New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Festival of Music
Is Growing Event
I'm the Berkshires
Reception Closes Series of
Concerts Staged by Mrs.
F. S. Coolidge i'm Temple
ON South Mountain
Special Dtspotoh to Tho Tribune

Special Dtepdtcb to Tho Tribune
LENOX, Mass, Sept. 25.-Mrs. Fred
erick s. Coolidge's third annual music
festival which came to close this
afternoon at her temple Of music on
South Mountain In Pittsfeld, was pre-
eminently tho great event Of the sea-
son in the Berkshires. Five concerts
! were given by the Berkshire and Lon-
don string quartets, Carlos Salzedo's
harp ensemble, Efrem Zimbalist, vio-
lin, and John Powell, piano. Fran
cesco Malipiero's $1,000 prize winning
string composition was played by the
Berkshire quartet this afternoon. This
quartet, maintained for four years by
Mrs. Coolidge, disbanded tonight.
Mrs. Coolidge issued $500 invita-
tions to the entertainments. Some Of
the most prominent musicians and So
ciety folk Of the country were In the
audiences. The festival closed with a
brilliant reception at the Maplewood
Hotel this evening.
Mrs. Coolidge's temple Of music Is
on the southern slope of the forest
covered mountain. 1t is open to the
roof, which is supported by huge oak
tlmbers IL inches square and "a feet
long. The walls are Of rough boards
and heavy timbers. The seats are cush-
Toned pews from church in New
Hampshire. A crescent shaped arcade
connects Mrs. Coolidge's Swiss villa
with the rehearsal hail, and near by are
four little white bungalows that bear
the poetic names Of Blue Bird, Bum
blebee, Apple Tree and Wild Rose
The Berkshire Quartet has occupie
these cottages for four seasons.
Three society weddings in the hill
this month are to be followed by three
silver wedding anniversaries within ten
days. Mr.. and Mrs. Carl A. de Gersdorff,
of New York, were the first to celebrate
with dinner party at Orchard Hill,
! their villa, in Stockbridge tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Sedgwick are
to observe their anniversary on Octo-
Der and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hollis
ter Pease on October 4.
Four generations were present at the
dinner of Mr.. and Mrs. de Gersdorff.
They included her mother, Mrs. Fred
eric GrGwninshield; Mr.: and Mrs: Fred
eric j; Bradlee jr, Of Boston; Mr.. and
Mrs: D. Percy Morgan jr., Casper A.
de Gersdorff. Mrs. Joseph H. Choate,
Miss Mabel Choate, Miss Edna II. Bar
ger, Miss Margaret M. Choate, Miss
Mary K. Choate, Francis W. Crownin-
shield, Edward Augustus Crownin-
shield, Mr.. and Mrs. Sedgwick and Mr..
and Mrs. Pease.
A tea and luncheon were among the
entertainments given during the week
by Mrs. Sedgwick for Miss Katherine
S. Colby and Miss Frances B. Colby,
daughters Of the Secretary of State,
cambridge Colby and Mrs. Colby.
Mrs: Edith Parsons Morgan and Mr..
and Mrs. Newbold Morris were among
those who gave dinners this week for
Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald K. Mackay,
OF Paris, who are passing a month at
Curtis Hotel. Mrs. Giraud Foster and
Mrs. John Stewart McLennan gave
luncheons for them.
MIR. and Mrs. Wright Barclay, of
New York. are at the Curtis, as are
Mrs. Lindsay Russell, Miss Fannie Rus.
sell, Miss Frances Ogden, Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence W. Bowen, Of New York, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Browning. of
Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dexter Blagden, of New
York, and Give B. Meredith, of Cazeno-
via, N. Y. are at the Maplewood Hotel
in PittsfeId
Mrs. Robert Cooper Townsend, of
Oyster Bay. and DR.. and Mrs. E. Ross
Faulkner, of New York, are at Heaton
Hall in Stockbrdge. Mr.. and Mrs.
Graham X. Mellen returned to Brooklyn
Tuesday after passing the season at
the hall
Mrs. BENJAMIN Prince and Mrs. Ed
ward Holbrook, of New York; Mr.. and
Mrs. William H. Wanamaker, Mrs.
Robert D. jerks and Miss Nancy R.
Caperton. of Philadelphia, are at the
Aspinall Hotel
Arrivals at the Red Lion Inn at
stockbridge include Commander Fred
F: Rogers. U. S. NJ, and Mrs. Rogers.
OF Washington, and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Du Bois and Francis H. Kin
nicutt, Of New York,
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