New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-24
BROOKLYN SOCIETY
Receptions. Engagements and
Dances of the Week.

Dances of the Week.
In honor Of her debutaute niece. Miss
Alice Buckley Moss Mrs. Jonathan Bulklcy
will give a dinner dance on Wednesday
evening January 3. at her home. No CO..
Park avenue. Manhattan. Miss Moss is
the daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick ".
Moss. of No. 81 Remscu street She made
her debut December s.
Mrs \. A. Low has issued cards for a
reception in honor Of hcr sons bride. Mrs
George Cabot Ward Low. who before her
marriage on November IL was Miss Doro-
thea Douglas. of Albany. II will take place
AZ tho Low home. No. Picrrepont Place.
Thursday afternoon. January {. Mrs. Will
lam Raymond, ~ Cedarhurst who acted as
matron of honor al her brothers wedding.
will also receive
Tuesday, January Is, IS the date now an
nounced for the wedding Of Miss Kate
Duryea Aim and the Row Herman cart
Weber. which was TO take place Novomb"v
a. but was postponed because Of Miss Al
Inns attack of typhoid. Instead of the
church ceremony, which was originally
planned. the marriage will be quietly SOL
cmnized at the home Of the brides mother,
Mrs. George Albert Allin. No 81 Thirteenth
avenue
Miss Florence Calhoun Burke will be tho
maid of honor and the bridesmaids arc TO
be Miss Caroline Clinton Everett Of Wcr-
cester, Mass; Miss Henrietta Freeman, of
Troy; Miss Charlotte Berkeley Coles and
Miss Dorothy Noyes, Of Brooklyn
Mr.. Weber is pastor OF thc Edgewood
Dutch Reformed Church. and was formerly
attached TO the Collegiate Church in Man
haitian. He is president of the South Clas-
sis Of Long Island. His best man will be
John Brownlee Voorhees,, of Brooklyn, and
serving as ushers will be Charles Sexton
and Floyd Decker. OF Manhattan; Clifford
Case. Of Poughkeepsie. and Rushmore
shope OF this borough. There will also be
a little flower girl, Miss Marjorie Gaskell
Allin, a niece of the bride
Miss Grace u. Frank. daughter of Emil
II. Frank, of No q Montgomery Place
was debutante of Friday. She was intro
duced at the conventional afternoon recep-
ton, which was given by her sister, Mrs
George 5. Frank. at her home, No 261
Henry street. In the evening there was a
large dance at the Heights Casino. Holly
laurel and other Christmas greenstuffs were
used in abundance at the Frank home and
at the Casino. Miss Frank received in
white chiffon and lace. and Mrs Frank
was gowned in silver net, trimmed with
rose velvet
Assisting them were Miss Hortense
Harder. Miss Vinifred hoffman, Miss Grace
Jennings. Miss Dorothy Abbot. Miss Jean
Southwick Miss Eleanore Ide. Miss Kath-
leen Webster. Miss Helen Ford, Miss Dor
othy Sutph:n. Miss Elsie Gridley and Miss
Alice Moss of Brooklyn, and Mrs. Harold
Bradley. of MontcIair.
They were Joined a dinner by M Brad
ley and Frank Littlejohn, Of Montclair:
Edward Hinman, r., Miss Gridley's farce
Henry Sutphin, Edgar Arnold, Donald
Ford Marshall Nanderhoef and Newell
Nanderhoef of BROOKLYN Robert Stanton.
jr, Of Hartford and Albert Thornton and
Robert Schwarzenhach, OF Manhattan.
Surrounding Miss Jean Murray when she
makes her formal bow to society on Friday
will be Miss Helen Willard. Miss Alice
Denny, Miss Ruth Latin, Miss Louise
Fiske, Miss Janet Buchanan. Miss Jean
SOuthwick. Miss Alice Moss. Miss Gladys
Bowling. Miss Eleanore Ide Miss Dorothy
Thurston, Miss Mary Barr and Miss Marion
Blashheld, of Brooklyn, and Miss Beatrice
, Cobb. OF Boston. After dinner they will
attend the Junior Assembly at the Casino
Miss Murray is the younger daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Murray. of No. 155
| Henry street, where the reception will take
/ place.
l Thursday brought the Yale men 10 Brook
/ lyn for their annual concert The Music
( Hall was almost filed when Mother Of
Men," the opening number, was given and
all the remaining seats were taken before
( the second part by the dinner parties com
| ing i'm late. All the old favorites had a
place on the programme, and the new ones
were well received. one of the best num-
bers was "Carmina," sung by w. w.
/ Meyer. assisted by the glee club Mr..
/ Meyer has a beautifully clear tenor voice.
and his enunciation is splendid. His sing
! ing is expressive and without tho slightest
trace Of nervousness.
Cole Portcrs reputation had travelled
before him but this detracted nothing from
the delight of the audience, which he con-
| vulsed with his comic songs. nearly all
being his own compositions. lie was first
I heard in The Motor Car" assisted by the
glee club, and afterward sang TO his own
| accompaniment some Of his best hits
Among them were "No Show This Even
! ing" Heaven VIII Protect the Working
! Girl" and "Melodrama."
There should have been no deaYth OF part
ners for the dcbutantes who attended the
/ dance following, for there must have been
! three times as many men as girls present
J The patronesses receiving were Mrs. James
| u. Williams, Mrs. Frederick Moss, Mrs
| John Van Buren Thayer. Mrs. Herbert Lee
| Pratt, Mrs George j. Pratt Mrs. Francis
| Southwck Mrs. William Leslie Van
Sinderen, Mrs Henry Ide and Mrs Carl
De Silver.
Mrs. John Van Buren, Thayer whose son,
| Thornton Chatheld Thayer is in tine Yale
Glce Club gave a tea on Thursday after
noon at her home. No. % Monroe Place.
Her sister, Mrs James Stokes, of Manhat-
tan. and Mrs. James j.. Morgan received
with her and at the tea table were Mrs.
Harold Humphreys and Mrs. Charles Neer-
gard AZ the informal dinner which FOL
lowed there were present Miss Alice Moss.
Miss Jean Southwick. Miss Elizabeth
Thaycr Arthur Howe, Kenneth Under
wood Gordon Thayer and Thornton Thayer
and tho husbands Of those who assisted the
hostess.
Mrs William Mc"~rroli Of ST. Marks
avenue. will give a dance on Wednesday