New-York tribune., 1922-09-03
Rounds of Autumn
Festivities Begun
I'm Berkshire Hills
Guests Entertain at Villas
Over Week End; Younger
Set Takes Part in Ten.
mis- Match at Lenox Club
Special Dispatch to The Tribune


BERKSHIRE HILLS, Mass, Sept. 2.
Autumn entertainments in the Berk-
shire Hills opened last night with a
ball at the Lenox Club, and tonight
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Roscoe Bonsal had
large dance at Ventfort Hall for
their daughter. Miss Edith M. Bonsal
Among those who had dinner parties
either last night or tonight before
the balls were Mrs. John E. Alexandra,
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Turnure, Mr..
and Mrs. Norman H. Davis, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl A. de Gersdorff.
Guests are being entertained at
nearly all of the villas for this week
end, and most of the young visitors
are taking part in the tennis tourna-
ment arranged by Mr.. Donald Mel.
rockingham at the Lenox Club. Mr..
rockingham and his sister, Miss
Helen rockingham, are among the
leaders in the younger set. Numerous
dinners and other entertainments are
being arranged for the Misses NJ.
Symphorosa and Grace Bristed, who
six weeks visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
George e. Turnure. They were ac-
companied by Miss Anna r. Alexandra
who has host Of friends in the
Berkshire colonies.
An important event on Tuesday af-
ternoon will be the sixty ninth annual
festival of the Laurel Hill Society, at
Stockbridge, of which Mr.. Alexander
Sedgwick is president. He has Sc
cured as speakers DR.. George Edgar
Vincent, president of the Rockefeller
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former Ambassador to Italy Robert
Underwood Johnson, who is to read a
poem entitled "The Housatonic River"
Mr.. Sedgwick is to give luncheon at
the Sedgwick mansion on Tuesday,
complimentary to the speakers.
Miss Mary Rutherford Jay, of New.
York, will describe Foreign Gardens"
at meeting of the Lenox Garden Club
Monday afternoon at Wheatleigh. the
beautiful Lenox estate of Mrs. Carlos
M. de Heredia. Miss Jay is to be a
guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Banyer Clark
son at Riverdafe, In birmingham.
Four chairs, desk and q table, all
mahogany have been transferred from
the courthouse at Pittsfeld to the
Lenox Library, according to the annual
library report issued this week by its
president, Mr.. Greenyille Lindal1 Win
throp. The library is housed in the
old courthouse buflt in 1883 and the
furniture is part Of that used in
the courts over q century ago. Mr..
Winthrop says: ''These will add great
interest to the collection the library
is making of objects closely related to
the old life and traditions of Lenox."
A larger endowment and more shelves
for books are the principal library
needs, say. Mr.. Winthrop.
Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler, who
has been at Curtis Hotel in Lenox and
has been the guest at, numerous din
ner and luncheon parties In the Lenox
colony. was Joined early in the week
by DR.. Butler and Miss Sarah Schuyler
Butler and the three went ON to Po-
land Springs. he.
Hon. and Mrs. Richard Dawson, OF
London, who were touring the hills
with Mrs. Lucius X. Wilfssrdirg. Of
New York, also were az the Curtis this
week. Among ethsr arrivals thsre were
Colonel p. 9. Reynolds, u. D. A., and
M.s. Reynelda, os West Point. wno
were guests OF Mrs. john w. Dwight;
Dir. and. Mrs. Martin s. Watts, M. M.
s. Huntington Watts and Mr.. Schuyler
M. j.. Watts, of New York.
Il dinner Of New York nna Brooklyn
pecpis who hava boan aesng TO Haaton
Hall at Ef6nfhriI -e F,f~ is