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New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Robert Mallory, Former
Shipping Magnate, Dead

Robert Mallory sr.. sixty-hve year
Old and until recently prominent in
steamship circles here, died yesterday
morning at his country home in Port
Chester, N. T., after an illness Of sew
eral years
Mr. Mallory, who was born at Mystic
Conn, was son Of Charles II. Mallory
who founded the Mallory Steamship
Company. With his fathers death Mr.
Mallory became the leading executive
In the concern.
The steamship company, however
was sold in 1907, and with the liquida-
ton Of the marine interests OF the firm,
Mr. Mallory terminated his transporta-
tion activities, but continued as a
director in the Clyde, Ward and Nal
lory companies In 1910 he became a
general partner of Spencer Trask &.
Co, from which firm he withdrew in
1919 because of illness.
He is survived by his wife, a daugh-
ter, Mrs. George E. Hite jr., and two
sons, Robert Mallory jr., partner in
Spencer Trask & Co. and Charles H.
Mallory, of the Munson Steamship
Tiroc
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Funeral Service To-day
For Mrs. H. E. Talcott
Woman Who Was Barnard Col
lege and Y. W. c. A. Founder
To Be Inferred nj Hartford

Funeral services for Mrs. Henrietta
Elizabeth Talcott, philanthropist and
church worker, who died unexpectedly
Wednesday night at her home, West
Fifty seventh Street, will be held at the
residence at $3.50 O'clock tomorrow
morning lnterment will be in the
family vault at Hartford. Conn. Serv-
ices will be conducted by the Rev. Dr..
John Kelmsn, pastor Of the Fifth Ave
nue Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Talcott was seventy years
old and was one Of the founders of
Barnard College and trustee OF that
institution. Several years ago she gave
100000 to cndow q chair at Barnard.
She was a founder OF the Young
Women's Christian Association and a
member OF the board of directors up
TO a few years ago. She also was q
founder of the Ladies' Christian Union.
Liberal financial assistance was given
by Mrs Talcott to the Bible and Fruit
Mission, of which she was president
For forty years Mrs. Talcott was a
member OF the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terian Church. Her husband, James
Talcott. linen importer and commission
merchant, who died five years ago. was
an elder in the church at the time Of
his death
Mrs. Talcott is survived by four chill
dren. They are Mrs. Warner VI. Van
Norden, Mrs. II. RoswelI Bates, J. Fred
ertck Talcott and Frank 4. Talcott
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
His First State Dinner
Cipess by the President
Members of Cabinet and Their
Wires Are the Honor Guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harding

IRON, Thc Irt5uno'S Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15-The Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harding gave their first
state dinner tonight, entertaining in
honor of members Of the Cabinet and
their wives. The combany included
the Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge
the Secretary Of State and Mrs. Hughes
the Secretary of the Treasury and
Miss Mellon, the Secretary of War and
Mrs. Weeks, the Attorney General, the
Secretary Of the Navy and Mrs Denby,
the Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs.
Wallace, the Secretary Of Commerce
and Mrs. Hoover, the Secretary of
Labor and Mrs. Davis, Senator and
Mrs. Irvine L. Lenroot, Senator and
Mrs. Truman Ii. Newberry, Senator
and Mrs. Lawrence c. Phipps, Senator
and Mrs. Coleman du Pont, General
John j. Pershing, representative C.
Bascom Slemp, Representative and
Mrs. Samuel +. Winslow, Representa-
tive Joseph G.. Cannon and Miss Can
non, Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, the Secretary to the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Christian, Mrs. Eugene
Hale, Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Straus, Mrs.
j. G. Batteile, Mrs. James c. Frazer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles c. Clover, Mrs.
Frederick Dent Grant, Chandler Hale,
Bishop John ". Hamilton, Miss Laura
Harlan, Commander and Mrs. +. S.
Holmes, Charles P. King, Miss Patten,
Mr.. and Mrs William McC. Ritter,
Colonel and Mrs. Clarence 0. Sheriff.
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Boyce
Thompson.
Mrs. John Stephens, widow of Briga-
dier General Stephens, U. s. A, pre-
sented her daughter, Miss Corinne de
Garmenddia Stephens, to her friends
at dance at the Washington Club
tonight.
Mrs. Richard s. Hill presented her
daughter, Miss Eleanor Carroll Hill.
TO society this afternoon at a large
tea at the Washington Club.
Mrs. Mahlon Pitney, Nine Wallen-
berg and members Of the executive
committee OF the National Opera Com
mittee, including Mrs. Charles Henry
Butler. Mrs. George Ehle, Mrs. VIII
liam Eric Fowler. Mrs. Mitchell Car
roll, Mrs. J. Townsend Russell, Mrs.
Harvey W. Wiley, Edouard Albion,
president, and George Oakley jr, vice
president, received at the bail this eve
Ming, which was given for the benefit
Of the association at the New Willard.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Club for Episcopal
Young g Girl Students
Planned at Dinner
Bishop Manning, as Guest of
Honor of Churchwoman's
League, Endorses Idea;
Site Near Columbia Univ.

