Evening star., 1925-10-18

NEW YORK, october 1T.-PlanS are
about completed for TuXedo's annua
Autumn ball October 81, the Smartest
entertainment OF the Fall season. wheI
many of the debutantes of the coming
Winter make their first appearance
at large formal function. This year
for the first time, the bali is to be held
in one Of the villas instead of the
club and it promises to be an unusual
iy brilliant affair, with more debu
fantes than ever before in attendance
There are four from the small eX
elusive Park colony alone to be pre-
sented this Winter-Miss katherine
Comfy. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Garrard Comfy; Miss Edith Wilmer
ling, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius
llmerding: Miss Marion Wickes
Saughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Forsyth
N'tckes, and Miss Alike Walker
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. \. Stewert
Walker. Miss Walker is a grand
daughter of Mrs. Greenville Hare
who will give large dinner before the
ball for Miss Walker Mr.. and Mrs
Comfy will give dance at their home
in the Park for their daughter. Kath-
crime, the night before the ball. Oc-
toher 80. There viii be numerous
luncheons, teas and dinners for the
Young people over the week end of the
ball.
There was keen rivalry over the Sc
lection of the chairman of the ball
committee this year between Mrs.
Frank Is. keech and Mrs. Forsyth
Nickes. Mrs. keech finally was
chosen a few days ago, and associated
with her on the committee are Mrs.
lie Grand B. Cannon. Mrs. AmOry 5.
Carhart, Mrs. Samuel Sloan Colt Mrs.
George &. st. George and Mrs. {.
Frederick Frothingham. il.
The decorative scheme of the ball
always is a feature and the local gar
deners for days will gather laurel, ever
green and Autumn foliage to be used.
Annual Horse Show Problem.
The holding of New York's annual
horse show, which used to be one
of the features of the entire season
and really inaugurated the activities
En town. is becoming more and more
of problem. The familiam figure
of Reginald c. Vanderbilt will be
missing this year, but John McEn-
Tee Bowman, the new president, will
throw all of his commanding person
sllty into the breach and attempt to
bring the exhibition back to popular
ftY. He has an able body of directors,
and prominent judges will officiate in
The various classes. The date selected
is November % TO -, later than ever
before, and the place is Squadron A
Armory. Mr.. Bowman will be host
at the horse show breakfast at the
Hotel Bit more on Sunday, November
-.
\ feature of the show this year
will be the Mount Vernon tea room,
presided over by Miss Beth Evans,
with a committee headed by Mrs. Ro-
land \. Hartman and composed Of
Mrs Charles H. Sabin, Mrs. Frederick
II. Allen, Mrs. Frederick Z. Adams
Mrs. Herman G. kinnicutt. Mrs. Viii
liam c. Potter and Mr.. Hartman.
Fixture of Social Season.
The date for another fixture of
New 1ork's social season has just
been announced, the annual ball given
by the Society of BeauX Arts Archi-
tects. 1t will be held January 30
at the Hotel AStor- 1t will be on a
more artistic scale than anything ever
before given by the association and
VIII be a pageant of historical and
artistic interest and will be entitled
"A Fete in the Gardens of Versailles"
1t will be, as far as possible, Il repro
ducti0n of scenes and incidents in the
courts of three kings Of France who
made Versailles what it was, Louis
XIV. Louis XIV and Louis XVI.
The entire force of architects.
painters, sculptors and designers who
the famous BeauX Arts Institute OF
Paris will lend their talents and knowl-
edge of art and history in preparing
the pageant.
Kenneth Murchison and Whitney
Warren will head the general com
lnittee now beginning plans for the
ball. IN addition there will be rep.
resentatives of drama, literature and
the world of illustrative art to aid
lNA
will aid are Royal COrtiSsoZ, Lawrence
S. Butler. Charles l.. Lawrence, A.
Stewart Walker, Langdon Schroeder,
Joseph H. F'reedlander, George s
Chappell, Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney and Robert w. Chandler.
Notable Weddings Listed.
News of the marriage last Monday
at Maidenhead, England, of Mrs. Rich
ard Stevens, Of the old Stevens family
of Castle Point, Hoboken. to Josef
Forn.an, of Czechoslovakia, was a
great surprise to her many friends
abroad and on this side of the At
lantic. Among those present at the
ceremony We're Mrs. Stevens five
children Dorothy and Richard Stevens,
her cousins; Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Jathrop and Sylvia Lathrop, also
William Fl. Taylor Of the American
L.
kotas Of the CZeChuSlovakian LeGa-
ton. DR.. BlaCkman of oxford, and
Mrs. Ralph DecazeuoVe. Mr.. Forman
is q writer who during the war col
laborated with T. G.. Masaryk. the
present president of Czechoslovakia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forman will spend the
Winter in France and Rome. They
will divide their time between Castle
Point and Europe.
Mrs. FOrman was the widow of
Richard Stevens. who died In May,
1919, at his home at Castle Point, ITo-
hoken. She WAS the former Miss Elsie
Stevens, she and her husband having
been cousins. IT" was a brother Of
Col Edwin \. Stevens, who died a
year previously. They were the sons
of Edwin a. Stevens, who was the
founder of the Stevens Institute of
Technology IN Hoboken. The family
at one time owned all the ground upon