The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27


then settled itself to enjoy Miss Spin
ney's remarkable reading-the pecu-
liarly appropriate presentation OF the
woes of Hecuba. and Andromache,
and Cassandra-the woes that came
to women in the wake of war.
The Dutch Minister and Nine.
Cremer had box, entertaining Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas J. OBrien, and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Getty Childton. Mrs.
Charles Boughton Wood had n box,
having Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Halves
and Miss Antoinette Graves from New
York. who are her house guests. Prob
ably Secretary and Mrs. Lane. who
sat for q while in the back of the
room, really belonged in that boy
they very often are with Mrs. Wood
but coming rather late they took back
seats rather than disturb any one.
Nine. Grouitch. OF course. enter
tanned box party. chiefly OF the Ser
bian Legation staff. and the Walter
Schoelkopfs, from Buffalo, who are
her rather particular friends, had a
box. So did Mrs. Matthew Scott, hav-
ing with her her son-in-law, Carl
Vrooman, Just back from France.
where he went on an important agri-
cultural mission, he having been until
recently Assistant Secretary of Agri-
culture.
Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey.
President General of the d. A. r. also
had box. and had a party of "Daugh-
ters'-of the Revolution and of 1879
having just come from a banquet of
the latter organization, which holds
its annual convention the week fol-
lowing that of the d. A. R.-among
them Mrs. Edward L. Harris of Cleye-
land. State Regent of the Ohio d. A.
K, who stayed on after the annual
Continental Congress of that body to
attend the annual meeting Of the
Daughters of 1872, which was in ses-
sion early this week, and to attend the
board meeting o: the ID. a. Il. on
Monday.
Others noted in the audience were
Louise Delano, looking very pretty
and wonderfully like her handsome
mother. who was with her; Cant.
and Mrs. Austin kautz, and Mrs.
kautz's mother, Mrs. Hovey: Mrs. Ju-
Ian James. Mrs. Russell Leffingwell,
DIR. and Mrs. William Miller Collier,
Miss Amaryllis Gillett, Dr. Tom VIII
Jams. Miss Ruth Wilson. Miss GLADYS
Hinckley, Miss Carolyn Nash, Mrs.
Charles Cromwell and Miss Mildred
Cromwell. Miss Elizabeth Grinnell,
MIR. and Mrs. Truxtun Beals and any
number of the Central and South
American diplomats and their wives
and daughters.
It's taken a long time 20 get TO
Washington's one Easter bride, pretty
little Brooke Russell, but you see she
isn't a bride at this writing, though
she will be by the time you read it.
She is to marry John Dryden Kuser at
st. Johns Church at O'Clock this
oSaturday) afternoon. Bishop Hard
Ing will perform the ceremony, with
DR.. Roland Cotton Smith assisting. !,
happens that Bishop Harding. while
he was rector of st. Johns, OBLIGATED
at the wedding OF Brooke's parents,
Col. and Mrs. John NJ Russell, L. S.
NJ. C., and at each of Mrs. Russell's
three sisters in turn. So. of course. he
must offic!ate at this wedding too.
Inc clans have been gathering for
1t for the last ten Gays, and this week
there have been parties for the alb
surdly young bride-she is only lust
Nv and not yet "out"--and he is still
in Princeton. and after the wedding
is to go back and finish out the term
while his bride stays with his parents
Col. and Mrs. Andrew Kuser. at Ber-
hardsvlile' n. j., until he graduates in
June. Then they are TO start off on
good, long wedding trip-around the
world. I believe.
There are to be eight bridesmaids
anna Hamlin, Olyve Graef, Mildred
Bromwell. Elizabeth Grinnell and Leila
Gordon of Washington and Miss Avs
Emo or Princeton, Miss Mary Lorillard
o. New York a d Miss Mary Cameron
OF staten Island. Miss Emo has besn
mere for n week, visiting her uncle
William Phelps Emo. Miss LorilIard
and two or three of the ushers are tho
guests Of the Hamlins, and Miss Cam
eron is for the present visiting Mr.
ana Mrs. Judah Sears and Is TO he the
guest Tor few days of Capt. and Mrs.
feTry Belmont, who have had Mrs.
Charles II. Marshall of New York with
them this week.
waiter Chappell OF New York Is IN
be best man, ana all the ushers-.John
kuser, a cousin Of the bridegroom.
Alan Hartman, Cocter Schnrmerhorn
Anson Taylor Merrill Chopin, Jorvis
cromwell and Meredith Pync-arr
New Workers except John Hartman.
VINO Is OF Washington. Little Miss
Mary Cottman, "A cousin OF the bride
niue daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
rlngton Cottman of Baltimore. will ha
flower girl. "'' '
a good part of the wedding marty
We're at the bal masque at the CIub
Vingt on Thursday night Miss
oiyVe Graef having previously enter
famed there at dinner for little Miss
husseL. Mildred Bromwel had
Planned a party for them tho Same
night but put hers off-and il Is 10
De supper tonight after the wedding
Yesterday afternoon Elizabeth Grim
neil gave tea for the bride, with the
wedding party largely In evidence o,
course, and Anna Hamlin entertained
them at dinner. Anna Hamlin, by
the way, goes up to Boston to-mor-
row for week, so next weeks parties
must get along without one OF the
most popular of the seasons debu-
tantes.
Another "Sub-Deb" Bride.
There is to be another sub-deb
bride on Monday when Beatrice Fair
IaN marries Lieut. Theodore F.. Chan
dler, l. s. n. The wedding is to take
place at ethIebap1 ('ba,aI NI,...a...