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BROOKLYN LIFE Exhibition of French Art at the Brooklyn Museum The exhibition of paintings by modern French masters, now being shown at the Brooklyn Museum, was opened on Saturday afternoon, March 26th, by a tea which was attended by a large number of invited guests from Manhattan as well as this borough. The officers of the Brazilian battleship Minas Gerues and several of their wives were among the honored guests of the afternoon. Pouring tea were Mrs. Henry C. Benedict, Mrs.

Lewis Hurd, Mrs. Leo Healy and Mrs. Herbert Tschudy. Berkeley Senior "Prom" Japanese cherry blossoms and other spring flowers decorated the auditorium of Berkeley Institute Monday evening for the senior "prom" of the school, one of the very enjoyable events of the holiday week. The chaperones of the evening were Miss Ina Clayton Atwood, Mrs.

D. Marion Atwood, Mrs. H. E. Cabaud, Miss Marcia Bready, Mrs.

Edward Johnson, Mrs. J. D. Lohman, Mrs. Charles A.

Renouard, ex-Mayor David A. Boody and Dr. Charles Goodrich. Among others attending were Miss Dorothy Stumpf, Miss Gladys Williams, Miss Helen MacDonald, Miss Virginia Boody, Miss Maude Sinclair, Miss Elaine Freeman, Miss Dorothy Cooper, Miss Ruth, Grace, Miss Margaret Wells, Bruce Pine, Arthur Hosking, Joseph MacMahon, George Jackson, Charles Sheldon, William Kerr, Lester Lehrenkraus, Charles Adams, Paul Rhodes, Campbell Updyke, Charles Hester, George Grace, Philip Hodgskin, Charles Patterson, Harold Lapham, Miss Mary Cabaud, Miss Vivian Johnson, Miss Ruth Lohman, Miss Clara Miles, Miss Elizabeth Newman, Miss Vivien Mills, Miss Caroline Patterson, Miss Dorothy Renouard, Miss Gladys Renouard, Ernest Mattson, George Miles, William Nesloh, Isaac Curtis, Charles Weber, Edgar Burford, Joseph Roberts, Miss Mary Stevens, Miss Rachel Higgins, Miss June Mudgett, Miss Althea Noble, Miss Muriel Curtis, Miss Eleanor Stumpf, Miss Maxine Walker, Miss Helen Sorenson, Miss Elsie Lapham, Miss Dorothy Peace, Miss Constance Sauer, Miss Mildred White, Miss Ruth Smith, Miss Isabel King, Miss Natalie Silsbe and Miss Betty Fowler. Dance of L.

I. State Society, D. R. One of the very enjoyable events of Easter Monday evening was the dance given by the L. I.

State Society and its chapters at the Pouch Gallery. On the committee were Mrs. Eugene J. Grant, regent of the society, Mrs. George C.

Taft, chairman of the dance, Mrs. Edward Thompson Williams, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Fitz Randolph, Mrs. Joseph E.

Blake, Mrs. Arthur H. Beckwith and Mrs. John E. O'Mara.

The young men in charge of the music and dancing were the Messrs. Edward White Burr, Theodore Fitz Randolph, John A. O'Mara, William A. Thompson, Arthur H. Beckwith, Gerald M.

Favor and Richard R. Butterworth. Inverted Japanese parasols in blue and gray, the society's colors, shaded the lights, adding greatly to the decorative effects. There was dancing in both ball rooms and bridge in the reception rooms. The prizes for cards were boxes of writing paper.

Among those at the dance were Miss Helen Parkes, Mr. and Mrs Richard M. Chapman, Robert R. MacDonald, Miss Marjorie Wright, Frank Hodgman, Theodore Fitz-Randolph, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry C. Greene, Miss Mildred Greason, Miss Elizabeth Holman, Mrs. Sylvester Whiton, Miss Lorraine Kunkel, George Dayton, Miss Frances Arthur, Dr. and Mrs. Henry A.

King, Miss Lucille King, Miss Lillian Lineberger, William Hale, Miss Mabel Lineberger, Miss Muriel Smith, Charles D. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Weller, Mrs.

Arthur Beckwith, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley S. O'Neal, Mrs. Thomas McClintock, Arthur H.