A luncheon in honor of Bishop Will
liam 7. Manning was given by the
Churchwoman's League for PATRIOTIC
Service yesterday afternoon at the
Hotel Commodore.
plea was made for funds to estab-
lish club for Episcopal girl students
in the neighborhood of Columbia Uni
varsity similar to Greer House, in
Greenwich Village. Bishop Manning
commended the plan in the following
words:
THE young girl students, away from
their families and alone in this great
city, need all the help Int can be given
them, and there could .,~ no more prac~
tical expression of tn. Church's inter-
est IN them and care for them than
such a house as you hope to estab-
lish."
The Right Rev. Arthur Seldom Lloyd
and the Right Rev. Herbert shipman
suffragan bishops of New York, also
were honor guests. Mrs Henry Cans
WORT Sanford, president of the do
cesar organization. presided, and there
were brief reports from committee
chalrmen preceding Bishop Manning's
address.
The luncheon committee included
Mrs Stephen Baker, Mrs. Hugh Baxter,
Mrs. John Jay Chapman. -Irs. r. A..
Constable, Miss Rebecca 4 -1auldwell.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Day, Mrs. John
Greenough, Mrs. z. Henry Hartman.
Mrs. Charles G. Kerley, Mrs. Gustavus
Kirby, Mrs. Walter Lambert. Mrs. Jo-
seph I. Low, Mrs. Howard Townsend
Martin, Mrs. Edward McVickar. Mrs.
Henry Mottet, Mrs. John Hill Morgan,
Mrs. s. Howland Russell, Mrs. William
e. Sturgls, Mrs. Samuel Thornc jr.. Mrs.
Lucius K. Wilmerding, Mrs. s. Bryce
Wing, Mrs. 81. Otto Wittpenn and Mrs.
b. Walpole Warren.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Funeral of ]. r. Nugent Held
AT His Home in BrookIvr

Funeral services for John R. Nugent
former Republican leader in the ole
10th Ward in Manhattan, were held
last night at his late home, 81 Sterling
Place, Brooklyn. He died there Tues
day night from heart disease. He was
seventy-nine years old and served with
the 69th New York Infantry in the
Civil War. He was captured and i'm
prisoned, escaped. was recaptured and
exchanged, returning to his regiment.
He was elected Coroner in 1885 and
had been member of the Republican
State Committee. For ten years he was
proprietor of the Morton House. A
wife, son and a daughter survive him.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
W.C.A. Fund Is S2l3.Olo

Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, chair
man of the Young Women's Christian
Association campaign to raise $305 600,
announced yesterday that with S243,-
ol9 already in hand, the work would
continue until the goal is reached.
"The sum of S305 900 is rock bot
tom," she said. ''Unless the whole
amount is raised it will mean closing
some of our doors. We have onlv
S6l,9So to go and we will keep on
until we get it"
Yesterdays contributions amounted
TO S24062.89, including $4,000 from
Thomas F. Ryan, $4,000 from Duveen
Brothers, $1,000 from Z. L. Doheny,
and 81 COO from Mrs William Rend
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
John Merwin Price Dies

PATCHOGUE, L. l., Dec. 15.-Jobn
Merwln Price, lifelong resident
here, died to-day. He was first presi-
dent Of the village. Up to the time
of his death he was in the insurance
business. He was eighty-nine years
old; Mrs. Price died several years ago.
Mr.. Price was president of the
trustees of the Methodist Church for
more than thirty years. Also he was
q member Of the Board of Education.
One daughter, Mrs. Joseph Losee
known in Brooklyn musical circles. sur
wives him. Funeral services will be
held tn-morrnw
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Going g On To-day
DAY

