New-York tribune., 1916-01-25
City of Beautiful Non
sense" Given at Waldorf
> by Junior League.
DIFFICULT DANCES
PLEASE BIG AUDIENCE
Entertainment Most Brilliant Af-
fair Yet Arranged by
Younger Set.

/ entertainment, Cnttcd ne lily OF
/ Beautiful Nonsense given last night
in the ballroom Of the WaldorfAstoria,
they would have reaped harvest.
/ All kinds Of fancy prices were offered
/ for seats at the last moment. but the
entire house had been sold out several
/ days ago. Every scat and box have
occn taken for the two remaining
performances for this evening and to-
morrow night.
80 affair of thc season is looked for
ward 10 with greater pleasure by the
dehutantcs as well as she older set
than this annual entertainment, which
grows in interest every yenr.
The league was started fifteen years
ago by Miss Mary Hartman, now Mrs.
/ Charles Cary kumsey, when small
/ group of debutantes acted little play
/ for a few friends and gave the pro
ceeds-a few hundred dollars-to the
/ College Settlement. To-day the league
/ has a membership of about 500, and
moro than $4,000 passed through the
treasury last year The net proceeds
from the entertainment year ago
amounted 70 S22,339.63, and this year
/ II will 90 considerably beyond that
/ figure.
"The City of Beautiful Nonsense" is
one Of the most interesting and novel
/ affairs ever given by the league. The
acting and dancing last night would
4 have done credit TO professionals. Dif-
/ fcult dances, such as the Greek Frieze
and the Gold fish numbers, were done
with ease and grace, and were onthusl-
astically received. The production rs
+ iu two parts, opening with "The Flame
of Kapur," a motion picture melodrama
hv Miss Grace Il. Henry. and followed
i by q carnival of dancing In a scene
+ representing the interior Of an antique
shop
The time i'm the photoplay, which
opens the performance, Is the present
and the place i'm and about New YORK.
J. Geraldine Gordon. Miss Angelica Schuy-
or Brown, who lives with her aunt,
+ Mrs. Marsden lGrace Henry, receives
letter from her father saying that
F he and his daughter Cecilia are return
+ ing from India, where they have been
/ tor ten years. He is bringing ruby
+ known as The Flame Of kapur' 70
Young Lord Darlington james {.
/ Clark. Ravan Naras Schuyler l..
+ Parsons. jr.). a Hindu adventurer. VINO
roses a. the Count di RayanO. and his
sister. sta Naras Miss Theodore La
rocgue). plot 20 steal the jewel.
They are aided in their plans by the
,act that sta closely resembles &C.
celia Gordon. The Count, by his con-
stant attentions, r"rsuades Geraidlne
TO become engaged 20 him, much 70 the
regret Of Bruce Mckenzie Edward
Shippen). who has long been her ardent
idmircr Bruce is led to suspect the
Count and his friend, Inspector Ky
and of dupIc.ty, and subsequently.
after many complications and WiId
automobile chase over Long Island
roads to a place where the clew to
-nc robbery is hidden, he discovers the
plot and RECEIVERS the ruby, ana every
dining ends happily.
large New York house, where ball Is
Given on the return of the travellers
TO New York. and here many OF the
Young people Of society JOIN the actors
and are seen dancing. The pictures
+ were taken in the houses Of Mrs. James
f Pvrnc. 1925 Park Avenue, leased from
the Reginald dc kOyens, and oil MIS-
James Brown. 4S9 Park Avenue. Some
of the outdoor scenes were taken ON
Tho estate of Mrs. John j. Pratt, at
F Glen Cove. Long Island.
The cast of characters IN order ol
their flst appearance Is:
.... u...I. ...... Mss Louise iioaaicj
lI's' ''r.''ia 'a- a. '...i'..r
,ii., I.e.r, A.e,a.i,r
Ge. .. friss. ........ Ni-. lw,e 'a.' 3
Mis-. 49,. S.'.,''r Brown
. sr ...-...... Miss France Heay
liasl.s. .......-r -rl..l s,'i,c..
',',g fr.rd ....... Jane. e. C.srk
/ IaNa Ntas. a Hindu. sn0tn D.. ,hg count DO
dI hs'a'. -. ,...... ,.,t'-' D.,a,1 N.,e.
o't, C'r..,a Ii' .str Nl.s C,HeAa LAnion
-'' '-.''' '.'' MI,, rhc,Iora Larocqur
pa,.a Ia..al. fellow co-s5rs,sr.
l.-har Wh.ia.l
i,, .,. i'n p 5 Haniso.
/ f-.I C4fi. l'- fr,l ,Aaf li Me-, o..
&c. -. ia ..o ,,.s y" lf... fih N,rin,r
l.- tfr.. 0.r4diaes auaf Miss Grace h ie.ry
/ -.ne 20 i.. .1'... ........... GUMS ,i ke.S
g. Mis- ha'iuiue v Tweed
u. Nno. ............. s.HIi j. u ~ i,,.
,'.. Mis- Nan schlefc D
I } I.u. ................ Watson Enm,.
caii ia....... 'ffIsrr, orsis-a
/ uref,ge Iu1 .............. .. Anderson naaa
lle he' Af.'i'-'4 lay.
Part IT, ln which the oances ~eIe
I composed and arranged by MISS ihga
a street in the city of Beautiful Non
sense" Chalmers Wood, lr., represents
the old shopkeeper and the scene opens
with crowd strolhng up ana down down
/ the avenue IN front OF the shop. linen
follow the dances, the first one a
/ Zouavc dance, arranged by Miss Noemi
Townsend, in which the s9ioists are
Mrs. S. Hinman BIRD and LynioortG
Dickinson; Greek trieze dance "ltn