Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-28
Society

W hostess Wednesday night at a
LA handsomely appointed dinner
given at her home in Chester place IN
compliment to Prof. William 7. Pink
ham and Mrs. Pinkham of Huntington
Park and Prof Thomas Clarkson True
blood and Mrs Trueblood of Ann
Arbor, who are sailing from San Fran
cisco next week on the Clark tour
around the world.
The occasion was a reunion for three
members of the party, as Mrs Wilson
was formerly a pupil of both Professor
Pinkham and Professor Trueblood at
Ann Arbor where the latter has held
the chair of oratory over twenty years.
Friends asked to meet the special
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Bart
lett, who, with their daughter and son,
are also going with the Clark party;
Mr. and Mrs. C. Q. Stanton and MISS
Louise Nixon Hill. A program of songs
was delightfully."- rendered by Miss Hill
later in the evening.
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Mrs. Dwight Hart has issued invi-
tations for three affairs next week.
The first will be a bridge of five tables
to be given Tuesday at the Rosslyn,
to be followed Thursday by a luncheon
of fourteen covers in Mrs. Hart S
apartments at the same hotel, and this
in turn by a theater party and tea
Saturday. Miss Hazel Runge, Mrs.
Harris sister, will assist. +
The Bachelors will give their annual
ball tonight at the California club.
This event, always one of the most
eagerly anticipated of the winter
exclusive functions, will be attended
by a brilliant assemblage of the rep
resentative society circles of Los An
geles.
The approaching marriage of Miss
Alice Jones', daughter of former Sena-
tor and Mrs. Jones of Santa Monica,
and Frederick MacMonnies, the New
York sculptor has been announced to
take place in Rome soon after Easter,
but friends are prophesying that the
bethothed couple will surprise everyone
by an earlier ceremony There will be
no tarrying for the trousseau, which
is in readiness. Miss Georgiana, who
will attend her sister, had her cos
tunes made here and in New York
previous to sailing.
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Miss Juana Creighton was special
guest at an informal tea given yester-
day afternoon by Mrs. William Eliot
Selbie at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. j. A. Anderson, in Shat
to place. Young women who will at
tend Miss Creighton Tuesday at her
marriage and a few other intimate
friends comprised the company, and a
household linen shower was a feature
of the afternoon.
Those present included Mrs. Pierpont
Davis, Mrs. David Mccartney, Mrs.
Starr Warson, Miss Nora Dickinson,
Miss Helen Dickinson, Miss Nora Ster-
ry, Miss Carmelita Rosecrans, Miss
Rose Lippincott, Miss Irene Lowe and
Miss Alice Smith. Miss Dickinson en-
tertained with a tea for Miss Creigh-
ton Wednesday.
Z Mrs. George J. BirkeTs tea, given at
her home in Figueroa street yesterday
afternoon, was one of the enjoyable
affairs of the week. This was the first
of a series planned by Mrs. Birkel,
and a music program was presented
by Miss Helen Tape, Miss Blanche
Ruby and members of a string trio.
The hostess was assisted in receiving
by Mrs. West Hughes, Mrs. J. Bond
Francisco, Mrs. Reuben Shelter, Mrs.
stone, Mrs. Henry A. Green. Miss Mol
Nixon Hill.
Among the Los Angeles folk who
went out to the dinner dance given
Wednesday evening by Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene s. Ives at their home near
Ramona were Mr.. and Mrs. Willough-
by Rodman, Mr.. and Mrs. E. I. Mar
shall, Mrs. Cameron Erskine Thorn,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin T. Earl, Mr. and
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nest A. Bryant, DR.. and Mrs. Rae
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Clark,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Leeds, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. B. Mcclure, the Misses Echo
Allen, Lois Allen, Katherine Graves,
Katherine Stearns, Kate Van Mugs,
Thilo Milbank, Alice Elliot, Charline
Coulter, Inez Clark, Emma Conroy,
Amy Bugbee, Anna McDermott and
Messrs. Robert Gilmore, Otto Leeds
Arden Day, Jack Sommers, Percy
Wicks, Kay Crawford, James Page,
Chester Moore, Timothy Brown. James
Utley, George Ennis, L. Wright, Philo
Lindley, Irvine Walker and Maynard
McFie.
Mrs. George Trowbridge Hackley of
Sunset place and Miss Jessie McIver
DuRose have issued cards for bridge
party the afternoon of February 2.
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At the home of the bride to be on
West Twenty-fifth street, members of
Palestine chapter, Eastern Star, will
give linen shower Saturday for one
of their members, Miss Gertrude Bal
ley, whose marriage with Edward f.
Eastman, an oil expert of San Fran
cisco, will take place about Easter.
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One of the enioVable social affairs
of the week was a surprise party given
in honor of Miss Matilda Thompson's
eighteenth birthday at her home on.
West Temple street.
The evening was passed in dancing