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Society To Be Kept Busy
With Many Big Affairs
Mr. and Mrs. Ch-arles B. Alexander to En?
tertain Friday Night at Dance; Mrs. W. K.
Vanderbilt Jr. To Be Hostess* This Week
With the new year the season of for
?,1 entertaining begins, and from now
t?l j^ah W^nesday. when the curtain
.?j ?^ rung down, in a way, on social
?yeties, th?*re will be a continuous
?and o' brilliant affairs. To be sure,
?fr? was ?? end oi tnese before the
holiday*, but then ertertaining was
i r?ly given over to debutantes, and
there is a certain amount of informality
.bout the affairs in their honor which
(.lacking in the big dances, the balls,
the dinners, musicals and other#affairs
thatelways crowd the season from Jan?
uary on. ^_
One of the most brilliant affairs of the
week will be the dance on Friday night
tobe given by Mr. and Mrs. Charles B.
Alexander at their home, 4 West Fifty
?fhth Street. It will be for the young
Mrried set, friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander's daughters, Mr. and Mrs.
Winthrop W. Aidrich and Mr. and Mrs.
Arnold Whitridge, and a few of the
older people. _
Mrs. William K. Vanderbiit jr., who
already has given several entertain?
ments for her d?butant daughter, Miss
Horiel Vanderbiit, will give a dance in
her honor to-morrow evening at her
home, 686 Fifth Avenue.
All of the Vanderbiit d?butantes will
he on hand, and this almost might be
?lied a Vanderbiit year, for in addition
to Mrs. V&nderbiit's daughter there is
Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt's girl, M?3S
Cornelia Vanderbiit; Miss Grace Van?
derbiit, daughter of Brigadier General
ind Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbiit; Miss
Louise Morris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Dave Hennen Morijis and a great-grand
laughter of the late William H. Vander?
biit, and her cousins. Miss Emily Sloahe
Hammond and Miss Louise Vanderbiit
Schieffelin.
Another event of the early new year
?rill be a dance January 8 by Mrs.
Gcrr^e Quintard Palmer at her home.
1 East Seventy-third Street, and this
?rill be followed on Friday evening by
the popular subscription dances known
es The Bashe'ors, which will be revived'
In the Delia P.obbia room of the Hotel (
Vanderbiit. The datos for the other
two dances are January 16 and 23. The'
proceeds will go to charity. The com?
mittee in charge comprises Ri?:hard
Peters. Horace C. Stebbins, Hamilton
Fish jr., William W. Hoffman, W.
?hinelander Stewart jr., Maurice Roche,
?MfonSo de Navarro, R. Thornton Wil
?m 3:huyicr L. Parsons and Whitney ?
{Farrea jr.
-?
Mrs. Albert B. Kerr gives a luncheon j
today at the Colony Club for Missj
Cornelia Sage the d?butant daughter!
)f Mr. and Mrs. Dean Sage who had !
?r.e of the most charming dances ofi
the holidays given for Jier by her par?
ents last week, and Mrs. Lucien Ham?
ilton Tyng will give the first of four}
informal Sunday afternoon musicales ?
in January to-day at her home, 138 ?
East Sixty-fifth Street. Miss Penelope '
Davis will sing. i
The January series of the Bagby ;
musicales will begin to-morrow at the !
Waldorf-Astoria, and the artists will
be Miss Frieda Hempel, Mme. Besan
toni and Percy Grainger. The concert,
is usual, will be an excuse for informal
entertaining in the way of luncheon
parties afterward.
_ ?
Mrs. S. Vernon Mann will give a
imall dance to-morrow in the Sherry
ipartments at the Waldorf-Astoria for
ser granddaughter, Miss Edith V. M.
Simonds, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
?rancis M. Simonde. Miss Simonds is
?ne of the d?butantes of the season.
This Week to See
Many Weddings
Wig? Priscilla Reynolds To
Be Bride of J. L. Bun?
in Boston; Other Cere?
monies Are Scheduled
Several interesting wedding? ?re
?cheduled for the present week. To?
morrow in Boston Miss Priscill? M.
Reynolds will be married to Jean
wndsley Burr, of this city. Owing to
? recent death in the bridegroom's
?wily, the wedding, which will be a
omet affair, at the residence of the
?nie? parents, Mr. and Mrs. John P.
"yno^g win be ancntied by re?a
uves only. Mr. Burr and his bride
*w make their future home in Dobbs
-'?ss Eamalena Sixer will also have
'J?0"1* wedding. She will be mar
u, ?. *vid Dun?*", son of Mr. and
""? ?ilium Butler Duncan, on the
"emocn of January 17, at the home
? ?er parents, Mr. and Mr?. Robert R.
