Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-01
WINTER ACTIVITIES IN
CROWN CITY COMMENCE
Hotel Maryland VIII Mark Begin
ming of the Season with
DinneT-DanCe

PASADENA, Oct. To-day will
mark the beginning Of winter actiY-
tiles with the Hotel Maryland, the
Pasadena Polo club and the Shakes
peare club. The Maryland will start
the season tonight with a dinner
dance. Manager Linnard stated last
evening that while the opening VIII
not be so conspicuous in some re-
spects as in former years, owing to
the hostelry having been kept open all
summer, the fact that the affair
marks the beginning of a prosperous
winter for Pasadena will be impressed
upon those who attend.
Many eastern reservations have al
ready been made, and fifty winter
guests from across. the mountains
have taken up their winter quarters
at the hotel and in the bungalows.
Three hundred reservations for the
coming week have been made for New
York bankers and members of their
families who will make their head
quarters here while the convention in
Los Angeles is in session. The parties
will travel to and from Los Angeles
in two special electric cars and nu-
merous automobiles engaged by the
hotel management. Many of the
bankers and their families arrived yes
terday, and others are expected to-
udy III llIIle IOE lOulShI , SoStdl .ON OA -
which to a great extent is arranged in
their honor.
Work on the enlarged lobby Is COM
pleted, and the room will be thrown
open for inspection tonight. Nearly
double the former space is afforded for
1ounging purposes. The bachelor
apartments on the roof garden are
practically completed, and work on
the enlarged dining room will be com
Dinner tonight will be served from
$3.50 to o'clock and dress will be in
formal. An elaborate musical pro-
gram will be given under the direc-
ton of Reginald Bland, VINO has been
furnishing music for the Hotel Vir-
ginia at Long Beach. Prof. Hebron
ner will preside at the piano.
POLO CLUB ACTIVITIES
Winter practice for the polo club
will begin this afternoon at 2:sO o'clock
at Tournament park, and society is
expected to be out in numbers, but 1t
is announced that admission is not
limited to members of the social set.
officers of the club desire to popular
ize the game in this city, and to that
end have extended a standing invita-
tion for everybody to attend the semi
weekly practice matches without
money and without price.
Practice matches will be held until
further notice on Tuesday and Satur-
day afternoons at 2:30 o'clock. Those
who will play in today's game are Har-
ry and Reggie Weiss of Los Angeles,
DR.. A. H. Savage, DR.. w. A. Boucher,
DR.. q. T. Malaby, C. e. Post, T. H.
Mccoy jr., Ben Smith, Carleton Burke
and Fred Emery.
The twenty-second annual opening
of the Shakespeare club, Pasadena's
influential woman's club, will be held
this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the
club rooms on South Los Robles ave-
nue.. Special music will be rendered
and a reception will follow the pro-
gram. The receiving party will in
clude the president, Miss Anna Meek
er, and other officers of the club.
The opening will be designated as
presidents day." and an address will
be delivered by Miss Meeker. The
committee in charge of the affair is
made up of Mrs. c. j. Willett Mrs. o.
L. Braddock, Mrs. Frank L. Jones and
Mrs. T. L. Tompkins. The hospitality
committee will introduce new MEM
bers of the club.