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BROOKLYN LIFE 13 (Brooklyn Woman's Club), Mrs. Frank Kendall Perkins (Chiropean), Mrs. Frank Howland Parcells (D. A. '76 Chapter), Mrs.

Wiliiam H. Weeks (Cambridge), Mrs. A. G. Kraetzer (New.

Era), Mrs. C. A. Berner (Pensa), Mrs. Otto Heinigke (Bay Ridge Reading Club), Mrs.

Albert Johnston (Shakespeare), Mrs. J. Spencer Comstock (Colonial), Mrs. Charles Lorenzo Woody (Chaminade), Mrs. Everett Sparrow (Friday Afternoon Club).

Mrs. Alice Ralph Wood was the soloist for the afternoon, and gave several delightful groups of songs. Fyfe-Murphy Wedding Miss Jessie Constant Murphy, daughter of Mrs. James MacElroy Murphy of 505 East Twenty-sixth Street, was married to Mr. John Barhydt Fyfe, son of Mrs.

Kate B. Fyfe, on Saturday, January 5th, at her home, with just the family and a few intimate friends attending. Mrs. Edward S. Murphy was matron of honor, in a gown of sea-foam colored georgette and carrying butterfly roses.

Mr. Hardey B. Fyfe was his brother's best man. Miss Murphy's gown was of white satin and georgette, with tulle veil and Tudor cap of Duchesse lace. The dress was beaded in pearls and crystals.

Mrs. Fyfe, mother of the groom, was in peacock blue velvet and crepe de chine, and Mrs. Murphy wore a gown of black Spanish lace and satin. After a wedding trip South Mr. and Mrs.

Fyfe will live in Ann Arbor, Mich. Miss Violet Mars Makes Her Debut The last and one of the most brilliant balls of Brooklyn's holiday season was that given at Sherry's on January 3rd by Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Houston Mars, of 57 Montgomery Place, to introduce their daughter, Miss Violet Mars. A large dinner in Miss Mars' honor was given at Sherry's before the dance by Miss Katherine I.

Magner. There were about forty guests at this, including Miss Mars' receiving party and floor committee. The walls of the ball room of Sherry's were covered with smilax and holiday greens. Miss Mars, whose gown was of white chiffon banded with white fur, wore orchids fastened to her left shoulder and carried an arm bouquet of American Beauty roses. Her mother's gown was French blue and beaded, and she carried pink roses.

In the receiving line with Miss Mars and her mother. father and sister, Miss Gladys Mars, were the Misses Katherine I. Magner, Dorothy Renouard, Gladys Renouard and Margaret Warnecke, and the floor committee were: the Messrs. Reginald N. Webster, Hervey Russell, John Campbell Ingersoll, Richard Egan, Rowland L.

Field and Richard M. Ross. Among the dancers were the Misses Eleanor Andrews, Doris Barlow, Isabelle Brown, Cathleen Baxter, Madelyn Waterman, Beatrice Cantwell, Cornelia Livingston, Elizabeth, Deyer, Charlotte Deyer, Janet MacKay, Dorothy MacDonald, Elise McMahon, Althea Noble, Constance Noble, Margaret Pray, Ruth Page, Harriett Pendieton, Edna Redmond, Helen Roosen, Dorothy Roosen, Elizabeth Russell, Helen Sorenson, Emily Spear, Maude Sinclair, Audrey Silsbe, Natalie Silsbe, Elizabeth Starbuck, Virginia Varick, Elizabeth Vernon, Rita Webster, Lloyd Washington, Eileen Cantwell, Grace Cortelyou, Loraine Caldwell, Mary Cabaud, Carol Cypiot, Frances Cochran, Frances Dusenberry, Mildred Greason, Harriet Greason, Josephine Greason, Monica Greenwood, Alice Good, Marie Gillespie, Rachel Higgins, Lisbeth Higgins, Emily Honeyman, Anna Mae Hunter, Grace Holm, Mildred Hegeman, Dorothy Hall, Vivien Johnson, Eieanor Eaton, Regina Kiely, Erna Kramer, Ruth Lohman, Gladys Williams, Thekla Wigand, Peggy Wilds, Helen Zahn, Martha Smith, Rosita Weston, Adele Entz, Ada Heinze, Mildred Frances, Mary McCoy, Martha DeBevoise, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F.

Magner, Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. Hardie, Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Burdick, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robertson. Comprising the stag line were Messrs. John Lassoe, John R.

