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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1924. 7 to Paris before returning to the States. SOCIETY "Aida" Farewell Opera At Academy Last Evening.

Verdi's spectacular "Aida," at the height of the Mediterranean cruise season when so many travellers are visiting the tombs of the Pharaohs in Egypt, brought the season of the Metropolitan Opera Company in Brooklyn to a close at the Academy of Music last evening. The entire house was filled and during the entra-acte, when an informal reception was held in the foyer while many groups gathered upstairs in the grand ballroom for farewell opera visits, the audience thusiastic on its comment on this old favorite and changes in its staging. An unusual number of dinner parties preceded the performance. Mrs. James H.

Jourdan, who was hostess for the Women's Opera Committee which has accomplished SO much for the opera-going public this season in Brooklyn, entertained her box guests at dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Page, Mrs.

Caleb H. Candy of Chicago, William H. Jourdan, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E.

flaight, and Mrs. Charles Partone and' Mr. and Mrs. Bumner Ford were Mrs. Jourdan'3 guests.

Miss Janet MacKay and Miss VirFuller were the attractive debutantes in the Eldredge-MacKay box, where Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. MacKay 'and. Mrs.

Orris King Eldredge entertained Mrs. F. E. Fuller, Mrs. S.

K. Fuller, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Horwill.

Admiral Plunkett and his party occupied the Navy box. In box No. 1, with Mr. and Mrs. Burt Foss.

Nichols, were Mr. and Mrs. Morris Fairfax Frey, Mr. and Mrs. J.

E. Switzer, Miss Eleanor Andrews of Boston and Richard S. Cotton. Among the guests of Mrs. Joseph Purcell were Mr.

and Mrs. Wesley Roche and Edwin Swain, while the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.

Schoefer included Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bleecker and Miss Janet Bleecker. Dr. and Mrs.

Edwin F. Lindridge were hosts for Mr. and Mrs. Karl Smith, Mrs. Frank D.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Jackson and Mr. and Mrs.

John Forbes, who are here from Belfast, Ireland. Prior to the opera Mrs. Lindridge entertained her box guests at dinner. Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Griswold Hall brou and Mrs. Louis Nickerson, Mr. and Mrs. E. F.

Trudeau of Montreal and the Misses Hall. Their guests had also attendad a dinner at the home of their hosts. In the audience were. Mr. and Mrs.

James Sherlock Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. White, Dr. and MrS.

James Warbasse, Miss Grace Warbasse, Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Buck, Mrs. Edwin L. Garvin, Miss Lisbeth Higgins, Miss Charlotte Deyer, Miss Frances White, Miss Clara Murdock, Miss Agnew Bigelow, Mr.

and Mrs. Richardson Pratt, Frank L. Babbott, Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs. William W.

Marshall, Mrs. Charles R. Hebard, Mrs. W. B.

Davenport, Dre and Mrs. Glentworth Reeve Butler, Mr. 'and Mrs. Charles C. Cluff, Miss Helen Salisbury, Mrs.

William Calder, Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey J. Kiely, Paul Kennedy, Miss Cornelia G. Henshaw, Mrs.

Edward E. Read, Mrs. Charles Lundbeck, Miss Sophie B. Stelling, Miss Julia Detlefesen, Dr. and Mrs.

Robert Franklin Ives, Mrs. Walter F. Watton, Miss. Alice Driggs, who had as her guest Miss Anna Gallup; Mrs. James 0.

Carpenter, Miss Josephine Carpenter. Mr. and Mrs. James L. MorRan, Miss Adelaide Haxtum, Mrs.

St. ('lair McKelway. Miss Flora Foster, Mrs. Philip Doherty. Mr.

and Mrs. Oliver G. Carter, Miss Zorka Polak, Mrs. Charles M. Heminway, Robert Shaw, Mr.

and Mrs. Adrian Van Sinderen, Miss Marie Zimmerman. Mrs. James Lefferts, Mr. and Edwin G.