?"?r. h-i Rast Seventy-third Street.
,.^."18 ?"er will have only one at
?-???lant her younger sister, Miss
???wish Steer. Grfcer,<>ugb Townsend
?TUi Mm aK Mr_ DoneajJ5? b?fBl man#
ffa
re w?H be no ushers. Only rela?
tes! and a few int?mate; fmnds will
>* Present at thf>. ceremony.
M?m U,.r>?. Klward Smith, daughter
? Oeneral ar.d Mrs. H. G. Smith, of
RS?,B*t0n *u "The Hollyhock?," of
kStU a !'' ' an<1 Ar'drew Do Forest
2"t?od, of New York, whose engage
??* was announced several months
?.' *2il be married Saturday, Feb
JW ?? The wedding will t?ke place
?hi /nn'" Kpincopal Church, Say
* it* , .Tb* bride's ?Ister, Mrs. H. A.
??'?'Mg*, wife of Commander H. A.
? ??Sf*' u' 8'N"v/iU b*tlw mtttron
*ir. and Mr?. William G. Grieb, of
J***4*l.t, K*rw York, announce the
gJWajfe 0f their daughter, Manon
i wit?, to John Hu?h Bolton, Saturday,
S?mi>*r 27' T,,e ??remony wt,B per?
ded at the bride':: home, Sher
K, H R<rtu1' ???rsdaie, by the Rev.
?*,*>?? Ke?m*n, of the Fifth Avenue
r?wyt?ri?n Church, X?sw York,
**!?? M?ry V?n Amdale Tongue,
????tor of Mr. and Mr?. Turnot
Eberstadt, of East Orange. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Dr. John Fullerton Patterson, of the
Central Presbyterian. Church, of
Orange. Miss Tongue, who is a grad?
uate of Bryn Mawr, went overseas
with the first Red Cross unit. Mr.
Eberetadt graduated in 1913 from
Princeton, served in Squadron' A on
the Mexican border and as a captain
in the 304th Field Artillery in France.
He belongs to the Princeton, New
York City and Squadron A clubs
After a cruise through the West In?
dies he and his bride will make their
home in New York.
Miss Beatrice Wetzel, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Wetze!, of this
cpty and Alpine-on-Hudson, will be
married to Harry Ecker Grant to-mor?
row evening at the Plaza Hotel. The
ceremony will take place at 6 o'clock
and be followed by a reception. Miss
Wetzel will have two matrons of hon?
or, her sisters, Mrs. Ralph H. Goss, and
Mrs. Edwin C. Colwell, Dr. H. Clifton
Luke will serve as Mr. Grant's best
Tongue, of Baltimore and Glen Arms,
Md., was married in New York New
Year's Eve to Ferdinand Eber3tadt,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Frederick
man, and the ushers will be Ralph H.
Goss, Edwin C. Colwell, Howard Nixon
and Raymond St_ph.er.son.
Invitations have been issued for the
marriage of Miss Dorothy Williams
Levey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David
E. Levey, of 120 West Seventieth
Street, to Edmond James Rosener, son
of Mrs. N. J. Rosener, of Hotel Bilt
more, on Thursday, January 15, in the
Crystal Room of the Ritz-Carlton. The
attendants will foe Misses Louise Straus
as maid of honor, Mrs. Alfred Lincoln
R.senor as matron of honor and
Misses Adelaide Williams, Mildred
Stern, Virginia Hausman, Edith Wim
clbach as bridesmaid-. Alfred Lincoln
Rosener will be his brother's best man
and the ushers will be Lawrence
Leeds, Herbert Kottek, Joseph Troun
stine, Horace Bloch, John Morgenthal
and Elliot Kahn. The ceremony, will
be performed by Dr. Alfred W.'Martin.
The marriage of Miss Minette Ham
; ?in Pearson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Hamlin Pearson, of 520 West
140th Street, to Walter Morris Thed?
ford, son of the late Robert Thedford
and Mrs. Thedford, of 48 Hamilton.
' Place, took place Tuesday evening in
| St. Luke'H Church. The Rev. William
i Thomas Walsh, the rector, and the
? Rev, G. Ashton Oldham officiated,
i The bride's sister, Mrs. William J.
j Carroll jr., was matron of honor. Ed
I ward Graham Thedford, of Toronto,
i wa_ his brother's best man, and the
| ushers were Robert Thedford jr.,
! Thomas Thedford jr., Frederick J.
i Thedford and Arthur S. Thomson.
i After their honeymon in the South,
; Mr. Thedford and his bride will reside
j in Toronto.
