New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-26
VANDERBILT FETE
AIDS VENICE POOR
Tableau Brings More than
$1,000 to War Sufferers
Benefit for Blind.

More thsn $1,000 will he turned over
10 the war sufferers OF Venice as re
suit % the tableaus given last night a.
the house OF Mrs. ". X. Vanderbilt,
ESQ Fifth Avenue. Tickets were SIS
each. and more than 200 were sold, and
as all the expenses OF the production
we're generously given the entire pro
cecds will be sent intact 10 Venice. A
series OF twelve tsblesus representing
the more elaborate paintings OF the
Venetian school, were posed by Baron
de Meyer
Among those who appeared IN them
were Mrs. Sydney : Breese, Mrs h0"
ard G.. Cushing, Mrs. Arthur Scott Bur-
den. Mrs. Leonard VI. Thomas, Mrs. Al
exander d. b. Pratt. Mrs ". h. Van
deroile, jr.. Miss Barbara Rutheriurd'
Mrs. Henry Worthington Bull, MISS
Maud Kahn. Miss Edith Deacon, mrs
Archibald 6. Alexander, Mrs. Court
lsndt Dixon Barnes. Mrs. Charles de l..
Oelrichs. Mrs. W Bourke Cochran, w
Forbes Morgan, Miss Mary hoyt VI
borg. Miss Mercedes de Aeosta. MISS
Mary Kernochan. James barney, r. bur
rail Hoffman. jr.. Miss Gabrielle Nar,
rem. Francis Roche. and IN the hhai
tabeau Niiinski appeared.
The staging and lighting ~as done
BY the Metropolitan opera house
There was vocal and instrumental
music between the tsbleaus.
The committee IN charge lnciuoei
ivdjg. Mrs. Walter Maynard. Miss Jane
b. Wallach. Rawlins l.; Cottenet' rshH
Crowninshield. Serge de Disgnileh ana
Baron de Meyer.
Among those who had tickets were
Mr. and Mrs Robert Bacon. Mr.. and
Mrs Hamilton W. Cary. Mr.. and Mrs.
: y. Breitung. Mr. and Mrs: Nincent
Asfor. Sir. and Mr. Otto II. hahn, MI.
and Mrs. Clifford A Cochran, Mr. and
Airs Herbert l. Satterlee, Mrs. WHIT
new Warren. Dr.. and Mrs. Harold Bar
clev Mr.. and Mrs. Charles h. hlenan-
dor Mrs ogden Goelet, Mrs. John san
ford r. Thornton Wilson, ". O'D. lse
lin. +. II. Ives, T.. Il. Close, Mrs. FRED
erick Pearson. Miss A. Is. Jennings
Harry G. Gray. Mrs. W. +. BENJAMIN
Ms Amory Carhsrt, Mrs +. Gray Grls-
roid stanley Mortimer. Mr.. and Mrs.
ucnrv Clews Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
psvre Whitney. Mrs John Magee, Nj.
md Mrs. Ebert II. Gary, Nh. and MS.
N Orme Wilson. Mrs. Cornelius y.
Miss. Clarence II. Mackay, Lloyd war
zen Mrs Jules II. Bache and Miss Ruth
Y. Twombly.
The ninth annual benefit for The New
York Association for the Blind was
beld Last night in the ballroom OF the
Hotel Aston, under The patronage OF
President and Mrs. WILSON. uoVefnoi
and Mrs. Whitman. Mayor ana MITE
Mitchell and prominent members OF So
ciety. r...r nd
~ he programme % special dances
nreceSing the general dancing severa
rrmbers illustrative Of the character
tic Of the Goddess Of Fortune were
shown Miss Lydia Lopokova ara M.
Aioyandre Gavriloy. OF the Serge de
DiachileF ballet danced, and MISS ina
kiSsel gave gypsy solo dance.
,,roun OF women gave special dance
LIED "The Wheel OF Chance. Win
music bv James VI. Peck, r.. and ar
ranced Tor the fete BY Mrs Bertha
Ware tady. :ta.s
Mrs LYLE Evans Mahan: Mrs; I, W
Vaughan. the Baroness Vera DC hopp'
Ms Dorothy James. Miss Frances
Montague Ward, Miss Abby T. Nor
,,sor. Miss Eva lngersoll Brown, MSS
Helen Mercer French, Miss Madeleine
Dahigren, Miss Elise Rice, Mss ezra
Van lennep. Miss Geneyieye Clenden-
min. Miss Adelaide Z. Sedg~ick, MIS-
Louise Glider. Miss Katherine CODY
and Miss Katherine satterlee. .
Among those on the floor committee
we're J. Henry Alexandra, jr., Elliot {.
Bscor. william Bayli-, j. Henry {.
cushing. Sd. Fsliv. Doubleday. Stay-
vesant Fish, jr.. Alexander " Hsdden'
Frederick ". Kobbe. Harold 5. Os-
home. Chalmer. Wood. jr.. George
Henry Warren. ir. Lawrence Grant
White. George Gray Zabriskie. Wal
bridge s. Taft. Philip Schermerhorn'
Theron r. Strong. Brsdish Carroll, jr:'
Aucus,e Richard. George y. Richard.
George r. Vagstar and Oliver c. Wsg
star.