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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1935 8:0 03 R. to Have National Convention in Garden City Bridges Prevalent Miss cuzabeth Hare Engaged To George Wyckoff Bennett Mrs Arthur C. Hare of 512 Westminster Road announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Hare, to George Wyckoff Bennett, son of Wyckoff Bennett of 29 Clarkson Ave. Miss Hare attended Northfield Seminary and was graduated from Mount Ida School at Newton, Mass. Mr.

Bennett studied at the University of Miami and is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Engineering, class of '32. The wedding will take place in the early Fall. Nursing Sisters of Sick Poor Benefitted by Bridge Yesterday The Spring bridge of St. Joseph's Guild of Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor, Bay Ridge branch, of which Mrs. Clifton L.

Dance is president, was held yesterday at the Columbus Club, 1. Prospect Park West. Mrs. John J. McManus was general chairman and Mrs.

Martin McPike was chairman of luncheon committee. Those on the general committee were Mrs. James Tonry, Mrs. Shanahan, Martin Mrs. A.

O'Neill, Newman Mrsdahy and Charles Rasmussen. Dr. and Mrs. Russell R. Rome of 315 Washington Ave.

and family are at their country home at Shelter Island Heights. They will be there for the Summer and late Fall. Mrs. Thomas H. Cullen, one of the founders of St.

Francis College auxiliary, held a bridge at the college last week. The reception committee, Mrs. consisted John of Mrs. O'Connell, Alma Mrs. DolFrank Walsh, Mrs.

Charles McConnell, Mrs. Frank Noonan, Mrs. James F. Twohy, Mrs. Francis Kelly and the Misses Ellen Fagan, Mary L.

Brady, Catherine McKague, May Boden, Madeline Kenny and Catherine King. Dr. James A. Sullivan is moderator. The Anthonian Hall Junior Auxiliary will have a dance sponMiss Helen T.

Kracke at the Tavern on the Green. The date has not yet been announced. MUSIC SCHOOL TABLEAUX Tableaux vivant suggested by pictures from old masters will be the feature of the colorful Spring Festival Concert to presented by students of the Brooklyn Music School Settlement in the Brooklyn Little Theater on Wednesday at 8:15 o'clock. The presentation is sponsored by the board of directors, of which Mrs. Benjamin Prince is president.

"Handel in the Garret," "Beethoven j1 His Study," "Mozart and Nannerle at the Court of Marie Theresa," "Bach and His Family," and "Schubert With a String Quartet" are the pictures which will be brought to life by the settlement students. During each scene music of the famous composer will be played, as in the picture of Mozart and Nannerle at the court a minuette duette by Mozart will be performed by the children taking the parts. An old English Maypole dance will be another feature of the program, under direction of Edwin Strawbridge, the concert dancer. Both the junior preparatory orchestra and the junior orchestra, under the direction of Miss Emily Franz, will appear on the program. GOLD STAR MOTHERS The regular meeting of the Gold Star Mothers of the World War, was held at the Pennsylvania Hotel, Manhattan, on Thursday.

The various officers read their monthly reports. The chairman announced the card party which will be held on Tuesday at the Pennsylvania Hotel at 2 p.m. Mrs. M. Burling, president, will act as hostess, with Miss Ida Smith, chairman of arrangements.

Proceeds will go to the general fund of organization. The last Sunday Septemthen ber has been named National Gold Star Mothers of the World War Day by President F. D. Roosevelt. Long Island Society Miss Lila V.

Webb and J. C. Wilmerding Complete Plans for Their Wedding The wedding attendants have been chosen by Miss Lila Vanderbilt Webb for her marriage to John Currie Wilmerding on June 15 at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City. Bishop Ernest M. Stires of Long Island and Dean Arthur Kinsolving of the Cathedral will officiate.

A reception and luncheon will take place at the Westbury residence of Miss Webb's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Watson Webb of 740 Park Manhattan. Mrs. Dunbar W.

Bostwick will be her Ester's matron of honor, and Miss Frederica Vanderbilt Webb, a cousin, will be maid of honor. The other attendants will be Elizabeth R. F. Johnson, who is to be married on June 1 to Miss Webb's brother, Samuel Blatchley Webb; Mrs. Harr, Payne Bingham the former Miss Lilla Fiske; Mrs.

Frank who was Miss Katherine Salvage; Mrs. George Herbert Bostwick, who was Miss Laura Curtis; Mrs. Philip Iglehart, to former Miss Mary Parker Corning; Mrs. David D. Wilmerding, the former Miss Barbara Pratt, and the Misses Patsy Rathborne, Georgette Whelan, Helen Whitney Bourne and Nancy Morgan, Mr.

