Evening star., 1925-02-22
CHARACTERS OF HISTORY APPEAR
IN GORGEOUS COSTUMES At BALL
WashingtOnions and Guests Represent Colonial An
cestors at Remarkable Event for Benefit of
Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

! Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Kaufman en-
tertained in their box Representative
and Mrs. Adam M.pWyant, Brig Gen
and Mrs. Denis f. Nolan and Mrs. j
Herbert Wood
Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, who was
| Miss Andrews of Maryland and whe
| has most interesting family back
ground, later took her guests to the
ball, where she had a large box.
Hostess in Arts Club Box.
| Mrs. Willoughby Chesley was hos
| tess in the Arts Club box and was
! dressed as. her great-grandmother
Eliza Charlton Beatty of Winchester
Va. Others in the box were Mr.. and
Mrs. G. A. Lyon. in Oriental cos
| tunes; Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Mus
| grave, as a beau and belle of George
town in the days when Georgetown
| was in Maryland; Mr.. L. Morris Lei
senring, as his grandfather, John G.
| Morris. and wearing his suit of a
| Nankin coat, Powered vest and skin
| tight trousers; Mrs. Leisnring, as a
colonial lady; Mr.. and Mrs. Carl van
Valkenburg and Johannes van Val
kenburg and Nantzy van Valkenburg
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Neuhauser, the lat
ter as Margaret Tenant Shaw, and
Miss Alene Solomons as Rebecca
Machado of Portugal in the sixteenth
century.
|, Mrs John Ryan DevereuX, who was
one of the guests in the Arts Club
box, represented her distinguishes ed
ancestress, Dionis Stevens, wife OF
Tristram Coffin, first governor of Nan
tucket, and her daughter, Mrs. Rich
ard Jeschke, wife of Capt. Jeschke
of the United States Marine Corps, went
to the ball as the wife of knels Wins
low. brother of Gov. Winslow of Massa-
chusettS.
The box of the Colonial Danes Of
America, chapter 3 was occupied
by Mrs. Robert Lansing, Miss Lansing,
Miss Gertrude Myer, the Rev. Walden
Myer, Mrs Arthur Mason Chichester
of Leesburg, Va. Mrs. Arthur Addi-
son, Mrs. Dickinson Jewett, Miss
Gertrude Jewett and Mrs. Charles ).
Hamlin as her ancestress, Aida Slich-
envorst, on the occasion of her mar
riage to Mr.. Schuyler of New York
Mrs. Henry w. Fitch was hostess
in the Gov. Enos Thompson Throop
of New York box and had as her
guests Admiral and Mrs. Gleaves,
Miss Gleaves, Mr.. and Mrs. Rush
Wendell of Cazenovia and Mr.. and
| Mrs. Hewitt Wells.
Mr.. Stuart Gibboney of New York,
| president of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation, whose box was
named for Alexander Hamilton, had
as his guests from New York Mr.. and
Mrs. James d. Hurd, Mr.. and Mrs
| Edward Mallep-Provost Murphy, Mr.
| Henry Alan Johnson, secretary of the
| foundation; Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred NJ
| Barrett of the board of governors and
| treasurer of the Centennial Election
and Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic w. ivy
man of Charlottesville, Va. Mr.. Glib
! hiS +
| rick Henry, and Mrs. Gibboney imper-
sonated Dame Throthingham of New
England.
HOnOrs Connecticut Governor.
Mrs. Charles Boughton Woods box
was named by her for her ancestor
William Phelps, from Tewksbury
England. appointed by the king to
govern Connecticut, 1885. Her guests
included Nine. Grouitch, Mr.. William
Phelps Emo, Maj. and Mrs. GoetZ, Miss
Anne Gordon, Mr.. Suydam, Miss Mary
Morgan and Mrs. George Ehle.
Mrs. Robert f. Lee was hostess in
two boxes, and among her guests
from out of town and from the city
were Mrs. Francis 1. du Pont, Mrs
| G.. Tracy Rogers, Mrs. Henry Wilder
Keyes, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Sim Lee
Mr.. and Mrs John Leonard Proctor
of Vermont, Mrs. Thornton Boiand
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Drayton, Miss
Matte Harris of Roanoke, Va; Miss
Julia Phillips of South Carolina,
Judge John Rutherford of Richmond,
Capt. Frank Jervey and DR.. T. S. Lee.
Mrs. Lees set in the minuet included
Mrs Lee. dancing with Capt. c. 7.
Brooks, u. S. M c.: Miss Edith Dav-
idge, dancing with DR.. NJ. c. Dollman
Mrs Lawrence Lee, dancing with Mr.
Lawrence Lee; Mrs. William Living
ston Crounse, dancing with Mr.
Charles Light.
Descendant Of John Adams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter D. Wilcox had
the John Adams box, Mr.. Wilcox
going as President Adams, of whom
he is a direct descendant, and Mrs.
Wilcox as Mrs. Adams. They had as
their guests Mrs. Frederick Huide-
koper, representing the old Dutch
family of Huidekoper. and Mrs. Up
shur Moorhead. representing the
family of John Chew. The costumes
were of the Louis XVI period.
Mrs. Richard Parker Crenshaw had
the box named for her ancestor, Mai
Gen. John Custis of Arlington. Va.
and Mrs. Crenshaw attended the ball
as her reat-grandmother Mrs
John Sergeant of Philadelphia; Mrs
Absolem Waller as her ancestor, Mary
Rambert Dubois, French Huguenot
of South Carolina; Mrs. Claudian
Northrup. as Mrs. John Faucheraud
Grinke of South Carolina; Miss Helen
Griffith, as Lady Yeardley, wife of the
first colonial Governor of Virginia
Miss Carolyn Chamberlain, as Maria
Moseley of Norfolk, Va. Miss Ellen
Wise Crenshaw, as Maria Mayo, wife
of Gen. Winfield Scott. The men in the
Custis box were: Fulton Lewis, as Evan
Lewis member Of provincial assembly OF
Pennsylvania Millard Lewis. as Jona-
| than Hoyes, member of provincial as
sembly of Pennsylvania Charles Mar
bury, as Francis Marbury, county lieu
tenant in 1880 for Prince Georges, Md.
James Craig, az Gov. Peter Stuyvesant
of New York, and Capt. Langworthy, as
Roger Williams.
Double Set for Minuet.
A double set for the minuet were also
guests in Mrs. Crenshaw's Custis box
| including Miss Louise Ireland, Miss
Natalie Hammond, Miss Laura Towne
Miss Elizabeth Parker, Miss Carolyn
Chamberlain, Miss Ellen Crenshaw, Miss
Margaret Dow, Miss Betty Ives and Full
ton Lewis, Millard Lewis, Mitchell Car
roll, Randolph Carroll Charles Marbury
Capt. Langworthy and Lee Hoover.
Mrs. Jane Blackburn Moran was
hostess for the Blackburn w ashing-
ton-Lee box, appearing as Lady Anne