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MORNING, MARCH 4, 1934. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, PAGE 30 I Not A Bride of a Week Ago At Hawaiian Dinner Dance rave es Quietly Wed at Church Feb. 21 This New York By LUCIUS BEEBE MRS. BENJAMIN H.

CHARLES of Warson and Ladue roads and Miss Margaret Winston of Waterman avenue sailed on the Manhattan Wednesday. They will debark at London and take a train for Edinburgh to visit Mrs. Charles' son. Beniamin H. Charles ttt whn is a student at the University of Edinburgh.

Mrs. Charles, Miss Winston and Mrs. Charles' son plan to spend the Easter season in Spain. ST. LOUIS PQST-DISPATCH- rpir iC I Iff i 'Cr Mr.

and Mrs. Allen T. West. 48 sS- nam, "VJY i yT NEW YORK, March 3. WHEN real winter comes to Manhattan the city more nearly approaches the simplicity and neighborliness of the New York of half a century ago.

A heavy blizzard constitutes a sort of minor but common emergency, a problem to be tackled with a certain civic gaiety. Strangers push each others' cars out of snow banks. Policemen are more helpful than is customary in getting pedestrians through traffic. Commuting office workers arrive late and nobody cares. Tavern keepers prepare for calls for Tom and Jerry from oldtimers, and Paddy Raffertty appears on the Plaza cab rank with his ancient sleigh and buffalo robes to drive gay young people through Central Park to the astonishment of street urchins, who have never seen a sleigh before.

We were at the opera the night of last week's blizzard and such a collection of old-time furs, earmuffs under shiny toppers and a few old tall fur hats hasn't been seen since the memorable snowfall in 88. Later that night, about 3:30 to be exact, we walked from Murray Hill up Fifth avenue to our home in Fifty-eighth street. In 20 blocks we saw only three people, two of Schweig Photo. Schweig Photot formerly Miss Helen Elizabeth Dun' By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer. "ROUP of guests at the Hawaiian dinner dance given recently at the St.

Louis Woman's Club by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Howard Jr. From left: MRS.

ARTHUR KERCKHOFF, MRS. FRAKK. M. SEE and MRS. SIDNEY WBR.

MRS. FAUL who was, bejore her marriage a weet ago. Miss Aimee Shelton, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. WilJiam Gentry Skekon.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. John W. TAaclvor at the Second Presbyterian Church. Catholic Symposium Westmoreland, place, and their daughter.

Miss Bettv. have taken a house at Miami Beach, for the rest of the season. Thev have been at Miami Beach several weeks. Mrs. Vireinia Foster Limherc and her sister.

Miss Mav Foster. who are spending the winter in Hollywood. man to snend Eas ter in Mexico City. They will re turn to St. Louis for a short visit before goiner to Weauetonsine-.

tor the summer. Mrs. Thomas Vietor of New York and her daughter, Mary Jane, who have been guests of Mr. and Mrs J. Lionberger Davis of Brentmoor, will leave this week-end for their home.

Mrs. Elizabeth Niedringhaus Watts, 4933 Buckingham court, and Mrs. Willette McCormick Mucker- man, 6181 Kingsbury boulevard, ac companied by Mrs. Chouteau Scott of Paris, formerly of St. Louis, will sail Tuesday for Paris, where they will spend a month.

They will visit Italy and spend the summer on the Riviera. In September they will visit Mrs. Scott's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Walker of Calcutta, India.

Mrs. Walker was formerly Miss Chouteau Scott of St. Louis. Mrs. Scott has been visiting Mrs.

Watt's parents. Dr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Niedringhaus, 7600 Carondelet avenue, Clayton.

Mrs. John Cannon, 625 South Skinker road, and Mrs. Walter Russell of the Park Plaza will leave today for a week's visit in New York. Mrs. Robert Perkins Brown Jr, of Providence, formerly Miss Josephine Garrett, who has been visiting her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas H. Garrett, 29 Kingsbury place, will leave today for her home. Mrs. Valle Reyburn, 366 Walton avenue, has joined her young daughter, Miss Frances, in Palm Beach, at the winter home of Mr.

Reyburn's mother, Mrs. Charles Fletcher Sparks, 6320 Wydown boulevard. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sullivan of Berry road, Webster Groves, have returned from a cruise to Panama.

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin G. Chap man 58 Kingsbury place, and their daughter, Miss Jaquelin, and Mr. and Mrs.

