The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-26
MRS. HEWITT'S PLAY
DEPICTS CLIMBERS
Amusing and Original Piece
Produced in Gramercy
Park Home.
SOCIAL FOIBLES Barred

nuNdTu fllE Woiu w IItStIlttu W
her friends and ncighbors yesterday
afternoon AT her home. i27 East Twenty
first street. Gramercy Park, an amusing
and original Christmas play which she
had written for the occasion. Entitled
"a Million Dolla Reward " Is a
travesty on some of the modern social
climbers. showing to The great amuse-
ment of Mrs. Hewitt's guests the alleged
foibles of society Of to-day. The little
play vas presented on "a stage which
had been erected between the drawing
room and the dining room, the latter
SERVING for the wings. There was an
attractive setting. showing a modern
interior, this being put together with
out any particular laboratories II was
much OF II n~eighborhood affair, the
young people who took part coming from
the vicinity of GramerCy Park or OF
wewarpo Farm. Mr.. and Mrs. Hewitt's
country place in Midvale. y. j.
The plot depicted the struggles of a
certain Mrs. Discs. a wealthy woman
who can,c to New York from a mythical
West. where she had sold her vast he
longinss with the one idea of shining in
metropolitan socie,y. II was sort oi
travesty on the prevailing methods OF
deduction Of New York society.
Gets n Home In spark Avenue.
After installing herself In a beautiful
Spark avenue mansion Mrs. DireS sets
out to hum mp a social requirement
bureau ben, on obtaining information
and help that will place her sooner or
later at the top of the ladder. though
by no means was she content with
wRtchful waiting to C,in her ends. In
this bureau she IL supplied with secre-
taries for everything under the sun.
These secretaries are. according tn their
indivi 'ual very well born
and connected with the highest in the
land, and they all promise her that when
she gives her parties they will be at
tended by their famous relatives.
As each and every one OF these secre'
taries has her own ideas and notions rs
10 how the u~nattainable can be attained
the life Of Mrs. Dircs soon becomes d
burden. So much is she hectored by thi:
band of secretaries that she finally takes
TO her bed. summoning the fashionable
physician DR.. joy. who suggests u
her that what she really needs Is an
other secretary to sit by her bedside e
wake her half hourly through the night
with all this naturally Mrs. Dives Il
nearly tormented to death.
The mistress Of the Spark avenu'
home happens to have a sensible self
supporting cousin. who comes to visit he
rich relative. In the meantime Mrs
Dives has lost something. but what 1t Il
she cannot exactly tell. She is afraid
10 disclose her situation 10 her numerous
secretaries for fear they viii sugges
that she needs still more secretaries.
Thereupon Mrs. Dircs offers 81. 000, oct
reward for the recovery of what sh'
really has lost. She calls in doctors
detectives. even sherlock Holmes and HI
friend Or. Watson. In the endeavor q
.,. shn .,,invft tho tnl,e test 10 Annllel
to the entire household. even to the host
ess. and, strange TO say. all are foun'
guilty Of having taken this certain some
thing of unknown quantity. In IN
search one detective asserts that It /
Mrs.. Dirrs's pearls that are missing. an
another that IL is her money, Email.
Sherlock Holmes announces that he ma
solved the mystery. ami he informs MIS-
Dives that she is really the guilty one
Then the self-suppor;ing cousin come
forward TO say that she knows what tn
missing commodity is and she tells Mrs
Dircs that she has lost 1.-THE sense o
PROPORTIONS" To this relative is give
the reward,
Briwht Lines In the Play.
The bright lines vastly amused III
gathering. Mrs. Dircs VAS played b
Vagina Perkins. Miss Lucy Hewitt
played the role of the cousin. Fat
Lazarus. The secretaries of course ha'
an important part in the play. Ther
were a secretary of arrangements. one @
science. the social secretary and one eac
for music and art. There were also TN
domestic secretary and thos" or pun
llci,y, a%ppearance and intelligence. tines
roles being acted respectively by N
Misses Carolyn Var Cortlandt. Emil
Gilbert, Maud Coster. Louise Herric1
Margaret Heriick. Cardace Hewitt. u