Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1924, Page 43

SOCIETY. Heirs of Noted Families Will Wed Early in July Joining of Great Fortunes Announced Among Long Island Society Set—Many Charitable Parties Scheduled. Special Dispatch th The Star. NEW YORK, June 28.—July will usher in &« busy month with horse shows, dog shows, dances, entertain- ments for charity and several wed- dings of importance. Independence day, which falls on Friday, will take everybody out of the city. Members of the fashionable world will scatter to Newport, Bar Harbor, Southampton, the Adiron- dacks, Thousand Islands, Massachu- setts, Maine, Long Island and Canad- | ian resorts. Country estates will be filled with guests over the week end, which, with the holiday falling on Friday, means practically a four- day vacation. The entertainments planned at the resorts and at country estates on Long Island, in West- chester County, along the Hudson valley, in Tuxedo, and over in the Morristown section of New Jersey, will consist of dinner dunces and affairs for charity. An important wedding set for In- dependence day is that of Miss Grace Virginia Pomeroy Hendrick to George W son of George W. Patterson, stant dean of the School of K cal Engineering at the University of Michigan. Miss Hendrick attended Miss Porter's School at Farmington, Conn., and Bryn Mawr. She is a member of the Junior League. Her father, who is an & thor is curator of the chemical mu eum of Columbia University A local paper published & story to the effect Miss Hendrick, who is devoted s, would have & pew set aside for her pets. It may have been & de- sire on her part. but an impractical one, and the paper had to retract the story. Miss Hendrick loves degs and has never been without them, so why should suprise be occasioned when she wished to have & pew set aside for them? Will Wed at Sammer Home. Miss Hendrick, who is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Elwood Hendrick of 120 Bast 40th street, will become the bride of Mr. Patterson at the Hen- drick summer home at Simsbury, “onn COn the following day, July 5. Miss Joan Whitney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pavne Whitney, granddaughter of the late S ¢ of State John ay and the ‘late Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney, will be- come the bride of Charles Shipman Payson of Portland, Me. The cere- mony will be performed at Christ Ghurch, Manhasset, Long Is!and, and 4 reception will follow at Greemtree, fhe estate of Mr. and Mrs. Payn Whitney, overlooking Manhasset Bay. Whitney will have among her attendants her cousin, M Barklie g Henry, who. Barbara. was married to the captain vear's Harvard varsity crew Yast Wednesday. Miss Joan WRitney was among the attendants at this wedding. Others in Party. The other members of the bridal party will be Mrs. W. Stuart Syming- ton, 3d, a cousin. who was married a few months ago in Washington. She 15 a_daughter of Senator and Mrs. Jan W. Wadsworth, and Miss Joan TWhitney was among her attendants. Othe: ‘in o bridal procession will be Miss Adele and Miss Virginia Ryan, of Mr. and M;S.D.ldohn sarry Ryan; Miss Josephine J. Dodge SeEnter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall 7 Dodge: Miss Lvdia Dadmun, daugh- r of Mr. and rs. George E. Dad- mun, and Miss Elizabeth D. Kountze. dauxhter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman D. <ountze. l\.h\hn Payson, elder brother of the bridegroom, will serve as best man, and the ushers will be John Jay Whitney. brother of the bride: War- ren Leslie. § John Hernqnn ‘rench, 3r.; Gilbert Stewart and Richard- Son Dilworth, of this eity: Herbert Payson, jr. another brother of the hridegroos Sidney B. Hosmer ‘and awrence Foster, of Roston: Robert carson, 3d, Pittsburgh: Frederick M. Kingsbury, New Hampshire; Thomas Robertson, Columbia, S. C.; Stephen Y. Hord, Chicago; Barclay Robinson. Hartford: Reid Vreeland, Albany, and Storer Boardman Lunt, Portland, Me. Rowed on Yale Crews. The engagement of Miss Whitney cas_announced early in February Mr. Payson is a son of Herbert Pay- gon of Portland, Me. He was at the Plattsburg training camp in 1917. He entered Yale that autumn, but left to become a member of the Yale Naval Reserve. He rowed on the winning crews of the university in 1919 and 1921, heing graduated the latter year. He will complete his course at the Harvard Law School next month, W A® June draws to a close another engagement of prominence is an- nounced formally. Miss Marion Hoff- man is to be married Aymar John- son in the fall. BOth of the $bung folks are well known in interna- tional society and hosts of friends of the smart set of this ci They are devotees of outdoor sports and have attended many of the golf and ten- nis tournaments in Westchester, | the Lorg Island