The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27
NUPTIALS END THE GAYEST
WEEK IN CAPITAL SINCE i. S. ENTERED WAR
Army and Navy Dance and Dixie Ball. Both Brilliant
Affairs, Are Attended by Most of the Socially Prom
!. nent People Who Are Now in Washngton---Dates
Are Announced for Some Important Weddings

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a boutonniere from the White House
Conservatives. sent by order OF the
President and Mrs. Wilson by way of
compensation for their inability to be
present and for Mrs. Wilson not flgur-
ing at the top of their list Of patron
esses-which was headed by Mrs.
| Burleson.
| 1t was the sixteenth annual Dixie
| Ball and as brilliant as any in the his
tory Of the organization. And 1t was
rather an early bali, the guests whose
energies were unfiagging going on out
| to the marine barracks, which was a
much later party.
Third Dance.
There was yet another dance duo
Monday night-the third of the series
of very successful small and exclusive
Monday dances for the Free Milk for
France Fund, which Miss Newlin has
been engineering at the Club de Vingt.
1t really belonged last week, but it was
decided not to have any during holy
week. Then when 1t was realized that
there were two big annual dances
which had for years been given on
Easter Monday, It was decided not to
attempt anything more in that line
that night, and the free milk for
France dance was put off until Thurs
day.
These dances have made a great hit.
They have been purposely kept rather
small and select, cards-being sent
chiefly to the smart young peoples set
that plays around together-the debu-
tantes of the last two or three seasons.
and their chosen cavaliers and limited
to not more than two or three hundred
for each dance. The last of the series
is to be held next Monday.
Thursdays was rather more care
fully got up than the two earlier ones
had been. 1t was a bal masque-not
too closely masque, however-and in
the apple orchard setting quantities
OF Easter lilies added beauty and fra
GRANGE and Easter atmosphere" And
the young people had a perfectly beau
tiful time. winding up with n clever
midnight frolic "revue"-"all same
like" the Follies on the roof OF the
New Amsterdam in New York.
Capt. X. r. Glen of the British EN-
bassy coached the girls for that, and
they put on two performances. one at
1880 and ore at 12:30-a really good
little entertainment with catchy music
and clever dances, the girls taking
part, including Miss Polly Brooks, Miss
Olyve Graef. Miss Margaret Decide.
Mildred Bromwell. Marie Sims, Anna
Hamlin, Catherine Lester. Betty Bur
nett. Ruth Wilson, Margaret Harding.
Leila Gordon. Eleanor Johnston. Ruth
Hitchcock. Virginia Eckels and AIDE
laide futile.
The hostesses Thursday night were
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood and
Mrs. Arthur Graham Glasgow, as
sisted by Miss Nancy Lane, Miss
Frances Hampson, Miss Ruth Wilson
and Miss Newlin.
Then on Friday night there was the
first annual dance of the Aviators Club
at Wardman Park Inn, at which, as
one of them put It, aces danced with
queens, and for which elaborate prep
arations had been made. And there
was yet another dance scheduled for
last week, which didn't happen. and
that was one planned by the officers
of the Eleventh Cavalry stationed at
Fort Myer. They We're ordered up to
New York to take part in the Victory
Loan drive there.
About the smartest affair OF the
week was a benefit engineered by Nine.
Grouitch, wife OF the Serbian Minis
ter, for the aged mother of DR.. Harry
Cooke, a brilliant young American
physician who died fighting the typhus
scourge in Serbia. 1t took the form
of one Of Dorothea Spinney's very
artistic readings Of classic drama; in
this case the Trojan Women" OF
Euripides, given on Tuesday night at
the Breckenridge Longs out on Six
teenth street. It was not a large
gathering, but it was n very smart
one, with n corps OF ushers drawn
from all the embassies and legations
in town pretty nearly, and including
Gen. Collardet, NJ. l.. de Sartiges and
NJ. Blondel OF the French Embassy,
the Duke di Sangro and Andrea
Celesia de Vegliasco OF the Italian,
Capt. Glen, Henry Getty Chiffon,
Robert Spear Hudson OF the British,
Commander Uyeda of the Japanese,
Count Goren Rosen and Count Nils
Rosen and so on through the whole
diplomatic list.
The story of DIR. Cook.
The Longs themselves were not
there. They lent their house, but they
themselves We're at Pinehurst for
Easter week. Nine Grolitch made a
nice little preliminary talk. telling of
the heroic service OF Dr. Cook and of
the pathetic situation of his mother.
1t seems that he was one of those
brilliant sons of poverty who trod a
thorny path to success. His mother
had worked hard to help him realize
his ambitions and get through college.
Then he had won a scholarship which
sent him to Paris to study under Pas
tour. He was regarded as one of the
most promising young bacteriologists
ever sent out from Columbia Cniver-
sity. Then while he was still in Paris
the war came. or course he went in
TO help where he could, but the battle
front In France was not the place
where bacteriologist was most use
full. So when he heard of conditions
in the Balkan countries, where the
pestilence was adding its horrors to
war, he wrote his mother explaining
to her that that was where he was
needed. and that he must go, not dis
guising the danger but seeing clearly
the duty.
He went-snd did splendid work.
and died there. And after many
months, when Nine Grouitch had