New Britain herald., 1929-03-16

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 Palm Beach has completed the ard from the serious to the completely frivolous. Beginning with the circuit with which MT. and Mrs. Edward Fl Hutton. New York. entertained sev- eral hundred guests on Monday night. and closing with the boxing tea at the Oasis club this afternoonI nearly all of the events of the past
 week have been of light hearted and informal character.
 On Tuesday afternoon, childreH and grown ups alike enjoyed tho circus on the lawn of the Hutton home for the benefit of the Animal Rescue League. Mrs. Hutton havin. contributed the circus and the use of her grounds. Children of the Palm Beach colony mingled with little tots from the Palm Beach county home who were guests for the occasion of Mrs. Florenze Zeie- field. Mrs. Nettie Livermore, New York, was hostess to Girl Scouts Of the county, while socially prominent members of the Animal Rescue League also played fairy godnoth- CT 10 number of children in the community who could not have at tended otherwise
 On Monday afternoon a number Of colonists interrupted affairs Of a lighter nature and attended cere- monies at the town hall when Mrs Edward Shearson, New York, Mrs. J. Leonard Replogle, New York and Mrs. Henry F. Req, Pittsburgh, pre-. sented the town with q set of hand.' some silk flags, Major Barclay H.: Warburton, mayor, responeded.
 A group of younger girls conl.; prlsed the junior committee incharge of the barn dance on Wednesday. night at the Palm Beach county charities Taking the place of dia- phonous chiffons, fluttering draper- les, beJeWelled costumes and glitter. ing cocktail jackets and impeccable masculine evening clothes usually. seen at Palm Beach affairs were the rustic garments worn by the: guests. Farmerettes and farmers in overalls, county lasses in ginghanl,. bowery characters and gangsters' danced to the strains of an orcFes-' tra. The country club was decorated to represent barn. Members of the. junior committee included Diana Guest, chairman: Edna Bdokau,, Frances Gilmore, Peggy Phipps, Genevieve Fox, all of New York, and Eleanor Chase, Oshkosh, Wis, Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury. Phila adelphia,. Mrs. James P. Donohue, Mrs. Finley Peter Dunne, and Mrs. Charles Min ot Amory were in the list of patron-; esses. Many private dinner parties prefaced the affair which was onel
 Another costume affair which oc.. casioned much mirth was the party! given by MT. and Mrs. Arthur C. Belcher. New York, at the Oasis club; Tuesday night. Guests came garbed as children under ten years of age.' Dinner was served in the patio pre-. ceding the dancing. About 200 re. presentative members of society at. tended the affair.
 Mrs. Alexander Mckay. New York; entertained on Friday night with d dinner party in honor of Miss Lynn Curtiss, New York, her house guest. Other affairs of the past week in- clude the dinner party with which MT. and Mrs. Earle Perry Charlton. Fall River, Mass, entertained at Former Governor Alvin T. Fuller their ocean front estate in honor of and Mrs. Fuller, of Boston. Mir. and Mrs. Fuller also entertained 20 guests at tea on Tuesday afternoon at the Everglades club. Baron and Baroness Bondstetten, of Thurn, members of the cottage colony also' entertained with dinner party on Tuesday at the Everglades club.
 The boxing tea this afternoon at the Oasis club is the second of the season and proves societys interest in sports. Anthony J. Drexel Riddle, has a young boxer under his care while Edward r. Hutton, New York financier, recently bought the con- tract of a young boxer distinguished for his knockouts and will have him especially trained
 Society in chuckling over the coin- cidence of both Sinclair Lewis and Ambassador Babit, (Niles Babit) Of; l. i1ad da1r o<
 the two were seen together last week on Main street.