The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-17
Days at Home May Be Resumed Peace With Victory
Pageant to Raise Money for French. Wounded
Nine. Foch Appeals for Milk for France

r T was particularly Joyous gather
ing that marked the beginning OF
= the fashionable season at the
opening Of the opera az the Metropoli-
IAN Opera House on Monday night.
The women In TIE boxes and orchestra
stalls had donned their finest raiment
and manypgay colors were worn. Pa
sriotism surcharged the audience, and
when the anthems Of the allied nations
were sung the artists on the stage
were Joined in their glad song By hun
ireds in the audience.
The opening opera, Samson ct
Dalila." was peculiarly appropriate. as
one OF the first lines OF the libretto,
'Jeviens celebrer Ia victoire," but re-
pcated the sentiment of those assem-
bled, all OF whom we're there to cele-
orate q victory. The second opera of
the week, Aida" also breathed OF
victory, Of conquest in war, and the
audience that heard 1t was another
Notable assemblage.
viii have on entertaining remains to
70 seen; but evidently there will be
nothing in the way of social activity
approaching the scale OF former years.
Few young men are available for social
functions, and without them II Is not
possible to have dances. Many have
expressed a desire for the resumption
Il days at home which have become
almost obsolete, and now that the Food
Administration is raising the embargo
on certain commodities perhaps once
moro tea and toast, with conversation
thrown in, will be permissible.
Meanwhile there is no cessation In
the collecting of funds for various war
relief enterprises. as there are thou
sands who are still In need Of the
bare necessities OF life-food, clothing
and medical supplies. The American
Fund for French Wounded Is making
On appeal for aid. and IN order to In
1fease its resources, the demands on
which seem to be quite as great as at
any time during the four years OF war,
ahientertainment will be given at the
Hippodronie next Sunday evening,
when an elaborate peace with vic
tory" pageant will DO shown on the
great stage. Ft.
The chairman of the fund is Mrs.
Etheibert Nevin. and among its other
Officers are Mre. Robert Bacon, Mrs.
Nicholas Murray Butler. Mrs. +. Gray
GriSwold, Mrs. Charles NJ. Chapin, Mrs.
walter Phelps Bliss, Mrs Schuyler Van
Rensselaer,, Mrs. c. Ledyard Blair and
Mrs. Udo' Nj. Fletschuinnn. Mrs. Ben
iarnin Guinness. with the aid of Rich-
sfd Ordinski OF the Metropolitan Opera
House, is staging the spectacle. 1t is
almost needless to say that this en-
;ertAinment is fully approved of by the
authorities. .'>'. - - .-.-..-.. ..-
The cast OF the pageant will in
clude Mrs. I.ydig Hoyt. Mrs. John
Wanamaker, Jr.. Mrs. Charles De
Loosely Oeirichs Mrs, Mitchell Henry,
Miss Genevieve Clendenin, Miss Marian
Tiffany. Miss Marjorie curtis, Mrs.
Herbert Shipman. Mrs-Gistave J. s.
White. Miss Frances FairchiAi, Miss
Marianne McKeever, Mrs. Walter
Brooks, Jr.. Mrs. J. Philip Bernhard.
Mrs. Felix 3. Doubleday. Mrs. Corne-
iius II. Tangeman. Miss Dorothy Nor
ris. Mrs. Percival Farquhar and Miss
Dorothy Fellowes Gordon.
Among the girls who will sell pro-
srammes will be the Misses Mary
Stewart Claim, Dolly Kirnbail. Isabel
Cumming. Augusta McCazg. Mary
Lorillard. Theodore Tiffany Ethel Pot
ser, Margaret Emmett, Isabella. Taylor,
Ethel King. Ruth Bliss, Frederick
Rhinelander. Audrey Hoffman, Agnes
F'"''' 'sh, Betty Remsen and Jean
Simpson.
Il. extensive list OF patronesses
and purchasers of boxes and seats are
Mines. Henry Clay Frtck, Charles f.
Holman, Arthur Curtiss James, Oliver
Hartman, James Speyer, e. Oliver ise-
In. Preston Pope Sstterwhite, Ben
:amin G. Lathrop. E. Henry Hartman,
Fernand Baldensperger, Hugh D.
Auchincloss, Robert L. Stevens, Fred
eric Bull, Newbold lie Roy Edgar, John
Clafiin, Joseph Larocque, Thomas
Hastings. Henry Clews, Whitney War
rem, j. Magee Ellsworth, Ogden H.
Hammond, Lewis l.. Delafield, Fred
sric r Coudert. lie Roy King, Richard
Stevens. Shepard Krech, Seymour LIE
Grand Cromwell, James Roosevelt,
Samuel T. Peters, William G. Rookie
Teller, William B. Bristow, Arthur
Murray Dodge and John 8. Shep-
oard, Jr. .--...
BY the time New Years Eve comes
80. doubt peace will have been reestab-
l'shed throughout the world and those
Fho constitute the committee for the
fund that sends free milk to France
have chosen that date for an enter
tainment to raise much needed money.
There will be given under their aus
ptces a Carnival de Vctoire at the
Rtz-Carlton. miniature Arc de
Triomphe viii be erected at the en-
trance to the ballroom and there will
be pageant In which prominent art
'sts will appear. Booths will be set I'D
IN the rooted garden and there will be
sold trtnkets suitable to tho HOLIDAYS.
The Japanese garden will be a feature
OF the evening. and the breakfast room
VIII assume an air OF Mysterious
Dgypt," while a famous fortune teller
from Washington, d. c., will read the
future Of those who care 10 contribute
generously TO the fund.
Nine. Foch, wife OF Marshal Foch. is
az the head Of the French committee
Of the fund and she has requested that
EFFORTS be continued for raising money
Tor the purchase OF milk. which for
months to come will be needed. The
plan of the New York organization IL
10 send dried milk TO France. and al
ready there has been shipped forty