Wilmerding, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilmerding of Flushing, has chosen his brother, David R. Wilmerding, as best man. The ushers are to be Henry A.

Wilmerding Samuel Blatchley Webb, James Watson Webb H. Lawrence Bogert Frank L. Polk Brindley Morgan Hall, Dunbar W. Bostwick, Brooks D. Grand, S.

Reed Anthony, John B. Leake, Charles Ray Peck, Lawrence Goodyear and Charles P. Williamson. Mr. and Mrs.

Devereaux Milburn, who spent the Winter at Aiken, S. have returned to Old Westbury for the Miss Doris Kelley and L. A. Yerkes Jr. to Wed Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Doris Read Kelley, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Livingston Kelley of Providence, to Leonard A. Yerkes son Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A.

Yerkes of Manhattan and Brookville. Miss Kelley received her education at Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, and made her debut in Providence. Mr. Yerkes attended the Fay School and St. Paul's and was graduated at Princeton in 1931.

Miss Evelyn Thayer and Lewis C. Ledyard 3d Complete Wedding Plans Miss Evelyn Thayer, daughter of Mrs. Warren Thayer of Boston and Lancaster, and Lewis Cass 3d, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr.

of Manhattan and Syosset, who will be married on June 22 in the First Church of Christ at Lancaster, have completed plans for their wedding. Mrs. Charles Emlen Channing and Miss Sylvia Thayer, sisters of the bride, will be matron and maid of honor. The bridesmaids will be the Misses Katharine Winthrop and Nancy Shaw. Robert Grant 3d of Manhattan will be best man and the ushers will include Warren Delano Robbins Arthur O.

Choate James es H. Weekes, G. Hermann Kinnicutt Philip Boyer and Allston Boyer of Manhattan, Hugh Johnston of Chicago, W. Arthur Dupee Jr. of Boston and Malcolm Stewart of Brookline.

The wedding will be followed by a reception at Maplehurst Farm, the Lancaster home of the bride's mother. Mr. and Mrs. W. Deering will spend the season at High Pool, their estate near Jericho.

They will have their yacht Nepenthe in commission at Glen Cove. These young women, Virginia. Betty and Helen McCulloch. daughters of Mr. and Mrs.

David H. McCulloch of Harbor Acres. Port Washington, are shown in Balinese dancer costumes on board the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain, on which they are on a world cruise. The girls purchased the costumes on the island of Bali. ing an extended visit in Buffalo, N.

as the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Plummer. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Smith have returned from a trip to California to their home at Cypress Ave.

Miss Margaret Walters has returned to her home in Connecticut after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Hinrichs of the Estates.

Mrs. Georgietta Wallace of Mackey Ave. is spending several days at Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Levannion of Port Washington Park are cruising to Greenport on their boat for the weekend. Mrs. George Corry of 5th Ave. will be hostess at a bridge and tea at her home on Tuesday to Mrs. Frank Hopkins, Mrs.

Charles Avery, Mrs. Leo Chase, Mrs. Emma Smull, Mrs. Thadius Rearick, Mrs. Frank Miller and Mrs.

Walter Munson. A bridge for the benefit of the Boy Scouts will held at the parish of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church on Tuesday night. The ceeds will go toward the fund for prosending delegates to Washington. The Comrade Jacob Hults Chapter of the Daughters of the Union will hold their last meeting of the season on Monday night at St.

Stephen's Episcopal Church. A program will be presented, supervised by Mrs. Frederick S. Laurence. Mrs.

James Smith is the regent. On Wednesday afternoon the Relief Committee of the Daughters of the Union will sponsor a bridge at the home of Mrs. Joseph Pettus of Vista Way, Port Washington Estates. Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph Schrenkeisen returned from a three-weeks trip to South America on Friday and will reside in Garden City. Prior to her recent marriage, Mrs. Schrenkeisen was Miss Nelle Simonson, daughter of Mrs. George L. Simonson of Garden City and formerly of Port Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Richardson, accompanied by their daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth Richardson, of the Estates, is spending the weekend at their Summer home, New Lodge, Shelter Mrs. Montroville Smith of Carlton Ave. have had as their house Mrs.

Edward Smith of Long Beach, Cal. Mr. and Mrs. William Denniston arrived this week at Manila, for pine Islands, where they will reside Philipthe next several years. Mrs.

Denniston is the former Miss Evelyn Hotopp. daughter of Mr. Mrs. Carl Hotopp of and the Estates. Mr.

