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The Week in Society. Anne Allen Ward Engaged. mon, Mr. James Ethridge, Mr. Edgar Arnold, Mr.

and Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Allen Ward announce the engage- Mrs. Edward T. Bedford, 2d, Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Graham, ment of their daughter, Miss Anne Allen Ward, to Mr. James Dr. and Mrs. Constantine Maguire, Mr.

and Mrs. Dana BurWaring McCoy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. McCoy of net, Mr.

Stephen V. Hopkins, Mr. Franklin Birdsall, Mr. South Orange, N.J. Miss Ward has been actively identified Walcott Meserole, Mr.

Guy McCorkle, Mr. Arthur Lafrents, with the younger set in society both here and at Westhampton, Mr. Guy Mallett and Mr. Frederick Crego. L.I., where the Wards have a summer home.

Edith A. The of Miss La Vie. The Engagement of Mr. J. Lewis Luckenbach.

Invitations have been issued for a reception and dance to Mr. and Mrs. John Alexander McGregor of San Francisco, be given on Monday evening, the third of January, at nine have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss o'clock, at the Hotel Plaza by Mr. and Mrs. George Andrew Katie-bel McGregor, to Mr.

J. Lewis Luckenbach, son of La Vie of 24 West Eighty-eighth Street, Manhattan, for Mrs. Edward Luckenbach of 26 Montgomery Place. Miss their daughter, Miss Edith A. La Vie, and their McGregor was graduated from Vassar in 1912 and Mr.

Luck- son, Mr. Richard E. La Vie. enbach is a Princeton man, member of the class of 1906. The wedding is to take place the first of the year.

Mrs. Henri A. L. Hoguet "At Mrs. Henri A.

L. Hoguet of 143 Willow Street resumed Mrs. W. Edwin Niece Engaged. her Monday afternoons at home last week and was assisted Mr.

and. Mrs. Samuel B. Van Dusen of Philadelphia an- in receiving by Mrs. Charles Rowe of England.

Mrs. Hoguet nounce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Helen Carlisle will be at home Monday afternoons until May. Van Dusen, to Mr. Arthur Norton Goodfellow of Detroit, Mich. Miss Van Dusen is a niece of Mrs.

W. Edwin Thorp Miss Madeleine Valentine Hallock Receiving Party. of Clinton Avenue and of Miss J. Helen Carlisle. When Mrs.

John Headden Hallock introduces her daughter, Miss Madeleine Valentine Hallock, on Monday of next Miss Evelina Porter Gleaves a week at a reception to be given at her residence, 188 HanRear -admiral and Mrs. Gleaves have sent out cards for cock Street, between the hours of four and seven, she will be the reception of their daughter, Miss Evelina Porter assisted by Mrs. Arthur Turner Soule (Juliet M. Kalley), Gleaves, to be held on Friday of next week, December twen- Miss Beatrice S. Kalley, Miss Olive Stine, Miss Helen Culty-fourth, at their home in Washington, D.C.

Rear-admiral ver Kerr, Miss Elizabeth G. Haight, Miss Louise Phillips Gleaves was formerly commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Freeman, Miss Frances Bedford, Miss Theda Kenyon, Miss Yard. Miss Evelina Gleaves is a younger sister of Mrs. Ethel Ecker and Miss Agnes de Selding. The recepThomas Earle Van Metre (Anne Heap Gleaves) and at- tion is to be followed by a progressive dinner-dance for the tended her as maid of honor at her brilliant naval wedding receiving party and a few additional guests.

On Wednesday in Washington last June. Admiral Gleaves has been trans- afternoon, when Miss Theda Kenyon gave an informal tea ferred to the Navy Department in Washington, D.C., and at her residence, 1241 Dean Street, for the members of Miss they have taken a house on Ontario Road, planning to spend Hallock's receiving party only, she was becomingly gowned the winter there. Miss Gleaves, following her own in pale blue and white, while Miss Hallock, the guest of reception next week, will be in Brooklyn the week following honor, wore a gown of gray chiffon. Yellow chrysantheto receive with Miss Louise Phillips Freeman, daughter of mums and Lady Hillington roses were used in decoration Mr. and Mrs.

W. Winans Freeman, who will be introduced and the table appointments were in yellow. on New Year's Day at a reception at the Brooklyn Woman's Club, 114 Pierrepont Street. Holiday House Dance. Miss Edna Neuman McNeill will give a Holiday House Friendly Committee's Afternoon Bridge.

Dance for twenty couples at her home, 65 St. John's Mrs. Frank Melville, at her home, 6 Montague Terrace, on Wednesday evening of next week. will be hostess for the afternoon bridge of Friendly Committee to be held on Thursday, January twenty-seventh. The of Miss Helen Culver Kerr.

Miss Helen Culver Kerr, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Miss Alice I. Dance for Miss Carola T. Warburg.

Miss Alice Isabel Blum gave a dance on Wednesday evening at the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Charles Blum, 45 Plaza Street, for Miss Carola T. Warburg of Manhattan. The engagement of Miss Warburg, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Felix M. Warburg of 1109 Fifth Avenue, to Mr. Walter Nathan Rothschild of this borough was announced at Thanksgiving time. Mr.

