New-York tribune., 1920-02-12
Bridal Party
Of Miss Gray
Entertained
Her Marriage to Cameron
O'Day Macpherson Will
Take Place Saturday;
Dinner for Miss Emmett
Sale to Aid I'll o p it a /
Society and Stage Unite to
Make ST. Valentine Ball
for Charity a Success

Mics Jeanette Chappell, who will at
...a Miss Laura Blossom Gray at her
r;oce N"w on Saturday to Cameron
n,nar n,T, Macnherson. gave luncheon I
o..ardav 80 at the Ritz Carlton for the I
49, 49, and bridesmaids After the lunch /
oi,se Miss Chappcll took her guests to
eo" ..Irene.. at the Vanderbilt. In the
ss sr,v we're Miss Gray's cousin, Miss
pa,iS, pra,Ss rine lansdon Hill OF Boston;
NJ Macpherson's cousin, Miss Gene
NJ, '.are Stone. Mrs. John ODay, Miss
rstberine Noyes, Miss Elsie Morrill,
and Miss Victorine Kellogg.
Miss Gray's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Min D. Gray. Will continue the enter
ts;ning for the bridal party this eve
r;nr. when they will give theatsr
nerfy. followed by a supper and dance
n the crystal room of the Ritz-Carlton.
they will take their guests to see Otis
er;nner al the Criterion. Mr.. and Mrs.
GRAY have taken suite at the st.
Regis for two weeks.
Another future bride. Miss Elizabeth
w Emmet. was entertained last eve
a;ng by her mother. Mrs. c. Temple
Tmmet. who gave dinner for her at
The Colony Club. Miss Emmet's en-
sseement to Edwin D. U. Morgan jr.
was recently announced. No date has
been set for the wedding.
Under the auspices Of Mrs. Frederic
Nelson. Mrs. Charles James Welsh,
Nrs.,Henry Waters Taft and others, an
auctisn sale was held yesterday for
fhe benefit Of the New Founding Hos
pital. at It's home, 175 East Sixty
eighth Street. The sale will be con-
.inued to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs. William D. Guthrie gave
dinner last evening at their home. 2S
Park Avenue.
In the Brick Presbyterian Church,
Fifth Avenue and Thirty seventh Street,
Mss Barbara NJ. Shedd, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John NJ. Shedd, will be mar
red this afternoon TO Thomas Chan
dler Wayland. the ceremony will be
followed by a reception at the Cosmo-
poltan Club. The matron Of honor Will
he the Countess Salm- Hoogstraeten and
the bridesmaids will be Misc Annette
Davis, Miss Sarah Sturgis, Miss Sylvia
Holt. Miss Priscilla Hustled and Miss
Margaret Geer. Elton S. Wayland will
serve his brother as best man, and the
brides brother, W. G. Thayer Shedd;
james W. i.usted jr.. Shipley Thomas
and Lincoln lsham will be the ushers.
Another wedding to-day Will be that
Of Mss Dorothy vassar Baker, daugh-
ter cf Mrs L. Nassar Baker, of Ballston
Spa, ~ y, to John W. Stafford, of this
CITY. The wedding will take place in
the chapel Of ST. Bartholomews Church
and viii be followed by reception at
the Plaza. Robert X. Stafford will be
his brothers best man, and his ushcrs
will be Mortimer Cobb, Harold SchaIl,
Philip Kaufman and Vladimir Behr.
Mr. Stafford is the son, by former
marriage of Mrs. J. Stafford Murthey,
of $50 Park Avenue. His bride is a
grandniecc of the founder OF Nassar
Collee.
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Carhartt leave
to-day for Palm Beach, where they have
taken cottage at the Everglades Club.
On their way North they will spend a
month at their plantation in South
Carolina. They plan to sail for Europe
early in May and will spend the sum-
mer there.
Following the fancy Of the moment,
society and the stage will unite or
Saturday evening to make the st. Val
eatine fancy dress ball, for the benefit
for Italy, the great success this splendid
charity deserves. Tho dance will be
held at the Hotel Vanderbilt, where the
friends of the society will make merry
in the Della Robbia room. The chorus
from the Midnight Frolic will present
some of the popular numbers now be-
ing given at the New Amsterdam Roof
Theater. Miss Elsie Janis promises t.
tell past, present and future to all
who will cross her palm with silver,
for the benefit Of the war sufferers Of
Italy. Train loads of sufferers from
Vienna are being taken 70 hospitab]e
Italy and sharing the generosity Of
contributors to the fund. Some 10000
Austrian children are being taken care
Of in Italy. Boxes at 500 aad tickets
at s. each may be had at tne Hotel
Vanderbilt and also at the Plaza. Mrs.
John Adams Drake is president of the
organization.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph w Alsop, of
Avon, Conn, viii spend the week end
IN town with Mrs. Asop's mother, Mrs.
Douglas Robinson, at the latter's home,
East SiXtythird Street.
Miss Lucy Aldrich, who since her
return from the Orient has been visit
ing her brotfer-in- law and sister, Mr..
and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, has re-
turned 10 her home at Warwick, r. |.
Mrs Nelson Vanderbilt has gone to
Atlantic City with her daughter, Miss
Cathleen Vanderbilt. They have re-
covered from their recent attacks of
grippe.
Mrs. George w Vanderbilt and her
daughter, Miss Cornelia VANDERBILT, who
spent most of the winter in town, have
arrived at Mimi, Fla, where they will
occupy the Pancoast cottage for the
remainder of the month.
Mrs. William Barbour. of IL West
Fifty-third Street, will give a dinner
and theater party Saturday evening for
Miss Eelen A. Carrere, daughter of
Mrs l.. Sidney Carrere, of 1877 East
Seventy-third Street, and Frederick X.