The New York herald., 1922-07-02

Special Dispatch to THE New York HERALD.
SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y, July /.
q COUTHAMPTONS summer season
started with eclat with the we'd
ding yesterday of Miss Florence
Magee Ellsworth and Mr.. John How
ard McFadden, which was celebrated
in the picturesque st. Andrews Dune
Church. close by the sea, and the villa
Steuart Ellsworth, where the reception
and wedding breakfast followed, not
far away its lawns running down to
the water. There came for the we'd
ding many friends and relatives from
Philadelphia, and with the additional
week end visitors the colony is great
ly increased and will remain so until
pfter the holiday, which gives longer
period than usual.
The dinner and dance at the Shin
recock Hills Golf Club as pre-nup-
tial festivity was the largest thus far
OF the season, and tonight at the
Meadow Club the colony again was
represented for the first dance of the
summer, and these dances will be
continued on Saturday nights until the
middle of September. There will be
Yet another wedding to mark the sea-
son when on July % Miss Lisa Still
man, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph F. StilIman, will be married to
Mr.. Henry Martin Polhemus of New
York. The ceremony will be in ST.
Andrews Dune Church and will be
followed by reception. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stillman have taken for the season the
Burling cottage, in Hill street, just
opposite the Irving House.
Art Exhibition Opens.
For more than thirty years South
ampton during It's season has been an
art center. and 1t was here that the late
William M. Chase began his summer art
school, His teaching and the works he
did here have done much to influence
the present generation of painters, and
some of the foremost American portrait
lists and landscape painters were from
year to year members of his school ir
this attractive spot Encouraged by this
appreciation of art the National Asso-
citation of Women Painters and Sculp-
tors will hold an exhibition Of their
recent works for three weeks in Memo
rial Hall. which like the art museum
.
Parrish.
The first view of the paintings held
this afternoon was made a formal oc-
casion and 1t was combined with a
program of music of high class that
had been arranged by Mr.. Louis Sim
mions. Tea was served. Those re-
ceving were Mrs. Thomas II. Barber.
Mrs. George S. Patterson, Mrs. Willi,m
NJ. Grinnell. Mrs. Robert S. Peabody.
Mrs. Goodhue Livingston. Mrs. Henry
May Mrs. Harry Pelham Robbins and
Mrs. Peter B. Wyckoff: also Misses
Alvin w. Krech. Clarence II. Mackay
and Samuel L. Parrish.
The paintings on view were chosen by
the interstate jury of the association at
the invitation of Mr.. Parrish, acting 'on
behalf of the museum; and the works,
all important ones. form a colorful
group. the hall being we'll adapted for
such an exhibition. From tomorrow 1t
will be open free to the residents of
Southampton and vicinity. Among the
figure paintings are Rosemary Enters, y
by Emily Nichols Hatch, who is presi-
dent of the association; Edith Stowe
phelps's group, Mother and Children" :
Hilda Belcher's AUNT Jennifer's China"
Christine Herters French Woman"
and Lucy Taggart's Janet"
There are portraits and child studies
by Ellen Emmet Rand, Susan Kicker
Knox, Agnes Pelton, Isabel Branson
Cartwright, Alice Beach Winter, Edith
Magopigle, Theresa Bernstein and Ber-
1ha Menzler Peyton. Landscapes, paint
ings of flowers and still life are shown
by Anne Crane, Harriet Lord. Mabel
Welch, Jane Peterson, Helen Mccarthy,
Ruth Anderson. Fern /. Coppedege, Fell
Gle Waldo Howell. Lucille Howard, Con-
stance Cochrane, Maud M. Mason, Cora
s.. Brooks, Gladys Brannigan. Gertrude
Barnes Josephine Barnard. Jeanie Gal
1up Mottet. Annie Goldthwaite, Gertrude
Bourne, Clara Davidson and NJ. Eliza
beth Price. The musical program given
with such artistic surroundings was
quite In keeping. the artists being Doro-
thy Rust Heminway, soprano; Cornelius
van Vliet. cello. and Francis Moore,
piano.
Series of Concerts Arranged.
Music also enters into the life of the
community not only during the summer
but throughout the winter when the
Southampton Choral Society holds Its
meetings and concerts. Under the au-
spices of this society the first of n
series of invitation concerts will be held
tomorrow night in the Parrish Art
Museum, whose hall holds a large au-
dience and in IL there Is a fine organ.
THE artists will be Nine Bertha Era