New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-09
Black and White Costumes to Pre-
vail at This \ ears Function
"Sn Owflake G@VOtte'
OpeNim2 Dance.
ARGER and more elaborate are the en-

Z ARGER and more elaborate are the en-
tcrtainmcn,s that are being given by
- society. and the guests at the dances
arc not confined TO the younger set, bu' in
ciude ;hc older girls and the younger ard older
married sets Several brilliant affairs were
gver last week. among tho most notable be
ing Mrs Otto Ii. Kshr's dance az Shcrry's on
Friday night, Mrs. Warren NJ Leedss theatre
party and dance on the same evening. MIS-
Harold Browns dance ior Miss Audrcy No7-
man OF Thursday. the dances arranged by Mrs
Thomas =. Howard, MIS-. F. McNcd Bacon
and Mrs. James W. MarEoe on Wednesday
Tor their daughters; Mrs. Justus Rupertis sSat-
:lg party on Tuesday 1T the BiltnoTe, Mrs
William Porter's dance or Monday for Mss
Helen Porter and Mrs. Ernest Fahncscocxs
dinner dance that same night for her dsugh-
ter. Miss Marion Perry
The feature Of this weeks social calendar
IS ;ho costume ball which IS given every year
At Shsrrys by the Ladies Auxiliary OF tic
Lying In Hospital. l. takes place on Tuesday
and The costumes will &c confined 10 blac, and
white Ii viii DC opened by Snowflake
gavotte" arranged by Louis Chalii, and in II
viii appear Miss Alexandra Emery, Mis- Helen
Flake. Miss Elaine Deneere Miss Theodore
Larocouc. Miss Gladys Fries and Miss Mar
ga1et Ia Fargo The dance will DC under the
direction Of Miss Helen Morgan Hamilton.
Mrs. Austen Gray IS chairman Of the re-
ception committee. and associated With her
are Mrs Ernest Iselin. Mrs. w. Dc LsnCey
Kountze, Mrs Townsend Lawrence, Mrs
Coodhuc Livingston Mrs. W. Goadby Loew,
Mrs Robert D. Pruyn Mrs. John Jacob Astor
and Ms c. E. Shoemaker
TIE tickets at s. each, including supper,
may be had from Mrs.. Austen Gray. As Fiji
tietl' Street or Mrs. w. Picrson Hamilton.
81 East Thirty-sXth Street.
The patronesses include Mrs Henry a.
Alexander Mrs. Henry ". Alexander Mrs.
John = Alexandra Mrs. Vincent Astor. Mrs.
J. + Atterbury, Mrs. Joseph 5. Auerbach Mrs.
Robert Bacon. Mrs Charles 7. Barney, Mrs.
l. Stewart Barney, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate,
Mrs George C. Clark, j.. Mrs. Henry Clews,
Mrs w. Bourke Cochran. Mrs Lewis CaGs
Ledyard, Mrs. Goodhue Livingston, Mrs. John
r Lvernore, Mrs James Markce Mrs. John
l. Mason. Mrs. T. D. Morgan, Mrs. J. Picrpont
Morgau Mrs. J. P. Morgan, jr., Mrs. Fred
erick Pearson. Mrs. Francis K. Pendleton, Mrs.
H. c. Phipps, Mrs. E. NJ Potter, n, Mrs. Alex-
ander D. B. Pratt, Mrs Henry S. Redmond,
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt jr., Mrs. Herbert /.
Sstterlee, Mrs. J. Hopkins Smith Mrs. Victor
Sorchan, Mrs. 2. Skiddy Won Stade Mrs. Louis
Lee Stanton. Mrs. Charles Steele, Mrs. Joseph
z. Stevens, Mrs. T.. Suilern Taller. Mrs. Whit
ney Warren Mrs. Rudolph Weld, Mrs. For
syth Wickes, Mrs Lucius X. Wilmerding and
Mrs. II Rogers Winthrop.
Preparations for the bal OF the gods
which IS 70 be held at the Hotel Astor on the
evening O. February y under the auspices Of
the Society OF Beaux Arts Architects arc pro
crossing Invitations have been issued, and
il is expected that this bail will be even more
beautiful than the wonderful Venetian iete
held two years ago large number o. promi-
nent architects, painters and scuiptors are in
charge OF the arrangements Of the pageant,
ard Z hundred prominent women in the social
and artistic world viii act as patronesscs.
The pageant which viii prscede the ball,
will enlist the services OF over 500 people.
The scene will represent ar abandoned temple
on the Island Of Cyprus, TO which the Sibyl
will summon by an incarnation in their turn,
the gods of Egypt, Hndustan and finally, OF
Greece First Horus will greet Isis, arriving
in her luna bark mourning the death OF Osiris,
I'D bv AnIbc fhs ood of death