Evening star., 1926-06-06
Society at Metropolis
Enjoys Important Events
Score of Weddings, Racing and Horse Shows Vie
With Other Large Affairs At New London,
Newport and Hyde Park.

who are going there on June Is, when
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James
are giving n garden party and a din
ner for the royal guests on that day.
Most Of the members Of the Summer
colony will be there for the event.
The Breakers. Mrs. Vanderbilt's 8
villa. will be opened this Summer. and
will be occupied by her son and daugh-
ter-in-law. Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Corne-
lius Vanderbilt. and their daughter,
bilt, the mother, went abroad with her
daughter. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney,
and her son.in-law and daughter, the
Count and Countess Laszlo Szechenyi.
She is going abroad to attend the un-
yelling ceremonies at st. Nazaire,
France, Of the heroic statue commem-
Grating the ninth anniversary of the
landing Of American troops In France.
The statue. that Of doughboy on the
stretched and sword uplifted. stands
on a rock promontory in st. Nazaire
Harbor.
Mrs. Vanderbilt's sister-in-law, Mrs.
Hamilton Mex. Twombly, who has
not been in Newport for several sea-
sons, will open Vineland. her villa
there. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Z. Wide
ner are to return this Summer, after
an absence of several seasons, and
will be with their son.in-law and
daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter A. b.
Widener. Mrs. Widener Leidy. the for
mer Fin Widener, will be with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Williams Burden will be
at Oakwood, where they are to have
the first outdoor swimming pool
erected
William X. Vanderbilt. who has
been travelling in the West. and his
wife, who has been abroad but is re.
turning soon, will be at Ackwood farm,
the estate of his father, the late AL
fred G. Vanderbilt. His mother. Mrs.
Paul FitZ Simons, is now in South
America, but will return during the
Summer
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Saxham f..
Drury, the latter the former Miss
Mabel Gerry, who were married last
Fall and who later went abroad. are
to spend the coming Summer with her
father. Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry,
at Seaverge. Miss Angelica Gerry will
also be with them. Mrs. George Gren-
VILE Merrill of Stockbridge. Mass, this
week made preparations to open the
Dresser cottage, which she will oc-
cupy this Summer with her children,
the Misses Natalie and Marjorie and
George Grenville Merrill, jr.
Society was we'll represented at the
Dali. Roosevelt wedding, which took
place today in st. James Church at
Hyde Park. n. Y. Special cars were
attached to trains from this city to
accommodate the many friends Of the
Young couple among the smart set
here. After the ceremony a large re-
ception was held at Springwood, the
Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park.
Miss Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. the
bride. is the daughter Of former AS
sistant Secretary Of the Navy and Mrs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The bride.
groom, Curtis Bean Dali, is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Austin Dali
of this city. The church in which the
ceremony was performed has been the
scene of other marriages in the Roose-
was the Rev. DR.. Endicott Peabody,
headmaster of Groton School. Groton.
Mass. who married the parents Of
the bride on March II, 1908.
The maid of honor was Miss Kath-
crime s. Douglas. daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Douglas. The other at.
tendants were Mrs Dave Hennion
Morris, jr., who before her recent mar.
riage was Miss Alice G. Agnew; Miss
Helen Douglas Robinson, daughter of
the Assistant Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson:
Miss Dorothy r. Wilmerding, daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Elbert F. Wilmer.
ding; Miss Mary f. Nicholson, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs G. T Nicholson.