Evening star., 1929-12-01
Society Turns Out to Greet
New York sNOtedStageStar
Distinguished Audience Welcomes Gillette at
New Amsterdam Theater- Prominent We'd
dings In Observation-Disclosures Honored.

NEW YORK, November 30.-The
week began with the brilliant attend
ance at the New Amsterdam Theater
for the temperance of the popular
actor William Gillette. The house was
filled to capacity. prominent members
of society being almost as conspicuous
as at the opening of the opera. In
fact, the house, with the audience in
evening dress, the women in handsome
gowns and wearing magnificent jewels,
and the distinguished guests present,
Sesembled an opera more than theater
gathering.
Many dinners were given before the
play at the fashionable hotels and
restaurants and at private homes, and
the performance was followed by num-
erous supper parties Prof William
Lyon Phelps of Yale University, presi-
dent of the National Institute of Arts
and Letters, presented Mr.. Gillette an
album containing individual letters of
felicitation from many of the most dis
tinguished citizens of the United
States. Mr.. Gillette made a graceful
reply.
Weddings in Fashion World
Events of the Late Autumn.
On the same day society turned out
In large numbers for the wedding o;
Miss Nina Haven King. daughter of
the late Thomas White King and the
late Mrs. Cornelia Peabody King. to
Gilbert Colgate. ir., son of Gilbert Col
gate of this city and Huntington, Long
Island, and the late Mrs. Colgate The
bride is a great at-granddaughter of
Rufus King. who was American Minis
ter to the Court of st. James in the
administrations of George Washington
end John Adams. She is a grand
daughter of Stephan Peabody and
great-granddaughte of the late George
Griswold Haven, prominent banker
of his day and one of the original
members of the board of directors of
the Metropolitan Opsra Co.
Mr.. Colgate is grandson of the late
Samuel Colgate and descendent of
William Colgate, who nearly a century
and a quarter ago founded the COM
pany that bears his name and for
whom Colgate University was named.
On the following day, Tuesday, there
was an equally important wedding. that
Of Miss Alice Winthrop to Robert
Gardiner Payne in Grace Church. 1t
was one of the notable marriages of
the Autumn, for the bride is a m.m-
Der of the families that for generations
have held prominent places in the So
oial and business affairs of the city.
She Is the only daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Rogers winthrop and a
granddaughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Buchanan Winthrop. Through her
mother she is a granddaughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Henry D. Babcock
and a great-granddaughter of the late
Samuel D. Babcock. one of the original
directors Of the Metropolitan Opera Co.
Mr.. Payne is the son of Mrs. William
7. Payne of this city and the late Mr..
Payne.
Society Buds Honor Guests
at Charming Functions.
The debutante parties were too num-
erous to mention a third of them, on
some DAYS as many as dozsn being
given. The unusual number of enter
tainments of the week was due to the
presence in the city of the boys and
girls home from school and college for
the holiday Even Thanksgiving day,
which usually is given over to family
parties. was marked by a number of
debutante. affairs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Nay Morris of
800 Park avenue introduced their
daughter, Miss Eugenia Morris. at a
tea dance at Sherry'S that day and
Mrs. Alexander NJ. Crane gave tea
dance at the Park Lane in honor of
their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Crane.
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Milburn, Mr..
and Mrs. Stephen H. P. Pell and Mrs.
Stephen Peabody, jr., gave tea dance
in the ball room of the Colony Club
that day and Mrs. william Woods
Plankington gave a dinner dance at
the RitZ-Carlton on Thanksgiving night
for her debutante daughter, Miss Ellz-
abeth Stuart Plankington. Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur M Anderson also gave a
dinner dance that night for their debut
tante daughter. Miss Alice Mary An
derson. Mrs. James Blanchard CleWs
gave a reception for her debutante
daughter, Miss Leta Clews, at her home,
! East Sixty-second street.
Marble House, the S8,000,000 white
marble palace in Newport. built by the
late William K Vanderbilt and given
by him as a gift to his wife, the pres
ent Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, some 55
years ago, is to be reopened this COM
ing season and will be occupied by Mrs.
Belmont. The refurnishing of this
enormous residence has been going on
for several weeks now and its reopen
ing by Mrs. Belmont will add to the
gayety of the resort. 1t has been a num-
Der of years since Mrs. Belmont put
foot on the property. which has been
boarded up with caretaker in charge.
Mrs. Belmont has been passing much
Of her time in the South of France
with her daughter, Mrs. Jacques Bal
sam. It is understood that Mrs. Bal
sam will visit her mother in Newport
next Summer. 1t was there that the
Duke of Marlborough, her first hus-
band, wooed and won her. The house
was built nearly 40 years ago. On one
side Of the estate is the home of Ar
thur Curtiss James and on the other
that Of Brig. Gen. Cornelius Wander
bilt.
Special Notes of Interest
In Society Chronicles.
Albert Morris Bagby. whose morning