New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-28
WAR WEDDING
FOR MISS SLOANE
Engagement to Baron
Amaury de la Grange
Announced.
BENEFIT DANCE
AT HILL TOP INN
Fair of All Nations To-day in
Aid of Surgical Dress
ing Fund.

The engagement is announced OF
Miss Emily f. Sloane, daughter of Henry
T. Sloane, of IS East Sixty-eighth
Street, TO Baron Amaury de la Grange.
As Baron de la Grange is at present an
officer in active service in the French
army, the wedding will take place in
the near future in France.
Under the direction of Francis
Roche. an entertainment will be given
tonight at Hill Top Inn, Newport, for
the benefit Of the Lafayette Fund. A
one-act play, entitled Woman" will
be produced, and the Russian Bala-
laika Orchestra will play. Among other
features will be recitations by Nine.
Beatrice Holtheur, Charles Keller and
Frank Tinney, the comedian; dances IN
costume by Miss Inga Sontum and
songs by Prince Paul Troubetskoy.
Mrs. French Vanderbilt, Mrs. Hamilton
W. Cary and Mrs. George D. Widener
are among those who will give dinners
before the affair.
The patronesses are Mrs. John Jacob
Aston, Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, Mrs.
Hamilton w. Cary, Mrs. james B..
Duke, Mrs. Oliver Gould Jennings and
Miss Emily Sloane.
For the benefit of the Surgical
Dressings Committee, of which Miss
Anne Morgan is chairman, a fair of
all nations will be given this afternoon
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
o. ~
who will take part in the pageant are
Professor Michael ]. Pupin, Mrs. Fred
eric S. Dennis, Mrs. Jerome Alexandra,
Mrs. Frank Garvan and Mrs. George B.
Case. Nine Melanie Kurt, of the Met
ropolitan Opera Company, is chairman
Of the pageant committee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Romeyn, of
63 East Sixty-fourth Street, have an
nounced the engagement of their
youngest daughter, Miss Estelle Young
Romeyn, to Ernest Wetmore ,'ittman,
son Of the late Stewart Lansing Pitt
man, of Detroit Miss Rongeyn was in
troduced to society two years ago. She
is spending the summer with her par
ents at Watch Hill, r. |. Her brother,
Radcliffe Romeyn, who married Miss
Rosaie Southgate Gilman year ago
in Noroton, Conn, was captain OF the
Yale crew of 1912, and Mr.. Pittman
was one of his classmat~s. Mr.. Pitt
man lives with his mother, Mrs. Homer
Wise, in Flushing, Long lsl;nd.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fitzhugh
Whitehouse e receiving congratula-
tons on the birth of a son at the coun-
try home of Mrs Warehouses; mother,
Mrs. William p. Douglas, in Southamp-
ton, Long Island. Mrs. Whitehouse was
Miss Edith cybil Douglas.
Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar left
Tuxedo Park yesterday for California,
where she will spend three weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander d. B. Pratt
went to Newport yesterday to spend a
few days at the Hill Top Inn.
Miss Frances Ogden Jones will re-
turn to her home, "A Park Avenue,
from New London, Conn, on Novem-
Der l.
Livingston Phelps, secretary of the
American Embassy in Rome, and Mrs.
Phelps are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
William B. Osgood Field at Highlawn,
their villa in Lenox, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin n. Duke, &C
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony
j. Drexel, j., left Lenox yesterday on
a motor trip through the Berkshires
and New York State.
Mrs. Carl A. de Gersdorf will give
a dance at Orchard Hill, her country
place in Stockbridge, Mass, on Septem-
Der 3 for her daughters, the Misses
Josephine and Alma de Gersdorff.