Denniston is formerly of Plandome. Hempstead News Special to The Eagle Hempstead, May 18-Mrs. W. Taylor Chamberlin entertained the members of the visiting nurse committee of the Garden City Woman's Club at luncheon and bridge at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rover of Ingraham Boulevard, Thursday afternoon.

Harold Lester Corwith, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Corwith of Hilton sailed this week for a twoweeks trip. Former Judge and Mrs.

Walter R. Jones of Front St. have returned from St. Petersburg, where they passed the Winter. Dr.

Frank M. Kerr, pastor of Christ First Presbyterian Church, entertained the members of the Missionary Society at the manse Thursday afternoon at tea. Mrs. Austin Cheshire and Mrs. Lester F.

Corwith poured. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Greer of Flint Ave.

announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Edith Mary LeBaron Greer, to Robert Stanhope Shaw of Seekonk, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Shaw.

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Carter and daughter, Betty Jane Carter, of Center Lynbrook, have returned to their home after a short stay at Mountain Lakes, N. as the guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Edward T. Milkey. Mrs. George Christie of Denton Lynbrook, will be among the guests of Mrs.

Harold Herman of Floral Park at a luncheon, bridge and fashion show which Mrs. Herman will give tomorrow at the Lido Country Club, Long Beach. Mineola Personals Miss Eleanor Muriel McDonald is the young daughter of Mr. and Mozalohn, T. McDonald of 543 Glen Cove Summer Colony Becomes Active; More Residences Are Opened for the Season Special to The Eagle Glen Cove, May 18-Mrs.

Walter Gibb entertained yesterday at the Nassau Country Club for her committee working on the "Capers of 1935" for the benefit of the Glen Cove Community Chest and to be given on June 28 and 29, with a supper dance at the club on the final night. Mrs. Percy C. Eastment, Mrs. Thomas Bruce Trousdell, Mrs.

James Calhoun Sheldon and Mrs. Walter Williams have returned from Rocky Point where they passed a few days. Miss Mary Evans and Miss Janet Beam left yesterday by motor for Wellesley, where they will attend the "Float Night" exercises of Wellesley College, from which Miss Evans was graduated in 1934. Mr. and Mrs.

Frederic B. Pratt, who have been at their Winter residence on Clinton Brooklyn, all Winter, have opened their country home in Dosoris Lane for the season. Herbert Lee Pratt and his daughter, Mrs. Edith Pratt McLane, are established at Braes, their country home in the Pratt estate, for the season, after an extended cruise from which they returned this week. The annual invitation golf tournament of the Piping Rock Club and its attendant social activities is scheduled, according to announcethe chairman of the golf committee, W.

Allston Flagg of Old Westbury, for June 14, 15 and 16. Invitations will be issued by the committee that includes, besides Mr. Flagg, Joseph E. Davis, John Noble Stearns T. Suffern Tailer Jr.

and Gardiner W. White. Mrs. Robert Bacon will be hostess on Tuesday at Old Acres, her historic estate on the Jericho Turnpike, at a garden tea for the benefit of the Nassau County Council of Girl Scouts. Mr.

Mrs. Henry March have leased the country place of A. Perry Osborn, near here, for the season. Mr. and Mrs.

March, who are active members of the North Shore Country Club, formerly occupied Westways, the country place of Mrs. John MacAdam on the Shore Drive at Sea Cliff. The annual show of the Nassau County Horticultural Society will take place on the Pratt estate on June 11 and 12. Mr. and Mrs.

Robert R. Hitt have leased the house on the Pratt estate in Glen Cove, formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Croft Register 2d. and will pass the season there.

Miss Dorothy McQuillan of Montreal will be a guest early in June of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bruce Trousdell at their home in the Thompson Park Colony, Later in the month, Mrs. Trousdell and her guest will motor to Cincinnati to visit Mrs. Henry Clausen who will return with them to Glen Cove.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Whitney who are in their Glen Cove home for the Summer, will have the Chinook, their small yacht, in commission early in June in Hempstead Harbor. Mr.

and Mrs. F. C. Guest, who have been in the Far East for several months, will return the last week in June to their Oyster Bay home. Mrs.

Guest is the former Miss Helena McCann. Mr. Guest has been playing in the major polo tournaments. Mr. and Mrs.

