Evening star., 1924-06-29
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Special Dispatch to The star.
NEW YORK, June 2S.-July will
usher in q busy month with horse
shows. dog shows, dances, entertain
ments for charity and several we'd
dings of Importance.
Independence day, which falls on
Friday, will take everybody out OF
the city. Members of the fashionable
world will scatter to Newport, Bar
Harbor, Southampton, the Adiron-
dacks. Thousand Islands, Massachu-
setts, Maine, Long Island and Canad-
ian resorts. Country estates will be
filled with guests over the week END.
which. with the holiday falling on
Friday, means practically four
day vacation. The entertainments
planned at the resorts and at country
estates on Long Island, in West
chester County, along the Hudson
valley, in Tuxedo, and over in the
Morristown section of New Jersey,
will consist Of dinner dances and
affairs for charity.
An important wedding set for In
dependence day is that of Miss Grace
Virginia Pomeroy Hendrick to George
w. Patterson, jr.. son OF george w.
Patterson, assistant dean OF the
School of Electrical Engineering at
the University of Michigan. Miss
Hendrick attended Miss Porters
School at Pennington. Conn.,, and Bryn
Mawr She is member OF the Junior
League. Her father, who is an Su-
thor is curator of the chemical mus
cum of Columbia University. A local
q
that Miss Hendrick, who Is devoted
to dogs, would have q pew set ASIDE
for her pets. 1t may have been oe
sire on her part. but an impract'cal
one, and the paper had to retract the
story Miss Hendrick 1ovos dogs and
has never been without them, so why
should surprise be occasioned when
she wished to have 4 pew set aside
for them?
VIII Wed mt summer Home.
Miss Hendrick, who is a daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Elwood Hendrick OF
139 East 4oth street, will become the
bride of Mr.. Patterson at the Hen
drick summer home at Simsoury'
Conn.
On the following day, July 5. Miss
Joan Whitney. daughter of Mr.. ano
Mrs. Payne Whitney, granddaughter
Of the late Secretary Of State John
Hay and the late Es Secre.ary vi,, Tt hae tae
come the bride of Charles Shipman
Payson of Portland, Me. The cere-
mony will be performed at Chrlss
Church. ManhasSet, Long Island, ana
4 reception will follow at Greentree,
the estate of Mr.. and Mrs. Payne
Whitney, overlooking Manhasset Bay.
Miss Whitney will have among her
attendants her cousin, Mrs. Bar rkle
Mckee Henry, who, as Miss Barbara
Whitney, was married to the captain
of this years Harvard varsity Gre"
last Wednesday. Miss Joan Whitney
was among the attendants at this
wedding.
Others in Party.
The other members of the bridal
ton, Sd, A cousin. who was married
a few months ago in Washington.
She is daughter Of Senator ana MRS.
James w. Wadsworth, and Miss Joan
Whitney was amorg n; ocssfnn her atsHmoaniS 1niii
be Miss Adele and Miss Virginia Ryan,
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Barry Ryan: Miss Josephine j.. Dodge
daughter Of Mr.: and MIS-; Maasna,l asmGh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George p. Dad
nun, and Miss Elizabeth D: kountZe.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Herman ID.
kountze.
John Payson. elder brother Of the
hridegroom will serve as best man,
and the ushers will be John Jay
Whitney. brother of the bride; War
rem Leslie. jr.; John Herndon French,
tr.: Gilbert l.. Stewart and Richard
son Dilworth, of this city: Herbert
Payson, jr., another brother of the
bridegroom: Sidney B. Hosmer and
Lawrence Foster. of Roston; Robert
Carson. Sd, Pittsburgh: Frederick M.
Kingsbury, New Hampshire; Thomas
Robertson. Columbia, S c.: stephen
Y. Hord, Chicago; Barclay Robinson.
Hartford; Reid Vreeland, Albany. and
Storer Boardman Lunt, Portland, Me.
Royved on Yale Crews.
The engagement Of Miss Whitney
was announced early in February.
Mr.. Payson is son Of Herbert Pay
son of Portland. Me. He was at the
Plattsburg training camp in 1917. He
entered Yale that autumn, but left
to become a member of the Yale
Naval Reserve. He rowed on the
winning crews of the university in
1919 and 1921, being graduated the
latter year. He will complete his
course at the Harvard Law School
next month.
AS June draws to close another
engagement of prominence is an
nounced formally. Miss Marion Hoff-
man is to be married to Aymar John
son in the fall. Both of the Jbung
folks are well known in interna-
tional society and hosts of friends of
the smart set of this city. They are
devotees of outdoor sports and have
attended many Of the golf and ten
mis- tournaments in Westchester,