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BROOKLYN LIFE. 15 ter, Miss Margherita Abbey of New York, to Mr. Eversley Childs, of Brooklyn. The latter is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Eversley Childs of 360 Clinton Avenue and a brother of Mr. William H. H. Childs and of Mrs. Archibald McLaren.

Alford Tuesdays at Home. Mrs. William Madison Alford of 563 Third Street announces Tuesdays at. home until May. Mrs.

Alford and her husband recently returned from Atlantic City, where they spent a few weeks for the benefit of Mr. Alford's health. Miss Mary G. Barr Very Popular. Miss Mary Godfrey Barr, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Barr of 109 State Street, who is visiting her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. in Trieste, Austria, is having many entertainments given in her honor.

The Carnival, or "Fasching" as it is called in Austria, is at its height now and dansants, dinner-dances and balls are following each other in rapid succession. The tango and one-step are extremely popular in Trieste and Miss Barr, being the only American girl there, is in great demand as a teacher of these dances, especially of the one-step. The Emperor of Austria has followed the lead of the German Emperor and has forbidden all naval or army officers to dance the tango, and it is predicted that the tango will be very short-lived; therefore the one-step is gaining in favor rapidly. Mrs. has been giving several dinner-dances for Miss Barr, and next week she is inviting all the young people to a dansant, for which her spacious home is admirably adapted.

The gaieties have been greatly enhanced by the presence in the harbor of S.M.S. Breslau, a German cruiser, and the commander and officers are being extensively Last week Mrs. chaperoned her sister and. a large party of young people to Pola, in Istria (a trip of four hours. by boat on the Adriatic), where a big naval ball was given at the casino there.

Pola corresponds to our Annapolis, and the new casino there, which has just been finished, is considered one of the finest in Europe. The ball, at which one thousand seven hundred people were present, was opened by Arch-Duchess Marie- Valerie, and a host of Vienna and Budapest aristocrats came on for the event. Mrs. salon every Thursday is very popular. Photograph by White Studio.

MR. HAROLD BLANDY, Whose acting and dancing contributed materially to the success of "Can You Bear It?" cle and pageant on the stage and among those who made up the audience. Not even all the names of the people who had part in the most important scenes of the pageant were printed on the program. For example, nothing was more thrilling, than the moment when the statuary group was revealed, This was a structure heroic in size. Around the base stood beautful women in fleshings and pink and brick-colored draperies.

The whole effect- and it was amazingly realistic--was that of a terra cotta sculpture. On top crouched a woman with beautifully rounded knees, elbows, shoulders and hips. The audience gasped. She might have stepped into the water no more hindered by raiment than the maid in "September Morn." People in the art world of Manhattan say that so far as attire was concerned the audience was not misled by the illusion created by tights. This beautiful woman was Lady Constance Stewart Richardson.

When the tapestry screen was placed in front of the sculpture she nimbly ran down a high ladder and sprang to the stage. Few people in the audience knew she was there until after supper she was seen dancing in the ballroom with Mr. Philip Benkard. No one noticed even then what she had on-but in this case simply because her eyes and her grace of movement are fascinating. Her gown was made up of curious draperies of black and gold tissue.

Mr. Henry Hornbostel, the architect, who is a Brooklynite by birth and a brother of Mr. E. H. Hornbostel, who married Miss Wiehl of Flatbush, had the part of King Conan in the second division of the pageant, which was devoted to the Moyen Age and in which Miss Angelica Schuyler Brown was heavenly in her beauty standing as Ursula under the palanquin with Mr.

Maurice Roche. Among the angels, who all carried either swinging or gold censers, in which incense burned, Miss Emily Sloane was one. In the Byzantine period, which preceded the Moyen Age, Mr. Seymour Cromwell was the Emperor Justinian walking beside Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, who was the Empress Theodora.

When the Doge arrived the nobility on the stage included interesting women of whom the program made no mention. Mrs. Reginald de Koven and Mrs. C. B.

Alexander were side by side at the right of the stage. Mrs. Emily Main Post, the daughter of Bruce Price, the architect who had much to do with the creating of Tuxedo Park, was also in the scene. There were nuns and monks who sang in chorus to the accompaniment of the organ, which is part of the equipment of the Hotel Astor. Mrs.

Murray Boocock was noted in a very becoming medieval costume. Mr. Eversley Childs. Engaged. Mr.

Henry Abbey announces the engagement of his daugh- The Day-Faris Wedding. Society from the various sections of the borough assembled at Christ Church, Bedford Avenue, on Tuesday evening for the wedding of Miss Sarah Trowbridge Day, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus P. Day of 118 Lee Avenue, and Mr.

Martin Bell Faris, son of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Faris, the ceremony being performed at half-past eight o'clock by Photograph by White Studio. MR.

OSCAR WIDMANN AND MR. THOMAS ANDREWS As German comedians..