New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-15
Entertainments Will Add
to Amounts Given for
War Sufferers.
PROMINENT WOMEN
HELP PROGRAMMES
Barnard College Girls in French
Play Assist Red Gross
EndeavOrs.

The first enthusiasm Of giving for
the war relief funds having somewhat
abated, the various relief committees
have begun to devote themselves to en-
tertainments. teas, sales and other
forms Of indirect giving. No less than
seven new enterprises of this sort wer,
announced yesterday, and large num-
Der already are on the social calendar.
Bernard Shaw's new play, "Greao
Catherine" will be presented by Paul
Sudow, with Miss Gertrude Kingston in
the title role, OF December 3, at a
theatre to DC announced later. The
performances are under the auspices
of the American Women's War Relief
Fund in England, Of which Lady Paget,
the Duchess of Marlborough. Lady
Randolph Churchill and Mrs. Aston are
the organizers. The New York COM
mittee, which is arranging the produc-
ton here, includes Mrs. Whitelaw Reid
Mrs. J. F. ID. Lanier, Mrs. Frederick
Vanderbilt, Mrs. Otto Kahn, Mrs.
George Gould, Mrs. James A. Burden,
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs Stuy-
vesant Fish, Mrs. Norman Whitehouse
Mrs. Egerton Winthrop, Mrs. Henry
Clews, Mrs. Archer Huntington, Mrs.
August Belmont, Mrs. Orme Wilson ana
Mrs. Ogden Mills.
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney has given
her studio, in MacDougal Hey, for an
exhibition and auction sale OF art
works from December 2 to 10. Mrs.
Whitney contributed bust Of Span
ish peasant. Other contributors are
Daniel Chester French, John W. Alex
ander, James Earle Fraser. Malvlna
Hoffman, J. Alden Weir, Robert Henri
and Cecilia Beaux.
Two more knitting bees will be helt
at the Plaza on November 20 and ~.
The committee, of which Mrs. Mary
Perry King is chairman, has arranged
a series of ballet dances TO amuse the
knitters as they work. The latest pas
de trois" and a new picture dance VIII
be shown
Members of the Chicago Women's
Club have been invited to an enter
tainment and sewing bee at the home
of Mrs. Augustus w. Clarke, 3l5 West
sod st ON Thursday. The proceeds
will be given TO the Belgian refugees.
The German and Austrian ambassa-
doris. DR.. Fake, the German Consul,
and DR.. Dernburg, former German CO.
lonial Minister, will attend the concert
of the United German Clubs, of New
York City, at Carnegie Hall, on Tues
day evening for the benefit OF the Ger.
man and Austro- Hungarian Keller
Fund. Speeches will be made by the
ambassadors and by Professor Eugene
Kuehnemann, of the University OF
Breslau. Hedwig Reicher, Nine. Matt
field and Carl Friedburg are among the
musicians who will furnish the pro-
gramme. a..
Anna Pavlowa will dance for the
benefit of the Red Cross at the Metro
politan Opera House on November "a
The committee in charge OF the per
Torrance includes Mrs. Willard u.
Straight. Mrs. II. o. Hayemeyer, Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, Mrs. William Il. van
derbilt. Mrs. Otto Kahn, Mrs. Linzee
Blagden, Mrs. John Henry Hammond
Mrs, +. II. Hartman, Mrs. William N.
Vanderbilt. Mrs. James A. Burden, Jr.,
Mrs. Harry Payne whitney mrs. W. n
Draper and Mrs. Douglas Robinson
La Societe Francaise, OF Barnard Coi,
lege. presented Les Femmes Fortes
for the benefit of the Red Cross yester-
dev afternoon and evening in the col
lege theatre. For the first time IN col
lege history the Barnard girls mad 10
do without the assistance OF the Co
lumbia French Club in supplying hand
some heroes.
Tho cast uas a Z follows: