The reception, followed by a dinner-dance in the evening, was, according to the society columns, "one of the social events of the season.

The handsomest house in town was a bower of smilax and hothouse roses." Everybody went to the reception, for everybody was more or less curious to meet the former celebrated actress.

The society reporters, waiting for their cues, were rather non-committal in their description of the mistress.

There was reason.

They did not care, at this early stage of the game, to offend the leader by too much praise of a newcomer who had yet to establish herself.