Beckwith, George Morson, Miss Katherine Burr, Mr. and Mrs. Burleigh E. Smart, Mr. and Mrs.

William H. Aten, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin T. Butterworth, Eugene J.

Grant, Col. and Mrs. Sidney Grant, Mrs. Don Seitz, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry W. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Blake, Mrs.

Alfred Bailey, Mrs. Edward W. Burr, Mr. and Mrs. Walter C.

Burr, Mrs. Richard De Mille Brown, Mrs. Moses J. Becker, Miss Emogene E. Bunnell, Mr.

and Mrs. Albert H. T. Banghof, Mrs. James Cochran, Mrs.

Joseph H. Colyer, Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Williams, George C.

Taft, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Fitch, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert S. Kern, Horace Knapp Stewart, Miss Harriette L. Robinson, Anthony Villari, Miss 'Annette Villari, Miss Ruth C. Taft, C. F.

Waldemar Jacobson, Miss Betty Taft, Miss Eleanor Gubner, Ronald Appel, Miss Eunice Gates, Walter Bull, Miss Florence Sparks, Harvey Buchanan, Miss Eleanor Swimm, Dr. Kenneth HillMiss Violet Wark, Edward O'Mara, Mrs. Rita yer, Webster, Thomas E. Peirce, Mrs. Thomas W.

Peirce, Miss Naomi Smith, Miss Katherine Elliott, Gilbert Elliott, Gerald Favor, Norman Hilborn, Miss Virginia Finkel, Warren Squires, Miss Eleanor Lassoe, Miss Mignon McClintock, Albert Eddy, Miss Jessie Mills, Miss Helen Wood, Crittenden Bliss, Russell Benedict, Hampton Nevins, Willard Nevins, Miss Helen Dickinson, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart White, Adrian Bangs, Miss Dorothy Reynolds, Miss Dorothy H. Peirce and Hall Everson. Wellesley Benefit Concert and Dance at the Waldorf Miss Betty Parsons, class of '22, at Wellesley College, the daughter of Mr.

James U. Parsons, of 137 Hicks Street, is the undergraduate chairman for the Wellesley College benefit concert and dance to be given at the Waldorf-Astoria Friday evening, April 1st. The concert is to be given by the University Glee Club of New York under the auspices of the New York Wellesley Club for the Semi-Centennial Fund. Miss Dorothy Dayton Engaged Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph E. Dayton of 440A Sixth Street, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Dor- othy Dayton, to Mr. Julio F. Sorzano, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Julio F. Sorzano of 228 Garfield Place. Miss Dayton is a graduate of Packer Collegiate Institute, class of 1919. Mr. Sorzano was second lieutenant of Field Artillery, U.

S. during the war. Photograph by Ye Colonial Studio MISS GLADYS S. BOUCHER Whose engagement to Mr. Frank Stewart has just been announced Miss Gladys S.

Boucher Engaged Announcement is made of the engagement of Miss Gladys Stephenson Boucher, daughter of Mr. Alfred M. Boucher and the late Mrs. May E. Stephenson Boucher of 199 Jefferson Avenue, to Mr.

T. Frank Stewart of 42 Martense Street, Flatbush. Miss Boucher studied at Packer Institute, and later attended Miss Mason's School, The Castle, at Tarrytown. Mr. Stewart is the son of Mrs.

Ella F. Stewart and the late Thomas H. Stewart. Luncheon of Woman's League at McAlpin Mrs. John Clapperton Kerr, of 15 East Fifty-fourth Street, is president of the Woman's League for the Protection of Riverside Park, which is to hold a luncheon Saturday, April 2nd, at the Hotel McAlpin.

It is the first time an effort has been made to bring together the various associations interested in the conservation of our parks and forests, both local and national. The speakers will include President Pack, of the American Forestry Association, and other men of prominence, also women who are active in civic affairs. "Our Parks, Local and National; in What Ways Would You Miss Them if They Were Destroyed?" will be answered by the speakers, among whom will be Mr. Charles L. Craig, Comptroller, who will present his plans for the West Side Development, and Mr.

William R. Wilcox, who will present the plan of the N. Y. and N. J.

