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BROOKLYN Club Meets at Mrs. Foster's Home. Prospect Club held its last study meeting of the year at the home of Mrs. Charles Foster, 40 Montgomery Place, on Tuesday, December seventeenth. The president, Mrs.

Lewis German, called the meeting to order at the usual time. Mrs. Edwin Church was chairman of the day, taking the place of Mrs. Frank Avery, who was ill. Mr.

Louis Mollenhauer with Mrs. Mollenhauer at the piano, opened the program by playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" following with violin solo, Nocturne by Chopin, and "Mazurka" by Mieniamski. A paper on "Slav Music," written by Mrs. Avery and read by Mrs. Edwin Church with sympathetic understanding, paved the way for Malgar and Gypsy music rendered by Mr.

Mollenhauer. His selections included "Cantabile" (Tschaikowsky), "Gypsy Dance" (Musin), "Broken Melody" (Van Biene), "Serenade" (Dedba), "Rosmarin" (Kreisler), "Humouresque" (Dvorak) and "Song of the Puszla" (Savassla). "Berceuse," arranged by Mollenhauer and a paper read by Mrs. G. Preuss on "Comparative Estimate of Sculpture and rounded out a well-spent afternoon.

The Sykes-Allyn Wedding Last Week Thursday. The marriage of Miss Olive Allyn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. P.

Allyn and Mr. Robert William Sykes took place on Thursday evening of last week at the home of the bride's parents, 624 Second Street, which had been attractively decorated with pink roses, southern smilax and palms. The Rev. Dr. R.

W. McLaughlin of the Park Slope Congregational Church performed the ceremony, which was preceded by the new "American Wedding March" instead of the time-honored "Lohengrin." The bride wore a wedding gown of white satin with pearl trimming and her tulle veil fell in a long train from a wreath of orange blossoms. She carried a bouquet of white roses and lilies-of-the-valley. The bride's attendants were her sister, Miss Helen Allyn, who, as maid of honor, wore a gown of turquoise blue satin with silver trimming, and Miss Lucy Maier, who wore orchid color satin. Mrs.

Allyn, the bride's mother, was gowned in old blue and gold chiffon. Mr. Harold Sykes was best man for his brother and the ushers were Mr. George Sykes and Mr. Wilfred E.

Deichmann. Following the ceremony a wedding supper was served at individual tables. The bridegroom, who is the son of Mr. Walter F. Sykes of 626 Second Street, was graduated from Erasmus in 1914, completed his education as a chemist in Zurich, Switzerland, and then served a year in the American Ambulance Service in France.

His bride is a graduate of Berkeley Institute, class of 1918. Mr. Jacob I. Bergen Marries Mrs. Janet Beresford.

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Mr. Jacob I. Bergen and Mrs. Janet Barrett Beresford, daughter of Mr. Anthon B.

Barrett, which took place very quietly on Monday of last week, December ninth, in Manhattan. Mr. Bergen is a son of the late Surrogate of that name and is one of the most prominent members of the Crescent Club, where he resided until his marriage. The Foster-Chinnock Wedding Last Monday. Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Florence Beatrice Chinnock to Mr.

Thorne Foster, Lieutenant, U. S. Army, on Monday, December sixteenth, in the chapel of Memorial Presbyterian Church, Seventh Avenue and St. Johns Place. The ceremony was performed by the bride's uncle, the Rev.

Dr. A. H. Rennie of the Rockville Center Presbyterian Church. Absence from the city, prevented Dr.

Barlow of the Memorial Church from assisting at the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Charles E. Chinnock of 157 Sixth Avenue, and of the late Charles E. Chinnock who organized the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn and was its first vice-president.

Lieutenant Foster, who is attached to the General Staff at Washington, D.C., is the son of Mrs. Victorine Combremont of 629 Elmore Place, and a brother of Lieutenant Victor Foster, now in France with the American Army. After a short leave of absence, Lieutenant and Mrs. Foster will return to Washington, D. C.

$1,000,000 Drive for Church Charity Foundation. An event that will be of deep interest to members of the Protestant Episcopal Church on Long Island will be a campaign to raise $1,000,000 in the Diocese of Long Island, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its. foundation, under the auspices of the Diocesan Anniversary Committee, beginning January 2, 1919, and, as sanctioned by the Bishop, for a thank offering to Almighty God for His blessing of a victorious peace. The fund so collected will be presented on the first day of the next convention at a special jubilee service and will be given to the Church Charity Foundation for its uses and purposes. National Opera Club Meets at the Waldorf.