Martin, Dr. and Mrs. Edward P. Maynard, Mrs. Richard Maynard, Miss Frances Dudley, Dr.

and Mrs. William H. Fox. who were the guests of Mrs. William H.

Good: Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hicks Rivelow. Dr. and Mrs.

Henry G. Webster, Mr. and Mrs. Swan Carroll, Mr. and Mrs.

Potts. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Earle. Mr.

and Mrs. William Greve, Mr. and Mrs William Harris Cary. Miss Elizabeth Thayer, Miss Mabel Coutts, Mrs. B.

C. Collins, Mrs. William McLaren Bristol, Mrs. Thomas Sturgis, the Misses Virginia and Ethel Hanan. Mrs.

Edgar Shumway, Mr. and Mrs Robert E. Henry, Mrs. Mary Cogswel Murphy, Miss Emma Murphy. Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Chapman. Miss. Virginia Wetherbee, Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Hildebrandt, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Van Wyck, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Austin, Mr.

and Mrs. Jacob Shaffer. Dr. and Mrs. O.

Paul Humpstone. Dr. and Mrs. Roberti L. Moorehead, Mr.

Mrs. Henry Ingraham, Mr. Mrs. and Frank Sniffen, and Mr. and Mrs.

G. Foster Smith, France- Parker Marriage Last Week at Palm Beach. Announcement has been made of the marriage at Palm Beach on Feb. 18 of Miss Clara G. Parker, daughter of Mrs.

L. Packer of 1519 Albemarle Dr. Herman W. Pamma France of Hoboken. The Rev.

Dr. Charnelle Summers, pastor of the Methodist Church at the winter resort, performed the ceremony. The bride and her mother left town about a fortnight ago and have been staying at the Buena Vista Hotel, Palm Beach, where they were joined by Dr. France last week. The couple, who have just returned from their honeymoon, will make their home at 602 River Terrace, Hoboken, N.

J. Dr. France is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. George W.

France of. Goshen, N. and San Francisco. He is a graduate of Stevens Institute. Miss Parker was educated at Packer Collegiate and Pratt Institutes.

Mr. and Mrs. George Lester Weed. who were married in Troy about two weeks ago, are temporarily making their home in Vermont, where Mr. Weed is preparing to enter the patent law offices of his father.

Mr. Weed is the son of. Mr. and Mrs. Chester A.

Weed of 1428 President and for the past few years has studied electrical engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Trov. Mrs. Weed is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul King Nott, a family well known socially in Troy.

The couple will eventually make their home in Brooklyn. Miss Natalie Todd and Mrs. John E. Peace left yesterday for the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Within a fortnight they will join Miss Todd's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. William H. Todd, at Palm Beach. Mr. and Mrs.

Todd will then to New Orleans and from there to California. Packer students will preside at the: various tables at the sale of articles held under the auspices of the Committee on Handicrafts of the Crippled this afternoon at the resifence of Mrs. Ralph Jonas, 129. Toralemon st. Acting as salesladies will be the Misses Beulah Sonnenstrahl, charge of the embroidered bags; Florence Philipbar, linens; Catherine Gallagher, handkerchiefs: Anna Kieley, novelties; Elsie Brill, aprons; Ruth Jonas, hooked rugs, Mrs.

H. S. Allen of San Francisco, who is a member of the Fortnightly Club, is at present in Manhattan with her daughter, Miss Barbara Allen. Mrs. Allen has for many years had associations with Brooklyn and Long Island where during her many visits she has been entertained.

Miss Louise M. Onken of 283 Henry st. sailed last Saturday for the West Indies, where she will spend a month in travel. The Misses Augusta and Rose Gallagher of Brooklyn are among the recent arrivals in Miami and will be some time at the Leamington Hotel. Mrs.

Thomas B. Waterbury of Brooklyn entertained luncheon here for Miss Marion Short of Manhattan. Visitors at Atlantic City include Mrs. Norman L. Zeno, Miss Mary Forshay and Mrs.