? Miss Dorothy Marion Aiken, daugh?
ter of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Aiken, of 200
West Seventieth Street, will be mar?
ried to Gerald Clokcy at the St. Regis,
January 26.
M-Bh Elsie Marie Hinman, daughter
of Charles J. Hinman, of Brooklyn and
) Connecticut, and Robert Lenoir Dula,
son of H. B. Dula, of 1000 Park Ave?
nue, New York City, were married
i Tuesday afternoon 'at Delmonico'?.
? The Rev. Dr. Arthur Warren per
! formed the ceremony, and a breakfast
f .Mowed.
Miss Hinman is a granddaughter of
j the famous Colonel Benjamin Hinman
of Revolutionary days.
The couple, after a short honeymoon,
will reside at 149 West Fortieth Street.
Among those present were John De
! '/?Ido. who was best* man; Mr. and
? Mrs. Tracy Cullen, Mr. and Mrs. Ches
; t *>r Patterson. Bert Hinman, brother of
; the bride, who gave h?r away; John
1 McOurck, Lou J. Hen is, Augustus
'?Kofer, Arthur Kitching, Miss Lois
; Whitney, Miss Katherine Peer, Mr. and
! Mrs. Donald Fulton. Miss Florence
; findiger, Walter A. Hughes, Robert C.
| V/atson and James V. Gwin.
Miss Dorothy A. Bleezarde, daughter
of Edward J, Bl nezarde, superintendent
"I Polie? Telegraphs of New York, and
Mrs. Bteeznrde, of 20 Central Avenue,
Tt.mpkfnsv.lle. S. 1., was married to
Edward Mtmdlnhatl on New Year's Dtfy
In- Christ Church, Nsw Brighton,
Bishop Burch, of New York, assisted by
J the Rev. Duncan Brown, of Christ
| i.urch, officiating.
The bride had her sister, Miss Ruth
M. 'Bleezarde, as maid of honor, arid the
l.ridesmaids were the Misses Sarah P.
-.lendinhall, a sister of the bridegroom,
and Marjory Hillis, a daughter of the
Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, of
Brooklyn. Meade Stone was the best
nan and the ushers were Oscar Suttee,
Stanley Althous, Charles Mendinhall,
John Hathaway, Dixon Phillips and
Robert Perry._
Mrs. Russell _
John D. Rockefeller Is First
Arrival of Daytona Colon)
Special Corretpondenca
DAYTONA, Fla., Jan. 3.?John D
Rockefeller spent Christmas and New
Year's at his winter home here for th<
first time during the many years h<
has been coming to Ormonde. Mr
Rockefeller is the first one of the vis?
itors from the North who has thus fa
arrived at the beach colony.
Miss Elsa Woodbury, daughter oJ
Colonel and Mrs. E. P. Woodbury, anc
ur\)c Robinson
?3__?!??_'_e_?__'_?_?____'^^
She was married on Wednesday at the home of her uncle, Hcroer. _>.
Houston, 12 Wost Tenth Street.' She did splendid work with the
A. B. F. University at Beaune, Franca.
i
Murray Woodbury, a son> are spending
the holidays with their parents at the
Ridgewood. Mr. and Mrs. John Lyons,
of Gloversville, N. Y., arrived with
eight house guests this week and
opened Nestlodown, their Daytona win?
ter home. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Mellor,
of New York, arrived here this week.
j Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hilton, Miss
Freda Hilton, Miss Doris Hilton and
Clarence Robinson, of Garrison, N. Y.,
are here to spend the winter at Gar?
rison-on-the-Beach.
St. Petersburg Has Gala
New Year's Celebration
Aquatic Sports, Baseball and
Golf Are Chief Features on
Program for the Holidays
Special Correspondence
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 3.?
The ten-day holiday period just closed
was crammed full of amusements.
Probably the busiest day was New
Year's, when events in every depart?
ment of sport added to the usual din?
ner parties, teas, and dances. The
day's festivities, opened with an^early
morning boat race conducted by the
St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Follow?
ing this a baseball contest between
the Sunshine Club and Pinellas Park
?teams, played at Waterfront Park. An
i other ball, game, between Tampa and
I St. Petersburg, marked the afternoon.
: At the golf club a blind bogey was
I arranged, each entrant to play oigh
! teen holes. Fifty players contested for
| ten prizes. Water- sports provided
I thrills for the overflow crowd at the
I big Spa tank. To cap the climax, Lieu?
tenant Albert, Whitted flew over St.
Petersburg with his plane brilliantly
illuminated.
The Royal Scotch Highlander Band
has ?arrived in St. Peterburg for its
twelve-week enagagement.