American Museum of Natural History. ac
Metropolitan Museum of Ar .drs,,,.
20 cents.
AQUARIUM. admission free.
New York Historical Society, admission
Van Cortiandt Park Museum, admission
Addresses by Mrs. Harry Lilly. Marv Dav-
export ct al. before the Wonaan's Forum.
sa,,ts hosei sSltmore' b :45 o'clock.
Street. IL o CLOCK 1''' =
Pageant ,aa by the pupils Of this Ethical cui-
Street sare Sfnoo' Io %a a. at West sI1ty-fOurth
Meeting of the New York Probation and
protective Association and Girls Protec-
tive League. Colony Club, 81 East Sixty
second Street, 80 clock
Lecture by Helen Louise Johnson on ."rh,
Art OF Living" Brooklyn Institute Of
Arts and Sciences. Academy OF Music. 4
o'clock.
Lecture by Everett Dean Martin on "Prrm-
tive Traits in the Modern Man" Cooper
Concert By the stuyvesant High schaoi
orchestra and Clee Club. at the school
Fifteenth Street ana First Avenue. 8
o'clock
Lecture by Commissioner Grover A. wha
len on The BUS the Trolley" at S6e
fremont Avenue, Bronx, S:Se o'clock
Lecture by DR.. William Starr Myers on
current History" Brooklyn Institute Of
arts and Sciences. Academy or Music
LECTURE by DIR: p. P Nicholas on "plato's
Republic" International Institute 1eI
East Twentytirst Street. $3.50 oclocg.
Dinner OF the Presbyterian Union. Hotel
Astor, 40 O'Clock.
Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond
The Face of France" by DR.. Harry wsbh
harrington, at Public School s6. van
sicklen Street. near Neck Road.
"A laska To-day" by Miss vitoria Hewitt.
at Public School 40, Pacific and yrnton
Hall streets Jamaica, L. I. Stereop,icon
viaws. "A
Charming Songs of Olden Times" by Mia,
Maria Paz Gainsborg at Public Schnn;
IS. Elm Avenue and Fresh Pond RoaJ
Ridgewood Heights, L. I. IlIustratei by
songs. "S
Negro Dialect Stories" by Mrs. n...v
Miller, at Public School 9s, Eeoc7sn ~,
Road and Lincoln Avenue. South Ozone
Park, T.. I. 'e
California and the Pacific Coast bv D,s-
ert G. Weyh. at Public School 90 Hebe.
ton Avenue, Port Richmond, s. /. star
eopucon views and motion pictures.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Prosperity Arrives,
Judging g by Income
Tax Payments Here
Only Two Requests Made for
Extension of Time i'm Last
Day Rush; Manhattan
Returns, 1920, 600, 600

An indication OF the returning pros
perity of the country has been dis
covered by Frank K. Bowers, collector
OF internal revenue here He pointed
out tnae up to noon yesterday the last
Gay Tor the payment of the Decembe r
Federal income tax installment. only
Two requests for an extension Of time
mad been received at his office.
Everybody seems to have enough
money to pay his debts to the govern
ment now" he said "Last September
: heard by every mail from corpora-
tions and individuals seeking delay,
otten on very considerable amounts
ihe only two who asked for more time
TINS month were small taxpayers"
Government officials estimated that
nearly $55 100000 Of the total due this
month was paid in yesterday. Long
lines filed up to the four windows on
the sixth boor of the Custom House
where the payments were received
nour after hour, and the Office was
Kept open until midnight. with an ad-
ditional force Of seventy clerks from
the the Federal Reserve Bank. working
funously TO keep up with the last
minute rush. The corridors echoed ali
day with shutting feet and stamping
machines. C
Two corporation payments yester-
cay one for $6,900000 and the other
IoF so,oDor00o, aggregated more than
Iiie total received in the first thirteen
Gays OF the month, $1115S,37I. On
Wednesday S14 4,404,64S was paid in.
Offlclals now estimate the total re-
turns for Manhattan, which amount to
nearly % per cent of the total for the
country, at approximately S420 ,O00 900,
IN 1920, the total here was s644 $40. 600.
and IN 1919 $880,0730O0
All the money taken in yesterday was
carried to the Federal Reserve Bank
under heavy guard within short time
OF us receipt. For the first time uni
formed men from Headquarters were
ssatloned IN the corridors outside the
Colectors Office to make hold-up i'm
possible.
Collector Bowers called attention
yesterday afternoon to what he called a
new form of highway robbery being
pfacticed upon a public harassed bv in
come tax technicalities. This is the
sale OF books containing official Iook;ne.
forms which, he said, dapper young
saiesmen are forcing upon the unso-
phlstlcated under threat of Federal
prosecution.
We know of one drummer" Mr..
Bowers said, who collected more
money from woman in this way than
Tne government was able to get from
her husband in taxes. The book sold
1or IS up, with the price varying in
proportion to the innocence of the
victim. The salesman claimed that the
government had issued the book and
mad passed law making it crime not
to purchase it.''
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Miss Laura Dunn Is Welded
10 Lieut.. Eugene III. Bark sdale

