The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-26
lie JOUR FERIE' GIVEN
BY JUNIOR LEAGUE.
Dances in Eighteenth Century
setting Delight Large
society Throng.
mn REPEAT PRIZE FEATU RE

,..,,...s TO their annual custom the
..,,,r,.s or the Junior League, an or
..,.,,,.un composed Of debutantes OF
,rc winter. gave last night in the grand
,.u.c,, of the Waldorf Astoria an en-
,.r,,ta.u,ut Of special dances called lie
,,,r r,uc' in behalf OF their philan-
,,,,i. work II was the first of three
,-,srt, uucnts for which they had been
...r,r.rr many weeks der the direc-
,,cr OF Miss Lila Ngnow stewart.
o1.o fpur Fcric,' which signifies day
1T ,r,,t nirut. was arranged by Miss
e..,.r' and was full of attractive dances
executed by groups Of young people,
,,rlsovl,.y costumed, to the music OF
corrtd.s orchestra. All this was done
a, , stage erected at the south end OF
enc ballroom. the boxes and seats of the
auditorium being flied.
In the first part the stage was set to
,,nrcsent the public square Of an
,sh,eeu.h century town on the day OF
,t, carnival The square was filled with
,o,ols crowd arr1yed in sostumes OF
,u sorts which had gathered to meet
,bc puscu of The carnival and her faith
,r ute.y who were dressed as psarrots.
Ao,r giving tho queen (who was enacted
hv Airs sydney :. Brecse) a rousing
pelronp there was a succession OF ma
,.orr dances Those IN the crowd were
dressed as Russians Alsatians, Dutch
.,a Normandy peasants, Spanish gypsies,
chinese. scotch and Persians. There
we're also a fourteenth century queen.
,roub1dours others in Vatican costumes
,rd also up TO date Cubists and French
AT students
before the Queen.
al this motley crowd passed in a
rrorcssion before the queen and among
Them werc the Misses Amy Clifford.
Mildred SAWYER Elizabeth Mosle, DER
trude yelling, Vera Cravath. Mildred
Hsrbeck Julia Gilbert Margaret waf-
rer Symphorosa Rristed, Margasst
Montgomery Dorothy Battle, Anna
Surris. Faith Hayden, Ruth Cutting.
Co-npua cammann, Augusta DiNos,
U.lcr G~ hin. Elinor Kendall, Phyllis
Brown Rita Sturgis, Barbara Shedd,
Kathleen Macy. Julia Potter. Mildred
Rec and Penelope Sears
After the procession there followed a
sri,s OF dances. and one Of these that
went OF with much snap was an Irish
dance, which had been arranged hy Miss
MARY Jay Schieffelin. and the Cancers
Included the Misses Marie TlTrcr, Jose
pn.nr Wells. Eunice Clapp. Margaret Err
hart. Eugene Rand. Lillian Talmage,
sylvia Holt and Rita Boxer; Robert s.
Adams. Jr. Matthew LoOram. Paul JAG
caci. Hermann Schwab, Edward r. Stew
,nson Richard Emmett George Richard
and carl Boxer.
During the progress OF the dance Paul
Bonner sang an Irish melody. There fol-
loved an un to date dance called la
Frivontc, with "A fancy fox trot by Hiss
Eugene phnbin and Bradlsh J. Carroll
Jr. Mss Susan Fish Dresser and J
Fiayel Hubbard. Others in this dance
were Mrs, Dave Hennen Coddington, the
" sses Constance Perkins, Marie Taller
katherine Porter. Margaret Andrews and
Louise Trevor. Eric Winston, Dorr New
ton Richard Stevenson. Raymond Chaun
oey FcliN Doubleday and Charles West.
After this was danced Tyrolenne. al
~ participants heing In the national
costume Of the Tyrol. and the dancers
we're tho Misses Gladys Fries, Noem
Gilbert Townsend. Elise Rice. Cary
Harkstln, Margaret Luce and Heller
Flake. l.. Stuart Wing. Jr.. Henry +
Toler. Charles t. Gauter, J. Berry Under
hin. Jr, Y. Price Post and Francis NJ
Wa,ous. A Tryolean song which wen
with this dance was sung hy Miss Ethe
Croker, Miss Lulu Ceba.los and Shep
ard krech.