Cinderella Cotillion Dances At Sherrys With Roosevelt Attendants
The first Cinderella Cotillion last night at Sherrys used both ballroom floors with Phoenix Ingraham leading the 10 pm dance. Favors included miniature hat and cuff boxes and wings for girls. Notables on reception and guest lists included Mrs. Harriman Mrs. Morgan and Miss Roosevelt among many New York families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherry’s
New York
H. Fairfie Osborn
Robert W. de Forest
KE. H. Harriman
Junius
E.H. Harriman
J. Kearny War
Ledyard
Atterbury
Dodge
Gurnee
Henop
Miss Hoyt
Miss Neeser
Sarah Robbins
Susan L. Gould
Carol Harriman
Mary Harriman
F. D. Winslow
Margaret Winslow
E. L. Hooker
H.R. Hoyt
D. B. Pratt
Constance
Beatrice Pratt
London
Cleveland H. Dodge
Evans R. Dick
C. Rew
Agnew
Buss
Re Bites
W. L. Goodwin
E. H. Ripley
Miss Rigley
Josephine Osborn
Samuel Thorne
J. Kearny “Warren
Allen Tucker
Walter 5Arnes
C. D. Halsey
Madeline Ba Harriet
Janhetta Alexander
Fran Alexander
Hildegarde Henderson
Dorothy
Marjorie Gould
Roosevelt
Shepherd
Eva Purdy
Dorothy Bigelow
Forris
Nelda Wright
Martha Robbe
Thie: Sherwood
Mildred Townsend
E. de P.yton
Rudolph Neeser
Arthur
Mason Sheldon Whitehouse
Lanier Winslow
Kernochan
Powers Farr
Franklin
A. D. Dodge
G. L. Land
Cyril I. Cer
Lord Palen Snow
T. Chessey
Stephen Maerkoe
Duncan Harris
Whitehouse
Frank Roche
Ethel Roosevelt
Henry London
Landon
Vander Veer Hails Hidden Dutch Ties in New Jersey Wedding
Dr James N Vander Veer of Albany wed Ada Holt at Midland Park New Jersey in a ceremony led by Rev J H White head of the Dutch Reformed Church. Miss Ethel Nickerson served as friend of honor and Dr Albert Vander Veer Jr was best man. The couple will sail Saturday on the Bermudian to Bermuda and plan to reside in Albany after their return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James N. Vander Veer
Albany
Midland Park
N. J
Ada Holt
Thomas Holt
J. H. Whitehead
Dutch Reformed Church
Ethel Nickerson
Albert Vander Veer
Vander Veer
Bermudian
Bermuda
Dinner for Miss Susan Gould and Cinderella Cotillion
Mrs. J Kearny Warren hosted a dinner for her niece Miss Susan Ludlow Gould and escorted guests to the First Cinderella Cotillion at Sherry's where she serves as patroness. Attending were Misses Nathalie Chauncey Gladys Endicott Helen Gardiner Priscilla Scranton Cornelia Hoyt and Messrs Henry Sedgwick J Cooper Lord George Leslie Tod ard Whitney and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan L. Gould
J. Kearny Warren
Susan Ludlow Gould
Sherry’s
Miss Gould
Srisses
Nathalie Chauncey
Gladys Endicott
Helen Gardiner
Priscilla Scranton
Cornelia Hoyt
Henry Sedgewick
J. Cooper Lord
George Leslie
Toddard
Whitney
Ard
Theatrical Managers Vote Against Ticket Graft at Astor
At the Association of Theatrical Managers meeting in the Hotel Astor, resolutions praised Aldermen for passing an ordinance against ticket speculation and urged ending usher graft. Managers cited speculators renting spaces near theatres and usher transfers for a price, listing Alyman Shubert George Brooks Dilling Marc Klaw E F Albee and Charles Burnham among attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association of Theatrical Managers
Hotel
Astor
Marc Klaw
Daniel Frohman
E. F. Albee
Charles Burnham
Memeyers
Alyman
Lee Shubert
George
George Brooks
Charles Dilling
Actress Alice Fisher Wins 9000 Verdict in Suit
Miss Alice Fisher known in private life as Mrs Harcourt King won a 9000 verdict plus interest against Will J Block Amusement Co. for failing to fulfill a thirty week play contract. Supreme Court Justice Blanchard ruled that the clause actually perform does not negate the defendant's obligation. Fisher was ready to perform and was prevented by the companys wrongful act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Fisher
Harcourt King
Will J. Block Amusement Company
Supreme Court
Blanchard
Elgar Symphony Heard In Manchester Debut
