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nn AATTT VT. 1 XSO.w Ti.dHS sHufflfr? aWHfc AtBtJro.ms 381 1 1 'SJr' 1 1 1 1 11 i iir iflf in Miss Hlggins to Give Dinner at Montauk Club; Miss Lisbeth Higgins will be hostess at a dinner party on the evening ol December 23rd at the JMontauk now assistant manager of the club, while Mr, Easton is assistant program manager. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roswell F.

Easton, of 120 West Seventieth Street. Others besides Mr." Laimbeer in the octet are Mr. E. B. Boynton, 1926, son of Mr.

and Mrs. G. M. Boynton, of 60S West One Hundred and Forty-seventh Street; Mr; K. Van Riper, 1925, son, of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Van Riper, of 490 West End Avenue Mr. F. Bryan, 1928, whose mother, Mrs.

Mary T. at 57 West Fifty-eighth Street. iuim uiuiiuiu iu uv auiuau ui ivtnjr It is understood that Miss Kate Vail Barnum, who is again spending the winter at the Hotel Bossert, has, booked passage -for the 9th of May on the Italian liner Duilio. 1 i lift Alftvanilaii AT IVfiifA vac A nnnlnl-niPiit 1.. Twentieth Century Club Holds Annual Meeting; Twentieth Century Club held its annual meeting on December 10th -at the residence of Mr and Mrs.

Lewis W. Francis, and in accordance with the reporl of the Nominating Committee, of which Mr. William C. Beecher was chairman, elected the following officers fot the ensuing year President -MRS. MARY J.

FIELD Vice-Presidents Mr. Frank' L. Babbott Mr. William Hill Mr. Roscoe C.

E. Browns, Mr. James H.Jourdan Dr. Glentworth R. Butler Mr.

Thomas L. Leeming Mr, Walter H. Crittenden Mr. Joseph Pennell Mr. William 'H.

Fox Mr. Frederic B. Pratt Hon. Townsend Scudder Recording Secretary Mr. Lewis W.

Francis, I Corresponding Secretary Miss Mary Storrs Packard Treasurer Mr. Alexander White, ol 52 Remsen Street, has "been appointed to the University Committee on the Choice of at Harvard. The 'committee is made up of twelve graduates and five undergraduates. Mr. White, who graduated in the Class of 1892, has always kept in close touch with the University and, in fact, was one of the original organizers of the com-', mittee and helped to support it during its first year.

Dance at the uroojuyn Heignts seminary rrM A. It i' ,1 r. 1t-. tTi' Li. l'oly's Inter-Fraternity pance at Woman's Club Poly's first Inter-Fraternity Dance, held at the Brooklyn Woman's Club, Saturday, evening, November 29th was a marked r.

two hundred couples, fraternity -members and their friends, were present They began to gather soon afterlight and itr was past one when the halls were emptied. Caruso's Country Qub Orchestra provided, excellent, music, and the served light, refreshments. Wood and Mrs. Warren acted as patronesses. Those of the Poly: Faculty who attended were: Miss Allen, and Mr Hancock.

Mrs. Litchfield Entertains for Her Daughter Mrs.1 Electus D. Litchfield, of 800 Park Avenue, will give a dinner at the Plaza on December before the Middle Holiday Dance, for her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Electus Litchfield belongs to the old 'Brooklyn Tl 7 "Ane.mnieiic oi me orooKiyn xieigius Seminary will give a dance at the school, 18 Pierrepont '1 Street, on the evening of December 20th. The committee in charge Miss Roselle Montgomery, Miss Constance 1 Boody, Lott and Miss Dorothy 1 Governing Board C7a 0 1925 Mr. William H.

Cary Mr. Donald B. Stewart 1 0 1926 'Mr. Theodore L. Frothingham Mr.

William E. Harmon r' C7a 0 1927 if. a -fc Mr. GuvDual and Miss McGowan Return from Paris' Mrs. Henry D.

