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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1910
Page
5
An audience packed the Lasco last night for the premiere of Preston Gibson’s Drifting, with an impressive box and audience list. Notables including Chief Justice White and Mrs White Secretary MacVeagh and others filled boxes, while fashion and gowns drew attention from students to diplomats.
A seasonal Georgetown assembly at Linthicum Hall featured a reception with Miss Adaline Colp Miss Helena Staith Miss Julia Whiting Miss Marian King Miss Katherine Poole Miss Harriet Lothrop Bisa Frances Thompson and Minx Edith Ery. Guests included Mrs Thomas Hyde Mrs John J Beall and an executive committee led by Mr Thomas Hyde. The guest list spanned numerous local families and a long line of attendees. Continued on seventeenth page.
Wealthy Americans create dedicated rooms to display favorite authors and artists with curated relics. Notable examples include John Hays Hammond’s Greuze chamber in Washington and Napoleon rooms across the country, alongside high society opulence at Metropolitan Opera openings and private dinners hosted by Mrs. John H Bankhead. Detectives guard Diana Churchill amid suffragette threats. Christabel Pankhurst denies the kidnapping claim.
Mrs Taft joined the Christmas shippers along F street yesterday morning wearing a dark violet tweed coat suit with furs and a small hat. Miss Helen Taft returns today from Baltimore where she stayed with Mr and Mrs Theodore Marburg and Miss Christine Marburg. The Treasury Secretary and Mrs MacVeagh dined informally last night before the Belasco play. Assistant Secretary Hilles and Mr Hubert C Bailey also present. Miss Louise Cromwell hosted dinner for her House guests with Miss Vivian Gould Miss Angelica Brown Mr Jarvis Geer of Pittsburg and Mr Ralph Blomer of New York before taking them to the Belasco Theater. Miss Cromwell hosted a luncheon for eighteen at Chevy Chase.
Miss Helen Taft daughter of President Taft was guest of honor at a Monday German in Lehman's Hall Baltimore. Debutantes numbered forty five with guests from New York Washington and other cities. A dinner at the Marburg home preceded the ball and Miss Taft attended with Miss Christine Marburg and Miss Katie Grainger, chaperoned by Mrs. Bruce Cotton. The social event featured ornate decor palms smilax and gold ribbons with a stage drawing room and a Nile green supper room. Taft to return to the White House tomorrow for a dinner hosted by Rear Admiral Southerland and the Misses Southerland.
Special Cable from London reports during three hours of steaming trials the battleship Indefatigable exceeded 2 knots using three fourths of her power. It is believed she will make 30 knots on full power trials.
Letters from readers recount the impact of diet tips over more than ten years. Examples include a merchant who shifted to two or three simple foods daily and a lawyer who dieted after fasting twenty days. The writer laments diet not emphasized in medicine, noting it causes about 99 percent of ailments and noting habit change as a barrier.
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