Edward M. Durham Jr. of the Park Plaza, and their son. Benjamin W. Durham, sailed Wednesday from New York on their way to Mexico City.

They will return to St. Louis about the middle of the month. Mrs. Walter Fischel, 14 Lenox place, and her mother, Mrs. William H.

Elliot, 5023 Westminster place, have returned from a visit of two weeks with Mrs. R. O. Ccx of Chicago, at her winter home at Mountain Lake, Fla. Miss Cornelia Scott of the Park Plaza has returned from Chicago where she has been visiting her brother, George E.

Scott, for several weeks. Mrs. Harold M. Bixby and her Benjamin Franilin Dunnagan, 6920 place quietly, Feb. 21, at the West St.

Louisa ns at Palm Beach and Miami Continued From Page One. Pirrung of St. Louis, Stuart Robin of New York and B. Shonard at a dinner dance at the Natilus HoteL Mr. and Mrs.

John B. Strauch of St. Louis entertained at the Bath Club Thursday evening Mr. and Mrs. J.

O. Rand, F. C. Rand, Mrs Gale F. Johnston, Mrs.

J. Andrew- Strauch, Mrs. Charles Parsons Pettus and Mrs. George W. Sim mons of St.

Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Frank O. Watt entertained for Mr.

Rand at thm Club house in Hialeah before th races. Miss Edwina Preetorius is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Douglas G. Cook, at the Columbus Hotel. Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Ml Keller gave a dinner dance at the Plaza, recently for Mr. and Mrs. Richard McCulloch, Mrs. Paul Brown and Robert Brooks.

Mr. and Mrs. John T. Davis of St. Louis have arrived In Miami and are at the Gulf Stream Apart' ments.

(RSl CHARLES A. MISURA, naean. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amherst place.

The marriage too Presbyterian Church. daughters, Frances, Elizabeth, Catherine and Hebe, who are at their summer home at Lake George, N. will come to St. Louis about the middle of the month to visit Mrs. Bixby's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Francis G. Case, 4904 Pershing avenue. Miss Frances and Miss Elizabeth are students at Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Conn. Mrs.

Clifford W. Gaylord, 816 South Hanley road, has gone to Miami Beach, to join her daughters, Miss Henriette Pirrung and Mrs. Jane Pirrung Wiley. After a business trip to Washington Mr. Gaylord will go to Mexico City where Mrs.

Gaylord will join him. Mrs. William P. Compton of Scarsdale, N. formerly of St.

Louis, arrived yesterday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Danforth, 17 Kingsbury place. Mr. and Mrs.

W. K. Norris, 6235 Waterman avenue, will leave the last of the week for a motor trip in the West. They will visit in Seattle, Wash, and' Portland, before going to California to spend several weeks at Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. They will be away about two months.

the in 4378 LIndcII 50 Our Special Hot and Wave Blvd. Final Clearance Sale BALANCE OF WINTER MERCHANDISE AND EARLY PALM BEACH CLOTHES $iqoo $15.00 $25 Institute de Beaute Oil Treatment, Shampoo Ij.OO whom were officers and the other a youth who had fallen into a snowdrift outside the University Club. We pulled him out and walked him down to the Dorset, where he said, not every clearly, that he lived. On the way down John D. Rockefeller's front yard and oldtime stables gleamed white under a sputtering arc lamp like a scene from a Christmas card.

WE reported, a fortnight since, on the trek to Hartford for the opening there of Gertrude Stein's daffy opera called "Four Saints in Three Acts." The nonesuch has eventually arrived in town and you aren't welcome as a dinner conversationalist unless you've seen it. The Manhattan premiere was, perhaps, the high point of the theater season and the intelligentsia in tortoise glasses and the representa tives of fashion with monocles de scended in an avalanche of broadcloth on the old Forty-ninth Street Theater. Everyone had a dandy time ex cept the music critics and drama repbrters, who were just as baffled as the next man, but had to write about it and try to make sense. The words are simply meaningless either grammatically or by implication or suggestion, the stage business and movement is the last word in baroque insanity, but Virgil Thompson's music, sung by a cast of 60 odd Negroes attired in blazing and absurd saint costumes, is pretty grand stuff at times. At the first night Carl Van Vech-ten, pioneer Harlem exploiter, whooped his emphatic approval.

