Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 11

BROOKLYN LIFE 11 R. AND MRS. CARLETON H. PALMER have undertaken the task of the continuance of children's plays at popular prices at the Academy which, sponsored last year by the Brooklyn Heights Players, were such a tremendous success. The first will be a Christmas play, "Tom and the Tailor," a 15th Century Christmas play with old English songs, carols and customs, and will be given Saturday morning, December 24th.

The scenery and costumes have been designed by Harriet Wood of Pratt Institute while the play has been adapted from an old manuscript in the British Museum. A DELIGHTFUL Woman's INNOVATION Club in the has form been of a made buffet by supper on Saturday, December 10th, with 5 to 8. P. M. This is something SO entirely different that it will undoubtedly have a great appeal for the younger dancing set.

The hostess comnittee is composed of Miss Betty Foster Smith, chairman; Mrs. Donald R. Baylis, Miss Mary Cabaud, Miss Janet Dalzell, Mrs. Alfred H. Everson, Miss Lothian Kerr, Miss Violet Mars, Mrs.

Ross Miner, Miss Muriel E. Slocovich, Mrs. Folger Straley, while the floor committee consists of the Messrs. John Birch, Kellog Brumley, Henry E. Cabaud, Inslee Clark, Richard Egan, Vaughn Kasschau, Richard Perkins, Robert Thomas, Austin Tomes and Richard Dean Wrigley, Jr.

SURPRISING TO announcement MANY because had been made was the news of the marriage of Miss Cornelia Cousins, daughter of Mrs. Joseph B. Cousins, to Major Martin Egan, at the apartment of Mrs. Cousins at 1083 Park Avenue on Saturday afternoon. The wedding was a very small one and the ceremony was performed by the Rev.

Dr. St. Clair Hester of the Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn. Until very recently the bride and her mother lived at 215 Clinton Avenue. Dr.

William L. Cuibert, uncle of the bride, escorted her and she was given in marriage by her mother. She was gowned in blue grey velvet. Five little girls, carrying old-fashioned bouquets, held the ribbons making the aisle; they were the Misses Anne, Nancy and Jean Martin, daughters of Mr. and Mrs.

Henry C. Martin; Miss Molly Pratt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Pratt, and Miss Anne Sears. General John J.

Pershing was best man for Mr. Egan. After a wedding trip Mr. Egan and his bride will take up their residence at 277 Park Avenue. Mrs.

Egan is a member of the Brooklyn Junior League. Mr. Egan, who is a native of California, was admitted to the California tar in 1898. His career includes work for The Associated Press in New York, London, Tokio, Peking and Manila. He also was a war correspondent during the Spanish-American conflict, the Philippine insurrection and the Boxer uprising.

At one time he was editor of The Meni'a Times. He has been a member of the J. P. Morgan Company's staff since 1914. He was personal assistant to the late Henry P.

Davison in 1917, when Mr. Davison was Chairman of the American Red Cross. As a Major in the Adjutant General's Department he was appointed to the staff of General Pershing in 1918 and assumed the duties of a liaison officer, keeping General Pershing and his staff in touch with world events. Mr. Egan married at Yokohama in 1905 Eleanor Franklin, a celebrated war correspondent.

She died in this city in January, 1925. Mr. Egan's clubs are the Metropolitan, Brook, Links, Players, Country House, India House and Dutch Treat. AT their A home BRIDGE in party Chappaqua, held N. Saturday Mr.

and afternoon Mrs. John at Cox, announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Hope Cox, to John Lefferts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leffert Lefferts of 130 Lincoln Road and Bellport, L. I.

Miss Cox is a graduate of Stanford University and a member of the New York Bar. Mr. Lefferts reecived his education at Polytechnic Preparatory Institute and Rutgers College, where he was a member of the Class of 1926. He is descended from one of the oldest families of Brooklyn, and his parents are related to the Lefferts who owned the Lefferts homestead in Prospect Park. He is a member of the Zeta Psi Club in New York, and is now connected with the firm of Sutro Kimbley, investment brokers.

THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING of the Junior League of Brooklyn will be held at the residence of the Misses Emily and Louise Goetze, 60 Remsen Street, on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 7th. Mrs. May Lamberton-Becker of the Saturday Review of Liter- An interior of one of the fast dwindling number of Brooklyn Heights homes which still preserve intact the stately yet gracious atmosphere of the old The picture is from a painting by Stanislav Rembski, ature will be the speaker. Her subject is "Book Reviews." The hostesses of the day will be the Misses Mary Osborn Polak, chairman; Clelia Adams, Virginia Beguelin, Constance Boody, Dorothy Lathrop, Helen Lefferts, Louise Little, Mrs. Cameron Duncan, Mrs.

