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Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 12

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BROOKLYN LIFE Week in Society Mr. Randolph Catlin Marries Miss White An out-of-town wedding of Brooklyn interest was that of Miss Hannah Hastings White and Mr. Randolph Catlin which took place Saturday, June 25th, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aron Avery Wite, 33 Hollywood Street, Worcester, Mass.

Mr. Catlin, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Catlin of 27 West Eleventh Street, Manhattan, formerly of this borough, is well known in Brooklyn Heights society and is a popular member of the Heights Casino.

He was graduated from Princeton in 1908 and is a member of the Princeton and Hamilton Clubs. The Jones-Black Wedding at Irvington, N. Y. After October, Mr. and Mrs.

Nicholas Ridgely Jones (Katharine Black) will make their home at 114 East Eighty-fourth Street, Manhattan. They were married last Saturday afternoon in the Presbyterian Church at Irvington-on-Hudson, N. with the Rev. Francis Irwin officiating. A reception followed at "Bide-a-Wee," the residence of the bride's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Van Deventer Black. Miss Black is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Prince of 44 West Seventy-seventh Street, formerly of this borough.

Mr. Jones is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Jones of Springfield, Ill.

Mrs. Spencer Shotter of Manhattan was Miss Black's matron of honor and the other attendants were: Mrs. Graham Johnston of Irvington, Mrs. Harold Vanderpoel of Hastings, Mrs. Henry Cape of Dobbs Ferry, Mrs.

Philip Morgan of Brookline, and Miss Olive Irwin of Irvington. Frances Hoge, the daughter of Mrs. Edna Lupton Hoge of Manhattan, was the flower girl. Mr. James A.

Jones of Springfield, acted as best man for the bridegroom and there were eight ushers, the Messrs. John R. Moulton of Boston, George A. Washington, Robert Hall Elwell, and William Penn Nixon, all of Manhattan, Charles Ridgely of Boston, Louis Manierre of Chicago, Nicholas Roberts of Montclair, N. and Robert R.

Howard of Llewellyn Park, N. J. Miss Black made a very lovely bride in her wedding gown of white satin and old lace which had been worn by her mother and grandmother at their weddings. It was fashioned with a court train depending from the shoulders. Her veil was of tulle and she carried a bouquet of white roses and lilies of the valley.

The matron of honor was in pink and carried a bouquet of cornflowers and the bridesmaids were in blue and carried pink roses. The bride served as a Red Cross nurse in Manhattan hospitals during the war. She was graduated from Miss Masters' School at Dobbs Ferry. Mr. Jones was in the Naval Aid Service during the war and is a graduate of Yale and of Columbia Law School.

Islip Horse Show July 4th The Islip Polo Club has selected the Fourth of July for its annual horse show, the ninth in the series, at Oakwood Park, between Islip and Bay Shore, L. I. There will be 20 classes, for which the prizes will be ribbons awarded to the first, second, third and fourth in each class, except in the three championship classes, for which the prizes will be cups. Entries closed last Saturday with the secretary, Mr. W.

S. Blitz, 35 Nassau Street, New York. The committee in charge consists of Mr. Edward C. Blum, chairman; the Messrs.

Jay F. Carlisle, Juan M. Ceballos, William K. Dick, George A. Ellis, Horace Havemeyer, Charles F.

Hubbs, Bradish G. Johnson, Harry T. Peters and Allan Pinkerton. The Huntington Horse Show Brooklyn exhibitors were very much in evidence among the ribbon winners at the exhibition of the Huntington (L. Horse Show Association last week.

The winning of second place to Mr. George Crouch's Copper King in the heavyweight saddle class by Mr. Charles F. Hubbs' -Dare was one of the big surprises of the meeting, as the horse beat out such blue ribbon winners at The Bat, and Mr. Dean Bedford's Rappahannock and Toronto King, though shown for the first time under a side saddle.

Mrs. George Anderson, daughter of the owner, rode him. At the Brooklyn horse show Take-a-Dare was beaten out in a similar class by both Copper King and Toronto King. Miss Regina Patterson Kiely's Evening Star took the blue in a class for saddle horses over 142 and under 15.2 hands, with Miss Janet MacKay's Cherokee Princess second. Mr.

Franklin B. Jourdan's black mare Little Ruth won in the runabout class, with Mr. Frederick D. MacKay's Checkmate second. Mr.

Dean Bed- ford's Mike was awarded second in a class for single farm horses, while Mr. MacKay's Jingo was placed third in the same event. Miss Lida L. Fleitmann rode her chestnut mare Palmetto to victory in the middleweight hunter class. In the class for saddle horses over 14.2 hands, owners to ride, Miss Janet MacKay's Cherokee Princess came to the fore, and Mrs.

