New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-17
MANY DANCES MARK
SHROVE TUESDAY
Mardi-Gras Entertainments An
nounce the Coming of the
Lenten Season.

Shrove Tuesday was celebrated by So
ciety in a brilliant manner, with many
/ private dinners and dances and Mardl
Gras entertainments. One OF the
largest dances was given by Mrs Penn
broke Jones at her house, East Sixty
first Street. for Miss Sara Delano, the
Gebutante daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Warren Delano. The dance was pre-
coded by dinner for eighty guests,
and afterward about two hundred came
in for the dance. Miss De,ano's en-
gagement TO Roland l.. Redmond was
/ announced in December.
/ Among the dinner hostesses of last
evening were Mrs. Vanderbilt, at her
house. l West Fifty-seventh Street;
Mrs. NJ. Orme Wilson, 8 East Sixty
fourth Street, and Mrs. Ira Davenport,
at her home. 81 East Thirty-ninth
Street.
A Mardi Gras ball was given last
night in the Della Robbia room Of the
Hotel Vanderbilt for the benefit of the
Southern Industrial Educational As
ISOLATION, Of which Mrs. Algernon Sid
ney Sullivan is president. Most OF the
guests appeared in costume, and masks
were supplied for all present. In ad-
dition TO the general dancing there
were exhibitions by Miss Margaret
Hawkesworth, Miss Gladys Lester and
Allen Eldridge. Mrs. James Harmon
Dinwiddie was in charge of the affair
and Edward Simmons Hall WAS chair
man Of the floor committee.
MIR. Hall was assisted by Minturn
Post Collins, II. Spaulding Schley,
Frederick II. Wooley, Marcel Stem
brugge, James Clark Mcclure. Edward
c. Cavanagh, Henry Warren Goddard,
Jeremiah Beall, Edward X. Crook, Al
fred Houston, II. B. Jennings, Joseph
+ Simmons, George Hammond Sullivan,
Robert J. Randolph and Ii. b. Jen-
nings. =,
The patronesses included Mrs. L. n.
Preitung, Mrs. William Lowe Rice. Mrs.
Walton Marshall, Mrs. Charles q.
Ayres, Mrs. William Nelson Cromwell
and others.
Miss Juliana Cutting gave Mardi
Gras dance last night in the Rose Room
of the Hotel Plaza. Many dinners were
given before the dance.
The patronesses of the Mi-Careme
ball to be given at the Plaza on the
evening Of March IL for the benefit OF
the free Montessori Tenement Schools
of New York City, are Mrs. Jules S.
Bache. Mrs. William II. Bliss. Mrs.
Cornelius n. Bliss. jr., Mrs. Carroll
Bockwith. Miss Beatrice Bend, Mrs.
Charles Tracy Barney, Mrs. W. Bourke
Cochran, Mrs. Eastman Johnson Conk-
ling. Mrs. j. Sergeant Cram, Mrs. II.
Durant Cheever, Mrs. Paul ID. Cravath,
Mrs. William Aston Chanler. Mrs. Law
renee Bogert Gilman, Mrs. Cass Gll-
bert. Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn. Mrs;
Clifford B. Harmon. Mrs. McDougali
Hawkes., Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, Mrs
Robert Irving jerks, Mrs. Walter b.
James, Mrs. Maturin Livingston, Mrs.
Lewis Cass Ledyard. jr, Mrs. 5. Stan
wood Menken, Mrs. J. A. Mitchell, Mrs.
William Willet McAlpin, Mrs. Bradley
Martin. Mrs. Joseph Talbot Maci.ean.
Mrs John Purroy Mitchell, Mrs. VIII
;am Ross Proctor. Mrs. Oren Root. Mrs.
John Harsen Rhoades. Mrs. Benson
pennett Sloan. Mrs. Arthur ii. Scribner'
Mrs Herbert L. Satterlee, Mrs. Charles
II Sheriff.. Mrs. Henry Waters Tart
Mrs Charles Lewis Tiffany, Mrs. Frank
lin Mott Warner, Mrs. John !. Water
bnrc and Mrs. Payne Whitney.
James c. MCGUIRE is chairman OF tne
floor committee and Mrs Erh .h
Tbonnson Seton chairman of the
finance committee. o.
The funds raised will be appheu 70
the support of the Montessori Schooi ~
what was originally three tenements on
The south side of the open stair tene-
ment" in Seventy-seventh Street. near
the East River.