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Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 9

Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 9

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BROOKLYN LIFE Latimer, Lucille Hoyns, Irma Berrian, Vivien Johnson, Elizabeth Kerr, Marjory Amos, Winifred Scarborough, Helen Galloway, Helen Hendrickson, Dorothy Copeland, Mrs. Harold Bick. Miss Alice Rose. Mrs. Harry Fabre, Mrs.

Robert Rome, Mrs. Bryant Gilmour (Margaret Scarborough), Mrs. Robert Cunningham, Mrs. Samuel Greason, Mrs. Robert Chumasero, Miss Gwendolyn Dangerfield, Miss Gladys Irvine and Miss Louise Buchanan, of Manhattan; Miss Marjory Nicol, Miss Helen Muir, Miss Caroline Morse and Miss Rachael Magranth, all of Summit, N.

Miss Josephine Layng, of Short Hills, N. Mrs. Robert Collin, of East Orange, N. Mrs. Clyde Waterman, Mrs.

Paul Waentig, Mrs. Charles Spierer and Mrs. Julio Sorzano. Mr. Lester M.

Lehrenkrauss Engaged Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Boynton, of Ithaca, N. announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Beatrice Boynton, to Mr.

Lester M. Lehrenkrauss, son of Julius Lehrenkrauss, of Brooklyn and Huntington Bay, L. I. Miss Boynton is a graduate of the Ithaca High School and completed her education at Russell Sage College, spending the summer in Europe. She is the daughter of Dr.

Frank D. Boynton, author, lecturer and director of several prominent educational institutions. Mr. Lehrenkrauss is a graduate of the Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School and of Colgate University, Class of 1924, a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and junior member of the Huntington Bay and Huntington Yacht Clubs. He is at present connected with the firm of J.

Lehrenkrauss Sons, bankers, Brooklyn. More About the Orphan Asylum Fair The ninety-first anniversary of the founding of the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of Brooklyn promises to equal if not surpass all previous efforts. The card party, always a leading feature, has many additional subscribers, Mrs. August Dreyer, Mrs. Annie D.

Wuster, Mrs. Edwin P. Maynard, Mrs. Alexander Campbell, Mrs. Isaac E.

Chapman, Mrs. Stephen H. Payne, Mrs. De Witt Mason, Mrs. Joseph, Greason, Mrs.

J. Adolph Mollenhauer, Mrs. Elliott Eldridge, Mrs. Frederic! J. Parsons, Mrs.

John Perry, Mrs. Frank Bailey, Mrs. Willard N. Baylis, Mrs. Charles O.

Donohue, Mrs. Walter Hammitt and others. The very attractive room in the Masonic Temple is being decorated in autumnal colors and made ready for the afternoon of November 13th, which is to usher in the three days of fair and festival. Noted actors and actresses of both legitimate and screen fame will lend their presence for the support of this worthy charity. A delicious turkey dinner will be served each evening and many dinner parties are already planned.

These are only a few of the activities arranged by the chairman, Mrs. Walter M. Meserole, for comfort and convenience. Dinner Parties Precede Opera A number of dinner parties were given before the opera on Tuesday evening, the hostesses, being Mrs. John E.

Leech, in honor of her box party; additional guests were Dr. and Mrs. Howard French and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W.

Francis. Mrs. Winthrop M. Tuttle's dinner guests were Mr. and Mrs.

George S. Frank, Miss Haxtun, Mr. and Mrs. William Howard Good and Mr. Tuttle.

Mrs. Thomas L. Leeming and her dinner guests later occupied Box No. 1 at the Academy. Seen at the Opera At the opening night of the opera last Tuesday at the Academy of Music Mrs.

John E. Leech was hostess in the Woman's Committee box, her guests being Mr. and Mrs. W. A.

Putnam, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Draper, Mrs. Robinson Leech and Mr.

John Monroe. With Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Leeming were Mr.

and Mrs. John D. Lohman, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F.

Magner, Miss Helen Schuyler Leeming and Mr. Leonard Leeming. Dr. and Mrs. Edwin F.

Lindridge brought Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Hollaman, Dr. and Mrs.

Charles Carroll Albertson, Miss Albertson and Miss Louise Little. In box 2 were Mrs. Orvis King Eldredge, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour K.

Fuller, Mrs. William C. Greenwood, Mrs. Frederick D. MacKay, Miss Janet MacKay and Mr.

Ashton Eldredge. Mrs. Philip Koempel and Mr. Walter Koempel were guests of Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. Schoefer. Admiral Plunkett and guests occupied the Navy box. In the audience were Mrs.

James L. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cary, Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Lyman, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kerr, Mr.

and Mrs. William P. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. J.

Monroe Hewlett, Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Freshman, Mr. and Mrs.

William H. Good, Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Davenport, Mr.

and Mrs. George S. Frank, Mr. and Mrs. W.

