El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-07
SOCIETY HAS
OVERDOSE Of
MAGNERISM
Forced to Attend Dreary
Parsifal Performance at
Covent Garden.
TANGO IN LONDON
KILLED BY QUEEN
BY HERBERT TEMPLE.

ONION. England, Feb. $50
cietv is temporarily back in Lon
H don. attracted by the Parsifal
performances at Covent Garden. Al
tbouqb London society still abhOrs
Wagner and openly negIecLs tne an
nual performances OF the ming II
would be out of the question: 70 Lllss
The first performance of Wagners
much advertised masterpiece, which is
so full of mystery
Really society cares no more Tor
''Parsifal" than for any other opera
performed in a darkened theater
where YOU cannot show off either your
latest color of hair or your magnltl-
cent diamonds and pearls, put every
box has been crowded at CoVenL Car
den this week and it is considered good
form to appear enthusiastic even II
you, at the bottom of your nearJ al
mire the stage machinery and the
beautiful lighting effects and lind the
Few Rays of Light.
The only rays of light during these
interminable performances, where you
dare not even fall asleep lest you
should snOre, are the dinner parties at
the Carlton, Cecil and Savoy, where
everybody who is anybody goes and in
dulges in the latest gossip and dis
cusses your plans for the coming sea-
son, which promises to be rather gay,
unless some old royal fogy should be
tactless enough to die at a time when
royal deaths ought to be forbidden by
law.
Society Forced Into Politics.
Society as a rule is not much given
to political gossip, but the present
time is an exception for several So
clety faVOrlteS are constantly mem
toned in the political rumors which
you simply cannot avoid hearing.
The interest is focused on Winston
Churchill and his supposed aspirations
to become the leader OF new pollti-
cal party of rejuvinated UniOnists.
There is no doubt that there is some
foundation for Churchills new nick
name, the new Chamberlain" As yet
still a member of the Liberal govern
ment and nOminaly a Liberal, it is
evident that he has come very close
to the parting of the ways and the
latest rumOrs predict that something
is to happen in less. than month if an
arrangement can be made whereby
he can be induced to give way to Aus
tin Chamberlain, who counts on being
EnglandS prime minister.
BOnar Law to Lose.
If Churchill consents to play second
fiddle a new party win start very soon
in which the most prominent men will
be, besides the two men mentioned al
ready, the Duke of Westminster, F. Z.
Smith and Lord NOrthecliffe, whose
whole press VIII turn away from poor
BOnar Law and the old fashioned
Tories whose time is past The Duke |
Of Sutherland is also said to be anx-
-ous to join, but Churchill is said not /
to be over anxious to burden himself :
with more than one duke.
Tango Is Doomed.
In spite of the protestations of its !
professors, the tango as far as So Z
siety is concerned, is doomed. True I
The duchess who witnessed a recent /
performance voted that the dance in 1
question was modest" but the fact /
remains that Queen Mary has ex- /
PRESSED her dislike for this Argentine /
Importation, and as far as the great 4
POSSESSES and country houses are con
,erned, the tango is dead.
The influence queen Mary enjoys in
.cting as an indirect censor. in con
lection with the pastimes Of the
-reat can hardly be exaggerated NJ
nervous games have been abolished I
rom country houses on account of
Ter frOWn and even to a great extent 1
he fashions of those who move in /
oval set are governed by her ma
esty's views.