James A. Hewlett's Spinning Jinny won second place in the pony jumping class which called for children riders. Though she cannot be included among Brooklyn exhibitors, Miss Corinne Poth's clean sweep in the other pony classes is noteworthy. Miss Poth is only eleven years old, yet has captured 134 blue ribbons with her collection of ponies, all of whom are named Bounce, Ginger and Never Bounce constituting her strong suit. Miss Violet Mars Entertains at Huntington Among the many dinner parties held at the Huntington Bay Club after the Horse Show last week was that of Miss Violet Mars, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew H. Mars of 37 Montgomery Place and Huntington. The guests were the Misses Dorothy and Gladys Renouard, the Messrs. Robert MacCallum, Howard Sammis, Donald Hopecraft and Reginald Webster.

Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Phillips Entertain at Greenwich Mr.

and Mrs. Edgar J. Phillips of Brooklyn entertained at their summer Home, "West Wind," Belle Haven, Greenwich, on Wednesday evening, June 29th. A program of songs and dramatic readings was given by Dorothy F. Pearsall, soprano, Helen F.

Welch, reader, and Grace Harden, contralto, of Westfield, N. J. Among those present were many from this borough and Manhattan who are spending the summer at Greenwich. They included Mr. and Mrs.

Luther M. Werner, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Lee, Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick E. Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton 0.

Pate, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Ecker, Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick E. Gunnison, Mr. and Mrs. Addison G. Hanan, Mr.

and Mrs. Harry P. Bonties, Mrs. Homer A. Fuller, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles B. Rowland, Mr. and Mrs. George Slawson, Judge and Mrs.

L. R. Wifley, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wilkinson, Mr.

and Mrs. Francis K. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. William F.

Tubby, Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs.

Walter M. Bennet, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Brown, Mr.

and Mrs. George B. Hodgeman, Mr. Wilbur Wright, Mr. and Mrs.

Albert H. Wiggin, Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwin Dietz, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles W. Wadsworth, Mr. and Mrs. James G.

White, Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Quinn, Mr. and Mrs.

Nathaniel J. Gurnsey, Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Ashforth and Mr.

and Mrs. William A. Evans. Miss Frances Talbot Peterson's Wedding Announcement has been made of the marriage of Miss Frances Talbot Peterson of Manhattan to Mr. Ogden Hardenbergh Freeman.

The wedding took place at the Church of the Beloved Disciple, 67 East Eighty-ninth Street, Manhattan, Saturday, June 18th. Miss Peterson is a sister of Mr. and Mrs. William Sinclair Constant of 324 East Fifty-seventh Street, Manhattan, formerly of Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn. "Merry Whirl of 1921" at Port Chester, N.

Y. The first presentation of "The Merry Whirl of 1921" was produced and staged at the high school auditorium, Port Chester, N. Tuesday night, under the direction of Miss Lila Agnew Stewart, for the benefit of the United Hospital, Port Chester. It was repeated three successive nights. Many residents of Greenwich, Port Chester and Rye occupied boxes on either side of the auditorium the opening night.

More than 500 Port Chester and Rye men and women of society participated in the numerous songs, dances, etc. Leading residents of Greenwich, including the younger set, also took part. The Kirmess consists of a revue in three parts, preceded by a brief prologue- the Arabian Nights entertainment, the Legend of the Idol's Eye, and a Spanish Fete, or Carnival Night at the Fair. The prologue, entitled "Come to the Land of Let's Pretend," was sung by Ralph Grosvenor, impersonating Pierrot, and Mrs. Richard Carley Hunt as Pierrette.

In the court of Haroun-al-Raschid were Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank as Scheherazade, Mrs. Hunter Marston, Mrs. Edward Ver Planck, Mrs. W.

W. Peake, Mrs. Benjamin Nields, Mrs. Dunlevy Milbank and Mrs. Frederick Tanner as princesses.

Mrs. Philip Mallory had the role of Codadad, the warrior. Mrs. Hubert McDonnell was the bride and Mr. Lansing Power was the bridegroom.

The scene closed with a Chinese episode. The second act consisted of another spectacle entitled "The Idol's Eye," which deals with the fate of a dancing girl who covets the wondrous ruby eye in the forehead of the Blue God. The principals in this cast were Mrs. Hunter S. Marsden, Zuleika; Mrs.

Dyer Pearl, Mrs. Ralph Hubbard and Mrs. Lloyd Appleton, formerly of Flatbush. Among those participating in the Follies dances, Spanish dances, tambourine dances, the Tarantella and other numbers were Misses Mary Lawlor, Marjorie Cushman, Edith Gwyne, Marie Meadows, Virginia Hopper, Elizabeth Washburn, Sally Pett and Barbara Wey, Mrs. H.

