New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Miss Mary V. Pyle
Engaged to Marry
Albert Spalding
Was Active in War Work;
Fiance Noted Violinist
and Served in Italy as
Pilot in Y. S. Air Service

Mrs. William Scott Pyle. Of 375 Park
Avenue. who Is now at her country
place a. Bernardsville. n. j., has an
nounced the engagement Of her daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Vsnderhoef Pyle, TO
Albert Spaldng. the noted American
violinist, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. WAL
ter Spalding. Of New York and Flor
ence, Italy. Miss Pyle has been active
in philan.hrop.c work for several
years and at the opening OF the war
she devoted her attention to the Ma
tional League for Women's Service
and took part in the drive for $3.50, 900
in February, 1918. being a member Of
Mrs. Lyttleton Fox's division. Her
father died in February. 1906. She Is
a sister Of William Scott Pyle, who was
graduated from Princeton in 1911.
Mr.. Spaldlng was born in 1888 and
was educated in Chicago. New York,
Paris and Florence. Much of his
youth was spent in the last named city
ard he studied the violin there. He
made his debut in Paris on June 8.
1905, and in this country at Carnegie
Hall, November 8, 1905.
He laid aside his violin when this
country entered the war and enlisted
in the Air Force Of the United States
Army and saw active service in Italy.
He recently returned from Europe. The
wedding, which will be quiet, will take
place soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Higginson Full
Ter, of New York, announce the en-
gagement Of their daughter. Miss Alice
Clagett Fuller, to Charles Prentice
Goodhue. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
f. Goodhue, of New York. Mr.. Good
hue enlisted in the navy at the out
break Of the war and was honorably
discharged an an ensign.
Miss Katherine Cumnock Blodgett,
who is to marry Morris Hadley, son Of
President Hadley, of Yale University,
on Saturday, at Pride's Crossing,
Mass, will be one of the attendants
at the wedding of Miss Eleanor Cabot,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey
Lowell Cabot, of Cambridge, on
August 16, at the country home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cabot, in Beverly, Mass.
Miss Blodgett, who is daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wood Blodgett, >of
this city, will give dinner on Friday
night for her bridal attendants.
Mrs. Edward Mcvickar, local chair
man of the National League for
Woman's Service, will be hostess at a
tea this afternoon TO mark the open
ing of the new summer reading and
writing room at the headquarters of
the league, 257 Madison Avenue, which
has been loaned to the organization by
Mr.. and Mrs. James Speyer. A musicale
programme will precede the tea
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvanus Stokes, jr.,
have arrived in Newport from Wash
ington, and are guests of Mrs. Stokes's
mother, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, at her
cottage in Harrison Avenue.
Mrs. Newbold Edgar has gone to the
Chatham Bars Inn, Chatham, Mass,
where she will remain for few days
before going to Profile, n. H., for a
month.
Lieutenant and Mrs. James Il. Breese.
jr., are at the Orchard, Southampton,
Long Island, with their young daugh-
ter and Sidney S. Breese.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Speyer have
left their country place at Scar
borough on the Hudson for trip to
the Pacific Coast.
Mr.. and Mrs. Junius S. Morgan, have
opened their house at Locust Valley,
Long Island, for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jordan L. Mott, who
had been living at the Hotel Chatham,
have gone to Newport for the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Aspegren, who
were at Southampton. Long Island. for
a few weeks, left there yesterday for
a six weeks trip in the West.
Miss Amy Townsend has gone to
Newport, where she will spend the
greater part OF the summer.