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BROOKLYN LIFE May, Mr. Byron May, Mrs. Frederick De Mund MacKay, Miss Janet MacKay, Mr. Charles Dudley Holt, Miss Elizabeth Rhoades, Mr. John K.

Birch, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Pomeroy, Miss Leslie Pomeroy, Mr. and Mrs.

William P. Earle, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Ward Earle, Dr. and Mrs.

O. Paul Humpstone, Mr. John Humpstone, Mrs. Maxwell Lester, Mrs. Charles M.

Higgins, Miss Lisbeth Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Snedeker, Mr. and Mrs.

William V. A. Hester, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Blossom, Mrs.

Frederic B. Pratt, Miss Page Schwarzwaelder, Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Tuttle, Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Day Tuttle, Miss Doris Bergen, Mr. Norman Anderson, Miss Hazel Ridley, Mr. De Hart Bergen, Mrs. Townsend Scudder, Miss Cornelia Henshaw, Mr. H.

Edward Dreier, Miss Regina Kiely, Mr. Chandlee Turner, Miss Jean Gray Sherman, Mr. Arnold Watson Sherman, Miss Katherine Magner, Miss Violet Mars, Mr. John W. Drye, Mr.

Arthur Ericsson, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bromley, Mr. John W. Raymond, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles L. Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. William H.

Good, Mr. Campbell Good, Mrs. Thomas Beardsley, Mr. Henry Holt, Mrs. Albert H.

Mathews, Mr. Henderson Mathews, Miss Katherine Burnham, Burnham, Dr. E. Howard Babcock, Mr. Robert B.

Magnus, Mrs. George H. Bennett, Mrs. T. W.

Reynolds, Mrs. Lewis Gibb and Mrs. Charles J. McDermott. Count Sparre Entertained in Brooklyn Count Louis Sparre of Stockholm, president of the Graphic Arts Society of Sweden, who was one of the passengers arriving in New York by the Olympic last week and who is perhaps the most noted of contemporary Swedish portrait painters, was the guest of honor at a tea given by Mr.

William H. Fox, director of the Brooklyn Art Museum, and Mrs. Fox at their apartment, 146 Henry Street. Count Sparre has painted portraits of all the members of the Swedish royal family and among the other distinguished persons whose portraits he has painted is his brother-in-law, his wife's brother, General Mannerheim, who established the independence of Finland and is idolized by the Finns as their liberator. An opportunity will soon be afforded art lovers of this city to view a collection of paint ngs by this distinguished visitor, but it is uncertain as yet whether they will be shown in the Brooklyn Museum or in one of the galleries in Manhattan.

Cake Sale for the General Nathaniel Greene Society The General Nathaniel Greene Society of the Children of the American Revolution is composed of the older members of the Little Men and Women of '76, an organization which has for nearly thirty years been a patriotic rallying point for the children who in later years have become Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution. Recently this Society has been divided; the children under ten years of age remaining Little Men and Women as before, and those over ten forming the new society. At present the General Nathaniel Greene Society is composed of two sections: the Intermediate, under the chairmanship of Miss Alice Earle Hyde of 242 Henry Street; and the Senior, under the chairmanship of Miss Florence E. Read of 848 Carroll Street. Mrs.

Preston S. Miller is president of both the General Nathaniel Greene and Little Men and Women Societies. On Friday afternoon, February 27, from 2.30 until 6 o'clock, Miss Hyde and her committee will conduct a cake sale at the residence of Mrs. Eugene A. Widmann, 16 Remsen Street, in order to raise funds for the purchase of some furniture for the C.A.R.

room at the Lefferts Homestead in Prospect Park which is maintained by Fort Greene Chapter, D.A.R. as a museum of the Revolutionary Relics. St. Paul's Players to Present "Fourteen" St. Paul's Players, of St.

Paul's Church, Clinton and Carroll Streets, will present "Fourteen," a one-act play (whose performance by the Clark Street Players about two years ago will be recalled by many), at Memorial Hall, Schermerhorn Street and Flatbush Avenue, next Tuesday evening, February 24th. The cast is as follows: Mrs. Pringle, Miss Sally Connor; Elaine, her daughter, Miss Rosemary Connor; Dunham, the maid, Miss Miriam Hoffman. The program will also include "No, John, No." the English folk-song, sung by the Misses Florence Young and May Larsen and the Messrs. Claud Devens and Walter Hill; a dance, "The Water Nymph," by the Misses Anna and Helen Larsen; and a German folk-song and dance by the Misses Miriam Hoffman, Helen Hoffman, Thekla Bauerschmidt, Florence Young, May and Helen Larsen, Rosemary and Sally Connor and the Messrs.

