Evening star., 1924-09-21

marriages TO De are among lHe CHlti
topics of interest to members of So
ciety who are drifting back to town
for a few days before departing to
the Autumn resorts. From all in
dications there will be several elab-
crate bridal ceremonies before the
late Autumn season really gets un.
der way.
On October ! Miss Katharine J.
Blackwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
George Z. Blackwell of AZ Eas,
Eighty-first street, will become the
bride of Mr.. Frederic A. Cammann
of this city and Tuxedo Park Their
enga cement was announced in June
and there was quite a bit of enter
tanning for them during the Summer
as both are prominent in the younger
set
The ceremony will take place in
the Church of the Heavenly Rest and
the Colony Club. There will be only
small number of guests invited.
Romantic Touch Added.
Miss Blackwelrs matron of honor
will be her sister-in-law, Mrs. James
Madison Blackwell, while the other
attendants are to be Miss Ethel
Tent, Mrs. John II. Twining. Mrs.
Reddington Fiske, Miss Phyllis A
Gallatfn, Miss Reta Delafeld, Miss
Betty Wolcott Merchant and Miss
Jane Richards of Wilmington, Del.
An additional touch OF romance is
added TO the affair with Miss Mer-
chant taking part in the wedding ar
rangements, as her engagement to
Phillip Gallatin Cammann, a brother
or the bridegroom 10 be, was an
nounced recently.
the Blackwell name is one of the
best known in this section, as the
early ancestors acquired Blackwells s
Island. which was retained in the
FAMILY until the city purchased it.
When the tract was obtained in the
days when New York was an English
colony it was thriving farm and
afterward was turned into an impos-
ing estate by Col. Jacob Blackwell of
the Revolutionary Army, from whom
Miss Blackwell is a direct descend
ant.
On his mothers side Mr.. Cammann
is lineal descendant of Albert Gal
latin, Secretary of the Treasury un-
der Presidents Jefferson and Madi-
son. At his wedding Mr.. Cammann
VIII have his brother. Mr.. Philip
Cammann, as best man, and the ush-
ers VIII be Mr.. James Madison Black
we'll brother of Miss Elackwell: Mr.
James p. Vogel, Mr.. Walter I. Carey,
Mr.. George H. Carey, Mr.. Andre Lord,
Mr.. Walter Chambers. Mr. Wyllys
Rosseter Belts, jr., and Mr.. John Fl.
Twinfng.
Miss Stillman to Wed.
Arrangements have been completed
for the marriage of Miss Anne Still
man, daughter of Mrs. James A. Still
man, the date of the ceremony being
set for October %. Mr.. Henry
Pomeroy Dawson will be the bride
he
place at Mondanna, the country home
of Mrs. Stillman at Pleasantville.
y. y. 1t will be a pretty affair
though small, with no reception, as
1t is the present intention of the
Young people to depart Immediately
on their honeymoon.
Miss Stillman has an unusually
large number of friends among the
various coteries of the younger set,
and not whit of her popularity suf-
fered by the publicity which attended
the unsuccessful divorce proce edings
brought by her father against Mrs.
Stillman. Throughout the court
wrangling, Miss Stillman attended
strictly to her own affairs, and lived
her life in rather a retired manner on
the model of a simple. charming
American girl She is intensely in
terested in sports and is inclined more
ence offered to those who take part
in the social whirl of the day. She is
a granddaughter of the late James
Brown Potter and of the late James
Stillman, banker.
Son of Banker.
Mr.. Davidson. who is the son of the
late Henry Pomeroy Davidson, SO
prominent in banking circles, was
graduated from Yale in 1920, and later
attended Trinity College at Cam
bridge, England.
With the return of Miss Elaine
Sherman Sullivan from abroad, where
she was received at a garden party,
given by King George and Queen
Mary at Buckingham Palace, comes
the news of her engagement to Mr..
Albert Lincoln Hoffman of this city
and Southampton, Long Island. Miss
Sullivan is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Francis Sullivan of Phila-
delphia and The Woods. Radnor. Mr..
Hoffman's first marriage was to the
sister of his fiance. Mrs. Hoffman
died about four years ago. They had
one son, Albert Lincoln Hoffman. jr.,
and Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians
acted as sponsor by proxy at his
christening.
Several seasons ago Miss Sullivan
made her debut and has occupied a
prominent role in society of this city,
Washington and Long Island. since
that time. Sc has many friends among
the royal families of Europe and much
of her time has been spent abroad.
She is niece of the late Mrs. James
p. Clews and the late Romaine Mich
OILS of this city. The date for the we'd
ding has not been set.
Mr.. Hoffman was graduated from
Harvard in the class of 1909. During