New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-27
Women's Doubles Contest
Takes Place ON Courts
of Meadow Club, With
Large List of Entries
Many Boxes Sold
For sChauve-Souris'
Series of Entertainments
Wall BE Held During
Week AfterPerformance
Special Dispatch 70 The Tribune
SOUTHAMPTON, August 20


"A tournament started THE week
on the courts of the Meadow
Club for women's doubles, arranged
by Mrs. William w. Hoppin jr., Mrs.
j. Copper Lord and Miss Florence
Earle johnson. A fee of 50 il
charged and the proceeds will be de-
voted TO the prizes for the winners \.
in the tournament.
The contestants include Mrs. Eu-
gene Van Rensselaer, Thayer ard
Miss johnson, Miss Clara Lee and
Miss Caroline Prentice, Miss Martha
Coster and Miss Nina Chatillor, Mrs.
Hayward Cutting and Miss Mary
Sheffield, Mrs. David BOWS and Miss
Ruth Stillman, Mrs. w. Butler Dun
can jr. and Mrs. PosthIewaite Cobb,
Mrs. Goodhue Livingston and Miss
Lillian Steers, Mrs. Courtlandt
Dixon Barnes and Mrs. w. w. Hop
pin jr., Mrs. Goodhue Livingston ir.
and Miss Betty Thompson, Mrs.
Reginald Fineke and Miss Ethel Car
hart, Mrs. Allston Flagg and Miss
Susanne Bottomley, Mrs. Wood
ward Babcock and Miss Cornelia
Livingston, Mrs. Thomas Morrison
Carnegie and Mrs. George S. Pat
terson, Mrs. Henry T. Chickering
and Miss Resale Bloodgood.
Already more than thirty boxes have
been sold for the performance Of
"Chauve-Souris" at 800 each, which
is to be given in the grounds of the
Parrish Art Museum on the evening
of September for the benefit of the
Rogers Memorial Library. The pro-
grams have been issued this week and
are works of art and will be preserved
as souvenirs of the occasion. The en-
tertainment will be one of the largest %
and most important events ever given
in Southampton. The programs were
made with the colored plates used In
the original programs for the first
presentation Of the performance os
"Chauve-Souris" in this country.
Mr.. Louis Simmons and Mr.. Morris
Gest have been working for the last
two weeks to make the programs an
The open air theater is now we'll under
way in the grounds of the Parrish ART
Museum.
Series of Entertainments
After the Performance
A series of delightful entertain
ments has been planned to take place
the week following the performance OF
"Chauve-Souris" in the gardens Of the
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same open air theater that Is now
under construction. Mr.. K. n. Das
Guuta, director of the English Union
of East and West, and the author of
many plays and poems, will present n
number of plays, among them one by
Rabindranath Tagore, who won tho
Nobel prize. The first will be given
Thursday afternoon, September Z, an
other on the following afternoon and
again Saturday afternoon, this latter
being also for children accompanied by
| their parents or guardians, and the last
| to be given Monday afternoon. These
| plays will be costumed in the dress of
| the East and will be played by q COM
| pany which Mr.. Das Gupta has selected
| in New York and Washington, where
! his plays have been seen. The pro-
ceeds of these performances viii be
devoted to some charity not yet named.
! The same week and in connection
| with the plays an exhibition Of the
ancient paintings of India, worries,
brass and lacquer works of exquisite
design, shawls, embroideries of rare,
beauty, as well as other objects Of art
| from the East, will be SHOWN at the
| Parrish Memorial Hail, in Herrick
Road. This will come at the close OF
! the Chase memorial art exhibition that
/ is now in progress in Memorial Hail.
| A New York architect Is making tke
plans for a new building TO take sse
| place of the Maidstone clubhouse In
| East Hampton, that was burned two
weeks ago. 1t is proposed that the
new clubhouse be built between the
dunes and the residence Of Mr.. Frank
B. Wiberg and Egypt Lane. This site
/ is one Of the most favorable, a@ this
section of the club grounds is high
and commands a view over the Allan
! tie Ocean, as well as on the other side
over one of the most beautiful and
largest golf courses in the country. Ii
has been planned by the directors that
] the new clubhouse shall be the last
word in country clubhouses, one. fea-
! ture of which will be private bathing
pavilion. Also a small clubhouse will
be built on the site of the old house.
mainly for those who wish to make
use of the tennis courts.
The annual dance fete of the pupils
of Mrs. Dana Clark will be Given Aug
ust 20 at 3:f5 o'clock on the grounds
| Of Lenoir, the villa of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rufus l.. Patterson. in Ok Pasture
Road, for TIE benefit Of the fresh air
home which is maintained throughout
the summer months for crippled chill
dren from the poorer sections Of New
York City, Greek interpretive dances
will be given, also character dances.
Some of the natronesses for this az
fair include Mrs. Peter B. wyekoff,
Mrs. Phillips Thompson, Mrs. James
Parrish Lee, Mrs. Albert Galiatin, Mrs.
Lyttieton Fox, Mrs. Ernest C. Wagner.
Mrs. Finley Peter Dunno and others.
Children to Take PART
In Annual Dance Fete
Some Of the children taking part are
Margaret Galsatin, Mildred Lee, Margs-
ret Dunno, Betty Gerard, Estells Liv-
ingston. Minis, Mimi. Elizabeth and
Louisine Mum, little daughters Of Mr.,
, and Mrs. 0rson ID. MUM; Cathleen
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