Preservation Society of Newport County’s
Dynasties and Dragons Ball
Dynasties and dragons
SUMMER SOIREE
The old and
new guards of America’s foremost
summer resort mixed merrily at
the Preservation Society of Newport
County’s very glam “Dynasties
and Dragons” fundraising ball
at Marble House on August 13.
INSPIRATION
If Alva Vanderbilt
Belmont could persuade the “Social
400” to don mandarin-style
dress for the opening of her new
Chinese Tea House in 1914, why
shouldn’t Newport’s modern-day
swells do the same?
FANCY DRESS
Count on Nannette and
George Herrick, Ann Nitze, Michael
Sullivan and Ruth Buchanan
to turn out in opulent oriental
fi nery for the Newport Social
Season’s ultimate event, an evening
that included cocktails (VIPs
sipped Veuve Cliquot in the Tea
House with assorted Vanderbilts,
Pells, van Beurens, du Ponts,
Winslows and Slocums), a multicourse
Szechuan dinner and
dancing to Bob Hardwicke’s orchestra
under a great white tent
hung with hundreds of red and
gold Chinese lanterns.
PHOTOS BY JOHN CORBETT, COURTESY OF THEPRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY |
