Show NOTABLES Oh THE DAY uII N OLIVER H P BELMONT who has married Mrs Alva Vanderbilt is a son of the late August Belmont the banker and Is about 38 years of age He is a member of all the prineipal New York clubs and is very wealthy C Y II 1 SIRS WILLIAM K VANDERBILT nee Alva Smith the divorced wife of Mr W K Vanderbilt and mother of the Duchess of Marlborough Is about the same age as her husband Mr O H P Belmont Women are taking up the art of bookbinding book-binding and one of them Miss S T Prideaux has already won the highest distinction in England in its practice The empress of China has a passion for jewels It was formerly illegal for ChInese ChI-nese women to wear jewels but the present pres-ent empress persists in her fancy for precious stones Mary French Field eldest daughter of the late Eugene Field Is preparing herself her-self to give public readings from her fathers favorite poems She Is a beautiful beauti-ful girl about 10 years old with an exquisite voice and charming manners Miss Stone who dramatized The Social Highwayman Is a nightworker She says After 11 oclock In the evening I get at my desk and from then until 3 in the morning I am busy getting up what you may call Inspiration and writing steadily I never set pen to paper however how-ever until act scenes and the major portion of the dialogue are mapped out clearly In my mind Mrs Alicia Ramsey a young American woman is just about to make her debut as a playwright under the sponsorship of Mr Beerbohm Tree who will present her first play at the Haymarket as soon as Trilby Is taken off Mrs Ramsey is the wife of an actor one who Is young and versatile She was highly educated in music and expected to go on the concert con-cert stage Her musical abilities were exceptional But after her marriage sho took to literature |