Evening star., 1923-07-01

area and or WhiCn NINE LouuoHs ~'Ao
Of the minister from the Netherlands
and formerly Miss Lydia Eustis OF
New Orleans, is the chairman. The
musical program will include. besides
the popular Irish ballad singer, some
famous amateurs in the music world
of Paris. 1t will be given in the Thea
ter des Champs Elysees and will be
the closing event OF the season.
Among those who have been actively
engaged In aiding Nine. Loudoun ts
the Baroness Romano Avezzano. who
was Miss Jacqueline Taylor Of St
Louis and was SO genial chatelaine
of the Italian embassy during her
husbands brief tenure in Washington.
Mrs. John W. Mackay is to be an
other assistant as will Mrs. Spencer
Eddy. Mrs Harry s.. Iohr Mrs. J.
Mrs. Robert Goelet and the Marquise
de Chambrun, sister Of Representa-
tive Longworth. This concert Will
mark the dispersal of the modish
gered just to give the notable event
their sanction and most cordial sup
port. The ambassador. Mr.. Herrick
and Mr.. and Mrs. Parmely Herrick
have been entertaining Mr.. McCor-
mack for a few days and later he
will be presented to the President OF
France.
Among the many Americans pre-
sented at the recent drawing rooms
held in Buckingham palace. was
Miss Mary Langdon Baker, whose
time fiance, Alastair Mccormick OF
Chicago. set the country to guessing
through some two years and more.
For exactly five times was the wed.
ding set, the garments purchased and
the attendants named and as many
times was the ceremony abruptly
postponed. Mrs. Alfred Baker has
taken furnished mansion in the very
heart of London's MAYFAIR, 43 Port.
land square. the residence of Lord
and Lady Wellesley, the former son
and heir of the Duke of wellington
and Miss Mary intends hereafter to
to admire the English. especially the
men, for their skin in hunting and
their general poise and for the per-
manency, of their social customs.
Lady Colfax, Miss Baker will pass all
of August under her chaperonage at
the Lido across from Venice. where
many of the fashionables Of London
foregather for the swimming and for
the tennis, golf and polo, which the
Anglo-Italian Club has made possible
by redeeming the marshes to the
north. Miss Baker has also developed
an artistic turn and will study art In
London in the winter and in Venice
during the summer. AS for Mr..
Alastair Mccormick, he also finds
London most alluring and has closed
his apartment in Chicago and Joined
his elder brother who has lived for
some years near Richmond-on-
Thames. The Chicago colony now
resident In London fast encroaches
on the New York contingent for
numbers and Importance.
Some years ago. when Mrs. Rookie
Harold Mccormick and the domestic
1nfelecitites far in the future. with
the aid of some renowned architects
and artists. Mr.. and Mrs Mccormick
which was their favorite home, of q
series of locks and artificial islands
which would extend into the lake
proper, and: by means Of canals.
reach into Chicago and thus enable
the tired business man of that bustl-
Ing city to run out to his suburban
home entirely by motor boat canoe
or skiff. Mrs. Mccormick furnished
plans. and the amount went far into
the ten thousands. 1t was understood
that John r. Rockefeller would con-
tribute a substantial sum, and Mr.
Harvester Company, was presumed
to add some Of those millions to
artistic development Of Chicago's
most beautiful outskirt. But the pro-
jectors of the idea seemingly lost
interest, or, at least. neither Rookie
feller nor Mccormick millions were
forthcoming. and the plans were pre-
sented to the City Library. Now a
renewed interest is awakening. and
committees of citizens are forming
and 1t may be that within the next
five years the stretch of twenty
seven miles from the heart Of the city
to the principal lake in Lake Forest.
will be transformed into a sort Of
inner lagoon. on which not only
private boats, but those running
commercially will make their sched-
ule after the manner Of the transport
in Venice. 1t seems far cry from
the city of Doges to Americas west
ern metropolis. but artists declare
sembles the Adriatic, and that the
natural facilities thereabout are far
in excess Of those which the early
residents Of Venice faced In making
their wonderful city.
Meantime. Chicago golfists have set
up the most exclusive and handsome
ly equipped crb of the lake regions
outside Lake Forest, and Stanley
Field, nephew of the late Marshall
Field. is, the president. Mr.. Field for
years maintained a charming home
in Marion on BuZzards bay, Mass, ana
he was among the pioneers of golf in
that quiet village. where: until a few
years ago. croquet was the most ex-
citing pastime. But of recent years
ly all of the summer travelling or at
their home near Lake Forest. The
Shore Acres Golf Club is an activity
of the great civic club of Chicago and
it's members intend to develop the
sports idea to the last word, having
hydroaeroplanes.- motor boats and
we'll kept swimming beach all a part
golf links, besides being extensive
and boasting a clubhouse of unusual
size and elegance of interior, will be
ranked among the most difficult
courses in the country. since there
are marsh lands. deep ravines, knolls
and hazards of a surprising variety.
including deep gashes in the bluffs,
which abound near Lake Forest.
When Count Hermann Scherr- -Thoss
married Miss Muriel White, only
daughter of the then ambassador to
France, Henry White, one clause OF
the pre-nuptia1 agreement consisted
of promise on the part of the BRIDE
groom that his wife. and should there
every year In the United States. Mr..
White was reluctant that his daugh-
ter and his grandchildren should be-
come absolutely weaned away from
the land of his birth and which, he
had served most assiduously in the
diplomatic service for almost fifty
years. In pursuance with this agree
ment, the countess and her two
sturdy. sons have just arrived In New
port and will remain until October.
then accompanying Mr.. and Mrs.
White TO Lenox. Count Scherr-Thoss
was first secretary of the German
embassy in Paris when he met Miss
White. The marriage has been q con-
spicuous success and the count far
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