New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
October Weddings
Interest Fashionable Folk
Miss Mary Alexander and Sheldon Whitehouse
Will Be Married on Thursday; CottonCriffin
Nuptials Another Society Event of This Week

Always popular with brides, October
promises to be especially so this year,
and both in and out of town many
fashionable weddings will take place
One of the interesting weddings Of the
week will be that of Miss Mary Crocker
Alexander, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles B. Alexander. She will be mar
ried Thursday TO Sheldon Whitehouse,
secretary Of the American Embassy in
Paris. The wedding will take place
in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church and will be followed by a,recep-
tion at the home of the brides par
ents, West Fifty-eighth Street. Miss
Alexander will be attended by her sis
ter, Mrs. Arnold Whitridge, who will
serve as matron of honor. The ~ushers
will be Henry Whitehouse, william
Fitz Hugh Whitehousc, Percy r. Pyne
2d, Buell. Hqllister, Charles L. Law
renee, Stuyvesant Fish jr., Edmund
Pendleton Rogers and Lydig Hoyt.
Another wedding on Thursday will
be that of Miss Helen de Forrest Grif-
fin to Hugh Cotton. 1t will take place
in st. Bartholomew Church and will
be followed by the usual reception at
the home of the brides father. DR..
Henry A. Griffin. 81 Park Avenue.
Old New York society will be repre-
orf fnd Co$ IL
Miss Caramai Carroll, daughter of the
late General Howard Carroll and Mrs.
Carroll, to ]. T. Johnston Mali. son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre Mali, of Fifth
Avenue. The wedding will take place
in the Irvington Presbyterian Church
at vington-on-the-H Hudson and will be
followed by reception at Carrollcliff.
the country home of the brides mother
at Tarrytown. There will also be a
large representation OF the Junior
League at Miss CAROLS wedding, for
since her graduation from the Spence
School she has been one of its most
popular members, and, it might also be
added, one of its most active ones. She
always has been interested in the vari-
Gus entertainments given by the league
for charity and also has done her share
Of its general philaathropic work. Dir.
Mali, who was graduated in 1905 from
Yale, served for two years in France
with the A. (. F. He is a grandson of
the late John Taylor Johnston. for
whom he was named. His father has
been Belgian Consul General in New
York for some years. He is nephew
of j. Herbert Johnston.
In the chanrry Of ST. Thomas's
Church Saturday afternoon Miss Madge
Raymond Lesher, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Lesher. of 565 Park
Avenue, will be married to Charles 8.
Barlow jr. Miss Lesher will have her
sister, Mrs. Wayne Z. Connor, for her
matron of honor, and her cousin, Miss
Geraldine Boardman. for her maid of
honor. She also will have two brides
Constance De Lanoy. Mr.. Barlow will
have Henry n. Polhemus for his best
man, and the ushers will be Wayne E.
Connor, Edward H. Babcock jr.. Edward
H. Shea and Charles " Benner. The
ceremony will be performed by the
rector. the Rev. DR.. Ernest N. Stires.
and will be followed by reception at
the home Of the brides aunt, Mrs.
Sewall Boardman, % East Seventy
eighth Street.
Saturday viii also bring the wedding
OF Miss Clover Todd, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Alfred Todd, of s24
/ West End Avenue. to Allen Walsh
Dulles, of Washington. II will be an