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BROOKLYN LIFE Society in Brooklyn THE NEWS of the that sons Mr. of the James late Taylor Edmund and Terry, Anna the youngest Prentice Terry of Brooklyn Heights had re embarked. upon the sea of matrimony came as a surprise to his innumerable friends in Brooklyn and Manhattan early this week. The news came in a private cable dispatch from Peking announcing his marriage in the Chinese capital on January 12th to Mrs. Olive Warner Barnewall of 166 East 66th Street, Manhattan, who is head of the Olive Barnewall interior decorating establishment at 694 Avenue and a member of the Colony Club.

Mr. Terry who now lives at 18 East Fifty Street left New York for the Far East on November 4th last, by way of Montreal and Vancouver and aparently became acquainted with the bride on his travels. They were, it seems, married by a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Mr. Hayes, and the ceremony was.

attended by a number of distinguished and titled personages including the Dowager Countess and Earl Gosford, Sir Ronald and Lady Macleay, Mr. John V. A. McMurray, the American Minister to China and his wife, Mr. Silas Strawn, the American delegate to the Chinese Customs Conference, Mrs.

Strawn and the Baroness Von Shoen, Mrs. Swan Kernan of this city acted as matron of honor and Mr. John Jay Abbott was best man. Mr. Terry's first wife was Mrs.

Mary Eleanor Van Wagenen to whom he was married in May, 1909, but who obtained a divorce in Paris where she now lives, in 1923. Mr. Terry, needless to say, was formerly among the best known and most popular club man and sportsman in Brooklyn, and is today equally popular in the Racquet and Knickerbocker Clubs across the river. He is a veteran of Squadron A and served through the SpanishAmerican War. He was one of the bachelor contingent who laid the foundation of the Crescent Athletic Club.

AN has ENGAGEMENT been OF announced of INTEREST Mr. is Burnell that Lock which recently wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, formerly of Joralemon Street, Brooklyn and now of 125 East 72nd Street, Manhattan and Greenwich, to Miss Dorcas Washburn. Mr.

Lockwood, is an active member of the Brooklyn Museum. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood are interested in antiques and are especial authorities on old furniture. Mr.

Lockwood, who is well known among the younger set of Brooklyn, is to marry the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Washburn of Worcester and Boston, Mass. Miss Washburn is a graduate of the Walker School of Simsbury, and is a member of the Junior League and the Chilton Club of Boston. Mr.

Lockwood is a graduate of the Middlesex School and of Harvard University, class of 1924, where he played halfback on the football team. He spent a year in special study at University College, Oxford, and is now at the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Fly, D. K. Institute of 1770, Hasty Pudding and Varsity Clubs.

The marriage will take place upon the completion of Mr. Lockwood's law school course. afternoon tea between the hours of 4 and 7 o'clock in their charming new apartment at 1120 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, overlooking Central Park. It was given in honor of the Hon. John H.

Clarke, president of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, who was elevated to the Supreme Court bench by the late. Woodrow Wilson, but subsequently resigned to devote himself to the cause of the League of Nations in this country. With few exceptions only members of the Association with which Mr. Tuttle has been very actively and prominently identified since the war were invited. A few of those present were Mrs.

James Lees Laidlaw, Mrs. David H. Lanman, Mrs. George D. Provost, Mrs.

Edgerton Parsons, Mrs. Frederick G. Corning, Mrs. Maximilian Richter, Mrs. Walter Chambers, Mrs.

Francis C. Barlow, Mrs. William Howard Good, Mrs. James Erksine Neal, Miss Belle Baruch, Miss Fay Randall, Miss Narcissa Vanderlip, Mrs. Howard Kissam Pell, Mrs.

Charles W. Whitman, Mrs. Darwin J. Meserole, Miss Elizabeth Voorhees, Miss Caryls Peabody and Mrs. Frank Keep.

Many will be interested to know that Mr. F. Day Tuttle, who was with the Jitney Players last Summer is now a member of Walter Hampden's Company though as yet he has been entrusted with no important part in Mr. Hampden's Shakesperean productions. MR.

AND MRS. FRANK DAY TUTTLE gave an COME OF THE PROGRAM AND CANDY GIRLS already chosen for "Captain Applejack" to be given by the Church Lane Players of St. Paul's Flatbush, next Thursday and Friday evenings, January 21st and 22nd, are listed herewith. Ira L. Hill MISS MURIEL ELISE SLOCOVICH Who is actively working for the success of the dance of the Colony House Junior Guild to be held next Friday evening at the home of Mrs.

Alexander H. Fraser, on Clinton Avenue. Miss Slocovich is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Parsons Slocovich Mrs.

William Parsons Slocovich is chairman, and Mrs. Stanley K. Andrews, and Miss Elizabeth Washburn Holman are vice-chairmen. The program and candy girls are the Misses Janet Andrews, Isabel Angus, Eleanor Brown, Janet Dalzell, Victoria Davidson, Pricilla Fuller, Laurace Gladding, Eleanor Halliday, Margaret Joost, Dorothy Lazarus, Constance Pretz, Suzanne Pretz, Elsie Smullen, Emilie Smullen, Dorothy Stites, Muriel Reed, Beatrice Schumacher, Muriel Slocovich, Dorothy Wadsworth and Florence Wilbur. A WEDDING OF MUCH INTEREST will take place Thursday, January 28th, at St.

Mark's Church, when Miss Gladys Jane Fee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fee of 1500 President Street, is married to Frank Herbert. Hodgman, Jr. Miss Fee has chosen Miss Marjorie Dirkes as her maid of honor and for bridesmaids the Misses Bernice Linington and Dorothy Abel.

