The Washington herald., 1914-11-15
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be heard, Washington society folk viii
have occasion to make short trips to-
New York. Many Washington peo-
pie make II a habit during the opera
season to take weekly excursions to
New York to hear the famous stars
presented by the Metropolitan Opera
Company. There is to be no perma-
nent opera season this year in Boston,
Chicago, or New Orleans, and so there
will be an assembIage of music-loying
society folk from all over the coun-
try for the New York opera. There
is genuine regret that the effort to have
grand opera in Washington which was
made a few seasons ago should not
have been repeated During the weeks
of the grand opera the tiers of boxes
were filled with members of the Diplo-
matte Corps, who are always sppre-
ciative of art and music, and with the
real leaders of Washington society.
Every one in Washington went to the
opera during its short season, but ap-
parently from a financial point of view
the experiment was unsuccessful for
it has never been repeated. This year
when the musical outlook for America
as well as Europe is very discouraging,
there is not the slightest possibility of
+. renewa1 of the effort
Mr.. and Mrs. Christian Hemmick en-
tertained at dinner last night. Their
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Woodbury.
Blair. Mr.. and Mrs. Louie Lombard, OF
Switzerland; the Rev W. S. Fay, Mrs.
Hill, of Boston; Mrs. Robert Hinckley'
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mitchell and Mr..
Carey.
Mrs. Christian Hemmick will be at
home on sundays at 5 O'Clock in her
former residence, 1875 Rhode Island ave-
nue..
Miss Mabel 7. Boardman has gone to
Dalton, Mass, where she is the guest
Of her sister and brother-in-law. Mr..
and Mrs. Winthrop Murray Crane.
The Cliffs, at Newport, today and viii
coming to Washington.
The wedding. of Miss Helen Blagden
Rich, the daughter of Mrs. Frank l.
Stratton, and Frederick Beck Patterson,
of Dayton, Ohio will take place in
New York on New Years Day at
o'clock in the Chapel Of St
Georges Church, Stuyvesant square,
and the reception will be held at the
$50 yu~fT1
be Miss Rieh's matron Of honor, and the
other attendants will be Miss Dorothy
Patterson, of Dayton, Ohio, and the
Misses Dorothy B. Stratton, Dorothea
Darlington, Ruth McKenna, Ruth B. Will
son and Mrs. waring L. Dawson.
Mr.. Patterson's best man is to be Mel
son Talbot, Of Dayton, Ohio, and the
twelve ushers selected are Newbold
Noyes, of Washington, d. c.; William
Wayne, jr., of Philadelphia; Samuel
Skinner and Homer w. Orvis, of New
York; Turner Moorehead, of Pittsburgh,
and Jefferson P. Crane, Oscar Collican,
Charles Greene, Robert Patterson, Har-
old Talbot, Alexander Craigshead and E.
J. German, all Of Dayton.
Mr.. Patterson Is the son OF John H.
Patterson, president OF the National
Cash Register Company.
Mr.. J. Betancourt, the Minister from
Colombia. has taken an apartment at
the Vanderbilt Hotel, in New York
The former American Ambassador at
Berlin and Mrs. ChArlemagne Tower
have closed their country estate at
Watervihe, N. Y, and are in New York
City for a few days before returning to
their home in Philadelphia.
The former Attorney General and Mrs.
George W. wickersham entertained at
dinner on Friday at the Gotham Hotel,
in New York.
A ball will be given for the benefit Of
the Italian Hospital Building Fund on
Friday at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New
York. Owing to the war the committee
in charge OF the ball will turn over half