Miss Laura Lee Dunn, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Dunn. of
Brentwood, L. T., was married vester-
day in the Cathedral of the Incarna-
ton, Garden City, L. L.. to Lieutenant
Eugene Hoy Barksdale, Of the army
ar a. service, who is assigned to Mitchell
Field.
Miss Idris Dunn, sister of the bride,
was maid of honor. and the brides
maids were Miss Mildred McWhorter
and Miss Helen MacConnell. Captain
Clyde Frlter, of Waynesboro, Va. was
best man, and the ushers were Lieu
tenants P Melville. j. P. Roulett. John
W. Clerke and j. W. Monahan.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
VINO entertained at luncheon vextcr.
aay at the Ambassador Hotel.
The Calendar. Out soon

~ The Calendar" published by the
Debutante Association, whf III is com
posed of the young womer. presented
90 90 society this season, will make it's
nrsc appearance in few days. II will
have sketches by Miss Eniily Billings
aud other debutantes will contribute.
George Gordon Battle has written an
article for the issue. The Calendar''
WI oe sold only by subscription and
covers the doings of tho debutantes in
New York, Baltimore, Boston, Philadcl,
phia and Washington. The proceeds
viii go to charity.
The committee having charge in
g,udes Mrs. Rodney Williams, Mrs.
Robert Porter Patterson. Miss Diam
Dalziels Miss Wanden Mathews. Miss
Emily Billings, Miss Alice Mann. of
Washington, and Miss Roberta Castle
man. Miss Anne Gordon Winchester is
chairman OF the Calendar Magazine"
and secretary and treasurer Of the
Debutante Association.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Ihelka Wigand
Is Honor Guest
Ata Luncheon
s.e + One of the Seasons
nehufantes for Whom an
Unusually Large Number
Of Affairs Are Being Given
Virginia Fox Is Another
With Her Mother, Mrs. Rec
tor X. Fox. She Crects a
Company at Colony Club

Iuneheons. receptions, dinners,
sheatar parties and dances continue 10
ss given daily for the debutantes.
Many Affairs took place yesterday.
and to-day and tomorrow an unusually
..rvs rurhcr oS entertainments will
ss held In heir honor.
One Of the largest Of yesterdays af-
AIRS was luncheon given at the Ritz
Carlton fer Miss Thelka C. Wigaad,
.se debutante daughter of Mrs. Francis
william Wigand, Of 3ss Park Avenue.
Among the guests were Miss Janavince
Kerens. Miss Katharine Adams, Miss
Susan Gibney, Miss Margaret McMil-
lin. Miss GenevIeve Cawthra. Miss
Alice Boxer, Miss Prudence Hussev,
Miss Mary Burchell. Miss Helen L.
Rice. Miss Martha Sykes, Miss Rea-
srice Bsyue. Miss Jean Douglas, Miss
Constance Nash. Miss Anne Burr, Miss
Marguerite Jurgensen. Miss Gwendelyn
Coorhe. Miss Katherine Morris, Miss
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Princess Mary and Niotlaer
Go 10 Visit Her Euf,rre Hosna

From The Tr-i6unc's European Bureau
Copyright: 1921. New York Tribuns Inc.
LONDON, Dec. 15.-Princess Marv.
per finance, Viscount Lascelles. and
her. mother, the Queen, left London
to-day for Leeds to visit for three
days at Harewood House, the future
Yorkshire home of the princess.
The trio Travelled in three private
cars attached to regular train. They
were cheered at their departure by
large crowd.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
3. FRANK HOWARD

CHICAGO, Dec. 15.-B. Frank How
ard, stat;stician and senior member Of
the Howard Bartels Company, publish
ers of THE Daily Trade Bulletin" died
to-day. He had been member of the
Chicago Board of Trade for fifty-five
years and was one of the most widely
known grain statisticians in the coun-
try. He was eighty years old.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
MSS HANNAH TALMADGE WEED

