The New York herald., 1922-09-03
Mr.. and Mrs. John Aspegren
and Mr.. and Mrs. Williams
Burden Entertain.

Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD.
NEWPORT, r. l.. Sept. 1.-Two brill
liant balls marked the climax Of the
season here tonight. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Jams Burden gave the f1rst large enter
tainment since moving into Oakwood.
their new villa, and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Aspergen gave a notable ball at Aspen
Hall for 400, preceded by a dinner
for seventy-two guests. Mr.. and Mrs.
Burden dined at Mr. Clarence w. Do
lan's before their party There was an
interchange Of guests during the even
ing. many going from one party to the
other.
Guests at Oakwood were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Forsyth wickes, Mr.. and Mrs. I.
Townsend Burden. Mr. and Mrs. w.
Goadby Loew, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter w.
Roberts, Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden II. Ham
mond, Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald Norman.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Fell, Mr.. and Mrs.
Beverley Bogert. Prince and Princess de
Braganza. Mr.. and Mrs. Herman F.
Kountze. Mrs. Augustus F. Kountze, Mr..
and Mrs. Norman de r. Whitehouse. Mr..
and Mrs. Paulding FosdIck. Mr.. and
Mrs. Woodbury. Blair. Mrs. Nathaniel
Thayer. Mr.. and Mrs. James b. Duke.
Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Gerard, Mr.. and
Mrs. Guy Fairfax Cary, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Ridgeway.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Waterbury,
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Ogden White
house. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hartman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bull, Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Livingston. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Goelet, Mr.. and Mrs. T. Suffern Taller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Duncan, Mr.. and
Mrs. Marion Eppley. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam Payne Thompson. Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence Lewis Gillespie. Mr.. and Mrs.
Craig Biddle, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Eustis Corcoran, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Curtiss James. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
II. Duell. Mr.. and Mrs. William Fnhne-
stock. Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Iselin, Jr.:
Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley Davis and Mr.
and Mrs Philip S. p. Randolph.
Aspegren Hall, the former estate of
Mrs. Mortimer Brooks. was transformed
into a fairy palace for Mr.. and Mrs.
Aspegren's entertainment. Mr.. Aspe-
gren had his own power house erected
for the occasion because the Newport
station could not supply the current re-
quired for the lighting.
lie Reve de la Marquise," an arrange
ment from Louis XIV. dances to the
strains Of music by Mozart. opened the
program in the beautiful ballroom. This
selection was followed by character
dances by Fokina and Fokine, respec-
lively. After a short intermission the
guests left the ballroom for outdoors,
where the dance program was continued
on the lawn
For the dinner there were six tables
of twelve each. making seventy-two
guests. The decorations were unusual.
The ceiling Of the ball room was trans
formed into floral forest of smiiax
with oak leaves and miniature electric
lights. Columbia roses and blue hydran-
geas were in hanging baskets. At the
head table was a six foot horseshoe
with blue and yellow ribbons, the horse
shoe colors and dinner favors being OF
horse design.
Among Mr.. and Mrs. Aspegren's guests
at dinner and ball were Mrs. Wander
bilt. Miss Mabel Gerry. Mrs. 0. II. p.
Belmont, Miss Julia Berwind, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Suffern Taller, Mrs. Watts
Daniel Bacon. Mr.. and Mrs. ogden
Hammond, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Belts
Hillhouse, Mr.. McDougall Hawkes.. Mrs.
Charles Frederick Hoffman, Miss Mar
ion X. Hoffman, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Quentin Jones. Mr.. and Mrs. Gustav ].
s. White and Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley
Davis.
Also Mr. and Mrs. Augustus F.
kountzc, Mr.. Sumner Gerard. Mr.. Conde
Mast, Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Norman.
MIR. and Mrs. Reginald Norman. MIR. and
Mrs Charles May 0elrichs. Mr.. William
Post, Mrs. Eugene Rcynal. Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip Rhinelander I'd, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Ridgeway, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
srick RhineIander. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Sherman, Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Ger
ard, Mrs. Richard Gambrill, Mr. and