New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-27
Oldtime Spirit of Trouba-
dours Finds Home Among
SkyscraperS
FOREMOST ARTISTS
ARE FED TO FLAMES
Patriotic Note Sounded at
Close of Leagues
Fete deS FOuS

Time, popularity supposed TO be an
old gentleman with a scythe, shook OF
half a dozen centuries last night and
became a young knight with a sword,
back in the days Of jousts and high
romance, troubadours and songs, mot
ley and bells.
A real. oldtime tournament field
sprang up among the skyscrapers on
West Fifty-seventh Street, in the Gould
Riding Academy room OF the Fine Arts
Building. In it frisked the dignitaries
of the Architectural League Of New
York, in pointed shoes and costumes Of
red, gold and green, together with mill
ionaires, debutantes and musicians, all
in one great fete des fous.
Merrymakers Cheer Flag
But there was one solemn momen, az
its end. a pivot around which the en-
tire festival, arranged for the benefit OF
the American Red Cross, turned. The
last Joke had been made; the lights
faded slowly, until beggars and slave
drivers, knaves and cutthroats and
fools lost their grotesqueness. Then
upon the wall the American flag stood
out. The merrymakers cheered the flag
and forgot the tournament field in the
national anthem.
Raymond, by the grace Of God
Count Of Toulouse, in private life
Grosvenor Atterbury. president of the
Architectural League, had summoned
all his faithful subjects TO the festival.
which concluded the exhibition that has
been held in the Fine Arts Building.
In the official robes of the Arch
tectural League, red and green and
blue, the president and vice-p presidents
+ filed solemnly in. Under the royal box
on the west wall were twelve harpists,
| led by Carlos Salzedo. Beside the
Count of Toulouse there were in the
4 royal box Grant La Fargo, the Doge OF
+ Venice, Albert Herter and Miss Mar
/ jorie Curtis. as the King and Queen Of
Denmark. Then the tournament rode
. in-David Bispham upon a toy donkey,
almost as balky as if it had been alive.
Artists Fed to Flames
A huge beast with a yawning mouth
/ that revealed the flames Of a real pur-
gatory came in, and the count an
nounced that the time had come for the
punishment Of architects. painters and
sculptors who had damned the public
taste with false standards. Thomas
Hastings, architect: Edwin Blashfield,
painter, and Donald Chester French,
sculptor, were accordingly fed by
proxy to the flames.
Miss Anna Hyatt, the sculptress,
rode into the room upon a great white
horse IN the costume Of the Jeanne
dare statue that is her own most cele-
brated work. Miss Maivina Hoffman
was a squire.
The Count Of Toulouse kept to the
/ text of the ancient tournaments By
awarding gold medals to John Russell
/ Pope. winner of the leagues prize In
architecture: Herman A. McNiel, in
sculpture, and Maxfeld Parrish, in
/ painting.
Following the masque, supper was
served in the Vanderbilt Gallery.
Among the boxholders we're Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney. Miss Eleanor Hewitt
Ben Ali Haggin, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn,
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt, Miss A. B. Jen-
nings. Mrs. Felix Warburg Mrs. II. P
Whitney. Mrs Stephen Clark. Mrs. o.
G.. Jennings, c. 0. Goodrich, Mrs. Ger
rish H. Milliken and Mrs. Irving T
Bush.
The masque was given under the d.
rection Of Robert Aiken. Grosvenor
Atterbury, owen Brainard, Howard
/ Greenley. Albert Herter. J. Monroe
Hewlett. II. V. B. MRgonigle. Horace
Moran, Ernest Peixotto and A. b. Trow-
/ bridge