The Washington times., 1916-08-19
NEWS Of SOCIETY.
|NsCAP|TAL AND At.
SUMMER RESORTS
Warm Weather Period Shifts
Social Activities Of Wash.
ington Northward.

One OF the most brilliant events Of the
many gayeties which have marked
tennis week at Newport was the ball
and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice.
At this function as at most of the i'm
portant entertainments Of the week the
Washington colony had distinguished
representation.
Among the guests were the Spanish
Ambassador and Sonora de Riano, the
Governor Of Rhode Island and Mrs. Il.
Livingston Beeckman. Mr.. and Mrs.
Vincent Astor. Mr.. and Mrs. Perry EEL
mont Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Mr..
and Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughnessy, Mr.. and
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. jr.: who are
visiting Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt at
Beaulieu; Mr.. and Mrs. Felips de Yturbe.
Miss Marguerite Caperton, Miss Rather
inc knight. Miss Margaret Preston
Campbell Rear Admiral Austin NJ.
Knight. U. S. N, Baron Renaud dun
germ Sternberg. and +. de Mohrenschildt.
OF the Russian embassy.
Rear Admiral Knight and his daugn-
ter. Miss Katherine Knight were among
those who entertained at dinner before
the ball at Miramar.
The guests Of honor were the Com
mander- chief Of the Atlantic Fleet.
Admiral Henry T. Mayo. and Mrs.
Mayo, Invited to meet them were Rear
Admiral Augustus F. Fechteler. U. s. N.
and Mrs. Fechteler; Rear Admiral AL
bert Gleaves, u. S. N. and Mrs. Gleaves;
Commander Carl T. Vogelgesang. U. 5.
NJ, and Mrs Vogelgesang; Mrs. Ernest
Vogelgesang. Mrs Pryor. wife of Lieu
tenant William L. FNor. U. S. N. and
daughter of Rear Admiral Knight. and
Cant William, I Maywell IT
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Miss Smith a Bride.
J. Paul Smith has sent out cards an
nouncing the marriage Of his daughter.
Gretchen Eleanor. to william Joseph
The ceremony was performed at s
o'clock in ST. Paul's rectory. Mgr.
Mackin officiating. Owing to mourning
in the family Of the bride. the service
was simple and wao attended only by
small gathering OF relatives and close
friends.
Immediately after the ceremony Mr..
and Mrs. Kimball left Washington for
a wedding trip to Fort Monroe. They
will be at home after September at
the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. William E.
Kimball, OF Washington.
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Miss Alice harrington Flynn has re-
turned TO washington from Newport
where she visited her sister. Mrs. Fer.
dinand Kaye, Of London. A number OF
hospitalities were given in their honor.
notably a farewell dinner at Hilltop
Inn. when the guests included Mrs.
Kaye, Miss Flynn, and Mios Florence
Harrington Flynn. Mrs Ella Wood Dean
Of Chicago: Count Jean Strelecki, lie
Grande Burton. and Harry worley.
Miss Flynn will leave town soon to Join
house party at White Sulphur
Springs.
Mrs. Pierce II. Stagg, of Fairmont
street, is the guest OF Mrs. Robert Lee
Thomas, OF Lexington. KY, at thu
Warldorf-Astoria, New York. Later
Mrs. Stagg will be Mrs. Thomas CUES
at the Marlborough Blenheim. Atlantic
City. where Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, ac
companied by their two young daugh
ters, the Misses Irma and Doroth,
Thomas, are spending the summer. Be
fore her marriage Mrs. Thomas wa
Miss Trent. of Lynchburg and Wash
ington.
Mrs. E. Chaplin and Miss May Wrigh
are in Atlantic City for a visit an,
are stopping at the st. Charles Hotel
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DR.. Clyde NJ. Gearhart has returned I,
Washington from Newport. r. !.