In Manchester tonight Sir Edward Elgar's first symphony received its premiere under conductor Dr Frans Richter. The performance drew tumultuous applause and critics praised the work as possessing rare beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Manchester
Edward Elgar
Frans Richter
Miss Leonore Davis Engaged to W Scott Lewis
The Ansonia couple Mr and Mrs Samuel I Davis announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Leonore Davis to W Scott Lewis and their daughter Miss Ethel Davis to Leo Rosenburg. A double engagement reception is planned for December 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Samuel I. Davis
The
Ansonia
Leonore Davis
W. Scott Lewis
Ethel Davis
Leo Rosenburg
Society Happenings Bring Debutantes and Dinners to New York
Social page notes at 13 West Eleventh Street and 57 East Seventy fifth Street host receptions for debutantes Elsie Zarus and Eva Purdy. Listings cover tea for Constance McCall, a Meyer play at Empire Theatre, suffrage meeting at Carnegie Hall, and society boxes for leaders including Mrs. Mackay. Also mentions talks at Delmonico's, Isle St Gilles visits, charity bazaars, dances at Delmonico's and Hoverwood Hall, and numerous society arrivals to Plaza and St Regis hotels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P. Howland
West Eleventh Street
Elsie Zarus
David Thomson
East
Eva T. Purdy
George C. Holt
East Twenty-fifth Street
Sylvia Holt
Constance M. McCall
Edward McCall
West Eighty-sixth Street
Annie Nathan Meyer
Alfred Meyer
Empire Theatre
Carnegie Hz
Philip Snowden
Aked
Clarence Mackay
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Janet E. Richards
Delmonico’s
Whitridge
Miss Brown
Isle St.Gilles
Montreal
Lionel Guest
Lucy Bigelow Dodge
Miss Dodge
New York
Seaman’s Benefit Society
F. J. de Peyster
East Oo Sixth Street
Alfred Wagstaff, Jr
Miss Kingsland
Delmonico's
Arthur B. Claflin
Hoverwood Hall
Lakewood
Beatrice Claflin
Jersey Central
Charles D. Stickney
Sir Robert
Berwick
Major Warner
Warner
London
Walter Watson
Watson
Europe
Plaza
Anson P. Atterbury
Atterbury
Colonial Dames of
Paul Bonner
Léonie Alexandre
Myles Standish
Millbrook
N. Y
West Forty-eighth Street
Elmer EF. Black
Edward P. Meaney
Meaney
Robert Watson
George Crawford Clark
Lord Ashburton
John W. Stout
Mabel Stout
Moltke
Repre
Will
Riviera
A. J. Cassatt
Philadelphia
Allen Ener
Eee
St. Regis
David L. Bartlett
Baltimore
Josies Pennington
The
J. Ryan
Ryan
Thomas F. Ryan
American Female Guardian Society
Frank M
Sherry
Mary Jane's Pa Offers Character with Missed Depth
A Garden production of Edith Ellis's Mary Jane's Pa presents a quaint rural tale of Hiram Perkins who wanders away and returns to a capable Portia shaping a local press. While lively and wholesome the piece shows weak construction and limited stage facility though Dixey and the cast deliver charm and moments of tenderness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Ellis
Mary Jane
Hiram Perkins
Portia
Rome Preston
Joel Skinner
Skinner
Hiram
Yigpa
Dixey
Mr. Dixey
Miss Ann Sutherland
Marjorie Wood
Gretchen Hartmann
Emmet King
Morgan Coman
John Junior
Maud Earle
Edward Chapman
Frohman to See Maude Adams Debut in What Every Woman Knows
The theatrical manager Charles Frohman, then in England, will return to New York to witness Maude Adams in J. M. Barrie’s What Every Woman Knows at the Empire Theatre on December 21. He will sail back to England on the next steamer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frohman
Maude Adams
Charles Frohman
England
New York
J. M. Barrie
Empire Theatre
Mr. Frohman
New Opera in Philadelphia Delights Audiences at Opera House
Special to The New York Times reports the Philadelphia Opera House staged The Jugglers of Notre Dame, the season’s third operatic novelty. The work drew marked enthusiasm and high praise as a standout in the Hammerstein repertory with Mary Garden receiving a great ovation. cast included M. Renaud Dufranne Valles Segurola Vieuille and Crabbe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Opera
