Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

NEW YORK, January 5.-New Veal
eve was celebrated with a record at
tendance at all the fashionable hotels
and restaurants. All four restaurants
at the st. Regis were crowded, the
Carlton, the Plaza, Mayfair House
Waldorf-Astoria, Pierre'S, Sherry'S, Park
Lane Vanderbilt, Marguery and others
were filled with gay parties. There was
special music and costly favorS for the
occasion.
The end of the year marked the an
nouncement of a number of notable
engagements. Monday Mr.. and Mrs
Henry Bull made known the engage
ment of their niece, Miss Kathleen
Baker, to Mr.. Louis Starr Of this city
and Bernardsville. N. j. Miss Baker
is daughter of DR.. Harold w. Baker
of Boston and the former Caroline
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cambridge
Livingston. the latter of whom was
Miss Maria Whitney Of New Haven,
Conn, and a daughter of Stephen
Whitney.
Miss Bakers younger sister, the
former Miss Phyllis Baker, was mar
Tied a year ago in st. Bartholomew
Church to E. N Potter, jr.. of this city.
Miss Baker, the bride-elect, makes her
home with Mr. and Mrs. Bull, at I'll
East Sixty-Second street and at ISlip,
Long Island. The wedding will take
place in the Spring.
Miss Baker was educated at Brearley
School and made her debut three years
ago. She mas hunted regularly with
the Meadow Brook hounds for the last
three years and also with the Aiken
hunt.
Mr.. Starr is a son of the late Mr..
Louis Starr and Mrs. Starr of Demands
vile, N. j., and a grandson of DR..
Louis Starr of Philadelphia. Mrs Starr
was Miss Margaret Hammond, daughter
of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. John Henry
Hammond of this city and Superior,
Wis Mr.. Starr also is a nephew of
John Henry Hammond of this city and
Ogden H. Hammond, the American
Ambassador to Spain.
Wedding Is Forecast
For the Easter Season.
DR.. and Mcs. Henry Marion Hall of
is Gramercy Park have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Frances Minturn Hall, to Mr.. Thomas
Clark Howard of Newport and Boston.
The engagement was announced yester-
aunt, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliot, at her
Newport home, Lilliput.
Miss Hall is great-granddaugh of
Julia Ward Howe, author of the Battle
Hymn of the Republic" and of Samuel
G. Howe. She is the niece of Mrs.
Maud Howe Elliot and Mrs. Laura E.
Richards and of the late Prof. Henry
Howe, metallurgiSt and head of the
School of Mines of Columbia University.
Among other kinsmen are Mr., and
Mrs. Cyrus Curtis and Mr.. and Mrs
Edward Box of Philadelphia, the Rev.
and Mrs. Hugh Birckhead of Baltimore
and, in an older generation, F.. Marion
Crawford, the novelist, and the late
Ward McAlliSter.
Miss Hall has just returned from a
years study in Rome and Paris She
has exhibited her sculpture in Boston
and New York.
Mr.. Howard, who is a graduate of
Harvard, class of 1925, is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Howard of New
port. He is the great-grandson and
namesake Of Bishop Thomas Clark of
Rhode Island and presiding bishop of
the United States and Mexico.
His mother, the former Alice Sturte-
want, is the founder and president of
the American Merchant Marine Library
Association. Mr.. Towards father is q
chemical engineer and is well known
in yachting circles He owns and sails
the yacht Alice, which made the New
York to Santander, Spain, run last
Summer.
The wedding win be at Easter.