New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-18
GIVES 'MASQUE OF CITIES
City History Club Entertainment
MingIes Tableaus and Dances.
DRAMATIC TEA IS HELD
Gown That Belonged to Marie
Antoinette Worn-McAneny'
Opens the Fete.

Town IndC belonged TO Marie
Antoinette Worn-McAneny'
Opens the Fete.
Through the efforts of the City History
! Club the large ballroom OF the Hotel Plaza
was the most cosmopolitan spot in all New
York yesterday. The magic by which this
! transformation was effected was the clubs
annual entertainment. which assumed the
! form of ''masque of cities" pageant OF
| costumes. tableaus. music and dancing. 4
brief speech of congratulation by Borough
President McAneny. followed by a flourish
| from the trumpet OF a square-cut young
herald in black velvet and gold, opened the
/ fete at exactly 4 o'clock.
The chief feature was series OF tableauX
dansants. arranged by the Baroness Imgard
Won Potential. including a Muscovy dance.
a Kate Greenaway dance an Edinburgh
! dance. a dance in Delft and a dance of
| Athenian girls. When the curtains We're
drawn apart for each number they dis
closed tableau which quickly dissolved
into dance. and with the closing OF the
number resolved into the original posed
picture "A Dream OF Venice" Spring
and THE City of Flowers" were the titles
of some of these, and there We're also two
solo dances one Niennese, by Nine. Won
Potential. and the other a Spanish dance,
by Miss Helen Harbeck.
The ballroom was crowded with costumed
/ figures. Stately Roman maidens Dutch
| girls selling "oliekoeken." Spanish sehori-
! tas, Arabs. Savoyard street musicians and
flower girls selling tulips and roses
| thronged the place. There were booths
where nearly everything could he bought,
from pictures to sticks OF candy.
The Muscovy dance, the first of the after
noon, was performed by nine girls from the
Comstock School, the Misses Mary Harri-
son, Gertrude Hicks. Dorothy Ellington.
Dorothy Dillon, Eleanor Garrison. Mary
BRUNEI. Elizabeth Hardwicke and Level
| Ign Bywaters. The Kate Greenaway dance
introduced the Misses Charlotte Chalmers
and Helen Holmes. Miss Douglas Bos-
worth was the first soloist on the pro-
gramme. with her Edinburgh dance.
The Athenian girls, whose tabeau was
one of the most beautiful of the afternoon.
were the Misses Katrina Page Brown. Eva
Ingersol Brown. Gladys Robbins. Mary
Mckee. Marjorie Smylie. Marion Baar.
Charlotte Delafed and Edith Sutro. Miss
Sutro sang the solos in the Dream OF
Venice" that followed. In this Nine. Won
Potential danced to the barcsrole from
THE Tales of Hoffman," accompanied by
the Misses Phyllis de Kay, Anna Hill and
Marguerite Montgomery.
The Spring" dancers were Mrs Page
Smith and the Misses Vera Van Buren,,
Florence Rising, Helen Johns. Katrine
Crane and Vera Fueslein. The "Cty Of
ffv,n dol Il,
which the Misses Bertha Philips and
Agatha Brown impersonated Dante and
Beatrice. In this group were Miss Hedwig
Wendell and girls from the Venetian, Athe-
nian and Primavera dances.
| Miss Katherine Rising and Dallas Cor
! biere preceded the last number with
| New York Poster" dance, and the after
| noon closed with the tableau Les Mont
martrois" representing Paris studio in
! the old Latin Quarter, with Nine. Won Rot
tenthal, Nine. St. Lys and Dudley Garlic
| ton. Harold jenkins and Reginald Frank
| lin.
In charge of the tea tables were Mrs.
! William Curtis Demorest. Mrs. Charles
Knoblauch Mrs. Stanwood Menken, Mrs.
Carl Schurz. Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton
! and Victor Harris 1t was dramatic tea,
and among the stage people who helped
pour were Grace Elliston. Isabel Irving.
Molly Person. Billie Burke, Olive Wynd-
ham and Hedwig Reicher They, in turn.
were assisted by Franklin Jasper Walls,
Edward Knoblauch and Max Liebling.
Last night the tableaus were repeated,
with the addition of series of Living
Paintings" In preparing these the club
had the help of John Alexander and Paul
Dougherty. Mrs. Frederic Remington was
one of the possesses, as Nine. Henriette de
Bourbon: Mrs. StanwoOd Menken imper-
sonated Nandykes Marie Luise Won Tas-
! sig" and Nine. Won Rottenthal Watts's
Hope" Miss Grace Bliss attempted the
inscrutable smile of the lost Mona Lisa"
of Da Vinci.
A dozen japanese ladies, under the d.
rection of Mime. MdzunO, wife Of the Jap
anese Consul General, kept the Toxic
| booth. Nine Midzuno however. was
| called away yesterday, and her place was
| taken by Mines. Seko, Ichinomiya and Ito.
| ono costume that attracted much atten-
ton was the Marie AntOinettc gown or
/ Mrs. William Curtis Demorest. This was
one OF the French queens own gowns. 1t
has been I'm Mrs. Demorest's family nearly
seventy years. and was purchased by her
mother I'm Paris from a person who
secured it following the sale of Marie An
toinettes effects at auction. with the
gown Mrs Demorest wore rich bracelet
SGT with diamonds and emeralds, which also
belonged TO Marie AntOnette.
The History Clubs festival will close to-
night on the stroke OF Il. This afternoon
a musical tea will be held. Nine. Tony
Roller Of the Royal Opera House. at Co
burg. Will make her first New York APP
pearance. and Mrs. Durant Gherer Miss
Edith Chapman Goold, Sgnor Caruso and
other musical people will attend. The pro-
Goods of the festival will go to the club.
| ONI nnItI OnIOMC MEET