New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

cowgirl. The huge choruB, IL numbers
seventy, will appear as soldiers, cow
boys and cowgirls.
The scene will close with repre-
sentation Of the famous painting. 1.-THE
Spirit Of 49," with three we'll known
Crescent men in the three roles. Alvah
+. Nickerson will be seen as the grand
father, carrying the flag. Arthur +.
Aldridge as the father, playing the ffe,
and George Hewlett az the son, beating
the drum.
Nine. Maria Barrientos, Miss Anna
Case, OF the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, and the three brothers, Leo, Jan
and Mischief Cherniavsky, will be the
artists tomorrow ut the Waldorf-As-
toria Of the last for this season OF
Albert Morris Bagby's musical morn
ings.
Mrs. Noble Mcconnell gave lunch
con Yesterday ct the Hotel Biltmore
for Miss Lulu Bried, and afterward
took her guests to see Frances Starr.
The annual charity ball for the bene.
IT Of the Nursery and Child's Hospital
will be held on Thursday evening in
the ballroom Of the Waldorf-Astoria.
Governor and Mrs. Whitman Mayor
and Mrs. Mitchell and other municipal
officials, as we'll as representatives
from the army and navy, IN uniform,
will be present, many Of the guests go
ing TO the dance from large dinners.
Governor and Mrs. Whitman will be
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Duncan
al dinner.
II T. Al LII Il
may be obtained from Mrs. Robert
NicOl, i49 Park Avenue; Mrs. Mayo
Smith, 305 West Seventy seventh
Street; Daniel C. Adams, II Broadway,
or Guaranty Trust Company, Forty
third Street and Fifth Avenue.
The American Ambulance Hospitals
Junior committee, a group of young
women, among whose members are Mrs.
Winthrop Aldrich, Miss Angelica
Brown, Mrs. Joseph II. Choate, jr.. Miss
Beatrice Pratt. Mrs. Reeve Schley, Hrs.
Joseph Earle Stevens, Mrs. George
Whitney and Miss Elsie Nicoll chair.
man. are again busy with plans for a
benefit to raise funds for the continued
support OF their ward at the American
Ambulance Hospital during 1917. This
committee is an auxiliary TO Mrs. Rob-
ert Bacon's committee, and was first
| formed in the spring of 1915, when
tableaus, posed by the late William Nj.
Chase, were arranged by its members
at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Encouraged
! by this success, the young women
agreed TO give the hospital their con-
tinued support until the end Of the
war.
This years plans for benefits include
the Washington Square Players, who
will give two new plays at the Plaza
Hotel on Wednesday afternoon, Febru-
airy II. Then Michio ltow will dance
Japanese folk and sword dances, and a
pantomime, conducted by we'll known
amateurs, also will be given.
/ A concert for the benefit of the pen
sion fund of the Presbyterian Hospital
! Training School for Nurses will be
given by the Symphony Club of New
York on Wednesday afternoon at
Aeolian Hall.
A rummage sale will be held on Fri
day, February 2, at the Ritz-Carlton
| for the benefit of the babies wards of
! the POSTGRADUATE Hospital. Prominent
women of society have contributed
/ handsome evening gowns, hats, waists,
childrens coats, furs, evening wraps
and slippers, also books, china, picture
| frames, pictures and furniture, which
will be sold at low prices.
At the Fete de Vanite to be given at
/ the Plaza on Wednesday evening, Feb
/ ruary 7, many interesting and beautiful
tableaus will be shown. and there Will
/ be special dances, in costume, on the
/ stage. General dancing will follow the
performance.
The proceeds of the entertainment,
/ are to be divided between the after
care Of sufferers from infantile paraly'
sis and the promotion Of anti-sufragc
work.
/ The affair is under the direction oil
( the Junior Anti-Sufrage League, and
the chsirmen Of committees are Miss
! Mary Lena Hayden, arrangements; Miss
! Isabel Yeomans, entertainment, and
| George P. Brett, jr.. floor.
/ The annual Hampton Institute bene-
/ int meeting viii be held in Carnegie
! Hall on Tharsday evening, when Will
! lam Jay Schieffelin, president Of the
association of New York. will preside
/ The programme will include songs by
| the Hampton quartet and Roland W
/ HAYES, negro tenor, of Boston. and
| brief addresses on the influence OF
/ Hampton in the South by Or. s. G
| Mitchell, president of Delaware Col
lege; Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, principal
/ of Hampton, and William Blanton, ag-