Philadelphia
New York Times
Notre Dame
Philadelphia Opera House
Hammerstein
Mary Garden
M. Renaud
Dufranne
Valles
Segurola
Vieuille
Crabbe
Theatre plan filed for John E Olson Co project
Plans were filed with Building Superintendent Murphy for a new theatre to be built by the John E Olson Company as owner of record on the plot at the southeast corner of Sixth Avenue and Fifty third Street opposite the curve of the elevated railway. The cost is estimated at 200000 by architect George Keister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphy
John .E. Olson
Sixth Avenue
Fifty-third Street
George Keister
Change in Manhattan Concert for December Performance
The Sunday concert at the Manhattan Opera House on December 6 has been postponed. The program now features Cavalleria Rusticana in concert form with cast including Mariska Aldrich Severina Perce and Crabbe, joined by the opera chorus and orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan Opera House
Fakee “ Cavalleria
Mmes
Mariska-Aldrich
Severina
MM. Perce
Crabbe
Scheff Absent From The Prima Donna At Knickerbocker
Fritzi Scheff missed last night’s Knickerbocker Theatre performance due to throat trouble. Doctor Holbrook Curtis said she could perform tonight. Blanche Morrison substituted and was well received. Scheff denied marriage rumors with author John Fox at the Hotel St. Regis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fritsi Scheff
Knickerbocker Theatre
Holbrook Curtis
Miss Scheff
Blanche Morrison
St. Regis
John Fox
Bronx Theatre Announces Percy Williams Debut
An announcement from the Bronx theatre notes Percy Williams will debut on a forthcoming American stage. Specifics are unclear due to fragmented OCR text.
Levey Debuts in Paris Revue Apres at New Theatre Michel
Paris dispatch notes Ethel Levey's Parisian debut in Apres at New Theatre Michel on Rue des Magdalins with two French songs and a ragtime number. The program also featured De Max from Israel at Theatre Rejane in a musical play and Tristan Bernard's three act comedy opener.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Paris
Ethel Levey
Parisian
Gaeha Quitry
New Théatre
Michel
Rue Des Mathurins
de Max, Fresh
Israel
Réjane
Miss Levey
Hammerstein
Victoria
Tristan Bernard
Hopper Returns to Majestic in Pied Piper Musical Farce
De Wolf Hopper appears at the Majestic Theatre in The Pied Piper with book by Austin Strong and R H Burnside and music by Manuel Klein. Grace Cameron and Marguerite Clark co star, with a crowded audience and curtain calls after the first act. Songs drawing applause include Woman's a Wonderful Thing and It's the Little Things That Count in Life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin Strong
R. Burnside
Manuel Klein
R. H. Burnside
de Wolf Hopper
Weeee
William Cameron
D. LL. Baker
Board of Aldermen
Eseeses
L. Romaine
Bad Boy
Seeveeees
Bert Devlin
Willie van Cortlandt
John. Phillips
Sammy Struggles
Edward
Heren
Lizzié Diazzy
Grace Cameron
Ada Deaves
Frank Laddis
Mabel Mordaunt
Warren Fabian Elvirra
Marguerite Clark de Wolf
Hopper
Majestic Theatre
Mr. Hopper
Marguerite Clark
Miss Cameron
Miss Clarke
John Phillips
Miss
Skyscrapers comedic sketch mirrors American life abroad
The Austrian writers Roessler and Heller present Skyscrapers at the Deutsches Theatre in New York. The play surveys American manners through a millionaire’s family and a cast of types including three distinct American girls, a hotelier, and a rajah. A playful satire of New York society ends as a pleasant evening of amusement for audiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Deutsches Theatre
Carl Roessler
Ludwig Heller
United States
Re‘marle
Heosophy
Vierman Baron
Aster
Count Taxenbach
Astor Hotel
America
New York
Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera with Caruso Farrar Gay