Walter Hill, Claud Devens, Algernon Schmidt and Robert Hill. Miss Jane Kerley, who so successfully dramatized Tschaikowsky's "Nutcracker Suite" and directed its presentation by the children of the Music School Settlement last spring, is coaching the play. An imcomplete list of patrons and partonesses includes Mr. William J. Berry, Mr.

and Mrs. Fred D. Yates, Mr. and Mrs. George N.

Halsey and Miss Janet Miller. Mr. Blossom and Mr. Lee Form Partnership A short time ago BROOKLYN LIFE told of the success attained by Mr. Harold Hill Blossom, landscape architect and former resident of Brooklyn Heights.

Now comes the news from Boston that Mr. Blossom has entered into partnership with Mr. Guy H. Lee of that city. Mr.

Lee is a grandson of the late Francis Lee, one of the first landscape architects in New England. Mr. Blossom is the nephew of Mrs. James Lancaster Morgan of the Hotel Bossert and of Mrs. Simeon Baldwin Chittenden, of 853 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan.

He was the winner of the Medal of Honor, given in 1923 by the Innovations at Last Informal The third and last Informal of the season was held in the ballroom of the Academy of Music last Friday evening and brought to a successful close this popular series of dances under the chairmanship of Mr. Rowland L. Field. Two important features marked this Informal, one the solo dances by Miss Lisbeth Higgins which were loudly applauded and the other the hilarious march of orchestra and dancers around the room toward the end of the evening. Miss Higgins' first number was a soft shoe dance done to "I'm a Little Jazz Bird" and was followed by a buck dance done to the strains of "Eliza." The full orchestra played in both instances.

The personnel of the evening were the Misses Miriam Smith, Elizabeth Reeve Greenwood, Janet French Mackay, Natalie A. Silsbe, Lisbeth Higgins, Doris Bergen, Katherine I. Magner, Regina Patterson Kiely, Adele Entz, Hazel V. Ridley, Agnes Callender, Elizabeth Waring Stebbins, Elizabeth Rhoades, Dorothy Waterman, Madelyn Waterman, Gretchen Cronemeyer, Carol B. Cypiot, Doris Mellon, Martha H.

Smith, Cornelia Duryea Livingston, Virginia Varick, Marguerite Wilkinson, Marjorie Dirkes, Gladys Fee, Annette Remer, Mildred Swart, Lorraine Caldwell, Katherine Burnham, Mildred H. Smith, Emma Heckler, Lilian Hale Lineberger, Mabel Hale Lineberger. Mrs. Charles M. Higgins, Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence P. Waterman, Mr. and Mrs. George H.

Gartlan, Dr. and Mrs. Philip M. Schaffner. The Messrs.

Robert Burdick, Charles Baker Hester, Tracy Higgins, Theodore Fitz Randolph, Reginald N. Webster, Richard M. Egan, Edward G. Sperry, Arthur J. Harrison, William M.

Calder, Kenneth B. Meurer, Robert W. Hanan, Henry G. Thole, John K. Birch, Dr.

George J. Schreiber, Norman C. Hilborn, De Hart Bergen, John F. Cannon, Wilson Parkhill, Louis A. Ruckgaber, Norman Anderson, Robert B.

Magnus, Roland O. Rasch, J. Halsted Brown, Raymond R. Fiero, Joseph Esquirol, H. Chandlee Turner, Arthur W.

Weeks, James McCurrach, Frank H. Hodgman, Jere V. Meserole, Rowland L. Field, William F. Koch, Frederic Gurney, J.

Rodney Gurney, Bruce S. Lachlan, John Mullins, William J. Kent, Howard Moore, Kenneth Inslee, Arthur W. Ericsson, Merritt L. Smith, William Ryalls, Leonard B.

Leeming, Henry Stokum, of Manhattan; William B. Taylor, Gardner Swentzel, Valentine Kirk Raymond, Charles Leavitt, Philip Cahill, William D. Swaney, Joseph V. Lemaire, Stuart Angus, Thomas Murphy, Philip Doblin, Gustav S. Fischer, James Cunningham, E.

Patrick Farrell, Edward Roberts, Henry B. Garnaus, Paul Bernard, James A. Dunne, Oswald Jacoby, Ira Cobleigh, John W. Drye, Robert P. Thomas, Richard Wilkins, George Nelson, George D.

Delaney, Arthur Dana, of Manhattan; Harry Mellon, Britton Joyce, Donald Montgomery, Dexter Ashley, of Manhattan; Harold Herbst, Weeber Brook, Jack Mahoney, S. Robinson Estey and J. V. Kasschau. Thirty-fifth Annual Vermont Society Dinner The thirty-fifth annual dinner of the Vermont Society was held in the Grand Ball Room of the Plaza Hotel on Monday evening, and was attended by over three hundred members and their guests.

Mr. Henry Steele Wardner, president of the Society was the toastmaster. The Hon. Franklin Swift Billings the Governor of Vermont was unable to be represented but the Hon. William Walter Husband, United States Commissioner General of Immigration was added to the list of speakers in his place.

