The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01
GENERAL NOTES OF SOCIETY

T Under the patronage Of Mrs. Payne
Whitney, Princess Troubetzkoy,
- Mrs Archer VI. Huntington. Mrs
Stuyyesant Fish. Mrs. Benjamin GUM
ness. Mrs. Arthur &. Train. Mrs. G aries
Dana Gibson. Mrs William u. StraiI ut
and Mrs. Reginald lie koyen an enter
tainment for the benefit Of the Authors
League Will BE- given AZ tie Plaza on the
afternoon 81 February ~. II Will com
sis. of readings by authors from their
own works. several short dramatic
sketches. moving pictures which are be-
ing prepared especially for the occasion
and an auction Of books hy the authors
themselves.
The moving pictures will show eight
authors. members of the league in an
unusual arrangement First the author
will be seen In some characteristic att.
tudc IN his den. Then the picture will
gradually change into a scene from one
of the authors books. The authors ana
the stories to he illustrated are Princess
Troubetzhoy ,Amel!e Rives) and The
Quick or the Dead" NsS Ida Tarncil
and He Knew Lincoln" Booth Tarkng-
ton and Cherry" El,is Parker Ru,lcr
and Pigs is Pigs" George AIDE ana "A
Fable IN Slang" Rex Beach and THE
Spoilers" George Barr McCutrheon ana
''Graustark' and Louis Joseph Vance AMI
The Diamond Ring"
Tho programme viii include mono
ogues by Miss Ruth Draper. John Luther
Long In scene from MADAME Butter
fy" and readings by Josephine Daskam
Bacon. Mary Stewar, Cutting. Rachel
Crothers, Percy Mackays and Rupert
iiugnes. James Montgomery Flagg will
draw cartoons OF each author while read
ing. these 10 be sold at auction afterward
Mrs Woodrow Wilson has lent three
paintings by herself FOR the miniature
hall OF fame at the Woman's Industrial
exhibition which opens at the Grand Gem
raj Palace on Thursday. Another In
teresting exhibit will be piece OF en-
robbery from Italy, in which nearly
every known stitch in necdlework is IN
oiporatea. II IL pronounced the finest
piece OF work Of its kind in existence ana
oon young Italian girl three years to
complete.
Mrs. Wilson has accepted an invitation
from Mrs. William Einsteln, president OF
he Widowed Mothers Fund. to Ice her
;uest on the opening day. Mrs, Einstein's
other guests will he Mrs. Martin ii. Glynn.
Mrs. John Purroy Mitchell. Mrs Dudley
Field Malone and Miss Katherine b. Davis,
the newly appointed Commissioner of Cor
rection.
Throughout the exhibition the reception
and tea room viii Ne daily in charge of a
olle ~ Tue nine duNllldrl
! izations IN whose behalf the exposition il
held. On the opening day the Widowed
Mothers Fund. Mrs. William Enste!n,
| chairman. will be In charge. and the other
days are February 6. Franciscan MIS-
sionaries OF Mary. Mrs, Nicholas f. BRADY.
| chairman February T. the New York As
ISOLATION OF the Blind. Miss Winifred Holt
| chairman; February o. New York Con-
, sumers League, Mrs. Frederick Nathan
chairman. February 10, New York Asso.
! citation OF Day Nurseries, Mrs. Richard
Irwin, chairman; February II, Little
| Mothers Aid Association, Mrs. clarenc.
| Burns. chairman February IL, Free In.
| dustrial School for Crippled Children, Mrs
Arthur Elliot Fish, chairman; February
~, Parks and Playground Association
! Miss Madeleine Stevens. chairman, and
February II. George Washington Memoir
| ial Association, Mrs, Henry +. Dmock.
president, and Mrs. Frank Northrop,
| chairman.
The industrial classes Of the Littl,
Mothers Aid Association, Mrs. Clarence
! Burns. president. will have fine dlspia,
OF work at the Woman's Industrial CXhi.
biton. The laundry class will have ar
| exhibit OF bed and table linen, dresses
] shirt waists and baby clothes which they
have been working ON for weeks the sew
Ing classes will show how they can Gu
| ana MT their own clothes and the cookini
class at Happy Day House, 236 Secon,
avenue. and the Greenwich street bhancl
viii prepare and send to the exposition
each day soups, meats. vegetables ant
desserts.
Mrs. Charles Il. Wilcox. who will be II
charge OF the associations exhibit, will b
assisted by number OF young girls a
Mattresses on February II. when the tel
room will be under the direction of tn
association. Others serving on the com
| mittAA of which. MrA, Wilcox liz Chairman