Evening star., 1914-01-25
BRITISH AMBASSADOR
GIVES A TEA DANCE
Fifteen Varieties Of Dance Shown
Roman Dowager Queen Credited
With Starting Tango Ban.
,ecial Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cabegram to The Star.
ROME. January a. 1914.
The last tea followed by a dance at
the British embassy afforded new proof
of Lady Radd's exquisite taste and won
derful ingenuity in arranging entertain
ments.
The feature of the dance was seven
tableau vivants, several of which were
enthusiastically cheered. First came
Nativity presented to the guests in
the shape of two large flower colored
eggs, from which Lady Radd's two beau
tiful children emerged.
The second tab:eau was Vanity,
which showed Mrs. Courtney Stewart,
wife of the British naval attache. and a
daughter of Waldo Storey, in the act
of arranging her hair, and putting rice
powder on her face before a large mir
ror
Capt. White and Mr.. Harrison, Am
bassador Pages private secretary, helped
in several of the tableaux.
Fifteen Tango Varieties.
| One Of the largest social functions of
this week was Miss Listers tea dance.
In her beautiful apartments in the his
toric Semi Palace the tango was danced
in at least fifteen different ways to the
great delight of the guests, but the ex-
aggerated tango steps were excluded.
Among the guests were Ambassador
and Mrs. Page. Capt. and Mrs Drace
| White. Countess Semi, formerly Miss
| Gayley of Pittsburgh: the Duchess Lante
de la Rouvere, formerly Miss Allen. OF
New York; Princess Antici Mattel and
her two beautiful daughters, the Princess
di Stigliano. Lady Hart and the Prince
and Princess Falconieri.
The Duke of ARGOS and his duchess.
formerly Miss Lowry of Washington,
gave a dinner to a number of intimate
| friends this week. including Miss Alice
Longfellow, Col. Dunn, Mr. and Mrs
Abbott, NJ. Ladd, Mrs. Hurlburt and Miss
| Thorpe.
Will Go to Court.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond
have arrived at Rome and shortly will be
presented at court by Ambassador Page.
The Hammonds will spend several weeks
here. Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre Lorillard
! or Boston, Princess Radziwilrs grand
mother. have arrived in Rome for the
! season.
The Queens Part.
The condemnation of the tango by the
Vatican came like a bombshell thrown
into the midst of society, which is pour
| ing into Rome for the gay season.
| There is no doubt that there is tango
! ing and tangoing," and that while ex-
| perts agree that the tango may be danced
| so as to be wholly devoid of offensive
suggestion. the real Simon-pu unadul-
| terated tango from the Argentine is
something to make even the present day
advanced society leader a little BIT
| ashamed.
| 1t has just become known that the
Vatican's condemnation was hastened by
the direct Intervention of the Dowagel
Queen Margherita. 1t seems that she
saw it being danced one afternoon re-
Gently at one of the local hotels and she
got busy quickly. The first result wa:
Cardinal Pompili's letter to the clergy
condemning the tangoists
All the public advertisements of tht
dance in clubs and hotels have beer
withdrawn. Though the Vatican situa
ton is unlikely to affect the dancing o.
a puritanical tango in private homes t.
any marked degree. it is improbable tha
the word tango will ever again appeal
| in the newspaper reports of special socia
events in the Eternal city.