W. Walsh, 9 Paffard, Olive Clark, Teddy Love, Grace Jonas, Blair Williams, Louise Raynor, Eleanor Eastman, Alice Recknagel, Elizabeth Drisler, Mary Thayer, Polly Nelson, Edith Warren, Jean Hamlin, Gladys Van Gorden, Phoebe Cornell, Marjorie Dalberg, Edith Pilcher, Anne Hegeman, Harriet Westervelt, Doris McEntee, Ruth Hart, Betty French, Marcia Rogers, Louise Betts and Maude McGrann. Assisting Mrs. Fairservis in entertaining the young ladies were Mrs. Frank C.

Vincent, Mrs. Forrest Raynor, of Montclair, N. and Mrs. Rebecca Hooper Eastman. Stevenson -Groves Marriage An unusually pretty wedding was that of Miss Pauline M.

Groves, the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. George C. Groves, to Mr. John Humphrey Stevenson, son of Mrs.

E. W. Stevenson, of 88 Decatur Street, which took place last Saturday afternoon at Christ Chapel, of which the bride's father is vicar. The bride looked very lovely in a bouffant gown of white satin, her court train falling from the lace yoke of the gown. Her veil was of tulle, held in place with a band of point lace, and she carried white roses.

The maid of honor was Miss Laura Tiffany Groves, the bride's sister, and the bridesmaids were Miss Adelene Patterson, of Manhattan and Mobile, Miss Marjorie Signer, of Bronxville, N. Y. and Miss Florence Rogers, of Brooklyn. They wore exquisite gowns of gold tissue and brown with brown hats, and carried autumn leaves and flowers. Mr.

Stevenson had his. brother, Mr. Bruce Stevenson, as best man. The ushers were the Messrs. Lionel Stevenson, of Manhattan; Edgar Allen Innis, of Philadelphia; Merton P.

Quinn, of Manhattan, and R. Shelton Virden, of Port Washington, L. I. The chancel of the church was decorated with autumn leaves and palms. The bride's father performed the ceremony, assisted by the Rev.

Robert Rogers, of the Church of the Good Shepherd, an uncle of the bride. Another uncle, Mr. Charles C. Fisher, of 15 Hawthorne Street, gave her away. The ceremony was followed by a reception for the families of the bride and groom and a few intimate friends at the home of the bride's parents, 584 Sixteenth Street.

Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson will make their home in Philadelphia. Miss Marjorie Allin Married Another lovely wedding of last Saturday was that of Miss Marjorie Gaskell Allin to Mr. Laurence Dunning McGonigal, which took place in the evening at the Presbyterian Church of White Plains, N.

Y. The color scheme was blue and shades of yellow and orange, and blue musk, orange chrysanthemums and maize-colored flowers were used to carry out the effect, which was enhanced by the attendants' dresses. The two maids of honor, the Misses Ruth and Elinor Allin, twin sisters of the bride, were gowned in maize georgette, and the bridesmaids, Mrs. William Wirt Wickes, Mrs. Charles Dietrich, Mrs.

Alfred Everson and Miss Elizabeth McGonigal, wore old blue over lavender. The bride's gown of white beaded crepe was veiled by old rose point lace, a family heirloom. Her bouquet was of white orchids and lilies of the valley. Mr. McGonigal had as his best man his brother, Mr.

Richard McGonigal, and the ushers were the Messrs. Charles W. Dietrich, Arthur Schnell, Allan Craig, William Wickes and Alfred Newman, of Boston. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Herman Weber, assisted by the Rev.

Samuel K. Piercy. A reception at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Litchfield Allin, 124 North Broadway, followed.

Mr. and Mrs. Allin made their home in Brooklyn until recently, and a large number of Brooklyn people were present at the wedding and reception. Miss Scarborough's Engagement Announced Mrs. William Austin Scarborough announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Ann Beatrice Scarborough, to Mr.

Griswold Wolcott Roche, at a bridge and reception hel4 at her home, 51 St. John's Place, on Saturday, November 1st. Miss Scarborough is very active in settlement work and a member of the Mundell Choral Club. Mr. Roche is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles William Roche, of Short Hills, N. I. and a member of the Class of 1921 at Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University. At the reception, Miss Scarborough's gown was of orchid satin, and she wore a corsage of orchids and lilies of the valley.

The house was decorated with autumn leaves and roses. Among the guests were the Misses Violet Mars, Barbara Dixon, Doris Bergen, Consuelo Belman, Ruth Lohman, Tertia Holm, Gretchen Miss Sanger, the Misses Grantham, Miss Halstead, Mrs John Walton, Mrs. Cornelius Zabriskie. Mr. and Mrs.

Adrian Van Sinderen, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Pratt, Miss Agnes Thompson, Mr. Frank Frost, Miss Elizabeth B. Thayer, Mr.

Thornton Thayer, Miss Winifred Ward, Mr. Kenneth Ward, Miss Elizabeth Hollister Fish, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Anderson, Miss Agnes Bigelow, Mr.

