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BROOKLYN LIFE Society in Brooklyn NEW BUILDING of Colony House, 295 Dean Street, will be dedicated on Wednesday, the 23rd of October, at 8:30 o'clock. The program of the evening will include the Dedication by Mrs. Charles T. Pierce, president emeritus, a pageant presented by Mrs. Elizabeth Van Keuren, head worker at Colony House, depicting the history of Colony House and a tour of inspection, after which refreshments will be served.

The Committee for the Reception includes Mrs. John Lansing Swan, president, Mrs. John H. Hallock, Mrs. William J.

Baldwin, Mrs. Clarence Dixon, Mrs. Alfred F. Everson, Mrs. Alexander H.

Fraser, Mrs. Charles W. Fyfe, Mrs. Clarence R. Nims, Mrs.

E. Clifford Place and Mrs. Gustave W. Thompson. Receiving that evening will be the members of the Board of Directors: Mrs.

John L. Swan, president, Mrs. Gustave W. Thompson, Chairman of the Senior Guild and Mrs. Charles W.

Fyfe, chairman of the Junior Guild; Mrs. Raymond E. Baylis, Mrs. William Bonnell, Mrs. Thomas J.

David, Mrs. William E. De Berard, Mrs. Alfred Hall Everson, Mrs. Alexander H.

Fraser, Mrs. Robert B. Honeyman, Mrs. Herbert I. Losee, Mrs.

John H. Hallock, Mrs. John M. Moore, Mrs. Clarence R.

Nims, Mrs. John Nix, Mrs. John Morris Perry, Mrs. William H. Pouch, Mrs.

Susie C. Snyder, Mrs. Robert Strobridge, Mrs. John: M. Tallman.

Also receiving will be the Board of the Senior Guild: Mrs. Gustave W. Thompson, Chairman, Mrs. George C. Taft, Mrs.

William J. Baldwin, Mrs. Frederick Lyke, Mrs. Henry Anson. The members of the Board of Directors of the Junior Guild also will be among the hostesses: Mrs.

Charles W. Fyfe, Chairman, Mrs. Raymond Clarke, Mrs. Alfred H. Everson, Mrs.

Harold Bick, Mrs. Paul W. Bigelow, Mrs. Howard Burdick, Mrs. Harriet Carter, Mrs.

Florence Graham, Mrs. David S. Garland, Miss Lothian Kerr, Mrs. A. Oakley Lohrke, Miss Gwendolyn Miller, Miss Gladys Mars, Mrs.

George E. Morson, Mrs. Rutledge Simmons and also their advisors, Mrs. Place, Mrs. Fraser and Mrs.

William P. Slocovich. The following other members of the Junior Guild will receive, act as guides and assist in serving the refreshments: Mrs. De Hart Bergen, Miss Mary Cabaud, Mrs. Arthur Ericsson, Mrs.

V. Hall Everson, Mrs. Henry Hagstrom, Mrs. Vera M. Matthews, Mrs.

Willard C. Peare, Mrs. Griswold W. Roche, Mrs. Herbert Redmond, Mrs.

Elise Schreiber Carter, Miss Muriel Slocovich. THE COMMITTEE for the Willoughby House benefit opera, Massenet's "Manon," which will be held on Friday afternoon, November 8th, at the Metropolitan Opera House, is headed by the president of the Board of Directors, Mrs. William B. Greenman. Working with her are Mrs.

Edward S. Anderson, Miss Mary V. Baldwin, Mrs. Benjamin W. Bennett, Mrs.

Maurice S. Cass, Mrs. G. N. H.

Clement, Mrs. M. Preston Goodfellow, Mrs. Clyde C. Hess, Miss Amelia B.

Hollenback, Mrs. Russell H. Iler, Mrs. Darwin R. James, Mrs.

George L. Kenmore, Mrs. Harold P. Kneen, Mrs. Lloyd R.

Larson, Miss Julia Logan, Miss Anna May Mason, Miss Helen McWilliams, Mrs. Elmer E. Megaw, Mrs. William J. Montgomery, Miss M.

Louise Munson, Mrs. Frank L. Paterson, Miss Clara Pfeiffer, Miss Alice B. Plumb, Mrs. Rollin G.

Plumb, Miss Helen Ray, Mrs. Dunham B. Sherer, Mrs. Thomas R. Thayer, Miss Anna B.

Van Nort and Mrs. Luman B. Wing. Bori, Gigli and De Luca' head the cast of "Manon," which will be conducted by Mr. Louis Hasselmans, who recently arrived in this country to take Mr.

Bodansky's place at the Metropolitan. MR. Place EDWARD returned A. Monday on HARRISON the Conte of 374 Grande Sterling from a six weeks' journey abroad. He sailed from Naples on the fifth of this month.

THE ANNUAL CARD PARTY for the benefit of The Industrial Home for the Blind, located at 520 Gates Avenue, will be held at Leverich Towers on Thursday, November 7th, at 2.30 P.M. under the auspices of the Women's Board of which Mrs. Charles J. Benisch is president. Mrs.

