New-York tribune., 1916-02-27
MISS
FLORENCE
GILBERT
Photo @Iy M,'ee Dupont

Irving Brokaw will give an exhibition of
fancy skating Miss Betty Lee will sing,
Clemence Bacon the solo dancer, is on the
programme for several numbers +. b. Cortez.
the pianist, and the Della Robbia Orchestra
will play. In addition to this the dancers
from the Hippodrome will appear.
The benefit is under the patronage OF Mrs.
Charles B. Alexander. Mrs. John Jacob Astor.
Miss Cecilia Bcaux. Mrs. Gordon Knox Ball,
Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden, Mrs. William AS
tor Chanler Mrs. w. Bourke Cochran, Mrs.
Howard G. Cushing Mrs Richard Derby,
Mrs. John Z. Drexcl, Mrs. Newbold lie Roy
Edgar. Mrs. Robert L. Gerry. Mrs. Charles
Dana Gibson. Comtesse de la Greze, Mrs.
William Pierson Hamilton, Mrs. John Hays
Hammond. Mrs. E. Henry Hartman, Mrs.
Frederick c. Havemeyer, Baroness Huard,
Mrs Archer M. Huntington, Miss Edith Van
Cortlandt Jay, Mrs. Charles Lawrence, Mrs
John Magee. Mrs. John G. Milburn, IT,, Mrs.
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mrs. William Bar
clay Parsons, Mrs Douglas Robinson. Mrs.
David Rumsey, Miss Barbara Rutherfurd,
Miss z. Louise Sands, Mrs Ralph Sanger,
Mrs. Charles Steele, Mrs Joseph B. Thomas,
Princess Pierre Troubetzkoy and Mrs. Henry
J. Whigham.
Miss Juliana Cutting will entertain at dinner
in the Vanderbilt Tuesday evening, and later
will take her guests to the skating carnival
in the Biltmore.
For the benefit of the Union Settlement
dance will be given at the Plaza on Tuesday
evening. Tickets, at So each, may be obtained
from Mrs William S. Edgar, l27 East Seven
tieth Street; Mrs. Charles B. Foote, s3S Park
Avenue; Mrs Raymond Hoagland Sl7 Fifth
Avenue; Mrs. Thomas (. Satterthwaite,
East Eightieth Street; Mrs. James r. Shef-
field. as East Sixty-seventh Street; Mrs. Rob
ert E. Tod, e9S Fifth Avenue, or Miss Ellen
S. Marvin, 324 West lo3d Street
A bridge will be given at the Hotel Plaza,
on March 1st, from o'clock TO 430, to
complete the fund for the memorial statue
of Pocahontas Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will
open the play at o'clock
The statue which the association hopes to
have placed in the spring is complete and in
the studio of William Ordway Partridge, at
Is West 3Sth Street. It will be on view at the
Plaza on the day of the bridge. 1t cost $l0,
0O0-s8000 OF which has already been raised,
and it is hoped to raise the remaining $1,000
at this affair.
The tickets are one dollar and may be pro
cured from Mrs George w. Smith, at West
Fiftieth Street. Mrs. John Francis Yawger, S08
West End Avenue, is chairman of the ways
and means committee.
There was a large attendance on Wednes
day at the FIRST Of the series of card parties
being gwen at the Hotel Astor for the bene-
fit of the East Side Clinic for Women and
Children. Mrs. Noble Mcconnell, president
Bluebird boudor lamps were given as prizes,
and among the winners were Mrs. j. A. At
well, Mrs. James G. Blaine, Mrs. Henry w.
Chstfield, Mrs c. NJ CLANCY. Mrs. G. Eers,
Mrs. Frederick E. Fried, Mrs. K. J. Flohr,
Mrs. E. B. Fritz, Mrs. Joseph Laub Mrs.
Horace w. du Moulin, Mrs. w. r. Menelly.
Mrs. T. Edward Murtaugh, Mrs. j. r. Shan
non. Mrs. 4. F. Seaman, Mrs Frederic c.
Stevens Mrs Matthias Trimmer. Mrs. A. w.
Williams Mrs. J. Wilson and Mrs. J. J. Walsh
New Orleans Mardi Gras Fete will be
held at the Ritz, Shrove Tuesday, for the
benefit Of the uneducated of the Tennessee
mountains The carnival is TO have King
and Queen, many attendants and courtiers,
from the debutantes Of this season. and a
stage performance and ballroom n,inuet. The
entire programme is in charge of Thomas
Allen Rector.
Mr.. Rector will give costume dances of his
own, assisted by the Baroness Won Rothen-