The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-15

New York and Newport she is as well
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 a
yoke OF flower-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 a story as they appear.
Where do you get all these ideasT
people are constantly asking Mrs.
Hawkesworth, for they know she
doesn't have time to travel far for
them.
1T is simply a matter of concen-
tration," she says. IF l want a new
idea Just sit down and think and
think and if | 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
secretary over an itemized bill for
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
telephone message from woman
we'll known in society.
"Oh, Mrs. Hawkesworth," she says
wearily. II 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 l want a mOving-picture
performance afterward. l haven't the
least idea how to arrange for 1t and
Just took fancy to have 1t a mo
ment ago"
Then, as Mrs. Hawkesworth is rack
ing her brains thinking how she will
go about it and is just setting out tc
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 car
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
has daily Office hours in connection
with her afternoon dances. Here she
has a rehearsal for a special dance
the week following. After that i!
over, she has to go to a florists shoI
to make arrangements for some un
usual dinner decorations and from
there to interview one of the creates
singers she has secured for her mex
"Chanson Crinoline" about the cos
tune she is to wear and the song;
she is to sing. This takes till late
afternoon and then she drops in a
one of the hotels to see that the dane
ing is going on all right
Mrs. Hawkesworth is very particu
lar about these Dances That is one
of the reasons why they have beer
so successful with the more conserva
tive elements. Perhaps society
woman with the best of intentions
has drawn out a cigarette case, oil
perhaps one of the devotees of the
fox trot has been demonstrating some
steps that might lead to criticism. IT
this event it is Mrs. Hawkesworth' {
duty to demonstrate with the offender
so tactfully that she doesn't know she
has been reproved.
Then, after little rest and hasty
evening toilet, Mrs. Hawkesworth is
whisked in a taxicab to the home ot
the society leader who is giving big
dinner that night. Mrs. Hawkes.
worth is never one of the party. In
many cases the hostesses have sug
gested that she join in the festivities
which she keeps in motion, but Mrs
Hawkesworth has no interest in the
social side of the game she plays. She
enters as noiselessly as the caterer
or the florist, and is only known by
the results of her labor.
Tendency to Exaeeerate.