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BROOKLYN LIFE. first the Friday Evening Assemblies, the chef The d'oeuvre of Miss Adele Bull, who must be credited with the most successful attempt ever made at amalgamating the social constituents of the Heights Hill and other topographically distinguished sets, came off at the Heights Casino last week, Friday evening, with much eclat. The tennis court ballroom was decorated by Condon with Christmas greens and red flowers and one end was screened off by palms for a supper room. Eight of the ten patronesses were present: Mrs. Henry Lascelles Maxwell, Mrs.

Winchester Noyes, Mrs. Harry Moul, Mrs. Charles F. Neergaard, Mrs. Lowell M.

Palmer, junior, Mrs. Sterling Peters, Mrs. Edgar D. Pouch and Mrs. James Watt, and the attendance of subscribers included: Miss Elsie Arnold, Mr.

L. M. Brigham, Miss Gertrude Buys, Mr. Leicester Collins, Miss Collins, Mr. Clarence Dunning, Mr.

Amos T. Dwight, Mr. Herbert Downs, Mr. Otto W. Heinigke, Mr.

Lewis Hughes, Mr. Daniel Downs, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jewell, Mr. Henry Davenport, Mr.

and Mrs. Sidney Kennedy, Miss Mabel Stanton, Miss Margarethe Lienau, Miss Coralie Mead, Mr. D. Irving Mead, Mr. Edward F.

Oakley, Miss Marjorie Prentiss, Dr. C. S. Pool, Miss Elsie Preston, Miss Caroline Peters, Mr. Howard Richardson, Mr.

Cortlandt Richardson, Miss Gertrude Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Turnbull, Mr. Frank Williams, Mr.

Clarence Westin, Miss Louise Wurster, Miss Weeden, Mr. E. Allan Wood, Miss Ruth Barrett, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Riggs, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Henry, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Loomis, Mr. and Mrs.

Gordon Colton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Frazier, Miss Marion Frazier, Miss Louise Gale, Miss Florence Burke, Miss Marie Appleton, Miss Louise C. Wurster, Miss Madeleine Broun, Miss Madeleine Dougherty, Miss Leila Chapin, Miss Gladys Balch, Miss Florence Smith, Miss Hazel Talmage Smith, Miss Amy Knox, Miss Elsie Arnold, Miss Ruth Barrett, Miss Maude V.

Jones, Miss Muriel Goepel, Miss Grace Bedford, Miss Gertrude Beecher, Miss Natalie Johnson, Miss Maud Ethel Jones, Miss Alice Pate, Miss Doris Fuller, Miss Alice Davol, Miss Louise Earle, Miss Edith Ray, Miss Alice Stanton, Miss Marjorie Prentiss, Miss Jessie Neergaard and Mr. William F. Atkinson, Mr. Luther Billings, Mr. Rufus L.

Scott, Mr. D. Irving Mead, Mr. John H. Vanderbilt, Mr.

James H. Williams, Mr. Frank Davol, Mr. Henry Martin, Mr. Christopher Robert, Mr.

W. Fordham Payne, Mr. Russell Earle, Mr. Charles Switzer, Mr. Vincent Arguimbau, Miss Helen F.

Hunter, Mr. Alfred N. Booranem, Mr. Charles Percy Goepel, Mr. Leonard Bates, Mr.

Foster Crampton and Mr. Stuart B. Camp, together with the committee in charge: Miss Adele H. Bull, Miss Anna Francis, Miss Elsie Fuller, Miss Helen F. Hunter, Mr.

Alfred N. Booranem, Mr. Charles M. Bull, junior, Mr. Morris U.

Ely and Mr. Alexander B. Gale. and Mrs. James Shewan, formerly of 152 Rodney MR.

street, have announced the engagement of their eldest daughter, Miss Nellie Shewan, to Mr. Elias S. Gifford of Boston. The wedding, it is announced, is to take place at four o'clock on February the sixth at the St. Regis Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Shewan have closed their country house at Cold Spring on the Hudson and are, spending the winter at 90 Riverside drive. Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Charles Gray Atwood, of ON 200 Berkeley place, received in honor of Mrs.

Cassels Atwood, from three until six o'clock. The other members of the receiving party were Mrs. Romaine Hard Crosby, Mrs. George D. Atwood, Miss Anderson, Miss Catherine V.

Mrs. Eddy, Mrs. J. D. Atwood and Miss Esther Hodgson.

MRS. Herrick, Edward of I. Manhattan, Horsman, was junior, the who guest was of Miss honor Ethel at H. the reception given by Mrs. Horsman, of 223 Berkeley place, on Tuesday afternoon.

Receiving with the hostess and her daughter-in-law were the former's three daughters, Mrs. Harold M. Wilcox, Mrs. Arthur Van Siclen, and Mrs. R.

Wilmarth Appleton, Mrs. Alvin Boody completing the party. The hostess was becomingly gowned in a costume of black chiffon, velvet and point lace, while Mrs. Horsman, junior, wore a gown of pale pink ottoman silk embroidered in pearls. Mrs.

Wilcox was gowned in black chiffon and duchesse lace; Mrs. Van Siclen in a white lace costume; Mrs. Appleton in lavender chiffon, and Mrs. Boody in white chiffon. The rooms were effectively decorated with palms, ferns and chrysanthe- mums, while the table was adorned with poinsettia and holly, and music was furnished by Fanelli.

