The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-24
BRILLIANT TIMES
COMING IN LONDON
American Colony Will Be in
Very Thickest Of Social
Crush.
COURT BALL IN JUNE
Fabulous Fortunes in Jewels
Will Be Displayed by Wo-
men WHO Attend.
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| Especial Gable TO The Times D!spatchl
| London. April 2s.--There are brill
| liant times ahead for the American
colony. Tho first state ball will be
| given by the King early In June before
| the courts departure for windsor Cas-
tie for the Ascot race week. The sec
| ond ball will be held early In July.
| The invitations are limited to 1900
| for each ball. and the Lord Chamber
| lain has been compelled to notify many
American applicants that presentation
at court is necessary before an invi-
tatlon to court ball is possible. Eng
| lssh women who have not attended
the courts regularly for the past three
| years have been ruthlessly cut out Of
the list
Among Americans outside of peer
| esses receiving Invitations are Mrs. j.
| j. Aston and Mr. and Mrs. Anthony
Drexel, Mra. j. II. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs
| Waldorf Aston, Mrs. Paul Phipps, Mrs
Michael Grace. Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley
Martin, Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Harold Bar
Ing, Mrs Graham Miller and Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer
A Glittcring Jewel Show.
the extravagant display of jewels rep
resenting fabulous fortune. and 1t Is
| an open secret that many nervous
| dowagers wear imitation duplicates
of their famous family ornaments.
Even Mrs. Bradley Martins collec-
! ton of French crown Jewels is not
| considered too heavy to wear on suoh
| occasions. The Queen wears the Won
| derful Cullinan on her corsage. sus-
! pended from her neck by a thin chain
| OF small stones But nothing worn by
| the Queen or even in the American
colony can be compared to the jewels
| worn by the Marchioness Londonderry,
| although the pearls worn by the
| Duchess of Marlborough are more
| magnificent than the Queens. and Mrs.
| Martin takes the palm where rubles
| are concerned.
The Duchess of Marlborough will
| entertain Colonel Roosevelt at a large
/ dinner party given at Sunderland
| House Most of Englands distinguish
ed statesmen and the pick of the smart
world will be present. The dinner vii
| be followed by a reception.
The duchess has recovered her lost
| mated She is no longer worrie1
/ about the health of her son, Lord Ivor
| Sunderland House will be the seen.
| of several important functions thy
season. including a ball during Ascot
week This burst of entertaining or
the part of the duchess is due to the
! advice of her mother-in-law, tho
ALarchioness of Blandford. who has
4 stood by the duchess during all of he,
troubles. The rnarchioness wants the
1 duchess to take an important place in
the social and public life
Hostesses Hopeful and Anxious.
This season Will be memorable as
witnessing tho last attempt OF Mrs.
! Potter Palmer to scale the dizziest
/ heights of the social ladder. She has
| minated to her friends that at the
end of this Season she will shake the
/ dust of London from her feet forever
and make her gorgeous apartments IN
4 Paris her headquarters in the future.
/ Her greatest ambition has been to
entertain British royalty in hcr house.
Although she succeeded fairly we'll
4 with King Edward at Biarritz in 1905,
she has not been able to get the royal
4 carriage to stop at her door in London
! Meanwhile she will give several daz-
zling entertainments at her residence
in Carlton House Terrace, and in June
Will have her son and his wife as her
4 guests
American girls arc due to have n
particularly active season IT is a fair
assumption that Miss Ethel Roosevelt,
VIII be tho most sought after girl In
\ town. a scramble has already begun
among American hostesses anxious tc
secure dates for her entertainment,
J Miss Jeanne Crocker, the California
. heiress, will come In for great atten.
ton.
a new American debutante is Cecilis
|. Webster Fox, of Philadelphia. She ii
J handsome. and is likely to cause
! sensation among the young peers ant
eldest sons OF peers.
Then there is Miss Hartman, OF NIL
ford, Pike county, Mo. She has man,
friends in the American colony.
I Another hostess Is Mrs. Waiter Far
we'll. who will take a town house
Goodbys for the Glndstones.
: Viscount and Viscountess Gladstone
depart for South Africa on the sotf
on the Walmer Castle. The new peer
refuses to play golf, and locks him.
self up in his room studying Dutch, OF
rather "Taal." the Boer dialect
| The Gladstones will be tho hosts OF
the Prince and Princess of Wales a
the governors official residence a.
Cape Town, Pretoria. and Johannes
burg. and other social demands durina
) 1910 will not only absorb the Wis
counts salary, but mako a hole in his
!, private fortune, which is not largo
The proposed farewell banquet ha.
been called off. owing to tho d 4ath o
! Canon Drew whose daughter Dorothy
, was w. Il. Gladstone's favorite god
child, but he Will receive n greas send
off al Waterloo Station. as. ne is yer,
, popular with both political parties.
VIENNA SURPRISED AT u. S.