New-York tribune., 1911-01-22
'LOND0N'S SOCIAL SEASON
King and Queen to Entertain
Small Parties at Windsor.
MANY COURT APPLICANTS
Tendency to Make Coronation
More Elaborate-Terrors of
Servants Hall.
IRv cable to The Tribur.

! London. Jan 21.--There will ho small
/ parties al Windsor next week. Among
! the guests will he the Count and Conn
tess Benckcndorff Count Albert Mems
| dorff and Lord and Lady Leicester. Two
| new maids of honor. Mabel Gve and
/ Sybi Brodrick will he at Windsor for A
! fortnight. and will be succeeded at
Buckingham Palace by Venetia Barring
and Katherine Villiers There will he no
entertaining AZ the palace. except a few
mems dinners. until May.
| Prince Christian, who will be eighty
years old tomorrow. has been in the
saddle recently after the hounds. and as
High Steward at Windsor is raising
go. 900 for the memorial to King Ed
ward VII with characteristic energy.
Hunt and county balls are virtually
over, and few pheasants are in reserve
for the shooting parties.
The opening Of Parliament, with a
large number Of peeresses in black and
white, will he the next social event after
the receptions by Lady Ashby St Led
gers and Lady Lansdowne. Mrs. As
auth will he back from switzerland for
these functions.
The Countess Of Radnor will give the
first important dinner dance about the
middle Of February. and dozen other
hostesses will follow the example. but
there will be no great balls before July.
The rush Of applicants for the courts
Of May and June is unprecedented, and
a further enlargement Of the lists is i'm
possible.
There is an unmistakable tendency
toward the enrichment Of the coronation
functions and the creation Of new prece-
dents Among the best Of the sugges-
tions is that for the employment Of pro-
fessional decorators for both the pro-
cessional routes. so that there NAV be
uniformity OF treatment and an effective
massing Of color.
The opening OF the Mall from Trafal-
gar Square is now in sight. The series
Of colonial arches will be among the
most impressive features The prospect
that a levee and court at Holyrood
Palace will follow the coronation has
inspired tho proposal for ceremonial Of
some kind At the Tower.
There IS a large amount of routine
work which keeps William Phillips busy
at the American Embassy. He has COM
pletely recovered his health. and Is con-
Quoting the business Of the embassy
with marked efficiency.
Among the fresh recruits for British
diplomacy is Charles Lister. Lord Rib
blesdale's only surviving son, who has
entered the Foreign Office this week
Sir Percy Girouard, who is returning
next week to the protectorate In East
Africa. is boasting that the climate there
is as fine as that OF California.
The servants hall has been invested
with new terrors by an exposure In Tho
Times" Of a systematic arrangement
made by a female journalist with but
lers for supplying tittle-tattle from
smart houses for use in correspondence
with the American press. The scandal
monger answers buffers advertisement
for a situation and explains in detail
what will be good copy worth fancy
price.
The transfer Of Bishop Talbot to WIN
chester brings an able High Church
Bishop into line for succession to can
terbury It does not please the evangeh-
cal party. for whom some concession
may be made when the vacant See OF
Southwark is filed.