Evening star., 1917-01-21
Picked Up Here and There.

Picked Up Here and There.
Mrs. Christian D. Hemmick. long
identified with society in Washington.
! d. c.. and Bar Harbor. Me-.
Joins Art has come to New York to
| follow her chosen profess
0oAoAy' sion and to contribute to
, the social side of studio life there. says
| the New York Herald. She has rented
! the studio of Mr.. Ben Ali Haggin. at
No. 116 West seth street. There have
| been exhibitions of paintings by Mrs.
| Hemmick here. and when she last was
| in Paris the French government pur-
| chased one of her works. Mrs. Hem
mick also has been kept busy recently
writing and staging two plays.
Few of the persons who recently ut
! tended an unusual afternoon reception
in the Windsor Arcade. at 5th avenue
| venture by Mrs. Allen Gouverneur
Wellman and Mrs. Nathaniel Bowditch
| Potter. knew that Mrs. Wellman had
| taken a three-year course in an art
school to fit herself for the venture and
entered the world of competition as a
| qualified architect. Now, when not par
| ticipating in the ordinary phases of So
| cial life. she is building and furnishing
| houses.
| other women of this set have won
| distinction in drama and literature.
Mrs. Alfred Wagstaff. jr.. who has just
gone into her new house at No. East
| 65th street. has added to her long list
| of publications new volume of prose
| poems and dramatic poem called
'Eris." She edits the Poetry Journal
| of Boston and contributes critical es-
| says to weekly literary review. Thus
! far she has brought out four books of
verse in addition to her Greek play
"Alcestis." which was seen a few years
ago In n local theater.
To society's long list of capable anna
teur actors and actresses have been
added the names of Mrs. Alexander D.
| B. Pratt. Miss Helen G. Alexander, Mrs.
, James H. Kidder. Miss Marion Tiffany,
Mrs. James Lowell Putnam and Messrs.
Gordon Knox Bell. E. Coster Wilmer.
erett and Herman c. Huffer. They. in
addition to Mr.. Edward Fales Coward,
| an amateur of long experience in seri.
ously staged drama. appeared in three
one-act plays on Tuesday night of last
week at the home of Mrs. Hermann
| Oelrichs.
That was society's first night of anna
teur theatricals in the house of a lead.
Ing hostess In several years and prom
| ises to have an important aftermath
Several of the persons most inter-
ested in the plays have advocated the
formation of a small club with a house
also. Certain members of the Brook,
the Racquet and Tennis, the Colony and
| the Lambs Club have been suggested as
q proper organizing body of not more
than two hundred subscribing mem
bers- 1t is expected that next June
! will find this club patterned somewhat
after the Playhouse Club of Washing
ton. D. c..
Society has been so satiated with balls
and dances, cotillons and bal masques
of late that it takes
RadnOr something a little out
ur,+ Dill of the ordinary to stir
o"A' up the proper amount
of enthusiasm. The Radnor Hunt bali
came as a decided novelty on Wednes-
day night, and for that reason was
| one of the most successful affairs given
this season. says the Philadelphia Rec
ord. The true hunting spirit was in
troduced in every detail and never has
the Bellevue-Stratford ballroom pre-
sented a more picturesque or beautiful
appearance.
The affair was the first hunt ball
given in Philadelphia since 1905. and
consequently was the initial ball of
the kind for many of the young guests
The principal feature of the evening
was the hunt quadrille, which was
danced shortly after midnight. the
dancers. including forty-eight of Phila-
delphia's well known hunting set,
among them being Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
E. Strawbridge. Mr.. and Mrs. W.
Piunkett Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. Robert
L. Montgomery. Mr.. and Mrs Charles
Wheeler. Mr.. and Mrs. Paul D. Mills,
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Chew, Mr. and
Mrs: ]. Stanley Reeves. Mr.. and Mrs.
William ]. Clothier, Mr.. and Mrs. John
r. Valentine, Mr.. and Mrs. William
H. Henry. Mr.. and Mrs. W. Frazier
Harrison, Mr.. and Mrs. Victor c.
Mather. Mrs. A J. Antelo Devereux,
Miss Margaret E. Scull. Miss Ellen
Charles A. Mum. Francis V. Lloyd,
Francis Richmond, Mr.. and Mrs Isaac
H Clothier, jr.. and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Browning.
dresses and scarlet sashes and the men
black satin knee breeches and pink
dress coats with the facing Of the color
of each hunt. The Radnor Hunt facing
is steel gray. oFur figures were danced
to the music of the quaint old hunting
songs "We1l All Go a-Hunting To-
day." Here's to the Fox" "A Souther-
~ Wind and Claudy Sky" and Dye
Ken John Peel"
While the committee which gave the
ball consisted of Thomas De Witt Guy
ley, W. Plunkett Stewart, Horace B.
Hare, Benjamin Chew and William S.
Ellis. the guests were received by Mr..
Cuyler, president of the hunt, and Mr..
Chew. master of the hounds.
Out-of-town guests were present
from the Elkridge, Green Spring VAL
| ley. Rose Tree, Meadowbrook, Essex
and other hunt clubs.
The official announcement that the
King and Queen of England have for
some time past observed
Spartan Fare two meatless days a
week recalls an inter-
ioi Aihs' eating conversation with
a leading Windsor tradesman who reg
ularly supplies certain foodstufYs to the
palace there and is in a position to
know quite a lot about the inner work
fnRs of the royal menaRe He told nf