and abroad in the iast few years. AB the only child of the late Charles Frederick Hoffman, whose will silpu- ated that on reaching her maority he was 10 reselve several milllons, Miss Hoffman's affairs, both socially and financially, have been discussed widely and seldom have the gossins missed an opportunity over the tea- cups to speculate on her future. Now it is settled everybody Is huppy and the old rumors of matrimonial alli- ance with an English nobleman are laid to rest. Source of Wealth. The old Hoffman property and other extensive realty holdings in this city are the principul sources from whic the income of this heiress {s derived. And the foresight which provided these millions was tinged with a bit of daring quite in keeping with many other famous ancestors of famous names who risked much on what others deolared to be foolish projects and emergod with undreamed-of riches. In ghe days when the MadiSon Square was still a relative of Miss Hoffman future of uncertain decided |to take what was then long chance in real estate. Not many vears the Hoffman House was erected, and from the very beginning It spelled success. Up to a short time ago it was the scene of much social gaye and many interesting bits of histors both financial and political. were made there. The memory of the old Hoffman House will live long. march uptown of progress decreed that splendor should be termin Hoffmans and Gerrvs of today trol vast reaity holdings Storm, who had faith in the Hr House section when it still known as Squatters’ Town. Scion of Southern Family. Aymar Johnson, who is the son of the late Bradish Johnson {of a proud southern famils, t cestral home being in Neéw Orleans William M. Johnson, a sturdy Dixie sea captain, was the founder of the fortune, much of which he accumu- lated while trading with the south- ern cities. Upon retiring from the sea he went into the distillery busi- ness, but the first Bradish Johnson became a sugar refiner, with huge success. While in this country Mr. Johnson pends much of his time at Wood- lands, the country place owned by his mother at East Islip, L. 1. Last win- ter he was in England, returning only a few weeks ago. 1t was & fly- ing visit, as he will spend the sum- mer in Europe. Last winter Miss into her fortune and celebrated the event with a large dinner party at Sherry's. The season was passed at her home here, at 2 st 730 street. After her debut, a few seasons ago, there was an unusual amount of en- tertaining for her, which was fol- lowed by a winter in England and presentation at court. The Hoffman place at Newport, Armsea Hall, Is one of the show places of the resort, al- though it has been unoccupied for the lagt few seasons. With the smoke of Republican con- vention cleared away, and a few day of calm for the party before the cam- palgn starts, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister of the late President Roosevelt, has decided to enjoy the delights of country life. She has been visiting Mrs., William Sheffield Cowles at Farmington, Conn., but departed re- cently for her cottage at Henderson, N. Y. Seaxon in Full Swinz. With the Long Island summer sea- son in fall swing, benefits for charity are taking a large part of the soclal program. Among the biggest of the smart events s the Arabian Nights fete to be held at Bay Shore July 10. 11 and 12. This I8 to be dedicated to the maintenance fund of the Southside Hospital. There will be sixty booths and more than fifteen hundred persons in costume. The at- tractions will range from a pet boa constrictor to peacocks. This i course, in the serpent, beast and line. Almost all the best known peo- ple in the Long Island set are Inter- ested in the affair and will have charge or act in other capacities at the booths. Among them are Mrs. Martin T. Manton, Mrs. Willlam R. Simonds, Mrs. Muicolm Fraser, Mrs. Garvin Denby, Mrs. Meredith Hare, Mrs. L. Seton Lindsay, Mrs. Harold H ‘Weeks, Mrs. Robert G. Elbert, Miss Narion Bourbe and Mrs. Mary Zim- merman. DAWES IS INVITED. Local G. 0. P. Committee Wants General to Speak Wednesday. Gen. Charles G. Dawes. Republican candidate for the vice presidency. has been invited to be the guest of the Republican state committee for the District of Columbia at its meeting Wednesday evening at 1324 New York avenue. Frank W. Mondell. permanent chairman of the recent Republican national convention, will address the meeting. and reports will he made by the officers of the Republican state Hoffman came committee who attended the Cleve- land convention. 