New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-18
NETWORK SOCIETY.

Mozarts ''Nozze di Figaro" with all star cast
served to attract last night large and fashionable
audience to the opera and there were number
Of persons present in the parterrs who not
generally there on Wednesday nights. Among
those who were there were Mrs. Ogden Goelet Miss
May Goelet. Mrs. E. Reeve Merritt. Mr.. and Mrs
Arson Phelps Stokes the Misses Stokes Mr. and
Mrs. Charles T. Barney. Miss Helen Barney. Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Russell Thomas, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Cooper. Mr.. and Mrs James Stman. Mr..
and Mrs. H. Nick. Twombly. Mr.. and Mrs. H. r.
Dimock. Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald L. Hoyt, Mr.. and
Mrs. e. ]. Berwind. Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Par
sons. MIR. and Mrs George S. Bowdoin. Mr. and
Mrs: Charles F. Lanier. Mr.. and Mrs. NJ Dwight
TRoso MsS Mr. aR MIS- aeBry eew Mr. and
Mrs. Gardiner, sherman; Mrs; Oliver Gould Jen-
Dallas Bsche Pratt and Miss Gurnee
Mrs Astor gives her first large dinner party Of the
season tonight at her house l. Fffth-ave, and
Mrs. Dallas Bache Pratt also has dinner sched-
uled for tonight. and will afterward take her
guests. mostly young people. on to the Cinderella
likewise give dinner tonght at her house WIN in
Gramercy Park while the Euchre Club will meet
Seventeenth-st.
The Countess de Laug1er-vilIars will open a
Christmas bazaar for the Nursing Sisters OF the
Assumption to-day at her house. No. 81 Fitth-ave
Mr. and Mrs. Talbot Olyphant announce the en-
gagement OF their daughter Helen to Prentice
Strong. son Of Theron G. Strong. and a gradu-
Mrs. Cyrus W. Field jr, announces the engage
from abroad. to Dr. Pfffer at Baltimore Heu
Yet another engagement made public yesterday
was that of Frederick Winthrop of the Knicker-
booker and Meadow Brook clubs, and son of Mrs
Robert Winthrop. OF East Thrty-seventh-st. and
Miss Dorothy Amory, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
of Mrs. r. J. Coolidge, tr.. and her fance is
graduate of Harvard class of 81.
Several weddings took place yesterday. among
others the marriage of Miss Ruth Arven Jones
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Arven Jones' to
Irwin Hewlett Cornell. In the Brick Presbyterian
Church. at o'clock in the afternoon. The bride
who was dressed in white satin trimmed with
point Alencon lace. attended by her sister
Mabel maid of honor and by the following
bridesmaids: Miss Sarah and Miss Theodore Bar
Der. Miss Fanny Hoagland, Miss Mary Lefferts
Miss Clara Tilnghast. Miss Anne Jenner. Miss
Hilda Lockwood and Miss julia LifingwelI. They
frocks of accordion pleated white Liberty
null with lace yokes white beaver hats trimmed
with white chrysanthemums, and carried bouquets
best man. and the ushers comprised Barent Left
Theodore Crane. Charles Smith. James Knapp and
Russell Leffingwell. After the ceremony. which
the Rev DR. William Richards there was a small
reception at the West Fifty-frst-st. house of the
brides parents
Another wedding yesterday was that of Dudley
Farley Phelps, jr. and Miss Louise Gordon Peck
daughter of Mrs. Ernest Hamilton Peck The cere-
mony took place at the East Eighty thirdst house
of her aunt. Mrs ]. D. Gerrold Kelley the Rev
DR.. Stires performing the ceremony. The bride,
who was given away by her brother. Howard Peck.
With duchess lace wore s ae veil fh and carried
of white crepe de chine, while her bridesmaids.
were dressed in crepe de chine of pale AMBER
color. J. Burnett. Lorins T. Hildreth. Andrew Nor