McGowan and Miss Edna M. Mc-, Gowan arrived on Friday on the steamship La France after two years spent in Paris, They will reside this winter at the Pierrepont-Henry, 161 Henry Street." Mrs. William H. Good COM Of iy5 i Mrs. James Morgan Mrs.

H. Edward Dreier Class of 1929 -n. f-i 11 Kr Sliitrirmr Prrr4 Boxholders for the Yule-tide' Ball The boxholders for the Yule-tide Ball given by the and Means Committee of the Brooklyn Free Kindergarten at the 'Heights Casino on December 26th are as follows: Mrs. John T. Mrs.

Frederic B. Pratt, Mrs. Frederick Carson C. Peck, Mrs. Stanley Mrs.

William H. Good, 'Mrs, G. Carter, Mrs, J. Davis, Mrs. Melville H.

Becrns, Mrs. George C. Mendes, Mrs. Edward C. Blum and Mrs.

Thomas L. Leeming. Mr. Kicnarason jrrau The first social meeting of the club was held the evening of November 25th at the residence of Dr. and Glentworth R.

Butler, the club having as its guest, and speaker, Countess Karolyi, wife of fhe former President of the Republic of Hungary. Miss Driggs to Go Abroad in the Interest' of Music Museum -Miss Alice Augusta Driggs will sail on January 29th on the steamship Scythia to make the Mediterranean tour. She will visit Greece, Italy, Egypt, Spain, France and England during her trip in the interest of the Museum of Musical Art, of which she is founder and president Dance for Mr. Leffert Mendes A dance will be given by Mrs. George Albert Mendes in honor of her son, Mr.

Leffert Bergen Mendes, at her. 410 Clinton Avenue, on December Long Island Men in "The Scarlet Coat" 7 Two Long Island men are taking part in this seasons Princeton Triangle Club's production, "The Scarlet Coat' which is to be given at the Metropolitan Opera House on Tuesday, December 23rd. The show this year is in' the form of a musical drama with scenes laid in northern Canada. Unique stage and lively, song hits and comedy provided by the several character parts are expected to distinguish the performance. Mr.

Francis E. Laimbeer, 1928, son of Mr. and Francis E. Laimbeer, of Garden City, is in the -octet In the chorus is Mr F. Garland, of Doug-laston.

Four New York bovs are prominent in the cast. Mr, family of that name. He lived at, one time at 77 State Street, and later in Bensonhurst He is a brother of Mrs. Bellows, and, his father was a cousin of Mr. Edward H.

Litchfield of 8 East Sixty-fifth Street. Last Details of Junior League Ball At different times during the evening of the Golf Ball at the Heights on December 19th, the floor will be cleared for "stunts," the dancers I ranging" themselves in a circle around the spotlight and two Miss" Frances and 'Miss Priscilla Bowns, announcing the event with printed signs. Those who will perform are Mri, Lloyd DalzeU and Mr. Fred McGuire, soft shoe dancers, Miss Mary Hepburn and Mr. William Barkef, clogg dancers, Miss Florence, Sparks, monologist, Miss Harold Graham, and Mr.

Oscar Widmann, James Montgomery Flagg has lent six original covers of The American Golfer, which will be hung on the' walls as decorations. 5 Perhaps the most original and interesting features of the evening will be the putting green and driving contest. -Mrs. Henry L. has charge of these, and assisting her will be' Miss Ruth Englis and Miss Mar-.

garet B. Covell. 1 A complete list of the patronesses is as follows: Mrs. Horatio Adams, Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs.

Charles Armstrong, Mrs. Melville Beams, Mrs. Howard S. Bowns, Mrs. Edward Blum, Mrs.

Walter, Shaw Brewster, Mrs. Charles A'; Mts, Glentworth R. Butler, William H. Cary, -Mrs. George Chauncey, Mrs.

E. Dwight Church, James O. Carpenter, Mrs. Joseph Cousins, Mrs. George Coutts, Mrs.

Harry Nelson Covell, Mrs Edward H. Dreier, Mrs. William H. English, Mrs. Harold Fish, Mrs.

