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PART TWO.
SOCIETY SECTION
PART TWO. ,
SOCIETY SECTION
VOL. XLIX NO. 2.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1919.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS
Miss Mildred Foote Formerly of Omaha
Visits Her Father and Many
Girlhood Friends
TOURNEYS are delightful things, a pleasurable thrill when one turns
And quite the most alluring DacK to see me love-ngnis 01 noiiie
feature is the return. It matters twinkling a welcome.
not whether you take a transconti- So pretty is the girl in the crisp
nental tour or just an all-day tramp organdie frock swinging hack and
over the hills and far away,- there is forth in the shade that we forget for
a moment to peer under the smart
hat and recognize a former daughter
of Omaha. Miss Mildred Ioote,
whose home is now in Pasadena,
Cal., has heen experiencing the joys
of a return to her home city for she
has been a very popular guest during
the last month.
The delights of the land of sun
shine and roses seem as seductive as
the siren's song for Miss Foote is
very enthusiastic over the west. She
says so many Omahans lift Califor
nia's knocker during the 12 months
:hat one could not possibly be
onely, for they have life-long friends
md perpetual sunshine, too.
This fluffy young lady with her
rainbow tinted ruffles has a very se
rious purpose in life for she docs
not always pfay on the golden
sands. The fanciful figures mho
dwell in the pen and ink world fas
cinate her and she has been studying
assiduously at a private school in
Pasadena that she might perfect
herself in this, her chosen art.
Aesthentic dancing and dramatic art
have claimed this attractive girl's at
tention also and she is gifted in
both.
We humbler mortals who come
no closer to the luminaries of the
screen than a seventh row seat plus
the war tax are quite envious of
those who see real "close-ups."
Miss Foote assures us that this is
another of California's iresistable at
tractions. At a Red Cross ball held
during the war days Mary Pickford
was the hostess of the evening, and
it is only a step from the matter-of-fact
world into the realm of make
believe for you can watch your fa
vorite here working "on location" at
any time.
Luncheons, teas and dinners fol
lowed each other in close succession
and charming hostesses tried in
vain to keep Miss Foote in Omaha
for a longer stay, but an elusive
something called her back, perhaps
the mermaids, we just can't tell. Ac
companied by her father, Dr. D. A."
Foote, she left Thursday for. the
West waving a smiling adieu and as
suring us a welcome whene, we, too,
seek the land of perpetual summer.
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Washington Society Has Good Opera
and Omaha Man Helped to
Make It a Big Success .
, (Beo Bureau.)
Washington, D. C, June 28.
Washington's social activities during
these latter days of June are center
ing around the Country , clubs,
where the great majority of dinner
parties and other affairs are being
given. The weather never gets too
hot for lovers of dancing to give
up that art, and at almost every tea
and following many of the dinner
parties there is at least a short
dance. The evening" and afternoon
wedding receptions also invariably
end with dancing.
There are a number of diplomatic
and resident families closing homes
and establishing summer quarters in
cooler and more fashionable summer
climates, especially the White Sul
phur Springs and Newport, but it is
constantly surprising to the old
Washingtonian to see the many
homes throughout the city open and
equipped for long-summer residence.
Almost all the South American
diplomats and the ambassadors now
in this country are making plans to
stay here or in the country near
here. The visit of the president
elect of Brazil, Dr. Epitacio Pessoa,
with his wife and young daughter,
and his suite of several secretaries,
will give Washington a real touch
of mid-season brilliance.
Washington had three perform
ances of good opera this week, last
night, this afternoon and tonight,
given by the Community Opera
company, organized under the aus
pices of the War Camp Community
Servics and with which Mr. Charles
English of Omaha has had much to
do with its success. Last night they
gave "Pagliacci," and the other two
performances were of the "Bohemi
an Girl" and all were beautifully
given with local talent. The Belus
co theater was crowded, at popular
prices, and it looks as though this
was the nucleus of a permanent and
perhaps national opera company.
Mr. English has worked very hard
in the interest of the War Camp
Community and has made all kinds
of friends and success through his
efforts, with Peter Dykema of the
Wisconsin state university, who "is
here temporarily as head of the com
munity singing organizations.
Mr. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Mrs
Hitchcock and Miss Hitchcock will
leave in another week for Swamp
scot, Mass., where they spent last
summer and where Mrs. Hitchcock
was so much benefited, and will re
main throughout the remainder of
the summer. The senator will re
turn here every week and join them
when it is possible to be away.
The reception to the new mem
bers of the Nebraska delegation in
congress given last week by the
Nebraska .State Association of
Washington, and the Nebraska
Girls' club, jointly, was a huge suc
cess. It was given in the Wilson
normal school, and each new mem
ber made an appropriate speech,
some of them witty, others of
brilliant oratorical merit. The only
two new hostesses of the circle were
Mrs. William E. Andrews and Mrs.
M. O. McLaughlin. A supper and
dancing followed the speechmaking,
and it was an altogether happy oc
casion. The Girls' club will have a
picnic on July 9, when they will
spend the afternoon and evening at
Great Falls, up the Potomac.
