New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-29
Brilliant Society Gather
ing at Entertainment for
Lafayette Fund.
MANY DINNERS
PRECEDE AFFAIR
Frank Tinney Helps Entertain
Mrs. J. Gordon Douglas
Wins Tennis Cup.
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Newport. Aug. 28.-The Lafayette
Fund, which is used to furnish kits for
the soldiers of the Triple Entente, was
materially benefited tonight by ben
eft entertainment on the piazzas and
lawns of Hilltop Inn. A large gather
ing of summer eolonists was present.
Francis Roche, honorary secretary of
the fund. managed the fete. The
patronesses included Mrs. John Jacob
Aston. Mrs. Hamilton w. Cary, Mrs.
James X. Duke, Mrs. Cooper Hewitt,
Mrs. Oliver Gould Jennings and Miss
Emily Sloane.
The grounds around the inn were
decorated with hundreds of electric
lights. The tables on the lawn were
spread in a semi-circle before tenn
porary stage, where the different num-
bers were presented.
Prince Paul Troubetskoy entertained
first with Russian folksongs played on
a balalaika. Mile. Beatrice de Hoi-
thoir, OF Paris, recitcd several French
Aldridge, tenor, was heard in several
solos.
Garnett Dancourt's French playlet,
LA Femme" was then presented by
Monsieurs Perrin and Villemin, the latter
a Partisan college professor. Frank
Tinney, the New York comedian, closed
the programme.
After the entertainment dance was
held in the outdoor ballroom of the
inn and or the lawn.
Dinners Precede Fete.
Preceding the ftte Mrs. Hamilton w.
Cary entertained at dinner at the inn,
among her guests being the Russian
Ambassador and Mdme. BakhmetefF
and the Spanish Ambassador and
Nine. Riano.
Among other large dinners from
which the guests came to the fete were
those given by Mr.. and Mrs. William
K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. William Grosvenor
Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mr.. and Mrs. f.
S. Grande d'Hauteville, Mr.. and Mrs
Stuart Duncan, Admiral and Mrs.
French +. Chadwick, Edward J. Ber-
wind and Mrs. George d. Widener.
S Montgomery Roosevelt gave a
luncheon at the Clambake Club to-day.
Major Francis L. V. Hoppin and
I Phoenix IAgraham are the weekend
guests Of Pembroke Jones.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Leroy is entertain
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel J. WagstaE
Governor Glchrist Of Florida was
the guest Of Governor Beeckman at his
home to-day.
Dr.. Roderick Terry and his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Eugene Hale, jr, have re-
turned from their yachting cruise.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paulding Fosdick were
the successful! bidders to-day for the
estate Of the late Mrs. c. c. POmerot,
on Ocean Avenue, paying Sl3,5OO for
the property, which they will use as a
permanent summer home
Mrs. Douglas Wins Tennis Cup.
The cups offered by Mrs. Stuart Dun
can for the mixed doubles tournament
at the Casino were won to-day by Mrs.
J. Gordon Douglas and Craig Biddle.
Among the large number Of weekend
guests at the Casino are A. Muller Try,
visiting II. o. Havemeyer; Mrs. b. X.
Adee and Miss Geraldine Adee, visiting
Mrs (. S. Reynal; Nh. and Mrs. f. S.
/ Neeeker. OF New York, visiting Miss
Helen Brice; Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Wagstaff, T. ". Potter and Archibald
Barklie, visiting Hamilton W. Cary;
Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald d. b. Pratt,
Miss Alice Carpenter, of New YORK,
visiting Mrs. James GriswOld Vent;
Ir. and Mrs. Fulton Cutting, visiting
Hrs. George Howard; George Won l..
Meyer and A. P. Kirkland, visiting
Robert w. Goelet DR.. James R. Wat
son, of New York, visiting G. d. Wild
ener, jr.; Ashbel II. Barney and Ed
mund L. Bayles, of New York, visiting
Mrs. French Vanderbilt, and W. Tray
ers Jerome, jr., visiting Ernest Howe,