Cornelius L. Kelley is general chairman of the Card Party. There will also be a sale of cake under the Chairmanship of Mrs. Morris Gluckauf, Candy under Mrs. Wm.

Moore and Utilities under Mrs. E. A. Treadwell assisted by the following members, Mrs. William Barth, Mrs.

Charles Fishbeck, Mrs. Henry Ober, Mrs. William A. Phillips, Mrs. Edward Siney, Mrs.

Juan Almirall, Mrs. Edward Blackman, Mrs. Edward J. Connelly, Mrs. William D.

Meurlin, Mrs. George Horton, Miss Harriet Hubbard and Mrs. Richard Holton. COMMITTEE of the patronesses for the Cinderella A to be held Monday, December 23rd at the Heights Casino, met at the home of Mrs. Morris N.

Ely, 1 Pierrepont Street, to discuss future plans. The Committee consists of Mrs. William H. Cary, Mrs. Adrian Van Sinderen, Mrs.

Sumner Ford, Mrs. Henry J. Davenport, Mrs. Cameron Duncan, Mrs. Neilson Olcott, Mrs.

James G. Shaw, Mrs. Edward A. Freshman, Mrs. Richard, Mrs.

Christopher W. Wilson, Mrs. Morris U. Ely and Mrs. Stanley Tumbridge.

A NNOUNCEMENT has been made of the wedding of Mr. Charles Edgar Buttrick, formerly of 1164 Pacific Street, son of the late Charles E. Buttrick, to Mrs. Constance La Boiteaux Sangree, daughter of Mrs. Isaac La Boiteaux, of Bryn Mawr, on last Friday October 11th, at Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Mr. and Mrs. Buttrick will be at home after the 1st of December at 2 Rugby' Road, Bryn Mawr, Pa. MONG THOSE who have leased apartments at 9 A Prospect Park West, one of the group of new apartment houses in the neighborhood of Prospect Park, at the corner of President Street, are Supreme Court Justice John B. Johnston, Mr.

Gilbert H. Thirkield, Mr. S. J. Rohe, Mr.

James P. Kelly, Mr. Thomas M. Healy, Mr. George Cook, Mr.

Charles E. Larsen. THE ANNUAL BRIDGE of the Auxiliary of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Mrs. Dean C. Osborne, president, will be held at the Leverich Towers Hotel on November 15th, at 2 o'clock.

A sale of cake and candy will begin at 1 o'clock. The bridge and sale are for the benefit of the Brooklyn Children's Museum. The committee in charge includes Mrs. Floyd S. Neely, chairman; Mrs.

C. Theodore Frohne, chairman of the cake and candy table; Mrs. John B. Clark, treasurer; Mrs. Frederick Addinsell, Mrs.

Frederick J. Austin, Mrs. Joseph H. Colyer, Mrs. Henry Sterling Chapin, Mrs.

Howard DuBois, Mrs. Charles W. Elmer, Mrs. Charles T. Estabrook, Mrs.

Alfred Hall Everson, Mrs. Alfred L. Fawcett, Mrs. James M. Fawcett, Mrs.

Franklin J. Foster, Mrs. John H. Hallock, Miss Edith A. Hannam, Miss Gertrude.

Hannam, Miss Mabel A. Hannam, Mrs. Walter H. Howe, Mrs. Joseph D.

Higgins, Mrs. James M. Hills, Mrs. Joseph Luzzatto, Mrs. Edward B.

Ladd, Mrs. John M. Moody, Mrs. Frederick Van Siclen Parr, Mrs. Creighton W.

Phillips, Mrs. David Porter, Mrs. David Resseguie, Mrs. John J. Schoonhoven, Mrs.

William H. Seeman, Mrs. Andrew Somers, Mrs. Charles A. Soper, Mrs.

Louis Elbert Strong, Mrs. Joseph W. Turtle and Mrs. William Whittaker. WEDDING of Miss Dorothy Osborn, daughter THE Mr.

Samuel Albert Osborn of 335 Eighth Street and Mr. J. Russell Ward, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Russell Ward of 712 Forty-fifth Street, will take place this evening at the First Reformed Church, Seventh Avenue and Carroll Street. Dr.

Samuel D. Daughtry and Rev. Frank L. Free will officiate. Miss Osborn will wear a gown made of white lace over cream satin, with a short train long tight sleeves and a high waist.

She will wear a band of old lace around her head to which the tulle veil will be fastened with orange blossoms. Miss Beatrice M. Osborn, her sister who will act as bridesmaid, will wear a gown of double chiffon of periwinkle blue over peach satin. She will carry peach color chrysanthemums. The bridesmaids the Misses Dorothy W.

Sellers, Edith Janson, Elizabeth F. Thomas and Mrs. Albert L. Osborn will wear gowns with peach metal bodices and skirts of peach tulle. They will: carry chrysanthemums--shaded shaded blue.