Florine Stettheimer, who did the sets, took a modest bow from the stage box; Burns Mantle was pathetically bewildered; the young art enthusiasts howled for more than 20 curtain calls from the cast; John Chapin Mosher of the New Yorker looked vastly sapient but wouldn't commit himself; for the first time in recorded history the Countess Ghika dropped her single eyeglass in her enthusiasm; John Marshall burst his evening waistcoat laughing and the fireman on duty in the rear of the auditorium said "Jeez, has everybody gone crazy or are they just stewed?" "Four Saints" will be most oppressively the vogue for the next few weeks. ONE of our favorite retreats of a Saturday afternoon, located far below the lowest level of the near-by Grand Central Station, is the Turkish bath department of the Biltmore. There to wallow and recline among the steams and vapors, sprays, showers and hoses of its steam rooms and hot rooms. pools, cabinets and rubbing apartments is, evidently, a pastime high ly esteemed by many of the great. We have watched Al Smith bubble and stew and bellow greetings at political porpoises splashing ponder ously in the pool.

Judges and magistrates have a peculiar affinity for heat and steam. Gen. Johnson is an occasional devotee of parboiling. Wolves of Wall Street, shorn of their fur, paddle wetly about with final stock editions' rushed down at their behest. Kermit Roosevelt was having himself pounded into an almost hamburg-like condition by Louis the rubber last week.

Postmaster-General Farley was there another day, Al Jolson's head can sometimes be seen projected above a baking cabinet. A literary looking fellow who puts in an occasional appearance wears a monocle through the entire course of a Russian bath. Jack, the head rubber, knows the choice in mineral waters of scores of financiers, real estate operators and statesmen. It's all very soothing, very steamy, very splashy. THE arrival of film celebrities of the moment at either of New York's main railroad terminals is always something of a trial for the special police of the Penn or Grand Central stations.

The technique preferred by most actors and actresses is to announce their impending arrival, even to such details as the numbers of their Pullman drawing rooms, and then make la pretense of outrage, wjiea When These Are discovered by camera men and admirers. For days before the arrival of a Dietrich or a Garbo or a Joan Crawford or Franchot Tone city editors are harassed and radio studios invaded by hysterical press agents clamoring for camera men, reporters and broadcasters to be present when the Century rolls in. Just so that a crowd of morbid curiosity seekers and waiting-room loungers will be on hand, "movie" cameras are installed and ushers are present with huge floral tributes from local film executives. Then when the great personage actually steps from the train his or her instant reaction to all this hoopla must be one of violated privacy and shrinking modesty. Smoked glasses are whisked into position, coat collars turned up and flight and panic similated.

The crowd shouts, the flashlights explode and, like a terrified faun, the celebrity flees in search of privacy, surrounded by shouting press agents, gesticulating servants and a baying chorus of minor home office executives. Usually a leather-lunged publicity expert is on hand to bellow the name of the hotel where, in strictest retreat and absolute secret, the celebrity will seek repose and tranquillity, so that a few thousand autograph collectors may flood the lobby and knock down the bellboys whenever the great personage goes or comes. Three minutes after the train has arrived the crowd has dissolved and vanished, as unsubstantial and transient a manifestation as, shall we say, the fame of a film star itself. GOTHAM JOTTINGS: When one has been a member of the Century Club for 50 years he can wear a cloth of gold evening waistcoat at the society's dinners. The annual Dutch Treat show is in the formative stages and promises to be a honey.

William Harlan Hale alone combines the playboy and authentic intellectual. The hat rack at Reubens at 3 the other morning held 32 top hats, two derbies and one Homburg. Katharine Brush has several portable typewriters to do her work on. They are in various pastel colors to suit her mood at the moment. Courtney Burr installed a bar under the Lyceum Theater but couldn't get a license, so now he just runs it for his friends free.

Stanley Walker remarks that it's lucky Theodore Dreiser didn't write "Anthony Adverse" or one would have to have a caddy to get through it. Cartier recently made a $150 pair of platinum garters for a young man of Manhattan. Owen Davis Jr. and Elisha Cook Jr. each keep big, black German shepherd dogs.

Bright colored mess jackets for evening are reported from Palm Beach. You can't get a reservation on any Bermuda boat for three weeks. Dick Maney, the demon press agent, reels off Latin verse by the hour YILLARD TO SPEAK MAR. 16 Journalist to Talk On Hitler Before Contemporary Club. 1 Oswald Garrison Villard, journalist, will speak on "Hitler: Grave Menace to at meeting of the Contemporary Club at 6:45 p.

m. March 16 at Hotel Coronado. Villard, former editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation, has attended all the principal European conferences since the World War. Dean Heller of Washington University will preside. BILTMORE HOTEL" Washington at Grand Theatre Center 15 Mi nut From Anywhar Rates i 50 Up GARAGE PARKINS London Is Preparing For Next Royal Court LONDON, March 4.

