Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 12

BROOKLYN LIFE (2 LAST the close of the Mengelberg trio of Philharmonic concerts for this season, a series -which 7 has been attended by large and enthusiastic -houses; a tribute to the wonderful work accomplished both, conductor- and orchestra. One unusually interesting feature of Sunday's audience was the presence of a large group of Japanese students, who added their- applause with obvious enjoyment and appreciation of fhe varied program. Toscanini comes to us on January 30th. Members of the Committee of Seventy-five receiving in the foyer were Mrs. Walter M.

Meserole, Mrs. Walter Truslow, Mrs. Edmund Hope Driggs and Miss Cornelia G. Henshaw. In the Philharmonic box, No.

4, were the hostess the afternoon, Burt Foss Nichols, and her guests, Mr- and' Mrs. James Meador, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, and Mrs. George P.

Kennedy and The box guests of Mr. Robert Alfred Shaw were Mrs. McEntee, Doris Murphy, Pauline Nelson, Coastance Read, Janet Ross, Lucy Sinclair, Alice May Siering, Constance Smith, Mary Thayer, Caroline Vance, Jane Van Cott, Gladys Van Gordon, Caroline Widmann, Blair Williams, Louise Zellner. The Messrs. Hector Adams, Franklin Allen, Langdon Allen, John Beers, Edwin Beery, Moffatt Beery, Thomas Bishop, Turner Blanchard, Daniel Blossom, Philip Cabaud, Peter Cowenhoven, John Davenport, William Drury, Herbert Darbee, Barclay Eakins, William Edinburgh, Morton Fitch, Robert Forshay, Fennwick Fuller, Thompson Funk, James Greason, Allen Greene, Edwin Holbrook, John James, Ramsey Jardine, Frederick Johannes, Jr.

Edgar Lane, Kenrick Leighton, Richard Leggett, Stuart McLean, Lockley McEntee, Richard McClelland, Robert McCurdy, Herbert Megan, John Megan, Howard Melish, Vischer Millar, Willis Moore, John Mudgett, Wesley Oliver, Gregory Price, William Piercy, Edward Reed, Walter Rozetti, Cornell Schenck, Donald Stephens, John Truslow, George Frull, Cornelius Van Buren, John Wadsworth, Frederick Webster, Carl Zellner, Fosdick Zabriskie, George Zabriskie. and finesse. The last movement was truly "Mit Feuer." We spoke of this to Mr. R. Huntington Woodman, who was in the audience and he" said, Why the whole program was fine.

I have been interested every minute." The program opened with Trio 4 in major by J. Haydn, then came "Moment Musicale," by Rachmaninoff, and "Le Muguet," by Arensky. Maurice Bourg, the violinist, played two solos, "Melodie," by Gluck-Kreisler, and "Sicilienne and Rigaudon," by Francoeur-Kreisler. During the intermission, Miss Cornelia Henshaw, 79 State Street, who is acting as treasurer for the, Trio, announced that she would be glad to make arrangements at any time with those who wished to engage the Paniagua Trio for concerts. It is under the auspices of the Neighborhood Club that these gifted young men have made their successful debut 'as a trio in this course of recitals.

Among those in the audience were: Mr- E. M. Lawrence Gould, Mr. Robert Alfred Shaw, Mrs. Clark Burn-ham, Miss Ruth Simonson, Mrs.

I. Sherwood Coffin, Miss Mabel M. Coutts, Miss Frances Dudley, Miss Louise Goetze, Mrs. Herman Stutzer, Mrs. Stutzer Taylor, Miss Nancy Ford, Mrs.

Frederic Kingsland Mid-dlebrook, Miss Lois File, Miss Nancy Middlebrook, Mrs. Benjamin T. Van Nostrand, Mrs. George Hunt Prentiss, Mr. Edward C.

Caswell, Mrs. John Eadie Leech, Miss Lilian Morris, Mrs. Frank Reynolds, Mrs. Tracy Voorhees, Miss Lucille Matthews, Miss Ethel Matthews, Miss Callender, Miss Dorothy Jenks of Manhattan and Mrs. Frederick Colton.

Owing to illness in his family, Mr. Stanislav Rembski was. not able to act as ticket taker and Miss Lucille Kreamer, another member of the Neighborhood Club, took his place. George Boulter ofHMontreal, Miss Boulter, Mr. and Mrs.

THE FIRST OF MARY THORNTON McDER-MOTT'S two costume recitals, "The Old and the New," which have become such a feature of Brooklyn's musical season within the last few years, will take place at The Neighborhood Club, 104 Clark Street, on Monday afternoon next at half after three o'clock. This will be "The Old" and will introduce to Brooklyn a soprano who, as far as we know, has not sung here before, Laura Williams. Miss Williams and Mrs. McDermott will give scenes and songs from the Land of the Prophets, and Miss Williams will sing in Arabic, as is indicated by the very attractive and, decorative lettering of her name in that language on the announcements. On January 24th "The New" will be given, and works of the modern Russian composers will be presented by Mrs.

McDermott and Miss Grace Farrar. Those who have already subscribed for the "afternoons" include: Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs. Edwin A. Ames, Mrs.

