The Washington herald., 1914-02-08
QUEEN STARTS
JEWEL fashion
Italy's Monarch Creates SEN
sation by Wearing Coral
Instead Of Pearls.
NO SLIGHT TO DOWAGER
Two American Women Star IN In
tertainment Given by British
Ambassadors Wife.
NO SLIGHT TO DOWAGER

spocial Cable to The washinston Heaid
Rome; Feb y.-The sensation created os
oussn Elena AZ the first court ball OF the
year by wearing collar composer y,
six strings of red corals has not YET
.pbsided. 1t appears that IN discaroms
her pearls the Queen meant no shsh' "
her mother-in-Iaw, the Dowager queen
Nareuerite. whose fondness for pearls
is well known, but she was, instead,
bent upon setting a new fashion IN oroer
to HELM the coral industry.
some time ago a number Of coral mer-
chants wrote to the Queen informing ner
of the actual CONDITION OF the corai m
d,stry of Italy and asking her to take
~ under her patronage. As was to be
expected. the Queen Immediately ordered
a handsome coral collar and also mao
inserted a number of corals In her uara.
The combination of corals and DIAMONDS
proved most artistic and the result was
that every court lady has initiated the
Queens example and ordered coral Jew
els.
IuIl in Society.
Following the court ball Monday there
Was a luli in social activity tnis "eeh-
The King and Queen, who for a rev Gays
preceding the ball were kept busy recei'-
ing those who had been invited for tne
first time, including many promineh.
Americans, left Wednesday to rest IN
their summer residence near Pisa They
will return to Rome for the opening or
Parliament.
Two Americans. Countess Dentice d.
frasso, formerly Georgiana Wild, OF 81
Louis, and Mrs. Courtnay Stuart nee
story. Of New York, figured prominently
in the second entertainment by Lazy
Rodd at the British Embassy
The countess played the heroine ro,e
in a one-act comedy by Defiers and CAL
lavet entitled Hearth and Its Reasons
ard revealed herself a consummate &C
tress. She was highly complimented upon
her taultless French and her dramatc
accomplishments She said TO the COT,
resnondent of The Washington Herald
that the stage always had great fasci-
nation for her, and that she had pegun
to recite at private entertainments WITCH
hardly out Of her teens
American Woman Stars.
Mrs Stewart played a prominent part
in a new entertainment just introduced
into Roman society by Lady hooo- II
is called Chinese Shadows ana con-
sists of throwing against a white screen
in a semi-dark room the shadow OF a
nerson in amusing and grotesque POSI-
tons. =. ,t.
The task of reviving the old-ume
Roman carnival this year has peen en-
trusted to local newspaper ORGANIZATIONS,
whose members are now planning
series of gigantic entertainments n
feature of one of the balls Will De 'ne
selection of the first woman deputy to
tho Italian Parliament" Any girl CT
eighteen or more, who is oeautiIui' can
be a candidate.
The spring racing season opened sun
day at Parioli. Between now and April
2s when it closes, twenty races VIII pe
rim and the number of horses entered
is larger than ever.
Gives Dinner Party.
Mrs Nelson Gay gave a dinner Thurs
dav at her apartment in Orsini Palace
Her guests included the British Amoas-
sador and Lady Rodd, Col George Dunn,
Can't. White, of the American EMBASSY
Mrs. Lee, the Spanish Ambassador, Dero-
billant and others.
Alfred Leete Hampson. the Boston
tenor, now in Naples passing the winter.
gave a dinner this week to number OF
American friends, including Mrs Caroline
F1oyd Frederick Chamberlain, of Boston,
and H Thompson, the English noveiist
One hundred and twenty Americans,
WHO landed at Naples from the Adriatic,
have arrived here en- route TO ALEXANDRA
and will soon be Joined by the liner
Francois's contingent
Mrs. and Miss Benedict and Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Boettler, of New York. are at the
Bristol for a weeks sightseeing. Mr.. and
Mrs. T. II. Brooke, of Washington, are
at the Grand. Arrivals in Naples include
Charles W. Roberts, of Morristown, N.
J.: DR.. Donald B. Cragin. of Boston; Mr..
and Mrs. j. Wallick and Mrs. Abram
Sharp Smith, of Washington. MT. and
Mrs. Mason Hill. Of Chicago are IN
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