The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15

concerned the marriage of Miss Madge
McCandless and Harry NJ. Hepburn.
The ceremony took place April % at
the home of Mr. and Mrs Roy Cham
berlain in the eastern city. The mar
riage service was read by Rev. William
NJ. Kincaid, formerly of Honolulu, but
now of Charlotte, N c., who made the
trip to New York specially to perform
the ceremony. There were less than
half hundred guests at the pretty
wedding. The bride wore a gown of
white satin fashioned with a court
train. The skirt was paneled with lace
and the bodice was elaborated in the
same rare pattern. The only attend
ant for the bride was her cousin, Miss
Mary O'Brien, and the Office of best
man was filled by Hepburn Chamber
lain, a cousin of the bridegroom
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John A. McCandless of Honolulu,
but has as many friends here as in
her home city. The bridegroom is
lieutenant in the revenue cutter serv-
ice and is attached to the Tacoma. He
is son of former Congressman Hep
burn of Iowa
Mr.. and Mrs Hepburn will pass their
honeymoon in Honolulu and will re-
main there probably until August, but
are contemplating a visit here. 1t is
possible that their future home will be
established here but their plans are
subject to orders from the service and
the future residence is uncertain.
One of the engagements of the week
that was announced yesterday, but
which crept into print before the
formal hour, was that of Miss Gladys
Courtian and John A. Britton Jr. The
bridegroom elect is a son of the presi-
dent of the San Francisco gas and cleo
trio company, and is clever young
| businessman. He has not devoted
much time to society, but has a wide
circle of friends, and his family, of
course is very well known. Miss
Courtian is yet at college and is
member of the senior class at that in
| stitution. She will be a graduate of
| the year and is taking a prominent
part in the cast of ''The Chasers,"
which will be staged as the senior ex-
travaganza this month. The bride elect
| is petite and pretty, with a popularity
at college as well as in social affairs
She comes of a well known family in
! the college town, and is the daughter
/ of Mrs. Helen l.. Courtian and the late
| Eugene Courtian. The romance began
at college about a year ago, when
| Britton was a student at the univer-
sity, and when he left study to spend
! his time more proitably, as he thought
/ in business enterprise, the friendship
was continued. He was frequently
with the pretty college girl, and has
attended the sorority dances and other
parties in Berkeley with Miss Cour-
! tian. The bride elect is a popular
member of the Alpha Omicron Pi soro-
| rity, and Britton belongs to the Chi
! Psi fraternity. The news was to have
been told at a party given yesterday
| by Miss Courtian, who was entertain
| ing ostensibly for Miss Grace Batz, the
fiancee of George Guyles, but the secret
was whispered about several days be-
fore the formal announcement party.
The date of the wedding is uncertain,
/ but it will probably be an event of
next season. Britton is brother of
Mrs. Walter Thompson Kellogg, and is
associated in business with his brother
in law. The young couple have a host
of friends, who are pleased over the
news of the romantic engagement
The newest fad abroad is the white
automobile, according to late report
from London. Americans fiocking to
London at this time of year are sur
| prised to see countless automobile tires
of spotless white in the streets of the
British capital. Generally the hub and
| spokes of the wheel itself are of the
hue of snow before the street cleaning
department gets at them, but some-
| times the only part of the conveyance
| thus colored are the four plump tires
mated in the busy brain of an Ameri-
can society woman well known alike
in New York and London. It's author.
however, did not have the courage to
| whitewash the rims of her own car
until she had seen how much of SEN
sation her idea created in its test by
a musical comedy star, to whom it was
impaired Apparently the only objec-
tions to the whim are the wear and
tear to the eyes of the passersby from
the glare of the dazzlingly white tires
and the cost of constantly repainting
spots where the original coat of white
wash has worn off.
Miss Alice Taylor pretty Alameda
girl who will be married June to
/. Randolph Weinman of this city
holds a conspicuous place in the enter
tainment of the week. The bride elect
is sure to be a feted person, and if she
adds to her inevitable prominence a
grace or personal charm her friends are
more than eager to make the days pre-
ceding her wedding memorable in q
, social way. Again, bride to be is q
temptation to entertain in these early