Gustav Fischer will be best man for Mr. Hodgman and Roswell Truman, Sawyer Thompson, Stewart Angus and Arthur Lee will be ushers. Miss Fee was abroad nearly all last summer, traveling through Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland and England. She is a graduate of Smith College, 1922. Mr.

Hodgman, who is the son of Mr. Frank Herbert Hodgman of Flatbush, was graduated from Cornell University in 1918. Much entertaining has been and is to be done for the prospective bride and groom. In addition to the shower given for Miss Fee by Mrs. Norman Anderson and Mrs.

De Hart Bergen, and the tea of Mrs. Alexander Craig, accounts of which follow this paragraph. Mr. Gustav Fischer gave a bachelor dinner for Mr. Hodgman at his home, 23 Buckingham Road, on January 8th.

Mr. Hodgman senior, the father of the groom, will give a bridge for the bridal party on Saturday, January 23rd, at his home, 314 East Seventeenth Street. GUESTS AT her THE TEA given for Mrs. Miss Raymond Gladys Tree Jane by Carlew and Mrs. Alexander Craig, at the home of Mrs.

Craig, 492 Westminster Road, on Sunday, January 3, were Mr. Frank H. Hodgman, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fee, Mrs.

Charles Emerson, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph West, Dr. and Mrs. Judson Pendleton, Dr.

and Mrs. Howard Emerson, Mrs. Austin Burnham of Malden, Mrs. Mary B. Buzzell, Dr.

and Mrs. George Lazarus, Mrs. Edward Camp, Mr. and Mrs. De Hart Bergen, Miss Marjorie Dirkes, Mr.

Roswell Truman, Miss Bernice Linington, Mr. Arthur Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer Thompson, Mrs. William A.

Thompson, Mr. Gustav Fischer, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Mott Moore, Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Browne, Mrs. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Miss Emerson, Mr. and Mrs. De Witt Andrews, Miss Dorothy Abel, Mr. and Mrs.

Stuart Angus, Mrs. Cornelius Zabriskie, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Valletts, Mr.

and Mrs. Aaron Thayer. Pouring tea were Mrs. George Burnham of Flushing, and Mrs. Arthur Cozzens of Flatbush.

ON FRIDAY Anderson AFTERNOON, Mrs. De January Hart 15th, Bergen, Mrs. Norman and gave a lingerie shower in honor of Miss Gladys Fee, who is to marry Mr. Frank H. Hodgman, on January 28th.

The guests included the Misses Virginia Danforth, Muriel Slocovich, Miriam Smith, Elizabeth Stebbins, Carol Cypiot, Bernice Linington, Marion Traendly, Dorothy Abel, Winifred Wrigley and Mrs. Alexander Craig, Mrs. Herbert Redmond, Mrs. Pierpont Adams, Mrs. Raymond Carlew, Mrs.

Austin Crombie, Mrs. Robert Moore. THE COMMITTEES ARE ANNOUNCED as follows for the annual card party for the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, which is to take place on Saturday afternoon, January 30th, at 2 o'clock in the Edison Building. The chairman of the affair is Mrs. William W.

Brush of 385 Clinton Avenue. The tea table at which cake and candy will be sold is in charge of Mrs. Elliot Driggs, who will be assisted by Mrs. William H. Bird, Mrs.

Edwin Moore Cragin, Mrs. D. K. De Beixedon, Mrs. Alexander H.

Fraser, Mrs. John M. Moody, Mrs. E. C.

Place, Mrs. Susie C. Snyder, Mrs. Charles F. Swimm.

Mrs. Clarence Waterman is chairman of the Prizes Committee, comprising, Mrs. Robert Morgan King, Mrs. George Hills Iler; Mrs. M.

Luther Bowden, Mrs. Abel Blackmar. Mrs. Louis H. Tyler is chairman of Cards, and on her Committee are Mrs.

Robert B. Seward, Mrs. Charles R. Hebard, Mrs. Alfred Martin, Mrs.

Henry C. Badgley. The chairman of Tables is Mrs. William H. Price, and she will be assisted by Mrs.

Henry Cabaud, Mrs. Palmer Jadwin, Mrs. Frank Brown, Mrs. Joseph Kirby, Mrs. James Cameron, Mrs.

Harold Kinsey, Mrs. William Parsons Slocovich, Mrs. Horatio M. Snyder and Mrs. F.

K. Taylor. Mrs. Brush is chairman of Tickets and on her Committee are Mrs. William J.

Baldwin, Mrs. R. E. Davis, Mrs. R.

E. Davis, Mrs. John W. Braid. Mrs.

Susie C. Snyder is chairman of Publicity, ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING announcements of recent date was that made by a committee of young women who are sponsoring a supper dance to be given at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Friday evening April 9. The affair will be known as the "Bal des Fileuses" and will be an annual event. The committee in charge is composed of the Misses Miriam Smith. chairman, Beatrice M.

Cantwell, Elizabeth I. Deyer, Adele Entz, Lisbeth Higgins, Delphis B. King, Janet F. MacKay, Katherine I. Magner, Violet H.

Mars, Elizabeth Rhoades and Gladys E. Underwood. When a member of the original committee marries she will automatically relinquish her place and chose an eligible successor from the ranks of the girls who have been out a season or more. Invitations to the ball will be limited to one hundred and fifty prominent young women and matrons who will be privileged to invite two escorts. In this way a stag line will be assured and an opportunity will be afforded to repay the Bachelor's Ball.

Any one who has received an invitation to the Ball may upon application to the committee, bring as many men as she chooses to pay for. During supper which will be served in the restaurant of the Ritz, a special amateur entertainment arranged by Miss Lisbeth Higgins will be presented. The present plan is to have a Spinster's Chorus as well as several solo features. Markel's Orchestra, personally conducted, has been secured for the entire evening..

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