New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-12
Younger Set Attend Affair
Given by Mrs. Sam
uel Riker.
MRS. VANDERBILT TO
GIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Mansion To Be Opened TO Pub
lie Friday for Benefit Of
Ambulance Hospital

Mrs. samuel Rlkcr gave a dance last
night at the New Colony Club, Park
Avenue and Sixty-sccond street. Cor
Miss Frances T. Rikcr and Miss Con
stance Chappcll. both dcbutantos OF
the season. The decorations were Of
palms and spring flowers. both in the
ballroom and the dining room, where
supper was served soon after mid
night.
Before the dance Mrs. Charles Astor
BriSted gave dinner at the Colony
Club for her debutante daughter. Mss
{. T.. Grace Bristed. Her guests IN
, Guided Miss +. Rita Norrie, Miss Isabel
Stettinius, Miss Aileen Sedgwlck. Miss
Adelaide Flint. Miss Lillian Talmage,
Miss Edith McKeevcr. Miss Josephine
+, Thomas. Miss Kathleen Macy, Miss
Marion Tiffany, Miss Sarah Larkin.
Miss Alice Davies, Miss Helen Mac
Gregor Byrne. Miss NJ. Symphorosa
Bristed. Murray Hoffman. Geraldyn
Redmond, Edwin Gould. IT,, Broughton
| Cobb. Frederic r. Coudert, jr., COLES
}. Coc Barlow Farr. +. Pennington
| Pearson. John Elliot. Darlington Ste
, tinius. Lewis Coffin, Frederic Bella
GER and William II. Emerson.
Among the guests at the dance IN
addition to those mentioned were Miss
Ruth Cutting. Miss Katharine dc
! Berkeley Parsons, Miss Katharine Van
/ Rensselaer, Crosby, Miss Beatrice Pratt.
. Miss Annette Narkoe, Miss Josephine
de GersdorfT. Miss Alma de Gersdorh.
! Miss Adrienne VI. lSelin, Miss Sylvia
/ Holt. Miss Mary Knapp, Miss Angelina
Krech. Miss Constance Pratt. Miss
( Dorothy Greer. Hiss Geraldine Adee.
/ Miss Maryanna Lincoln, Miss Grace
+ Franklin, Miss Maud +. Kahn. Miss
Mary Stevens Chaplin, Miss Anstiss de
I Neau. Miss Gertrude Riker, Miss Mary
/ ! Franckc. Miss Nathalie Wood, Miss
I Catherine Colt. Miss Helen AleXander'
Miss Madeleine Carey. Miss Marion
. &. Dinsmore. Miss Winifred Chisolm.
/ Miss Mary Haskell. Miss Mary Harris
horne. Miss Grace Colgate. Miss Mar
earet Strong. Miss Charlotte Rlker.
Miss Gertrude lloyt. Miss Vera A. Il.
f Cra.ath. Miss Esther L. Denny Miss
Elizabeth $. Howard. Miss Dorothca
F Camn and Miss Mildred Mitchell.
Others present were Schuyler l.. Par
sons. ir. Amory L. Haskell, George J.
de Neau. Jesse Hoyt, {. ODonneH
lseliu. Richard +. Kcogh. Harold Har-
vey. {. Naury Jones. Shepard krech,
Kingsley kunhardt, Rowland Jones,
George +. Kunhardt, Sheldon Hoad-
ley. John Keogh, Van Rensselaer, Hal
sey. Frederic J. de Neau. Shipper DAVIS
J. Lawrence Schwab. John Talmage, Por-
ter Hoagland, Anton Schaeifer and
Joseph North.
On Friday night Mrs William X.
Nandorbit's house. 600 Fifth Avenue,
will be open to the public for the ben
eft of the American Ambulance Hos
pital r Paris. The French play son
Ilomme' viii be given, with lrece Boz
DOM and Edgar Becman and il. kon-,
ert Bacon and other eycwitneSses VIII
tell graphic stories of the work IN the
hospi-ai and on the battlefield. Mr..
Bacon has lust returned from France
after two months spent inspecting the
American Ambulance Hospital. lie
has many dceply interesting facts TO
tell Of the work OF humanity that -
being done work that Is capable OF
far greater expansion and develop
mcnt and is limited only by lack OF
funds.
Tickets. at s.. may be obtained from
Miss Doauc. Is West Thlriy-fourth
Street. No tickets will be sold at the
T door.
/ some of those interested in the work
( Of the hospital and who form the
American committee are Mrs. Charles
f 3. Alexander, Mrs. Lloyd Bryce, Mrs.
August Belmont, Mrs. Edward Brande-
gee. Mrs, Samuel Il. BertrOn. Mrs f.
/. Chapin. Mrs. Henry =. Dawson. Mrs
William Grccnough. Mrs T.. II. Harri-
man. Mrs A. Barton Hepburn, Mrs.
. Nyron r. Herrck. Mrs Parmely W.
I Vcrrick. Mrs. Junius S. Morgan. Mrs.
George W. Pepper. Mrs. Henry W.
Nurroe. Mrs. II. Fairfield Osborn, Mrs.
/ Whitclaw Reid, Mrs. William Iamil-
/ ton Russell. Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlec,
! Mrs. T. 4. Sayles. Mrs. BRYAN Lathrop,
/ Mrs. Charles II. Sheriff.. Mrs. Willard
| y. Straight, Mrs. Bayard Ihayer, Mrs.
| Richard Townsend, Mrs william X.
/ Vanderbilt Mrs. Whitney Warren,
Mrs. Barrett Wendell. Miss Maude
/ Wctmore. Mrs Harry Payne Whitney,
| Mrs. Robert Bacon, chairman, and
/ Mrs. William Greenough. secretary
/ Miss Cornclia Nelson Simons,
! daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
| Dewar Simous and niece OF the late
| r. Henry Hartman. Will be married
/ ut noon to-day to Harry Lee King in
! Christ Church, West Seventy-hist
Street
Mr.. and Mrs George Russell Stearns,
/ Of Milledge Road, Augusta, Ga, have
! announced the engagement Of their
/ daughter, Miss Constance Stearns, TO
Antonio Lao, of ll5 East Fnty-tnrd
I Street. Miss Stearns, whose mother
was Miss Madge Williamson, OF Wash
/ incton. was graduated from Wcstover
+ school. and after spending year
abroad made her debut in Augusta
+ last winter. Mr. Lazo. who is the cid
+ est son of Antonio LazO-Arriaga, for
uerlv Minister Of Guatemala to the
/ United states, was graduated from
/ Cornell. class OF. and is q member OF
/ the Delta Phi Fraternity and of Squad
ron \. He is in the banking business
/ IN this city. The wedding Will taNe
place in the spring.
The first dinner dance OF the new
wear at the WaldOrf-Astoria was given
/ last night. with Mrs. Stephen Van
| Rensselaer, acting as hostess. William
FarrcU's new pantomme. The Rural
S,yaius." was given for the first time
/ bv Afr. Farrell and Miss Alice Lake.
/ The scenery Tor this consisted OF a
section of woodland. including a brook;
with Mr. Farrell farmer lad ana
l Miss Lake country girl
/ George c. Boldt had large party IN
honor of DR.. and Mrs. II. l.. Schellng,
/ the latter formerly Mrs. stewart i.
IWoodford. His guests included Gen
cral and Mrs. A. &. Huldekoper, Cen
oral and Mrs. Charles +. Roe, Mrs. John