New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01
New Home of the Reginald De
Kovens Transformed for Affair.
DANCES DELIGHT SOCIETY
Unique Supper Served in Bal
cony by Attendants Attired
in Tudor Costume.

arrangements furnished a particularly dp-
propriate setting. 1t consisted of songs
ana dances Of the era of the Virgin
| queen.
| The guests. on entering. found them
selves i'm a hall lined with men in Tudor
| costumes. armed with halberds. who also
| lined the staircase up 10 the first floof
where they were welcomed by Reginald
| De koven. arrayed as Sir Walter Raleigh;
| by Mrs. De koven In an Elzabethan
dress Of American Beauty Rose brocade
with a big pearl studded ruff. and by
their daughter. Mrs. Kierstede Hudson
! in a similarly fashioned gown OF coral
pink brocade and a large ron.
After some general dancing in the long
osk-paneled gallery which is copied from
the hall of Lord Sackville's old Eliza
bethau mansion. Knole. at Sevenoaks' IN
| Kent, square dances OF the time OF the
Virgin queen. TO music Of the period. were
danced by four groups of eight each. The
women OF the first group wore Eliza
! bethan dresses Of mauve and ivory the
costumes Of the men being of darker
hue of the same color. The dresses of
the women in the second set were of
! turquoise blue and those of the men OF
darker shade thereof. The third set was
CARRIED I'm yellow. and the fourth In coral
| pink.
Those taking part in these dances in
cluded Mrs. Goodhue Livingston. Mrs.
Walter T.. Maynard. Mrs. Lee Thomas,
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. jr.. Mrs. Fred
erick Y Dalziel. Mr. and Mrs. kierstede
Hudson. Miss Muriel Winthrop. Miss Nir-
ginIa Murray. Mr. and Mrs Hendricks
H. Whitman. Miss Olga Viborg Miss
Sara Viborg Marshall II Kernochan, 7.
Chesley Richardson. jr. Robert l.. Bacon
Frederic A. Juilllard, Henry ives Cobb.
ir.. Philip J. Benkard, W. Rhinelander
Stewart. jr Charles l.. Greenough' L.
Carter WHmerdng. Walter f. Maynard.
Burgess Moore and G. +. Butler.
Thereupon Mr. and Mrs De Koyen and
their two hundred guests adjourned TO
I the library, where, on a small stage. the
Madrilene dancers. Eduardo and Elisa
Cansino. performed bOleros and taran-
tcllas until announcement was made OF
supper.
The supper was served in the gallery at
three tables, one at the upper end or the
room. crescent shaped. then long table
running almost the entire length OF the
gallery. and table at right angles at the
lower end thereof Among and around
these tables Kurt Schindlers mime
singers danced and sang. Bears heads
barons Of beef. birds in all their feathered
/ nnory were borre In in procession oy
servants I'm Tudor costumes OF sombre
hue. and the menu included all sorts or
| sixteenth century dishes, as well as huge
flaming bowls OF punch burnt ale, won
derfully mulled claret, etc, church
warden pipes and tobacco being handed
round to the men at the close of the re-
past.
Aftcryard there was general dancing.
While sixteenth century costumes pre-
dominated. other eras were represented,
none. however later than the eighteenth
century.
Mrs. De Kovcn had organized tenn
porary atclier in her house, where during
the course Of the evening photographs In
color were made of the guests by Gervais
Cuurtcllemont, of Paris. whose pictures
have been shown here by Andre de Fol-
quieres. at his color conferences. The
pictures bid fair to rival those taken by
N CourtellemOnt under similar circum-
stances AT the much discussed Persian
f6tc given last summer in Paris by the
Comtesse de Clermont-Tonnerre.
Many dinners were given in connection
with the dance notably by Mrs Malcolm
Whitman. Mrs. Oliver Gould Jennings,
Mrs. Archer VI. Huntington, Mrs. Joseph
Stickney. Miss Louise Iselin, Mrs. Carl
dc Gersdorff and Mrs. ". Bourkc Cock
ran. who had n party OF sixty at the
! Ritz Carlton. All these various )stesses
! brought their guests afterward to Mrs
| De Koven's fete.
Mrs. W. Bourke Cockran's guests at the
Ritz. Carlton were Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald
! DE Koven. Justice and Mrs. James ".
| Gerard. Mr.. and. Mrs. Theodore Roose-
Welt. ,r.. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bit. MIR. and Mrs J. Norman de r. White
house. Captain and Mrs. Philip NJ. Lydig,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clews. Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Stevens. Mr. and Mrs. James Il.
| Eustis, Mr.. and Mrs. Judah II. Sears
Colonel and Mrs. William jay, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles II. Scott. Mr.. and Mrs.
Amos X. Emo Pinchot, Nr and Mrs Ed
mund Randolph. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Goe-
L., Gerry. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence IL.
Mackay. Mr. and Mrs. Stuyyesant Fish.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Speyer and MI and
Mrs Finley +. Dunno.
Mrs Joseoh Stickney's guests at her
house In Fifth avenue were Mrs. DE 10
VEINS brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs Robert McGann. Of Chicago. the
Hon and Mrs. Alfred Arson. Mr.. and
Nrs Herbert s. Stone, Mr. and Mrs James
Brown Potter. Mr.. and Mrs. George Jay
Gould. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony j. DreXel,
ir Mrs. Henry Redmond. f.. Coster Will
merding. Frederic a. Juilliard and sum
| ner Gerard.
Mrs Carl 4. de Gersdorfr also had a din
ner at her house In East 6ith street after
ward taking her guests TO the De koven
,a,o Her guests were NJ. and Mrs Robert
9 brewster. Mr.. and Mrs Newbold Morris,
| Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence {. Pell, Dr. and
Mrs. George Draper, Mr.. and Mrs lie
Rov. Miss Janet Fish. Miss Mabel Choate.
, Miss Madeleine Borland, Miss Dorothy
| Tuckerman, Charles :. Butler and FL
bridge Gerry Chadwick.
Others present at the De kovens were
Mr.. and Mrs. John Russell Pope.
Mr. and Mrs. Adrian lselin I'd, Mr..
Mr.. and Mrs. VI. Orme Wilson. jr.,
Miss Maude Borland. Miss F.. Smith.
Charles L. Appleton. Francis r. Appleton,
IT,. stephen Elkins, Williams p. Burden.