New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-22
Society Goes From
Church Services to
Southampton Beach
Record Number in Throng:
Many Dinners and Dances
at Close of Tennis Week:
Lamar Art Exhibit TODAY
Spec al Dispatch to The Tribun,

SPECIAL Dispatch to The Tribune
SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y, Aug. PA
record number of society folk was pres
ent at the bathing beach here at noon
to-day The roped bathing area was
alive with bathers, crowds going from
church services to the beach.
The end Of the week of stellar tennis
Just past was marked by number Of
dances and dinners. In addition to the
numerous ones ZEN on Friday night,
notaoie ones t. ace last night. The
regular dance at the Meadow Club was
attended by large number of persons,
including visiting tennis players, who
came in from various dinners given
among the summer colony. Mr.. and
Mrs. William W. Wilcox gave dinner
at the Meadow Club. Mr. and Mrs.
Andre de Coppet gave a dinner for
sixty at the Meadow Club also. Mr..
and Mrs. Ten Brock Terhune gave a
dinner at Schermerhorn House in honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Theus Munds, who
arrived here a few days ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin C. Jameson gave
a small dinner last night. After brief
visit with them. their guests, Senator
and Mrs Joseph B. Frelinghuysen, of
New Jersey, were obliged to return to
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Jay Gould jr.
and Albert A. Brennan are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Andre de Coppet at Overlook,
the de Coppet villa.
Misses Else and Patten Rice, daugh-
ters of Mrs. William Lowe Rice, left the
Irving to-day. They will sail for Europe
Thursday on La France.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon P. Brown, Of
New York, after brief stay at the
Irving, are leaving to-day.
The Shinnecock Hills Golf Club will
continue the informal buffet luncheons
on Thursdays through August and
naments for women will be held. The
one scheduled for this week should
prove interesting, inasmuch as the
players will be restricted to the use
of only one club. Prizes for this week s
tournament have been offered by Mrs.
P. A. Valentine.
Members of the summer colony are
looking forward with expectation &c
the opening tomorrow of the exhibit
ton of portraits painted by the young
American painter Julian Lamar. to be
held in Memorial Hal during the COM
ing week. The distinguished artist
who is the only American painter to
be graduated from the United States
Military Academy at West Point, will
place on exhibition many paintings of
persons who have been connected in
various ways with the social life of
this resort. Among these are portraits
of Assistant Secretary Of the Navy and
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and their
young son, Theodore Roosevelt jr. Mrs.
Roosevelt's mother, Mrs. Henry Add
son Alexander. is a member of the
summer colony here. Mr.. Lamar will
also show a painting Of Miss Ailsa Mel
lon, daughter of A. W. Mellon. Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, who with his
daughter has been identified with
Southampton. He will also show por-
traits of Mrs. Clarence Crittendon
Calhoun, who recently visited here
with Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Burial
Hoffman,; Colonel J. Mayhem Vain
wright, Assistant Secretary of War;
Bishop Charles P Brent, and Colonel
John G. Quakmeer, aide to General
Pershing