Hardie, William Faversham, Kenneth Alford, Gerard Burchell, Ganson Baldwin, Donald Baylis, Norman Baylis, Kurt Beckers, Bennett Barlow, John Birch, Carl Busch, Stuart Blundell, Victor Bell, Jere Collins, Frank Chalmers, David Cochran, Oliver G. Carter, Francis Clinton, William Calder, Edward de Castro, B. B. McAlpin, Charles J. McDermott, Edward Parsons, William Dunkak, Gerald Clarke, Harry Fabre, Whiting Evans, Richard Diebold, George J.

Gillespie, William Gahagan, Frederick Gahagan, David S. Garland, Arthur Harrison, Fred B. Hollister, Tracy Higgins, Norman Hilborn, Herbert Hilborn, George Johnson, Wilson Hewitt, Ford Hibbard, Thomas Jordan, George Schwank, William Kent, Robert Kelly, Harrison Smith, Dr. John E. Schmidt, Rutledge Simmons, Charles Sheldon, Lawrence Starbuck, Clinton Schelling, Richardson H.

Stram, John O'Berry, Alfred Seidenberg, Landon Turner, Winthrop Trowbridge, George Moran, Walter Herrick and John C. Blair of Stamford, William Davies, Hasbrouck Wallace, Charles Woody, Lloyd Wason, George Winslow, A. Fitzsimmons, M. Allman, Volckening, Garrett Duryea, Paul Bernard, George Chauncey Grant, Charles Lehrenkrauss, J. Burling, MalDayton, Theodore Entz, Howard Carroll, Frederick colm Bran, W.

Beanchal, George Timmerman, D. Vogel, Zahn, Frederick Paine, Douglas Cruikshank, Olney J. W. McManern, F. Steir, B.

Dow, Edward O. Raymond, Joseph G. McMahon and Lyndon Arnold. House, R. Huffe, Richard Gurney, Whiting Evans, Edward and Mr.

and Mrs. Nelson. At the Opera Mrs. Henry Joralemon Davenport will be the hostess in the Woman's Committee box at the next Brooklyn Chaminade Afternoon Musicale The afternoon musicale and reception of the Chaminade will take place at the Pouch Mansion on Thursday afternoon, January 24th. The following ladies comprise this committee: Mrs.

William C. Carson, chairman; Mrs. Charles Gilbert Raynor, Vice-Chairman; Mrs. Edgar Banta, Mrs. William W.

Brush, Mrs. Vincent Cairo, Mrs. John Samuel Eakins, Mrs. Courtney B. Groser, Mrs.

Ellis Z. Nutting, Mrs. F. H. Schluter, Mrs.

Lewis J. Spence. Those who will receive with the president, Mrs. Charles Lorenzo Woody, are Mme. Emma Richardson Kuster, conductor; Mrs.

Theodore Martin Hardy, Mrs. Henry A. King, Mrs. Amelia Gray Clarke, accompanist. Photo by Davis Sanford MISS MARTHA PUCK CALDWELL Daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Theodore J. Caldwell, who recently had a dance given in her honor at her home, 54 East Seventeenth Street A number of new members will be received into membership during the afternoon. The club's guest soloist will be Mr. Harold Land, baritone.

The club soloists will be Miss Harriett Spink, soprano; Miss Emma Williams, contralto. The program distributors for the occasion are to be Mrs. William Parsons Slocovich, chairman; Mrs. John Duncan Graham, Mrs. Arthur John Ridley, Mrs.

Harry Davis Bonnington, Mrs. Lee Peterson and the Misses Jeanette Morrison, Dorothy Nash and Elsie Gregory, Delta Theta Dance a Success The dance held by Gamma and Rho Chapters of Delta Theta fraternity on December 27th in the ballroom of the Hotel McAlpin proved to be a great success. A large number, many who were home for the holidays, attended. The committee for the dance were the Messrs. House, chairman of the committee; Dutcher, Foster and Huffie.

Among those present were the Misses Grace Dill, Marjory Smith, Ella Murphey, Alice Mason, Janet Schumann, Muriel Kastner, Elizabeth Bull, Maude Barnes, Margaret Mason, Ella Treat, Searle Willis, Gertrude Seidenberg, Mildred Schwenn, Grace Schwenn, Althea Schweikert, W. Steeck, M. Lockrey, P. Peck, Arline French, Hannah Holiday, the Messrs. Kenneth Howry, Arthur Nall, W.