FOLLOWING announcement of the dates of the next royal courts, Queen Mary has approved designs for the gowns to be worn by debutantes and their sponsors. Sketches of the gowns from now on will be displayed in the oflice of the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Gra-nard, whose wife is the former Beatrice Ogden Mills, for the guidance of ladies attending the courts. United States Ambassador and Mrs. Robert W. Bingham will receive a hearty welcome from their friends and members of the diplomatic corps this week when they return to London after an absence of two months.

Among the first tasks of the Ambassador will be the drawing up of lists of the American debutantes whom Mrs. Bingham will present at court this year. The Hon. Nadine Stoner is a debutante for whom there has been much entertaining this year. 7-Ier mother, Lady Comoys, who before her marriage in 1911 to the fifth Lord Comoys was Mildred Sherman, daughter of W.

Watts Sherman of Rhode Island, is giving a dance for her daughter June 14. Americans who have recently arrived in London include Edward R. Baines, John H. Gilmore, Sydney Randall, Mrs. James A.

Moffett. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bedaux, Mr.

and Mrs. W. B. Holton all of New York; Mrs. Joseph Moran and Miss Nora Ransome of Palm Beach, and John M.

Panton and Leo E. Walsh of Chicago. Blanche Pollock and H. Miller Jr. to Wed THE wedding of Miss Blanche Pollock, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Crothers Pollock of 349 Westgate avenue, University City, and Harvey Lamar Miller son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lamar Miller of Pittsburgh, will take place March 14, at 5:30 p. m.

at the home of the bride's parents, the Rev. R. F. Seurig officiating. Miss Pollock completed her edu cation at Washington University, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority.

Mr. Miller attended Wisconsin University, where he became a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and later was graduated from Washington University. Several parties have been given in honor of Miss Pollock, including bridge luncheons by Mrs. A. D.

Far-rell of 6234 Oakland avenue, and Miss Hariet Schulz of 60 Marshall place, Webster Groves; a dinner bridge by Mrs. Theodore Krauss Jr. and Miss Ruth Waldbauer and a luncheon by Miss Madelyne Hu-ber of 412 Edgewood drive, Clay ton. Pollock was entertained with Miss Hariet Schulz Feb. 17 by Miss Hazel Hausner, Miss Na dine Jaeger, Miss Virginia Johnson, and Miss Dorothy Roeder gave a bridge luncheon.

Town Club to Give Palm Beach Partv THE Town Club will give its annual Palm Beach party Tuesday night. The party was postponed from last Tuesday night. Frank Nuedscher, St. Louis artist, Arthur Kocian of the Kocian art galleries, and Kenneth Miller, an artist, will be the official judges of the feature event, the parade of bathing beauties. During the water carnival and sport competitions refreshments will be served Coney Island fashion under the direction of Miss Corne lia Roche, chairman of the committee.

Miss Mary Murphy is general chairman for the affair, and Miss Blanche Gamlin and Miss Aman da Oetgen will have charge ot the special decorations. Events of Week At Palm Beach By the Associated Press. PALM BEACH, March 3. A BIRTHDAY party, a wedding, and a mammoth charity revue were added to the list of gay-eties in care-free Palm Beach this week. Attended by 300 members of the colony, the eighty-fifth birthday of Edward T.

Stotesbury, Philade)phia financier, was celebrated in gala fashion at El Mirasol. As a tribute to the days when he was a drummer boy, back in '64, he playei Yankee Doodle on the drums, to the accompaniment of an orchestra. Mrs. Stotesbury wore an exquisite frock of cream lace made with long sleeves and velvet flowers crushed In at the waist. Her hat of matching lace was trimmed with the same flowers.

She wore her famous pearls and a dog collar of diamonds. Modifications of the sport frock continue to follow the hands of the clock. The shirt-waist evening frock is enjoying a vogue. For hev wedding to Bruno Graf of Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, Mrs. Gretch-en Kroger Barnes of Cincinnati wore a formal sports suit of white crepe, wtih one of the new wide-brimmed hats of white.

Her flowers were orchids. This was a quiet wedding at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. H.