W. Winans Freeman, Lewis H. Francis, Mrs. George S. Frank, Mrs.

Walter Gibb? Mrs. 'William Good, Mrs. Otto Goetze, 'Mrs. William E. Harmon, Mrs.

Charles M. Heminway, Mrs. Omri Ford Hibbard, Mrs. William V. Hester, Mrs Charles W.

Ide, Mrs. William B. Jourdan, Mrs. Sidney R. Kennedy," Mrs.

Thomas L. Leeming, Mrs. Frank D. Little, Mrs. Erskine H.

Lott, -Mrs. T. Mortimer Lloyd, Mrs. 'Alexander D. Marks, Mrs.

Frederick D. MacKay, Mrs. William W. -Allan Marshall, Mrs. William P.

Mason, Mrs. Edwin May-nard, Mrs. William L. Moffat, Miss Alice-Morse, Mrs. Willis McDonald, Mrs.

Lewis E. Pierson, Mrs. William Pohlman Pool, Mrs. Carson C. Peck, Mrs.

Frederic B. Mrs. Ralph H. Mrs. William A.

Putnam, Mrs. Philip Ruxton, Mrs. A. C. Scharman, Mrs.

John Van Buren Thayer, Mrs. Win- throp Murray Tuttle, Mrs. Edwin Ward, Alexander Mi White, D. Clinton Whiting and Mrs. John Walton.

Piping Rock Club Has Country Lanes Committee' Trapshooting has replaced golf at the -Piping Rock Club, and every Saturday and Sunday throughout the winter months informal events will be held, Mr. W. Allston Flagg is chairman of the Trapshooting Committee. Another popular form of diversion is horseback riding, and every; Saturday and Sunday many of the' members of the colonies are out for a ride on their favorite mounts. There is a Country Lanes Committee of the club, organized several "years ago, which inaugurated 4t tA1fjlj-nr etref Arvf irv-f hnttiD itrtiAfA tnAtnrtf rtt of the club may ride without touching a main highway.

The district covered is from Huntington along the North Shore to the Meadow Brook section, and there now are many miles of continuous bridle paths in this section. The which originated with the Piping Rock Club, has been duplicated at Greenwich, Morristown and Philadelphia. Mr. Frederic P. Moore is the present chairman of the committee.

Practically all of the estate owners and owners of woodland properties cooperated in making the plan a workable one, much to the delight of devotees of horseback riding. j- Julian Street, 1925, son of Mr. Julian Street, who' is now a resident of plays the part of Sear-gent. Mr. Street is editorial chairman of the Daily Princetonian and president of the International Polity.

Club, and was responsible for a large part of the dialogue of "The Scarlet Coat" Mr. J. F. Hamlin, 1925, takes the part of August. He is the son of Mrs.

George J. Hamlin of 1070 Madison Avenue. Besides being' a member of the cast, Mr. Hamlin has served as concert master of both the University and Triangle Club orchestras for the last two years. Another New Yorker, Mr." W.

R. 1927, son of Mr. Cranston Brentonof Dongan Hills, S. is a member of the cast for the second time, taking the comedy part of The Count, while Mr. L.

B.Braman, 1927, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Braman, of. 300 West Eighty-sixth Street, is cast as Maybelle.

Mr. Braman is also a member of the Glee Club and Band at On the production staff are two Manhattan students, Mr. G. D. Mattisonand Mr.

John W. both of the Junior Class. Mr. Mattison, who is the son of- unft tr.j: a Mrs. Tumbridge Entertains Mrs.

Stanley Tumbridge gave a dinner on Tuesday, December 5th, preceding the theatre party given by the Maternity Center Association for "The Farmer's Wife." The party included Judge Charles J. McDermott, Mrs. Richard Young, Mrs." Reeves and Mr- and Mrs. Stanley S. Tumbridge, Mf.

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