New-York tribune., 1922-08-14
Country's Leading Stars Are
Entered for Weeks Play
at Casino; Many Large
Entertainments Planned
Cerards Have 30 to Dine
Mr.. Vincent Astor Is Host
10 Dinner at Beechwood
After Arrival on Yacht
saee.ni pispaseh to Ths rr.hnna

rvs leading tennis stars entered
rbs summer colony has planned several
s.,ve entertainments, the feature of
! vsieh will be the big ball Friday eve
,;rv to be given by DR.. and Mrs. Alex
rasy Hamilton Rice at Miramar.
Farmer Ambassador and Mrs. Jane
W. Gerard gave a dinner for thirty
,nss.s this evening at Fairlawn, while
.s,s Eugene S. Reynal was hostess for
.iybteen guests at dinner given at
Az Casino grill. Mrs. T. Shaw Safe
saye a luncheon for young people at
Aeean Lawn.
Astor Dinner Feature
Featuring last evenings. entertain
rents was the dinner and dance given
by Mr. Vincent Astor at Beechwood.
Mr. Astor arrived from New York on
his Yacht, the Nourhahai, and had Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Russell, Mr.. c. s.
Cutting and Mr.. Grafton h. Pyne, OF
New York, as his guests. He was host
for thirty-six guests at dinner. after
which one hundred guests assembled
from other dinners to be present for
dancing. Other dinner entertainers
were Mr.. and Mrs. William Goadby
1,oew, who had thirty-two guests at
S.onescre; DIR. and Mrs. Henry Barton
Jacobs, who entertained thirty at
WhitehoIme; Mr.. and Mrs John Aspe-
eren, who had twenty guests at Aspen
Hall; Mr. R. Livingston Beeckman and
Mrs Nathaniel Thayer.
Luncheons were given to-day by Mr..
and Mrs. Williams Burden at Oakwood
and Mrs. J. Stewart Barney.
Two elections were of particular In
terest to summer residents. Mr.. Frank
K. Sturgis was chosen as president Of
the Newport Casino to succeed Mr..
Lewis Cass Ledyard, who is abroad.
: Commodore Arthur Curtiss James was
elected the new vice president in place
Of MFR. Sturgis, and Mr.. Henry o. Have
meyer was reelected secretary and
treasurer. The executive committee
elected is composed of Commodore
James, chairman; Mr.. William Fitz-
hugh Whitehouse, Miss Ruth V. Twom-
bly and Mr.. Henry O. Havemeyer. The
election took place at meeting of the
board Of governors of the Casino.
Mr.. Eppley Is Honored
Mr. Marion Eppley was elected the
z INV president of the Newport Improve
q nent Association at it's annual meet
( ing, succeeding Mrs. Paul FitzSim ons,
Dr.. Henry Barton Jacobs and Mr., Law
renee Lewis Gillespie we're chosen vice.
Presidents, Mr.. John Dufais secretary
and Mr., Peter King treasurer. DR..
Horace P. Peck was named chairman of
the executive committee, the other
members being Mrs. Paul FitzSimons,
Mr. T. I. Hare Powell Miss Ellen F.
( Mason, Mr.. George Henry Warren,
Commodore Arthur Curtiss James, the
Rev. Stanley C. Hughes and Miss Rosa
Grosvenor.
Many in the summer colony are
! entertaining guests for tennis week.
Mr.. Charles Lowering is with Mr.. and
Wiley. Of New York, with Mr.. and Mrs.
James ". Gerard; Mr.. E. C. Chadwick
and Mr.. James W. Barney with Mr.. and
Mrs. George D. Widener, and Mr.. and
/ Mrs. William Sackett Duell, of Phila-
delphia, with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
Duell at Rockry Hall; Mr.. Leander
Greenway of Greenwich, is with Mr..
Varick Frissell at Vedimar; Mr.. John
II. Prentice with Mr.. Frank K. Sturgis,
I Mr.. Nathaniel Reynal with Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene st. R. Reynal, and Mr.. and
Mrs. LeGrand Cannon, of Tuxedo, with
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Frelinghuysen
E at the Winthrop villa. Mrs. Grafton
II. Pyne is at Beechwood, and Mr.. Fred
erick Forester, of New York, at the
z Gerard cottage
Among those who have already reg
stored at the Casino for tennis week
re Mr.. Eliot W. Hobbs, Mrs. Lewis
Gawtry, Miss Beatrice Gawtry, Miss
Camilla Livingston. Mrs. n P. Jackson,
OF Garden City, and Mr.. Calvert Carey.
Mixed Doubles Contest On
Rain caused the postponement of the
9nbstone golf tournament at the
';ountry Club yesterday, but the mixed
aouoies tennis tournament at the Ca
sino was started to-day. In the only
match played Miss Dorothy Kane and
Mr.. W. r. Lewis defeated Miss Natalie
"lasiow and Mr.. Francis Burke Roche,
% %. Others in the first round
ere MRS Grafton II. Pyne and Mr..
soah d. Prentice, who will play Mr..
q, Snd Mrs. Henry P. Russell, and Miss
t:iosence Loew and Mr.. Craig Biddle
y, who will meet Mrs. Lewis C. Nor
us and Mr.. John Duncan. Mrs. Bar
ger Wal!ach and Mr.. Cary Morgan
drew bye.
Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoffman.
VINO has been abroad, has arrived here
ana opened Armsea Hall for the first
time in two years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Fairfax Cary, who
are in Canada on their honeymoon,
z are expected at Elm Court this week
20 witness the tennis matches. Mrs,
z Burden.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. Lorimer Worden en-
sertalned sed for sixteen at luncheon yes
WSfday and Mr.. and Mrs. G. J. Guthrie
;nieholson gave a dinner at Lansmere
last evening.
Mrs. sterner Guest of Honor
MRS Albert Sterner, who is the guest
~ ~ 9ifs' Charles NJ. Thomas, was guest
Aohor at a reception given at the
bs Association yesterday afternoon
~ tne council of that organization.
sy Mr Craig Biddle returned from
.Sohg|ood to-day and, as chairman of
~: Casino tennis committee, super
isea the drawing for the tennis tour
are entered.
af- and Mrs. Wallace Nutting, of
birmingham, Mass, and Miss Rose
arlington are at the New Cliff.
Mr and Mrs. Walter King, Miss
;1is'nseen n NJ King, Mr.. George K. Church
r.; " Kemsen, n. j., and Mr.. and Mrs.
soan l, ". Paris, Of New York, are at
me Hill Top.
Society Notes
Irs: Rutherfurd Stuyvesont, who
tsscently returned from Paris and has
Dsen sf9virr ~ O;%s T,~Jx1~ -.