New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Great Ball Closes
Creenwich's Drive
For Hoover Fund
Gard Parties, Dinner and
InterschoIasiic Oly,npiad
Also Aid i'm Raising Cash
for Hungry Children
spee!oI ptspoteh 70 Tne Trtoamo

GREENWICH, Conn, Feb, 19.-As
a climax TO the Hoover dEive con-
Quoted here this week brilliant
ball was held tonight at the State
Armory. Nearly one thousand per-
sons were present
Among the boxholders were Mr.. and
Mrs William A. Evans. Mrs. Lums-
tord P. Yandell, Mrs. Coulter, D..
Fiuyler, Mrs. William Hodge, Mrs.
Julian w. Curtiss, Mrs. George E.
Vincent, Mrs. Howard S. Fisher. Mrs,
Thomas L. Pomeroy. Mrs. W. L. Right
or, Mrs. Frederick X. Rupprecht' MRS
Archer Brown, Mrs. f, B. Tuttle, Mrs,
A. K. Michler, Mrs Francis X. Brown
and Mrs, f. Bailey Vanderhoef'
The patroncsscs included Miss Caro-
line Ruutz- -Rees, Mrs. W. H. Wiley,
Mrs. Stephen w Pratt, Mrs. f. G.
Nathaniel Webb. Mrs. William b.
,sewen, Mrs. Herbert McCord, Mr..
Clifford d. Mallory, Mrs. John Leath.
crbee, Mrs. Frederick Bontecou and
Mrs. James T.. Soutter.
Miss Mary Lanier was chairman of
the committee and her assistants were
Mrs. Hugh c. Leighton. Mrs. Archer
Brown, Mrs Stephen w. Pratt, Mrs.
+. Bailey Vanderhoef. Mrs. John E.
Woodruff. and Mrs. William Hodge.
Several card parties in the interest
of the Hoover fund were given during
the week, the principal one being at
Horseneck Tavern. Another benefit
affair was an interscholastic Olym-
piad Wednesday at the Y. W. c. A,
in which the schools of the town, in
cludinr Rosemary Hall and Ely Court
schoolgirls, participated. The Hoo
yer dinner took place Thursday at
the Y. w. C. A. Mrs. Herbert Hoover
was the honorary guest. Prof. c.
Blackwell, head of the department of
philosophy at Yale and chairman of
tthe Connecticut Committee for Euro
pean Relief, was the principal speak
er. Other speakers were Julian W.
Curtiss, the Rev. Phny Cooney,, DR..
Smith and Miss Catherine Jewell
Everts. Albert Gilbert Smith was in
charge of the dinner committee.
Greenwichs quota of $4,000 vir-
tually has been raised.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Ashton Crosby
Miss Caroline Ruutz~Rees and Miss
Mary E. Lowndes gave luncheon on
Tuesday for about two hundred
guests at the Field Club. Dancing
followed. Among the guests were
Mrs. William G. Rockefeller, Theo-
dore E. Blake, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
D. Lanier, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert c.
Hencken, Mr.. and Mrs. Roger S. Bald
win, j. R. Coffin, Charles Ingram, Miss
Beatrice Pynchon. Miss Mary Lanier
Mr.. and Mrs. C. D. Rafferty,, Mr.. and
Mrs. Colby NJ. Chester jr, Mr.. and
Mrs. Calvin Truesdale, Mr.. and Mrs
Garrett Pier, Mr., and Mrs. j. I. Sout-
ter, Miss Emily w. Close. to E. Leigh,
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Woodruff, Mr.
and Mrs. w. S. RICHTER, Mrs. Hugh
w Jackson, Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. Glib
bons and Mr.. and Mrs. Clement
Cleveland jr.
At reception given by Mrs. Sarah
E. Close at her home last Saturday
evening the engagement of her daugh-
ter, Miss Emily W. Close to e. Leigh
ton Lent, of Greenwich, was an
nounced.
Colonel and Mrs. James Wilson Ri
ley have returned from Orangeburg
S. G.
Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, Miss NJ
E. Lowndes and Roland Ruutz-Rees
will sail Saturday for England.
Mrs. Orville Oddie, of Riverside, had
as her guests over the week end Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Manning, of New
York