W. Goadby Loew of Manhattan are at their estate at Wheatley Hills for the Spring season. In the midseason they will go to Newport. 8 Janice Wood (above, left) and daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs.

the great grandchildren of Mrs. Otis The top center photo is of host at a party in honor of his first son of Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Hampton Miss Helen Fulton Honored; Garden City Weekend News Special to The Eagle Garden City, May 18-Miss Helen Fulton, whose marriage to John R. Miller Jr.

will take place next month, was the guest of honor at a surprise bridge-luncheon and shower given by Miss Patricia Davidson of Nassau Boulevard this afternoon. Miss Davidson's other guests were Mrs. George Dunlap Mrs. Ralph W. Fulton, Mrs.

Theodore M. Riehle, Mrs. L. Smith Jr. Mrs.

Robert Davidson, Mrs. M. A. Monahan and the Misses Betty Wiggins, Jean Fitter, Jean Whelan, Rosalind Earnshaw, Alice Van Middlesworth, Beatrice Child, Jeanne Grandeman, Constance McKenna, Jane Mohan, Martha Healy and Martina Hoff. A community reception and dinner was given Frederick E.

Crane, chief justice of the Court of Appeals in the State of New York, at the Garden City Hotel this evening by friends and neighbors of Garden City. Bishop Ernest M. Stires was toastmaster and Dr. S. Parkes Cadman the principal speaker.

There were several cocktail parties preceding the dinner. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Miller of Stewart Ave.

entertained Mr. and Mrs. Alfred D. Olena, and Mrs. George Fitter, Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick Van Mira Zandt, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin S. Koons, Mr.

Mrs. George A. Young, and Mrs. Walter B. Matteson, Mr.

and Mrs. James F. Fogar: Mr. George U. Tompers, and Mrs.

Joseph P. Ripley, Mr. and Mrs. William T. Black and Mrs.

Campbell T. Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Francis B.

Hamlin of Chestnut St. had as their guests and George L. Hubbell. Mr. and Mrs.

H. Louis Naisawald, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar D. Hellweg.

Mr. and Mrs. Le Roy J. Weed, Mr. Mrs.

Charles E. L. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W.

Osborne, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wright, Mrs.

Alfred T. Davison, Mr. and Thomas C. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs.

G. Loring Hubbell and Mrs. Charles W. Hoyt. Among other hosts before the dinner were Mr.

and Robert Whiting Morrell of Kilburn Road and Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Smutny of Nassau Boulevard. Miss Margaret McLean of Stewart Ave. and her aunt, Miss Anne Lean of Brooklyn, who are traveling in Scotland, will return home about June 15.

Miss he Ethelwynne Underwood and George of Garden City, (BELMONTA MANOR AND CEDAR LODGE Noted for its cool Across the Harbor waterfront loca- from Hamilton, far tion, fine 18-hole from traffic, always golf course, smart cool. Finest water social life, open- sports. Arriga's air dancing on noted dance orfamed Cedar chestra plays on Court. our Marine Terrace. A.

P. THOMPSON J. E. CONNELLY Manager Manager BERMUDA BERMUDA Ask travel agent, or Ask travel agent. or Bermuda Hotels, Bermuda Hotels, 500 5th N.

Y. 500 5th N. Y. (PEn 6-0665) (PEn 6-0665) Special to The Eagle Mineola, May 18-Mrs. George MacLeod of Mineola Boulevard entertained at bridge this week.

Warren Von Rauschlaub of Wellington Road is spending two weeks at Lew Beach, N. Y. Mrs. George De Gruchy of Wellington Road has returned from West Palm Beach, where she passed the Winter. Mrs.

Charles Weston of Pomander Road entertained at luncheon and bridge for Mrs. Guy' F. Cleghorn, Mrs. Cortland White, Fred Babcock of Mineola and Mrs. Ralph Latham of Fast, Williston.

Mr. and Ashley Graves of Wellington Road were dinner guests at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Cecil Watts of Islip last evening. Barrie Wood (above right) are John Wood of Bay Ridge and Gilbert Murty (Photo by Vega.) Theodore Curtis Whitman, who 10a8 birthday last month.

He is the Whitman of 646 Argyle Road. whose engagement was recently announced. were honored at a large dinner dance given for them this evening by Mr. and Mrs. Roland Hall of Tideway, Kenilworth, Great Neck.

Mrs. Elwood A. Powell of Hilton Ave. gave a bridge tea today in honor of Mrs. Everett W.

Hoyt. the former Miss Betty Sayer. Other guests were Mrs. Craig W. Whitney, Mrs.