Edward C. Blum, Mrs. A. Wright Chapman, Miss S. Skiddy Cochran, Miss Emma B.

Lewis, Mrs. B. Meredith Langstaff, Mrs. Frederick D- MacKay, Mrs. W.

D. Meurlin, Mrs. Edward Phinley Morse, Mrs. David Manning, Mrs. Philip A.

Doherty, Mrs. George Hunt Prentiss, Mrs. Frederick W. Rowe, Mrs. Otto E.

Reimer, Mrs- Frank Reynolds, Miss KatherineARighter, Mrs. S. Perry Sturges, Mrs. David ThorntonMrs. John T.

Underwood, Mrs. Frank G. Wild. A MOST ENJOYABLE New Year's Eve dance was given by Mr. and Mrs.

George Albert Mendes at their home, 410 Clinton Avenue for their son, Mr. Leffert Bergen Mendes. The guests included the Misses Gladys L. Mars, Arline Mackay, Aara Parsons, Priscilla Paine, Florence Read, Sallie Rogers, Betty Foster Smith, Margaret Snedeker, Jane Thompson, Marguerite Wilkinson, Lucie Bedford, Katherine Du Bois, Carolyn Du Bois, Betty Duffy, Marjorie Fitch, Carolyn Garvin, Ruth Greason, Amanda Hayward, Regina Patterson Kiely, Mary Low and the Messrs. Edward G.

Bergen, John L. J. Bauer, L. Reeve Bowden, Luther, Bowden, Warren Blossom, C. Kellog Brumley, Frank Bailey, George S.

Cary, Britton W. Diller, Marshall Driggs. Albert Davis, Silas Giddings, Beniamin S. Graham, Arthur Henderson, Horace J. Kelly, Philip Langdon, Palmer J.

Lathrop, John H. Livingston, George W. Long, John MacDonald. John D. Mendes, George A.

McCurrach, Edward McCarty, Lendon Snedeker, Davis W. Smith, Arthur Spear, Francis Simmons, Harcourt C. Vernon, Edward U. Williams, Ralph S. Wood.

The floor committee was composed of the Messrs. Edward G. Bergen, Britton Diller, George W. Long and David W. Smith.

MRS. JESSICA LOZIER PAYNE has returned from visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lozier Payne, at Enfield, where they spent the Christmas holidays together. Robert J.

WickendenMiss Wickenden, Mrs. Frances K. Ballard and Nicholas Macsoud. Others present were Mr. and Mrs.

William Brand Dall, Mrs, 'Edwin Carrington Miss Louise G. Zabriskie, Judge and Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Samson L. Faison, Porter Steele, Mr.

an Mrs. Hans V. Kalt-enborn, Miss Nina Harter, Miss Huya Natfuki, Mrs. Charles H. Otis, Mrs.

James C. Cropsey, Miss Jennie Pierson, Mrs. Edwin F. Lindridge, Mrs. Alexander Bacon, Samuel Greason, Mrs.

Harris M. Crist, Mrs. George 'Dalzell, Miss Janet Dalzell, Mrs. Charles Bulkley, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles E. Potts, Miss Dorothy Potts, and Mrs. J. Sherlock Davis, Mrs. J.

Lester Keep, Mrs. William B. Greenman, Mr. William B. Green-man, Mr, Hasbrouck Wallace, Miss Mary Baldwin, Miss Elizabeth Martin, Mrs.

Henry Mark, Allan Mark, Adrian Van Sinderen, Mrs. Charles Stutzer, Mr. Louis Ruckgaber, Mrs. John Buckley, Mr. and Bruce Bromley, Frederic Ward, Miss Beatrice Cantwell, Mr.

Inslee Clark, Miss Elizabeth Deyer, Mr. Russell Harding, Miss Dorothy Jackson, Miss Virginia Gibbs, Mrs. Edwin L. Garvin, Mrs. Walter S.

Gibbs, Judge and Mrs. Frederick Crane, Miss Mabel Simpson, Miss Elsie Hepburn, Miss Elizabeth Stebbins, Mr. Waring Stebbins, Mrs. Laurens Reeve Bowden, Mr. and Mrs.

William B. Dale, Miss Adele Frank, Miss Florence Frank, Dr. and Mrs. George Hills Her, Mrs. R.

Morrison Gray, Mrs. Amelia Gray-Clarke, Mrs. John Anderson and Mrs. Edward C. Blum.

MRS; FREDERIC HENRY PRETZ of 326 East Seventeenth Street, entertained at tea for her daughters, the Misses Suzanne Clover and Constance Landon Pretz, on Sunday, January 2nd. Mrs. Charfes A. Lubrecht, Mrs. Stanley Andrews and Mrs.

