New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Engagement of This Sea-
sons Debutante to w. q.
F. Leith Is Announced
p. 7. CATE TO WE'D
MISS HELEN THOMAS
Annual Charity Ball To Be
Held Thursday at the
Waldorf

Another debutante of the season has
just become engaged. At dinner and
dance given last night by Mr.. and Mrs
William Hull Browning at their home
Is West Fifty-fourth Street, formal
announcement was made OF the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Therese D. Browning, TO William &. r
Leith, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. George d.
r. Leith, of Rolling Hill Farm, Thorn
wood. n. Y. Miss Browning was intro
duced to society early In the season
and has been much entertained since
then. Mr.. Leith is a member of the
Union Club. No date has been set for
the wedding.
Mrs. William Clark Thomas, OF $40
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, an
nounces the engagement Of her daugh-
ter. Miss Helen Thomas, 70 Philip
Thurstob Cate. son of Morton ]. Cate
and of the late Mrs Cate, Of Brook
line. Miss Thomas. who is a member
of the 1915 Sewing Class, is grand
daughter of the late Edward Z. Poor
president of the National Park Bank
of this city.
Mr.. Cate is graduate of Harvard
class 10 He spent last winter driving
an ambulance with the American Am
bulance Field Service in Alsace.
Announcement is made of the en-
eagement Of Miss Frances Johnston
Ward. daughter of the late James
Montfort Ward, OF New York. to the
Rev. Malbone Hunter Birckhead, son
of Mrs. William II. Birckhead, of l65
East Sixty-fourth Street, and Newport
RI. Mr.. Birckhead is a graduate oil
Harvard, class '02.
Mrs. ]. I. Moutray. of 400 West llsth
Street. has announced the engagement
of her daughter. Miss Madeleine Mou'
trsv. to J. Henry Bohn. prominent
business man of the Middle West. Miss
Moutray is a lineal descendant OF the
Moultrie family of South Carolina. Sne
is a graduate of Columbia University
Mr.. Bohn is a graduate OF De Pau"
University. The wedding will take
place on April II in Grace Methodist
Church, 104th Street.
Mexican senoritss, cowboys, bandits
soldiers and backfaced comedians VII
be seen at the Brooklyn. Academy Of
Music February 3 when the annua
minstrel show Of the Crescent A. I
will be produced in the afternoon anc
evening. 81,
After the evening show there vii
be supper and dance at the club
More than 200 reservations have peer
made for the supper, which Will d
served on four floors. There will bt
dancing in the gymnasium and dining
room.
A Crescent minstrel favorite of for
MGR years, Oakley Wood, will return
TO the troupe this year as interlocutor
The end men will be Edward W. Dit
mars. Charles +. Donnelly. j. +. Kelly
ir. and James A. Dunno. The ballad
lists viii be Fred j. Cannon, George "
Head, IT., George Evans and the inter
locutor.
Bert Coyle will open the olio with ar
exhibition of sleight-of-hand. The Co
rinthian Quartet will follow: The mem
bers of the quartet are Francis A
Weismann, George w. Deitz, Walter
Koempel and Harry Washburn. This
mart of the entertainment will close
with a panologue by George II. Cart
Ian.
In the musical comedy which closes
the show Edwin II. Bigelow will bt
seen as a sefiorita, James A. Dunno as
an actor out of work, +. W. Bovine a;
a terrible bandit. j. +. Kelly, jr, as
lady reporter, W. NJ. Campbell as
colonel in the United States army, Ed
ward L. Van Sickle as purveyor OF