The flower girls, Jacquelyn Smith, cousin of the bride and Audrey Ward, niece of the groom, will wear peach tulle dresses with tulle and blue hair ribbons to match the maid of honor's dress. Mr. Albert Sherwood will act as best man for Mr. Ward and the ushers will be the Messrs. Charles C.

Hunter, Henry H. Millen, Hampton Eubank and Stanley Abbot. The reception will be at the home of the bride's father. Miss Osborn and Mr. Ward will make their future home on Brown Avenue, Hempstead, after touring in the South.

R. ADRIAN VAN SINDERIN is to be host in the committee box at the first Philharmonic Concert to be given at the Academy of Music, Sunday afternoon, October 20th. MISS. William VALERIA L. McKee, McKEE, of 525 daughter Park of Avenue Mr.

and and Miss Mildred Flahive, daughter of Mrs. John H. Flahive, of 324 Park Place, Brooklyn, gave a supper dance Friday night of last week in the Ambassador Grill, Manhattan, in honor of Miss Kathryn C. Fischer and Mr. William Musgrave Calder, whose marriage will take place on October 22nd.

Among those who attended the dance were: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ruckgaber, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Street, Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Webster, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Lee, the Misses Marie Staudt, Cornelia Vanderveer, Louise Pottle, Muriel Stafford, Dorothy Jackson, Josephine Hurley, Fonenda Sheesley, Katherine McGuire, Marjorie Bijou, Rosalind Kress, Grace Shuttleworth, Inez Pascual, Janet Laidlaw, Clare Baxter, Jannette Schumann, Virginia Snyder, Mr. James Saver, Mr. Eugene Flahive, Mr. Mario Fernandez and the Messrs. Inslee Clark, Coverly Fischer, George Eliot, George Wilde, Don Marran, Arthur Harrison, Alex Phillips, Preston Hazelwood, Crosby Graham, Robert Haight, George Praeger, Francis McTiernan, John Van Vranken, James Alvarez, Donald Kelly, Austin Harrison, Romual Lampheer, Bradley Price, Ramon de Castro, Norman Hilborn, William Kent, Frank Currie, Stewart Richards, Henry Ehlers, John Birch, Edward Sperry, Arnold Vorster.

THE George ENGAGEMENT McCurrach of Miss was Ruth announced Clark at a and small Mr. bridge tea last Saturday afternoon. Miss Clark, who is the daughter of Mrs. John Braddock Clark of 26 Chester Court and the late John B. Clark, was graduated from the' Packer Collegiate Institute last June, and is a member of the Colony House Junior Guild.

Mr. McCurrach was graduated from Polytechnic Preparatory School and attended Williams College. He is the son of Mrs. James McCurrach of 2 Montague Terrace and the late James McCurrach. The tea dance which was to be given on December 27th for Miss Clark and Miss Margaret Means has been canceled.

NIGHT will inaugurate annual theatre SOCIETY the Woman's Board of the Church Charity Foundation at the Majestic Theatre, Monday evening. The Woman's Board has taken over the theatre for Monday and Tuesday nights for the presentation of the new musical comedy, "Take It Easy," which will be shown under the board's auspices on the two nights for the first time in greater New York. The membership rolls of the Woman's Board contains the names of many of the foremost women in Brooklyn society and the theatre party has long been conceded one of the most notable social functions of the year. Virtually all the members of the board will be present at the opening performance. Friends of the board and of the Church Charity Foundation and of the several institutions to which the board is devoted St.

John's Hospital and the new Nurses' Home--will attend. The premiere will take on the general appearance of a society re-union with participants from Manhattan, Nassau and Queens and Suffolk meeting Brooklyn friends. The proceeds of the party will be devoted to the equipment of St. John's Hospital and the Nurses' Home recently completed. Officers of the Foundation, the Board and the various institutions will be present on Society Night.

THE daughter of WEDDING Mrs. of Frank Miss T. Stinson Catherine of F. Brooklyn Stinson, and Mr. David C.

Stutts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Kurz of Brooklyn took place the evening of October 16th at the Brooklyn Woman's Club. Dr. Lewis T.

Reed, officiated. Miss Ruth Hills of Newton, acted as maid of honor and the bridesmaids were the Misses Frances Berrian, Annis Hall, Mrs. Richard Crisfield, and Mrs. Ben S. Graham all of Brooklyn.

The bride wore an attractive princess styled gown of old ivory moire. She wore a lace cap with a tulle veil and carried Easter lilies. The maid of honor wore cockscomb flat crepe and carried Johannahill roses and African daisies; the bridesmaids wore golden capucine gowns and carried Talisman roses and African daisies. After the ceremony a reception was held. The Club was decorated with Autumn leaves and chrysanthemums.

Mr. and Mrs. Stutts will make their future home at 40 East Seventh Street..