1217 Conn. Ave. A Shop of Individaality Drastic Reductions Ya -1/ off On all our Spring and Summer Dresses, Evening Gowns, Afternoon Dresses, Wraps, Coats, Sweaters, Skirts, Blouses. All Hats Reduced Knitted Dresses formerly sold from $65.00 to $185, now $37.50 to $95.00. All splendid, values. - MRS. ISADORE E. LEVINSON, Formerly Miss Helen Sylvia Stel her wedding at L'Aiglon, June being & beautifully planned affair. NAME OF “PAT” STICKS TO SENATOR HARRISON DESPITE WIFE’S DEMUR (Continued from Fourth Page.) mer was elected to the House to rep- resent those sixteen counties of Mis- pi which form its gulf lind or are tiguous to it. He was then the cond yYoungest man ever sent o Congress, and after fifteen years he remuains the second youngest member of the Senate and one of the most juvenile in its history. He was born at Crystal Springs in 1881 and was thus not yet thirty when he took his soat . 1t is interesting that both sen from Mississippi—Harrison and phens—came to the Sixty-second Con- Eress together, served several terms in the House and were sent to the higher chamber, the first g0 succeed the flery Vardaman and thélatter the scholarly and witty John Sharpe Wil- liams. = Washingtonians remember with pride the earnest aid which Senator and Mrs. Harrison rendered several years ago during one of those all too frequent upheavals in its school board. Senator Harrison is u devout believer in the public school system, and he has educated his children in them, us werc he and Mrs, Hurrison in_their time. Mrs, Harrison has presided over her Washington home, first quite near the Central High School, In what is called the Mount Pleasant district, and later in Belmont road, with quiet dignity und with stricter regard to the requirements of her family than to the demands of the social world She is a pre-eminently good home- keeper and comes from a region where culinary accomplishments are expected in the daughters of the cul- tured leisure class as well as those less generously dowered The senator's wife has, however, identified herself with a musical cir- lo heie in Washington, though she | not a musician herself, and often | ntertains its members in_her home. | ke, excellent bread and fried of the southern kigd and oothsome desserts come asily to the daught Dixie among the many temptations which Mrs. Harrison seems to have | always on hand for the casual caller as well as for the specially invited guest. Then much of her activities center around feasting the Dplay- mates of her children and, juvenile parties are in order any time Katharine or Maryanna feel liko spreading the board on the cool porch or in the garden. Senator and Mrs. Harrison are members of the Methodixt Church and have attended the Mctropolitan M. E. Church, on C street, and that pic. turesque little edifice in Geargetown which {s near their home. They are promient members of the Southern M. E. Church in their home city and are identificd with all its activities. Harrison was before her marriag Miss Mary Edwina Mclnnis, and she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McInnis, who are prominent citizens of Leakesville. Eoth her parents are descendants of sturdy north of dre. land men who emigrated to the south in the opening nineteenth century be- cause of economic conditions in their own land. Mrs. Harrison may close her home briefly in August and take her daughters to visit her parents and later join the senator at Gulf- port. But if she does this, she plans to return to Washington the first week of September. F oo ———o |t l——o] ———c lolce——]ol——=]a[———]| PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sigmund spent last week in New York city. Mrs. Sigmynd joined Mrs. Harold C. Kaufman at the Ritz-Cariton in Atlantic City for the week end. Miss Deborah-Mae Liebman is the guest of Miss Amalle Frank at her WILL RENEW VOWS AT JUBILEE TODAY Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schmidt to Cele- brate Golden Wedding Day by Ceremony and Reception. SOCIETY. speed on that bright day fifty years ago when they first embarked upon the sea of life together. The ceremony will be performed at the home of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Schmidt, by Rev. Dr. Loeb, pastor of the Fifth Street Synagogue, wWhere the couple have worship: for years, and music for the occasion will be_furnished by members of the Almas Temple Band, several of their sons being members of the local Mystic Shrine temple. house to receive old and new friends and the felicitations of the nefghbor hood on their happy anniversary. OUTING FOR REED MEN. Foreign Wars Veteran Post Asks Aid of Motor Owners. The soldier boys at Walter Reed Hospital are to be taken on an auto 200 Silk Frock summer home, near Annapolis, Md. . Mr. and Mra. Adolph Weyl and son, Max ° Weyl, 34, leave Washington Friday for New York and sail Satur- day on the S. S. Leviathan to spend two months abroad. isars ss Marforfe Sigmund, ma Wolbary “and Mise Barine’ Moyer Tott on Wednesday for Camp Tapiwingo, e. Mise Sylvia Straus left Thursday