New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-27
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Terminal on Wednesday and FRIDAY neal
the nrst OF the three meetings having
been held yesterday afternoon-"ii o''"e
a gay and festive autumn to close DO
far as society is concerned. 1t VIII leave
the world of fashion prepared TO tachie
a very busy month OF November, WIN
the presidential election on Tuesday week.
the opening of the opera season on .io
following Monday night, the anhuai F
tional Horse Show at Madison square
Garden Just a week later ana the 10
ceptions for some three or Tour scoie
debutantes, mingled with an ehuiese
round of luncheon, dinner ana thealie
parties and also long list OF Weddings
The winter is to be signalized by more
serious attempt than any yet hAa1o
TO establish an artistic and literary
atmosphere among the smart set, 10 cui-
tivate the relations between the latter
and the world of art, notably the stase'
and with this object in view to produce
q number OF plays never seen before III
this country, written by professionals ana
amateurs, at the houses OF the Ieaolhs
spirits of this movement. There mas Oeen
formed a society, in which Mrs. f1d''S
Payne Whitney, Mrs. Benjamin Guinness
Mrs. William Astor Chanler ana MIS-. 6u
ward l.. Cottenet, as we'll as Henry u
Gray and Joseph 3. Thomas, are the leau-
ing spirits The first play to be given 10 oine
of Strindberg's, and later on society WIN
be afforded the opportunity OF passihe
Judgment upon the attempts in play
writing on the part Of members OF thiS
movement, which must be welcomed as O.
contribution to the gayeties OF the Winter
Count Guy de Lasteyrie, whose engage
ment to Miss Constance Warren, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Henry Warren
and niece of Mrs. Robert Goelet, was an
nounced yesterday by cable from Faris'
spent last winter in New York, Wnere ne
has a number OF relatives, through ms
American mother, who was a MISS Gooo-
lake, OF this city.
His father, the Marquis de Lasteyrie'
of the Rue de PUniversite In Paris ana
Of the Chateau de Lagrange seine e'
Marne, Is regarded In France as the pl'h-
cipal representative of the family OF zen
eral and Marquis de Lafayette, the COM
panion In arms of Washington. Lafayette
II may be remembered, married Mile.
d'Ayen. From this marriage there were
horn George Washington de Lafayette
and two daughters, the elder OF Whoih
married the Marquis de Lasteyrie. The
present Marquis de Lasteyrie is the
grandson OF that union. George WASH
ington de Lafayette had two sons by MS
marriage with Mile. de Tracy, both OF
whom died about twenty years ago WIN
out sons, the male line of the Lafayette
family and the nobi!iary titles OF the
famous general thus becoming extinct
Miss Warren's fiance must not be con-
founded with Count Robert de Lasteyrie,
OF the Chateau du Saillant, member OF
the Institute of France and VINO, oe-
scended from that Ferdinand de Last
eyrie who was Lafayette's aide-de-camp
I'm 1880, is only distantly related to the
Marquis de Lasteyrie.
Miss Warren, who has been spending
the summer In Europe with her parents
and her brother, George II. Warren jr.'
| is expected back in New York ABOUT
three weeks hence. She is a fine swim
mer. and last year swan by moonlight
from Bailey's Beach TO Easton's, at New
mort. a distance of six miles. She Is
niece of Mrs. William Starr Miller and
OF Lloyd Warren.
Among those arriving this week from
Europa are Mr.. and Mrs. Elbridge L.
Gerry and the Misses Gerry, who are due
here on Tuesday on board the Kron-
| prinzessIn Cecilie. Their fellow passen-
gers include Mr.. and Mrs. w. K. Van
derbilt and Miss Barbara Rutherfurd,
their daughter, Mrs. Oliver HARTMAN
Mrs. Henry Clews and her little grand
son; also Frederick Townsend Martin,
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard NJ. Thomas and
the Comtesse de Laugier-Villars, who was
Miss Garcia Livingston, Of New York.
Returning on the following day on the
Oceanic are John /. Waterbury, Lady
| tombstone, wife OF the British Minister
Plenlpotentiary at The Hague, and VINO
will stay with her brother, Amos r. b.
Pinchot, at his house, IN Park avenue;
/ the British Consul General in New York
and Mrs. Courtenay Bennett and Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence L. Gillespie. Mrs.
| Gillespie has recently undergone an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis in London Her
sister and brother-in-law, Lord and Lady
Camoys, have leased No. 20 Hyde Park
Terrace, In London, for the winter.
Other arrivals OF the week will be Z.
| Coster Wilmerding, who is coming on
board the iceland the day after to-mor-
row, and who will join his mother, Mrs.
John c. Wilmerding, at her house. in
West 3lst street; Alfred Vanderbilt, who
is due on Thursday and who will spend
the winter at the Hotel Vanderbilt Mrs.
Edmund l. Baylies and Sir Algernon
and Lady Firth, who are crossing the
Atlantic on board the Cunard liner La
| coma.
Several weddings figure on the pro-
gramme for the week. Among them is
that Of Miss Katrina Page Brown, daugh-
ter OF Mrs. Arthur Page Brown and
| granddaughter OF former Justice Roger
A. Pryor, OF West 18th street, TO Austin
Percy Moore, OF San Francisco. in the
new Spanish Catholic Church OF Neustra
Sonora de la Esperanza, at West l56th
street, between Broadway and Riverside
Drive, on Wednesday next. The bride
will be attended by her sisters, Agnes
and Lucy, and small cousin, Sarah
Dodge, will act as flower girl. Earl
Miller, now at Yale. will be the best man
| The couple are booked to sail on sat
urday next for Paris, where the bride
groom will continue his studies In archi-
lecture, at the Ecole des Beaux Arts
| His stepfather, Willis Polk, OF SaI