Hawley Dutcher, Avery Stirratt, Russel Seigler, Marvin Levy, Harold Walker, Will Horn, Robert Dill, Syl Foster, Timothy Corcoran, Everett Lewis, John Ibbotson, John Gillies, Kieth Williams, Kellogg Brumley, Edgar Hitchings, Milton Van Sicklen, W. Christmas Concert of the Master School of Music opera. Ten students of the Master School of Music, 110 Remsen Street, gave a splendid concert of Christmas music at the school on Friday evening, January 4th. The program was repeated before a most appreciative audience on Saturday evening, January 5th, at the Woman's University Club, 106 East Fifty-second Street, Manhattan. Those taking part in the singing were Mary Aitken, Carolyn Donnelly, Sara Henkin, Harriet Simpson, Isabel Wright, Gertrude Werner, William Prevos, Walter Preston, Bernard Tripp and August Werner.

Mme. Melanie Guttman-Rice, the vocal director, and Mr. Ward Lewis, the chorusmaster and accompanist, were in charge of the program. Miss Chardavoyne's Bridge Miss Grace Chardavoyne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Silas Chardavoyne of 32 East Tenth Street, entertained at bridge on Thursday afternoon, January 3rd. The guests were Mrs. Donald Ely Elliot (Edith Chardavoyne), the Misses Kathryn Frisbie, Muriel Macrery, Constance Jenkins, Dorothy Copeland, Elizabeth Gash, Natalie Rome, Helen Hayward, Alberta Schwieckert, Edna Blumenthal, Dorothy Cooper, Ruth Hanssen, Edna Hopkins, Ikrima Hassan, Dorothy Waterman. MacDonald-Babbott Wedding Miss Helen Babbott, daughter of Mr. Frank Lusk Babbott, will be married to Mr.

Ian MacDonald on January 26th. Miss Babbott will have as her matron of honor her sister, Mrs. S. Emlen Stokes, and her other attendants will be Mrs. Richard Stockton Emmet, Mrs.

Allan McLane, Mrs. James Scott Baker, Mrs. Kenneth Low, Mrs. Louis Sessenden and Miss Mary M. Parsons.

Mr. MacDonald will have Dr. Adrian St. Johnston as his best man, and the ushers will be Messrs. Richardson Pratt, Gilbert Thirkield, Harold B.

Thorne, Dr. William Sargent Ladd and Dr. Stokes. Dr. Stretch in Liberia Friends of Rev.

Mr. Harry J. Stretch, formerly assistant rector of St. Paul's Church, Flatbush, will be glad to know he has arrived safely at his new parish in his work with the Holy Cross Mission in the interior of Liberia, his address being Masambolahun, Liberia; post office, Pendembu, Sierra Leone. Dinner of St.

Paul's Parish Club The annual dinner of St. Paul's Parish Club will be held on the evening of Tuesday, January 22nd. Mrs. Matthews Entertains Guests from Hollywood Mrs. James Matthews of 459 Rugby Road has been entertaining Mrs.

Miller Brown and Miss Hazel Brown of Hollywood, Cal. Mrs. Brown and her daughter have just returned from South America. Mr. Otto A.

Schreiber Returns Mr. Schreiber, who was the only honor student from Long Island to graduate last June in the Class of 1923, returned from a six months' trip to Europe and the Far East just in time to spend the Christmas holidays with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. George J. Schreiber, at their home, 401 Eighth Avenue.

Mr. Schreiber has an older brother, Dr. George J. Schreiber, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1916. Meeting of the Cambridge Club At its meeting held Monday, January 7th, with Mrs.

John B. Homan, 51 Winthrop Street, the Cambridge Club voted to support the resolution for the protection of the Bedford Avenue trees, which will be presented to the Long Island Federation. The meeting Monday afternoon consisted of a study program on "High Lights in Modern American Art," Mrs. T. Starr Corey, chairman.

Mrs. Edward M. Crane, treating of the older. of the moderns, traced the American tradition from the early portrait painters and the Hudson River and Rocky, Mountain schools to the later work of Thayer, Deuring, Chase and La Farge. Mrs.

Warner James discussed the younger group of landscapists and realists, noting their indebtedness to Claude Monet. Mrs. Holman called attention to the new Santa Fe Museum, embodying the spirit of the Southwest..

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