brunswig, Mrs. Mary
Schalert, Mrs John r. Grant, Mrs.
q. Alexander Bobrick, Mrs. De Laney
and Mrs B. L. Nickrey.
A large number of prominent society
women of Los Angeles are arranging
parties to attend Miss Louise May
Williams recital of southern stories
at Gamut Club theater Saturday
evening.
Miss Williams has absorbed from
her native hills of Georgia much of the
tradition and folk lore she imparts of
the old southern darky, his devotion
to his white folks" his "reminiscences
of his "Old Marse" and "Ole Mistis."
Miss Williams, the daughter of
Confederate veteran, recently appeared
ir recital before a large and brilliant
audience in Washington, d. c. Among
the patrons and patronesses of that
occasion were representatives of the
cabinet, army and navy, senatorial and
diplomatic circles, among whom were
the secretary of war, Judge J. NJ
Dickinson and Mrs. Dickinson, the
secretary of commerce and labor Mr.
Nagel and Mrs. Nagel, the secretary
of the interior. Mr.. Ballinger and Mrs.
Ballinger, Count and Countess Berns-
torff of the German embassy and Am
bassador and Madam Jusserand of the
French embassy, United States SEN
ator and Mrs. A. S. Clay of Georgia
United States Senator and Mrs Robert
L. Taylor of Tennessee, United States
Senator and Mrs. T. f. Poynter of
Kentucky United states Senator and
Mrs. M. j. Foster of Louisiana, United
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