The New York herald., 1921-02-27
Moonlight Dances
at Palm Beach
Entertainments Held .Aboard
Yachts-Round of Gave
ties at Resort.


has had a round OF entertainment this
week In many instances there We're
three or more big events on the same
evening. and many persons went from
a dinner party on TO a dance or a musi-
Gale and ended the night at still another
dance, where a scrambled egg breakfast
was served when daylight Nas peeping
through the windows.
The biggest event OF the week. as well
as of the season. was the Washington
Birthday ball given on Tuesday night
at the Royal Poinciana Hotel. which was
attended by some 1000 persons. This
was practically another all night party,
as at the conclusion Of the dancing in
the main ballroom about 2 80. several
hundred persons went to the Palm Room,
where dancing was continued until
nearly daylight.
Moonlight nights added to the pleas
ure of evening parties. Many persons
who had boats also took advantage of
the brilliant nights for sails, with dane
ing and dinner or supper on deck. Mr..
and Mrs. Benjamin RosenthaI were
hosts at one of these events. entertain
ing for their daughters. Miss Elaine
Rosenthal and Mrs. Ernest Byfield.,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vance Storrs also
gave a dinner and dance on board the
houseboat South Wind, their guests en-
joying the while sail on Lake Worth.
and Mr.. and Mrs. George Bernard Cliff
ford of Minneapolis gave a moonlight
boating party. with dinner at Riviera.
In addition to these the regular Wednes-
lay and Saturday night dances at the
Royal Poinciana Hotel were given in the
Cocoanut Grove instead of the ballroom
"A ~, s.ft tHa 1ftao
The Venetian houseboat restaurant
'T Cavallo Marina" which is the in
Innovation of two girls of society. the
Misses Louise and Agnes Clarke, daugh-
ters of Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Clarke of
Philadelphia, also was formally epened
this week, and several moonlight parties
were given there, Mrs David Bigelow
being the first person to entertain on
board.
The tea house at Ell Mirasol. the place
|of Mr.. and Mrs Edward T. Stotesbury.
was also formally opened when party
OF the younger set enjoyed dancing there
with Mr.. and Mrs. James III. r Cron-
well, the son and daughter-in-law OF
Mrs. Stotesbury, as hosts. while the older
members of society paid their respects
Ito Mr.. ard Mrs. Stotesbury at the villa
There were many dinner parties dur
ing the week in the cottage colony. one
being given by Mr.. and Mrs. David Ran
|doph Calhoun at their villa Mariette for
|ATrs. Sylvanus l.. Schoonmaker. Mr. and
Mrs. William rhaw Sd also entertained
lat their Sunset avenue home, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lyman b. Kendall. who have as
their guest Mr.. j. Theus Munds of New
York gave several luncheons and din
|ners, and Mr. and Mrs. E. e Allyne of
cleveland. who have a cottage in Royal
Park. have been giving series OF DIM
|ners at their home.
Mrs. j. Fred Pierson. Jr.. was another
hostess of the week, giving dinner
|party at her villa, and Mr.. Jules Bache
bias been a dinner host on several occa-
|sions at his apartment in Sunset ave-
|nue.
Most important OF the events in the
cottage colony was the celebration Of the
birthday of Mr.. Edward T.. Stotesbury,
(which took the form of buffet luncheon
|given at 1c Mirasol yesterday to which
|some two hundred guests were bidden
|This event has been celebrated at Palm
|Beach every year since the marriage
|of Mr.. and Mrs. Stotesbury, and one OF
1.-THE features of yesterdays entertain
|ment was the motion picture which was
|made of It,
Among the guests We're Mr.. and Mrs.
Willard s. Brown. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
pi. Widener. Mr.. and Mrs Eugene W.
[Pargny, Mrs. r. III. G.. Slater, Mrs.
Horace 70. Dodge, Mrs. Robert c. Black.
|Mr. Joseph Ritter. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
pLowber Welsh, Mrs Charles 1. Cragin,
Mrs. Walter Ebbs. Mr.. and Mrs. f.
|Egerton webb, Mrs. Louis S. Treadwell.
Messrs. H Yale Dolan, William II.
|Beardsley and Henry Ellsworth Bemis.
|Dr. and Mrs. w. Seward Webb. Mrs
y. Borden Hartman. Miss Mary Gwynne,
rfr. and Mrs. j. Leonard Replogle, Mr..
hnd Mrs. Walter j. Mitchell. Mrs. e. NJ.
Breniser, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Pierce
Frazier, Mr.. and Mrs. Leland Sterry,
fIr. and Mrs. William NJ. Scaife, Mrs.
Psawson Lyman Wood Miss Phyllis
walsh. Miss Katherine Force. Mr. and
Mrs. Louis G. Kaufman. Mrs. James
f)eering and Mr. and Mrs. W. Harry
Brown.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah s. Cosden,
NIr. John c. Bell, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
'rozer Mrs. Bryan Lathrop. Miss Cor
bella Adds, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Han
pei. Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. c. A Heckscher
ENetherill, Major and Mrs Barclay War
burton, Mrs Maitland Alexander, Mrs.
alexander Laughlin, Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
lore Frelinghuysen, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
am Thaw Sd, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
|.ewisohn, Mr.. Caleb S. Bragg. Mr.. and
firs. Joseph Dilworth, Mr.. and Mrs
Henry Seligman, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
r.. Thomas and Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
|sraham- White.