New-York tribune., 1908-03-03
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

TabIe4ux yivans are more popular this winter
a a form OF entertainment than ever before IN
the annals Of New York society, and for those
which took place last night at the Colony Cuo IN
behalf of the Sister Catherine Home for Girls the
demand for tickets great that the house
could have been sold three times over; in fact IL
has encouraged the organizers OF the a1alr 10
consider seriously the project IF repeating the
series Of living pictures after Easter The tableaus
arranged with the same artistic taste ana
care that signalized those given at the Plaza a
week ago II anything. the pictorial tone was OF
subdued character There was no python
stuffed living. at the Plaza and the impress
sion left by the display was that the living rep
resentation OF the famous paintings shown were
in point of cOmeliness a distinct Improvement on
the originals They posed by John W. Alex
ander. who. with Mrs. J. Borden Hartman and
Mrs Thomas Hastings. has been the moving
spirit the affair the patronesses including Mrs.
John Jacob AstOr. Mrs. Henry Rogers Winthrop.
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney Mrs William 2. Doug
las, Mrs. w Watts Sherman. Mrs Theodore A.
Havemeyer, Jr-. Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt. alrs
Edward Potter Mrs Douglas Robinson, Mrs. Will
lam Payne Thompson and Mrs. William X. Van
derbit ir.
Myron ". Whitney opened the proceedings with
Parker's song Once I Loved Maiden Fair He
contributed several other songs TO the programme
of the evening. Miss Ruth Draper furnished three
monologues. namely, The Debutante in the Con
servatory," The German Governess' and The
Scotch Emigrant' But of course the chief inter
est of the entertainment was centred upon the lfv
ing pictures in which Miss Sylvia Parsons ap-
peared Leonardo da Vinci's Unknown" Miss
Ethel cowdin Sir Joshua ReynoIds's simple
ity'' and Miss Dorothy Bgelow Botticellis Ma
donna Miss Edith Deacon portrayed Van Dyck's
painting Of Queen Henrietta" while Spain's great
master. GOya. represented I'm life by Miss Bea-
trice Benjamin
Seton Henry was Titian's Man with the Glove"
Mrs Newena Tilton and her sister, Mrs Francis
Clark. The Sisters by Sir Joshua
Reynolds. G. w. I.add was very impressive as
Tintorettos "Cardinal' and Miss Katherine Wright
represented the painting OF her namesake and
patron saint by Memng. Miss Lucy Brown ap-
peared Lippis A Saint" Miss Gertrude Shell
don Portrait by RaebUrn: Mss Rosalind
Fish. Rossettrs ''PrOserpna," ard Frank Ward
one of the most striking portraits by Franz
Has At the close of the programme supper was
served. which followed by dancing
Another entertainment of last night. also in be
half Of charity. namely. for the benefit the New
York Association for the Blind. the Grande
Redoute Rose, pink ball at the Plaza, in con-
nectiOn with which n dinners We're given
the various hosts and hostesSes aftPrward taking
their guests to the dance. That of Samuel VII
lets. the master of the Meadow Brook Hunt. took
place at the Union Club. and his party. consisting
exclusively of and composed almost entirely
of members of the Meadow Brook Hunt
rayed in the dress coats of the organization. In
fact all of the men at the ball forming part of any
hunt club wore its coat. while many others stran-