A MANHATTAN calendar wedding for of Thursday distinct Brooklyn afternoon of interest this week, when Miss Julia A. Trowbridge was married in the Brick Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue, to Mr. Herbert Lloyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis G.

Lloyd. The bride is the daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. George Trowbridge, and a granddaughter of the late A. D.

Polhemus, of Brooklyn. Her attendants were her sister, Mrs. Douglas L. Elliman, Miss Louise Trowbridge, and Miss Anabel G. Van Nostrand, daughter of Mrs.

Gardiner Van Nostrand and granddaughter of the late John Van Nostrand, of South Brooklyn. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton, who also is a former Brooklyn man, assisted by the Rev. Dr.

William R. Richards. One of the ushers was Mr. Bernon S. Prentice, son of Mr.

and Mrs. W. S. P. Prentice, formerly of the Heights, the others being Mr.

Douglas L. Elliman, Mr. Harry B. Hollins, junior, Mr. Arthur Delano Weekes, junior, Mr.

Frederick C. Inman, and Mr. Milton Hitchock. The groomsman was Mr. Gustavus Owen Winston.

After the ceremony there was a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elliman, 167 East Seventy street. Mr. Lloyd gave his bachelor dinner at Delmonico's last week, Friday evening.

pretty "At Home" was given by Miss Florence A VERY Spencer at her home, 38 Ormond place, last Saturday afternoon. Miss Spencer was chaperoned by her aunt, Mrs. George T. Hall, and assisted by the Misses Mabel C. Southard, Nan L.

Hall, Jessie E. Hopkins and Helen S. Wells, all of whom were attractively gowned in white. The house was decorated with palms and carnations. Miss Spencer proved a charming hostess.

Among her guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Southard, of Baldwin; Mrs.

Jas. S. Pettit, Mr. and Mrs. E.

L. Megill, Mrs. Oliver C. Patterson, Miss Olive Patterson, Mrs. T.

F. Cheriton, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Theodore Cheriton, Miss Caryl Cheriton, Mr. and Mrs.

Wm. Dougherty, Miss Alice M. Wells, Mrs. A. E.

Smith, Miss Alice V. Graham, Miss Alveretta Devereaux, Miss Gwen Hopkins, Mrs. Stephen Woolsey, Miss Woolsey, Miss Elizabeth B. Lent, of Brewster, N. Mrs.

Preston Morris, Mrs. John M. Lennan, Mrs. Havens, Miss Havens, Miss Leona Foy and Messrs. G.

Clarence Hall, Mr. W. Oliver Wandell, Edwin D. Duryea, D. Loring Pope, Franklin H.

Baker. THE song second lectures of Mr. last and week Mrs. Tuesday Barclay morning, Dunham's at the series Pierre- of pont Assembly rooms, was particularly interesting, because it dealt with modern English and American composers, including Mr. William G.

Hammond, of this borough of New York, and Mr. Harvey Loomis, who was at least born and brought up on this side of the river. Mr. Dunham described Mr. Loomis as almost a musical anarchist, though it is hard to imagine him in the of the man with the torch, perhaps Mr.

Dunham really meant that he was the Upton Sinclair of music. At any rate, he exposed the red-rag time in Mr. Loomis's music for the benefit of less discerning critics. Mr. William G.

Hammond was not given credit for particular innovations, but was credited with a rich and optimistic style. The other composers dissected and interpreted were Edward Elgar, whose fame does not rest on his songs; Arthur Goring Thomas, Charles Villiers-Stanford, Amy Woodford Finden and Percy Atherton. The next of the series is scheduled for the morning of January twenty-second, and the fourth and last for the evening of January twenty-ninth, instead of the morning, as originally announced. Year's eve in Plainfield will be marked by a charity ball at the Casino for the benefit of the Muhlenberg Hospital. Most of those who go to the ball will attend the performance of "Mrs.

Wilson-Andrews" at the new Plainfield Theater earlier in the evening, the subscription tickets covering both entertainments. MR. Oscar E. Stevenile son of Mrs. Berkeley Mostyn, of Manhattan, guest of honor Mr.

R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont at a dinner at Delmonico's on Thursday the sixth. in January at 289 Washington avenue, are announced by Mrs. Samuel Doughty, Miss Doughty and Mrs. Herbert Howard Knox.

WITH this week's concert at the Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Albert M. Bagby entered upon the second half of his second hundred morning musicales. This record of one hundred and fifty-one events of an altogether unique character is remarkable numerically, but even more worthy, of special note is the extraordinary list of artists who have assisted Mr. Bagby in his venture.

Sembrich, Melba, Eames, Nordica, Materna, Nevada, Lehmann, Ternina, Gadski, Juch, SchumannHeink, Mantelli, Klafsky, Walker, Homer, Caruso, Alvary, Maurel, Van Rooy, Scotti, Bispham, Gilbert, Whitney and Edouard de Reszke, are among those who have sung for him: the instrumentalists include Rosenthal, Hofmann, Aus der Ohe, Samaroff, Scharwenka, Kreisler, Gerardy and Bemberg, and the orchestras those of Seidl, Damrosch, Herbert and Kaltenborn. The one hundred and fiftieth musicale last week was made a decidedly gala affair, Mr. Bagby's reception being nothing short of an ovation. From the subscribers he received a gold watch and chain, also cuff links and waistcoat buttons. At the last of Mr.

Bagby's mornings, next week, Thursday, Emma Eames will sing. As has been already mentioned, a second series of musicales will be given on the Monday mornings of January..