Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-23
Americans Will
Play Part in New
Social Season. London

London, Nov. 21-(AP)-American
are scheduled to take q larger part in
the coming social season of London
than ever before. The years since the
war have seen an increasing number
of Americans establish themselves in
West End mansions, where they en-
tertail on a scale equal to that of the
leading families of the capital.
Each year their activities have in
creased until last year many of the
most fashionable and elaborate of the
seasons entertainments were given
by American hostesses, and their
guests often included the Prince of
Wales. his brothers and many others
whose presence assures social sue
cess.
This season Americans are being
invited everywhere, their names ap-
pearlng in some of the guests lists
for the first time. The hesitancy of
many of the older families of Lon
don to admit foreign guests who are
in London just for the season seems
to have been overcome, if not by the
extensive entertaining they have re-
ceived from these foreigners, certain
ly by the presence of the Royal Fam
lily at affairs given by such people.
The Duke and Duchess of York
have acquired a large town house,
and now that they have left their
fiat" in Buckingham Palace the
Duchess is expected to be the leading
hostess of this season. The royal
couple intend to return the hospital
ity they have accepted during the last
two or three seasons and invitations
have been issued for "house warm
ing" Americans figure extensively
in hn t0 int tGf
A statue of the Prince of Wales
that has been admired by millions
and criticized by few Is to be melt
ed down and made into SOAP 1t is
the three-tcn butter model of the
Prince wearing his headdress and
robes as Chief Morning Star of the
Stoney Indians, which throughout the
last year of the British Empire Ex-
hibition at Wembley has been one of
the most popular attractions of the
Canadian building.
But, like the largest SQUASH from
Australia and the prize pumpkin from
South America, the Princes day has
come, AMI he must leave Wembley. A
soapmaker's cauldron will consume
him because preserving chemicals
have made the statue inedible.
Artists have not protested Per-
haps the refrigerating plant went
wrong, but the butter Prince seems
to have settled down into his boots
and is much too ''stoutish" for those
critics who admired the statuary for
it's art rather than for the amount
of butter required in the making.
Eden Phillpotts, author of "The
Farmers Wife," which failed in
America but has been running in
London nearly two years, has never
seen the play and says he never will.
Mr.. Phlllpotts, who lives at Tor
quay. has not been in London for
more than 20 years. However, he
mad the opportunity of seeing No.
company in 1.-THE Farmers Wife"
when it was played in his home town.
but refused to go.
The author says he fears he would
not enjoy his play and has no desire
to see it on that account
Dean Inge's reputation of a hell
which Is below" and a heaven which
Is above" has started so little dis
cussion in England that the impress
sion arises that the average English
man worries very little about the
geographical location of the here
after. In fact, there have apparently
peen so many churchmen who havr
questioned the nature of eternal dam
nation or eternal joy that England
cannot be stirred unduly by the opIn-
ion of the dean of st. Paurs.
Dean Blakesley of Lincoln WAS
once asked by . student whether he