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THE WEEK IN SOCIETY.

EVENTS IN THE FASHIONABLE WORLD.

MRS. LANGTRY - WEDDINGS AND ENGAGEMENT -
A PROBLEM FOR HOSTESSES - THE DEATH OF MRS. OLIN - DEPARTURES AND ARRIVALS.

The fashionable audience at Wallack's Theatre on the occasion of Mrs. Langtry's first appearance had an opportunity of seeing how gayly the house looked with ladies in full dress, in the boxes. But the fashion of going without bonnets, so desired by Mr. Wallack, did not receive a very strong indorsement from the women who composed that representative audience. Seeing Mr. Oscar Wilde enter, with his long hair and pick and white handkerchief tucked into his amble bosom, on "jeunnesse dorée" pulled from his pocket, an old copy of The London World, form which he read the following verses, handed around at a party at Mr. Millais's in Londo in December, 1879:

FOR MRS. LANGTRY.
When youth and wit and beauty call,
I never walk away!
When Mrs. Langtry leaves the ball,
I never care to stay.

I cannot rhyme with Oscar Wilde,
Or Hayward (gifted pair!)
Or sing how Mrs. Langtry smiled,
Or how she wore her hair.

And yet, I want to play my part,
Like any other swain;
To fracture Mrs. Langtry's heart,
And patch it up again!

"Now, on this November evening of 1882, were two people present, the lady and the poet mentioned in this noble poem, both of whom have come over to conquer a new world. What could be more probable than that the papers the next morning should show us rival parodies on Dr. Watts or Sternhold and Hopkins, singing the praises of the Jersey Lily, who has pleased in a most delicate, refined and altogether gratifying manner the New-York audiences? And yet we were doomed to disappoint. Have we no poets among us? Or have the newspaper editors (seditious and envious, and feeble fold, as a recent critic describes them,) suppressed all the poems to Mrs. Langtry?

Mrs. Langtry has please socicty [[society]]. Her dresses are decided to be perfect. A dress of "ceil d'Egypte," with her long reddish-brown hair falling to the waist, may have been a symphony or a nocturne, we do not know which, but it was decidedly a good down; and a steel-colored satin, with steel trimmings and roses, was an eloquent discourse on earth, and space, and thought, or tuneful birds and rills, and rustling streams, the stars, the moon and gliding gleams, and all things, lovely and most beautiful, according to the modern style - in plain English, it was a triumph of Worth.

Nor did Fashion desert the opera on the great Langtry night. Patti cannot sing Lucia to empty benches. The house was full of the most conspicuously fashionable people, but there was little or no enthusiasm. Patti's triumph was reserved for Friday night, when, in "Traviata," she was applauded to the echo.

The weddings went on with that quite regularity last week which is this season becoming montonous; but fortunately this sort of thing never seem to pall on the principal actors. On Tuesday evening Miss Fanny Ida Helmuth was married to Lieutenant Edgerton, of the 2d Artillery, Bishop Hel the Bishop of Huron; 

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