New-York tribune., 1911-03-05
LONDON SOCIETY AND ART
Royal Dinner Parties Add to the
BriI|anCy of the Season.
HIGH PRICES FOR ESTATES
Little Hope of Retaining Lord
LansdoWne' Rembrandt
A Morality Play.
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Iondon. March 1.-The pre-coronatlon
season has received a flip from he
/ Kings dinner parties. which nave oe-
come fixture for Fridays. Inc DUKE
( of Connaught will follow the Kings eN-
annie i'm the course Of a few weeks, but
with a smaller number OF guests pin-
uer parties go on weekly AZ torbes
House. with Lady Granard as hostess
and Mrs Harcourt's "at homes nave
begun
The number of dances are dWlndIihg'
but there are full musters Of social lead
ers at charity matinees. like to-days
performance Of The Suffrage Girl at
( the Court Theatre for the benefit OF the
/ Middlesex Hospital Fund.
The diplomatic corps is havin5 round
of entertaining. and is looking forward
/ To- an interesting wedding in the enc oi
J ADril at the Russian Embassy chapel
Tho bride will be Countess Nathalie
Renckendorfs and the bridegroom Jasper
| Ridley. a brother of Lord Ridley, ana
! Unionist barrister./
/ Mrs. Asauith is receiving congIatula-
( ticns not only on her brothers lift into
the pceragc. bus also on her own success
in fixing date for the showiest dinner
Marty Of the coronation octave. with the
King and Queen az guests.
The entertainment of the colonial pre-
miers is directed by Lewis Harcourt'
/ who has been warned by them that theN
/ cannot survive round OF Drumming nos
: pitality similar to that when dlsao'eu
them for business AT the last conference
! The new wing of the National Gallery
| will be opened for private view next
week with the British. French. boios-
noeo and Ferrarese pictures rehung.
! The director of the National GalleiE
/ mas little hope of raising the money
requisite for keeping Lord LansdoNne 5
Rembrandt out Of America.
I The capture Of GainsborouGhs ana
other old masters by American collectors
! AZ eyorbitant prices reduces TO lnslg-
! ri0cance the dispersal Of pictures, tapes
tries prints, silver and snufiboXes at
/ C,hristi.'s. The lot of the British pdtrl-
/ clan is not 80 unhappy as the outcrles
against socialism and MI Lloyd-George
! seen, to imply. If many estates are in the
market. the prices paid for land are uh-
expectedly high. and pictures tapestries
and heirlooms from country houses COM
r,and fancy figures. The radical rald-
/ ers are enabling the titled classes to re-
invest tho capital sunk in land and art
on favorable terms.
The only theatrical novelty this week -
! the musical play. Peggy" at the Galety
Theatre. with text by George Grossinlth
and music by Leslie Stuart. 1t is hanu-
son,olv staged and is full of movement
and nirth. but is without characteristic
| feature.
| William Poel will produce on Monday
! the quaint morality play. JACOB ana
| Esau." attributed to William Hunnlo ana
enacted during the reign of Queen Mary.
# was an interude written by the mas
/ fer of the Chape. Royal for the cnor
bows. Mr.. Poel will piece out the even
/ ing entertainment by reciting the hlhg
and the Countess" a charming episode
which DR.. Furnivdll insisted could never
/ have been written by Shakespeare. II
portrays in Elizabethan style the rescue
/ bv Edward III Of the Countess of Sails
! bury. who was under siege in castle.
/ The Shakespeare festival at Stratford
next month will be more varied than ever
before. There will be fourteen Shake
spearc plays four Chester mystery plays
/ cberidan's critic" and The Piper.
: The horse ambulance presented by Al
fred q. Vanderbilt TO the Dumb Friends
League will be exhibited in the courtyaf"