GREENWICH. Conn, Dec. 15.-Miss
Hannah Talmadge Weed, daughter of
the late Jacob Talmadge and Matilda
Adams Weed, is dead at her home here.
She was about ninety years old. She is
survived by two sisters, Miss Emily /.
Weed, president of the Greenwich Sun
shine Society and an active worker
among children; Miss Adeline Weed
and a brother, Edwin Weed, New York
hrcN.-r
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
JAMES p. RICE

James P. Price, ffty-three years old,
formerly chief clerk in the Bronx
Registers Office, and for thirty years
a resident OF the fremont section Of
the Bronx, died yesterday at his home,
23i Newman Avenue, the Bronx, after
q brief illness.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
JAMES E. LIDDY

WATERFOWL, N. Y, Dec. 15.-James
E. Liddy, ninety three years old, in
ventor of the spring bed, died to-day at
Chaumont. The idea Of the spring bed
was al outgrowth of his experience
with blackboard wagons, which he
helped manufacture.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
CAPTAIN wELTON DAVIDSON

Captain Welton Davidson, of the
steamship Coyo Mambi, lying at Pier
/, North River. was found dead yes
terday in the bathroom adjoining his
stateroom aboard his ship. According
to the agents of the vessel Captain
Davidson was about sixty-fve years
old, married and lived at Is Senelon
Street DOrcheSter Mass
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
DEATHS

ALEasAN-Dr. Joaa. Campoefl Funera,
Church. Bway. 66th St Until SATURDAY.
BLYTKE--on December Ia. 1921. Ellen
John Blythe and rnoghar Of phf,ir
Blythe Funeral from the residence OF
her nephew. Robert Brown. zoos WASH
ingfon av.. on Friday at p. m Inter
nent Calvary Cemetery
BRADLEY. Anne Rayuor. casnubefs vu.
neral Church. D'way. ssth ~. Friday
p. m ~
BRADy-Jonn n. on December IA IN M.
7sd year. Funeral from his late ressdsnees
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16

Birth, Engagement, Marriage,
Death and la MemoriaYn Notice.
may be telcphone9 to The I ribuns
any time up to midnight for in
sertisn IN the next day. pspw,
/ Telephone Bcckmdn 5000.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
EPHRATN CATT.N

ST LOUIS, Dec. 15.-Ephraim Cat
lin, eighty-one years old, former presi-
dent of the American Exchange Bank
and the Merchants American National
Bank, died here to-day. He was born
in Litchfield, Conn. His wife, daugh-
ter and two sons survive.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
HENRY EMANUEI

Henry Emanuel, seventy-four years
old, of 325 Central Park West, died
unexpectedly in his place of business
81 East l52d Street, yesterday. He
was born in Gloucester, Mass, and is
survived by his wife, Sarah; two sons
and two daughters.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16

T. Brokaw and Thomas Ewing jr. On
the committee are Mira. Van Henry
C2rtmeil, Miss Anne Gordon Winches-
ter, Miss Marguerite Doubleday, Miss
andon Mathews, Mrs. Juan MAYER
and Miss Martha Ottley.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
PROFESSOR W. s. GnTNER

DANvILLE, KY, Dec. l5.--Professo1
w. S. Giltner, ninety-five years old
founder of Eminence College, at Emi-
nence, KY, and for more than fifty
years its head, died here last night.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Society Notes

