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SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. House, 
of Austin, Texas, New York, and 
Magnolia, have announced the en- 
gagement of their daughter, Miss 
Janet House, to Gordon Auchincloss, 
of New York. Miss. House has been 
out in society several years and is 
for the winter at the Gotham with 
her parents. Mr. Auchincloss is a 
son of Mrs. Edgar S. Auchincloss 
and a grandson of the late Samuel 
Sloan. He was graduated from 
Harvard last June. Miss House is a 
sister to Mrs. Randolph F. Tucker 
(Mona House) of Boston and Man- 
chester. 
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Mr. and Mrs. George H. Snowden, 
the latter a niece of President Taft, 
have arrived at the White House. 
Miss Helen Taft will go to Balti- 
more on Monday to attend the first 
Monday german, and will be the 
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore 
Marburg. 
See. and Mrs. Geo. von L. Meyer 
were among the guests on Tuesday 
at the dinner in Washington given 
to Lady Alan Johnstone, wife of 
the British minister to Denmark, by 
her mother, Mrs. James Pinchot. 
Mrs. John L. Saltonstall served 
as a patroness at the fine concert of 
the Beverly Singing Club on Tues- 
day evening. 
H. C. Frick to Build Great Art 
Gallery at Pride’s Crossing 
The rumor current this fall at 
Pride’s that a large addition is to 
be made to the Frick mansion 
seems to have been verified on the 
departure of the family last Sun- 
day after a long season at ‘‘ Eagle 
Rock.”’ 
The addition will be an art gallery 
two stories high, of gray stone and 
facing brick to match ‘‘Eagle 
Rock’’ mansion. It is to be built 
on the west wing. The size of the 
structure has not yet been deter- 
mined by Mr. Frick, who is now in 
New York city. It is understood 
that the interior scheme will be 
similar to that of the first floor of 
the house, the flooring of which is 
mosaic marble set in elaborate de- 
signs. The staircases, architraves. 
rails and steps will probably be of 
imported marble with grill work of 
gold. 
Plans for the gallery are now be- 
ing drawn by New York architects. 
No contracts have been figured or 
awarded yet so it is improbable that 
the addition will be completed by 
next season. There are also reports 
that the addition calls for a_ ball 
room. 
Mr. Frick has always been a lover 
of art, and already has an art col- 
lection valued up into the millions. 
A year ago 50 of the great Frick 
collection, the estimated value of 
which is between $2,000,000 and 
$3,000,000, were loaned to the Bos- 
ton Art Museum. One of these was 
the $300,000 Rembrandt, bought a 
year ago last May, ‘‘The Polish 
Rider.’’ 
Mr. Frick is said to have told one 
of the wealthy North Shore summer 
colonists that he intended to ‘‘outdo 
anything in New England in the 
way of an art gallery’’ and Mr. 
Frick is generally to be taken at his 
word. When completed, the gallery 
will undoubtedly be the mecca for 
many of the world’s best known ar- 
tists, and the pride of the hundreds 
of millionaire summer visitors, in- 
cluding President Taft, who sum- 
mers less than a mile away. 
Among the most famous oil paint- 
ings which will probably be installed 
in the new art gallery are the fol- 
lowing: Rembrandt’s Portrait of 
Himself, the Polish Rider, A Young 
Painter, Franz Hals’ Portrait of an 
Artist, Portrait of an Old Lady, A 
Burgomaster, M. Hobbema’s View of 
a Woody Country, Jacob Van Ruys- 
dael’s Waterfall, View in Amster- 
dam, Velasquez’s Queen Marianna 
of Spain, Titian’s Pietro Aretino, 
Sir J. Reynolds’ Lady Skipwith, 
Lady Elizabeth Taylor, Sir George 
Howland Beaumont, Lady Beau- 
mont. 
The Frick gallery when completed 
promises to outrival that of Mrs. 
John L. Gardner at her Fenway 
Palace, Boston. Mrs. Gardner 
opens her palace at stated periods 
to the nublic and charges a fee. Mr. 
Frick may eventually do the same at 
Pride’s in behalf of his numerous 
philanthropies. 
Last Week of ‘‘ Ben-Hur’’ at the 
Boston Theatre 
Closing one of the most successful 
runs it has ever had ‘‘Ben-Hur’’ 
which has been at the Boston The- 
atre the past six weeks will be seen 
for the last time on Saturday night, 
December 16th. All the seats for 
the remaining week went on sale on 
Monday and there has been a strong 
demand for them. The big produc- 
tion, which is the largest ever put 
out by Klaw & Erlanger goes from 
the Boston Theatre to the New Am- 
sterdam in New York. Some idea 
of the magnitude of the production 
ean be gained when it is stated that - 
it will he necessarv to close the New 
Amsterdam Theatre for two weeks 
in order to properly house the play. 
Edwin Robins appeared for the first 
time as Messala on Monday night 
and Miss Adelaide Nowak appeared 
as Iras, the Egyptian adventuress, 
The remainder of the cast is intact, 
Matinees will be given on Wed- 
nesday and Saturday. Mail orders 
will be given prompt attention when’ 
accompanied by cheque or money or- 
der and stamped, addressed envel- 
ope. 
‘‘ Seven Sisters ’’ at the Hollis 
‘““The Seven Sisters,’’ with Chas. 
Cherry and Daniel Frohman’s New 
York Lyceum Theatre Company, 
has made the biggest kind of a hit 
at the Hollis Street Theatre where 
it has been drawing capacity houses. 
It is a jolly comedy, full of bubbling 
fun, which is happily blended with 
the ardent romance of youth. It is 
a most seasonable offering its spark- 
ling brightness and joyousness be- 
ing in delightful keeping with the 
holiday season. The story itself, 
which concerns the marrying off of 
the seven daughters of the widow of 
a Hungarian officer in accordance 
with the Hungarian custom of ro- 
tation in accordance with their 
years, conveys the humor of the 
play at the outset, and it is devel- 
oped with such a variety of amusing 
complications and farcical situations 
that the audience is kept in merriest’ 
humor from the rise of the curtain 
until the very end. In the gay land 
of Hungary it is the custom to marry © 
off the girls of a family in turn, the 
eldest first and so on, the younger — 
ones being kept in short dresses un- 
til their turn comes. In this family | 
there are seven—the fourth one is 
in a convent from which she is ex- 
pelled for some escapade. She re- 
turns home and is immediately rele- 
gated tothe age of fourteen and — 
short dresses. The escapade, how- 
ever, had a man in it, and he follows — 
Mici—that is the girl’s»name—and ~ 
when he finds that she is barred be- 
cause of the three older unmarried — 
sisters, he immediately sets about™ 
marrying them off. Matinees are 
given on Wednesdays and Satur-— 
days. Si 
‘‘A movement has been started for 
the building up and beautifying of, 
the North Shore at and about Bey-— 
erly. This spot on the Massachu- © 
setts coast of the Atlantic which has 
been brought into international 
prominence because of the fact that 
the Summer capital of the nation 
has been removed to that place for 
two years, has, it is believed, been 
instrumental in causing a move I” 
the matter.’’-—From one of Boston) 
papers. : 
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