The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-22

Charles Hayden and Charles +. samp-
son.
In the ballroom of the 81. Regis
| tomorrow night there will be held
dance for the benefit Of the Manassas
! School in Manassas. Va. Mr.. and Mrs.
! Vernon Castle will give an exhibition
Of dances. and in addition there will be
dancing Ivy Miss Aiuriel Murray and
! Guy Murray. a minuet in costume
will be danced by Miss Beatrix Buel
and Gerald Onativia, who have given
this dance with much success at several
OF the private and charity entertain
rnents of the winter.
| Interested in the bail are people of
social prominence in this city who ar
range an entertainment each season for
the Manassas School. which is an insti-
tuition that provides educational train
Ing for children In the Virginia noun
tain regions. Among the patronesses
are Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont, Mrs.
Willard d. Straight, Mrs. Henry Willard,
Mrs Franklin Q. Brown, Mrs. John r.
Macarthur. Mrs. \. Barton Hepburn.
Mrs John l.. Rerwind, Mrs George
Gordon Battle. Mrs. Percival knauth,
Mrs Charles W. Rantoul, Jr, Mrs. AL
bert Strauss. Mrs. Alfred A. Whitman.
Mrs. Isaac y. Seligman and the Misses
T.. Mabel Clark. Lucy ". Marks Emily
Redfield, Marian Whitman. Stella Bene-
dict. Alice Guernsey, katherine Sewall,
Shirley Dean, Janet Lyle and Amabel
Mayosmith. Tickets are 50 each and
may be obtained from Mrs. Oswald Gar
rison, l7g East Seventy-tirst street.
For the benent OF the shut In Society
there will be given in the ballroom of
the Plaza on Tuesday afternoon an
adaptation OF the ancient morality play.
1.-The Castle OF Perseverance" in which
amateurs OF society will take part. Re-
bearsals have been going on at the
home OF Mrs. Charles T.. Merrill, the ma
tional president Of the society. and il
is expected that the performance will
be one Of the most interesting of the
present season.
In the cast portraying the roles of
1.-THE Seven Deadly Sins" will be the
Misses Caramai Carroll. Martha Gay.
Maude Thompson, Adele Clark, Rene
Siegfried, Mildred Rice and Emily Ford.
Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel, Jr.. Mrs. Will
lam c. Potter. Mrs. Jay Gould and the
Misses Marjorie Curtis Mercedes de
Acosta, Audrey Osborn. Constance Per-
kins, Eleanor Lampson and Marion
Clarke will be in the group represent
ing "The Virtues"
Il. A. Markoe. who has adapted the
play. IL directing the rehearsals. He
, has based his work on the original man
uscript which Is the earliest record ex-
! tant of the presentation Of morality
] plays in England. The characters who
! Will appear In costumes Of the fifteenth
century will make their entrances and
exits through the audience, as In the
I original production. During the play
. there will be Gregorian chants by a
I chorus. and in fact nearly every feature
' characteristic Of the early English mo-
Z rality plays will be carried out
Among others in the cast are Miss
Helen Jenkins. The Good Angel, Fran
q els Geer, the Bad Angel; r. A. Markoe
n Mankind; Mrs. +. A. Markoe, The
World: Miss Alice Damrosch, The
!, Church. Mrs. Alfred Macy, Penitence
r Walter G. Oakman, Jr, James NJ. Faust
|, Walter Courtney. Jay Corse, Gerald
a Murphy. T. Chesley Richardson, Jr,
!, Frederic Sigourney and Alfred Macy.
A benent performance of THE Leg
!, end Of Leonora," with Miss Maude
!. Adams. will be given at the Empire
Theatre on Tuesday night under the
auspices Of the Smith College Club OF
New York. The proceeds will be de-
J. voted to furnishing the library OF the
% new building OF the Women's University
n Club. Seats may be obtained from Miss
u Dorothy Kenyon at S2l West Eighty
n second street, who Is head of the com
% mittec In charge Of the arrangements
y or at the box office Of the theatre Som,
. OF those assisting on the committee arc
y Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill Mrs. Her
II bert ScOville, Mrs. Charles D. Norton
d Mrs. Barrett II. Witherbee, the Misses
II Marion Dwight, Lena Curtis Sarah
Simpson and Sarah Cheney.
j. Among the patronesses are Mines
% William Crittenden Adams, Charles II
10 Allen. Andrew Carnegie, William Hous
d ton Kenyon Frederick d, Pratt, Seth q
j. Milliken, James E. Cushman, William ]
d Curtis. George G. Riggs, George b. Fore