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NEW YORK. 
Miss Caroline Astor Drayton, fiancee 
of William Phillips of London and North 
Beverly, sailed for England, Jan. 19, to 
become the bride of Mr. Phillips, the 
new first secretary of the American em- 
bassy. 
Percy Mackaye, whose pageant of the 
Canterburv Pilgrims was the feature of 
Gloucester Dav last August, is writing a 
plav for Margaret Auglin. 
Daniel G. Reid of New York, busi- 
ness associate of Judge Moore of New 
York and Pride’s Crossing, assisted the 
Judge in one of the country’s most im- 
portant railway deals, the acquiring of the 
control of the Chicago, Rock Island and 
Pacific system and has also been a factor 
in their upbuilding and formation of the 
tinplate trust and they are now powerful 
factors in the Lehigh Valley R. R. of 
Pennsylvania. Mr. Reid is the youngest 
member of the world’s ‘‘ Big Six.’’ 
The recent appearance in New York 
of Sir Charles Wyndham, the noted 
English actor, in ““ The Mbollusc,’’ re- 
calls the fact that he is a brother-in-law 
to the late noted American playwright, 
Bronson Howard, the latter a summer 
resident of the North Shore at Merrill 
Hall, East Gloucester. Howard was in- 
troduced to the charms of the ““ Shore’’ 
by his close friends, the Misses Allen, 
daughters. of the late Judge Allen of De- 
troit, who still continue annual guests of 
East Gloucester and are friencs of Mrs. 
James McMillan of Detroit, Washing- 
ton and ‘‘ Eaglehead,’’ Manchester, and 
whom they visit when on the North 
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WASHINGTON. 
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, daughter of the 
Ex.-President has arrived in Washington 
and tomorrow, Jan. 29, wili be the guest 
of honor at a dinner given by Mrs. John 
R. McLean, whose soz married Evelyn 
Walsh. The dinner will be followed by 
a cotillion. Her sister, Mrs. Nicholas 
Longworth, Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. L. 
7. Leiter of the Beverly colony will also 
entertain in her honor as wellas several 
of her young friends in the capital. 
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Boardman of 
Washington and Manchester are spend- 
ing part of the winter in the south and 
their residence on Du Pont Circle is pre- 
sided over by their daughter, Miss Mabel 
Boardman, who is doing much enter- 
taining, assisted by her sister, Mrs. Win- 
throp Murray Crane and Mrs. F. A. 
Keep. 
The minister. from Denmark and 
Countess Moltke (nee Cornelia Thayer 
of Boston) are doing much entertaining. 
The countess was on the North Shore 
last season and visited friends at East 
Gloucester. 
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PHILADELPHIA. 
Miss Eleanor Robson, the noted ac- 
tress, who filled a successful two weeks’ 
engagement in Philadelphia in Mrs. 
Frances Hodgdon Burnett’s new play, 
““The Dawn of a Tomorrow,’’ was 
tendered a reception and tea at the Cush- 
man club, Jan. 21. Mrs. Otis Skinner, 
wife of the well known actor, was in the 
receiving line. The event called to mind 
the fact that Miss Robson, her mother, 
Mrs Madge Carr Cooke, the creator of 
““ Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,’’ 
and Ada Dwyer, her leading woman, 
have been summer residents of the 
North Shore, spending a portion of two 
seasons at Hotel Moorland, Bass Rocks, 
where many well known Quaker City 
folk annually summer. Miss Robson is 
booked until July in this play. 
Elsie Ferguson, who is also playing in 
Philadelphia, has a Gloucester girl in her 
company playing ‘“Sucha Little Queen,”’ 
namely Miss Jessie Ralph, in private life, 
Jessie Chambers, who has also played in 
Blanche Bates’ company. 
The portrait of Mrs. Quincy Bent 
(Miss Deborah Brock) the recent bride, 
is included in the exhibit of John 
Da Costa of London at the Philadelphia 
Art club. Mr. Bent’s family summer on 
the North Shore, at Annisquam.. 
