New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-23
Engagement to w. S. Van
Rensselaer,, Diplomatic
Aid, Is Announced
MADE HER DEBUT
TWO YEARS AGO
Mr.. and Mrs. GuStavus T,
Kirby Give Dance At
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Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Winthrop
Bowen. Of ) East Sixty-third Street,
announce the engagement of their only
daughter. Miss Roxana Wentworth
Bowen, to William Stephen Van Rens-
selaer, youngest son of Mrs. Kiliaen
Van Rensselaer,, Of Is East Sixtieth
Street. Mr.. Van Rensselaer, is seere-
tary of legation of the American En-
bsssy in Rome. lie is a graduate OF
Yale. class '0s, and is member of
the Union Club. He is brother of
Kilaen Van Rensselaer,, OF Mrs. Lewis
b. Gawtry and Of Mrs. Benjamin Wal
worth Arnold, Of Albany.
Mr.. Van Rensselaer's grest-grand-
father was Major General Stephen Van
Rensselaer,, the last PATRON Of the
manor of Rensselaers of Wyck.
Miss Bowen, who made her debut
two years ago, is a graduate Of Miss
Porter's School at Pennington, Conn,
and rs a member of the Junior League.
She is a niece of Herbert Wolcott
Bowen, former Minister TO Venezuela;
of Arthur Sherburne Hardy, former
Minister to Spain, and Of Judge George
c. Holt and a granddaughter of Henry
c. Bowen, founder of "The Indepen-
dent"
On her mothers side Miss Bowen is
a descendant of Sir John Wentworth,
Governor of New Hampshire, and a
Observation-Disclosures of John
1 Wentworth, delegate TO the Continental
Congress and a sgner Of the Articles
of Confederation. Her grandfather was
John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago
when the Prince of Wales, afterward
King Edward VII, visited that city.
If leave Of absence is granted Mr..
Van Rensselaer, the wedding will take
place soon after Easter
Mr.. and Mrs Gustavus T. Kirby gave
a dance last night at their home, Z
East Ninth Street The guests, who
numbered about 175, were mostly young
married couples. There was general
dancing throughout the evening and a
seated supper was served at midnight.
Among the guests we're Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Geer, Mr.. and Mrs. Angler b.
Duke. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Granniss,
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Doubleday, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Low, Mr.. and Mrs. Critten-
den Adams, Mr. and Mrs. John Adams,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Oakley Wander Peel,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hslsted Wander
Peel. MIR. and Mrs. Duncan Sterling,
Mr.. and Mrs. James LenoX Banks, jr.,
Miss Vera Cravath, Miss Margaret
Overton. Miss Gertrude Mali, Miss
Mary r. Haskell, Miss Grace Jenkins,
Lindell T. Bates, William Kirkland and
Joel +. Fisher.
Miss Mabel Garrison. Miss Lucy
Gates. Paul Althouse, Pasquale Amato
and Josef Hoffman were the artists at
Albert Morris Bagby's musical morn
ing yesterday at the Waldorf-Astorla.
The last number on the programme was
from "The lmpresarlo," an operate
version of comedy. with music, en-
titled Der Schauspieldirektor," for
which Mozart wrote the music. In the
original comedy as well as the English
version of the opera, by II. i. kreh-
biel. theatrical manager has two
prima donnas on his hands. who fall
TO auarrelling on the subject Of prec-
edence and privilege. In Mr.. kreh-
biePs version Demoiselle Uhlich is a
Young singer who is seeking an en-
gagement at the theatre managed by
Schikaneder, who is about to produce
"The Magic Flute" Her engagement
is opposed by Nine. Hofer. who is Mo-
zart's sister-in-law and who, in fact,
was the first representative of "The
Queen Of Night" Miss Garrison, Miss
Gates and Mr.. Althouse were in the
cast.
In the audience were Mrs. Charles s.
Whitman, Mrs. Rutherford Stuyvesant,
Mrs. Lewis Chanler, Mrs. John K.
Drexel. Mrs. Bradley Martin, Mrs.
Francis Burial Hoffman, Mrs. Frank
X. Sturgis, Mrs j. Laurens Van Allen,
Mrs. George G. De Witt, Mrs. Reginald
de Koven. General Horace Porter,
Francis Roche. Rawlins Cottenet and
Evert Jansen Wendell.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. lie Roy Whitney, of
127 East Fortieth Street, will give a
dance At Sherry's on February Is for
Miss Constance De Lanoy, the debu-
tante daughter of Mrs. William Cooper
De Lanoy.
Miss Doris Fletcher Ryer, daughter
Of the late Fletcher Ryer, Of San Fran
cisco. will be married this afternoon in
the Church Of the Heavenly Rest TO
Stanhope w. Nixon, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Nixon.
The first performance of the Junior
Leagues. annual entertainment Will be
Given this evening at the Waldorf-As-
toria II is called around the Clock
and shows the day of a New York girl
Of fashion.
Mrs. joseph Palmer Knapp will give
bridge this afternoon at her nome
PAT Fifth Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. George r. Bvrne. OF 80
iCreenridge Avenue. White Plains, an
nounce the engagement of their daugh-
Ter. Miss Clara Louise Byrne TO Harry
Oliver Young. son Of II. A. Young, OF
White Plains.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. lyric Stevens, OF
400 Riverside Drive, are receiving con
gratulations on the birth OF a son on
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Rowland Nash
of "a Gramercy Park, are being con-
graduated on the birth Of a son yes
terday. They are spending the winter
with Mrs. Nash's father, the Rev. AT
thur Huntington Allen.
HIS ARM is HIS FORTUNE
. III Co.u.skfnn Hannana III