Dean Brink Mrs. C. Maurice De Land Jr. and the Misses Esther Gurney, Ruth Mooney, Agnes Warren, Edith Weed, Louise Van A Schaick, Jean Gibbs, Martha Murphy and Mary Peelle. Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. Pendleton of the Ritz Towers will open their Cedarhurst home on 1. The engagement of their daughter, Miss Clara Pendleton, to Wyman Steele, son of late Dr.

and Mrs. Nevett Stelle, was announced recently. Special to The Eagle Hewlett, May 18-Danforth Miller of Cedar Ave. has accepted the chairmanship of the special gift's committee of the $100,000 drive to erect a new wing to St. Joseph's Hospital, Far Rockaway, for the area from Hewlett to Inwood.

The drive gets under way on May 23 and will continue through June 5. Joyce Perine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer A Perine of Merrick, is shown on the beach at Miami Beach, Fla. The Perines are members of the cabana club at the Pancoast Hotel.

Judges for Queens County Horse Show Are Announced Leslie Howard will be one of the judges of polo ponies at the third annual Queens County Horse Show, in the Union Turnpike, Flushing, to be held on Sunday, June 2, for the benefit of the Memorial Hospital for the treatment of cancer and allied diseases. Mr. Howard, who is now playing in "The Petrified Forest." is well known as an enthusiastic polo player both in Hollywood and New York. Among other stage figures in the list of patrons besides Mr. Howard are Philip Merivale, Walter Hampden and Otis Skinner.

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. heads the list of patrons. Mrs. Glenn Merrell Smith of Flushing, who president of the Queens County Horse Show Association, announces the list of judges as follows: Saddle horses and ponies -Mrs.

James A. Hewlett of Jericho C. Heather of Rye. Horsemanship- Mrs. John Gerken and Olin Fleet of Cutchogue.

Hunters and jumpersMcDonald Syosset and Lt. Col. H. H. Frost Manhattan.

Polo ponies--Leslie Howard of Manhattan and Gerard S. Smith of Brooklyn. Military classes- Col. Arthur M. Wolff of Manhattan and Lt.

Col. H. H. Frost of Manhattan. Port Washington Personals Special to The Eagle Port Washington, May 18-The Knickerbocker Yacht Club officially opened for the season here today.

The flag-raising ceremonies were held at 5 o'clock, followed by a dinner and dance. The officers of this club are: Commodore, Arnold P. Kohler; vice commodore. Frederick W. Sherwood; commodore, Edward Levannion: secretary, Harry W.

Loweree, and treasurer. Ernest P. Simon. Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Adams have returned to their home on Hillcrest Road, Beacon Hill. after an extended stay in England. William Gallon of West Drive, Plandome, is spending several weeks in England. Mrs. Bruce Fahnestock of Colonial Parkway, Plandome, is mak- Rengo Belts for every figure at every good store two dollars and up Illustrated: Style 958 a corsetbrassiere combination with inner belt.

CROWN CORSET CO: 295 Fifth N. Y. Jackson Heights Special to The Eagle Jackson Heights, May 18-Mrs. Robert A. MacDougall entertained at tea on Tuesday for Mrs.

Edward A. MacDougall. Mrs. A. E.

MacDougall and Mrs. Catherine stead presided at the tea table. About 50 guests were present. Mr. and Mrs.

Stephen U. Hopkins of the Towers are making a trip through the Virginia valley, stopping in Washington, D. and in Williamsburg, and visiting Mr. Hopkins' mother, Mrs. Stephen Hopkins, at her home, near Norfolk.

Mrs. Edward Seager of the Greystones will leave Jackson Heights shortly to visit her former home in Boston for about ten days. During her visit she will take a motor trip through New England. The MABEL COREY WATT SCHOOL OF MUSIC 1702 NEWKIRK AVENUE block from B.M.T. Newkirk Ave.

Sta. Phone Mansfield 6-6041 Interviews and Terms on Application MABEL COREY WATT. Mus. Dir. Erdrich ANNOUNCES A DISPLAY OF.

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THE BRIDAL TABLE. 2. THE GIFT TABLE. 3. BRIDESMAIDS' LUNCHEON TABLE.

4. SHOWER TABLE FOR THE BRIDE. 5. THE BACHELOR DINNER. 6.

BRIDAL BREAKFAST FOR TWO. 7. BRIDAL DINNER FOR TWO. 8. BRIDE'S FIRST "AT HOME." 9.

BRIDE'S FIRST FORMAL DINNER. 10. BRIDE'S FIRST INFORMAL PARTY. LOESER'9 -TABLE SETTINGS -FOURTH FLOOR LOESER'S FULTON AT BOND, BROOKLYN TRIANGLE $-8100.

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