Among those who entertained at
luncheon yesterday at Pierre's were
Mrs, w. Deering Howe, who was Miss
Folly Brooks, and who returned from
Eurore recently With her was Miss
Muriel Vanderbilt
others taking luncheon at Pierre s
were Mrs. Henry Y. Russell Mrs. Fred
erlck ID. Allen and Mrs. Paulding Fos-
dick.
MIR. and Mrs. A. j. Drexel Biddle
have arrived in the city from Phila-
deiphia and are at the Hotel Lorraine
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert E. Strawhridge
are at the Hotel st. Regis for few
days.
Mrs. John P Duncan gave a dinner
ct the Hotel Plaza last night. She will
give luncheon on Tuesday at the
Plaza for Mrs. William Couch Stuart
and Miss Lille Ruth Stuart, who are
returning to their home in Paris in
January.
The Winter Ball for the maintenance
OF the free beds in the Loomis Sana-
tcrlum for the treatment of tuber-
culosis took place last night al the
Hotel Plaza. The committee included
Mrs. Joel Ellis Fisher jr., chairman:
Mrs. James Lencx Banks jr., Mrs.
Douglas M. Moffat, Mrs. j. II. John-
ston Mali, Miss Adrienne NJ. Iselin.
Miss Sylvia G. Van Rensselaer,, Miss
Genevieve Clendenin, Miss Cornelia
Landon and Miss Christine NJ. Nichols.
Many dinners we're given before the
dance.
Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Henry A.
Alexander, Mrs. Charles T. Barney.
Mrs Bayard Cutting. Mrs. H. H. Flag
ler, Mrs. John Henry Hammond. Mrs.
Ernesto Fabbri, AIRS. Albert GalIatin,
Mrs. E. Fl. Hartman, Mrs Adrian
lselin, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mrs.
Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
Mrs. George Blumentnal and Nine.
Marcella Sembrich are among the pa
tronesses fer the Moszkowski benefit
concert TO be given at Carnegie Hall
Gu Wednesday evening, December 81
Mrs. Ernest Schelling is treasurer of
the committee, which includes Mrs.
Charles Z. Mitchell, Mrs. Henry M
Alexander, Mrs. George Barton French
and Mrs. John A Hartwell.
The second of the Thursday evening
supper-dances took place in the crvs~
tai room of the Ritz Carlton Hotel
last night. Among the subscribers
who entertained parties were George
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16

1argaret Stout, Miss Isabelle Cfair.
MISS Hayes Blake, Miss Lixheth Miller,
MISS Elisabeth Sturgis, Miss Barbara
W hitmore, Miss Cecilia Banks, Miss
Ann Phelps, Miss Marjorie Andrews.
Miss Marjorie Hughes. Miss Nina
Chasilioa and Miss Dorothy Merrill
Mira. Rector K. Fox and Miss yir-
ginia Fox, Of lao East Forty ninth
street gave luncheon yesterday at
the Colony Club for fifty Of this and
last years debutantes.
Mrs. James A. Burden gives recep-
tion this afternoon at her house Z
East Ninety-frst Street. to Introduce
her daughter, Miss Shcila Burden.
Mrs. Vincent Kerens entertains at
luncheon to-day at the Hotel Plaza for
her debutante daughter. Miss jana
vince kerens. Miss Kerens Is n
granddaughter of the late Richard c.
herens, American Ambassador to Aus
tria- -Hungaria during the Tart Admin
lStratlon.
Mrs. Delaney Nicoll will give a
dinner tonight at her home. % East
Thirty-ninth Street, for her cousin.
Miss Peggy Leigh.
A theater party will be given to-
night by Mr.. and Mrs. Anson Wood
Rurchard. Of 81 East Sixty-fourth
Street, for Miss Barbara Brokaw, the
dehutante daughter of Mr.. and Nixa.
Irving Brokaw.
Mrs. Richard T. Wilson gave small
dinner last night at her apartment in
Sherry's and afterward took her guests
to the opera,
Mr.. and Mrs. George N. Gardiner,
o. $40 Park Avenue, will give dance
at Sherry's on Tuesday evening, Jan
uary 8, for their daughter, Miss Alice
Gardiner, student at Miss Masters s
School, and their son, George n. Gardi-
ner jr., who is at Morristown School.
Whitney Dance Date Advanced
The date for the dance which Mr
and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney are
Giving for their debutante daughter,
Miss Barbara Whitney, has been
changed from January to January 4
Il will take place at their home, s71
Fifth Avenue.
Mrs. Payne Whitney has engaged the
entire second floor Of the Hotel Plaza
Tor the dance which she is to give on
Tuesday night, December 90, for her
debutante daughter. Miss Joan Whit
ney. The new ballroom entrance at Is
West Fifty-eigb@a & Street will be used.
Supper will sas served in the new din
ing room.
Mrs Edwin A. Strong will give lunch
cons at her home, 565 Park Avenue,
on December 27 and 80 for her de-
butante daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Strong. She will give dinner ON
January 2, and afterward take her
guests to the dance to be given that
night for Miss Charlotte Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Eppley. Mrs
Sherwood Aldrich and MIR. and Mrs.
William 7. Hyde were among those
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
COUNT MoNTEsQUioU-FEzENsAc

MENTONE, France, Dec. 15.-Count
Robert de Montesquiou-Fe Fezensac, we'll
known poet, died here yesterday. He
was born in Paris in 1855. Success
came TO him following the publication
of his first book of verse, LES Chauves-
Souris,0 in 1892