D. W. Huchinson at the and at the Hotel Dennis the Rt. Rev. Mons.

Edward W. McCarty, Mrs. L. J. J.

C. McCarty and Mr. and Mrs. George C. Herbst.

An informal dance was given by Athletic Association of Brooklyn Heights Seminary on Saturday evening at the school. Among those dancing were the Misses Frances McArdle, Sylvia Ghelardi. Lillian Schildwachter, Minnie Wood. Geraldine Swimm, Marguerite Wilkinson, Constance Boody, Charlotte Deyer, Peggy Parks, Lois Thayer and Gladys Talmadge; Harold Julien McKay, Vincent Montague Wheelen, Wesley H. Morrow, Alfred Mannheim, Charles McDermott.

Preston Hazelwood. Avery Stirup, Frank Bluer, William Southwick. Royal Parks, Jack Scart, Gordon Braislin, Jack Williams, Harold Koch, Redmon Thayer, Charles Donaldson, Edward Grey, Edward Cornielsen, Snowden Wickols, Alfred Johnson; John MacKay, Austin Tomes, Arthur Newcomb, Richard Holbrooke, Theodore Entz, Robert Henry, Richard Hannan and Cornelius Banta. Miss Miriam Johnson Fiancee Of Charles Cleveland. A bridge this afternoon announced Charming Heights Girl.

Miss PRISCILLA BOWNS BACHRACH STUDIO Miss Bowns, who is the daughter of Major and Mrs. Howard S. Bowns of 8 Montague Terrace, is one of the attractive young personalities on the Heights. She is a member of the Jnuior League and other organizationg of social interest. and Grace Jonas, assisted her younger brother, Robert, will sell toys.

Miss Helen Colgan, sister of Dr. J. J. Colgan of 191 Nassau will leave Friday for St. Petersburg, to gone six weeks.

Mrs. Donald Bellows of 450 Clinton ave. gave a tea for her sister, Miss Hortense Lipscombe, who is visiting her from the South, at the Pen and Brush Club in New York yesterday. In honor of Miss Louise Lytle, whose engagement to John Henry Haslam of Savannah, was recently announced, Mr. and Mrs.

William H. Todd recently entertained at their Maple st. home. Guests included Miss Natalie Todd, Mr. and Mrs.

William H. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. John E.

Peace, Miss Ethel Butt, Mrs. G. Pertain, and Mr. and Mrs. J.

Herbert Todd. The old Campbell home, at 394 Clinton ave. and one of the landmarks of the streets has recently been sold and will probably be replaced by apartment houses. Dr. and Mrs.

William Francis Campbell, who have been making their home here, will move to their new house in Bayville, L. about the 1st of April. Mrs. Kate Dow Goodbody of Lefferts pl. and of North Beaufort, where she has a country home, is at present in London will go on the engagement of Miss Miriam Johnson, daughter of Mrs.

Ephraim Johnson, to Charles Cleveland, son of Mrs. H. H. Palmer of New Jersey. Miss Johnson is well known here and before moving to 12 E.

86th st. resided at 59 Livingston st. She has just returned from winter sports in Canada, where she was accompanied by Mrs. Thomas Lamb. Mr.

Cleveland is a Princeton man. No date as yet has been set for the wedding, but it will probably take place in the early spring. 30th Anniversary Luncheon Of Kosmos Club, at Vanderbilt, Kosmos Club, Mrs. Henry J. Davenport, president, celebrateh its 30th anniversary yesterday with a luncheon at the Hotel Vanderbilt, Manhattan.

Over 100 members and guests gathered about the tables, which were decorated with daffodils the guest table was a birthday cake and narcissus, while distinguishing with 30 lighted candles. A festival grace, written by William C. Redfield and R. Huntington Woodman, and songs composed for the occasion by Miss Sarah J. Day, also two groups of songs by Miss Ida Askenagy, with Miss Lucile Reyl at the piano, comprised the program.

