New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-12
Annual Costume BENEFIT
Affair Given for Lying
In Hospital.
MANY DINNERS
PRECEDE DANCE
Snowflake Oavottc, in Two
Parts, Performed by Girls
Feature of Entertainment.

One Of tho most notable OF the many
entertainments given for charity each
winter is the annual costume ball by
the Ladies' Auxiliary OF the lying-ln
Uospital. II was held last night NJ
Sherry's and was as brilliant in every
respect as any OF it's predecessors, both
the largo and small bathrooms being
used. Supper was served in the main
dining room.
It WAS called a BLACK and White
Ball." the costumes worn by the guests
being confined 20 these two shades. ne
boxes, which were arranged along me
sides OF the ballroom were draped m
black and white: the curtains at the
sides were Of the same colors, and the
STAGE erected at the end OF the room
was hidden by a black and white cur
! tain and white canopy. The only other
decorations were ropes OF green
/ stretched across the ceiling.
The majority Of the guests arrived
from dinners given IN private homes
al Sherry's. AZ the Vanderbilt. where a
black and white dinner was given, ana
AT other hotels.
MIS-. " lfIlAft I A'l nNAl fAft''t'fN'tt
dinner ut her house, 80 East Thirty
sixth Street. I'm her party were MISS
Alexandra Emery. Miss Helen Flake'
Miss Gladys Fries. Miss Margaret La
FARCE Miss Theodore Larocque, MISS
Helen VI. Hamilton. Reginald ). Wills,
Grosvcnor Atterbury, Dudley Carleton
Don VI. Kelly, James c. Clark. De Cour-
GOV Fales and Laurens NJ. Hamilton.
Mrs. Cornelius c. Cuyler gave a am
nor for twenty at her house, % East
/ Fiftv-fourth street, and Mrs. James W.
Varkoo one at her home, - West fitty-
: fifth Street.
Among those who gave dinners. IN
.be Della Robbia Room Of the Hotel van
derbilt. the proceeds from which were
divided between the Lafayette Fund
and the Ladies' AuXiliary Of the nos
nital we're Mrs. VI. Taylor Pyne, Mr.
and Mrs. Vincent Aston, Mr.. and Mrs
Henry Fairfield Osborn. jr., MIS- iIliaHl
K. Vanderbilt. jr., Mrs. John JACOB Astor'
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick 7. FreHnghuy
sen. Mr.. and Mrs John Aspegren' MI:
and Mrs. Harris Fahnestock, Mr. ana
Mrs. Cornelius y. Bliss, Jr., Mr ana
Mrs. Forsyth Wickes.
Also Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn r.
and Mrs George Rose, Mrs. George Jay
Gould. Mrs. Ot'o II. Kahn. Mr.. ana " rs
q Morris Ueckscher. Mrs. Arthur lse-
lin Mrs Charles Greenough, Mr. and
Mrs. John Sanford, Mrs. Whitney War
ron Mrs James Lowell Putnam, Mrs.
Edward y. Breitung, Mrs. Newbold lie
Row Edgar, Mrs Howard Cushing Mrs.
oliver Gould Jennings. Mrs. oharIes
Greenough. Mr.. and Mrs. George r.
Turnure' Mrs. William Aston Chanler'
Mrs Franklin u. Pelton. Mrs. Jewett
Vinturn. Mira. VI. Orme Wilson, Mrs.
Vorrie Scllar. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph /.
Kpann. Mr.. and Mrs Willard Brown
Mrs Bradi.h Johnson. Mrs. FREDERICK
Y DalzieI. Mr.. and Mrs. ". Scott Cam
erou. Mrs. Seymour /. Cromwell ana
Mrs. Frederic Bull
Also Mrs Henry Picrrepont Ferry
Mr.. and Mrs. stephen II. =. Pell, MISS
Anna Sands. Miss Olivia Cutting, MISS
.Tuliana Cutting. Miss Audrey hoffman,
Miss Mary Cass Garfield. MISS Murlel
Winthrop. Miss Kathryn kimball, r.. -
Y Hoppin. Henry ". Bull. NuliaIiii
Bruce Brown. Robert Bacon, NenoeIi
Baker. Newton Rae, Moncure koDlhsoI
Fvander y. Schley. J.. r.. iolofGoH
Brooks. Francis and Maurice NocHe'
Jane. 4. Blair, jr, FoXhali J.. hcen''
Marshall K. Kcrnochan, W. neyWaru
Drayton. Frederic Deiauo NeeN95'
Henry Spies Kip, James /. Breese, H.
f Woodward Babcock, Charles T.. SanP-
son. ". kirkpatrick Brlce ana Il. nor
+ lister Pease.
,uosts woro received By Mrs. william
/ Picrsou Hamilton. Mrs Goodhue Nv
inpston. Mrs. Y. GoaCby Loew. Mrs.
Jobu Jacob Aston. Mrs. G.. +. Schoon-
maker. Mr.. Ernest iseiiu. Mrs. W. De
Ian..cv Kouutzc. Mrs Austen Gray,
Nrs Townsend Lawrence and Mrs.
Robert d. Pruyn.
The ball was opened with snow.
fake cavottc. under the direction o,
Miss Helen II. Hamilton and arranged
hv Louis Chalf II was IN two parts,
the first being "snowstorm" and the
second a snowflake" dance. The young
women VINO danced were IN white cot
.ton-like costumes and carried lahs'
They were Miss Alexandra Emery
Miss Helen Flake. Miss Elaine Dene-
gre. Miss Theodore Larocque. Miss
GLADYS Fries and Miss Margaret La
Farce.
Immediately at the conclusion OF
this feature of the entertainment the
orchcstras I'm both bathrooms started
plavino and the dancing commenced
. ana ltSlcO TOT NtN ~ t'NiHs RNFfN %
was served IN the main restaurant
Among those who had boxes were
Mrs. Henry 4. Alexander, Mrs. Henry
VI. Alexander, Mrs. John +. Alexandra,
Mrs. Vincent Aston. Mrs. John Turner
Atterbury. Mrs. Joseph 5. Auerbach'
Mrs. Robert Bacon. Mrs. Charles I.
Barney, Mrs. J. Stewart Barney, Mrs.
Joseph H. Choate. Mrs. George {.
Clark, jr., Mrs. Henry Clews, Mrs. W.
B0urke Cochran. Mrs. Lewis Cass Led
yard. Mrs. GoJdhue Livingston, Mrs.
John K. Livermorc. Mrs. James Mar
koc. Mrs. John j. Mason. Mrs. h. y.
Morgan, Mrs. j. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs.
j. Pierpont Morgan, jr., Mrs. Frederick
Pearson, Mrs Francis h. Pendleton,
Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps. Mrs. +.
y. Potter, jr.. Mrs. Alexander u. Is.
Pratt Mrs. Henry 6. Redmond. Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt ir.. Mrs. Herbert
/. Satterlee, Mrs. j. Hopkins Smith,
Mrs. Victor Sorchan. Mrs +. Skiddy
Won Stade. Mrs. Louis Lee Stanton,
Mrs. Charles steele, Mrs. Joseph T..
Stevens. Mrs. r. Sufern Taller, Mrs.
/ Whitney Warren, Mrs. Rudolph Weld
Mrs. Forsyth Wckes. Mrs Lucius K.