New-York tribune., 1918-12-16
Doves to Flutlcr,
Pegasus 10 Fly, at
Big Costume Ball
Elaborate Event Planned for
Dec. %; Groom dc Tri-
omphc'' To BE Feature;
for French Free Milk Fund

One of the most elaborate costume
balls the city ever has seen will be
given December %, taking the entire
first floor Of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel
1t is to be victory celebration and
VIII be called the Carnival de Vic
toire, Masque de Triomphe, Mrs. New
bold lie Roy Edgar is chairman of the
committee in charge and j. Perpont
Morgan is treasurer,
Over the Forty-siNth Street en-
frances to 1he Ritz there will be
two triumphal arches, and at Forty-
sixth Street and Madison Avenue and
torty-siXth Street and Fifth Avenue
poles with streamers. The lounge will
be made into sort of grand foyer,
with twenty-seven boxes, and the cell
ing and lighting will be covered and
altered The Japanese garden is to be
rooted and the space usually devotcd
to tea tables will be filed with tiny
booths.
The breakfast room is to be turned
INTO changing Gardens of Babylon"
and the pink reception room into Il
"desert,' with scenic effects, sandcd
many events Of the -sar. She will be
in tent in the desert and will make
more prophecies
Pegasus and Doves Of Peace
Through a specially designed Arc
de Trlomphe the guests will fDall yen.
ter the dining room known as the
eight boxes, Pegasus and the dove of
peace are to be features here, and at
the foot Of the staircase leadinc to
the Room Of Triumph" there will be
fountain> The crystal room is to be-
come "a bit Of Versailcs.'
Six orchestras VIII play, and many
curious Partisan novelties and stage
illusions are being prepared, such as
tiny human figure two or three
inches in height, that comes out of
an inkstand and Dances Joseph Phys
and Frederick Soldwedel, favorite pu-
pil OF the late Stanford White, are
to be in charge of the decorations
Many French actors and singers Just
arrived from abroad are to give pey~
foqgHancas Throughout the evening"
To Aia Free Milk Fund
The boxes arc to be sold at 500
each and admission, which is to be
entirely by invitations is to be SIS,
The proceeds Of the night are to be
devoted to the Free Milk for France
Fund, Of which Mmc. lie Marechalo
Foch, wife of the Allied gcneralissimo,
Is the chairman in France; Mrs. War
ren McConihe, president, and Miss
Josephine Osborn, vice. president.
Besides Mrs. Edgar, there arc on the
committee for the ball Mrs. William K
Vanderbilt, jr., Mrs. George r. Baker,
Jr, Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs,
Henry Clews7 Mrs. Charles H. Mar
shall, Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mrs,
Francis Key Pendletor, Mrs Henry
Fairfield Osborn, Mrs. Lydig Hoyt and
Mrs Frank Gray Griswod Mrs. Rob
ert Low Bacon is in charge Of the in
Vitations.
Among the patroncsses are Mrs. Jo-
seph s. Stevens, Mrs, Rober4 Bacon,
Mrs. George Blumenthal~ Mrs Charles
H. Ditson, Mrs Rene Garlic, Mrs Sew
ard Webb Mrs Robere Huntingt on,
Mrs Sumnec Gcraros Mrs. Oliver
Hartman, the Duchess de Richelieu,
Mrs j. Pierpon1 Morgan, Miss Diane
del Monte, Mrs. W Bourke Cochran.
Mrs. f. II. Hartman, Mrs George ],
Gould, Mrs Charles = Alexander, Mrs,
Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Mrs William Woodward
Mrs William Adams Delano, Mrs.
Chauncey McKeever,'