The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-19
SOcietyGay
at Newport
Tennis Meet
Coming Out Parties
Fill Busy Week
at Resort.
BY HELEN WORDEN
Time speciaf Writer

NEWPORT. r. j, Aug. ia
y gres. many People thought
there wouldn't he much doing IN
Newport until Thursday. when The
annual invitation tennis tourns-
ment got under wsv. II was $50
Wednesday morning when the crowd
left Jane Pope's coming out party
The dance began Saturday night. l
ran across plenty Of luncheons, din
ners and dances last week.
I've ben 10 2 luncheon practically
every day this month" Mrs. w. Eu-
gene Parsons said Thursday when l
stopped in TO see her. Il think
Newport is gayer than 1t has been
IN years
Mrs. Parsons suite at the Viking
looks more like a New York draw =
ing room than 2 hotel apartment. IL
is pink and ivory and gold, with 2
cream-white and rose AubuSSon rug
FOR an added touch Of richness.
They're all my own things" she
said. 4 feel more at home with
them" Their Dresden china grace
suits her personality. Mrs. Parsons
granddaughter, lie Brun Rhine
lander. makes her debut Wednes-
day night in Newport at the Muen-
Chinger-King.
Favoriie Rendezvous
The King suggests
an amisble white-hsired doWa9er
who has INDUCED in q dash ot
rouge and q fash of lipstick. It's
bright striped awnings and panied
chairs p becoming but rakish.
The coiors have brought business.
The white frame manSard-rooIed
hotel across from the reading room,
NewpOrt's Union Club, is the meet
ing place for the younger set. Inc
debs and their boy friends gather
there ri cocktail time or after the
movies Tor 2 dance. 49,,
From in the afternoon until
midnight this section OF quiet Belle
vle-av echoes to the lifting notes
Of Ed DreW's orchestra and Bill
Csrrigans clear tenor voice.
Bv the end Of the season every
body in the neighborhoOd will know
You're All I Need" The Isle OF
Capri" you're the Top" Miss Otis
REGRETS. Every Night at Eight"
The Lady in Red" There's Only
One You" Take II Easy Fast CT
the Sun and West Of the Moon, "
Romance of a Rose" and The
Lonely Gondolier."
FavOrite Viennese Music
Newport also is familiar with
Alexander Haas Hungarian En-
semble." You'll find them behind
every screen of ported palms at
every dowager party fiddling "The
Blue Danube Hearts and Flow
ers." Poet and Peasant and The
Merry Widow Waltz"
At the opening of the Newport
Casino Theater there they were
dressed this time in scarlet JACKIE s
and placed in q balcony. SalNe Mr..
Haas and his Hungarian Ensemble
furnished the music for the John
Jacob Astor wedding.
Visiting foreigners bring a Euro
pean tone to Newport. The Fred
erick Princes have been entertain
ing the Marquis of Gardening.
Baron Paul Schell of the Hungarian
legation is the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. Matthews Dick, and, OF
course, there is always Maxim Kar-
dix, the Russian husband of the
former Miss Martha Goldman, BoS-
TON and EMO Fiermonte, the Ital-
liam spouse of the former Mrs. Viii
liam h. Dick.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt prac-
ices her italian on Mr.. F1ermonte.
your pronunciation is much bet
ter he told her few days ago.
House Filled With Antiques
Italian phrases few thick and fast
across the stage in Laurette Tay-
lors play, at Marian's," last week.
An Italian priest and lover fell
back on their native language when
ever a situation grew tense.
lis it really Italian?" Mrs. Joseph
Iong asked Mr.. Fiermonte. Yes, "
ne said. they are speaking Sici-
liar" Fiermonte in Roman.
Mrs. Joseph Long has leased the
De Rham cottage on Red Cross-6r
this year. II is 2 pleasant. old-fssh-
ion white frame country house filled
with fascinating antiques.
There is a blue-line stone side
driveway. high sWning-shaded
front porch. big drawing room done
in white, pale blue, pastel pink ard
mauve; a dining room decorated in
the same soft shades, large library
and numerous Vatican patterned
bedrooms, with great bay windows
that look into green JreetopS.
Across from Mrs. Longs is the
Donald o. MscRse residence. where
the John Jacob ASJor wedding re-
ception was held last year. Mrs.
NIscRaa has leased her home this
season and taken cottage q few
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