New-York tribune., 1912-02-24
$4,000 FOR GIRLS LEAGUE
LARGE Sum Raised for School
Athletics at Waldorf.
DANCES WIN APPLAUSE
Italy, Russia, Denmark and
Other Countries Represented
by Joyous, Skipping Throng.

Though Mrs. Alfred Seton Post president
of the girls branch Of the Public Schools
! Athletic League, said at the annual meet
/ ing Of that organization the other day that
! il was much harder TO raise money TO give
| the girls athletics than II was to- raise
I money for the boys, more than 5000 was
realized at the entertainment given by the
| branch. under the direction of Miss Eliza
! ieth Burchenal, at the Waldorf-Astoria
| Yesterday And there was not a person in
! the grand ballroom, where the folk dances,
of which the entertainment consisted, were
| given. who did not feel that they got their
moneys worth and more.
! From the time the Twelve pretty Brook
! lyn girls, headed by Miss Gladys Storey,
! danced on to the stage In quaint cotton
! gowns and sun bonnets, with wooden pals
| swinging on their arms. to do the English
! lmaypole dance ard wind the pole with rib
| bons. until the wind-up Of the programme
with the Swedish Fjainaspolska- danced by
| Miss Juliana Cutting, Mrs. James II. Kid
der. Mrs. Frank Phipps, Mrs. T. j. Oakley
! Rhinelander, Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, Jr.,
Mrs. Charles Van Rensselaer,. Lindell Bates
! H. S LeYerich. Count A. MontgelaS, Roland
! Palmer, Lieutenant Frank Phipps and a.
| Won Kuhlman, every one who looked on
! was ready TO vow that an organization
which taught the children of this city such
| dances as those merited the support OF the
| city and its people.
None Of the twenty-five thousand little
| girls who come under tho teaching OF the
league in the school Fairgrounds of New
! York appeared Yesterday, because IL is the
| policy of the league never TO exploit the
children at places where there is paid ad-
mission. All the dancers at this enter
! tainment were young men and women who
volunteered in order TO help the girls
! branch along and who became for the
! time Italians, Danes, Russians--a regular
| congress of nations, a Joyous, skipping
congress, doing the folk dances OF those
countries with a gay abandon which
! brought back the times when the world
was younger and gladder than II is now
There was a vigorous Scotch reel, done
by Miss Douglas Bosworth and three
other women in gay kits. To the music
! of the bagpipes, played by William Cam
eron. Mr. Cameron made a hit with the
bagpipes. The thirty members OF the
! Boston Symphony Orchestra, who with
| tNelr CONDUCTOR HuHldE ,liuptf "tio NAlti v
| TO play for the dancers, laid down their
| instruments and listened with the audi
ence while the behlted piper piped.
Ireland was represented by Miss Emily
! O'Keefe and three other young women
who in green and yellow tunics did a genu-
ine Irish reel. Miss Amy Hutton led eight
women who, in vivid green skirts, striped
aprons and red headdregses, did the italian
tarantella. But perhaps the loudest APP
plause was reserved for the Danish dances.
in which Miss Burchenal led, and was as
sisted by her sister. Miss Ruth Burchenal:
her brother, Selden D. Burchenal; Knud
! Bay and f. Anderson. Then, all alone, the
men did the oXdonsen, and batted of each
others scarlet caps in the mock hght which
winds up this historic students dance.
Among the prettiest costumes were those
worn by Miss Lucy Brown, Miss Angelina
Brown, Miss Edith Morgan and Mrs, George
Waltham in a wild CossaCk dance-gor-
geous. heavily embroidered one-piece gowns
! The ballroom was well filled. and most OF
the boxes were taken. Among those in the
! boxes were James Speyer and Mrs. Speyer-