Phillip W. Wilson, a former member of the British Parliament and now contributing editor of the New York Times, spoke on "Ideals of the British Labor and others on the program were Mrs. Glenn C. Pettit, president of the Long Island Federation of Women's Clubs, who made a short address, and Mrs. William McCarroll, who gave a review of 30 years of Kosmos.

Among the many guests and members present were Mrs. Henry J. Davenport, Mrs. William McCarroll, Mrs. Charles Goodrich, Mrs.

R. GOWNS Tappe HATS 12 West 40 Special--This Week Wear- Exceptional for Informal values. $15. 292-For Afternoon -Chiffons and Printed Silks in the gay colors favorites. and patterns Formerly that $55.

are $25. Frocks (167-Dinner Evening lovely colored chiffons, crystal beaded; creations in lace and Formerly net. $85. $50. 153-Stunning Models for the season's gaieties, for dancing and restaurant-Silks, Chiffons, Taffetas.

Formerly $125. $75. Suits Coats Modish Final Models $15. Clearance $25. For street and Tappe' Coats sports wear.

$25. distinction, plain in the at a mere fracSmartly tailored and fur trimmed, prevailing $35. tion of former $45. prices. 11: HALF PRICES AT HATHAWAY'S A On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, all suites and separate pieces which are to be incomplete suites, and many floor samples without duplicates, will be offered at half their former prices The store will be open each evening until 9 o'clock Partial List of Half- Price Features Dining Suite of: 10 pieces in Antique Maple Bedroom Suite Antique Walnut.

'A Sheraton of Colonial design; 8 pieces, inpattern. Formerly $495.00 $247.50 cluding twin beds. Formerly Walnut Console Table, 46 inches $980.00. $490.00 long. Regular price $95.00 47.50 Antique Walnut Arm Chair, with Bedroom seat and back covered in hand.

pieces, comprising Dresser, 2. made Tapestry. Regular price Mahogany Suite of Full Width Bed and Chair. Was $295.00 147.50 $245.00 122.50 Dining Suite of Italian design in Floor Lamp in rich grained Walnut; 10 pieces. Gold with base Antique Chair seats and backs covered in and Blue, and shade of Tapestry.

Was $1050.00 Mauve Georgette. Regular price 525.00 $110.00. 55.00 Sofa and Arm Chair with Mahogany frames and separate down quisite Bedroom Crotch Suite of 8 Mahogany pieces in ex- seat cushions covered in $1185.00 was 592.50 Mohair; 2 pieces, formerly priced striped at $745.00 372.50 Decorated Walnut Breakfast Walnut Toilet Table, 46 inches Room Suite of 7 pieces. Was wide, with triplicate mirror. 180.00 merly $95.00 47.50 pieces, Sheraton including Bedroom twin Suite beds; of in 8 Mahogany Wall wide, suitable for use radio Mahogany.

Regularly $485.00 242.50 cabinet. Regularly $110.00 55.00 Furniture Bought This Week will be held far Later Delivery if Desired W.A. HATHAWAY COMPANY 51 West 45th Street. New York Huntington Woodman, Mrs. Edward Adams, Mrs.

Glenn C. Pettit, Mrs. Gertrude J. Corwin, Mrs. E.

Rodney Fiske, Mrs. J. Herbert Shaffer, Dr. Cornelia C. Brant, Mrs.

William H. Bird, Mrs. G. Waring Stebbins, Mrs. Henry M.

Halsted, Mrs. J. O. Carpenter, Mrs. Edwin La Snedeker, Mrs.

W. Winans Freeman, Mrs. G. S. Mrs.

Frederick W. Rowe, Mrs. John Simmons, Mrs. Walter Hammitt, Mrs. Thomas J.

Davis, Miss Else F. Eilers, Miss Ethel Chapman, Mrs. Clarence Waterman, Mrs. A. S.

