Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1915 — SKATED AT HOME OF MRS. STUYVESANT FISH [ARTICLE]

SKATED AT HOME OF MRS. STUYVESANT FISH

Also Asked to Skate at Affair President Wilson Will Attend in Washington January 20th. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Reyrtolds, known professionally at Reynolds and Donegan, are here for the week with his mother, Mrs. S. R. Nichols. On Tuesday Mr. Reynolds received a telegram from Mrs. Hawkesworth, the executive of New York and Washington’s “four hundred,” asking himself and w r ife to skate at a private party to be given in Washington Wednesday night, Jan. 20th. President Wilson is to be the honor guest of the occasion and Mr. and M t s. Reynolds would have received SSOO for the evening. Having accepted booking for the week at Louisville, Ky., they were unable to accept the engagement. The offer came as the result of a splendid hit they had made .on New Year’s Eve at a party given at the home of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish in New York city, at which time Mayor Mitchell and wife were present. The New York Telegraph of January Ist gives the following account of their appearance at the home of Mrs. Fish: ‘.‘At the home of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish in East Seventy-Eighth street last night one of the most unique New Year’s parties celebrated in Manhattan took place. L “The hostess was entertaining among others Mayor Mitchel and wife, and wanted to offer her guests a surprise entertainment which would , prove a new novelty, and still confine the feature to the ballroom atmosphere. “Skater” Reynolds and Nellie Donegan were engaged to appear in a series of roller skate dances, and proved a most delightful diversion. The globetrotting vaudevilleians did all the modern dance steps on “rollers” and also their fancy skating act which has won them fame on the stage. Now that novelty dinner dances ate the fad, it is quite likely that the. Reynolds-Donegan combination will be in demand to furnish home entertainment with their offering. . Mr- Reynolds has not been well for several weeks, having had an attack of ptomaine poisoning and finding it difficult to get right again. The appearance of himself and wife at the home of Mrs. Fish was their second private appearance during their long career on the stage. The other occasion was at the royal ball room of Buekingham Palace, London, where they appeared before. King George and Queen Mary of Englantf- ;' ~"