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BROOKLYN LIFE. 13 Henry S. Roberts to Marry Miss Ericksen. Mr. and Mrs.

E. Ericksen of Bay Ridge have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Lillian T. Ericksen, to Mr. Henry S. Roberts, son of Mr.

and Mrs. John E. Roberts of 8 Tennis Court, Flatbush, and Nantucket, Mass. The wedding will probably take place in the early spring. The Munger-Fuller Wedding Party Now Complete.

Several weeks ago Miss Florence Hoyt Fuller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman D. Best of Ditmas Avenue, announced her attendants for her marriage to Mr. Harold Nelson Munger, which is scheduled to take place Tuesday evening, the thirtieth, in the First Reformed Dutch Church of Flatbush.

At the time it was impossible to announce the best man and ushers, as one of Mr. Munger's friends whom he had asked to be an usher was ill. Now the bridal party is complete and the four ushers will be Mr. Willis H. Stafford, Mr.

Harold S. Lyon and Mr. Raymond M. Partridge, all of Brooklyn, and Mr. Raymond E.

Gilson of Nyack, N.Y. Mr. Donald M. Smith, who is engaged to Miss Charlotte W. Leef, one of the bridesmaids, will act as best man for Mr.

Munger. A great many entertainments have been planned to precede the wedding and several took place last week, Mr. Willis H. Stafford was a host Saturday evening of last week, giving a theater party in Manhattan followed by supper at the Biltmore in honor of Miss Fuller and Mr. Munger.

Laurette Taylor in "The Harp of Life" at the Globe Theater was the attraction and the guests included the members of the bridal party and three additional guests, Mr. C. Morton Stafford, 2d, brother of the host, Mr. Ned Bushnell, who took Mr. Raymond E.

Gilson's place, and Miss Valora Bickerstaff. Miss Florence Pouch, who is to be one of the bridesmaids, gave a kitchen shower and bridge in honor of Miss Fuller last week at her home, 547 East Twenty-first Street, her guests including Miss Fuller, Mrs. Raymond M. Partridge, Miss Madeleine B. Munger, Miss Charlotte W.

Leef, Miss Ethel Chapman, Miss Kathleen Holton, Miss Helen S. Walker, Miss Elizabeth Joyce, Miss Evelyn Siney, Miss Helen Selover, Miss Margaret Valette, Miss Dorothy Middleton, Miss Mollie E. Moneypenny, Miss Grace Farrar, Miss Edith Swan and Miss Janet Pouch. Wednesday afternoon Miss Madeleine B. Munger, sister of the bridegroom, who is to be a bridesmaid, gave a theater party at the Republic Theater in Manhattan, where Gracious, Annabelle" is playing, for Miss Fuller and her other attendants.

In the party, which Miss Munger entertained at tea at the Biltmore after the matinee, were Mrs. Herman D. Best and Mrs. Nelson S. Munger.

Miss Perine's Engagement to Mr. Hammond. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Marjorie Perine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.

E. Perine, to Mr. Samuel Hammond, 3d. The Perines now reside at Red Bank, N.J., spending part of the winter in town at 1236 Pacific Street. Guests of Bluff House to Hold Reunion Dance.

There is quite a Brooklyn colony at Milford, who will be interested in the reunion dance which the guests of the Bluff House will hold at the Hotel St. George on Monday evening of next week. Mr. Albert G. Salmon is chairman of the committee with Mr.

Russell Lussier as assistant chairman. Meeting of Alliance Francaise, February Ninth. The Alliance extends a cordial invitation to anyone who desires to spend a French evening with French-speaking persons to attend the next social meeting of the society, to be held Friday evening, the ninth of February, at the Apol1o Studios. On Friday evening, the fifth of January, the Alliance celebrated "La des Nois" at the Apollo Studios. The "Farmers' at the Knickerbocker Field Club.

With Mr. Herbert G. Williams, chairman of the entertainment committee of the Knickerbocker Field Club in Flatbush, presiding, assisted by the members of his committee, the "Farmers' Ball" proved a great success Wednesday evening of last week. Informality reigned supreme and everybody had a good time, for it was impossible to be dignified wearing a linen duster or a calico apron and a sunbonnet. Assisting Mr.

Williams were Mr. George Ganzenmiller, Mr. William Miller, Mr. Matthew J. O'Neill, Mr.

A. T. W. Pilgrim, Mr. George W.

Reiff, Mr. George H. Tomes, Mr. Charles H. Severance and Mr.

Homer C. Babcock. Illustrated Talk on at the Brooklyn Club. The Brooklyn Club invites its members to hear Mr. E.

S. Jones, official photographer of the Boston Maine Railroad, give an illustrated talk on "Maine, the Sportsman's Paradise," at the club-house Tuesday evening of next week at eight o'clock. Dinner will be served at seven o'clock. Concert at the Bossert Sunday Evening. Mr.

