The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-03-31
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summer and early fall In Germany,
Australia, Switzerland, and France. She
will be accompanied by Miss Nora Pep
per. Of The Wyoming.
The clever play written by Mr.. Wash
ington Pezet son Of the Minister OF
Peru and Nine. Pezet. will be produced
at the Belasco Theater on April II with
an entire society cast, for the benefit
of Neighborhood House.
One of the most interesting OF the
spring weddings of especial interest to
Washingtonians will be that Of Miss
Ethel Carow Roosevelt. daughter of Col.
and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. to DR..
Richard Derby. Of this city, which will
take place at noon on Friday In Christ
Church. Oyster Bay, Long Island. The
ceremony will be performed by the Rev.
DIR. Roland Cotton Smith. Of Washing
ton. and the Rev. Endicott Peabody. Of
Groton, Mass. The church organ will
be supplemented by Nahan Franko's or
chestra and Miss Ernestine Merrill, So
prano. of Boston, who recently returned
to this country after seven years study
in Europe, and an, elaborate musical
programme will be rendered while the
guests are being seated and during the
service. The orchestra will play and
Miss Merrill will sing later at the re-
ception and breakfast, which follow at
Sycamore Hill, the country home Of Col.
and Mrs. Roosevelt, near Oyster Bay
The bridal table at the breakfast will
have In the center huge two-story
wedding cake, similar to those made for
the marriages of Miss Alice Roosevelt
to Nicholas Longworth. and Of Miss
Eleanor B. Alexander to Theodore Roose-
welt, jr. Miss Roosevelt will be attended
by Miss Cornelia I.andon, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hutton Landon:
Miss Josephine Osborn. daughter Of Prof.
and Mrs. u. Fairfield Osborn; Miss Mar
garet A. Tucker, daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Auchmuty Tucker; Miss
Helen Coster, daughter Of Mrs.
Charles II. Coster, and Miss Derby, a
niece of DR.. Derby. Roger A. Derby will
act as his brothers best man, and the
ushers will be Nelson F. Bartlett, Of
Boston; DR.. Henry James. James L.
Derby, John c. Waterbury, and Archi-
bald B. Roosevelt, brother OF the bride.
DR.. Derby and his bride will sail for
Europe on Saturday. and will spend three
months in travelling on the Continent.
Mrs. William Biddle, wife Of the COM
mandant Of the Marine Barracks, will
not be at home this afternoon. but will
receive the first and third Mondays in
April and May.
Mr. and Mrs. Arson Phelps Stokes
have arrived in Washington, and are
stopping at the Shoreham.
Representative and Mrs. Robert Lee
Henry, of Texas, have announced the en-
gagement Of their daughter, Miss Leila
May Henry, to Midshipman Harry Perry
Parmelee, OF the class of 1913, United
States Military Academy. Annapolis. Md.
Miss Helen Robbie, Of New York. Is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. H. F. Thompson.
of the Glandore.
OF international interest will be the
wedding of Miss Virginia Murray. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Alexander
Murray, and Robert L. Bacon, son Of the
former Ambassador to France and Mrs.
Bacon. 1t will be on Monday, April l. in
New York, and following the ceremony
there will be a reception at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray, IS West Fifty
first Street Attending Miss Murray will
be Mrs. Franklin Lord, Mrs. Ogden L.
Mills. Miss Martha Bacon. Miss Edith
Mortimer, and Miss Josephine Osborn.
Mr.. Bacon's brother. Casper G. Bacon.
will act as best man. The ushers will
not be chosen until Mr.. Bacon's return
from Europe, where he went recently
on a business trip.