Vol. XII 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, March 13, 1914 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The S. E. Hutchinsons of Phila- 
delphia and the Henry L. Masons of 
Boston plan to open their respective 
summer homes in Beverly Farms the 
first of May, 
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Mr. and Mrs. Amory G. Hodges 
of the Beverly Farms colony are 
included among the scores of well 
known people who are spending the 
late winter at the White Sulphur 
Springs, where they have an apart- 
ment at the Greenbriers. Mr. and 
Mrs. Hodges lately gave a very suc- 
eessful dinner in the spring room 
‘ of their hotel. 
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Mrs. Clarence Moore and daugh- 
ter Miss Frances Moore of Prides 
Crossing were of the Americans 
presented at court at Buckingham 
palace, London, last Friday. Mrs. 
Moore was in black charmeuse with 
black tulle and overdress of black 
diamente. The train was of black 
velvet. She carried a black feath- 
er fan and wore ropes of pearls. 
Miss Moore wore a draped white 
dress of cloth of silver, the satin 
train covered with white tulle and 
paillettes of pearls and crystals, and 
earried a bouquet of lilies of the 
valley. 
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Three most delightful one-act 
plays by Carl Eduard Freybe were 
given at the Elizabeth Peabody Play- 
house, 357 Charles St., Boston, last 
Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday 
evening. One of the principle things 
which the trio of playlets demon- 
strated was, that with several short 
plays of varying plots, composition 
and treatment, the entertainment is 
quite as entertaining as though the at- 
traction were one which played a full 
evening. The three Freybe plays 
proved delightful vehicles for ama- 
teur thespians. The first of the play- 
lets, “The Man in Him,” was por- 
trayved by Miss Charlotte Louise 
Read, Vinton Freedley and Fred L. 
Stage. “The Squealer,” enacted by 
Miss Ruth Phinney, Roger N, Burn- 
ham and Dennis J, Shea, was one of 
the charming bits of the program. 
The concluding piece, “Dreamghost,” 
was well acted by Mrs. Barbee-Bab- 
son, Mrs. Yancey Williams, Miss 
Mary Miller, Irving Pichel and Carl 
E. Freybe, the author. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The Masquerade Music Ride of 
the New Riding school, Boston, last 
Saturday afternoon proved a most 
charming oceasion. The costumes 
were many and varied. The riding 
was confined to trotting and light 
canters in the mazes of figures pre- 
scribed by Riding Master Spear. 
The grand march of an ordinary 
ball on horseback would be a good 
description. The horses seemed to 
take to the music without either 
special enthusiasm or objection. In- 
deed, they were the most unemo- 
tional, with one or two exceptions 
of the entire party. Originality 
seemd to be the aim of the costumes. 
There were clowns and pierettes, 
cowboys and girls, cavaliers, ladies 
and hobo-funnymen. Some were 
rich in silk and satins, tin armor 
and velvet. other were not. All 
seemed to enjoy themselves. By 
far the cutest costume of them all 
was that of Miss Theodora Ayer. 
With George S. Mandell and Mrs. 
Charles Ayer as Punch and Judy, 
she was the baby. Clad in an in- 
fant’s cap and flowing robes she 
looked most diminutive as she trot- 
ted about the ring on the back of 
her little horse. And her efforts to 
make him keep up with those of her 
adopted parents—by kicks of her 
tiny heels and slaps of her very 
baby-looking hands, caused audible 
titters to run the length of the gal- 
lery. Others in the party were: 
Nora Saltonstall, ‘‘Bluebeard’’; 
Gordon Abbott, ‘‘Cowboy’’; Hope 
Gaston and Louisa Bazeley, ‘‘Two 
Picanninies’’; Rosamond Adie and 
Helen Bowen, ‘‘The Whip’’ and the 
‘““Cow Girl’’; Mollie Adams, ‘‘a 
Cavalier’’; Virginia Pegram, ‘‘Joan 
of Are’’; Lucy Sylvester, ‘‘ Indian 
Girl’’; Joseph Sylvester, ‘‘Cow 
Boy’’; Margaret Stone, ‘‘Page of 
King Charles II’’; Rosamond John- 
son, ‘‘Irish Peasant Girl’’; Dorothy 
Mandell, ‘‘Mother Goose’’; Eliza- 
beth Paine, ‘‘Pierette’’; Betty Beal, 
a ‘‘Lady of King Charles II,’’ and 
Richarl Saltonstall, ‘‘ Rob Roy.”’ 
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Mrs. George Lee and Miss Mar- 
gery Lee were arrivals on the last 
trip of the Olympic, after several 
months’ absence in Europe, much of 
which time was passed in Italy. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
John Hays Hammond of Glouces- 
ter, having completed the business 
that called him to London, planned 
to sail for New York on March 11. 
During their stay, he and Mrs. Ham- 
mond have completed an extraordin- 
ary social round of practically the en- 
tire British aristocracy, from royalty 
downward, Before their departure 
it was expected they would be dinner 
guests at Buckingham Palace. King 
George had intimated to mutual 
friends his wish to have a private 
talk with Mr. Hammond. 
Misses Louisa P. and Katharine 
P. Loring of the Pride’s Crossing 
year-round colony, are abroad. 
They went out from New York on 
the last trip of the Franconia for 
the Mediterranean and_ Asiatic 
ports. 
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Death has this week removed 
three members of the Shore colony 
whose loss will be distinctly felt as 
they have all been prominently identi- 
fied with the life of the respective 
communities in which they lived. 
They are Dr. Thomas Morgan Rotch 
of the Manchester colony, S. Reed 
Anthony of Beverly Farms, a mem- 
ber of the Boston firm of Tucker, 
Anthony & Co., and Francis J. Cot- 
ting of Pride’s Crossing, who is so 
well known through his active con- 
nection with the Industrial School 
for Crippled and Deformed Children, 
of which he had been president for 
the past fifteen years. Mr. Cotting 
was himself a cripple and had been 
interested in the school from its in- 
ception, when it had only eight pupils, 
one teacher and $25 in its treasury. 
Shortly after the founding of the 
school Mr. Cotting was elected a 
trustee and continued as such after 
he became its president. Mr. Cot- 
ting, who was the son of the late 
Charles U. Cotting, was forty-eight 
years old. His physical disability 
kept him from going to college, but 
he became a finely educated man, 
with an intense interest in college 
athletics. He was a man for whom 
eveybody delighted to do things. Per- 
sonally, he was always a cheerful, 
busy, earnest man of affairs. He 
had a sunny humor, which impressed 
itself on every visitor and if he 
suffered others never knew it. The 
