New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-02
Entertainments
On Sunday to Aid
French Charities
Concert and Playlet Will
Be Given for Hospital
Nearest Firing Line
Jules Bots to Talk
Other Lenten Activities Are
Planned for Society Folk
Of New York

For the benefit OF the French hospital
nearest the firing line a concert and
plsylet viii be given on Sunday night
az the Th.rty-uinth Street Theatre ur-
der the auspices OF the National Surg.
cal Dressing Committee Of America. A
feature Of the entertainment viii be a
scene taken from a French hospital
ward, with the following characters:
Surgeon, Dr. John Reed Fitzpatrick. and
Red Cross nurses. Miss Msude G. Shep-
herd, Miss Katherine Z. Force. Miss
Dolly La Montague. Miss Ethel Merritt.
Miss Leslie tombstone and Miss hathe-
riue Shaw.
The artists who will appear are Car
los Salzedo. Nine. Yvonne de Treville
and Francois Vsudsercndergh Belgian
tenor, VINO has received leave of alb
sence from his regiment. Motion pict-
ures taken az The Nerdun battle front
viii be shcwn.
Jules Bois Will give a talk Oh Why
Asace- Lorraine Should Be Returned TO
France" on Sunday afternoon az the
Ritz-Carlton under the auspices OF the
Amis de L'Alsace- Lorraine. There Will
be French songs and interpretations by
French men and women OF the stage.
There will be no charge for admission,
but those invited will subscribe toward
a fund for a French artists home.
James Lowell Putnam VAL preside.
Jacques Copeau. OF the Theatre di
Vieux- Colomb bier Of Paris. viii give a
series of six conferences At the Little
Theatre on Monday and Thursday
afternoons, beginning March y. at .
o'clock. Those wishing 90 subscribe may
apply 10 Mrs Philip ". Lydig, Il Wash
ington Square North.
Mrs Lyman 3. Kendall will give =
dinner this evening at her home, go
Park Avenue. and viii afterward take
her guests. twelve 100 number, 20 the
theatre. Mr.. Kendall has returned from
a months trip In the West.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Thorn Kissel
are receiving congratulations on the
birth OF a daughter on Wednesday a.
their home, 131 East Seventy
Street. Mrs. Kissel is a daughter Of
John Dsllctt. The child is grand
daughter Of Mrs. Gustav l.. kissel and
a grest-great- granddaughter Of the late
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Stephen II. Brown and Mrs.
William ". Trowbridgc are guests Of
Mr. and Mrs. Willard S. Brown at Palm
Beach.
Mrs. Z. Henry Hartman and Miss
Carol A. Hartman returned 70 town
yesterday from The Plains, Va.
Another Of the Bachelor Assembly
Dances for re benefit Of local and war
relief charities will be held this even
ing at the Hotel Vanderbilt
Mrs. Philip ". Lydig gave a luncheon
yesterday az her home, "a Washington
Square North.
Mrs. II. Mex. Twombly gave a luneh-
con yesterday at her home, IN Fifth
Avenue.
The first Of a series Of lectures for
the benefit Of the Hospital and House
Of Rest for COnsumptives was given
yesterday by John Cowper POwys iu
the Cort Theatre. The two remaining
lectures will be given on March and
-. The patronesses include Mrs. Sam
uel y. Hinckley, Mrs. George +. Scott,
Mrs. Arson ?. Atterbury. Mrs. John A.
Dix. Mrs. !. Warren Goddard, Mrs.
Henry G.. Sanford. Miss Mariana Lin
coin and Miss Blanche Potter.
The Bellevue Sewing and knitting
Class had its second meeting OF the
season yesterday morning az the home
Of Miss Annie Lesry, 1882 Fifth Avenue.