Henry Pratt McKean was a member 
of the committee which conducted the 
Mid-Winter Ball at Horticultural hall, 
Philadelphia, Jan. 21. Previous to the 
ball Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison 
Frazier gave a dinner in honor of Miss 
Cintra Hutchinson. 
The German-American Charity Ball 
was held at the Academy of Music Mon- 
day evening of this week. Attaches of 
the German embassy from Washington 
were in attendance. 
Prof. Ludwig Justi, director of the 
National Gallery, Berlin, in his praise of 
art in America from his observations 
while here, considers the Boston collec- 
tion of Mrs. Gardner ‘“‘ wonderful’’ and 
one of his ‘‘ joys’? was the inspection of 
the Boston Public Library and the Ger- 
man Museum at Cambridge. In the 
great collections of such men as Henry 
Clay Frick of the Pride’s Crossing colony 
he said he found the men enjoying their 
collections ‘‘ with intelligent zest.”’ 
The Students’ Art League House of 
which Miss Margaret L. Corlies of Phil- 
adelphia and Magnolia is a director, will 
be the beneficiary of ‘‘ The Lady From 
the Sea,’’ the Ibsen drama to be presented 
Feb. 1 and 15 at the Garrick Theatre, 
Philadelphia. Prominent society folk of 
the Quaker City have secured boxes for 
the performances. 
- BOSTON. 
The first professional representation 
of a modern play bya Harvard graduate 
under the auspices of the university was 
given Monday evening of this week at 
Sanders Theatre, when Henry Miller 
appeared before the Harvard faculty and 
student body in William Vaughn Moody’ s 
‘“The Faith Healer.’’ ‘““ The Great 
Divide’’ gave Moody international fame 
and Margaret Anglin, the noted actress, 
claims the honor of discovering Moody 
as a playwright. Mr. Moody’s sister, 
Mrs. Faucett of Newton, is a North 
Shore summer resident at Annisquam 
making Hotel Brynmere her headquar- 
ters. 
George Westinghouse of Pittsburg, 
famous inventor of the air brake and a 
director of the Westinghouse Electric 
and Manufacturing Company, was ten- 
dered a reception and dinner at Hotel 
Somerset Friday evening, Jan. 21, by the 
Engineer’s Guild. 
The Boston Opera Company closed 
the third week of its tour in Chicago, 
Jan. 22, where the company had a cor- 
dial reception and in many instances ac- 
corded high praise. The company en- 
joys the support and financial patronage 
of many North Shore summer residents, 
especially prominent as a factor in its 
successful foundation being Eben D. 
Jordan of Boston and West Manchester. 
The Motor Boat show has been a 
magnet this week at Mechanics’ build- 
ing and will be followed by the auto 
show for which every available bit of 
space has been taken, and Boston is 
promised the greatest exposition ever held 
‘in this or any other city. Over 105,000 
square feet will be utilized. 
‘Mrs. Richard H. Dana of Cambridge 
and Manchester was among some two 
hundred society women of the college 
city who gathered at the home of Mrs. 
Wm. T. Piper on Brattle street, Cam- 
bridge, Jan 21, to hear the operatives’ 
side of the shirt waist strike. Miss 
Scheidnerman, a New York settlement 
worker, and a shirt waist operative aged 
14 years, addressed the assembled com- 
pany. 
North Shore matrons who acted as 
patronesses of the Pageant at the Boston 
Opera House this week were Mrs. Rich- 
ard H. Dana, Mrs. George M. Cush- 
ing, Mrs. Dudley L. Pickman and Mrs. 
RHE Fitz: 
Miss Clara Winthrop and Miss Mary 
Curtis who are planning to sail for Europe 
shortly will include in their itinerary, 
Athens, where Robert Winthrop, a 
brother of Miss Winthrop is connected 
with U. S. embassy of Greece. 
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