With the cooler weather now cocktail parties are being revived with a zest—not that they stopped to any great extent during. the hot summer evenings—and social Shanghai has a score or more to attend next week.
Miss Eleanor Louise Schmid who is [spending her summer holiday in Shanghai after attending university in California all last winter and spring, will be hostess toa large group' of her young friends at a cocktail party on Monday evening. She will give a dinner on Tuesday night, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Vane Yarrow will be at home to their friends at a cocktail party on next Friday evening. Mrs. Yarrow it will be remembered, was one of last spring's brides, her wedding having taken place in England in April.
'A jolly affair of last evening was the cocktail party given by Mr. and Mrs. E J. Lloyd in honour of Mr. and Mrs_H. A. Scott who arrived here on Tuesday. Mr. Scott has come to Shanghai to replace Col. L. MIN. Cosgrave, Mrs. Lloyd's brother-in-law, as new' Trade Commissioner for Canada.
American Visitors Entertained General Linson Dean was host to a merry party of young people at the Park Hotel last night when he gave a dinner for Mr. Seymour St. John and Mr. John Blum, recent graduates of Yale University who are making a Your of the Far East. Other guests Included Miss Ellen Thesmar, Miss
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