The Gold Dracon tearoom opened
Wednesday evening and two hundred
couples danced until the arrival of
the new year.
Edgar Smith, a well known play?
wright arrived here from Elmhurst,
L. I., for a sojourn through January.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bon and
Miss Bessie Bon, of New York, are oc?
cupying their cottage in St. Peters?
burg for the season.
I Mrs. J. A. Kellam and Miss C. Loomis,
| of New Haven, are late arrivals at
I the Park House.
The San Juan is entertaining Mr.
nnd Mrs. E. W. Porter, of Medina, N.
' Y.. and E. S. Parkhurst jr., of Glovers
i ville.
Mrs. Lee Whitcomb and her two sons,
of, New York, have taken a home in
'?St. Petersburg for the winter months.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur O. Shepardson,
I .. WRterbury. are guests at the Hol?
le nbeck Hotel. Mrs. J, B. Spencer,
of Windsor, Conn., has joined friends
hwr?.
V2lI
Miss Ogden and Miss Brooks
took part in one of the Blue Bird
ball groups at the home of Mrs.
William K. Vanderbilt jr., given
December 26. Miss Ogden is a
daughterr of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
W. Ogden, of 1U East Seventy
ninth Street. Miss Brooks is a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Chauneey Brooks, of Maryland.
The Princess Cantacuzene and
Mrs. James W. Gerard, wife of
the former American Ambassador
to Germany, are actively interest?
ed in the annual Charity Ball to
be given next month at the Wal?
dorf-Astoria.
>???
Kurt Schindler to
Conduct a Musicale
Third of Series Will Be Given
at Home of Mrs. Otto Kahn
on Thursday
At the house of Mrs. Otto H. Kahn,
1100 Fifth Avenue, the third of six
lecture-musicales, under the auspices
of the Advisory Council of the Schola
Cantorum of New York, Kurt Schind?
ler conductor, will be given Thursday.
The lecture committee ?3 composed
of Mrs. Winthrop Chanler, Mrs. Le
Roy Newbold Edgar, Mrs. Reginald
Fincke, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Miss Alice
Preston, Mrs. Horatio N. Slater, Mrs.
J. . Frederic Tarns and Miss Lucille
Thornton.
The dates for the remaining lectures
I will be February 4, February 26 and
March 18. The meeting of February 4
will be held at the home of Mrs. Reg?
inald de Koven, 1025 Park Avenue.
The lecture of February 26 will be at
the home of Mrs. Willard D. Straight,
1130 Fifth Avenue.
The last meeting will be held at the
residence of Mrs. Adolph Lewisohn,
881 Fifth Avenue.
The board of directors of the Schola
Cantorum is composed of Miss Doro?
thea de F. Baldwin, Mrs. Linzee Blag
den, Mrs. Archibald M. Brown, Law?
rence S. Butler, Mrs. Winthrop Chan?
ler, Stephen C. Clark, Mrs. Ray Den?
nis, Mrs. Charles H. Ditsop, the Rev.
Charles Winfred Douglas, Mrs. John S.
Ellsworth, Mrs. Reginald Fincke, John
i W. Frothingham, Miss Mary P. Hayden,
Miss Rosina S. Hoyt, Mrs. Harry K.
Knapp. Alvin W. Krech, Willard V.
j King, Joseph L. Lilienthal, I. Chauneey
? McKeever, Mrs. Charles E. Miller, W
! Francklyn Paris, Miss Alice Preston.
j Mrs. Alonzo Potter, Mrs. Charles A.
i Stone, Mrs. John L. Saltonstall, Mrs.
! Charles L. Tiffany and William A.
I Tucker. Miss Alice Preston is chair
! man of the advisoi'y council.
. ?
1700 Children Guests
Of Little Mothers
The Little Mothers' Aid Association
| entertained 700 children at a motion
I picture matinee as the guests of Hugo
! Reisenfeld, at the Sixty-third Street
i Music Hall on Friday. They came from
| the poorest sections of the city and
? the factory districts of Brooklyn, and
? each child received a doll, candy, hand
jkerchief and stockings. Shoes were
also provided by the association for
I the children who needed them.
i The day nurseries of the association
I had their separate holiday entertain?
ment and Christmas tree gifts and
clothing, so did not take part in F'r.
day's affair. The committee in charge
of the holiday festival was made up
of Mrs. Clarence Burns, president of
the association; Mrs. Henry S. Kiddle,
Mrs. Edward Lessing, Mrs. G. H.
Strong. Mrs. John H. Judge, Mrs. Bond
Stow, Mrs. Albert Gal latin Weed, Mrs.
