The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-26

GAY SEASON AHEAD
FOR SOUTHAMPTON
Parties, Dances and Tennis
Week Will Keep Summer
Visitors Busy.
MANY EVENTS IN AUGUST
Colonists Make Trips in Air
planes-Bridge Parties
Are Popular.
MANY EVENTS IN AUGUST
By a star Correspondent o, TEE sus.

SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y, July 25.-Ac-
cording to the present outlook. this will
be the sayest season Southampton has
seen in six years. and now that there
is no dearth of young men there are
many dances in prospect, especially for
next month, when there win be an influx
OF visitors. many of whom will come
for tennis week, which begins August IS.
There are plenty of opportunities for
dancing without waiting for the private
entertainments of next month. The en-
tire summer colony gathers each Satur-
day night at the Meadow Club, coming
from dinners given at the Villas and
also in the club. and these dances will
be kept up next month and the early
part Of September.
At the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
there are dances on Tuesday and Friday
nights and many colonists go there for
tea and music each Thursday afternoon.
1t Is expected that one OF the i'm
portant dances of August will be given
by Clarence II. Mackay at the Orchards,
when he win formally introduce to So
ciety his dauShter, Miss Katherine Mac
kay. Mrs De Lancey Nicoll plans to
give a small dance at her villa, Windy
mere. on Lake Agawam, on the night
OF August IS. and others within the
fortnight from that date will be given
by Mrs. Henry H. Rogers. Mrs. Joseph
r. Dllworth, Mrs. Kurnal r. Rabbit and
Mrs. Percy II. Stewart.
Several Dinner Parties To-day.
Dinners In advance Of the dance at
the Meadow Club tomorrow evening will
be given by Mrs. Henry F. du Pont
and Mrs. Frederick A. Snow in their
respective villas, and by Miss Sarah
Larkin, who will entertain thirty young
people at the club.
Numerous bridge dinners will be given
each week. Mr.. and Mrs F.. Burial
Holman will have one, followed by
bridge, on Thursday. Mrs Charles T.
Barney gave one last Tuesday at the
Meadow Club. Charles Street, who has
had many classes in bridge, has been
Obliged to suspend taem, as he now is II,
the southampton Hospital, where he may
have to submit to an operation.
The quiet and peace of this place is
varied by the almost continual droning
OF airplanes, many of which are flying
about in good weather. Many colonists
have taken advantage OF an opportunity
for an aerial spin. The other day Mrs.
Vincent Mulford made trip. and ehe
insisted her plane was put through all
-
looping the loop and the side slip.
Murray Hoffman, who was in the
service, and one of the four sons of Mr..
and Mrs. II. Burial Hoffman, all of whom
were in the army. has Joined his parents
here In their villa, Eden Classic. He
has resumed his profession Of architect,
and one Of his recent designs is for a
Spanish bungalow for lie Grand 3. Can
non of Tuxedo Park. to be built In Palm
Beach
Mr.. and Mrs. George Arthur Gordon
OF Savannah, Ca, will come here early
next month to pass so.ne time at the
Meadow Club.
Maekays Arrive by Motor.
Clarence H. Mackay. accompanied by
his daughters, the Misses Katherine and
Ellin Mackay. and his son, John w.
Mackay, arrived by motor this after
noon from Harbor Hill, Roslyn, and are
at the Orchards. Mr.. and Mrs. Charl g
II. Alexander of Tuxedo Park, will ar
rive here July 81. and will take the
Schermerhorn East cottage now oc-
cupled by their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Winthrop w. Aldrich, who
are going to Maine for a few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfonso P. Villa of New
York have recently leased the summer
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Clark
who have gone to Cooperstown. N. Y
fotL the remainder of the summer. Mr.
and Mrs Lindsay Russell OF Tuxedo
Park are at the Irving House.
William Sloane Coffin, who was over
seas with the American forces, will de-
liver an address on Sunday evening in
the music room of the Art Museum
when he will tell of the work accom-
plished at home and abroad during the
war by the Y. VI. c. A. A feature OF
Will l.af ain n
els Rogers of camp songs such as &c
gang while in France before many oil
the American troops. Mr.. Coffin is iden'
tified with Southampton summer life. He
is the brother of the Rev. Henry Sloane