for New 'York city, accompanied by her mother, to join her sister, Miss Victorla Straus, in « sojourn at Tripp Lake Camp. Poland, Me. . Mr. “Emanuel Schloss, Mr. Philip Peyser and Mr. Robert Baum are at Camp Kohut, Me. Mrs. Alvin Newmyer. with her three young sons, wili leave for Atlantic City during the coming week, where they have taken an apartment for the summer. The Wednesday Card Club met for luncheon and mah-jong at the Country Club last week. Miss Virginia Dammann., who was the guest of Mrs. Sylvan King of Chevy Chase, has returned to her home in New York city. Masters Robert Herzog, Schwarz, Robert Marks, William Sigmund and Wallace Luchs leave Tuesday for Camp Meecassin on the Severn River, near Annapolis, Md., to spend two months. Mra. Alvin West, who was the Euest for two weeks of Mr. and Mrs. “mil West, returned to her home, in New York ' City, Tuesday Mrs. Sallle. Weinrich ha® returned from a week's stay in Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frank left Washington Thursday for Bangor, Me., to visit relatives. Masters Louis Hopfenmaier, Daniel Sherby and Samuel Bensinger are among the Loys from Washington who are at Camp Kohut, Me. Harry Kronefmer and Albert Wein- berg are at Camp Sagamore, N. Y. Milton Kronheim, g Samuel J. Steinderger, jr: Arthu¥ and Gerald Lyon, Horace Pack, Harold Levi, jr., and Maurice Rosenberg, jr.. leave Tuesday for Racquette Lake Camp, in _the Adirondacks. for two months, Miss Vera Reifkin will go to Racquette Lake Camp for Girls to spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Sol Bloem will be the guests of the latters mother. Mrs Marx Kaufman of 1940 Biitmore street, during the coming week, making the trip by motor from their home, in_Worcester, Mase. Mr. Bernard Nordlinger will leave tomorrbw for Racquetts Lake Camp, N. Y. Dr. George Nordlinger and Mr. Leo Simon will be at the gamp for the summer, the latter as, ’urb- selor. 5 Among the girls from Washington who will g0 o Buena Vista Camp during the week are Amy and Ruth Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Grif- fith of 3315 16th street mortheast. and before her marriage Myrtle M. Griith, Behrend, Weinberg, Rosendorf. The marriage of Miss Antolnette Wollberg, daughter of Mrs. Nathan Wollberg, and Mr. Nathan J. Casel of this city, took place Sunday after- noon, June 22, at 2 o'clock, fin the home of the bride, 2820 11th street. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Abram Simon of the Eighth Street Temple and was witnessed by the mnear relatives and intimate friends of the bride and bridegroom. A breakfast followed. The bride, who was given fn mar- riage by her brother, Mr. Sidney Wollberg, wore u traveling gown of dark blue satin trimmed in point lace, a becoming hat of black satin with rhinestone buckles and a corsage bouauet of lilies of the valley and tea roses. The bridegroom had for his best man Mr. Walter Ruben- steln of this city, a nephew of the bride. The drawing room was decorated with a_profusion of daisies, ferns and white blossoms:. Mr. and Mrs. Caself are spending their honeymoon in Philadelphia, At- lantic City and New York, and after July 1 will be at home at 11th street and Park road, where they have taken an apartment. Among the out-of-town guests at the wedding were Mr. Jacob Casel of Newcastle, Pa, father of the bridegroom; Mrs. Leon Fox of Cleve- land and Mr. snd Mrx Frederick Berman outh Boston, Va. Evelyn Chariotte Schloss, Rosille and Marian Benjamin Smokeless powder veloped by Vielle, 1886 was first de- a Frenchman, in 1219 QONNECTICUT AVENUE PRE-HOLIDAY REDUCTION SALE Offering Unheard-of Values “in Smart, Seasonable Dresses, Suits, Coats and Hats for every occasion ! 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Attending the couple, now seventy- three and sixty-elght years old, re- spectively, will be six children, eleven grandchildren and a host of old friends who wi: Schmidt will clothes. take place Throughout ed them God- however, ‘Wil Hold Open House. Mrs. Schmidt. will wear a gown of gold cloth, trimmed with old point lace, symbolic of the occaston. The gown she wore on her first wedding day long ago wore itself into dusty shreds and finally fell to pieces. be’dressed in business The golden wedding ceremony will sharply at 8 the day aznd eveming, the couple will mobile outing July 12 Walter Reed Post, No, of Foreign Wars Frank Thomas is the committee in charg ing and has made a for thoze who have Mr. | donate them t taken. Mr. Th, who will donate together with car. at 2525 hold open’ July 7. mac) o'clock. At HIS great sum was paid by individuals who had to £0 to a certain place at a cer- tain time and listen to a pro- gram with the selection of which they had nothing what- ever to do. 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