New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-23
% ENTERTAINMENT Of the year Is
looked forward to with greater pleas
urc hv the Younger set in society than


the annual affair given by the Junior League
for various charities. This years production
promises 70 be one Of the most interesting and
unique ever given by the league, and will be
held tomorrow, Tuesday and wednesday
evenings In the ballroom of the Wsldort-As-
,oria. II is entitled The City of Beautiful
Nonsense" and opens with an elaborate street
scene, showing an antique shop with crowd
in front of it, with Chalmers Wood as the
shopkeeper Then will follow a programme
Of dances arranged by Miss lnga Sontum and
given In a scene representing an antique shop.
Motion pictures Of the participants have been
taken at the house of Mrs. James Byrne,
leased from the Reginald de Kovens. and at
the home Of Mrs. James Brown, which will
be shown. also outdoor scenes taken at the
country home of Mrs. John T. Pratt, at Glen
Cove.
Among the dances will be Persian one, or
ganized by Miss Margaret Henderson, who
will do a special dance with Maitland Belknap.
Others in this group will be Miss Joy Will
Jams. Miss Hope Williams, Miss Maud Z.
Kahn. Miss FREDERICK Bull, Miss Madeleine
Carey Miss Adeline Hatch, Miss Florence
Lincoln. Edward Stevenson, John Hughes,
Frederick lie Clercq, Steward Bowers, Francis
White and Horace Allen.
In Zouave dance. arranged by Miss Noemi
Townsend. will appear Mrs. S. Human Bird
and Lynford Dickinson as soloists and Miss
Josephine de Gersdorf. Miss Margaret La
Fargo, Miss NJ. Symphorosa Bristed Miss
Margaret Trevor, Miss Noemi Townsend,
William E. Shepherd, jr., Edmund Nash, Will
lam II. Taylor. Flsvel Hubbard, COLES J. Coe
and Hamilton Armstrong.
Miss Grace Brsted has organized a Brit
tany peasant dance, and in it Mrs. J. Victor
Onativia, jr., will do solo dance. Others
with her will be Miss Alice Davies. Miss Grace
Colgate Miss Marion c. Dinsmore, Miss Ethel
Potter Miss Resale Bloodgood, Miss Mary
Hartshorne, Miss Geraldine Adee, Miss Mil
bred Mitchell Miss Anstiss De Veau, Francis
Wauous, Donald Lamb, Andre Lord, Stanley
Rumbough, Vivian Pamieri, William Emer-
son, Joseph Marlborough. Raymond Hoagland,
William II. Taylor and John Hatton.
In a Greek dance, in charge Of Mrs. Court
landt Dixon Barnes, there will be solo dances
by Mrs Archibald S. Alexander and Mrs.
Howard G. Cushing They will be assisted
by Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer. Mrs Sydney S.
Breese. Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne, Miss Mary
Hoyt Wiborg, Miss Katherine Porter and Miss
Alexandra Emery.
There will be Gold Fish dance, organized
by Miss Lisa Stillman in which Mrs. Walter
Stillman. Miss Beatrice G. Pratt and Albert
Merle dAubrique will do special dance.
Others in the group will be Mrs. Harry Parker,
Mrs. Landon Thorne, Miss Prudence Sterry,
Miss Ninon Newton and Miss Mary I.
Francke.
There will be dance by group represent
ing porcelain figures in an antique shop. Miss
Mary Croker Alexander is in charge, and in
il will be seen Miss Angelica Schuyler Brown
as soloist. Miss Mary Alexander, Miss Edith
Morgan, Miss Camilla Morgan, Miss Audrey
Osborn, Maurice Roche, John Elliot, Andre
Lord and Munro Douglas Robinson
In the Viking dance, organized by Miss
Irene Gibson, will be Miss Ina Kissel as SOLO
list, Miss Helen Byrne, Miss Alice Baldwin,
Miss Adelaide Sedgwick. Miss Margaret Mi
mott, Miss Helen Alexander and Miss Kath-
crime Crosby.
Tickets for the entertainment may be OBJ
tanned from Miss Louise Dixon, So West
Forty-ninth Street.
There has been such food OF applications
from patronesses desiring boxes for the Ball
Of the Gods, TO be held at the Hotel Astor
Friday, February II, under the auspices OF
the Society Of Beaux Arts Architects, that tho
committee will be obliged TO select the hold
ers by lot The distribution OF boxes will be
made Immediately after the drawing OF lots,
and the names Of the winners will be made
known next week No one will be admitted to
the ball or In the boxes unless in neurological
costume, and TO aid those who will attend the
committee has arranged a large exhibit OF ma
terials and designs for costumes at the Beaux
Arts Society rooms, I26 East Seventy-hfth
Street which will be on view every day until
the date Of the ball. and from TO p. m.
costumer will be In attendance to take meas
urements and orders.
For the pageant, which will require the
vices OF 500 men and women, a number Of dis
tinguished artists have offered their aid There
will be a prologue written by Charles Ram
Kennedy and rected by Edith Wynne Matthi-
son. and special music composed by Kurt
SCHNEIDER, who will appear as the High Priest.
Ruth ST. Denis and her husband, Mr.. Shawn,
will dance in the Hindoo tableau- The pageant,
produced under the direction of Howard
Greenley. Is divided into three parts-lndia.
Egypt and Greece. The scene an abandoned
teuplc on the Island OF Cyprus, will be de-