Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14

With the midwinter season of dane
Ing In full swing 1t is interesting to
read the regulations which governed
the most famous masked fete of the
London season. that given the day
after New Year for the Ypres build
ing fund. Queen Mary took hand in
the rules applied to making awards
for the most original, graceful and
effective costumes Characters of
questionable worth. according to a
strtcter dictum which holds in the
feminine world, were ruled out. These
included favorites like Cleopatra,
Phryne, lurid women of the Medici
era, the long line of notables in
Barry. La Valliere, La Pomvadour,
usually multiplied beyond reason.
were entirely eliminated and fresh.
new types were seen. Thus the love-
~ young Warehouses of Blandford,
daughter-in-law of the former Ouch
esS of Marlborough, carried off prize
as the messenger bearing gifts from
solomon to the Queen of Sheba. This
queen, coming without doubt under
the category of questionable" was
not represented on the floor, but the
messenger, clad IN the soft silk of
Tyre, and bearing tray laden with
Jewel boxes and precious ointments,
struck a new note of historical i'm
portance. Others winning prizes were
Lady Dorchester, who was chatelain
of the 18th century and wore robes
and Jewels copied from a Titan
painting. Lady Portchester was Miss
Catherine Wendell of New York. Not
u hackneyed characted was depicted.
though the ball was one of the larg-
est given this season in London. The
masculine participants wore military
costumes of their own or adapted
from some ancestor i'll former wars.
Mrs. Allen Potts of Middleburg, Va.
who is the only hereditary master or
hounds--or mistress in this case
which this country can boast, has been
making some additions to the Castle
H;ll hounds, SO prominently identined
with the exploits of the Orange Hunt
Club. The original Castle Hill
hounds were collected at least twenty
years prior to the revolutionary war
and George Washington frequently
rode TO their baying. The strain has
been kept pure and in excellent state
Tor the hunt, even during the cruel
days of the civil war and now their
fame reaches beyond the confines of
the famous hunting counties of VIr
ginia. The Orange horse show is
one OF the most imposing held In the
Old Dominion and Mrs. Potts is
feld. Mum erous canvases of her
surrounded by the hounds and wear
ing the dapper coat and uniform OF
the hereditary guardian of the
hounds may be admired in the Orange
Hunt Club house in that part of
Eauquier county near Warrenton and
n many of the hunt clubs Of New
York and Pennsylvania. This heredi-
tary guardian of the hounds is as
much at home III Washington. where
she lived for many years, as in her
fine old Virginia estate, where the
gay hunting parties Of Lord Loudoun
and Lord Culpeper set out with their
followers TO pursue reynard through
the hills
One OF the genuine treats which
New York offers visitors who, in the
language of the song, wish to be-
come "a child again. just for to-
night" is the juvenile theater open
cd during Christmas week by the
Hecksher Foundation for children.
30 quietly have the projectors of
skis plan gone about their work that
Ee" knew of their intention until the
playhouse was ready to open. 1t is
but a part of great establishment
hich houses the Society for the Pre-
vsntion of Cruelty to Children and
She affiliated branches, which Mr.. and
Mrs. Augustus Hecksher recently en-
dowed with $4.000,000. One third of
this income, must be devoted to anus
ing children, and for this purpose the
theater. conducted to appeal to the
child heart of every condition In
life, has been built and prepared
Every fairy tale out of all the ages
has been magically made ready for
the stage. whilst the mural paintings
Aad general decorations are pro-
'nounced ideal. A $4,000 motor bus
goes about New York and it's en-
vIrons, gathering up the audience and
a nice hot luncheon precedes the