The Washington herald., 1916-05-04
GARDEN FETE FOR
BRITISH PLANNED
Society Folk Will Stage Bril-
liant Benefit for Wounded
in English Hospitals.
WILL LAST FOUR DAYS
Dancing. Music, Refreshments and
Vaudeville Will Be Features of
Octagon House Entertainment.

The gardens of the historic octagon
House at New York avenue and
Eighteenth street will be the scene next
week OF one of the most beautiful func-
tions that has yet been arranged by
Washington society In aid of the suffer-
the form of a garden fete for the bene-
at of the British wounded.
The fete will last four days, from
Monday to Thursday, inclusive. It will
be open both afternoons and evenings.
During the afternoons the chief fea-
lures win be dancing, a bazaar held in
a series of elaborate booths representing
the British Colonial possessions, and tea,
which it Is expected will be especially
popular, as IL will AFFORD visitors to the
Horse Show, in progress only two blocks
on a welcome and shady haven. For the
afternoon fetes the gates of the garden
will be open at 4:So.
In the evenings an even more elaborate
and varied entertainment will be in
progress each day from $50 to midnight
The program for Monday night promises
to be particularly attractive. Its central
feature will be a series of tableaux SYM
bolizinE the nations of the allies and the
aspirations for which they are fighting
arranged by the celebrated sculptor Paul
Bartlett. The tableaux, though their CEN
tral idea Is much the same as that which
prompted the pageant of the allied ma
tions given at Newport last summer, at
the residence OF Herman Oelrichs. prom
Use to be even more elaborately and
be sculptural rather than pictorial and
as such will constitute departure in
the art of living pictures.
Society Girls to Take Part.
The parts in the tableaux will be. taken
aNFnlNy hWv fka FAo fr,rr
younger section of Washington society.
japan will be represented by Miss Mona
McAdoo, Portugal by Miss Juliette Cros-
by, Russia by Miss Margaret Perrin, Italy
by Miss Delano, France by Countess
GiEycka as Jeanne dare Brittania by
Miss Ethel Hartman, Serbia by a family
group, Belgium by Mrs. Nathan wyeth,
Montenegro by n man in the national
costume. There will also be a tableau
in which Mrs. Charles Mum will rep
resent war. and another tableau in which
all the allies will be seen grouped around
figures symbollzing the ideals for which
they are fighting.
Besides the tableaux there will be
singing, dancing. and refreshments,
which can be partaken OF at tables
in view OF the stage. These tables,
of which there are only a limited
number available, may be reserved
Howe. treasurer. III Fourteenth street
telephone Main 1890. Seating six per-
sons each. the price OF the tables
is 50.
On Tuesday the feature OF the even
ing fete (the afternoon fete will not
be varied from day to day. will be a
dancing competition, open to all, for
handsome prizes, and exhibitions of
dancing by professionals in the inter-
walls OF the ordinary dancing. There
will also be vaudeville. the program Of
which will be announced later
On Wednesday evening there will be
dancing, vaudeville. and q demonstra-
ton Of the significance OF military
preparedness, details OF which also
will be announced later
On Thursday the dancing competi-
tion and exhibition of Tuesday will
probably be repeated and there will
be more vaudeville.
Setting to BE Charming.
The price of entrance for all aft
ernoons, including dancing, will be %
cents. The entrance price for the
evenings will be 81. including vaude-
willie and dancing.
The charm of the fete will be en-
hanced by the charm of the setting
in which II will be held. 1t is diff
cult to imagine any place better suit
ed for such an entertainment than the
shady trees and picturesque surround
inss. In the center and under the
trees will be the specially prepared
and spacious dancing platform. Behind
the platform will be the booths, which