New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
$1,000 Children i'm
Folk Dance i'm MAY
Fete at Greenwich
Hundreds Attend Festival;
Conceri for Hospital; So
ciety Shows Interest in
Riding Association Meet

GREENW1CH, Conn, May 21. The
annual May Festival of the Greenwich
public schools, which took place this
week, was a brilliant event. The fea-
ture Of the affair was one of the larc-
est folk dancing fetes ever held here.
Three thousand boys and girls from
the graded schools participated in the
dances on Havemeyer school grounds
Thursday afternoon. They were wit
messed by hundreds of persons.
Song tests by the children were held
during the week and last evening
Coleridges romantic poem "The An
cient Mariner" was sung at the Have
meyer auditorium by the high school
chorus, under the direction Of Dr.
Carl E. Martin. Assisting the chorus
was Miss Daisy Connell, soprano; MISC
Mary Donovan, contralto; Jerome s
Merritt, tenor, and Frederic c. Stud
we'll, bass. The Harrington quartet,
Miss Sonia Streuli, violinist; Miss
violoncello, and Ray II. Harrington,
pianist, played the accompaniment
and Miss Olive Hansen also assisted
IN the accompanying work.
The third of the series of concerts
for the benefit of the Greenwich Hos
pital was held at the residence Of Mrs.
William A. Evans here Monday eve
nlng. The artists included Edward
Swain, barytone, of the Mendelssohn
Glee Club, New York; John Barnes
Wells. tenor, and Harry Rowe Shelley,
vlous week double quartet from the
Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, fur
nlshed the program.
There were many society events of
interest to the summer colony over the
weekend, including race meet at
Lutbourne Farm, the estate of James
McClenahan, Port Chester, under the
auspices of the Greenwich Riding AS
sociation, last Saturday, and a recep-
ton. which marked the opening of an
art exhibition of the Greenwich Society
OF Artists in the Bruce Museum the
same afternoon.
on Sunday afternoon there was
riding competition by Rosemary Hall
students on the Rosemary track. On
the same afternoon the Cygnet A. c.,
OF East Port Chester, held an eight
mile race, in which many of the Iaroe
clubs of New York and other places
were represented.
A brilliant June wedding will be tbot
OF Miss Harriet De Baldwin Bruce
daughter of Mrs. Leslie Coombs Bruce
OF Greenwich, and George Reid, of
New York, to be solemnized on the
lawn OF the Bruce estate The Rev DR.
M. George Thompson, rector of Christ
Episcopal Church, will oficiate Mis-
Mary Carr, of Winchester, Va. will he
maid of honor, and Irving Eldridge. of
New York, will be best man. A receb-
tlon will follow the ceremony.
w. II. Madison, manager of the
greenwich Riding Stables, has leased
1ne u rosewood Inn Stables and will
iAoVe there IN the near future. He will
nave I'VE an indoor ring 100 by 60.
Legion, held bridge party and dance
at the Sound Beach Golf and Conntrv
Club last, evening which was largely
amended by members of the summer
colony. The proceeds will go toward
the fund to erect tablet in memory
OF Sound Beach boys who LOST tbei,
iives in the service. The unveilinp. Of
TINS tablet will take place in the First
church yard on Me
moral Day Mrs, Robert McGarry is /
ene CHAIRMAN IN charge, assisted by
other prominent women.
me Bridge Street Riding Academy
neio morse show in their paddock on
bridge Street here this afternoon far
tne children of Greenwich. There were I
riding exhibitions and numerous other
events. ot''e'
D. P Van Gordon is constructing q
rustic roof garden on the Pickwick |
Arms Hotel here and summer houses
are a to be erected on the grounds.
Luke Vincent Lockwood, a New York /
lawyer, and Mrs. Lockwood have opened I
their summer home at Meadow Reach |
IN Riverside, and Mrs. Luke A. Lock.
wood is also occupying the Lockwood !
homestead on Lockwood Avenue
Riverside, for the summer months.