Albert Quesnel, tenor, will assist the Frederich Janssen Ensemble at the concert to be given in the foyer of the Hotel Bossert to-morrow, Sunday evening, at a quarter past eight o'clock. The orchestral program will include the first movement of Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony," selection from "Manon" (Massenet); "Albumblatt" by Wagner; "Slavische Tanz" No. 6 by Dvorak, and "Four Characteristic Waltzes" by Coleridge-Taylor. The Brooklyn Armstrong Association Dinner. As a variation from its customary biennial reception at a member's house, the Brooklyn Armstrong Association has arranged a dinner, which will be given under its auspices at the Hotel Bossert on Thursday, February eighth.

The Rev. Dr. Francis G. Peabody of Cambridge will speak on "The Hampton Idea." There will be two other speakers and a Hampton quartet will sing plantation melodies. Meistersinger" and the Joy of Youth.

It seemed quite like a breath of spring to have "Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg" resume its place in the Metropolitan operatic fold on Wednesday evening. For Wagner's great comic opera--the greatest ever written--brings into this workaday world a supreme touch of the springtime of life and love, which is so naturally associated with the spring of the year. "Die Meistersinger" thus lends to the season an indefinably beautiful note and one well calculated to offset the horribly unpleasant doings in so many of the most important operas. Therefore every subscriber will find no end of delight in its annual round. Wednesday's performance was along familiar lines with the exception of the appearance of Howard as a new Magdalene.

It again revealed Hempel as the best Eva of the American stage, with Goritz and Reiss respectively, unmatched as Beckmesser and David. Of Sembach's Walther and Weil's Hans Sachs not SO much can truthfully be said. Nevertheless the performance is an excellent one for which operagoers should be profoundly grateful. A Most Important Mozart Revival. The bringing forward of "Le Nozze di Figaro" next Wednesday evening will be especially welcome as the Mozart opera has been altogether too long on the shelf.

There will be a superb cast, including Hempel as Susanna, Matzenauer as La Contessa, Farrar as Cherubino, de Luca as Figaro, Didur as Il Conte and Reiss as Don Basilio, and Bodansky will conduct. Gadski will return in Monday's "Lohengrin" and she will be heard again in Thursday's "Tristan und Isolde," Sembach appearing with her in the one and Urlus in the other. "Marta" will be repeated on Friday with Caruso and Hempel; "Madama Butterfly" on Saturday afternoon, with Farrar, and "Aida" Saturday evening, with Muzio new in the title role. The dates of annual afternoon cycle of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" are February first, eighth, sixteenth and twenty-second. League Benefit Night at the Park Theater.

In order to raise the necessary funds for carrying on the work of the girls' branch, Public Schools Athletic League, through the courtesy of Mr. Silvie Hein Friday evening, January twenty-sixth, will be the League Benefit Night at the Park Theater in Manhattan where "The Merry Wives of Windsor" with Mr. Thomas Wise, Miss Constance Collier and Miss Isabel Irving is now playing. The expenses of the girls' branch are met by voluntary contributions. This year it has been difficult to obtain the funds to meet the growth of the work.

Applications for boxes or tickets should be made to the girls' branch of the Public Schools Athletic League, 157 East Sixtyseventh Street, Manhattan, Miss Furey Engaged to Mr. Harrigan. Among the recently announced engagements is that of Miss Grace Furey of 354 Clinton Street to Mr. A. Nolan Harrigan of Manhattan, son of the late Edward Harrigan, the famous actor.

Miss Furey is the daughter of the late Robert Furey and is prominent in the affairs of St. Mary's Junior Auxiliary. Her who is with the Bethlehem Steel Company, is a graduate of Princeton, class of 1916. Reception of the Contemporary Club. One of the most delightful of the many pleasant occasions enjoyed by members and friends of the Contemporary Club was the annual mid-winter reception and president's tea, given on Friday, January the fifth, at the home of Mrs.

Philips Kunz, 235 Clermont Avenue. Despite the inclemency of the weather, the spacious parlors were well filled with club members and guests, to whom a gracious greeting was extended by the president, Mrs. Forrest W. Gallison, whose remarks were followed by piano solos- "Ballade" (Chopin), "Novelette" (MacDowell), and "La Campanelli" (Liszt), artistically rendered by Alice Porter Delahay. The wellknown educator, Miss Mary Snow of Manhattan, who addressed the club on "The Woman of To-day," charmed her audience.

Mrs. Snow's remarks were followed by a group of songs delightfully interpreted by Miss Marie Louise Clarke of the Chamanade, the selections including "Chantez Rezet Dounez" (Gounod), "In Quelletune Morbide," and "Mother Machree" (Ernest Ball). Miss Jessie Hall Thurston accompanied the singer. At the conclusion of the program a social hour "over the teacups" was enjoyed. The social committee of the Contemporary Club in charge of the arrangements for the "tea" included Mrs.

Philip Kunz, chairman, Mrs. Clarence C. Perpall, Mrs. Ernest E. Smith and Miss Annie Pitou..