Coster Steers, Miss Helen Gould, Mr. Richard Proctor, Mrs. David Cowles, Mr. William Browning, Miss Grace Hays, Messrs. George Ashforth, Oliver Redfield, Nicholas Palmer and Jack Hodgman, Mrs.

H. B. Weaver, Mrs. Tappen Fairchild, Messrs. Thomas Raynor, Ralph Levy, Harold Gregg, Kenneth Taylor, Gus F.

Brown, Ralph Grosvenor and Miss Isabel Rockefeller. Between the acts a fashion show was conducted, with gowns, hats and furs donated by well-known modistes and worn by young women of society. "The Temperamentalists" Given in Brooklyn The Neighborhood Club at 104 Clark Street, Brooklyn Heights, was the scene on Thursday evening of the premiere of Harry Wagstaff Gribble's new 3-act satirical comedy, "The Temperamentalists," which was played before an interesting audience composed of playwrights, actors and actresses, producers and many persons of prominence. The cast for the comedy which was played by a Broadway company was as follows: Mrs. Janet Rodney, Nannie Griffen; Ethel, a housemaid, Bertha Kent; Edgar Fuller, an adventurer, Fairfax Burgher; Geof: frey Wareham, an elocutionist, Alexander Onslow; Oliver, a manservant, C.

Haviland Chappell; Janet Rodney, an elocutionist, Adrienne Morrison; Claudia Kitts, an adventuress, Norma Mitchell; Mrs. Gallop, a cook, Nellie Griffen, and Bernard Brown, a husband, Frank Dekum. The stage decoration was by Watson Barratt and the incidental music was arranged by Mary Thornton McDermott. Among the guests were: Elsie Ferguson, Blanche Bates, Daniel Hanna, Lee Schubert, Al Lewis, John Murray Anderson, Guthrie McClintock, John McMullin, Mrs. George Arliss, Georgette Le Blanc, Mrs.

M. Lawrence Keen, Mrs. De Forest Danielson. John Roche, Nast, Newell Vanderhoef, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson, Northcliffe Yvonne de Treville, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moss and Kendall K. Muzzey. Miss Edna S.

Davison to Be Married in July The marriage of Miss Edna Suydam Davison, daughter of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. William L. Davison of 62 Montague Street, and Mr.

Howard Osterhout of Freeport, L. will take place Monday evening, July 18th, in Grace M. E. Church, Brooklyn. Miss Davison is a graduate of Adelphi College and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Mr. Osterhout is an attorneyat-law with offices in Manhattan and Mineola. He is a graduate of Columbia University and served as a captain in the American Expeditionary Force. The Bowerman-Frost Wedding The wedding of Miss Esther Holloway Frost, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Halstead Holloway Frost of 718 St. Mark's Avenue, and Mr. Herbert Bowerman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F.

Bowerman of the Hotel Bossert, took place Thursday noon, June 23rd, at St. Bartholomew's P. E. Church, the Rev. Dr.

Frank M. Townley officiating and assisted by the Rev. Alvin P. Knell. The bride, who was unattended, wore white satin and georgette, with a veil of tulle and carried lilies of the valley and gardenias.

Mr. Charles Edey Fay of Stamford, acted as best man for the bridegroom and Mr. Charles L. Frost and Mr. R.

Lexow ushered. Miss Frost was graduated from Miss Round's School. Among those present at the ceremony were Mr. Halstead H. Frost, Mrs.

Charles Downing, Miss Grace Downing, Mr. George S. Downing, Mr. and Mrs. Halstead H.

Frost, Miss Clara Frost, Miss Emma Bowerman, Mrs. Thomas Lonergan, the Rev. and Mrs. Alvin P. Knell, Mr.

and Mrs. Allan Lexow, Mr. and Mrs. George Kirsten, Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth Lydecker, Dr. and Mrs. Willis R. McCroskery, Miss Caroline Florence Lexow, Mr. and Mrs.

Bradley, Miss Alice Bradley, Mr. George Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edey Fay and Dr. and Mrs.

E. Rodney Fiske. Mr. Harry P. Barrand to Marry Miss Drayton Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Helen Louise Drayton, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Dameul Drayton of Jersey City, to Mr. Harry P. Barrand, vice-president of the National Bank of Commerce. Mr.

Barrand is the son of Mrs. J. L. Barrand of 90 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn. The wedding will take place on July 9 in Grace Church, and a reception will follow at the Vanderbilt Hotel..

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