Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-10
Society

= OVERHEARD a modern Mrs, Mala-
prop talking over the telephone at
Il the Alexandria the other night-in
the barber shop, of all places. You
know the only telephone accessible
from the grill is in the barber shop, so
this fine lady stood there in her vel
vets. diamonds and plumes discussing
with a friend the Federation conven-
ton at Santa Barbara. yes" she
said. II think will go up Thursday af-
ternoon. I'm not a regular delegate, but
I'm one of the alternatives and so If
YOU will hurry down town I'll wait for
YOU up here on the Limousine floor and
you can tell me all about what bet
ter do there"
Two magnificent new homes are to
be erected in the southwest this fall.
One of these will be in Berkeley square
and will be built by the Russell McD.
Taylors, who will go abroad next
month to purchase rugs, paintings and
statuary for their house. The other
house, ! believe, is to be built at the
corner of Cimarron and West Adams
street by Mrs. Frederick II. Rindge for
her son, whose engagement to Miss
Agnes Hole was announced recently.
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Society and literary folk have been
enjoying the visit here the past week
of Elizabeth Dejeans Budget of Riv-
erside Mrs. Budget, whose pen name,
already becoming well known to read
ers of modern fiction, is Elizabeth De-
Jeans, was much entertained during her
visit, and was the honor guest at an
informal evening affair given by Will
lard Huntington Wright at his studio
in the Overton.
The announcement of Lois Aliens
engagement reminds me of the story
about her sister, Echo Allen, and the
press clipping bureaus. 1t appears that
Edmund Day, the author of THE
Round Up" is a great friend of Judge
Aliens family, and he commented on
the name one day, saying Echo,
that is q pretty name, may / use 1t
in a play some time?" and of course
the heroine of the story gave laugh
ing consent.
Fancy her amazement then when he
made the principal woman of his play
'The Round UP" bear her entire name,
Echo Allen" One of her friends in
the east who guessed at the situation
subscribed to a clipping bureau for the
Los Angeles bearer of the name, and
the busy shears of the clippers cut out
each week hundreds of these comments
upon her name and mail them to her.
She already has several scrapbooks
filed with the notices, while the let
ters from friends inquiring about it
would make good-sized volume
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Every one is rejoicing that Lois AL
len is to stay in California. and her
friends can congratulate her tiance'
Harold Wrenn, not only upon his en-
gagement, but also upon the fact that
he has decided to make his home here.
Many of the girls of Miss Aliens set
have married away from home, and
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One of the classmates of these girls
was telling me about some of them
the other day.
First of all was Rowena Moore. How
proud we were Of her when she came
back from Berkeley covered with
honors. The next thing we knew Paul
Selby had appeared and carried her
off to Johannesburg, and they are hav-
ing a glorious time out there Since
Marguerite Moore went out to visit,
Paul Selby has been made manager of
the Robinson mine and they have
moved into the magnificent old resi-
dence with its miles of rooms and
corps of servants and tennis grounds,
and all that, but I have an idea that
they are coming home on a visit this
summer Then Eva Pruett married
Fletcher Elliott, and wasn't she pret
ty bride? They have gone to England
to live. Elise Anderson went to the
Philippines when she married William
Eliot Selbe United States artillery,
and Helen Chaffee married John Hast
ings Howard of the Ninth calvary, the
same old regiment in which her father
used to be captain. They went to FIT.
Riley. Kansas. but I believe when the
exchange comes in June they are to be
transferred to Ft. Russell, Wyo., and
her older sister. Katherine, who mar
ried Capt. George F. Hamilton of the
Ninth. is to be in the same regiment