Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-05
New York Society Leaders
Home for Autumn Season
Program of Gayety Inaugurated, Including Din
ners and Concerts-Indoor Golf Among Attrac-
tions-Wedding Engagements Annouced.

NEW YORK. October 4,-The Au.
tun1n social calendar of Gotham gets
well under way this week with a round
Of gay dinners, concerts, play openings
debuts and horse shows. The fashion
able set has returned from the resorts
transferring their gayety to New York
hotels, restaurants and homes.
Combining the most recent Ameri-
can sports fad with evening entertain
ment, Mr.. and Mrs. Condo Mast were
hosts last Monday night at a novel
miniature golf dinner, the guests chip
ping and putting around the new in
door course at the Grand Central
Palace between the courses of the din
f1er spread on small tables around and
between the "fairways" of the links
Following the dinner the golf fans
went into a serious competition and a
supper followed. with backgammon and
bridge carrying on at other tables
throughout the evening.
Among the guests at the Condo Mast
dinner were Mr.. and Mrs. j. Henry
Alexandra, Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent Aston,
Mr.. and Mrs. Woodward Babcock, Mr..
and Mrs. Donald w. Brown, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Clark, ir.; Mr.. and Mrs.
=.
mond P. O'Brien, Mr.. and Mrs. Rod
man Wanamaker, I'd; Mr.. and Mrs.
Grantland Rice, Mr.. and Mrs. Brock
Pemberton, Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Og-
den Stewart, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Camp, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry c. Cushing,
Sd, and others.
Music lovers of the metropolis well
coined the opening Thursday night of
the eighty-ninth season of the Phil
harmonic Symphony Society of New
York at Carnegie Hall, where Mr.. Erich
keiber directed program consisting
OF Weber's "Freischutz" overture, Mo-
zart's "Serenade No. g." Beethoven's
Eighth Symphony" and Strauss TIL
Eulenspeigel"
Mr.. Clarence H. Mackay, chairman
Tor the 1930-31 season, has scheduled
a program of activity unusual even by
comparison with the distinguished his
tory OF the orchestra, promising a new
landmark in the history of the society
under the batons of MeSsrs.- Arturo
Toscanini, Bernardine Molinari, Leo
pold Stokowski and Mr.. Kleiber
Society'S interest in the drama this
week centered on the stage debut of a
member of it's younger set, Miss Natica
de Acosta, daughter of Mrs. Marie de
Zaldo defAcosta, in "One, Two, Three"
which opened Monday night at the
Henry Miller'S Theater with Mr.. Arthur
Byron in the leading role. Miss &c
Acosta made her debut in society in
1923 and was adjudgcd the most beau
tiful debutante of the season by a COM
nittee composed of Messrs. John Barry
more. F. Soft Fitzgerald and Cornelius
Vanderbilt, jr.
Miss Jane Arnold, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Darlington Gildrat Arnold of
Flushing, N. Y, has been engaged to
Mr.. Andrew Duncan Mcintosh, jr., son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Duncan Nc
1ntosh Of WATERFOWL. Conn. Miss
Arnold attended the Arden School at
Lakewood, N. j., and made her debut
at the Park Lane In 1927. She is q
member of the Colonial Danes of Amer
lea. Mr.. Mcintosh was graduated from
the Taft School and is senior at Yale
University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Gilmor of
Smithtown, N. Y, have announced the
betrothal Of their daughter, Miss Mary
Dina Gilnor, to Mr.. John Austin
Hubert of 125 East Seyenty-fourth
street, this city.
Miss Gilmor attended Oldfield's
School at Glencoe. Md, and Mrs. Ran
dali MacIver's School Of this city. Mr..
Hubert was graduated from Columbia
College in 1924.
Miss Elaine Rockefeller McAlpin,
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. D. Hunter
McAlpin of 720 Park avenue, this city,
and Morris Plal,ls, N. j., has become be-
trothed to Mr.. Henry Clinch Tate, son
Of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Sterrett Tate,
also of this city. She Is the grand
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Rockefeller and the late Mr.. David
II. McAlpin. She was graduated from
Westoyer School and made her debut
at the Colony Club In 1924. She Is q
member of the Junior League. Her sis
ter and brothers are Miss Geraldine r.
McAlpin, Mr.. David Hunter McAlpin,
Sd, and Mr. William R. McAlpin. Mr..
Tate was graduated from the Westmin-
ster School in 1922. He is a member of
Squadron A and is connected with
Wood. Low & Co. ~
Horse lovers found two centers of at
traction this week. Thursday, yester-
day and today the twenty-eighth annual
horse show was held at the Pip
ing Rock Country Club in Locust VAL
ley, Long Island. This three-day COM
petition found many aspirants for the
valuable trophies up IN the exhibition
which started In 1902 as a neighborly
little show on Center Island
Equally as colorful were the steeple-
chase meetings of the WeStchester-
Btltmore Association held at Bowman
Park Wednesday and today. Flat and
hurdle events were added TO the steeple-
chases and riders Of the Army, Navy