Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-15

anu LuCIehld DOIl sang DpdHlhns IOlh |
songs in the characteristic mantilla OF |
her native country. When Edmond !
Clement sang his delightful old |
French songs he dressed in satin knee
breeches, brocadcd coat powdered wig, |
/ ,Iilk stockings and shoe buckles.
"Arr1nger" for Society Folk.
The first one of these "Chansons
Crinolines" was 2 bowling success,
and Mrs. Hawkeswofth's future was
assured. Society people-slways anx-
ious to be amused-saw possibilities
in this quiet-voiced, energetic little
woman, whose widows weeds we're in
such striking contrast to the gay en-
tertainments she had arranged. II
she could arrange unusual musicales
why couldn't she arrange unusual
dances, dinners and private entertain.
ments of all kinds? This was de-
parture from her intention to be
musicale manager, but Mrs. Hawkes.
worth was still too eager to make a
living to refuse. That was four years
ago. and now among society folk in
New York and Newport she is as we'll
known as an arranger of dances and
dinners that are unusual as David Bel
asco is known as theatrical manager.
At one dance Mrs. Hawkesworth ar
ranges a shower of real butterflies
that fit through the ballroom Just at
the appointed moment like a. dream
of fairyland. At another she has
yoke Of fiower-crowned oxen bring In
the professional dancers. At another
she has an arrangement like an enor-
nous book, so that the professional
entertainers seem to jump from the
pages of story as they appear.
Where do you get all these ideas?"
people are constantly asking Mrs.
doesn't have time to travel far for
them.
at is simply a matter of concen-
tration," she says. IF want a new
idea / just sit down and think and
think and if l think long enough it
comes. That is concentration, isn't
it?"
But don't imagine that every clever
widow suddenly thrown on her own
resources could do the same. There
aren't fifty women in New York who
have energy enough. To prove this
here is the schedule of just one of
Mrs. Hawkesworth's days:
One of Her Busy Days.
She appears at her office at about
ten in the morning. The chances are
that she will begin work with her
| hill
an entertainment given the night be-
fore, for society women want very
exact figures and are more apt to
bubble over five dollars paid for a
spotlight which they think ought to
have been only four dollars and fifty
cents than anyone else. Then comes
a telephone message from a woman
well known in society.
"Oh, Mrs. Hawkesworth," she says
YEARLY. 81 have been appointed
chairman for the charity ball of such
and-such a league, and we want some
thing original. have tried to manage
but it is quite beyond me. Will you
come up to my house this afternoon
and talk it over?"
Another telephone follows. 1t is
from another society woman, known
for the daring entertainments she
gives. Mrs. Hawkesworth," she
says gayly, Il am giving dinner to-
morrow and | want a moving-picture
performance afterward. I haven't the
least idea how to arrange for it and l
just took a fancy to have it mo-
ment ago"
Then, as Mrs. Hawkeswortb is rack
ing her brains thinking how she will
go about it and is just setting out to
a moving-picture establishment, the
telephone rings again. This time it is
a message from one her musical stars
who has been taken i'll the last minute
and cannot keep an appointment.
AS she hangs up the receiver from
this call she is thinking whom she can
get to take his place. She cannot wait
to finish her work on the bills, al
though they must be posted that after
noon, for she must now hurry to the
hotel in Fifty-seventh street where she
n has daily office hours in connection
q with her afternoon dances. Here she
= has a rehearsal for a special dance
p the week following After that is
" over, she has to so to florists shoI
s to make arrangements for some un
d usual dinner decorations and from
p there to interview one OF the greatest
G. singers she has secured for her mex
A. "Chanson Crinoline" about the cos
tune she is to wear and the songs
st she is to sing. This takes till late
n afternoon and then she drops in a
b. one of the hotels to see that the dane
g ing is going on all right.
lie Mrs. Hawkesworth is very particu
It lar about these dances That is ont
ID of the reasons why they have beer
c. so successful with the more conserva
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