Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
NEW YORK, January %, 1910.

NEW YORK, January %, 1910.
Ny Dear Phyllis:
| This has been a busy week and one
might really consider that the zenith OF
the social season is upon us. l imagine,
| in a week or ten days there will be fewer
entertainments in the way of dances,
| more luncheons, dinners, musicals and
bridge, at which the debutantes may
| or may not appear, according to. their
popularity. In the early season these
| small and earlies" have been given over
to the matrons and older girls; the debu-
tantes have tried their wings and nave
| learned to fly to a certain point, ana
now comes the test of their popularity,
their staying qualities-they Will De
weighed in the balance and if not found
wanting will be admitted. Peace and JOY
be with them. There are dinners by the
tscore. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish has had an
other of her series, with informal dancing
afterward: Mrs. Philip Lydig. Mrs: Jo-
lseph Stffiman. charming one Tor Lisa
Mrs. Haggin, Mrs. Eldridge Gerry ana
Electra Havemeyer, who, beleVe' Is
giving another next week. and on the
same evening Mr.. Webb will give his
bachelor dinner. Miss Ada Phipps CON
tinues to entertain for her niece, Allce
Gouverneur Kortright; another theater
and supper party, luncheon and
dinner.
Mr. David King gave a very nice
party" as they say in the south, LOT
Ibis daughter Jeanne A hundred or more
guests went to see The Dollar Princess,
and motored from there to supper. Later
there was a dance, the guests including
the debutantes, with enough men 10 go
round and few extra
The fashionable charities are COMING
| in for their share of attention Just now
The Charity Ball, which has been an IN
stitution of society since the civil war
was given, as usual, at the Waldorf
Astoria and was great aHalr. Inc
superb bathrooms, myrtle coionial anu
other rooms, were reserved for the &C
ca sion and were royalty decorated WIN
palms and Towering plants. and In the
grand ballroom was the blazing "oru
| Charity.
| The BAH opened with the grand march.
which was formed in the Astor gallery,
pas ing through the various rooms TO the
| grand ballroom. 1t was rather pretty
| spectacle the women beautifully go"ned
| and blazing with jewels. the men rather
| a somber study in black and white, but
on the whole quite attractive. Nhen they
! reached the ballroom the music chahgea
| rom the march to waltz. mus III
very pretty and effective way began the
dancinp Of course the crowd was tremen-
/ dols but with such space Tor dancing
land promenading one was scarcely
aware of the great number or people.
Mai Gen. Wood and staff were present,
\ y. u
board of managers: Mr.. and Mrs. Stuy-
yesant Fish, Mr.. J. Henry Alexander.
Mrs John r. Drexel Mrs; Clarence
Mackay Mrs. ogden Goelet, the brauiey
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Col. John, Jacob
Astor and no end OF fashiona bles l
should like to describe the gowns, but
would be impossible. To say that they
| were gorgeous must sufhce
| The Junior League is rehearslng dahS
| for the play to be given shortly for some
worthy charity; also the pantommes are
| in progress for the music school settle
ment Mrs. Clarence Mackay; VINO IS
interchangeable in every way, has given
another reception. this time. however,
| not so much for her personal friends as
| for her co-workers. although IN the
/ Equal Franchise Society are friends also.
| She entertained at her own home and re-
| ceived her guests in the central hall.
| wearing q chamos colored crepe de
! cline gown, simply made and no jewels.
| Orchids and carnations were used pro
| fusely in vases here and there in the
drawing room, while palms were used In
| the hall and dining room. Franckos
| orchestra played on the landing on the
| stairs Mrs Bourke Cochran, Mrs. Philip
| Iydie and Mrs Walter Maynard poured
| tea in the dining room, Mrs. Cochran In
| a white cloth and gold-braided costume,
| Mrs Lydig in black velvet trimmed with
! Venetian point lace and fur, and Mrs
| Maynard wore velvet OF an ola plue
1
/ have gone over to the cause were
| present.
| There have been several weddings of
prominence. Grace Bigelow Tracy, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Charles Tracy and grand
daughter of Mr. John BiseloW. former
minister to France, was married in st.
Georges, Stuyvesant square, to Mr..
| Thomas Cook of Baltimore. small re-
ception followed at Mr.. Bigelow's, in
Gramercy Park Anne Tracy was her
sisters maid of honor, and the other at
| tendants were Mnriel Morris. Anne Gardi-
ner, Elinor Lee. Charlotte Harding, Jane
Bigelow and Margaret Sloane. Pretty
| Blanche Oelrich's marriage to Mr.. Leon
ard Thomas of Baltimore was a beautiful
affair. They were married at the Gel
| richS', and in consequence there was not
an overwhelming crowd. only the close
friends of both being present at the cere-
mony, which was followed by breakfast
and reception. The drawing room was
| transformed for the nonce into chapel
with a temporary altar at one end, which
| was banked with tall palms. and, with
gilt candelabra filled with lichted cam
dies, had quite an ecclesiastic appear
| ance. The house was beautifully deco
rated with roses and lilies, and just be-
fore the brides appearance an aisle was
formed by the ushers holding white satin
ribbons, through which the bride and her
father walked from the library. Blanche's
| gown was of white rOSe-enbroidered chif-
| fon. with court train of satin. also rose
embroidered. Her veil was of tule and her
flowers We're white orchids Little kath-
leen Vanderbilt. in white chiffon and pink
roses, and the small son of Mr. and Mrs.
| Peter Martin. in white Elton suit We're
i'm evidence train bearers The only
lattendant was Cecilia May of Washing