The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-02

Lent will begin on Wednesday Of
this week. and all the churches in town
will be thronged with society people on
that day. In numbers Of other
cities big bal masQues Will mark Shrove
TUESDAY evening. and the season Is
TO be concluded in whirl of brilliant
entertaining but only a very few small
affairs will be given here. There viii
be the dance of the Richmond German
Club tomorrow evening in the ball
room of the Richmond Hotel. this being
the last Monday of the winter season,
another german to be given just I'M
mediately after Easter.
But there are all sorts of charity
functions planned for the coming
weeks of sackcloth and ashes, and So
ciety girls and men are going to be very
busy indeed, exceedingly busy. getting
ready for the big production Of the
Mikado. which Is going 70 be given
here at the Academy of Music on March
81 and IS The most elaborate plans
are being made for this great event,
which promises to be the biggest
amateur performance that has been
given in Richmond for generation
and all society Is agog over VINO Is TO
take part in il. One OF the most
interesting facts about the giving of
the AIikado here at Easter Is that
exactly twenty-six years ago it was
given first to open the Academy of
Music. then the old Mozart Theatre.
This fascinating and most charming
of operas Is TO be given under the GIrec-
ton of the Girls Auxiliary 10 the
Belle Bryan Day Nursery and Free
kindergarten and the list of patrons
will include most Of the fashionable
married women in town The COM
s,. ,lt. irsfrffe General
rangcments. Miss Mary Chalmers
chairman Miss Nora Randolph. Isa-
belle Carter. Eliza beth Cooke program,
Miss Nancy Patton chairman. Miss
Lora Crump Miss Mary Saunders
Miss Mary Scarborough. Miss Editn
Donnan. Miss Virginia Whitley; adver-
Using. Miss Mary Scarborough CHAIR
mani. Miss Archer Joynes. Miss VIZ
GINA Christian. patTonesses. Miss Isa-
belle Garter. chairman. Miss Virginia
Christian. Miss Dorothy Christian.
Miss Barbara Trigg. costumes and
dances Miss Julia Joynes chairman
Miss Lucy Ford Wort nam. Miss EDITH
Donnan. Miss belle willard. Miss
Roberta Trigg- MIS- Della Davenport .
tickets. Mrs Douglas Wander Hoof.
invitations. Miss Julia Joyues. Miss
Elizabeth Hargrave. dressing rooms,
Ali-s Mabel Walker chairman. Miss
Charlotte Bensiss. Miss Elsie Lindsey
and Mrs Hiram Smith
Going South
Colonel and Mrs Joseph T. willard
and Miss Belle Willard. who arc now ln
Now York viii leave IN March for ii
f~iD 70 Panama and South America
Colonel and Mrs Willard and their
daughters have recently -pent two weeks
a. their country estate. Layton Hall,
in Fairfax County
Mrs g. D. LanderNn. Mrs. Clara
small. OF Gardner. AIe.. and Aicssrs
Russell and r. - Ferguson viii leave
Richmond on Tuesday for Palm Beach.
FIa.. where they Will spend some time.
They viii vi-l- number 90 other Sou' p
err resorts before returning 90 WIS city
Miss Lucy Coos whl leave shortly
for on extended "trip Cd Panama and
tho Wet indies
Married in New York
John Walter brEE~. Of -f.7 Grey.
announce the marriage rf nl~ sister.
Sic. Grace Ice BriEE- 90 Lawrence
Van W-,k 90 Srarslalc " 81. fhf
ceremony having taken nlecs y 1lfet Isl
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