G. H. Wilcox, Mrs. John Green, Mrs.
j J. V. Bostwick. Mrs. K. M. Carrington,
Mrs. John J. Cowdrey, Dr. J. H. M?l?
ler, Mrs. David Knapp, M_s. Robert
j H. McNall, Mrs. E. Van Bail and Mrs.
I J. H. Roeae
?' ?'-??-=-.-:'? ;. -asara?.
Margaret Powell Will
. Be Married in Spring
Engagement of New York Girl to Son of
Colonel F. E. Fa m swot t h Is Announced;
Other Weddings Are Presaged for Society
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elbert Powell
have announced the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Margaret Powell, to
Clarkson Lewis Farnsworth, son of Col?
onel and Mrs. Frederick E. Farnsworth,
of Huntington, L. I. Miss Powell is a
graduate of Hamilton Institute and be?
longs to the Daughters of the Ameri?
can Revolution. The wedding will take
place in the spring.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Miss Charlotte A.
Guye, daughter of Mr. and Mrs^ Charles
Henry Guye, of 44 West Sixty-ninth
Street, to La Motte Turck Cohu, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moore Cohu, of
22 East Sixty-first street. Miss Guye
was graduated from Miss Spence's
school in 1917 and made her d?but that
fall. She was in active war worker
and prominent in Junior League work.
Mr. Cohu was graduated from Prince?
ton in 1917 and was an ensign in the
navy during the war. The wedding will
take place in the spring.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Darlington,
of Great Barrington, Mass., announce
the engagement of their daughter, Miss
Helen Darlington, to David McCand
less, of,,Pittsburgh, Pa.
The engagement of Miss Helen Pier
son, daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln
Pierson, of Madison, N. J., to Bailey
Brower, of New York, has been an?
nounced. The announcement was made
at a dinner and dance which Miss
Madeleine Green gave at her Madison
Avenue home on New Year's Eve.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roome Par?
mele. of 102 Hamilton Avenue, New
Brighton, S. I., have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Emilie Frances Parmele, to Frank
Thorpe Kettles, of H is L. ? 'r.
Kettles is a brother of Mrs. Henry But?
ler Parmele, whose husband is a
brother of Miss Parmele.
Mrs. Adelbert C. Bloss, of New York,
has announced the engagement of her
daughter, Miss Claire Holcomb Bloss,
to Douglas Halsted, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James M. Halsted, of New York. No
date has been set for the wedding.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement of Miss Lorena Carroll
daughter of the late Joseph B. Carroll
and Mrs. Carroll, of 590 West End
Avenue, to Prall W. Lambert,' son of
Mr. and Mrs. Asher Lambert, of New?
ark, N. J. Miss Carroll was graduated
I last June from the Ogontz School.
Mr. and Mrs. George Edward Ki.gor?,
of 48 East Fifty-seventh Street, mad?
known the engagement of their daugh?
ter, Miss Beutrice Frances Kilgore, to
John G. Tracy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard S. Tracy, of 20;7 West 102d
? Street. Miss Kilgore was graduated
| from the Convent of the Sacred Heart.
! She has been an active Red Cross
worker. Mr. Tracy during the war
served with the 1st Field Hospital
Corps.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Sleeper,
of Manila, P. I., have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Sylvia Richardson Sleeper, to Captain
Robert C. Booth, of Plattj|burg, N. Y.
Captain Booth received his commission
at the first Plattsburg Training Camp
and served with the 76th and 26th
divisions in Fran??. He was graduated
from Yale in 1916.
Mr. and Mrs. William C. trimpe hav?
announced the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Constance Alenne
Trimpe, to Charles Thomas Henry.
j Mr. Henry is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Moore Henry, of Brooklyn.
Mr. arid Mrs. Robert C. Brown, of
Plainfield, N. J., announce the engage?
ment of their daughter,' Miss Elizabeth
Brown, to J. Nelson Ramsey. Mr.
Ramsey is a son. of the late Rev. J. N.
Ramsey and during the war was com?
manding officer of the 93d Balloon
? Company.
The engagement of Miss Violet D.
Engel, daughter of Mrs. F. Engel, of
884 Riverside Drive, to Paul L. Grun
waldt, has been announced. Mr. Grun
waldt is the son of MV. and Mrs. W. W.
r*runwaldt, of Birmingham, England.
i Announcement has been made of the
I engagement of Miss Emma Lester
Parmelee, daughter of Mr. and Mr9.
Charles Lester Parmelee, of Orange,
N. J., to Roger Corning Townsend, son
of Mrs. Charles Townsend and the late
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