Henry, Flynt, Mrs. John Glazier, Mrs. Henry A. Hotchkiss and Mrs. Frank MacDonald.

The date for the premiere performance of the St. George Playhouse, on Pineapple Street, which is being sponsored by the Junior League, has been postponed from November 30th to December 21st, owing to delay in the construction of the building. INTEREST to the Park Slope section was the announcement at a luncheon on Saturday at the Leverich Towers of the engagement of Miss Evelyn Siney to Mr. Edwin W. Kleinert.

Miss Siney is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Siney of 607 Fifth Street and the sister of Mrs. Paul W.

Bigelow, the former Miss Stephanie Siney. She is a graduate of the Packer Collegiate Institute. Mr. Kleinert is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Albert E. Kleinert of 8603 Shore Road and a partner in the firm of Kleinert Lee, architects and engineers, of 250 Park Avenue, Manhattan. He is a graduate of Cornell University, a member of the Cornell Club, the Crescent Athletic Club, the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club and the Port Washington Yacht Club. The wedding will take place in midwinter. Among those present at the luncheon were the Misses Edna and Irene Kleinert, Ruth Knowlson, Marguerite Behman and Mrs.

Kleinert, Mrs. Siney, Mrs. Paul W. Bigelow, Mrs. Earle T.

Munkerbeck, Mrs. Harold C. Parsons, Mrs. Archibald McKeige, Mrs. William Kowenhoven, Mrs.

John S. Carlile, Mrs. Allan Doremus, Mrs. Roger M. Judd and Mrs.

Bernard L. Spence. R. AND MRS. WILLIAM D.

of 586 Fourth Street and Skaneateles, N. announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Alice Gertrude Hannah, to Lieutenant David Henry Tulley, U. S. at a dinner and bridge at their home on Friday, November 25th. Miss Hannah attended Packer Institute and is a graduate of the Knox School, Cooperstown, N.

Y. She will be graduated from Adelphi College this year. Lieutenant Tulley is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas F.

Tulley, of Denver, Colo. He was graduated from the Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1925, and for the past two years has been stationed with the Second Engineers at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He is now at Cornell University. The guests at the dinner were Dr. and Mrs.

Richard M. Carver, of Riverdale, N. Miss Alice Faul, Miss Emilita Duncan, of Englewood, N. Miss Martha Green, of Mexico, Miss Dorothy Davidson, of Hempstead, L. Miss Pamela Cunningham, of Litchfield, and Miss Adeline Miller, of Homer, N.

Y. Dr. Charles Ford Warren, Dr. Craig Wright, of Garden City, L. Lieutenant Gerald Galloway, U.S.

Lieutenant Carl Meyer, U. S. Lieutenant William Lord, and Dr. Richards W. Hannah.

The wedding will take place in June. THE DEBUTANTE BALL, un- Twenty-two girls trary to expectation Misses Betty Virginia Beguelin, Mills, Grace Griffin, Anne Seaman, Elise Granbery, Rogers, Caroline Eleanor Folger Miss Elise Granbery, of Brooklyn but one of the loveliest. flowered taffeta ing gowns included waist of shimmering year's debs, Miss beauty velvet worn of soft orchid ley; a cloth of questionably the most important dance of the year, once again has gone down in the annals of society as a triumphant occasion. Memorable for the charming and gracious young buds, for the enchanting vision of shaded lights on beautiful dresses, for the wonderful music, for the multitudinous white shirt fronts, the ball will be the main topic of conversation for a long while to come. Versatile members of the Meyer Davis Orchestra added to the gayety with various antics, one man playing two clarinets at one time, another executing a Charleston, while the dancers grouped themselves appreciatively around.

stood on the receiving line and conwere not all in white. They were: Beardsley, Virginia Gibbs, Theodora Sohst, Helen Pflug, Nancy Humpstone, Isabel Alice Hyde, Elizabeth Frothingham, Marjorie Fitch, Ann Franklin Hamilton, Mary Francis, Betty Sally Kinsey, Elizabeth Greve, Gladys Mars, and Martha Caldwell. until the past few years a resident who now lives on Park Avenue, was Miss Granbery wore a gown of on the pink shade. Other very charmblack velvet with inserts on the a white sequins worn by one of last Marguerite Wilkinson; an American by Miss Alice Hyde; a robe de style metal cloth worn by Miss Betty Beardsgold bodice combined with green vel-.