New-York tribune., 1922-09-03
700 Newport
Guests at Two
Brilliant Balls
MIR. and Mrs. john Aspegren
Entertain Five Hundred
Friends at Aspen Hall;
Dinners Precede Event
Estate q FairyIan d
Oakwood, Home of MIR. and
Mrs. William Burden,
Is Scene of Big Event
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NEWPORT, r, l.. Sept, 2,--Balls by
Mr.. and Mrs. John Aspegyen, at Aspen
Hall, and by Mr. and Mrs. Williams
Burden, at 0akwood, were the feature
OF this evenings entertainments, the
Aspegren ball for 800 guests being the
event of the season, and probably the
greatest Newport has had since the
war. The Burden ball was for zoo
guests, with two orchestras. Preceding
each affair more than twenty dinner
parties were given.
Elaborate decorations, novelty
features and Fokine and Fokina,
famous Russian dancers, and their
entire ballet, from New York, made
tho Aspegren ball distinctive, Mr.
and Mrs. Aspegren entertained forty
eight at dinner at Aspen Hall. Mrs.
Vanderbilt, Mrs. William Watts Sher-
man. General and Mrs. Wilbur Elliott
Wilder, Mrs. Morton L. Schwartz and
former Governor r. Livingston Beck
man also gave dinners.
More than 10000 electric lights were
used, including eighty coiored food
lights, which played over the lawn to
the. Cliff Walk. concentrating on o
fountain, twenty-six feet high, which
had been erected for the occasion.
Two rose harbors, $500 feet in
length and extending from the resi-
dence to the cliffs, were COW
cred with roses, in which were
placed many thousands of small,
colored electric lights. Three hun
dred large illuminated balloons, from
two to four feet in diameter, were
placed at various heights about the
estate.
Five Hundred Attend Ball
Among the guests at the dinner and
the dance were:
Mrs. Vanderbilt, Miss Mabel Gerry,
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, Miss Julia Ber-
wind, Mr.. and Mrs. T. Suffern Taller,
Mrs. Watts Sherman, MIR. and Mrs.
James w. Gerard, Mrs. Richard Gam
brill, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hartman,
Thompson Spencer, Mr. Francis G. B.
Roche, Miss Muriel Vanderbilt, Mr.. and
Mrs. Whitney Carpenter jr., Mr.. and
Mrs. William Fitzhugh Whitehouse,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles s, Whitman, Gen
eral and Mrs. Wilder, Admiral and Mrs.
Gleaves, Mrs. John j. Wysong, Admiral
and Mrs. Winslow, Mr.. and Mrs
Michael Van Beuren, Mr.. r. Living
ston-B Beekman, Mr.. and Mrs. Craig Bid
die, Miss Louise Clews, Mr.. James
Stewart Cushman, Mr.. Andor de Herte-
lendy, of the Hungarian Legation;
Mrs. Elisha Dyer jr,, Mrs. Frederick
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fahnestoek, Mr..
and Mrs. Paulding Fosdick, Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gillespie, Mrs.
Brady Hartman, Mrs. Daniel Bacon,
Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Hammond, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Belts Hillhouse, Mr.. Nc
Dougal Hawkes., Mr.. Charles Frederick
Hoffman. Miss Marion Hoffman, Mr..
and Mrs. Lewis Quentin Jones, Mr.. and
Mrs. Gustav j. s. White, Mr.. azd Mrs.
Dudley Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus
F. Kountze, Mr.. Sumner Gerard, Mr..
Conde Mast, Mr.. and Mrs. Bradford
Norman, Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald Nor
man, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles May oel-
richs, Mr.. William Post, M. and Mrs.
Rhinelander I'd, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Ridgway, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Rhinelander, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter w.
Roberts, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Goelet,
Mrs. George Rives, DR.. Madison Taylor,
Mr.. and Mrs. Forsyth Wickes, Mr..
Reginald Vanderbilt, Mr.. William e.
Carter. Mr.. and Mrs Stuart Duncan,
Mr.. William Iselin, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Parish, Mr.. and Mrs Robert Gould
Shaw I'd, Mrs. Cornelius II. Tangeman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman @. Whitehouse,
Miss Elizabeth Sands, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles T. Richardson, Mr. Louis
Boissevain, Mrs. r. T.. Wilson, Mrs.
Marjorie Oelrichs, Miss Janet Fish, Mr..
Henry o. Havemeyer jr., Mr.. and Mrs,
George Eustis Corcorano Mr.. and Mrs.
T. Stewart Barney, Mr.. Sydney Smith
ir. and Mr.. Kenneth Shay Safe.
Two pavilions we're built on the
ocean side of the estate, one being used
for serving supper, the other as an
annex to the ballroom. Between the
ballroom and the dance pavilion were
placed Conrads Orchestra and Cole
MANS Club de Montmartre Orchestra,
OF New York. A stage was erected IN
the ballroom for Fokine and Fokina
They offered an entire, menuet, gavotte
and gigue, with Vera Fokina as the
marquise and Fokine as the marquis
Later the ballet performed on the lawn,
aLa Fontaine Animeev was given by
Miles. Korolava, Wild, Descha and
Peck of the ballet, and "The Dying
Swan" dance by Vera Fokina.
After the entertainment dancing
went on uninterruptedly until an early