New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-23
Society
Spring Racing Season to Open
Saturday-Beneft for
I'Union Des Arts

The spring racing season opens next
Saturday at Hewlett Bay Park. unoer
the AUSPICES of the Rockaway Hunting
Club. Society. especially the Long
Island set. as usual will be represented
For the benefit Of the organization
known as LUnion des Arts, an enter
tsinment will take place at the house
Of Mrs. Vincent Aston, $40 Fiith ave
mo on Wednesday evening. A panto-
mime entitled ale Marriage d'heloiSe
will be given under the direction %
Mile. Gabrielle Dorziat and hehH Oalo
Dellvaille. 81. NJ. Coss
Garfield. Miss Harriet Post, MISS MAR
Croker Alexander Miss Madelaine anu
Miss Alice Liebert, Maurice ana FIanI
els Roche. Lawrence ): butIers anu ro
have established an Office, with MISS
Wartbs MAYNARD in charge, at 1Z
Fifth Avenue, to receive donations anu
publications for tickets at S6 each.
Mrs Waldo Richards will give
reading on Wednesday morning at 'hv
bouse Of Mrs. John Henry Hammond
for the benefit Of the Preparedness
and War Relief Work of the Art AN
ance Of America. The patronesses IN
clude Mrs. Paul ID. Cravath, MIS- -
Warren Goddard, Mrs. John Greenougn'
Mrs Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs Oh
YER Gould Jennings, Mrs. waiter b'
James. Mrs. Otto II. Kahn. Mrs. Lewis
Cass Ledyard, Mrs. Dave Hennen MOT
ris. Mrs Alfred l.. White, Mrs. heT-
bert l.. Satterlee, Mrs william o.
SchieFelin and Mrs. Robert Sturgis'
Several members Of society will have
charge Of the tea garden at the Grand
Central Palace on April % and 20, IN
the interest of the New York state
Prison Council, Inc. On WEDNESDAY,
afternoon Thomas Mott Osborne VIII
speak. ....xo..
cd are Mrs Helen Hartley jenkins,
Mrs J. Frederic Tams, Mrs. trancis
]. Bishop. Mrs. John K. DreXel, Mrs
Gordon Knox Bell, Mrs. George Barton
French. Miss Mercedes de Acosta, MISS
Dorothy Bigelow, Miss Audrey n. Us
born and Miss Louise Monroe
Members Of the New York Canteen
Division Of the National League LOT
Women's Service will give an aIier-
noon fete under the direction of Mrs
William Carroll Rafferty,, honorary
commandant Of the league, at the wal
dorf.Astoria Thursday, May 3. There
will be exhibitions and demonstrations
Of complete canteen equipments, with
food and beverages to be distributed
n soldiers and sailors during the war
az railroad terminals, stations, bridges,
etc Mrs. Harry Whitney McNickars,
captain of the first division, and Mrs.
Nelson II. Henry, captain OF the sec
ond division. with their lleutenants'
will serve at the canteen booths, when
will be decorated with flags and shields.
Bow Scouts in uniform will be IN at
tendance. and military band Will
NAV national airs. Patriotic songs VIII
be sung. Many army and navy othcers
are expected to be present, and there
wall be dancing during the entertain
ment.
Under the patronage of Mrs. 7. Oar
rington Semple and the Woman's Army
and Navy War Relief Fund, the young
women Of the Semple School will give
a play and dance entitled Daughters
of the u. S. A." at the Plaza Hotel
Friday evening, April 27. The proceeds
of the entertainment will be gwen 10
the American soldiers and sailors
through the Woman's Army and Navy
War Relief Fund. The performance
will be followed by general dancing,
The cast includes the Misses judith
Pole. Bama Adams, lone McGill, Irene
Fnsley, Emily Semple, Margaret Shafer'
Teance Espy, Helen Potter Rosemary
Rollins, Dell Speed, Helen Oldham,
Florence barrow, Hildegarde Fisher
Elizabeth Brooks, Dorothy Daunt'
Percy Simpson, Madeleine Cozzens,
Mary Gage Farris, Genevieve Ellis,
Dorothy Shurtleff, Elizabeth Brough-
ton, Calista Case, Gertrude Momand'
Anne Hoyte Hicks, Lyla MacNames
Wilson. Laura Graves, Helen Weinz'
Vivienne Couch, Dorothy Powell. Lii
ian Oppenheimer and Jeanne Marie
Sutton.
Tickets may be purchased at the
Semple School, PAL Central Park West,
and at the Plaza Hotel.