W. Rice Brewster, Miss Dora Potts, Mr. David Potts, Miss Emma MacDonald, Mr. Willis McDonald, 3rd, Miss Cornelia Livingston, Mr. Rowland Field, Miss Lisbeth Higgins, Miss Elizabeth Beardsley, Miss Ruth Lohman, Miss Doris Goodwin: Miss Eileen Cantwell, Mr.

H. Edward Dreier, Miss Antoinette Dreier, Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Buck, Mrs. Truman Smith and Mr.

Charles Holt. Mrs. Josiah C. Low, Mr. and Mrs.

Winthrop M. Tuttle, Miss Mabel Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest P. Goodrich, Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Sniffen, Miss Alice Brinsmade, Mrs. Otto Swan Carroll, Miss Mary Campbell, Mr. Walter Stafford, Mrs. Walter Shaw Brewster, Mrs.

Edwin Carrington Ward, Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs. James Lefferts, Mrs. Ira Downs, Mr. and Mrs.

Henry A. Ingraham, Mrs. Charles A. Boody, Mrs. Alvin Boody, Mr.

and Mrs. B. Herbert Smith, Mrs. Henry Noyes, Mr. and Mrs.

Oliver G. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. F. A.

M. Burrell. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton L.

Rossiter, Dr. and Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler, Dr. and Mrs.

William H. Price, Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Poucher, Mr.

and Mrs. Raymond Ingersoll, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Greve, Miss Kate Barnum, Mr.

and Mrs. ichard Young, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Potts, Mrs.

Edwin L. Garvin, Mr. F. W. Crane, Mrs.

Charles R. Buckley, Mrs. John D. Buckley, Miss Isabel Ide, Mrs. Edward P.

Morse, Mrs. Charles M. Bull, Miss Alice L. Morse, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert E. Henry, Mr. and Mrs. C. Lynde Babcock, Mr.

and Mrs. Neilson Olcott, Miss Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Harris M. Crist, Mrs.

George Hunt Prentiss, Mrs. Dudley Dakin Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parsons, Mrs. Walter Gibb, Mrs.

James Guthrie Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Horatio M. Adams, Mrs. Nelson G.

Carman, Mrs. John Van Buren Thayer, Mrs. Edward E. Read, the Misses Read, Mrs. Eugene A.

Widmann, Mrs. John Claflin Thayer, Miss Margaret Thayer, Mrs. S. Edwin Buchanan and Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Hazard. Dance at Shore Road Academy On the evening of Saturday, November 1st, Shore Road Academy was the scene of a Hallowe'en dance given by the girls of the Senior School. The house was beautifully decorated in appropriate Hallowe'en colors, witches, black cats, skeletons and golden pumpkins being much in evidence. Everyone voted the evening a huge success. The committee in charge of the dance consisted of Miss Marion Butler, chairman; Miss Margaret Cridlin, Miss Ruth Butler, Miss Charlotte Abramson, Miss Miss Marion Munson and Misses Edna and Jean Van Marion Fergueson, Misses Virginia and Leone Michel, Cleef.

The chaperones were Miss Helen E. Redding, Miss Theodora Goldsmith, Mrs. Margaret Butler and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Van Cleef.

Among those present were Misses Doris Brooke, Anne Ward, Dorothy Jackson, Elizabeth Greve, Betty Duffey, Betty Beardsley, Gladys Ivie, Alice Parke. Kitty Walkley, Muriel Sedden, Eleanor Hill, Frances Marshall, Kathleen Clegg, Margaret MacKay, Jean Clegg, Vera Jackson, and Messrs. Melville Block, Allen Porter, Sherman Gue, Randolph Norwood, Northrup Geer, Arthur Preece. Edward McCarty, Gus Froeb, Delano Wood, Bill Hanna, William Robinson, Cornelius Fergueson, Robert Warren, Wesley Schmitt, Donald Snell, Jack Cornwell, Peter Warbasse, William McKee, Adrian Hartman, Joseph Hartman and Allen Biddle. Card Party of The Chaminade The Social Service Committee of The Chaminade, of which Mrs.

William Dunbar is chairman, will begin the philanthropic work of the Club with a card party on Tuesday afternoon, November 18th, at the Pouch Mansion. The Chaminade is maintaining two scholarships for a blind girl in the Brooklyn Music School Settlement. The Social Service Committee provides musical entertainment during the winter for inmates of the Industrial Home for the Blind and contributes to the following organizations: Brooklyn Children's. Aid Society, Faith Home for Incurables, and the Week for the Blind. Mrs.

Dunbar has on her Committee Mrs. William A. Bell, Mrs. M. LeComte, Miss Grace Stanley, Mrs.

Egbert Guernsey Brown, Mrs. William Buchanan, Mrs. Alexander Fleming, Mrs. Charity Foster, Mrs. A.

R. Fullerton, Miss T. E. Haley, Mrs. C.

Frederick Kalkhoff, Mrs. A. Myhr, Mrs. Herbert Peake, Miss Ethel Shadbolt and Mrs. F.

H. Stillman..

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