A new Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera House features Mr. Caruso as Don José and Miss Farrar as Micaela with Mme Maria Gay making a controversial Carmen. Jean Noté debuts as Escamillo under Toscanini in his first non Italian program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmen
Metropolitan Opera House
Mr. Caruso
Don José
Mme
Maria Gay
Europe
Geraldine Farrar
Micaela
New York
Jean Noté
Escamillo
M. Toscanini
Mme. Gay
Miss Farrar
Note
Toscanini
Bizet
Interior decorator Henry L Bouche dies at 52 in New York
Henry L Bouché an interior decorator of note died at his residence 1923 Seventh Avenue aged 52. Born in France he came to the United States in 1877 and decorated prominent houses including Whitney and Vanderbilt mansions and the Breakers in Newport. He leaves a widow and two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry L. Bouché
Newport
Seventh Avenue
France
William C. Whitney
William’ ‘Astor
le Hage
T. Gerry
W. D. Sloane
F. W. Vanderbilt
Clarence Mackay
Breakers
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Katharine Welling Widow of Charles Hunt Welling Dies
Katharine Celia Welling widow of Charles Hunt Welling died at 46 Park Avenue yesterday. Born 1826 in Providence Rhode Island she was daughter of William Perry Greene and granddaughter of Perry Greene who fought in the Revolution. Survived by two sons Richard Gene Walling and William Brenton Greene and several daughters and grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katharine Celia Welling
Charles Hunt Welling
Park Avenue
William Brenton
Richard’ Gene Wi Walling
Noble Hayes
Helle
Rich
Redolf Baits
Charles Edward Manierre
Obituary notes for several prominent local figures
Edwin H. Jones president of Vulcan Iron Works died at his Wilkesbarre home. John B. McPherson owner of Point Comfort House on Coney Island died in Brooklyn of pneumonia. Alexander Orr of Troy Paper Company died in Troy. George Pierson longtime Hamptonburg justice of the peace died at 85. Dr Louis Knapp, Bergen County physician, died in Hackensack after a brief illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin H. Jones
Vulcan Iron Works
Wilkesbarre
John B. McPherson
Point Comfort House
Coney Island
Charles Street
Brooklyn
Alexander Orr
Orr Paper Company
Troy
N. Y
Troy Club
George Pierson
Hamptonburg
Orange County
Ofarge
Hamptonburg Presbyterian Church
Louis P. Knapp
Bergen County
Hackensack
N. J
Morristown man James H Coghill dies of heart disease
James H Coghill, 40, died suddenly at his Morristown New Jersey home from heart disease after a day of ordinary activity. Born in Virginia in 1817 he joined the California gold rush of 1849 and became a founder of an enduring wholesale grocery business. He leaves a widow a daughter Sadie and a son Howard Coghill. Funeral is planned for Saturday. Col H N Burhans Syracuse merchant and former Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic dies of apoplexy in his 70th year after attending a Trustees meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Berlin
Heidelberg
James H. Coghill
Morristown
N. J
Virginia
California
Sadie Coghill
Howard Coghill
H. N. Burhans
Syracuse
Grand Army of the Republic of the State
Bath
Boston Globe
Francis J. Douglas
Boston
Georgia
J. H. Sharer
Ohio
Grand Army of the Republic
Alliance
Marriages Recorded in New York 1908 Notices
Emily Dutilh Grugan wed George Bsew at 10 East 53d Street on December 2 1908 in a ceremony officiated by Rev Dr Leighton Parks Ada Holt married Dr James Newell Vander Voor on December 3 1908 at Midlani Pant New Jersey officiated by Rev J H Whitehead and Rev William F Whittaker
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnew—Grugan
East 53d St
Leighton Parks
Emily Dutilh Grugan
Frank C. Grugan
George Bsew
Vander Veer—Holt
Midlani Pant
J. H. Whitehead
William F. Whittaker
D. Ada Holt
James Newell Vander
Obituary notices and funeral details from Brooklyn 1908
