Evening star., 1925-11-08
SocietyPremieres Forecast
Brilliant New York Season
Opening Marked by First of Dinner Dances
by Spinsters- -Bewilderine Array Of
Coming Events.

ferept days. Members Of the Junior
League, selected from among the
debutantes OF the city, will have
charge of program distribution and as
sist at the tea tables.
Committees in Charge.
The complete list of committee chair
men is as follows: Chairman, Mrs.
Marshall Field: vice chairman, Mrs.
Edgar S. Auchincloss, jr., Mrs. Ar
thur A. Fowler and Mrs. r. Penn
Smith jr.; committee chairmen, Mrs.
James c. Auchincloss (dance), Mrs.
James G. Brady (Toyland), Mrs. Lyt-
Teton Fox diving billboards) Mr.. VIII
Rogers (theater) and Mrs. Percy VIII
liams midway.
Booth chairmen are Miss Mary
Auchincloss, Mrs. Henry B. Barnes.
Mrs. Richard Boardman, Mrs. Henry
Patterson, Mrs. Charles G.. Child, jr.;
Mrs II. Durant Cheever. Miss Mary
A. Downey, Mrs. Jay Gould, Mrs.
Frederick Johnson. Mrs. Eugene w.
Stetson, Mrs. Jesse L. Straus, Mrs.
Newell Tilton, Mrs. H. LIE Roy Whit
ney. Miss Nancy Yuille and Mrs.
Frederick F'airchlld.
The committee of artists, artisans
and architects includes Francis H.
Markoe. chairman and artiflcer; Put
nam Brinkley, Charles Cornelius, Al
lyn Cox. William Adams Delano
Charles B. Fall. ]. Monroe Hewlett,
William O'D. Iselin. Edward McCart n
Fred w. Payne. August G. Volz, Cla-
gett Wilson and Ezra Winter.
Coming Nuptial Events.
Society is much interested in the
announcement made by Mrs. George
Gordon King of 1872 East Eighteenth
street and Newport Of the engage
ment Of her daughter, Miss Dorothy
Gordon King, to Alexander NelidoW,
youngest son of the late Nj. NelldoW
and Nine. Nelidow, who was Princess
Olga Hilcow.
Miss Kings father, George Gordon
King, who died in 1922. was the son OF
the late Edward King of Newport ana
Mrs. King, daughter of Daniel LIE Roy
of New York He was great-grand-
son of Col Nicholas Fish and direct
descendant of Peter Stuyvesant.
Through her mother Miss King is
the granddaughter of the late Sir
James Coats. Bart, of Auchendrane,
Ayr, Scotland, and through the Au-
chincloss family of New York is de-
scended from John Winthrop, first
Governor of Mas assachusetts.
Mr. Nelidow's father for 20 conSecu-
tive years was Russian Ambassador
in Constantinople. Rome and Paris,
where he died in 1910. He was presi-
dent of The Hague peace conference
in 1907. His mother was a direct de-
scendant of Rurik, Norman prince.
Mr.. Nelidow, after graduating from
the Imperial Alexander Lyceum,
served as volunteer in the Chevalier
Guards Regiment in st. Petersburg.
He later entered diplomacy, serving
civ in Y-iS
and London. until he resigned in 1915
to serve with the British, French and
Russian air forces.
Attendants Chosen.
The wedding attendants have been
chosen for the wedding of Miss Anna
Woodruff Peters, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Heath Peters of Field
Point road, Greenwich, Conn, to Gra-
ham Crawford Thomson of New York,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John c. Thomson.
The wedding will take place at Christ
Church, Greenwich, Conn, Novem-
ber 2S.
Miss Lucy Downing of Newark
cousin of the bride, will be the maid
of honor.
The attendants will be Miss Con-
stance Slade. Miss Katherine Babst.
Miss Elizabeth Whiting, Mrs. Louis
Fangeres Bishop of New York.. Miss
Bertha Bates of Morristown and Mrs.
Paul f. Flato of Greenwich.
Marshall Brown of Yonkers will be
the best man. and the ushers will be
James Northrop, Watson Northrop,
Stephen Little, Rows Burns. all of
New York. and Paul Flato and Green
vile Mckee of Greenwich.
Miss Peters was graduated from
Miss Spence's School and made her de-
but in New York last Winter.