The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20

gayest house parties are happeing at every ancestral place that owns a host or hostess. I am told that Lady De- cies (who was Miss Vivienne Gould of
 New York; is specially popular. She was one of a big house party at Dublin cas- tie the other day. She was wearing a wonderful gown of grey, with silver
 foxes, and sat beside Lord French in
 the vice-regal box at the Phoenix Park race meeting
 Nobody hears anything very much nowadays concerning the Manchesters. In fact, the duke and duchess seem en- tirely to have disappeared from public view recently. Lady Londonderry is an Irish hostess who is much to the fore at present. She runs backward and for ward between Dublin and London in a
 most energetic fashion. I saw her in | uniform in Bond street the other day.
 She is president and director of the Womans Legion, and she is, l am told, arranging to recruit a similar body in Ireland.
 Fashionable London is just now In the i throes of what I might call ballet
 boom" Everybody who is anybody and who can spare the time and the money is visiting the Russian ballet, which 1 is performing at the Coliseum, a Lon don music hall that about six years ago gave the public an opportunity of seeing the peerless Karsavina and the nimble l Nijinsky for the first time. Now that there are other Russian dancers pirouet- ting on the same stage once more. the same crowd of ultra artistic notabilities visit this theatre Lady Randolph Churchill as Mrs. Montague Porch still prefers to be called, is to be seen in the audience at least four times week, while Lady Essex, the Duches of Marl- borough, and the Marchioness Town send are equally faithful in their at 1 tendance. or other member of the As
 quith family is always to be found
 watching the antics of the Russian
 dancers while I was much surprised
 one evening this week to see the | Duchess of Sutherland arriving with a party in one of the boxes. The
 Duchess is mistress of the robes to the i Queen, and it has not been considered correct up to the present for mem | bers of the royal household to be seen ] at public places of amusement unless
 the entertainment had to do with wal charity.
 But apparently as the sun is shining so brilliantly upon our arms these re- istrictions are melting away. This fact was emphasized t omy mind the other
 evening at the Lyric theatre when Miss Doris Keans made her return to the
 stage after her triumphal exit some months ago in Romance. The theatre
 was filled to its utmost capacity, anc
 the audience had all the appearance oi a pre-war gathering. In the stalls anc boxes all the women were in most elab'
 crate evening dress. It was only the l numbers of khaki-clad men that re
 minded you of the presence of war.
 | Everybody" was to be seen among the crowds-the Duchess of Westmin-
 ster in elack velvet and pearls was ir
 the stalls with her daughter, Lady UT
 sula Grosvenor in pale blue tulle. The 1 Baroness D'Erlanger in gold-coloreo satin was waving a fan of emerald green plumes against her red-gold hair The Princess of Monaco was wearing steel embroideries and black jet, with many diamonds and Miss Ellen Terry draped in a wonderful blue gray cloak and wearing little black lace cap on her white hair. received an ovation as sne came into the stalls. In fact. ev- erything inside the theatre was rosy and rapturous. It was only when we tried to get outside at the end of the | performance that we felt that there was | l don't believe that even London, that holds it's own special reputation for foul ! weather. ever produced so fearful night as that into which a mass of Doris Keans
 welcomers were precipitated on this par
 ticuiars occasion. The Lights of Lon.