A collage of death notices from New York area papers lists numerous individuals with ages and funeral arrangements. Names include Eliza Barnard Joel Boardman Henri Bouche Mary Bull J Henry Coghill Rita Dempsey Louise Meyran Margaret Nixon Florence Pomeroy Mary Elizabeth Smith Lowry Somerville and many more with addresses in Brooklyn Jersey City and adjacent locales. Funeral times range Dec 4 to Dec 5 with private or public services noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John, J
Emma
Rooney Oy
Mary Farnham
Frances
Stephen Houghton Farnham
Herzig
West 86Th St
Leopold H
Paula Herzig
Johnson
Ithaca
N. x
Caroline Heath
J Henry W. Johnson
New York
McCosh
Presbyterian Hospital
Andrew J. McCosh
Presbyterian Church
Ru McCosh
Medical Society of the Cogs Ity
Ted
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
5Th Av
Nixon
Margaret D
Henry D. Nixon
West 82d St
Pomeroy
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Florence
Theodore
Isabella C. Pomeroy
Stockbridge
Mass
Smith
Mary Elizabeth
Edward Suttonith
Pittsfield
Somerville
Adelphi St
Brooklyn
Adams
West
Renate Adams
East 13Th St
Jennie Buttinger
Brian. Cassidy
Reservoir
Jersey City
Mae C. Cassidy
Chase
East 18Th St
Rosa G
Collins
Patrick Collins
Hoboken
George Coppers
Aee DE Lacy
Grand Concourse
Bronx
Fanny G. Deleg
East 140Th St
Pauline Doll
Rent's Dowling
Monroe
C. Dowling
Dupont
Magnolia
Lauretta W. J
Edmondstone
N. J
Howard M. Jone
Railroyd
George
Ada B
Ood
Flaherty
Navy St
Harlem area notices and vigil interlude at Grand Central
Fragmented lines reference Harlem Grand Central Station Webster Avenue trolleys and contact numbers. Mentions offices, crematories, undertakers and religious notices. Indicates a call to form a socialistic or brotherhood movement with a religious or sectarian tenor and a New Jersey address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem Grand Central
Webster Avenue
Co Up
Gramercy
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Comllion Danced
Smart Affair
Miss Roosevelt
Phoenix Ingraham
Cotillion
Bour Debutantes
Brown, Wilde, McCullough
McCook
James Brown
Angelica Schuyler Brown
Brown
Carrie Louise Munn
Washington
Leonie Alexandre
Laura Emmet
Molly Stureis
Susan F. Dresser
Mary * Wilde
Mrs. Wilde
East Eighty-second Street
John G McCulh
Amusement Company
Elgar Symphony
Hans Richter
Social Notes
Mary
Garden Theatre
Henry E. Dey Rume Preston
Emmet King Barret Sheridan
Morgen Coman
Ee Hardee Kirkland Star Skinner
John Junior Claud, Whitcomb
Horace Newman
Linc Watkins
Eugene Merrifield Wenecese Bi Lewellyn Green
Augustin Daly Wilkes Portia - Perkins
Ann Sutherland
Lucille Perkins
Mary Jane Oreretchen Hartman
Ivy ‘Willcox
Maud Karle
Miss Faxon
Alice Glimore
Manhattan
Fritzi Scheff
Percy Williams
Percy _ ae
the Majestic
Strong
Burnside
Klein
Ktalee
Maria
Gay
Heroine
MR. Caruso AS
Don Jose
Mr. Note
Mr. Toscanini
Omron Cat Tices Kitsck
Bernard Begus
Cibelly
Angelo Bada Remendado
Concerto Paterna
Arturo Toscanini
Jules Speck
Henry L. Bouche
Cecil Aldin
E. P. Dutton
New
York
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Broadway and Street
Broadway ‘Stores
29Th Street
Fulton Street
Canal Street
Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Doubleday, Page & CO
East 16
New York City
Margaret C. Caldwell
Stephen Street
Belleville
John D. Caldwell
Joel L. Boardman
Long Island
Boardman
Flushing, N. Y
A~s
State St
Mary A
Richard H. Bull
Gramercy Park
South Oxford St
Catherine Laydon
McDonough
Harrison Lent
Lohman
South 9Th
Ann M. Teboes
Ot McCann
Pa McGrath
Jersey
Thomas Figga McKenzie
Mac Moller
Newark
Wing
Maryler
Miner
Lockwood Av
Yonkers
Beet
Charles P. Miner
Neville E
Prospect Place
Bessie Neville
O'Shaughnessy
East 2d St
Lyn
Hannah O’shaughnessy
Tail Orh
Alexander
M. Parrington
Denis Parrington
Pinsonnault
North Washin Astoria
Marie M. Pinsonnault
Peene
Lottie
Jericho
L. I
Ged
Purvis
Reichelt
East 149Th St
Roese
Webster Av
Mofhschild
Marlborough
Simon, Rothschild
Weidenheimer
St. Ann's
A Louis
Bea Egg
Jersey Army
Robert Weinmann
Jn Menoriam
Undertakers
Emank B. Campb& A A
Religions Notices
Bible Sociaiism
Fat
Brotherhood of Mex
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