NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. X. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
There were many distinguished 
guests entertained at last Friday 
evening’s Grand Opera performance 
at the Boston Opera house. Among 
them were Ambassador and Mrs. 
James Bryce of Washington, the 
guests of the Bayard Thayers of 
Boston. Mrs. Bryce was attired in 
black chiffon. Mrs. George von L. 
Meyer, who was the guest of Her- 
bert M. Sears of Boston and Pride’s, 
and his daughter, Miss Phyllis Sears, 
wore crimson satin and a necklace 
of pearls. Miss Sears was in white 
chiffon over white silk. Gov. Ro- 
bert Perkins Bass of New Hamp- 
shire, with Mrs. Bass (Edith Bird), 
and the latter’s sister, Mrs. Louis 
A. Shaw of Beverly Farms, were in 
the Charles S. Bird box. Mrs. Bass 
wore blue and silver brocade with a 
narrow fold of blue tulle outlining 
the square corsage. Mrs. Shaw 
was in old rose satin with ruchings 
of old rose tulle on the skirt and a 
band of the ES in her hair. 
Otto Il. Kahn, a director of the 
Metropolitan Opera house and also 
of the Boston Opera, came over from 
New York, to witness the perform- 
ance of ‘‘Pelleas et Melisande’’ at 
the Opera house, last Saturday even- 
ing at the Boston Opera house. He 
contributed $1,000 to the guarantee 
fund of the company. Mr. Kahn 
has spent a season sat Manchester. 
Captain and Mrs. Ernest H. Pente- 
eost (Marion Pierce) of Topsfield 
are planning for an _ extended so- 
journ in Europe, in the near future. 
A generous portion of their time 
will be spent in Rome. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Eben Richards, Miss 
Richards and Eben Richards, Jr., 
of New York and Pride’s, are in- 
eluded among the arrivals of the 
past week at the Homestead, Vir- 
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W. H. Dane of New York, whose 
summer home is at Marblehead, has 
commissioned T. D. Wells, the de- 
signer of the three-masted schooner 
Karina, to prepare plans and specifi- 
cations for a semi-high speed twin- 
screw power yacht. 
Manchester, 
Mass., Friday, 
April 5, 1912 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. William F. Draper was hos- 
tess at a dinner last Thursday night 
at Washington, to Representative 
and Mrs. McCall, the Naval Attache 
of the French Embassy and Viscoun- 
tess Benoist d’Azy, Gen. and Mrs. 
Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Mer- 
riam, Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer, Mr. and 
Mrs. William Coreoran Hill, Dr. and 
Mrs. Fremont Smith, Mr. and Mrs. 
John F, Wilkins, Miss Slater, Miss 
Nagel, Miss Reid Rogers, Miss 
Draper, A. Piatt Andrew, Lord Eus- 
tace Percy and Mr. Kerr of the Brit- 
ish embassy and Count de Chaba- 
ness. An interesting feature of the 
dinner was the view of the beautiful 
portrait of Miss Draper by Count de 
Chabaness. The portrait was hung 
in the little anteroom to the 
tapestry dining-room of the Draper 
house. It shows Miss Draper stand- 
ing in a dainty evening gown with a 
cloak over her shoulders beside a 
tea table. A handsome old screen of 
mirrors and tapestries standing be- 
side her reflects her profile. 
In aid of the Hillside school for 
orphans, Boston society folk will 
give a horse show in the Brookline 
Riding school, Thursday evening, 
April 11. Ten classes of saddle and 
harness horses have been arranged. 
Among the exhibitors who will show 
horses are Misses Dorothy Forbes, 
Helen and Esther Foss, Mr. and Mrs. 
M. Maurice Dimond, Thomas W. Lar- 
son, Mr. and Mrs. J. Sumner Draper, 
Miss Elizabeth Bigelow, Richard 
Saltonstall and Master Saltonstall. 
The affair is under the management 
of Freeman O. Emerson, administra- 
tor of the Brookline Riding school. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Eben D. Jordan and 
Miss Dorothy Jordan are sailing in 
May for the shooting season in Scot- 
land for which they went over last 
summer. 
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Louis Agassiz Shaw, Nathaniel 5S. 
Simpkins, Jr., and John W. Cutler 
of the North Shore contingent were 
Harvard classmates of Hugo Gibert 
de Fritsch of New York, whose en- 
gvagement to Miss Harriet Anderson, 
niece of Président and Mrs. Wm. H. 
Taft, was recently announced, 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
Two distinguished Bavarians, 
Count von Podewils-Duernitz, until 
recently president of the Bavarian 
cabinet, and Privy Councillor Dr. 
von Borsecht, over-burgomaster of 
Munich, are due in New York to-. 
morrow on the liner Amerika. They 
will tour the United States in the 
interest of the government museum 
for natural science and technic at 
Munich. The museum is about to 
erect a lbrary building for which 
the commission will seek ideas in the 
United States, but it is hoped also 
to add to the exhibits in scientific 
and mechanical progress. Models 
and early types of American inven- 
tions, such as those of Edison and 
Westinghouse of which the museum 
already has a number, are particu- 
larly sought. Boston, New York, 
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Washing- 
ton, Chicago and Buffalo will be 
visited by them. 
Following their visits at Palm 
Beach and Miami, and their cruise 
to Cuba, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. 
Littlefield have been for a short time 
at the New Willard hotel, Washing- 
ton, en route for New York, to meet 
Mrs. Littlefield’s daughter, Miss 
Armour, upon her arrival from 
Kurope. 
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William H. Wellington and Miss 
Anna T. Wellington of Boston and 
Manchester were passengers on the 
Victoria Luise, which arrived in 
New York, Monday from the tropics. 
Dr. Reginald H. Fitz of Boston, 
and West Manchester, was a passen- 
ger on the outgoing Moltke from 
New York enroute to Havana, Colon 
and Kingston. 
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The Thomas Taylor, Jrs., of South 
‘arolina, are returning to Manches- 
ter this season. They will open their 
cottage on the Singing Beach about 
June first. 
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‘‘Haglehead’’ at Manchester, will 
be opened about the middle of June 
for the arrival of Mrs. James Me- 
Millan of | Washington, who will 
domicile her household there at that 
time for the season, 
