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Show I SON TO RIVAL KING EDWARD I r 1 Mrs. Ilradley Martin Is In tho limelight once ,Wqk moro' not aa Blv'ns a ball that cost moro than JOTSWs nny ot,10r bal1 cvcr Blvon America, or as' man-' man-' KaagKwl nglng mamma marrying her daughter to a foreign mmw 3mmtSBmM(r enrl' mt as 1110 motll0r f tho dlrcctor-gonornl tKHBsBMP&i$ nf Now York 8UC'ty the man who has extended SP5w2Mi its bounds to Includo 2,000 of tho ollto Instead ot TOHSsS tho or'8lnl 100 Fredorlck TownBend Martin, T'N hotter known among his intlmntcs as "Bachelor" ($?. Ecw Martin, ho being n slnglo man. ibr T1'o pnsolng of Ward McAllister nnd tho panic J loft I,'ow York 8ocloty demoralized, nnd It was f Ilncholor Mnrtin who pulled It through tho pact season, Now ho Is going to England to plan ontnr 1 Xfe v tnlnmonts for his slBtor, tho countcsa of Crnvon, iSmdS ,0 'tovlso novelties togivo a fillip to tlio Jaded mwL appetites of English society. It Is no light under- mk fmmffMr? ' taking to go Into excluBlvo English socloty In tho B rr' "' ' r 1 rolo of professional cntortnlnor, so much different "H nro their tastes from ourB, but this young man B goes without any qualms whntovcr, for ho has supremo confidence in hlmBOlf. Ho has tact, orlglnnli.ty nnd dotormlimtlon, and n total lack of Bolf-conscious-M noss, nnd does not fear to rival that prlnco of tho art of ontortainlng King Edward lilmsolf. Mr. Martin has been tho Word McAlllstor for tho thrco great functions of tho year tho theatricals In which Mrs. George Gould, Mrs. Frances Pruyn and'Kyrlo Boll.jw played tt" charnctors, tho function which Mr. Mnrtin torms "1 Uo."Goul(I Tea;" tho reception to tho Duchess d'Uzes, and tho tea at which Mrs. Elinor Glyn, Ulllio Durko and Bishop I'ottor figured prominently. Mr. Martin doesn't go In for a town house, for ho believes that in tho future, becauso of tho growth of society, tho hotels must sorvi in a largo . meusuro tho purpoaes of pilvato homes. mm mwM' |