New-York tribune., 1920-02-18

Mrs. Frederic
She was married yesterday in St. j
Seventy-third Street. She
Miss Betty Wolcott Merchant. Miss
Juliet Longfellow, Miss Louise Cum
ningham and Miss Lee Phillips Fowler
The queen was attended by her ladies'
ln-walting and maids of honor, Miss
Edna Hoyt Miss Marie Leary, Miss
Eleanor Francke. Miss Marie Clapp.
Miss Ada Heinze, Miss Adelaide Bed
dali, Miss Cameron Edison and Miss
Madeleine Reece. In her train was
also a dignified grand duchess, Miss
Muriel Oakes, who not only was
dressed TO fit the part. but looked it
as we'll. The kings pages We're Miss
Grace Crossman and Miss Virginia
Sterly, and his knights. who ranged
themselves around the throne, were
Robert Adams jr, Stephen T. Hodgman,
John Newington, Henry W; Cohu, shel-
don Albeit. Emerson MacMillin, Barn
we'll Elliott and L. P. Hollander.
The coronation took place in the ball
room, which was the scene of the
pageant, and ~of several attractive fea-
lures given during the evening by pro-
fessionals. These included numbers
from "Aphrodite" as we'll as the Zieg-
field Frolics. The Columbia University
Jazz band, made up Of fraternity men,
played for the dancers, and there was
another orchestra, which furnished the
more formal music. including that for
the court minuet, in which the knights
and court ladies took part
Patronesses of the Ball
Mrs. James Harmon Dinwidde was
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee, and was assisted by a number
of other we'll known women. including
the patronage Of Mrs. Algernon Sydney
sullivan, president of the Southern In
dustrial Educational Association; Mrs
William Nelson Cromwell, Mrs. Jesse
Hoyt, Mrs. John Henry Hammond, Mrs.
Frederick Courtlandt Pentield, Mrs.
Richard I. Auchmuty. Mrs. John Bovine
Mott. Mrs John Ames Mitchell. Mrs.
William II. Moore, Mrs. Samuel Pro
basco, Mrs. Henry II. Rogers, Mrs. Gill
M. and Mrs. l.. j. Robertson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Stewart Mr. and Mrs.
Theodore Price, Miss Katherine Du
Bois and Miss Anne II. Van Ingen.
Programs were sold by Miss Marion
Tiffany. Miss Geneveve Clendenin,
Miss Fdyth McCooK, Miss Grace Hen
drick, Miss Adelaide Kelly, Miss Isabel
MacMillin and Miss Zillah Thompson,
who was the queen Of the carnival
several seasons ago.
Edward Simmons Hall was chairman
of the floor committee and had the as
sistance of &. Gilbert Scherme rhorn,
Arthur S. Schermerhorn, Mortimer ?.
Arnold r. G.. Ingersoll Brown, Jere
miah Beall, Alexander Hamilton jr.,
Charles S. Butler, p. Gilbert Thebaud,
Lawrence S. Butler, Charles Elliot
Warren, J. Ferris Simmons and Mar
eel Steinbrugge.
Society and the stage joined forces
earlier in the day at the Longacre
Theater, where Oscar Wilde's play,
THE Importance of Being in Earnest"
which was recently given for charity,
was repeated by several of societys
clever amateur actresses, who had pro
fessional support. The affair was for
the benefit of the Seaciff Home for
Convalescent Babies, of which Mrs
the Fresh Air Fund OF the Church of
the Heavenly Rest. Mrs. Herbert
Shipman, the wife Of the church's
rector appeared in curtain raj ser,
The Ninth Waltz" with Norman Ire
vor. Mrs James Lowell Putnam, Mrs.
Joseph p Thomas, Mrs. Newell W.
Tilton and Miss Elsa Maxwell, who
comprised the original cast of the per
formance on February /, repeated their
previous success, with the assistance
of Ernest Glendinning, 7. Wigney
Percyval, Reginald Mason and Eric
Snowden. The program committee was
in charge of Miss Marion Tiffany, who
was assisted by Mrs. Anthony j.
Drexel Biddle jr, Mrs. Dave H. Cod
dington, Mrs. Rawson Wood, Mrs. > Ohm
Wanamaker jr., Mrs. Angler b: Duke,
Mrs. Craig Biddle, Miss Elsie Everett
and Miss Genevieve Clendenin.
The Carry-On Tea Room was buster
than ever Yesterday afternoon. for in
addition TO providing good cheer Tor
Fifth Avenue shoppers who dropped in
for their Orange Pekoe and crumpets,
there was sale for the benefit OF the
Social Service Committee OF the
babies wards Of the Post Graduate
Hospital Everybody had rummaged
through her books and silver, pct
ures and bric-a-b brac for the occasion,
and in addition there We're useful artl-
cles on sale Women's frocks and
hats, mems clothes, even shoes, were
disposed of at attractive prices Tor the
I benefit of the deserving charity Mrs.
j. Henry Alexandra jr. was chairman
of the entertainment committee, which
included music and dancing, and as,
sisting her were Mrs. Courtlandt
Nicoll, Mrs Lewis Gouyerneur Morris,
Mrs N. Thayer Robb, Mrs. n. Pendle-
ton Rogers. Mrs NJ. Orme Wilson jr.,
Mrs Charles de Rham jr., Mrs. Henry
r. Hoyt, Mrs. Postlethwaite Cobb, Mrs.
Hamilton Fish Benjamin, Mrs. Charles
C. Auchincloss, Miss Margaret A Stew
ard, Miss Helen Rives, Miss Katherine
Porter, Miss Eleanor L. r. Lawrence,
Miss Ruth King. Miss Dorothy Kane