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Show A.mricaiis Sliare in j ritisn. Festivities Arcs xiTwii. jgs i 7-cr.. 7virTT;.TjA itJ3?. ! Leave Soon for London to Entsr- tain Lavishly During- Coronation Coro-nation Celebration. I i EMBASSY SOCIAL CENTER j Mrs. Ara Carter, Mrs. Potter Palmer Pal-mer and Vauderbiits Will All Do Their Share. MARGAHET WATTS DE PEYSTEE. By Leased Wire to The Tribune. N'EW. YORK. April 1. While the exodus exo-dus of eastern society for Europe has already al-ready begun, ii is not likely that a larce number of leaders will go abroad until I later in tho season. The coronation of King George V. of England will attract American society to London, but more than two months must elapse beforo that event. It is the plan of many to remain re-main at the resorts In America and at Newport dtirlnp the early season. No international marriage appears on the calendar to hold society here, but International In-ternational polo will be played in Xew York and that will be the occasion for a renewal of the season's gayelles. The exodus to Europe began with tho sailing last week of Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt and Misses Margaret and Barbara Bar-bara Rutherford. Later in the week another an-other party Included the Embassador to Great Britain and Mrs. Whitclaw Rcld. accompanied by their daughter, the lion. Mrs. John Ward, Mrs. Joseph Stlckney. Mrs. William B'. Leeds and Lady Sarah Wilson, tho Duke of Marlborough's aunt. Mrs. Stlckney, who will have a London house, will be abroad for three or four months. Lady Sarah will ho tho guest of Mrs. Leeds during (he season. While a number are going abroad, others are arriving to spend the early ' ' Wj M'K-.S: POTHER "S-MER, spring season In America. Many who returned to Xew York from southern resorts, re-sorts, whore they spent the Lenten season, sea-son, havo gone back to remain until the opening of the season at Newport. 2.1 r. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney und Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., have returned to the south and are now al Altken. S. C, whero quite a colony of New Yorkers have been during tho past two months. Mrs. II. A. Alexander of New York, whose daughter married Theodore Roosevelt, Roose-velt, Jr., last year, Is In Egypt and has gone on to Wad I-Ha I fa on tho . tourist steamer and will make tho trip to Khartum Khar-tum before returning. Duchess Loses Prestige. Speculations are being indulged Jn the exact status of the duchess of Marlborough Marlbor-ough at the coming coronation anil il is now said lhat it Is extremely doubtful whether tho former Consuelo Vanderbilt will appear at Westminster abbey when the king and queen aro crowned. By her legal separation from the duke, the duchess duch-ess has impaired her standing consider- I ably In the court circles. When King Edward wan crowned, the (" duchess of Marlborough was one of the k quartette of duchesses to hold the golden canopy over the queen; she now Is only ono of the four duchesses who have not been selected for this honor. . Americans to Entertain. ( Among the leading American hostesses in Loudon during the coronation will be , Mrs. Goelt. Mrs. Leeds and Mrs. Pottor Palmer, while It Is expected that Mrs. i Whitclaw Reld will entertain the kings ' and queens of England. Spain and Norway Nor-way at Dorchester house. J The Texas club of New York City is ' making elaborate preparations for the ' celebration of "San Jacinto day." April t 21. A dinner will be given In tho grand j ballroom of thu Hotel Plaza, and this will ! be followed by a "battle of flowers," or carnival, and a dance. 1 At the meeting of tho National California Califor-nia club of New York at' the Waldorf-Astoria. Waldorf-Astoria. Mrs. Thomas J. Vivian presided and an interesting programme on American Ameri-can heraldry was given. Mrs. Alexander H. Boomer spoke on i the heraldry of the separate sLates of tho I union. Mrs. Clara Driscoll Sevier told her own story of how, she saved the ! Alamo for Texas. Mrs. Jenne Morrow Long read "Uncle Sam's Farm." The musical numbers were furnished bv tho Kahn trio. Those who served on tho reception committee were Mrs. Joseph l Nounnau, Mrs. Edward W. 3-1 111. Mrs. ! Edward W. Mansfield. Mrs. Henrv L. Harrison, Mrs. Chester G. Cultcr. "Mrs. William A. Foster. Mrs. Elizabeth D. Leonard and Mrs. Louis A. Schmldgall. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Calhoun of San Francisco, who arc spending some time in New York, entertained a party of friends at the Waldorf last week. Mrs. Walter Held, who Is now in California, Cali-fornia, expects to be gone about six t weeks and on her return siio will open her cottage at Easthampton, L. I., for the summer. |