18 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
IRST AID to Gaiety! A Trot Contest. The usual 
Friday afternoon curtain was rung up last week on 
a marvelou; spectacle en cabaret. The Oceanside (at 
Magnolia) has not overlooked the needs of a cosmopoli- 
tan coterie with an infinite capacity for variety. An ava- 
lanche of charming and capricous “Who are Who’s,” who 
openly believe in Parisian smartness, gathered together 
at the Oceanside in trotteur gowns and white flannels 
to trot and counter-trot, and for the palpitating excitement 
of truly knowing who had accomplished the most through 
the morning-until-morning concentration on what has made 
New York famous and “Rome howl. It has been said 
that when we devote ourselves to gaiety we give our best, 
and Friday afternoon was the proof in the giving, and 
the result was very like a Paris tale tried out im America. 
lhe Countess of Warwick says that pleasure and variety 
and excitement are motives of charm and youth, and in 
praise of her philosophy the importance of each succeed- 
ing Dansant Friday has been submerged by the next 
and the next until the whole North Shore has recognized 
the social and festive distinction of the Trot Contest. 
The music plays gaily and the whim of the hour has 
achieved ambitious proportions. ‘The whole of the foyer 
is buzzing with stunningly gowned women and smartly clad 
men edging toward the thé bal scene. Tables once found, 
wonderful gowns and pretty faces, walk and trot and dip 
and glide and hestitate with parthers securely numbered 
for distinction, while judges sit in meditative but ap- 
preciative comparison, and the theme running through 
the whole composition is the sporting interest in who trots 
best. Mrs. Manville, Mrs. Warner, Mrs. Hussey, Mr. 
Harlow and Mr. de Pena were the judges and they judged 
excellently. It was no small task to choose the best from 
very good, yet through each incident of decision until 
the happy ending the whole spectacle en masse approved 
with resounding applause. During the hush that followed 
the click of the baton as signal, six numbers were chosen 
from the whole; they were Robert Hussey dancing with 
Miss Margaret Gamage; Harold Brown with Miss *Cath- 
erine Drayton; Mr. Barbee with Mrs. George Lewis, 
Spencer Kennard with Miss Madeline White, Howard 
W. Cowan with Miss Ethel Morse and Frederick C. Gam- 
age, Jr., with Miss Helen Fairbanks. Gradually with 
decision and approval the contestants grew fewer and 
fewer until it stood between Mr. Kennard with Miss 
White and Mr. Cowan with Miss Morse, and finally Mr. 
Cowan and little Miss Ethel Morse trotted right ‘over the 
edge of the silver cup and left all the others out side,— 
all excellent trotters, however, and each liable to step into 
a silver lining whenever one sparkles for inspiration. 
Miss Morse is a charming little girl, and her enthusiasm 
and gay simplicity were part of the delight of the whole 
affair. She looked sweet in a eae: little blue dancing 
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maturity. Mr. Cowan does dance wonderfully, and they 
were both so sweet ®nd generous in giving each other 
the credit for the decision. It was a Mecca for the 
sincerely interested and the whole thing was so cleverly 
managed that although ‘trotting’ was literally done in 
show ring fashion all those who just came “to see,” saw 
and became part of the sincerely interested. Miss Vor- 
hees is a manager of artistic gaieties and she has made 
originality one of her fads to the extent that her intro- 
duction of a novelty means that it “has arrived“ into the 
pastime scheme of things. The tables were engaged more 
than a week ahead and by noon on Friday they were all 
gone. Nearly four hundred people from many cities of 
fashion made the spectacular setting. Mrs. Dewers 
Wood of Pittsburg entertained a whole house party of 
twenty-six guests. Miss Wood was exceedingly smart 
in a white lingerie dancing frock. Mrs. Solomon Strat- 
ton of Boston had four in her party; Miss M. E. Ranney 
of Brookline entertained six; Mrs. A. B. Dewey of Chi- . 
cago had a table for four; Mrs. A. Guerin of New York 
had one for two; the J. Harrington Walker party con- 
sisted of six guests; the Porter Pollock party from 
Youngstown, Ohio, consisted of five; Miss Emily Brown 
of Washington, D. C., entertained four; Mrs. Henry 
3rewer of New York, six; Mrs. H. W. Fisher of Chicago, 
five, and Mrs. E. P. Fairbanks of Terre Haute, Indiana, 
entertained a big party of guests, about twenty-eight. 
Miss Fairbanks was as fascinating and chic as ever in one 
of her wonderfully tailored suit effects. Mrs. Morris 
Dallett of Philadelphia had a table for six. Miss Marie 
Dallet was becomingly gowned in a beautiful little dance 
frock of white. Miss Georgie Solari of New York en- 
tertained four guests. Mrs. Edward Harlow of Salem 
and Mrs. J. W. Higgins of Worcester each had tables 
for four. 
A. Merrall of New York and Mrs. C. S. Pinkney enter- 
tained seven together. Miss Merrall is one of the most 
charming women on the North Shore, and is always smart- 
ly gowned in black. Mrs. George Lewis entertained five 
and looked exceedingly well in a tailored suit and big black 
hat. Mrs. A. H. Morse entertained six; Mrs. Geo. E. 
Carter of Brookline had eight guests; Mrs. White of 
Lowell entertained six and Miss M. A. Patterson of 
Boston had a table of six. E, W. Walker of Louisville, 
Kentucky, entertained four. Miss Alice Duval was very 
smartly gowned in a pink and white summer silk model. 
The affair will be decidedly one of the happy summer 
memories of Magnolia and an enormous geographical 
radius will be reminiscent of it this winter. 
Twenty years in the life of a man is sometimes a 
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