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_  . SOCIETY NOTES. 
The operatic premiere on Monday evening at the 
Boston Opera House brought North Shore society to- 
gether in beautiful gowns and bedecked in costly jewels 
to listen to equally beautiful musie through the medium 
of Boito’s ‘‘Mefistofele’’. Box-holders included Mrs. 
John L. Gardner, L. Cartaret Fenno, Quincy A. Shaw, 
“Robert Gould Shaw, S. Reed Anthony, Larz Anderson, 
Lester Leland, James J. Storrow, Bryce J. Allen, Eben 
DP. Jordan, Herbert M. Sears, Frederick Ayer, Wm. M. 
Wood, Mrs. Walter D. Denegre, Mrs. F. Gordon Dexter 
and many others. The following have secured orches- 
tra seats for Monday evenings:—Amory Eliot, Mrs. 
Edward S. Grew, Henry L. Higginson, Mrs. George C. 
Lee, Amory A. Lawrence, Gardner M. Lane, A. Shu- 
man, George Putman and Miss A. -G. Thayer. 
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Francis W. Fabyan and family took leave of 
the North Shore Tuesday of this week and closed their 
West Manchester cottage for the season. 
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By the closing of the Whipple cottage at West Man- 
‘chester Wednesday of this week, Mrs. Elizabeth A. 
Whipple and son George N. Whipple and the former’s 
‘brother George Noyes were numbered among the Bos- 
 tonians returning to their city homes. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Lester Leland are bringing their stay 
at their West Manchester estate to a close on Thursday 
“next. They will spend most of the winter in Europe. 
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Miss Helen Taft spent the last week-end at Bryn 
Mawr, returning to Washington last Sunday evening. 
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‘Mrs. W. Harry Brown of Pittsburg and Burgess 
Point, Beverly, was an aid Tuesday afternoon at the 
reception given by Mrs. James Scott and Miss Scott at 
Atholl’, the Scott residence on Stanton avenue, Pitts- 
burg. Guests were asked to meet Mrs. Frederick Cole 
Fairbanks, daughter of Mrs. Scott and a daughter-in- 
lew of ex-Vice. Pres Fairbanks, and Mrs. Edward Gro- 
 etzinger. Following the reception the aids with an 
equal number of men were entertained at dinner by the 
hostess. 
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Mme. Corinne Rider-Kelsey, soprano of the Covent 
" Garden opera company of London, who has summered 
in Magnolia, appeared at Wellesley college Monday 
evening in the first of the annual series of artists’ re- 
citals under the auspicies of the music department of 
the college. 
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. MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1910. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Eben D. Jordan celebrated the opening of the opera 
season, which also signalized his birthday, by a dinner 
party Monday evening at the Hotel Lenox. Henry 
Russell director of the opera company, acted as toast- 
master. His toast of good luck to Mr. Jordan was 
drank by the guests, who included several North Shore 
summer residents:—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Carr, Mr. 
and Mrs. Wallace Goodrich, T. D. Boardman, West 
Manchester; Herbert M. Sears, Pride’s; Mrs. Jordan, 
Robert Jordan, Miss Dorothy Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. 
R. G. Shaw, Mrs. Larz Anderson, also Mrs. Elsie French 
Vanderbilt and the operatic stars of the company, sev- 
eral of whom sang arias during the evening. 
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The date of Miss Edith Deacon’s marriage has been 
announced for Saturday, January 7, in the apartments 
of the bride elect’s grandmother, Mrs. Baldwin in the 
Ritz-Carlton, New York. Mrs. John W. Culter, who 
will spend a portion of her honeymoon in Beverly Farms 
this winter, will be Miss Deacon’s matron of honor. 
Miss Deacon was a bridesmaid at Mrs. Cutler’s wed- 
ding. 
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The engagement of Laurance H. Armour and Miss 
Frances Lacy Withers recently announced will be fol- 
lowed by their wedding January 11. The engagement 
renews interest in the affairs of Mr. Armour’s mother, 
who became the bride of Charles W. Littlefield, U. S. 
N., in New York in September after her summer’s 
sojourn at Magnolia. 
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John Hays Hammond and family are remaining at 
their North Shore residence, Fresh Water Cove, well 
into the Thanksgiving season. Mr. Hammond is not 
in good health and his physicians have prescribed aop- 
sclute quiet. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond are planning to 
sail for Russia late in the winter where they are to be 
received by the Czar and Czarina at the Russian court. 
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Mr. and Mr. Harold F. Mason are spending a portion 
of their honeymoon at the Virginia Hot Springs. They 
are registered at the Homestead. 
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T. Dennie Boardman, and family party are removing 
from West Manchester to Boston next week. 
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Mrs. Reginald Foster, daughter Ruth and her two 
sons of Boston and Coolidge’s Point, Manchester, are 
planning to spend the winter abroad. They were due 
to sail this week. 
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