Evening star., 1927-03-13

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Of the social tides from the old strong
holds in this CITY is we'll illustrated
i'm the 1927 yearbook which has been
received by the members OF the eX-
elusive Thursday Evening Club. Al
though membership in this organlza-
tion is for the greater part matter
of inheritance, there are some elected
each year. Few of the founders are
living. Mrs. Charles A. Post, who was
on the original rolls and president for
many years, died last year.
1t was i'm 1873 that the Thursday
Evening Club came into being. The
late Mrs. John Jay was president and
the late Prof Thomas Egleston of
Columbia, secretary. The homes and
the members i'm the localities of
Stuyvesant Square. Washington
Square and south of Fifty.ninth street
were used as meeting places. These
were considered far uptown in those
days. Although business and other
factors have .encroached on all of
these districts. the club has flourish
ed and always held place as ultra.
exclusive and conservative.
The aim of the organization has
been decidedly literary and artistic.
and leaders in art music. drama and
literature have given private enter
tainments under its auspices. There
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On the early rolls of the Thursday
Evening Club were Mrs. Henry G..
Chapman and Mrs. William II. Schief
felin. daughters of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. John Jay: Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Hunt, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Butler Duncan
Bishop Henry Goldman Potter, Joseph
H Choate. William NJ. Evarts. DR..
William = II. Draper, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Watson Glider. DR.. and Mrs.
Francis H. Kinnicutt. Mr.. and Mrs.
Pierpont Morgan. f. l.. Godkin, Judge
Henry E. Hadley and Miss Amy
Townsend
Among those elected to member.
ship in the last two years are Mrs.
Philip j. Roosevelt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Harkness Flagler, Mr.. and
Mrs. Reginald B. Lanier, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson. Mrs. William S.
Rainsford, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas n.
Rhinelander, E. Coster Wilmerding,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Woods, Mrs.
John Kean, Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall
Field and Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Stuy-
vesant Chanler, jr The meeting of
room of the Colony Club, when the
hosts We're Mr.. and Mrs. LinZee Blag-
den and Mr.. and Mrs. j. Rowland
Auchincloss.
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One of the outstanding events of
this month will he a dinner at the
Waldorf-Astoria on March 16, at
which the Ambassadors and Ministers
of the leading foreign powers will be
the guests of the American Woman's
Association. Plans for this event were
formulated recently at a tea at the
home of Mrs. Whitney Warren, $50
Park avenue. Some 1000 men and
women prominent in civil and ma
tional life are expected to attend the
dinner. Hostesses at the tea were
Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mrs. w. K.
Vanderbilt and Mrs. Robert Bacon.
Miss Anne Morgan, chairman of the
working committee in charge of the
associations campaign, told the
women that the attending diplomats
would each speak on the same general
topic, discussing what they considered
the most significant development in
their respective foreign countries
since the war.
Mr.. and Mrs. William E. S. Girls.
uold of sS3 Fifth avenue, have an
nounced the engagement of their eld-
est daughter, Miss Ursula Wolcott
Griswold, to Woodbridge Bingham,
eldest son of Senator and Mrs. Hiram
bingham OI OOIlHeClICul MISS NfiS-
void, who made her debut this Win
ter at a dance given at the home of
her parents, graduated from the Fox
croft School last June. Miss Girls
void is descendant of FIVE governors
of Connecticut and Mr.. Bingham
counts among his ancestors three
colonial governors and two United
States Senators.
Miss Griswold is a granddaughter
of the late Matthew Griswold and. on
the maternal side of the late John
Sloane. She is great granddaughter
of Gov. Roger G.. Griswold of Connec-
tIcut, and a great great -granddaugh
ter of Gov. Matthew Griswold. Miss
Griswold's grandmother, Mrs. Mat
thew Griswold. is daughter of the
late Rev. William +. Schenck of
Philadelphia. trustee Of Princeton
Theological Seminary. Miss Girls
wold's grandmother was a daughter
of the late DR. Abraham j. Berry,
the first mayor Of Williamsburg, now
part of Brooklyn. Her grandfather.
the late John Sloane, was president
of w. & J. Sloane. She is a niece
of Henry T. Sloane and of the late
William Douglas Stone.
Mr.. Bingham attended Groton
School and graduated from Yale in
1924. Since his graduation he has
CDNIb AIOSN VI HE litilE dbiOdu anu IL
now at the Yenching School in Pc.
king. studying the Chinese language
and literature.
Miss Jennet r. Lloyd. daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert McAllister
Lloyd, of 1855 Park avenue. will be
married to Halsted Hawley Myers,
son of T. Halsted Myers and the late
Mrs. Myers, April q in the First
Presbyterian Church. The ceremony
will be performed by Rev. DR.. George
Alexander and a reception will fol.
low at Sherry's for members of the
two families and few intimate
friends.
Miss Gwendolyn Lloyd, a student at
Vsssar, will be her sisters maid of
honor The other attendants will he
Miss Paula Murray, Miss Consuelo
Gimbernat. Miss Kathleen Hayward
end Miss Beatrice Myers, a cousin of
Mr.. Myers y
Ogden King Myers. whose marriage
to the former Miss Helen NJ. Whalen
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard