New-York tribune., 1920-03-05
Miss Higgins
To Be Bride of
Durant F. Ladd
Jersey City Girl Is Engaged
to 26th Division Officer.
. Who Was Invalided Home
as Result Of His Wounds
Miss Schmid Betrothed
Hugh Walpole to Deliver
Farewell Lecture at
AeOlian Hall on March III

Former Judge and Mrs. Frank X.
Higgins. of Glenwood Avenue, Jersey
City. announce the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Naomi Millciot
Higgins, to Durant Ferson Ladd. Mr..
Ladd served in France with the c6th
Division as machine gun officer, and
was invalided home as a result of
wounds received in action. Recently
he returned from the African coast.
where he was employed by the govern
ment investigating trade and shipping
Mrs. George U. Ladd, of Worcester,
Mass.
The marriage of Miss Adele Haskell
to Samuel j. Orr, of Savannah, Ga, will
take place tomorrow at noon at her
home in Rochelle Heights, New Ro-
chelle. Miss Haskell, who is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William c.
Haskell. will have her cousin, Miss
Hazel kells. for her maid of honor and
only attendant. After brief honey
moon in Washington and visit to the
bridegroom's home Mr.. and Mrs. Orr
will live in New Rochelle. Mr.. Orr
served during the war as lieutenant
of the Coast Artillery, and saw serv-
ice in France. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Gustavus j. Orr, of Savan-
nah, Ga.
Miss Esther Louise Denny. daughter
Of Colonel and Mrs. Thomas Denny.
will be an Easter bride. Her marriage
to Dr.. Dean d. Glen Smith. of Schenec-
tady, will take place on Easter Mon
day, April 5, at the home of her par
ents, 81 East Sixty-second Street.
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Emeline Elsie
Schmid, daughter of Mrs. Charles
Philip Schmid, of % Beekman Place.
to William Ciaxton Dooris, of Mask,
India Miss Schmd will sail next
month for India, where her fianc6 is
engaged in engineering work for the
British government. After an extended
honeymoon, which will include a trip
through Egypt, Mr. Dooris and his
bride Wi. live in Mask and Bombay.
Miss Schmid is a member of the Gamma
Tau Kappa Sorority. Mr. Dooris be-
longs u Theta Delta Chi, Hobart Col
lege. 04. He is member of the Bonn
bay Yacht Club and prominent in the
British Colony at Bombay.
Miss Lorita Christian, daughter of
Dr.. and Mrs. Eugene Christian, Of
Forest Hills Gardens, Long Island, was
married last evening in the Church
in-the Gardens, to Myron James
Folensbee. The ceremony was per
formed by the Rev. Robert ]. Kent and
reception for $50 persons followed at
the home of DR.. and Mrs. Christian.
Miss Phyllis Salmon was the maid of
honor and the bridesmaids were Miss
Marguerite Van Houten, Mrs. j. D. Nc
Mutt and Miss frankie Johnson. Little
Corinne Greene was the flower girl
Robert ". Searle served as best man
and the ushers were Franklin O.
Church, A. Willard Vorhees and Dean
{. Jenkins
Hugh Walpole, who has been passing
fortnight at Palm Beach with Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, will
make his farewell appearance on the
lecture platform on March II, when
ne ne Will speak at Aeolian Hall on
treating Novel;" in which he will
tell of his Russian experiences. owen
Johnson will preside. Mr.. Walpole
VIII appear under the patronge Of Mrs.
1harles I. Barney, Mrs. Arthur Scott
burden, Mrs. James A. Burden jr.,
Miss Mabel Choate, Mrs. James Cush'
man, Mrs. Carl A. de Gersdorff, Mrs.
William \. Delano, Mrs Newbold lie
10Y Edgar, Mrs. Frank Gray Grswold.
Lady Herbert, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss
sames, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs.
Ihomas ". Lamont, Mrs. Philip M. Ly
a.ig, Mrs. Walter f. Maynard, Mrs.
,onde Mast, Mrs. H. Fairfield Osborn.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt jr, Mrs. John Sanford, Mrs.
herbert l.. Sattcrlee, Mrs. William
1rouglas Sloane, Mrs. Willard D.
Straight, Mrs. Joseph B. Thomas Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Whitney
Warren, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney.
Miss Mary Hoyt Wiborg, Mrs. Henry
nnoeers Winthrop and Mrs. William
Woodward
On the honorary reception committee