The Washington herald., 1918-04-28

to let Il 60 on tour. So they have
played q very successful engagement
in New York and are coming down
here for Just this one performances.
They announce that their next en-
gagement will be played in Paris. and
they hope ultimately to play one In
Berlin.
Mrs. James wadsvorth. wife OF the
senior Senator from New York. Ii
giving them q supper and dance at
the new Washington Hotel after their
performance. She had arranged 1t for
last Monday but. OF course, when
they postponed their visit: she had
to postpone her party. She Is invit-
ing about 100 girls to help make 1t
success-and probably earning q
grudge from q whole lot more who
would have liked to be asked.
Mrs. James F. Barbour. who Is man
aging the benefit baseball game to be
played for the soldiers wards in the
Providence Hospital, Saturday. May T.
between teams from Fort Myer and
Camp Lee. has already disposed or
forty-six boxes. The attendance prom
ises to be one Of the largest and SMART
est Of the many that have patronized
InlS dnnudl uC1ChN- 4uooS WIN A@NS
taken boxes included Mrs. Edward
Douglass White, Mrs. James W. Wads-
worth, tr., Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry,
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Mr.. Larz
Anderson, Mrs. Charles l.. McCawley,
Mrs. Hugh Legare, Mrs. Joseph Letter.
Mrs. George Howard, Mrs. John +.
Wilkins, Nine. A<sel Wichfeld. Mrs.
Perry Belmont, Mrs. Blaine Elkins,
Mrs. Reynolds Hit, Mrs. Roscoe Bull
mer, Mrs. Cary T. Grayson. Mrs. J,
Upshur, Moorehead, Mrs. Henry Spen-
Ger, Mrs. Charles Bromwell, Mrs. Ord
Preston, the Misses Riggs, Mrs. Rich
ardson Clover. Mrs. Frank B. Noyes.
Mrs. Henry Dimmock. Mrs Henry
Cleveland Perkins, Mr.. William Phelps
Emo, Mrs. Charles Randolph Mayer.
Mrs. John r. Williams. Mrs. Victor
Kaufman, Mrs. John Sidney Webb.
Mrs. Samuel H. Vandergrift. Mrs.
Charles Boughton Wood. who has
taken two boxes: Mrs. Frederic De-
lano, Mrs. I. T. Mann. who has taken
two boxes: Mrs. George T. Marye. Mrs.
W. E. Montgomery. Mrs. Robert
Roosevelt. Mrs. Myron Parker. jr..
Mrs. George F. Downey. Mrs. Delos
BIodgett, Mrs. A. Y. p. Garnett, Mrs.
John Crayke Simpson. Mrs. George +.
Hamilton. Mrs. Randall Hagner and
Mrs. F. B. Moran.
The Countess of Reading. wife OF the
English Ambassador, Mrs. Paul War
burg, Mrs. Julius Rosenwald, Mrs.
Herbert Lehman and Mrs. Julius
Kahn. wife of the Representative from
California;: Mrs. Roger Straus and
Mrs. Maurice wertheim, all of whom
are in Washington where their hus-
bands are engaged in war activities,
together with Mrs. Emil Berliner, Mrs.
NJ. Goldenberg and Mrs. Simon Wolf,
of this city. are among the distin-
guished patronesses OF the Carnival de
Camouflage to be held next Wednes-
day evening in the vestry rooms of
the Eighth Street Temple under the
auspices Of the Council of Jewish
Women.
Mrs. Leo Baum is chairman of the
committee supervising arrangements OF
the affair. which promises to eclipse
anything heretofore attempted in the
National Capital in the interest OF
charity. The entire proceeds of the
carnival will be devoted to the allied
war sufferers fund.
Mr.. Will Irwin, war correspondent,
and one of the best known of the
younger journalists, is to speak at the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association. 1875 Rhode Island avenue.
Wednesday evening. May s. at s
o'clock, for the benefit of the Women's
Overseas Hospitals, which is supported
by the association.
The patronesseS are Dr. Anna How
ard Shaw. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
Mrs. Louis D. Bfandeis. Mrs. Gordon
Auchincloss. Mrs. Richard Aldrich.
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Mrs.
Charles Boughton Wood, Mrs. V.
Everit Macy and Mrs. Frank A. Van
derlip.
Mr.. Irwin has been in Europe most
of the time since the beginning of the
war. and has had exceptional oppor-
tunities for gathering facts and gain
ing impressions. as he has been on the
Belgian and Italian fronts and has
spent much time in France and Switz-
erland. Several of Mr. Irwin's articles
on the war have appeared in the Sat-
urday Evening Post. He is a writer
of great descriptive power Many will
recall The City That Was" which is
perhaps. the most wonderful thing
written about the San Francisco fire.
The Women's overseas hospitals.
while primarily consecrated to the
saving for France of her women and
children, is also caring for the wound
ed soldiers from the battlefelds of
the allied armies.
The personnel OF the unit is made up
OF physicians and surgeons from the
New York Infirmary for Women and