Evening star., 1918-02-24

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has taken place
Executive Ability of in America this
Mrs. 0elrichs. n,aa ,ns boards
at Palm Beach recently, participated in
by many people of prominence. says the
Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs conceived the
idea and executed il with fine business
management. She discovered that about
$4,000 was needed to build a hospital
in West Palm Beach, one that may be
used by winter visitors at this resort
another year, and set out to get it with
one party.
John and Edward Bradley said they
would give dinner for $50 people at
the Beach Club. provided Mrs. Oelrichs
would sell il at s15 a plate, which she
did in short order, thus raising $3.50.
The Dolly sisters, who happened to be
here. agreed to dance inside a circle of
twenty-five tables Mrs. Oelrichs must
have spent large sum on flowers, for
she had the club bedecked with them,
and after the exhibition dancing the
diners got into wheel chairs and made
the short trip to the tropical gardens
between the Royal Poinciana Hotel and
Lake Worth, where a ball. open to any
one who would pay the So admission.
was held under the palm trees beneath
hundreds Of Japanese lanterns There
the Dolly sisters again danced on a
floor laid flush with the sod, while
ABOUT 1000 persons occupied refresh
ment tables surrounding this space.
At recent "Caruso night at the
occupied her box
Peacock Feathers No. 3O having as
Replace Ostrich. W,l,iam Rsr gaes. 81 xtar Mrs.
chanler who before her marriage was
well known as the actress Minnie
Ashley Mrs. Whitney's unusual type
of brunette good looks was greatly en-
HANGED by the yellow satin gown she
wore. The cut of the frock was sim
plicity itself. and quite medieval in
effect. which suited Mrs. Whitney well.
Mrs Chanler carried one of the new
peacock feather fans about which
women seem to have lost all supersti-
tious FEELING. The day of the heavy
ostrich feather fan is gone for the
nonce. Mrs. Chanler's fan was made
of the longest and slimmest of pea
cock feathers. mounted on very short
sandal wood sticks. 1t was Immense
IN IN size and of almost binding bril-
liancy of color.
Despite his eighty-four wears savs
the New York Herald, Chauncev NJ De-
pew is a stanch
Mr.. Depew advocate Of
Advocates Skating. as ana IN
ment made in Peekskiu recently charac-
terizes any one who cannot skate as a
stiff"
Mr.. Depew. who was brought up in
Peekskill. has just sent check for $50
to the public officials there to pay for
clearing snow off Lake Mitchell SO
folk may skate. He incloses a letter
explaining that he used to be a skater
himself, and that when the ice is clear
II gives one an opportunity to demon
stiff" oi
Through the death in France a few
days ago of Capt. Cecil Edwardes.
while in command of
Nine. Edvina's a squadron of tanks,
n.n-Lx an operate and So
cial fayorite of Chi
cago has become widow. known on
the operate stage as Nine. Edvina, she
made her debut at Covent Garden, in
London. in 1906, and thereafter appear
ed in Paris and other cities abroad. as
well as in New York and Chica go
While in Chicago two years ago as a
member of the Chicago Opera Company
Nine Edvina was widely feted by So
ciety. She is daughter of F. Y. Mar
TN OF Chicago, and was married to
Cecil EdWardes. member of one of the
most ancient families in Wales, when
he was ranching in British Columbia.
MIS-. EdWardeS has two young daugh-
tiers, who are said to have Inherited
their mothers good looks
The other day, writes an English
Birmingham Age-Herald.
"Mr. read a brief announce
A1era. ment of the death of Mr..
Alfred c. Rothschild-a
name, beyond being that of the famous
banking house. which has no special
in this part Of the world.
But in London. where he died, Mr.. AL
fred" was personality that was as
familiar there as the late Pierpont Nor
gan here.
Only with the difference that .Mr
Alfred was a social personality who
never missed great opera night. an
important premiere at theater or any
great gathering where the aristocratic
and artistic world congregated.
He was never called Mr. Rothschild-
always and to every one he was Mr..
Alfred. He was an intimate friend of
King Edwards. and they used to sit
side by side in the box at Coyent Car
den Opera, which is the property OF
Whites club, and discuss the merits and
demerits of the reigning prima donna
with immense vivacity.
MT Alfred" with his neat white
whiskers, his thin. rosy face and his
rather weary blue eyes. was known TO
every one. He was tremendous dandy
and his clothes were the perfection Of
cut and fit- His evening clothes had
velvet collars and cuffs; he always wore
white gardenia in his buttonhole and
he possessed the most superb cuff links
OF any gentleman in England. They
were made of four huge pearls. two
gray and two white, and he inyarjah1v
wore his shirt cuffs well down over his
small gloved hands. SO that the splen-
did stones had their full effect unon
the public when he sat in his box at
the theater or opera house He never
married. although he was said to have
been In love with many women.