New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-02
RELIEF ACTORS
TAP GOLD VEIN
$4,000 Flows Into Golfers
Ct British War Fund at
Century Matinee.

Society descended on the Century
Theatre yesterday, dropping gold
pieces "a II came. When the rustic Of
silk died down the exchequer OF the
British-American War Relief Fund. Of
which Lady Herbert IS chairman, was
ound to have been enriched by more
than $4,000
The theatre was crowded. more
sympathetic audience never witnessed
81 New York attraction. The actors and
actresses who took part m the beneht
contributed their services. The COM
bination Of an appreciative audience
and the charitable motive that inspired
the actors made some Of them quite
Guido themselves. Among those taking
part were Paul Draper. Claude Beer
bohm. Eva lie Gallienne, Miss Gertrude
Anterior, Miss Kitty Gordon. Pedro de
Cordoba. Eleanor Painter, Blanche
Bates and others.
Prominent society people sold pro
grammes with marked success. The
original cover des ign. drawn by Charles
Dana Gibson. was auctiOned after the
matinee. The large poster painted by
James Montgomery Flagg will be auc-
toned of after the next matinee. Feb
ruary <.
Society Sells Programmes.
Among those selling programmes
were Mrs. John Jacob Aston. Mrs. ".
Bourke Cochran. Mrs Shane Leslie.
Mrs Walter +. Maynard. Miss Joan
Whitridge, Mrs Howard G.. Cushing,
Miss Irene Langhornc Gibson, Miss
Nancy Perkins, Mrs. Henry Rogers
Winthrop. Miss Maud Kahn, Mrs. Ralph
Sanger, Miss Josephine Osborn. Miss
Helen Il. Alexander, Miss Gladys
Waterbury. Miss Violet Gordon King,
Miss Helen Rives, Miss Dorothy Cor
don King, Miss Louise lselin. Mrs.
Newbold Leroy Edgar and Mrs. Charles
Dana Gibson.
Among the patronesses were Mrs.
Charles b. Alexander. Mrs. John Aston
Mrs. Vincent Aston, Mrs. August Bel
mont. Mrs. A. ;. Burden. Mrs. Alfred
NJ Goats, Mrs. Bayard Cutting, Mrs.
Stuart Duncan, Mrs. f. Gray Griswold.
Mrs. Oliver G.. Jennings. Mrs. c. Oliver
lselin. Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. J. Eliot.
Langstaf. Mrs. John Magee, Mrs. Og-
lien Mills. Mrs. j. p. Morgan, jr.. Mrs.
+. X. Pendleton. Mrs Moses Taylor
Pyne. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Mrs. Robert Straw
". x. Vanderbilt. Mrs +. ". Whit
ridge and Miss Mary Hoyt Wiborg.
The Vacation War Relief Committee
Of which Miss Anne Morgan is chair
man. has taken Offices at 1874 West
Eorty-second Street. The executive OF
fees were installed yesterday. and
within the next few days a dozen other
organization departments will be IN
working order The first and third
floors will be occupied by the surgical
dressing department and women EN-.
ployed at making clothing.
Noyes tn Read at Aeolian.
On the second floor will be the offices
OF the executive secretary and OF rep
resentatives Of the American Girls Aid,
American Hospital for Refugees and
Children. Flanders Rescue Committee,
British-American War Relief Fund,
Childrens Fund for Riddles Kits. Com
tie FrancO-American pour la Protection
des Enfants de la Frontiere, American
Fund for French Wounded, Lafayette
Fund. National Sun gical Dressing Com
mittee. Polish Victims Relief Com
mittee. SecOurs National, Serbian Re
lief Committee and the American Dis
tributing Service.
Chief among the announcements
made yesterday OF future war bene-
fits was that on February IL Alfred
Moves will give a reading of his poems
al Aeo,ian Hall for the American
branch Of the Prince Of Wales Fund.
Not only has Mr. Noyes donated MS
services. but subscriptions sufficient to
pay all expenses have been received:
Contributions received yesterday for
comfort kits for the French soldiers.
announced by the Lafayette Fund.
amounted 20 s2O7. making a total OF
Si1O.OSg. The cost of each kit IS s..
Contributions 10 the Secours Ma
tional Fund. among which were four
of $500 each. from Frank +. Peabody,
r Jefferson Coolidge. Mr.. and Mrs.
Russell Gray and Anon. amounted 70
$3.50. making a total OF Si25.Ol5. The
Secours National. of which Mrs. Whit
my Warren is treasurer. aids the des-
titute women and children Of France:
The Special Million Dollar Fund Of
the American Jewish Relief Committee
continues TO increase. and last night
nas.ed the two million mark. Including
riedpcs S2O2s .05O.36 was the total. The
nm of $4,000 was received yesterday
from the Philsdelphia committee.