New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-09
CHARITIES AIDED
BY FETE AT PLAZA
Militia Cali NeCessitateS
Changes in adventures
of Two Hours"
MANSFIELD FERRY TO
WE'D MISS MORRIS
Father Knickerbocker Ball
To Be Given This Even
ing at Sherry's

The Junior Missionary Society Of the
Church Of the Heavenly Rest gave an
entertainment called THE Adventure
Of Two Hours" last night at the Hotel
Plaza. for the benefit Of its various
charities. especially the Fresh Air
Home of the church at Kopake. Many
of the men originally on the programme
were called Tor guard duty and suOsti-
tutions had 10 be made.
A feature Of the entertainment was
Carnival Time" an outdoor scene
staged by Miss Dorothy VI. Nicol. Miss
Evelyn Walker was the queen. Miss
Claire Van Lennep a spanish girl, Miss
Claire Sanford an Irish peasant, MISS
Lottie Chalmers, Miss JuIester SnIauy
and Miss Anne Moore ladies-in-walting'
and Miss Nancy Pond, Miss Freda Chor-
lev and Miss Jeanne Montgomery gen
tlemen-in-wa.ting There we're also
testers, flower girls and court followers
IN the scene.
The first number was a Kitchen Sym
phony. with Miss Freda Chorley, MISS
Viola Flannery, Miss Charlotte Guyee'
Miss Amy Reick, Miss Gera dine haIl'
Miss Zillah Thompson and Miss 6elyn
Walker as maids, and Chandler Bates
Charles Lawrence Bruce Sheldon, Cor
nelius Hearn. Edgar Appleby, Kenneth
Fisk. Winslow Lyon and Lemaire Ia
briskie as chefs and footmen. A. NJ. =.
Azoy. jr., was the butler
Then followed a dress rehearsal, IN
which the following took part; Mrs. ..
p. II. Perry. Miss Mally Lord, MISS
Eleanor Du Bots, Roy Thompson, A. NJ.
c. Azoy. jr.. and Stanley Rowland.
A dance by Miss Marian Whitman
followed. after which came Miss Mar
gerry Clinton i'm monologues.
Ice cream was sold by Miss Marjorie
Cleveland Miss Lisa Todd and Miss
Dorothy Battle; programmes by the
Misses Hayden, Miss Helen Campbell
Miss Kathryn Bache and Miss Marian
Hall. and flowers by Miss Dorothy
Haight. Miss Margaret Wardwell, VI SIS
Janet Gregory. Miss Agnes Sheehy, Miss
Diana Richards and Miss Elsie sage.
Mr.. and Mr.. Lewis Cass Ledyard, Of
p East Sevcnty-second Street, have an
nounccd the engagement of Mrs Led
yards daughter, Miss Jean Morris 10
Mansfield Ferry. son of Mrs. Charles II.
Ferry. of goo Park Avenue. Miss Nor
ris Is a granddaughter Of the late John
A. Morris. Of New Orleans, and a niece
Of Dave Heunen Morris, VINO married
Miss Alice Vanderbilt Shepard, daugn-
ter Of Mrs. Elliott +. shepard. Mr..
Ferry. who is a graduate OF Yale, class
'O3. and Harvard, ,'09. is member oil
the University, Ardsley and other clubs.
No date has been set for the wedding.
MIS-. Charles b. Alexander will give a
dance this evening at her house, West
Fifty-eighth Street.
Mrs. Blair S. Williams, OF li6 East
Scveuty-fourth Street. gives small
dance this evening for Miss Annette
Blake Moran.
Mrs. Augustus F. Kountze is the
guest Of Mrs. Gouvern6ur Morris IN
Aiken, S. G.
The annual Father Knickerbocker
Ball for the benefit of the City History
Club will be held this evening at
Sherry's. 1t will consist Of a spectacle
of Colonial and Revolutionary scenes,
including Martha Washington's recep-
ton. the guests at which are descended
from the persons they represent. Miss
Sylvia van Rensselaer, VIII be the
Countess Of Sterling, Miss Margaret
Crittenden Overton will represent Mrs.
John Crittenden. Miss Janet Robb Will
be Mrs. Bayard. Miss Anna II. Emmett
will appear as Mrs. Morris, and Elliot
Fitch will represent Colone. Thomas
Fitch.
Mrs. Joseph Earle Stevens gave a
small dance, followed by supper, last
night. al the Hotel Vanderbilt in ce.e-
bration of her husbands birthday. 1t
was a surprise party for Mr.. Stevens.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. B. Close, Of East
Ninety-second Street, will leave town
tomorrow on a special train with a
party Of guests for New Orleans. From
there they will 60 10 Palm Beach, where
they have taken a cottage for few
weeks.
Miss Edith Douglas Merritt, who was
a Red Cross nurse IN France for eigh-
teen months, will give a lecture this
afternoon IN the ballroom Of the Colony
Club on Hospital Life in the War
Zone" The proceeds will 90 20 the
American Hospital in St. Valery-en-
CauX.
Mrs. George Robertson Roe, Of 307
West Seyenty-niuth Street, gave small
luncheon and bridge yesterday at her
go, fn- Me. (,auavIava Ruf err daugn .