The Washington times., 1914-01-25
! JEAN ELIOT%
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III print dS WTlteT or talTy lore, DuI nOW
is devoting her efforts to play writing. In
the latter line her work has met with flatter
ing success, one of her dramas having been
put upon the stage last week in Boston.
She has been away from town for the last
few years because her husband was one of
our representatives at foreign courts-frst
at that of Belgium, in the capacity of min
ister and last as ambassador to Japan:
Their winter home here is one of the hand
soonest in the city, while Weld, their estate
in Brookline, Mass, is the show place of
the country. Not only is it famous for its
beauty, but every year it is frequently open
to the public, and especially to children, who
spend hours playing on the wide lawns.
The Edison Bradleys are not going to de.
sert Washington, after all. They have sent
out cards for large dinner party on the
10Th of February, at Rauscher's, and addi-
tional guests have been asked in for dancing
afterward. Their house in Dupont Circle
looks so lonesome all closed up, and Wash
ington society has certainly missed Mr.. and
Mrs. Bradley very great deal.
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The Count and Countess Szechenyi are
here They arrived Thursday evening and
went to the Shoreham, where they will be
guests for a few days. Last evening" the
Ambassador of Austria-Hungary and Nine.
Dumba entertained for them, and tomorrow
the George VanderbiIts have a dinner for
them, and then Mrs. Mackay Smith is CIV
ing luncheon for them, and the Preston
Gbsons are having something And, oh, yes,
the Reynolds Hits have something tomor-
row for them, too, and so it goes.
1t seems to me that not only Washington
society folks but Americans in general have
taken a rather flattering interest in the little
American wife of the Austrian nobleman.
AS Gladys Vanderbilt Countess Szechenyi
was great favorite.
read in the papers that Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish has launched another new dance, touch
less tango also read that there will be no
tangoes at the Yale prom" This is the
assertion of Dean F. S. Jones. He goes
farther in saying that there isn't one on the
cards, for have looked it over"
This interested me, especially since have
just received a notice of the Junior Prom of
the Georgetown Law School for Monday
evening, February 16. Now, what amuses
me specially is, whether the boys from up
on the Hill will be very up-to-date and adopt
Mrs. Fish's dance, or whether they will fol-
low the lead of the Yale boys.
Well | remember the prom of last year,
and what is more to the point, | remember
it with much pleasure. Everyone tangoed 70
their hearts content, and the fishwalk was in
the embryonic state of being really min
now walk" but just the same the boys and
girls tried out the simple, if not graceful,
steps
Knowing that the Marine Band is going to
play for the dancing, and who forms the
committee-welI, I'll be willing to wager
that the new tango won't fgure-much.
If | remember correctly, you were at one
time a member of St. Margarets Flower
Guild Doesn't this interest you just wee
bit, even now when you are so busy trying to
be serious and studying music in Boston?
The young ladies of ST. Margaret's Flower
Guild will entertain at a silver tea in the
parish hall of the church, Connecticut ave-
nue. and Bancroft place northwest, on Tues
day, January 27, from 4 to 10 o'clock There
will be dancing. The candy table will be III
charge of Miss Mabel Botsch; flowers, Miss
Louise Roberts; cake, Miss Dorothy Putzki,
and Miss Josephine Newell; lemonade, Miss
Margaret Clements and Miss Dorothy Craw-
ford.
The plans for the big Southern relief ball
are progressing wonderfully well, and by the
time the night comes February p every box
will be taken. The decorations will be beau
tiful, because the various local florists have
promised to see to that and the supper that
is being planned is most tempting.
AS usual, dinner parties and theater parties
are being arranged in advance, and the young
girls committee, which is headed by Miss
Geneveve Clark, includes the names of all
the attractive young dancing contingent, and
the floor committee is equally as alIuring
Mrs. Francis Chisolm, who is chairman of the
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