The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-23

clIned many invitations that the date
might be kept for their wedding ami
vcrsary celebration.
The president shares Mrs. Taft S
fondness for music and the drama.
They have been frequent attendants
Mt the theater during the season. Dur
ing a recent engagement Of Robert
Mantell and Marie Booth Russell in
Shakcspearean plays President Taft.
Mrs Taft and Miss Helen Taft oc-
cupied the presidential box nearly
every evening. The series Of musicals
White house for the season has been
quite feature of tho entertainments,
1t was the novel ideas of the president
that prompted the White house rccep-
tion TO the new senator's who have
entered The senate chamber at the
extra session.
Though Mrs. Taft has not openly
.lplned the movement against the use
of orchids and other high-priced
flowers for social affairs, she is as
sisting it greatly by the decorations
she insists on at her receptions, The
wife of the president is a great lover
of spring flowers, and, in fact, through
out the year prefers native blossoms
TO the exotics. At her largest dinners
this season there always was an abund-
ance OF white lilies. with dainty gar
lands of arbutus
Miss Helen Taft continues to be
one of the most feted debutantes the
White house has ever had, One Of the
recent pleasant entertainments in her
honor was that given by Mr.. and Mrs.
John W. Foster, in which Miss Kathc-
Germany David Jayne Hill and Mrs.
Hill, shared the honors of tho evening.
Mrs. Taft attended a musical re-
Gently given by Mrs. Norman Williams
nj her Sixteenth street residence, when
Mmc. Lipkowska. the Russian singer,
and Mile, Deter, violinist, presented Il
delightful programme.
Miss Cromwell Will Wed.
Miss Louise Cromwell, daughter Of
Mrs. Oliver Cromwell has given up
the prospect OF spending the corona.
ton season in London as a guest of
Lord and Lady Decies. and viii be "A
summer bride. Her engagement to
Walter B. Brooks, ,Ir., Of Baltimore.
announced by Mrs. Cromwell, is one of
the recent events in Washington so
cicty.
Miss Cromwell is regarded as one
of the prettest girls in Washington.
She was presented last winter. She
was one Of Miss Vivieu Gould S bridal
attendants, and later entertained
Catherine Lady Decies and her daugh.
ter. the Hon. Mrs. Wilkinson. here.
Mr., Brooks is a son of Mr. and Mrs,
Walter b. Brooks of Baltimore, who
have ono Of the most beautiful country
places in the Green Spring valley. He
is q member of the Green Spring Val
ley Hunt club, the most popular organ.
iZation of its kind in the state. His
sister, Miss Frances Brooks, made her
debut IN Baltimore about the time Miss
Cromwell was presented IN Washing
ton. His grandfather, Chauncev Brooks.
maintains one Of the most pretentious
homes in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore
United States military affairs will
,be well represented in London public
gatherings during the summer Besides
General Fred ID. Grant, who will go as
chief of staff 10 Special Embassador
for the Coronation John HAYS Ham.
mond. number OF army officers Will
take part in She London horse show.
The officers who will participate in
The show i'll June have arrived at Fort
Myer with their thoroughbreds, which
were the gifts Of various rich Ameri
cans who are interested in the affair.