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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1910
Page
27
A grand opera tone filled the Lasco last night as Preston Gibsons new play Drifting opened with an audience of prominent Washington society. Box parties included Chief Justice White and Mrs White Treasury Secretary MacVeagh and Mrs MacVeagh, and numerous ambassadors and ministers. Attendees wore lavish gowns, with Mrs Preston Gibson in white satin and others in turquoise, emerald, and pink gowns.
A Georgetown social event filled Linthicum Hall with ferns palms smileax and chrysanthemums as Adaline Colp Helena Staith Julia Whiting and others assisted. Mrs. Thomas Hyde and Mrs. John J. Beall hosted a reception dinner for guests including Maj. and Mrs. W. J. Barden Col and Mrs Langfitt and many Beall Beall and Bealle families. CONTINUED ON SEVENTH PAGE.
Wealthy Americans set aside rooms to showcase authors and artists. John Hays Hammond’s Washington home features a Greuze chamber with works by living artists and Louis Quinze furnishings. Other celebrated rooms include Napoleon-themed spaces. Diana Churchill is guarded by Scotland Yard due to threats from suffragists. Public figures like Mrs. Payne Whitney and Mrs. John H. Bankhead are noted for literary and culinary collections. The Metropolitan Opera opened with Giancomo Fuccini’s The Girl of the West, drawing a high society audience including Marcella Sembrich and numerous prominent families.
Mrs Taft joined the Christmas shoppers on F street yesterday morning wearing a dark violet tweed coat suit with furs and a small hat. Miss Helen Taft will return today from Baltimore where she has been staying with Mr and Mrs Theodore Marburg and Miss Christine Marburg. The Treasury secretary and Mrs MacVeagh dined with them before the Belasco play, joined by the Assistant Secretary and Mrs Hilles and Mr Hubert C Bailey. Miss Louise Cromwell hosted a dinner for House guests including Miss Vivian Gould Miss Angelica Brown Mr Jarvis Geer of Pittsburgh and Mr Ralph Bloomer of New York, then took them to the Belasco Theater. Miss Cromwell later hosted a luncheon for eighteen at Chevy Chase.
Miss Helen Taft daughter of President Taft honored guest at a Monday German ball in Lehman's Hall Baltimore attended by debutantes from Washington New York and Wilmington. A pre ball dinner was hosted by Mr and Mrs Marburg with chaperones Mrs Bruce Cotton. Tablescape and stage decorations featured Old Gold and smilax tall palms. Washington guests included Henry Martin Lieut W G Harrison Senor Mario di Nassimento and several JenningsSimmonds Mudd and Blandford among others. Miss Taft to return to the White House for a postball dinner hosted by the Southerlands.
Special cable from London reports during three hours of steaming trials the battleship Indefatigable exceeded 2 knots using three quarters of her power. It is believed she will reach 30 knots on full power trials.
The author has offered diet and health hints for over a decade, receiving many encouraging letters. A merchant changed his diet to two or three simple foods twice daily with life extension hopes. A lawyer fasted twenty days after poor results from regular treatment and saw benefits. The author laments diet's limited role in medical practice and notes habitual change is hard.
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