The Washington times., 1908-02-02

NEW YORK. Feb. 1.-TheaJricals are
playing an important role this season in
New York. and Tuesday, February Is,
and Wednesday, February 70. the stage
in the great ballroom Of the Plaza,
which was occupied a week ago by Mrs.
George Could, Mrs. Francis L. Pruyn,
and Kyrle Bellew in Mrs Van NeCh-
tens Divorce Dance" will be the scene
of the annual dra matte entertainment
OF the Junior League, Of which Miss
Dorothy Whitney Is president this year,
with Miss Janet Dana as secretary, and
Mrs. Charles 3. Alexander's daughter,
Harriet, as treasurer, The league is
composed of young girls who organize
each winter theatricals for the benefit
OF charity, and in which all the per-
formers are debutantes Of the season.
The program on this occasion Will in
cIude Ben JonsOn's masQUe, The Hue
and Cry After Cupid" under the super
vision and management of Francis
Hartman Markoe. who took a leading
part in the production of the Mosques
and historic pageants at oxford in Eng
land last spring. A one-act play, M
tionaI dances, and music wills likewise
figure on the bill and the audiences on
both days will be as carefully selected
as in previous years, being invariably
restricted to the relatives and friends
of the young performers. which does
not prevent the latter playing TO crowd
ed houses.
Just a week later the ball room at the
Plaza will be the scene OF another en-
tertainment of the same kind and like
wise for the benefit Of charity. II will
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spectacular. and will comprise a number
OF tableaux, and likewise the presenta-
ton Of a pantOmime entitled, lie Reveil-
Ion de PieTTette." ard in which Mrs.
Waldorf Astor viii take the leading
part. The story Of the pantomime deals
with the New Year Eve supper in the
attic studio of an impoverished young
artist, where he is painting a little fig
urante in the guise OF Pierrette-that IS
10 say, IN the traditional white frock,
powdered hair, patches, and pompoms.
Figuring therein viii be Mrs John
Jacob Astor, Miss Norah Langhorne.
Mrs. Benjamin Guinness, Mrs. Henry
Rogers Winthrop, Mrs. Reginald Brooks.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay. Miss Edith Dea-
con, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. and
last, but not least, the Duchess of
Sutherland.
The principal weddings OF the spring
ere those Of Miss Theodore Shonts to
the Due de Chaulnes, which, according
to present arrangements, has been set
for next Saturday week at the East
Jhirty-fifth street house of her father,
a church ceremony being impracticable
owing to the fact that, as in the case
Of the Szechenyi-Va matri-
monial alliance, the bride belongs to
a different religious denomination 10
that OF her husband The same day
Miss Hildcgrade Kobbe will become tins,
El ide OF Joseph H Stevenson in Christ
Church, Babylon, /. l., the ceremony
being followed by reception given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Gustav Kobbe, the par
ents OF the bride. The latter will have
among her attendants her sister, Vir-
ginia, Miss Marion Stevenson, and Miss
DeOnle Alexander.
Still another wedding is that of Miss
Julia Fish, younger daughter of Ham
ilton Fish, TO William Lawrence Breese
on Monday, March %, IN ST. James
Church, Madison avenue and Seventy
first street, the Right Rev. Bishor
Courteney performing the ceremony.
The bride will have her sisters. Janet
and Rosamond, as her attendants.