NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XI 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. James McMillan has closed 
her house on Vermont avenue, Wash- 
ington, for the season, and sailed on 
the Mauretania Wednesday, from 
New York, for England, tor a visit 
with Sir John and Lady Harrington, 
the latter Mrs. McMillan’s daugnter. 
She will remain in England until late 
June, when she will come direct to 
“Haglehead,” her beautiful summer 
estate at Manchester-by-the-Sea. The 
house at Manchester will be opened 
the first of June. 
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The important society item of the 
week was the announcement by Miss 
Alys Meyer, the younger daughter of 
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Geo. 
von L. Meyer of Hamilton and Wash- 
ington, of her engagement to Lieut. 
Com. Christopher Kaymond P. Rod- 
gers, a young naval officer, in com- 
mand of the U. S. S. Sylph, detailed 
for the use of the presidential family. 
He is at present detailed as one of the 
naval aides at the White House. He 
is the son of Col. Alexander Rodgers, 
U. S. A., retired. The Secretary aid 
Mrs. Meyer entertained a large nu 
ber of guests at a birthday luncheou 
Sunday at their home in Scott circle, 
Washington, and the occasion was of 
double significance, for it was not only 
the celebration of the birthday of Miss 
Alys Meyer, but was made an occas- 
ion to znnounce her engagement. 
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The marriage in Princeton, N. J., 
_ Monday of Mrs. Cleveland, widow of 
former President Grover Cleveland, 
and Prof. Thomas J. Preston, is of 
much interest to North Shore summer 
residents, many of whom have met 
the bride on many occasions in the last 
few years during her visits at “Look- 
out Hill,” with Mrs. John Hays Ham- 
mond. Prof. and Mrs. Preston have 
gone to Florida for the rest of the 
winter. 
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Mrs. John Hays Hammond, who 
with Mr. Hammond has been enter- 
_ taining extensively in Washington this 
_ winter, left Tuesday for Palm Beach 
and Miami, Fla. On Saturday even- 
ing Mr. and Mrs. Hammond gave a 
dinner at the capital in honor of Am- 
bassador and Mrs. James Bryce. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, February 14, 1913 
Boston OprerA Houss 
The return of two of the most pop- 
ular prima donnas on the entire roster 
of the company,—Mme. Edvina and 
Miss Mary Garden, will make the 
coming week a notable one at the Bos- 
ton Opera House. On Monday even- 
ing Mme. Edvina will come back for 
one performance as Maliella in “The 
Jewels of the Madonna.” ‘The tune- 
ful Wolf-Ferrari opera has become 
the greatest popular success in the 
repertory and at its last performance 
all records for receipts were broken. 
On Wednesday evening Miss Gar- 
den will make her only appearance 
for the season as Carmen, in the like 
titled Bizet opera. The role of the 
vixenish cigarette-girl is one which 
the famous soprano has made her very 
own and when she introduced it here 
last season, was conceded generally to 
be one of the greatest in the gallery of 
portraits which she has created. 
On Friday evening will come the 
first performance for this season of 
Puccini’s “The Girl of the Golden 
West.” Mme. Carmen Melis, the 
creator of the part here, will appear 
ac the girl and Zenatello, by many con- 
sidered the greatest tenor singing in 
opera today, will be the road agent 
Dick Johnson. 
On Saturday afternoon Mme. Wein- 
gartner-Marcel will make her only ap- 
pearance as Aida. After she sang the 
role here last season for the first time 
on any stage, she gave it many times 
in Europe and in Hamburg where she 
appeared to the Redames of Caruso, 
the great tenor said that hers was the 
greatest Aida he ever had heard. 
For Saturday evening a special per- 
formance of “Louiso” is announced 
with Miss Garden in the title part and 
Charles Dalmores as Julien. It will 
be interesting to gain the acquaintance 
of another Louise, although Miss 
Garden’s portrayal is familiar to a 
certain portion of the opera-going 
public, since she sang the part here 
during a Hammerstein season five 
years ago. 
On Sunday afternoon, Feb. 23, 
Mme. Lina Cavelieri will make her 
first appearance of her American con- 
cert tour at the Boston Opera House. 
Every man thinks he knows a lot 
about a woman until he marries one. 
No. 7 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Dr. J. Henry Lancashire and fam- 
ily of Detroit have leased the estate 
of the late R. C. Hooper at West 
Manchester for the coming season. 
This is one of the largest and most 
attractive summer estates on the 
whole North Shore. Since the death 
of Mr. and Mrs. Hooper some five or 
six years ago it has been occupied 
very little. The only daughter, Mrs. 
Lathrop Brown, wife of the new con- 
gressman from the St. James section 
of Long Island, has lived on _ the 
North Shore very little since her 
marriage. Last year the Leonard 
Cotton Hannas of Cleveland occupied 
the house for a 10-week season. Dr. 
and Mrs. Lancashire intend to make 
a long season of it on the North 
Shore, as they will come early and 
stay late as usual, and they will no 
doubt do considerable entertaining 
during the season. The Hooper es- 
tate, so-called, is located on Chubb’s 
Point, the extreme southerly point of 
Manchester, overlooking the Beverly 
Farms shore, and Mystery and Bak- 
ers Islands. It is off this point that 
the Manchester Yacht club fleet is 
moored, and up the shore a half-mile 
the President’s yacht “Mayflower” 
has been stationed the last three sum- 
mers. Many of the large yachts 
are anchored just off the shore dur- 
ing the summer for weeks at a time. 
There is a beautiful large greenhouse 
on the property and a large stable and 
garage is also located on the estate. 
The Lancashires occupied the How- 
ard cottage at West Manchester last 
season. Mrs. Lancashire and Miss 
Lancashire are sailing on the Adria- 
tic next Tuesday (the 18th) for 
Naples, and upon their return they 
will come direct to Manchester. 
Ammi W. Lancashire sailed Saturday 
of last week for Panama and South 
America for a six weeks’ trip. The 
married daughter, Mrs. E. Laurence 
White and family have a cottage at 
Beverly Farms a little over a mile dis- 
tant from West Manchester. 
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The marriage of Miss Helen Read 
and Dr. Francis Lowell Burnett, 
whose engagement was announced a 
fortnight ago , will take place in 
March, 