Rothschild, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Frank Rothschild of 25 Montgomery Place, is a cousin of Miss Blum. On Wednesday evening the beautiful residence of the Blums was elaborately decorated with Killarney roses and greens. Mrs.

Blum received the guests in a becoming gown of mustard chiffon trimmed with amber beads and her daughter was an attractive hostess gowned in pale blue velvet trimmed with white fox fur. Among the guests were Miss Dorothy Luckenbach, Miss Jessie Hopkins, Miss Ruth Callender, Miss Althea Gibb, Miss Jean Murray, Miss Louise Ruxton, Miss Helen Hinman, Miss Helen Kene, Miss Mary Sanger, Miss Mary Caroline Pratt, Miss Zorka Polak, Miss Catharine Mumford, Miss Clara B. Murdock, Miss Alice Moss, Miss Cecelia Brewster, Miss Lois Minton, Miss Dorothy Elliott, Miss Ruth Blackford, Miss Delia S. Bowen, Miss Marie Dorsey, Miss Anne Ward, Miss Ruth Dunning, Miss Bertha Shults, Miss Ruth Jenks, Miss Grace Frank, Mis Emilie Werlemann, Miss Helen Thorne, Mr. and Mrs.

Clifford Dunning, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Rich W.

Hollaman, Mr. and Mrs. A. Wallace Chauncey, Mr. Chester U.

Palmer, Mr. Vance Lauderdale, Mr. Chester Van Tassel, Mr. Randolph Catlin, Mr. Radford English, Mr.

Caryl Sayre, Mr. Warren Murdock, Mr. Howard Major, Mr. Bache Brown, Mr. Dunbar Adams, Mr.

Greenman Canda, Mr. Vincent Armstrong, Mr. August M. Sartorius, Mr. Herman U.

Sartorius, Mr. Charles M. Bull, Mr. Seneca D. Eldredge, Mr.

Norman Toerge, Mr. David Moffat, Mr. Newell Van Derhoef, Mr. Auguste J. Cordier, Mr.

Kenneth Hull, Mr. Walter N. Rothschild, Mr. Ruel Ross Appleton, Mr. Selah Hiscox, Mr.

Horatio King Gray, Mr. Howard Smithers, Mr. Charles T. Greenwood, Mr. Harold Forman, Mr.

Purser E. Adams, Mr. Amos Morrill, Mr. Theodore Crisp, Mr. Paul Bonner, Mr.

Le Roy Martin, Mr. Clyde Martin, Mr. Gardner White, Mr. Keith Mc Vaugh, Mr. Knox Hardon, Mr.

Roger Whittlesey, Mr. Gordon L. Schenck, Mr. Charles Newton Schenck, Mr. Henri Werlemann, Mr.

Mervin Wilson, Mr. Hamilton Sal- John Clapperton Kerr and granddaughter of the late Andrew R. Culver, made her on Saturday of last week at a reception given by her mother at her residence, 135 Central Park West, between the hours of four and seven. The who is a very attractive brunette, wore cloth of silver veiled with tulle, and her mother, Mrs. John Clapperton Kerr, wore a gown of lavender velvet combined with tulle.

Mrs. James Lancaster Morgan received with the hostess and her daughter and the young girls who assisted were Miss Beatrice Kalley, Miss Candace Hewitt, Miss Caroline Hicks Dorsett, Miss Josephine Bedle, Miss Isabel Yeomans, Miss Eleanor Margaret Greene, Miss Jeannette Blake, Miss Geraldine Condit Hall, Miss Amy S. Jennings, Miss Mabel W. Alker, Miss Katherine Lyon, Miss Constance Gray, Miss Elizabeth Haight, Miss Charlotte Edwards Hibbard, Miss Mary Osborne Polak, Miss Madelaine Hallock, Miss Lois Grace Smith, Miss Shelby Johnson of Baltimore. Miss Jean Forrest of Chicago, Miss Frances Philips and Miss Kathleen Moses of Washington, D.C.

Presiding at the tea tables were Mrs. A. Hatfield, Mrs. Glentworth Reeve Butler, Mrs. Omri Ford Hibbard, Miss Emily Rushmore and Mrs.

Walter Charles Bettinson (Grace Lothian Kerr). Orchids in slender vases were used as table decorations at the dinner following the reception, when the her receiving party and twenty young men were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Kerr for dinner and the theater. The play seen was "Under Fire" at the Hudson Theater.

Mrs. Wyckoff Van Derhoef's Reception. On Saturday afternoon of last week, at her residence, 109 Joralemon Street, Mrs. Wyckoff Van Derhoef gave a reception in honor of Miss Louise P. Fiske, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick B. Fiske of 71 Willow Street. Miss Fiske's engagement was recently announced to Mr. Marshall Van Derhoef, eldest son of Mrs.

Wyckoff Van Derhoef and brother of Mr. Newell Van Derhoef. The reception was small and quite informal, the cards being limited to intimate friends of Miss Fiske and Mr. Van Derhoef. The decorations were an attractive combination of red poinsettias and Richmond roses with holly and pine boughs.

Mrs. Frederick B. Fiske, mother of the guest of honor; Miss Althea Gibb, Miss Ruth Callender, Miss Alice Moss and Mrs. Rich W. Hollaman (Janet Buchanan) assisted Mrs.

Van Derhoef and Miss Fiske..