New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-14
Announcement Is Made of
Her Engagement to
Joel +. Fisher
GROSVENOR HOUSE
HAS COMEDY BENEFIT
Junior League Fete Next
Month-MiSS Taylor
Weds To-day

Af'' tffiNN s'tNAN I'll ~ aNiffls hUINuU'N
the engagement Of their daughter, Miss
/ Mary r. Haskell. TO Joel Ellis Fisher
son Of Mrs. Joel Ellis Fisher and the
late Ny. Fisher, Of Nov York Miss
/ Haskell. who made her debut in 1911,
is a granddaughter Of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Riker and is a niece of
! J. J. RIker, Samuel Riker, jr, Charles
| Lawrence Riker, Mrs. Henry Ingersoll
R'ker, Mrs. James r. Strong and Mrs.
James Howell Proctor, Of Boston. She
is q sister of Amory L. Haskell ard
Miss Margaret r. Haskell, who has not
been introduced to society. Mr.. Has
kell is one Of the vice-presiderts of the
! du Pont Powder Company.
Mr.. Fisher is brother Of Mrs.
/ James Lenox Banks, jr., who was mar
ried early in the fall at Oyster Bay.
He is grandson on his mothers side
Of Henry NJ. Partridge, founder and
= first president of the Second National
Bank Of Elmira. His great-great-uncle,
| tie Rev. John Hart, was the first
graduate Of Yale 70 receive a 3. A.
Mr.. Fisher was graduated from Yale,
| class II, and is a member of the PIP
/ ing Rock, Riding and Driving, Seawsn-
/ haka Corinthian and other clubs. no
date has been set for the wedding.
The annual Junior League entertain
ment for charity will be given at the
Waldorf-Astori on January 23, % and
| % Around the Clock is the name
given to the affair and it will consist
OF a pantomime and dancing. in which
many Of the deoutantes will be seea'
The officers of the Junior League TINS
year are Miss Helen Hoadley, presi-
dent; Miss Mary Post, secretary, and
Miss Margaret Mason, treasurer
Here's TO the Girl" a musical com
,dy. book and lyrics by Miss Grace K.
Henry and John K. Hodges, with music
BY Vinton Freddy, was given last
night at the Plaza and will be repeated
this evening for the benefit ot the
Grosvenor Neighborhood House. The
cast was made up Of young men ana
women of society and the performance
was a most creditable one.
The principal roles were taken by
Miss Mimi Scott. Miss Amy Bradlsh
Johnson. Miss Helen Hoadley. Miss
Grace Bristed. Miss Betty Carson, John
Hodges, Reginald Townsend, Henry
Sturgis and Curtis Brown. Others IN
the cast were Miss Nina Paris, MISS
Caryl Hackstaff, Miss Constance De
Lapov. Miss Genevieve Sanford, Miss
Mary Colt. Miss Geraldine Adce, MISS
frances Ballard, Miss Jeanette Jen-
rings, Miss Helen James. Miss RANGES
Field, Miss Katharine Eckstem, MISS
lane Gourd, Miss Lila Lancashire, MISS
Clara Lee. Miss Margaret Mason, MISS
Annette Moran, Miss Sylvester Moreh'
Miss Nina Ryan. Mrs. Henry l.: SIurgls,
Miss Noemi Townsend. Miss Margare;
Trevor, Miss Adelaide Wilmeldlne'
Miss Lena Wyeth, Henry ;. Sturg's'
Roderick Tower ana Albert +. Picker
nell. There was dancing after the
performance. -
charge of the ushers and programme
oirls. who included Miss Louise Butter,
Miss Mary SchieTelm, Miss Gretchen
Dsmrosch, Miss Polly Damroseh, MISS
Tulia Gilbert. Miss Katherine Lamont,
Miss Margaret p. Luce, Miss Peggy La
FARCE Miss Elizabeth Sabln, MISS
Eelen Bvrne. Miss Helen Flake and
Miss Marjorie Cleveland.
There we're booths about the room
where candy, cigarettes. flowers, etc''
we're sold. Mrs. james LenoX BANKS
ir. was in charge Of the candv BOOM;
MSS Coliue VI. lngersoll AMI MISS r.
Jarvis Wyeth, Of cigarettes MISS
Louise VI. Herrick and Miss Prlseliilla
Bartlett. Of the soda fountain MiSs
dorothy Anderton, Of flowers, ana MIS-
Gertrude Mali was chairman oil inc
supper committee
The entertainment committee con-
,;s,od ~ Miss Margaret c. Overton,
chairman; Miss Catherine D.. Coi''
trcasurer: Miss Caramai Carroll, pub
Iicit,. Miss Augusta p. Dixon, pro-
e,rsr1ne. Miss Margaret Mason, adver-
fisements. and Miss Noemi Townsend,
Miss Charlotte G.. Wyeth is the resi-
don't suoerintendent Of Grosvenor
Neighborhood House, which as organ
ized in 1915 by a group OF girls for
mcrly interested in the work carried
ON in the Kip's Bay district, who felt
that wide field existed for work
among the older children Of that neigh
borhOOd.
Miss Brenda Germaine Taylor,
daughter of Sir Frederick and Lady
Williams-Taylor, will he married to
Frank Duff Frazier, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank p. Frazier, of II West
Fiftv-seventh Street, this city, to-day,
~ the home of the brides parents, IN
Montreal, Quebec. Many New Workers
have gone TO Canada for the wedding.
More than $4,000 was raised by the
entertainment given at the Strand The
atre last Friday for the benefit OF the
service corps of the American Ambu-
lance in France.
Miss Isabel Stettnius, daughter Of
Nh and Mrs. Edward X. Stettinius, of
10 East Seventy-third Street, gave
luncheon yesterday at Sherry's for
Miss Grace Montgomery.
Mrs Cornelius c. Cuyler will give a
dance tonight at Sherry's for Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Copper Lord. who were mar
ried few months ago.
Miss Wealthy Hewitt gives dinner
and theatre party tonight for Miss
Geraldine Condit Hall.
Miss Kathleen Burke will give a
lecture for the benefit of the American
Ambulance Hospital this afternoon az
the home of Mrs. W. K Vanderbilt, go
Fifth Avenue.
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