Representative and Mrs. Mc
Laughlin have taken a house at 1927
Jackson place northeast, a charm
ing home with plenty of grounds
and plenty of view. They have en
tertained a number of their Ne
braska friends there, among the
latest ones being J. E. Hart and
Prof. Guy R. Davis of the bureau
of an.'mal industry of the state uni
versity, who spent the week in
Washington. He dined with them
again tonight, and is leaving for
homo tomorrow. G. T. Kirchner of
Grafton, Neb., spent a few days
here during the week, too, and a
day cr so with the McLaughlins. He
was on his way to Atlantic City for
a week or more, on his annual va
cation. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Penfield
went north during the week, and
are established at Phillips Beach,
Beach Bluff, Mass., on the north
hore of Massachusetts, near Lynn.
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Gabby Has a Word to Say About Fanny
Wards Daughter and Others Who
Are Equally Interesting
Mrs. Penfield will spend the sum
mer there, but Mr. Penfield will re
turn here tomorrow. He will make
several trips up there until August,
when he will go for a stay. Mrs.
Frank Bacon will join her daughter,
Mrs. Penfield, during the summer.
Miss Eunice Ensor of Omaha,
who is here, associated with Mrs.
Susie Root Rhodes in the Play
grounds association work, is having
no end of praise and appreciation
shown her for the splendid work she
did- with the pageant given at the
Sylvan theater and on the Monu
ment grounds during the Salva.:on
Army drive. She is director of
pageantry for the District of Co
lumbia. On this occasion she had
2,000 children, who did remarkable
work in the tableaux and pageants,
as fairies, flowers, birds, animals,
scarf girls and hoop girls. There
were 18 May poles, each one wound
perfectly by its particular group of
children, a really remarkable feat.
There was an audienice of 30,000
people, with a special box built for
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
and their adopted son, young Mor
rison Marshall.
Miss Elizabeth Hogan, who
recently died in Atlantic City, N. J.,
was a teacher in the Philadelphia
schools for more than 50 years.
Mrs. Sarah J. Seymour, of Meth
nen, Mass., is the only womandyna
mite saleswoman in the east, and she
keeps the commodity in a shed in
her back yard.
Helen Keller, the famous blind
and deaf woman, is to appear in the
"movies."
Miss Lottie K. Siddons, a Phila
delphia high school teacher, has
just completed 50 years of continu
ous teaching service-
By GABBY DETAYLS.
WE may sigh for wealth, but it
was long since proven that
dollars cannot buy happi
ness or contentment. A beautiful
19-year-old widow weeps in her
London home despite the fact that
she has two million and a half to
spend. She mourns for her hus
band. Captain "Jack" Barnato, of
the Royal Air Service, son of the
South African diamond king, Bar
ney Barnato. This lady of sorrow
is the daughter of Fanny Ward.
When you mention her fortune she
tells you her sad story.
"I was 17 and Jatk 23 when we
married. He was in the Royal Air
Force and bombed Adrianople and
Constantinople, and I didn't see him
for a very long time.
"Then at last he came home. We
had just one Christmas together, and
we were so happy. Then Jack got
influenza and died. They
say there's a lot of money. But I
hate to think of it. If I only had
Jack back I'd give it all for him."
Fanny Ward, whom the younger
generation now welcome in the
movies, is the mother of this rich
widow. It is announced that Miss
Ward ha3 gone to London to "look
after the interests of her daughter."
What will this unknown daughter
of one of the most widely known
actresses in the world make her
interests?
What is she like, this English
schoolgirl whose American mother
had flitted away to gather new ex
citements and new fame in her na
tive land?
Was she lonely Did the mansions
of her diamond merchant father,
"Joe" Lewis, former right-hand man
of Barney Barnato, give her happy
places to visit on her school vaca
tions? Did his fabulous wealth and
the $250,000 that is said to have been
settled upon her at her christening
brighten her young life or weigh
it down?
Cradled in almost indescribable
luxury, reared for a dozen years in
a home which reflected the million-a-year
Lewis income, her mother,
the former idol of a Broadway set
which kicked the lights out of chan
deliers and relighted them with $5
bills, given by law into the custody
of her father following the sensa
tional divorce, and finally married
to the son of one of the most mys
terious and spectacular figures in
financial history, what is Dorothy
Barftato's background for life? What
her viewpoint? What her dreams
and now her consolations? And
what will be her future?
Back in 1905, when Fanny Ward
was visiting America as Mrs. Joe
Lewis, mention was made of the
beautiful child she left behind in
England. Her pictures show little
Dorothy to be indeed a lovely, fairy
girl, with blue eyes and golden hair.
And now she is married and wid
owed, and not yet 19. And heiress
to two and a half millions. And
the daughter of Fanny Ward, who
be.gan professional life at 15 and
had acquired three pecks of jewels,
nine yards of pearl ropes, an ermine
walking suit and a sealskin tailor
made, two town mansions and a
palace near Buckingham before she
was 30. And "relict" of "Jack" Bar
nato, war--flyer, son of Barney,
whose origin is obscured in mystery,
whose rise was the marvel of a gen
eration ago and who died a suicide
at sea.
What has fate in store for this
child of mystery and wealth? Read
the story of father-in-law Barnato,
and of the dazzling little actress who
came out of St. Louis and picked up
Broadway and Wall street and put
them in her pocket a quarter of a
century ago. Fit them to your fa
vorite laws of heredity, suggestion,
reflection, etc. After your conclu
sion has been reached, kindly in
form an interested world just what
this lovely widow will do.
MIXED dates! Bewildered girl!
Flustered young man! A
dire combination! You see
Miss Omaha received a yellow slip
frorr the Western Union shop an
nouncing the arrival of the young
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