New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-05
LONDON GAYETIES
in A MINOR KEY
Season Fell OFF in Activity
with the Approach of
Holy Week.
NIECE OF KING GEORGE
ATTAINS MAJORITY
Duchess of Rutland Has Large
Party for Melton Hunt Meet
al Burton Lazars.

tRv cable to The Tribune
London. April lin spite OF the fact
that Lent has not mterfeTed much with
Icndon'S gayoty. tho social season docs
seem TO be falling of hit as Holy Week
approaches There has not been so larss
a number Of entertainments this week as
there were earlier in the year, and the
slump will probably last until near the
beginning OF the season proper.
The Kine and Queen. with Princess
MARY and Princes Henry and George. left
town for Windsor this morning for Eas-
ter. the king and queen remaining until
shortly before the date set for their state
trip to Paris.
Queen Alexandra will spend Easter at
Marlborough House. The Prince OF Wales
returns 10 London on Wednesday. and
Prince Henry. who was fifteen years old
last Tuesday. arrived at buckingham
Palace on Thursday. Prince George re-
turned home from ST. Peters school,
Brosdstairs. next day Prince Albert ar
lives on Thursday next on leave from ms
ship. the Collingwood.
Princess Maud OF Fife celebrated her
twenty-hrst birthday on Friday. In honor
Of the event a family dinner party was
given at No. Is Portman Square. The
D, hgr mother
does not care much for society. preterrrng
the quiet life Of Braemer Lodge to the
gayeties OF London.
En- Route for America.
Mrs Lionel Guest. daughter OF the late
John Biselow. sailed on the Oceanic or
Wednesday. John W. Garrett American
Minister 10 Argentina, and Mrs. Garrett
have arrived in London from BuenoS
Ayres.
Colonel Seely. the unfortunate former
chief of the War ONCE. al whose head
50 many political guns have lately been
aimed. took party of children to see
magicians show at St Georges Hall
on Thursday.
William Gillette entertained the Neither
lands Minister and Nine Van Sinderen'
also the Greek Minister and his VIE ano
,anv Others at dinner at the Bachelors
hub on Thursday,
The engagement of Miss Dorothy Ash
.cl,. a daughter Of the Countess of Scar
rough. 10 Lord Gerald Wellesley. third
son of the Duke and Duchess Of Wei
Hngton. is announced. The Duke and
Duchess returned TO Apsley house on
friday from Ewhurst Park.
Ambassador and Mrs. W. II. Page were
among the guests at dinner given by
the French Ambassador on Tuesday.
.,ther guests were the Netherlands Minis
Ter and Nine. Van sinderen, the Duke
and Duchess of Somerset. Lord and Lady
Oramore and Browne. the Marquis and
Marchioness of Lansdowne, the German
Ambassador and Princess Licsnowsky
Sir Gerald and Lady Lowther and Sir
William and Lady Tyrrell.
Riding in Rotten Row.
There are not so many of the fair sex
seen astride in Rotten Row as there used
TO be before the King expressed rather
emphatically has disapproval Of the
fashion. A census taken yesterday showed
that twenty-five out of seventy-one femi-
nine riders favored the cross saddle, and
ten of these were little children. Riding
clothes are not so severe as was formerly
the case. Women seem 10 be abandoning
the high white stocks of a season or two
ago for soft silk shirts and sailor col
lars and the stiff bowlers for Tapping
straw or felt hats.
The Melton Hunt meet at Burton La
Ears brought society out in great num-
bers on Thursday, despite the popular
Newbury race meet the same day. Lazy
Diana Manners and Miss Nancy Cunard
wexe prominent figures in the Duke and
Duchess of Rutlands party as well as
LADY Violet Charters, Lady Anglesey,
Mrs George Lambton and Lady Victoria
Cavendish- Bentinck.
Nine Melba was hostess AT dinner
partv at the Savoy early this week, her
guests including Lady Randolph Church
IN Lady Susan Fitzclarence. Sir John
Fuller and Mr.. and Mrs. II. Williams.
Nine Media can be either very silent or
verv talkative at dinner. A good deal
depends upon her mood and whether she
intends to sing next day.
The MARQUIS and Warehouses Of Lans-
downe left town to-day for bowood
Park. Wiltshire. for Easter. Last night
there was a big political reception at
Lansdowne House.
London is following New Yorks lead
in dancing between dinner courses at the
big hotels. especially the savoy Inc
guests jump up from the table after the
fish and before the entree and dash
round the supper room, coming back IN
q few minutes evidently with hcartler