Others at the guest table were: Nelson Henry Loomis, General Solicitor, Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, Rev. Charles Henry Wells, rector of St. Andrew's Church, Newark, N. Thomas Reed Powell, Professor of Constitutional Law, Columbia University; Hon. Hiram R.

Steele and Mr. Philip J. Ross. Letters from President Coolidge and others voicing their regret in being unable to attend, were read by the Toastmaster. Most of the speakers were of a reminiscent character, and many enjoyable stories were told of boyhood days in their beloved State of Vermont.

The dinner committee was composed of the Messrs. Philip J. Ross, chairman; Joseph A. Peck, Joseph L. Barker, Henry B.

Oatly and G. Ernest Bailey. Bridge for Miss McRoberts Mrs. Robert Eugene Kurner, of 445 East Twentysecond Street, gave a St. Valentine's bridge and shower for Miss Elizabeth McRoberts, of Bay Ridge, who recently announced her engagement to Mr.

Robert Baldwin, of Springfield, Mass. The guests included: Mrs. Arthur J. Horton, Mrs. William Cook, Mrs.

Robert Beans, Mrs. Fields Pendleton, Miss Virginia Pendleton, Miss Dorothy Crookall, Mrs. Samuel Riker, 2nd, Miss Cecille Kurner, Miss Frances McRoberts and Mrs. William Houston. Vassar Junior Prom Most of the Brooklyn girls at Vassar attended the Junior Prom which was held last Saturday in the Students' Building.

Miss Edith Crampton headed the Committee in Charge. The informals began on Friday evening and as in the past were open to all Classes although only men invited by members of the Junior class were present. At 5:30 Saturday afternoon the dance became strictly for Juniors, all the other Classes being relegated to the balcony to watch the grand march. During the intermission there was dancing in the gymnasium and just before ten the Freshmen showered their sister Class with favors and confetti. The Glee Club gave their Prom concert on Saturday morning.

Vassar undergraduates have been very busy this month attending Junior Proms at Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell and Williams. Yale holds the record with seventeen Vassar guests, Cornell had eleven, Dartmouth eight and Williams nine. Seniors and Freshmen received the most invitations. Miss Thompson Engaged Mr. and Mrs.

John H. Walton announced on Monday, February 16th, the engagement of their niece, Miss Agnes Walton Thompson, to Mr. Robinson Verrill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry M.

Verrill, of Portland, Me. Mr. Verrill was graduated from Yale with the class of '18 and from the Harvard Law School with the class of '22. During the war he served overseas in the American Field Service as a Lieutenant of Field Artillery in the Thirty-second Division. Mrs.

Herbert Howard Knox Sails Mrs. Herbert Howard Knox sailed on Tuesday on the Patria of the Fabre line for Marseilles. She will be joined there by her daughter, Miss Sylvia Knox, who has been studying in Vienna, and, later by her sons David and Samuel, who are in school in Paris. They will spend the Easter vacation in Provence. Mr.

John Knox, on his graduation from Yale in June, accompanied by his father, Mr. Herbert H. Knox, will join them for the summer, the entire family returning to this country in September. Except for her present brief visit, Mrs. Knox and children have been abroad for nearly two years.

Mr. and Mrs. Doughty to go to California Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Doughty of 289 Washington Avenue are leaving on Monday, February 23rd, for California where they will visit their son-in-law and daughter, Mr.

and Mrs. William Welch Cockins, at their home in Santa Monica. Mrs. Cockins will be remembered as the former Miss Olga Doughty. They will return early in April, remaining at their town house for a short time before going to their country home at Stonington, Conn.

Final News of "The Admiral" "The Admiral," given at the Academy Opera House on February 21st for the benefit of the Children's Museum, despite the going South of many society folk and the week-end hegira for Washington's birthday, is to be a gay and popular theatre party. The boxes are filled, Mrs. Edward C. Blum having a large party in one and Mrs. Dean C.

Osborne with guests in another. Mrs. John Anderson is also a box holder. In Mrs. William Calder's box, her daughter, Mrs.

Robert Corwin Lee, will be hostess. The Brooklyn Woman's Club (Miss Elizabeth H. Perry, president) and Chiropean (Mrs. Theodore Martin Hardy, president) have also taken boxes. Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene C. Alder will be host and hostess in one of the boxes with members of the Adelphi faculty- as a special compliment to Miss Margaret Gage. The program girls will include the Misses Janet MacKay, chairman; Alice Bennett, Isobel Buckley, Beatrice Cantwell, Elizabeth Deyer, Louise Goetze, Elizabeth Greenwood, Lisbeth Higgins, Helen Leeming, Louise Little, Cornelia Livingston, Louise Merritt, Winfred Ward and Jean Whiting..