The semi-annual business and open meeting of the National Opera Club of America, of which Mme. Katharine Evans von 'Klenner is founder and president, was held Thursday afternoon, December twelfth, at the Waldorf-Astoria, when important business was discussed prior to the presentation of the program. The theme of the day was presented by LIFE. 13 Professor George E. Shea, of Paris, on "Early French Opera, and opportunities were given the members to ask questions concerning the subject.

Features on the program were illustrative songs of the period under consideration, rendered by Mile. Rossi Diehl, soprano, Lucilla Brodsky and other sing. ers of note. A young American composer, Harold Morris was the sole pianist, and several notable guests were present. The annual benefit performance of grand opera is announced for January thirtieth, when Ambroise Thomas's "Mignon" is to be presented, in which Mmes.

De Vere Sapio and Bernice de Pasqual will appear. Mildred Holland will have charge of the stage and the entire production is in the hands of Mr. Romualdo Sapio. Miss Katharine Bryan Engaged to Mr. Merwin Van Brunt.

Of Brooklyn interest is the news of the engagement of Miss Katharine Hunt Bryan, daughter of Mrs. Scott Morton Bryan of Guilford, to Mr. Merwin Schenck Van Brunt of this borough. Mr. Van Brunt is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Rulef J. Van Brunt of 7721 Ridge Boulevard. Eugene Higgins Wins Prize at Brooklyn Museum. The Helen Foster Barnett prize of fifty dollars for the best etching in the third annual exhibition of the Brooklyn Society of Etchers, now being shown in the Print Galleries of the Brooklyn Museum, was awarded to Eugene Higgins for the "Forgotten Trench." Ann Goldthwaite's "Reverend Dr.

Barry" and C. Vondrous's "Town Square- -Turnov, Bohemia," received honorable mention. The jury of award consisted of Mr. Paul Dougherty and Dr. Frank Weitenkamp, chief of the art division, New York Public Library.

The Travelers. The Travelers. Lieutenant and Mrs. Walter Sands Marvin (Jean Murray) have sailed for Porto Rico, to be gone two months. Both are recuperating from influenza, which they contracted while in Washington, D.

C. Mrs. Victor Berg, mother of Mrs. Bayard Sands Litchfield, arrived in New York on the Adriatic Wednesday of last week to spend the winter in Brooklyn. At present she is staying at the Hotel Montague on Montague Street.

Miss Beatrice Sniffen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Sniffen of 42 Montgomery Place left on Friday with a party of friends for Florida. They expect to spend the greater part of their time yachting and will make their headquarters at Viking, near Palm Beach.

Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Walker and Miss Majorie Walker are leaving today, Saturday, for Hot Springs, where they will stay at The Homestead. Mr.

and Mrs. William H. Baldwin, 3rd (Cecilia Brewster), have rented their apartment at 129 Columbia Heights for the winter to Dr. and Mrs. August Sartorius (Jessie K.

Hopkins). Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin are at Key West, Florida, where they expect to remain until February. Mrs.

Herman D. Best, Mrs. Frank Best, Mrs. Harold N. Munger, and Mrs.

Jacob C. Klinck, all of Flatbush, left on Wednesday of this week for Atlantic City to stay until Sunday at the Marlborough-Blenheim. Lieutenant and Mrs. Russell Ward Earle (Evelyn Beavers) and their baby daughter are expected to arrive this week from the Hotel Chamberlain, Old Point Comfort, where they have been staying for the past year in order to be near Fortress Monroe. Lieutenant Earle enlisted in the army as a private a year ago and shortly after won his commission.

He was ready to sail for France when the armistice was signed. The Earles will stay at the Hotel Bossert for the present. Mr. Roy B. Fitz Randolph of 97 Clark Street left on Wednesday for City Point, Virginia, to spend the Christmas holidays with his mother, Mrs.

Elizabeth A. Fitz Randolph, and brothers, Mr. John Randolph and Mr. Theodore Randolph. Arrivals in Town.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Beverley Crane have closed their Bellport, L.I., cottage and are now at their city home, 353 Carlton Avenue. Mrs. Joseph Cleveland Hale has returned from Beverly, West Virginia, after an absence of ten months, to her home, 430 Clinton Street.

Changes of Residence. Mr. and Mrs. Alexis P. Darling have moved from Pacific Street to -426 Sterling Place.

Mrs. Darling's brother, Mr. E. S. Avis, has moved from the Avis home, 150 Lincoln Place, and has taken an apartment at 921 St.

Mark's Avenue. Their brother-in-law and Mr. and Mrs. George F. Pelham, who have been living in New Rochelle, are now making their home at 150 Lincoln Place, which was the childhood home of Mrs.

Pelham. Miss Avis Pelham is with her parents, but their son, Mr. George F. Pelham, is now in Paris, France..