Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-24


fancy dress carnival, will be staged in
Madison Square Garden on January as
a benefit to the New York Music Week
Association. More than 5000 persons
prominent in the social life of the city
are participating actively in the various
committees cooperating for the presen-
tation of the pageant.
Mrs. Henry p Dawson is chairman Of
the invitation committee for the event
Mrs. Myron c. Taylor is honorary
chairman of the program committee
and Mrs. Arthur w. Little of the box
committee. Mrs Philip Kip Rhine
lander heads the junior committee
assisting the program committee.
G. Stanley Mitchell is general chah-
man of the carnival, and cooperating
are Charles T. Church of the United
States Figure Skating Association ana
Henry Wainwright Howe of the New
York Skating Club.
The Norwegian Minister at Washing
ton. the Hon, HAYWARD H. Bachke, ana
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt have ac-
cepted invitations to be honorary chair
men, and the Hon. Wilhelm Won M. av
Morgenstierne, ronsul general for
Norway in this city, and Mayor James
j. Walker have accepted invitations 10
act as honorary vice chairmen.
The presence of Sonia Henis, world
champion figure skater, in the carnival
together with the leading skaters of the
United States and Canada, promises =
dazzling exhibition of dificult sno
graceful exercising The dramatic SET
tion of the pageant is based on a story
adapted from an ancient Viking legend
by Miss Isabel Lowden. director Of the
New York Music Week Association
Lila Agnew Stewart will be director
of presentation of the carnival.
Delegations of prominent skaters
from Toronto, Ottawa, Boston, New
Haven, Philadelphia and other cities
have arranged to attend SonlsS ., oeS 9o
in Madison Square Garden. Two Ia
NOUS American skaters viii appear IN
the carnival-Maribel VinSon. united
states woman champion amateur figure
skater. and Miss BeatriX .bougnrah'
FORMER champion, who competed against
Henie in ST. Moritz in 1927.
Junior League Players
Outline Theater Program.
Members of the Players Stock Com
many of the Junior League met on
wednesday for the first casting OF
NAV to be presented at the Hampden
Theater on December Is, IL, 20 ana u.
Among, the Young women who had try
outs were Mesdames De Wolf Gibson,
Helen Ballantine, J. B. WnllamS. p;,
Harry Stout, jr; Theodore Eliot. FranK
Connolly John F. Russell Jr;; Ihomas
Ewing, jr.; Misses MurleI Hsnses'
stone, Louise Bigelow, Rosamono
starr. Isabelle Sullivan, Elizabeth Spen-
Ger. Doris Borden, Ivonne Moen, RUN
Buckner. Edith Parker, Margaret Brett'
Julia Ripley and Hope Yandeil.
The stock company is composed OF
graduates of the Junior League Theater
School which came into being three
years ago.
Search for. the Christmas star, py
Sverre Brandt, translated from tne
Norwerian bv Lorenzo M Woodside,
and will be given on the above Friday
afternoons and evenings for the hrst
time in America,
Every Thursday afternoon meeting
Is held at national headquarters, on the
TOP floor of the Barbison for the purpose
of hearing individual reports ana ex-
changing ideas.
Bride Elect Chooses
Wedding Attendants.
Miss Nina Haven King, daughter OF
the late Thomas White King and the
late Mrs. Cornelia Peabody king, has
chosen attendants for her marriage 70
Gilbert Colgate, IT,, son Of Gilbert Col
gate of 1000 Park avenue. The Weo-
ding will take place on the afternoon
of November 25 in. the Church OF the
Resurrection. The rector, the Rev. DR..
Edward Russell Bourne, will officiate,
assisted by the Rev. DR.. Fl. Percy Sill
ve-. rector af the Church of the In
carra ton A reception for the families
and few friends will take place at 3
East Seventy-eighth street the resi-
dence of Stephen Peabody Miss Kings
grandfather, with whom she resides.
Mr.. Peabody will give his granddaugh-
ter in marriage. Mrs. Collier Platt Is
to be matron of honor. Bridesmaids
will be Misses Ethel L. Haven, Sarah
E. williams Virginia S. Kellogg, all of
this city: Eleanor Mccormick. Bertha
Palmer, Chicago, and Winifred Thorn
dixie, Boston. Emma Marie Albeit and
John Alden Talbot. jr., Miss Kings
cousins, are to be flower girl and page.
Robert Bangs Colgate will DO best
man for his brother Ushers are to be
Henry A. Colgate and S. Bayard Col
gate, cousins: George Peabody. j: Noel
Macy, Valentine E. Macy, Wilton Lloyd
Smith, all of New York; Jouett Ross
Todd of Louisville and Douglas Worran
of Philadelphia.
Betrothals FOreshadOw
Future Wedding Dates.
Announcement is made by Mr.. and
Mrs. William Sherman Jenney OF 80
East Seventy first street and Littleclose,
East Hampton, Long Island, of the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Betty Jenney, to Frederick Aver End,
son of DR.. and Mrs. James Cook Aver
of % East Forty-seventh street and
Shadowland, Glen Cove, Long Island.
Miss Jenney's father is vice president
and general counsel for the Delaware,
Lackawanna g. Western Railroad. She
is the granddaughter of the late Col
Edwin Sherman Jenney Of Syracuse.
She is a graduate of Miss Porter's
School and made her debut in 1927.
She belongs to the Junior League.
Mr.. Aver is the grandson of the late
Rederick Aver. He is a graduate of