New-York tribune., 1916-02-29
Comedy Ballet Appears in
Fete Held for Stony
Void SanatOrium.
MRS. JOHN ASTOR
WILL SAIL TO-DAY
Luncheon for Miss Erdmann--
Skating Carnival at Bilt-
more Tonight.

audience in the ballroom of the Ritz
Carlton last night for the annual enter
tainment given by Auxiliary No. 10 OF
the Stony Void Sanatorium. The affair
was called the Ballet Charlotte Russo"
and WAS "A take-oif Of the Russian bal
let. Miss Edith Sloan, Miss Bar
bara Shedd. Miss Mary {. Sturges, Miss
Elizabeth Harrison, Miss Isabel leo-
mans. George y. Brett. jr., Frederick
lie Cair. ". Beverly Harrison and Wells
Riley appeared in special dances. Miss
Geraldine Grey did mazurka and MISS
Constance Binncy also appeared In a
dance done by Miss Margaret Clarkson
Henderson, Miss BcatriX Buel and
Henry Smith. Miss Margaret Severn,
who is fourteen years old and who took
part in the recent pageant given for
ST. Marks Hospital. gave some inter
pretative dancing. Among other attrac-
tions were bridge, for which room
was set aside, and "A shooting gallery.
The entertainment was followed by gem
eral dancing.
Miss Mary c. Sturges was chairman
Of the executive committee, and asso-
ciated with her were .lrs. George ).
Franklin. Mrs. John Thorne. Mrs. Har-
old Otis. Miss Helen K. Sloan, Miss
Alice Fox. Miss Kathryn y. Montgom-
ery. Miss Christina b. Fisher and Miss
Caroline Alden Weir.
On the noor committee were Lewis L.
Delafeld. jr.. Frederick Cunningham,
ir., Lawrence /. Grinnell, ". Montague
Geer. II. Pemberton Sturges. Charles
McAlpir Pyle. Oliver {. Wagstsf,
James Duane Livingston, jr., Kenneth
VI. Spence, Charles II. Marshall, Otis l..
Guernsey, William b. Boulton, George
Peabody Montgomery, W. Shippen
Davis, II. Duncan Bulkley, Philip l..
Dodge, William Travers Jerome, jr.,
Henry Holt, jr., and James Duane Liv-
ingston, jr.
Mrs. John f. Erdmann. of 60 West
Fifty-second Street, gave luncheon
Yesterday in the Pail Mall Room of the
Ritz-Carlton for her daughter, Miss
Olivia Erdmann. The guests about
fifty in number seated a. one
large and several small tables.
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and her son
Hermann Oelrichs will return 10 town
on Friday from Palm Beach.
Mrs. John Astor, who spent the larger
part of the winter at the Ritz-Carlton,
will sail for England to-day on the New
Amsterdam.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen have re-
turned 70 town from Palm Beach and
are al the Kitz-Carlton.
Dr.. and Mrs. John Hamilton Hodgson,
Of 90 Washington Square, will give q
Mystic Fete" on the night of Shrove
Tuesday for their daughter. Miss Ems
ley Hodgson; Miss Mary Chaplin, Miss
Isabel Yeomans. Miss Dorothea Camp,
Miss Dorothy Haight and Miss Faith
and Miss Ruth Hayden.
At the request Of nun5er of wom-
en- interested in the Venetian Fete,
which was TO have been given on March
for the benefit Of the Italian war re
lief. the affair has been postponed from
that date 10 Friday evening. March "a,
at the Century Theatre. The commit
tee in charge consists OF Mrs. ". Bourke
Cochran, Mrs. w. Adams Delano, Mrs.
William Astor Chanler, Mrs. Newbold
lie Roy Edgar. Mrs. Charles Greenough,
Mrs. Otto II. Kahn. Mrs. Amos K. Emo
Pinchot, Mrs. Ralph Sanger. Amos K.
Emo Pinchot, John Quinn, X Stroppe-
Quaglia and Henry J. Whigham.
Mrs. N. Orme Wilson will give a din
ner, followed by musical, this even
ing at her house. 3 East Sxty-fourth
Street. Sacha Notitchenko will play.
A skating carnival will be held to-
night at the Biltmore. the proceeds
from which will go to the orphans Of
France. 1t will he a combination en-
tertainment, consisting OF skating, dane
ing and cabaret. Irving Brokaw will give
an exhibition of fancy skating; Miss
Betty Ice will sing, Clemence Bacon will
dance, the Della Robbia orchestra will
play, +. 5. Cortsx Will be at the piano
and the dancers from the Hippodrome
will appear. The patronesses include
Mrs. Charles Is. Alexander, Mrs. John
Jacob Astor, Mrs. William Astor Chan
Ter, Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar. Mrs.
Robert l.. Gerry, Mrs. Richard Derby,
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson. Mrs. Will
lam Pierson Hamilton, Mrs. Douglas
Robinson, Mrs. Charles Steele and Mrs.
Ralph Sanger.
Mrs. L. n. AnNble will give a luncheon
at Sherry's to-day for Miss Katherine
c. Culver, laughter of Mrs. Charles
King.
Miss Barbara Thaw. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Alexander b. Thaw, will be
married to Lieutenant Scott b. Macfar-
lane, I. ). n, attached TO the Okla
homa, on April 2s, in the Church of the
Heavenly Rest.