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Show FLOWERS GIVEN I TO MRS. HARDING m Matinee Audience Cheers as I First Lady Takes Seat' in Box NEW YORK. Feb. 1 Smiling Into the glare of a spotlight, flashed upon her theatre box, Mrs. Warren G. Har-ding Har-ding received a noisy greeting from ral thousand matinee spectators at the Hippodrome Friday afternoon. GIVEN FLO WEILS. All of her trips outside her hotel suite wero so closely guarded that few recognised the future first lady of the land, but attention was focussed upon her when Madge Looml of Cincinnati, one of the h ading dancers at the theatre, the-atre, appeared In Mrs. Harding' box between nets with a huge bouquet of 'scarlet carnations, the state flower of Ohio. She presented them as the gift of forty iihlo girls In the caat. Th orchestra began playing "Beautiful Ohio." and the lights were concen- trated on Mrs Harding. Later her favorite air, The End of a Perfect Day," was played and Mrs. Harding led In the nppiauso. Over- looking her box were eighty orphan children from Jersey City, N. J., each munching a hox of chocolates which she had -cnt them. H lis g 1TIKK. CrQWda gathered In the street near 1 tne side entrance where Mrs. Har- li aaBBBafl ding's car awaited her, and she stop- , ped and smiled to the accompaniment of (;hoers and the clicking of movie haBBBaH cameras upon emerging from the the-! the-! aire. Last night she visited another 'psibbbbb! theatre with her companions, Mrs. ! Edward E. McLean and Mrs. Harry S Isibbbbb New. nllaaaaaaaal Mrs. Harding expects today to make ' a few final selections for her White i 1 louse wardrobe to which she has glv- I en almost her exclusive attention all H , week. She will return to Washington A I Sunday, later going to Florida for a I rest. tfrlaeBBBBBB |