New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-03
Entertainments
For Tennis Players
Occupy Newport
Mrs. Oliver Gould Jennings
Gives Luncheon and Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss
James an Evening Party
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

NEWPORT, r. T., Aug. 2.-Rain
caused postponement of the tennis
matches in the second days play of the
invitation tournament to-day, with a
consequent curtailment of social &C.
tivity.
The weather, however, did not inter
fere much with the entertainments ar
ranged by the members of the sum-
mer colony for many Of the players.
Mrs. Oliver Gould Jennings enter
tanned at luncheon in her Bellevue
Avenue home this afternoon. This
evening Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss
James were prominent among the
hosts and hostesses, with farm party
for the players at the big James
estate on Beacon Hill Road. Origi-
nally Mr.. and Mrs. James planned to
hold farm party on the Swiss Village
Farm of their estate, but the rain
forced change of plans.
Perhaps the largest entertainment Of
the season so far will be given on
Friday evening for the tennis players
by Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent Astor, who
will have 200 guests at Beechwood, the
Aston estate on Bellevue Avenue. There
will be dinner and dancing.
T. Suffern Taller has extended the
privileges of his new private golf
course, credited with being the best
private links in the country, to the
players during their stay. The man
agement of the Newport Country
Club and of Bailey's Beach previously
had thrown these places open to the
visitors.
Tomorrow Mr.. Taller will entertain
the players at stag luncheon at his
Ochre Point estate. There will be
quite round of entertaining to-mor-
row afternoon and evening. Among the
dinner hosts and hostesses will be Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gillespie,
Carter. The latter will entertain at
the. Hill Top Inn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodbury. Blair gave
dinner this evening. There probably
will be baseball game between sum-
mer residents and city officials Of New
port again this year. Last summer
baseball mines headed by Sumner
Gerard and Mayor J. P. Mahoney, re-
spective1y, met at, Freebody Park for q
benefit fund. Society turned out as it
would at big tennis gathering.
The game this year will be in con-
nection with lawn fete, to take place
at Freebody Park on August 20 for the
benefit of the Newport Hospital, the
Civic League of Newport and tho Vaca-
ton Association, Inc, of New York.
Plans for the fete were discussed at a
meeting yesterday at the home of Mrs
R. w. Lovett, on Gibbs Avenue, and
the baseball game was given much con-
sideration. Committees will be ap-
pointed to lay definite plans for the
event. Mrs. Lovett is occupying the
villa of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis B. McCagg.
DR.. and Mrs. Clement Cleveland, of
New York, formerly summer residents
here, have arrived at the Muenchinger
King for visit. They are accompanied
by Mr.. and Mrs, Davenport, Of New
York.
There will be tombstone tourna-
mont at the Newport Country Club on
Saturday afternoon, for which. prizes
have been offered by Mrs. NJ. M. Van
Beuren.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvanus Stokes jr. de-
parted to-day for Washington.
Mrs. Marjorie Oelrichs and Miss
Oelrichs have returned here after a
visit at Southampton.
vice. commodore harold .. VanQer-
bilt Of the New York Yacht Club de-
parted for New York tonight.
Two interesting exhibitions will
open at the Art Association to-mor-
row, one by Rosamund Tudor, whose
real name is Mrs. w. Starting Bur-
CESS, wife of the famous yacht de-
singner, who is here at the Muench-
niger King. The other is by Captain
Julian Lamar, former army officer.
Among the interesting portraits he
will show is one of Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, and another of Miss Ailsa
Mellon, daughter of the Secretary of
the Treasury
Registered at the New Cliffs are
Fred T. Eldridge, of New York; Mrs.
M. F. Armstrong, Miss S. J. Rench,
Mrs. William c. Brown and. Miss Anne
Brown, of Philadelphia; Mrs. L. W.
Collins, Miss Elizabeth Collins and Miss
Marguerite Collins, of Baltimore;
James Smith jr., former United States
Senator from New Jersey, and Richard
Stockton, of Trenton; Mrs. G. H. Tay-
lor and Miss A. Taylor, of Cleveland;
DR.. and Mrs. G. H. Aysmith, of Bay
onne, N. ].
Miss Wakerly P. Holghen, of Bos-
ton, is the guest of Mrs. Paul A.
Andrews.
John Barrett, OF Washington, will
visit Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Duncan this
week.