Richey, Mrs. Ralph H. Tiebout, Miss Alice Tiebout, Mrs. BurA nett C. Collins, Mrs.

John V. Jewell and Mrs. Charless Hotchkiss. MISS PLOTKIN A HOSTESS Miss Edith Plotkin of 532 Bristol st. was hostess last Saturday evening at a celebration of Washington's Birthday at 'her home, many of the guests being veterans of the recent war.

The Misses Plotkin danced a minuet of the period of the Revolution. Among the guests were the Misses Anna Marder, Hattie Plotkin, Martha Rubin, Bessie Zimmerman, Rose Diamond, Rose Wallach, Ethel Lipsen, Pose Bass, Dora Rosnoff, Clara Handleman, Jeanne Vallen, Mollite Wellman and Irma Maliner: Martin J. Starr, Paul Hyman, Murray, Plotkin, George Siever, Emerson, George Sherer, Ceal Cohen, Joseph Linderman, A. Leonel Green, Jack Lerner, Joseph Blum, Herman BodDavid erman, Volen, Herman David Fisher, Joel Novick, Wachtel and Samuel Ringle. The committee of the of St.

Joseph's School for the imAuxiliary provement of the deaf will give its mid-winter dance Friday evening at St. Ambrose Hall, De Kalb and Tompkins aves. In addition to several dancing vaudeville acts there will be special numbers by the Misses Vivian Blaber, Margaret Jones and Gloria Michaelson. Mrs. The P.

officers of the auxiliary are Heney, president; Miss Helen Fitzgerald, Mrs. Joseph Burns and Miss Ethel Steeley. EVENTS OF THE WEEK. St. Bernard's Branch, No.

667, of L. C. B. will hold a euchre this evening at the K. of C.

clubhouse, 117 1st pl. Miss Morye Margaret Shonts is to be featured on the program of the Prospector's Musical Revue Friday evening at the Central Branch ci the Y. W. C. 376 Schermerhorn street.

The members of the New Art Gallery Club will be the guests this evening of the Russian artist, Sergo Soudelkine, at a dress rehearsal at his new club, the Cellar of Fallen Angels, W. 72d Manhattan. Beta Chapter of Sigma Pi Kappa will hold its annual winter dance Friday evening at the Aldine Club, 200 5th Manhattan. On the dance committee are Lloyd Campbell. Bert Rust.

James Cheswick, Alfred Doyle, Floyd Meyer, Edward Foster and Ralph Connors. I. 0. D. B.

E. CHAPTER MEETS. The annual meeting of the WiiB. WAS held Monday afternoon liam one Shakespeare Chapter, I. O.

D. al the home of Mrs. Alexander Cunningham, 625 Ocean ave. New committees were appointed by the regent, Mrs. Hedley H.

Hilborn, and plans for the coming year dis. cussed before tea was served. Among those present were Mrs. John Barlow. Mrs.

Nassau B. Eagen, Mrs. James MacDonald, Mrs. Arthur Middleton, Mrs. Laurus E.

Sutton, Mrs. William Fitzhugh, Mrs. Lydia Brown, Mrs. George Ramsey, Mrs. Alexander Carter, Mrs.

Charles Ramsey and Mrs. Morris W. Henry. Calls U. S.

Government One of General Default That we are living in a government by default because not more than 10 percent of the population give the business of government the attention it should have was the statement of Municipal Court ludge Edgar F. Hazleton before the members of the Ridgewood Branch of the Brooklyn Tenants Protective Association nt the Queens County Labor Lyceum, Forest and Putnam last night. He said that the housing situation would never be remedied except through the law of supply and, demand, and asked the people to treat their judges as though they felt that they were "on the level" in the handling of landlord and tenant cases and not clutter up the calendar with fury trials. Edward Engel, attorney for the Ridgewood Branch of the Tenants Protective Association, inade a plea. for a strong union among the mem, bers of this and other tenant ganizations.

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