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Feb. 4, 1916. 
NEW YORK.—Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Cushing were 
among the patrons of the patriotic ball under the 
auspices of the Women of 1915 at the Biltmore Hotel 
last Monday. The proceeds are to be used for the pur- 
chase of an aeroplane for New York’s coast defense. 
_.Miss Elaine Denégre, Mr. and Mrs. Robert. Graves 
and Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice were among 
_ the guests at Sherry’s, when Mrs. Preston Pope Satter- 
_ white introduced her niece, Miss Florence W. Gilbert, at 
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an afternoon dance. After the dance Mrs. Satterwhite 
entertained several young friends of the debutante at 
dinner and the theatre. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Cushing were among the 
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Women of 1915 at the Biltmore Hotel last Monday. ‘The 
proceeds are to be used for the purchase of an aeroplane 
Rev. and Mrs. William Lawrence Wood are receiv- 
ing congratulations upon the birth of a daughter, Jan. 24, 
at Pittsfield. Mr. Wood is rector of the Trinity Episcopal 
church in Lenox. Before her marriage Mrs. Wood was 
Miss Laura Cass Canfield, daughter of Mrs. Frank Gray 
Griswold of New York. Mr. Wood is the son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Chalmers Wood of New York and Ipswich. 
Preston Gibson was host at a dinner and theatre 
party recently. The play was “Just a Woman” and the 
guests included Miss Elsie de Wolfe, Miss Lota Robinson, 
Mr. and Mrs, Alex. D. B. Pratt and Mr. and Mrs. Dudley 
Mield Malone. At another dinner given in his new house 
_his guests included Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry Pierreport Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Charles de L. 
a Oelrichs, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander D. B. Pratt, Dr. 
_ George Bolling Lee and Messrs. T. Chesley Richardson, 
dr., Maurice Roche and Robert T. McKee. 
_ Walter D. Denégre, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Mrs. 
Alex. Hamilton Rice and Mrs. Philip M. Lydig were 
among the box-holders last night at the playlets presented 
at the Plaza Hotel in aid of war charities. The patron- 
esses included women prominent in society in Paris, Lon- 
don and New York. The beneficiaries will be the Am- 
_ bulance des Dames Americaines de Versailles, in which 
Mrs. Paul Morton and. Misses Anne Morgan, Elisabeth 
Marbury and Elsie de Wolfe are interested; the New 
_ Barnet Hospital for Convalescent Soldiers, in England, 
and the Hadley Hall workrooms for British sailors and 
_ imine sweepers. Among those in the cast was Mrs. Lydig 
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' Hoyt, of the Beverly Cove colony, and it is said that, if 
she wished, she could become a professional “movie” 
actress. The flattering offer came from a manager who 
_ asked her to set her own price for her services after she 
had covered herself with laurels from her performances 
in “Amateur Night at the Ritz” in aid of the Lenox Hill 
Settlement. Mrs. Hoyt also appears as Persephone in 
“The Ball of the Gods” at the Astor Hotel, Feb. 11, in the 
annual ball of the Beaux Arts Architects. 
The following officers of the Manchester Yacht club 
were elected at the annul meeting Monday, Jan. 31: 
Chas. K. Cummings, commodore; Francis W. Fabyan, 
vice-commodore; Francis M. Whitehouse, rear commo- 
M. Merriam, secretary and treasurer; 
Gordon Abbott, executive committee for three years; 
Henry S. Grew (chairman), Chas. E. Hodges, Roger I,. 
Putnam, Chas. K. Cummings, and Ingersol Amory, re- 
gatta committee. 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 5 
WASHINGTON. In the death of Mrs. Richard Wal- 
lach Washington has lost a cultured gentlewoman of 
the old school. She belonged to one of the oldest fami- 
hes in the city and was widely known, not only in her 
native city, but elsewhere in the country, as a hostess of 
rare beauty and charming accomplishments. Mrs. Wal- 
lach was the mother of Richard Wallach of Warrenton, 
Va., and of Captain Robert Wallach, :U. S. A., who was 
married a few years ago to Miss Feroline Perkins, daugh- 
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cleveland Perkins of Wash- 
ington and Hamilton. Her daughters in Washington are 
Mrs. Edward Mitchell, Mrs. Woodbury Blair and Mrs. 
John H. Merriam. 
Mrs. William F. Draper has given her annual dinner 
in compliment to Cardinal Gibbons. The dinner was ser- 
ved in the ballroom and cardinal roses were. the chief 
decorations at the beautifully appointed table set with the 
famous gold service. The coat of arms of the cardinal 
reproduced in flowers and flanked by the American and 
the papal flags was at one side of the room, and on a 
mantel decorated in roses and smilax was an autographed 
The cardinal’s colors ap- 
peared among the vines that draped the entrance to the 
ballroom. Mrs. Draper wore a gown of silver and gray 
satin brocade. The guests were the Brazilian Ambassador 
and Mme. da Gama, Justice McKenna, Mgr. Russell, Mr. 
van de Wyvver, the Belgian minister of finance, Senator 
Henry du Pont, Franklin MacVeagh, Cartier de Mar- 
chtenne, Belgian minister to China, Mrs. Marcus Hanna, 
Mrs. Henderson, Mrs. Henry Corbin, Admiral and Mrs. 
Kichardson Clover, Mrs. Marshall Field, Admiral O’Neil, 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Hennen Jen- 
nings, Dr. and Mrs. James F’. Mitchell, the Misses Patten, 
Miss Phelps, Miss Margaret Draper and Leland Harrison. 
Mrs. Albert Ordway and Miss Valerie Padelford 
have leased their apartment at Stoneleigh Court and have 
taken apartments at the Willard for the rest of the winter. 
Miss Padelford was a recent luncheon guest of Mrs. 
Arthur Foraker. 
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Mrs. W. Murray Crane has been visiting her mother, 
Mrs. William J. Boardman and is now with her sister, 
Mrs. Frederick Keep. 
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Mrs. Barret Wendell of Beverly Farms was the guest 
of honor at a recent luncheon at the home of Mrs. Hen- 
nen Jennings in Washington. 
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Harris Hammond, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hays 
Hammond of New York, has spent a few days at the 
Willard. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick G. Hostetter of Broad 
Rin, Va., are also making a visit in Washington and are 
ctaying at the Willard. 
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Miss Margaret Draper, Miss Endora Clover, Miss 
Gladys Hinckley and Miss Elsie Williams of Boston will 
he bridesmaids at the wedding of Miss Alice Whiting, 
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Guy Fairfax Whiting, and John 
1s. Cochrane, in Washington, Feb. 23. 
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Patronesses for the Beaux Arts carnival ball at the 
Willard, Feb. 17, under the auspices of Beaux Arts Archi- 
tects assisted by local societies for the benefit of French 
artists’ relief fund, include Mrs. Larz Anderson, Mrs. 
Wm. F. Drapér, Mrs. Preston Gibson, Mrs. R. S. R. Hitt, 
Mrs. Joseph Leiter, Mrs. H. F: Lippitt, Mrs.°H. C. Per- 
kins and Mrs. Wm. A. Slater. Fancy costumes are. re- 
quired and awards will be given for the best costume 
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