New-York tribune., 1916-02-06


Ball Of thc Gods. to take place next Friday
nicht Il the Hotel Astor under the auspices
Of The Society Of Beaux-Arts Architects. The
proccc3s from the affair viii 20 toward aiding
the Young craftsmen. painters and soulptors
joe tnc socicty's free studio, at I26 East Sew
ertv-rl.h Street The demand for tickets has
Been Unprecedented and the number Of those
secknc boxes was so large that the commit
tee was obliged to select the holders by lot
All those attending Will be required to ap-
near i7 appropriate mythologica costume, and
The ball viii be opened az 10 o'clock with
pageant of the gods in which 500 men and
women will take part. There will be an in
cantato1. written by Charles Ram Kennedy
and recited by Edith Wynne Matthison, sum
mou.ng the gods Of Egypt, Hindustan and
Greece First will come Horus, who will
greet the Nile goddess. Isis. as she approaches
a her luna bark. mourning the death OF
Osiris and accompanied by Anubis, the
Egyptian god of death. An Egyptian ballet
viii show Hathor defeating Sek-het. Osiris
according to the legend, will be recalled to
life and will receive the Egyptian gods COM
ing TO DO him honor with their attendant
trains of priests and priestesses. As the
Egyptian gods disappear the great triad OF
Brah-a will appear and before them will be
PLAYED an episode from the Ramayana. Then
the spirits of the night will watt the Hindu
gods from the stage, and, heralded by Aurora,
the nine muses. viii appear escorting Apollo.
TIL, twelve Oiympan gods will follow, each
escorted by his attributes and votares, the
peacock maidens Of Hera the huntresses OF
Auemis the sea nymphs of Poseidon and all
the long list of pagan mythology.
Among those who viii appear in the pageant
are Mrs Alexander d. 3. Pratt as Isis, Mrs.
Philip Livermore as Nephthys; Mrs John
Jacob Astor will be Hera; Mrs. A. Stuart
Walker, Demeter; Mrs Leonard NJ. Thomas.
Arters; Mrs Lydig Hoyt, Persephone; Miss
Marjorie Curtis, Aurora Mrs. Frederick Y.
Dalz.e Iris. and Mrs. austen Gray, Miss
Muriel Winthrop Miss Marion Tiffany, Mrs.
Oliver Iselin. Miss Mildred Rives and Mrs.
Fuller Potter viii be among those represent
ing ue Hours Of the Night.
The role Of Apollo has been assigned TO
Malcolm Whitman, and that Of Aurora to Mrs.
!. Z. Schoonmaker. Mrs John Sanford, Mrs.
Harold Barclay. Mrs. Lewis S. Chanler, Mrs.
John Corbin and Mrs. Newbold Morris will
appear among the muses.. Joseph Rowland
Hunt will be Zeas. and he will have as fan
bearers Mrs. Arthur Cumnock Mrs. James
Lee. Mrs Gardner r. Miller and Mrs. Hunt.
Among the attendants Of Mrs. John Jacob
Astor (Hera) viii be the Misses Margaret
and Louise Trevor Miss Eleanor Mellon and
Miss Maude c. Shepherd.
Mrs Sydney S. Breese will appear as Pal
las and there will be d company Of warriors,
among them Charles ]. Lawrence, Edwin
Morgan. ir. Sydney S. Breese, Lewis Stuyve-
sart Chanler jr, and Monroe Robinson.
The lhree Lethe maidens will be Mrs. Rob
ert J. Bacon Mrs. Charles M. Oelrichs and
Miss Edith Morgan, while the Poppy maidens
will be Miss Dorothy Kissel, Miss Helen
Rives and Mrs. Herbert Pell, jr
In the Hindu division Mime. Albertina Rasch
will appear as Ratt Goddess of Night, and
assisting her as Night maidens will be Miss
Mildred Cram, Mrs. B. F. McGucxin, Miss
Elizabeth Gardiner, Miss Hilda Boyer, Miss
Lorraine Manville, Miss Spalding and Miss
Polly Platt. Among others in this part of the
pageant will be Mrs. Hinman Bird (Ousha),
Miss Mildred Harbeck, Miss Helen Harbeck,
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Mrs Orson Num- Mrs. Jasper Bayne Mrs
2. II. Daniorth Walter Damrosch (trum-
peter). Mrs. John H. Auerbach, Miss Miriam
Hartman, Miss Margaret La Fargo, Miss
Carol Hartman, Mrs. Landon Thone, Irving
Brokaw David Wagstah, Skefhngton Norton,
d. Everett Waid, George c. Hollister, Ira
Remsen, Harold w Gould, Albert Sterner,
Gerome Brush, Christian Herter, Elery James,
Elihu Root lr. Watson Washburn, Murray
Hoffman, the Misses Anna and Civlse Alex
andre, Miss Edith McKeever, Miss McAlpin
Miss Symphorosa Bristed, Mrs Elhu Root
lr, Robert Aiken, the Baroness Won Rotten
thai Mrs. Belmont Tiffany, Mrs. Kenneth NJ
Murchison and Mrs. lie Roy Whitney.
The Schola Cantorum, under the leadership
OF Mrs Alonzo Potter, will provide music for
the Egyptian part Of the spectacle, and among
those having prominent parts in the cast are
Mrs. Samuel NJ Hnchey, Mrs. Josef Stran-
sky. Mrs Owen Johnson, Stuart Weller. Mar
shall Kenochan, Carol Ladd, Edith Wynne
Matthison Oliver Hartman. c. Grant La
Fargo Lansing Satteree, John D. Boyd.
Harry Burt, Jasper Bayne, Dunbar Adams,
Dom Barber Mrs Fannie Taller Smith
(Hathor). Miss Anne Franohot, Frederick A.
Cooley, J. C. Mckenzie Montague Flagg. I'd.
Arthur Ware. William Knapp, Frederick Still
man, Scott Pyle, Bradley Delehanty, Miss
Ruth Stiliman, Miss Constance Wilkinson,
Mrs Fred Brakeman, Miss Antonette McPike.
Mrs William o. Potter, Mrs Herbert Ship
man. Mrs. Dom Barber. Miss Gladys Water