Port and Terminal Commission. Mr. Hugh Baker, who has just returned from the Wisconsin Forestry Conference, will outline the plans formulated there for a national organization for the preservation of the parks and forests. There will be music by Mr. Max Kotlarsky, pianist, and Mr.

Walter Mills, baritone. This luncheon should make an appeal to Brooklyn club women who are interested in the preservation of our parks and forests. Mr. Henry C. Murphy, Marries Miss van Halme College, A wedding in Christ Church, Greenwich, of interest to residents of the Heights took place on Monday afternoon, March 28th, when Mr.

Henry C. Murphy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Murphy, of 105 Willow Street and Indian Chase Park, Greenwich, married Miss Claire van Halme, a well-known Belgian pianist.

The bridegroom, who is celebrated as an artist and illustrator, comes from. of the oldest families on the Heights. He is a great grandson of the late Hon. Henry C. Murphy, who was Minister to the Netherlands under President Buchanan, and also Supreme Court Judge and founder of the Long Island Historical Society.

Mr. Murphy became well known during the war for his paintings of the different battles, and his painting of the Twenty-seventh Division breaking the Hindenberg line has been acquired by the National Museum in Washington. He is a graduate of Columbia and a member of the Salmagundi Club. The bride, who comes from one of the finest families in Brussels, was graduated from the famous conservatory at Brussells with highest honors. She is well-known abroad on the concert stage as well as a composer.

Many of her compositions are now being played by the European orchestras. She has given several recitals here this winter, one at the Belgian Embassy in Washington and another at the home of Mrs. Lobdell in Greenwich, Conn. Her cousin, Professor George Sarton, is Professor of Science at Harvard. Miss Dorothy Reynolds Engaged Mi.

and Mrs. Thomas J. Reynolds, of 456 East Seventeenth Street, Flatbush, announce the engagement of their daughter, Dorothy, to Mr. Ellis Sturgis Quimby, son of Mr. and Mrs.

John L. Quimby, of 460 East Seventeenth Street. The announcement was made Wednesday at a luncheon and card party given by Miss Reynolds. The table decorations were pink and the favors were "Kewpie Brides." The Misses Dorothy Martin, Ethelyn Fairchild, Hazel Ridley, Catherine Stinson, of the Packer class of 1922, of which Miss Reynolds is a member, were present. The other guests were the Misses Dorothy Brown, Rhoda Sparrow, Diana Kelly, Helen Franson, Mary Goddard, Dorothy Lausser, Helen Howe, Margaret Joost, Barbara Lewis, Dorothy Pierce, Catherine Elliott and Mrs.

John L. Quimby. Spring Luncheon and Carnival of Clubs The "Annual Spring Luncheon and Carnival of Clubs" of the Memorial Shapespeare Circle, of which Mrs. Helen Warburton-Joy is president, will he held in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Bossert on Saturday, May 7th. Many elaborate features are being planned and the affair promises to be even more successful than last year's "Luncheon and Carnival." Benefit Bridge and Sale at Hotel Bossert For the benefit of the Industrial Home for the Blind a bridge and cake and candy sale was held at the Hotel Bossert Monday afternoon.

Mrs. Edward E. Moore was chairman of the committee and assisting her were Mrs. P. Dwight Ellis, Mrs.

William J. Wheeler and Mrs. George Worthington. The candy vendors were Miss Maude D. Jenkins, Miss Dorothy Jenkins, Miss Ruth Ellis and Miss Roberta Lawson.

Colony House Bridge at Pouch An auction bridge is to be given by Colony House at the Pouch Mansion, Monday afternoon, April 18th, for the benefit of the Children's Country Vacation Fund. On the committee are Mrs. Frederick G. Fischer, chairman; Mrs. George W.

Knight, Mrs. Frank A. Douglass, Mrs. George Corwin Stout, Mrs. George Chapin Taft, Mrs.

Juan C. Almirall, Mrs. Raymond Bayliss, Miss Grace H. Pierson and Miss Lillian Cooke. "Billeted" to Be Presented at Masonic Temple The Associated Societies of the Schermerhorn Street Evangelical Lutheran Church will present the three-act comedy, "Billeted," at the Masonic Temple, Clermont and Lafayette Avenues, on Thursday, April 7th.

A reception will follow the performance..