Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-24

King George Enacts Role of
Domestic "O11ed Feather =

without accompanying the KING TO
town.
In all these very delicate negotiations
King George alone has been able to
play the part of the oiled feather, and
even his diplomacy has been prett;'
severely taxed. If 1t be true, us Is
generally believed in society. that
Queen Alexandra intends to spend a
good deal OF time in town, and to en-
terrain with all appropriate state, his
troubles. with the prospect of two
courts running, MS 1t were side by side.
and with more than a suspicion of riy-
airy between the royal ladies', are b,.
no means over. These rumors tend to
indicate that the american woman,
who aspires to court society over here
may for the future have to walk very
dclicately amid any number of subtle
pitfalls.
s MRS. LEEDS BID.
undauntcd by these or any other con.
siderations, 1t seems that Mrs. William
Is. Leeds means to make Il bid as an
American hostess of prominence under
Lady Paget's auspices during the coro-
nation season. Things were shaping
very well for her during the past sea-
son, when she was getting nearer ana
nearer to King Edwards personal cir
Gle. for she was one of the very few
new Americans in town who received
an invitation to Lady FarQuhars royal
ball on Derby night. Though the bust
ness has been protractod aud dirfIcujt
she has actually secured NE ,Snso ~
Mrs. George KenneI.s house In crosvn
nor strcct INT sho must b,ve ma 70
pay pretty handsomely for It, for, I'M
III tho other day, multi-milionaire
from the Argentincs was said to be
bidding against her. Mrs. Leeds. how
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QUIET ENTERTAINMENT
IN spite or the TACT that elcctioneer-
ing fever Is running very high just
now, there has been n certain amount
OF quiet Anglo American entertaining.
though nothing on big scale. Mrs. j.
j. Astor has been giving some dinner
parties by way or housc-warming In
the new mansion she has taken In
her, ', Quests s" incudcm the d ,r seI of
Marlborough, Mrs. George CORVALLIS
West VINO Is iiill az hcr ne" play
Whlch etnef mas becH or is EoirE 10 DC
proauced IN New YORK; Mrs. John Les
lie, and several English friends Most
of the ladies We're In black, but the
hostess herself looked Very handsome
in rose pink under heavily cmbroid-
cred tunlc. and her tall young son.
VINO Is over on one of his periodical
visits to his mother, helned her to
receive her guests. After dinner there
was small dance of about 70 couples.
he
continuing her succession of luncheon
parties at Sunderland house IN honor
OF Mrs, Tiffany. but ] hear that little
Lord Ivor Churchill's health has nc-
casioncd her n great deal Of anxiety
again. However. before she leaves for
the Riviera. and closes Sunderland
house, it is her intention to give one
big ball to be preceded probably by a
big dinner party, In the meantime she
has also been busy making up Christ
mas parcels for her many protcgces
Tho duke, too. has of late become very