H. F. Holly assisted in receiving. 1 The guests included Mr. and Mrs.

Andrew Amend, Mr. and Mrs. Jean Dammann, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Burton Hale, the Misses Elinor Addoms, Janice Morse, Elisabeth Betty Hart, Marjorie Smith, Margaret Joost, Ruth Eckland, Dorothy Sellers, Ethel Applegate, Betty Smith," Marjorie Curtin, Helen Disney, Edith Crowley, I Sidney Good, Janet Dalzell, Valmai Schmidt, Jocelyn Deverall, Harriet Malone, Jane Irving, Margaret Kunkel, Suzanne Morse, Ann Tiedeman, Grace Witzel, Olga Narvaez, Lucy Nlebrugge, Priscilla Fuller, Margaret Schlecht, Phyllis Williams, Evelyn Williams, Miry Harrison, Arliene Warnock, Harriet Simpson, Maude Garside, Tirzah Perfect, Mildred Nida, Beatrice Marjorie Finn and Edith Jacoby.

Messrs. Kenneth McCollum, Jules S. French, Rodney Heuman, 1 Eliot Vestner, Jean Gindor John Esquirol, Donald Lee, William Gregory, William Deverall, Clinton Keeler, Charles Tiedman, Howard Rowan, John Irving, Alfred McKenzie, Alfred Kennedy, Frank Wales, Harry Austin, John Regan, Adolph Schmidt, Ralph i Williams, Wilson McConnell, Harold Kneen," William Quail Morrison Pretz, Roy M. J. Edgar Roese, Reginald Boulton, Stanley Andrews," Benjamin Graham, Oswald Jacoby, Albert Davis, Richard Klinck and William Cash.

EVENING, MARCH 1st Is the date r-that has been arranged by The Paniagua Trio for their last concert in the course of six recitals they have been giving1, this winter at The Neighborhood Club, 104 Dark Street. The concert on March 1st is to take the place of the one that had to be omitted on Tuesday evening, December 28th. There are now only two concerts left, Tuesdays, January 18th, and March 1st. In writing oi the Trio's concert on last Tuesday evening, we have to hold back our enthusiasm for fear that our readers will say that it was too good to be true but certain it is that we have never heard Schumann's Trio 1 in minor, Op. 63 played with more enthusiasm MR.

AND MRS. CHARLES LEHRENKRAUSS are now making their home at 121 Whitehall Boulevard, Garden City, L. I. THE REV. AND MRS.

FRITZ W. BALDWIN and family of 381 Clinton Avenue left on Wednesday for a two weeks' stay in Bermuda. Mr. Baldwin is the pastor of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church. MR.

AND MRS. REGINALD N. WEBSTER (Audrey Silsbe) gave a small bridge party at their home, 1705 Dorchester Road on Thursday evening, December 30th. In addition to the card playing, moving pictures taken by the Websters at Bellport, L. last summer, were shown.

The guests of the evening were the Misses Natalie A. Silsbe, Delphis Bainbridge King, Violet Hardie Mars, Regina Patterson Kiely, Stephanie L. Siney, Vera Webster, Barbara Bailey and the Messrs. John K. Birch, Edward G.

Sperry, R. Inslee Clark, Richard M. Egan, William M. Calder, Finley B. Krause, Arthur W.

Ericsson and Paul Wheelock Bigelow. THE BRIDGE PARTIES at the Riding and Driving Club have given so much pleasure that a special bridge and tea has been arranged for Wednesday, January 12th, by a committee of which Miss Regina Patterson Kiely is chairman. Assisting Miss Kiely are Misses Florence Anderson, Kathryn C. Fischer, Mildred Flahive, Josephine Hurley and Dorothy Jackson. The second of four Horsemanship Competitions will be held in the Club Arena this morning, January 8th, at 11 o'clock.

As in the other competitions, the classes will be divided into girls and boys twelve years of age and under, and girls and boys over twelve years and under eighteen years of age. Mrs. Philip F. Coe will judge both competitions. THE TEA DANCE given by Mrs.

Mabel G. Betts of 161 Columbia Heights for her daughter, Miss Louise Whitney Betts, last Thursday afternoon at the Brooklyn Woman's Club, proved to be a most enjoyable affair in every way. A hundred and more young people attended; the Tennesseans played. Miss Margaret Means, Miss Edith Pilcher and Miss Lesley Olcott assisted the young hostess in receiving, and the Messrs. Cornelius Means, Frederic Tuttle, Robert Fenton, Lincoln Cornwell and Henry Sparks acted as ushers.

The guests included the Misses Virginia Alford, Michel ene Allen, Marjorie Bijou, Bertha Brown, Alice Byers, Olive Clark, Virginia Colton, Ruth Clark, Doris Cor-nehlsen, 'Charlotte Dowrie, Elizabeth French, Eleanor Faison, Marjorie Findley, Lorraine Gay, Helen Horn-bostle, Marjorie Hdrton, Anais Kaltenborn, Barbara Leggett, Betty Longmore, Lillian Longmore, Theodora Love. Elizabeth McLenathan, Maude McGrann, Doris T'HE BROOKLYN FREE KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY still has seven lectures to come in its course on Current Events by Mrs. Ida Wright Bowman every other Wednesday morning at the Neighborhood Club, 104 Clark Street. Last Wednesday, Mrs. Bowman talked most interestingly on the program of President Coolidge and the Budget.

The position of our Navy and the difference between "Paper Ships" and appropriations. Then she spoke on our relations with Mexico.