Kroger of Cincinnati. The Bath and Tennis Club, a favorite rendezvous of society, has been the scene of many charming luncheons. Mrs. Walter Hopkins of Baltimore and Mrs. John A.

Dana of Washington, D. were among those giving luncheons there this week. The popularity of the all-white costume was noted at a large musical tea at the home of Mrs. Chester C. Bolton of Washington, D.

C. The majority of the older matrons were in all-white or pastel shades. The separate white coat is also an important item with Palm Beach. Virginia Keene and Marjory Kel-ley, two of Madame Homer's pupils who assisted at this tea, were strikingly costumed. Miss Keene was in sapphire blue velvet, floor length.

Her frock was tight fitting and made with shoulder epaulets. Her tiny, stiff-brimmed hat was adorned with blue ostrich tips. Miss Kelley wore a costume of black and green, with black, floor-length skirt, green blouse and tiny black hat. Hats in Palm Beach, by the way, rar.e all the way from mere pea-luts to cart wheels. Any hat is the stylish hat, just so it has the virtue of being unusual, and is becoming.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harrington Chadwick, Chicago, entertained Friday night at Villa today. Events tomorrow include a large tea hich Mr. and Mrs.

Blaine Webb, New York, are giving at the Everglades Club. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Dobyne, Beverly Farms, re holding open house on Sunday in compliment to Mrs.

Thomas w.roy of Short Hills, N. who is guest of Mrs. Frank Vernon Skiff. PUNS FOR OPERA OPENING J-owu Group to Invite Mrs. Koose-lt; Committee Members.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be invited to come to St. Louis for the opening of the grand opera rvival next month in connection 'th the dedication of the New Mun: cipal Auditorium. Her cousin, tmiiy Roosevelt, will have a part in Production of "Pagliacci." The following were named as rnbers of Grand Opera Commit-e yesterday by McMillan Lewis, Kfrrh nff if tvt Lf mis, o.

vnuuLcau Miss Ellen Walsh, and Miss B. Taussig. t. -luwcliu j. rduai, jauico 5j Darst, David R.

Calhoun E. Reynolds, Guy Golterman, R. To Open Tomorrow THE first of the series of discussions of the Catholic Educational Symposium will be held at the Coronado hotel, tomorrow night. The speakers will be: The Rev. W.

M. McGucken, S. Regent, School of Education, St. Louis Uni versity; Miss Cornelia Brossard, Dean of Women, Harris Teachers College, and Dr. George F.

Dono van, president of Webster College Mrs. J. Lindsay Franciscus is chairman of the ushers. Assisting her will be Mrs. Edmund F.

Gor man, Mrs. Otto Spaeth, Mrs. J. Hunt Benoist, and Mrs. Charles Lucas Hunt.

Among those who have sub scribed are: Mrs. Robert E. M. Bain, Miss Eugenie Berthold, Mrs, William Bascom, Mrs. Seth Cobb, Mrs.

J. A. Colnan, the Rev. George Dreher, Mrs. O.

P. J. Falk, Miss Pauline Grindon, Mrs. Marquard Forster, Mrs. J.

L. Hornsby, Mrs. A. B. Harrington, the Rev.

George Heffernan, the Rev. W. Huelsmann, Brother Charles Huebert, Mrs. J. M.

James, Mrs. Leo Moser, Mrs. Emma Barney Maloy, the Rev. P. D.

O'Connor, William Booth Papin, Mrs. L. Perez, Mrs. Marie Rene de Penaloza, Mrs. Hubertus Schotten, and the Rev.

Robert Spirig, S. J. Miss Dorothy Willmann will preside. The St. Louis Circle of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae is sponsoring the Symposium.

Elizabeth Scriven and F. H. Bassett Are to Wed 4 NNOUNCEMENT has been made of the engagement of Miss Elizabeth Scriven of Chicago, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Hooper Scriven, and Frederick Harney Bassett, son of Mrs.

Harney Bassett of Santa Monica, and Admiral Frederick Brewster Bassett of Fort George, Miss Scriven attended Les Fou-geres in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is, a member of the Junior League. The prospective bridegroom is the nephew of Mrs. L. L.

Whittemore, Mrs. Nettie H. Beauregard and Frank L. Harney of St. Louis.

Following his graduation from Cornell University in 1924 Mr. Bassett lived in St. Louis with Mr. and Mrs. Whittemore for several years.

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