New-York tribune., 1908-01-19
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

| More gayeties will be crowded into the two
| weeks than in any other fortnight of the winter.
and II promises to prove the most festive period OF
| the season. Dinners luncheons dances. musicals
and theatricals will follow another in rapid
| succession, and at most of them the many foreign
visitors of note now in this city will be conspicu
! Gus guests. while tomorrow week the wedding
OF Count LadsIas szechenyi and Miss Gladys Van
derbilt will take place at Mrs. Vanderbft's house
at 9TH street and Fifth avenue in the presence OF
several hundIed guests who will include party
. of the bridegroon's relatives and friends have
| crossed the to attend the ceremony. as well
as the Baron and Baroness Hengemiller and
most of the members OF the Austro- Hungarian EN-
| bassy at Washington
Mrs. John r. Drexel leads off the festivities Of
the week with large dinner given tonight at her
house. in East cd street. for Miss Gladys Wander
| bt and her iancs, we'll as for the iatter's
kinsfolk including Count Donys Szechenyf, Aus
trian Minister Penipotentiary TO the Court OF Den
mark and tho countess. who was a Princess de
| Caraman Chimay; Count Stefan Szechenyi. Count
Paul Esterhazy, Count Anton Sigray and Count
Apponyi.
| Tomorrow evening Mrs. John Jacob Astor gives
dance at her house In Fifth avenue, and Tues
| days principal entertainment will be Frederick
Townsend Martins afternoon tea at the Plaza.
which nearly thousand Invitations have been
| issued. The feature will be the performance OF
! Mrs. Van Vechten's Divorce Dance on a flower
adorned stage set up at end OF the great bali
room. The women are requested to come prepared
| to remove their hats Mrs. George Jay Gould will
take the part of Mrs Van Vechten, Mrs. Francis L.
! Pruyn the part OF her French maid. while Kyrle
Bellew will appear Mr. Van Vechten. The play
| is by Edward Van Zie. a son-n-Iaw of Senator
Bulkeley, of Connecticut. Mrs. Goulds son, George
! Jay Gould. jr.. and her nephew. William Hamilton
| arrayed In the picturesque garb of pages at the
court of Versailles in the eighteenth century VIII
| have charge of drawing the curtains while Fred
! erick Martin has secured the services of Stephen
| Van Rensselaer,, Bradley Martin. J., Seymour
| Johnson. William Whitehouse Bertram Cruger
| Frederick NJ. Davies Kingdom Could J. J. Ashley
and Reginald Feowes to assist him In seating his
| guests. Mr. Fellowes is second son of Lord and
| Lady de Ramsey, Lady de Ramsey being a sister
| of the late Duke of Marlborough, and an aunt
therefore, of the present duke Many years have
| elapsed since Mrs. Gould has been seen before
the footlights. Only once since her marriage has
she appeared--in some amateur theatricais given
at her place at Lakewood some eight or ten years
| ago. in the presence of fewer than one hundred
| friends, mostly members of the house party at
Georgian Court. Consequently her portrayal OF the
role of Mrs Van Vechten on Tuesday afternoon
next before audience OF nearly a thousand
persons is Grousing good deal of interest in So
| ciety. In the evening Mrs Gould with her hus-
band will be entertained by Mrs Stuyvesant Fish
at a dinner at her house I'm East 18th street for
which nearly hundred invitations have been
issued while Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney will give
dance at her house in 57th street for her sister
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. and her fiance and for the
latter's Austrian and Hungarian relatives now In
New York attend his marriage.
Thursday evening has been selected by Mrs. John
r. Drexel for the dinner dance which she is Civ
ing in her house in East SD street for her three
neces. Miss Mary Astor Paul, daughter of the
late Mrs. James w. Paul. il. who Miss Fanny
Drexa al. Frances pf Afrs AIay-