The sun., 1918-11-24
Regulation Receptions Looked For This Winter Victory
: Pageant for French Wounded Fund to Be Given
To-night---Dances to Be Resumed

T>HUs far the opera has been the
mainstay OF society. While
peace Is assured. II is not pos
sible, In New York at least, TO resume
1t short notice the customs which were
dropped owing to the war. No plans
have been made for debutantes. Those
who under other circumstances would
, have been introduced to society IA In
years past have been enrolled in some
sort OF war relief work; some of them
have perfected themselves in stenog-
raphy and typewriting. Now they are
likely to have but small use for these
accomplishments.
There are being arranged In Boston
and other leading cities the regulation
receptions for the fresh aspirants to
4 the favor OF society, and after the be-
ginning of the new year the routine OF
social life may be resumed. After
January there will be two full
months for entertaining, as Ash
Wednesday will fall on March 5, and
this space of time would afford plenty
OF opportunities for introducing debut
tantes with the customary Formally.
Just now there are being arranged
many entertainments for local chari-
, ties and for war relief, for while no
battles are being fought at present
there arc many sufferers from the eff
fects of the long conflict. The ma
ltional holiday Of Thanksgiving, near
ht hand, will have more significance
than for many years. and many VII
pass the day in the country.
There Is the assurance of large au-
dience tonight at the Hippodrome for
the. victory peace festival which is to
be held in behalf Of the American
Fund for French Wounded. Mrs.
Mitchell Henry will impersonatc Peace
ana she will have as her handmaidens
Mrs J. Philip Bernhard. Mrs. Walter
Brooks, Jr., Mrs. Charles De Loosely
oelrichs and Miss Marjorie Curtis,
They will be preceded on their en-
trance on the stage by group Of
flower bearers, which will include Mrs
Percival Farquhar, Mrs. Frederick
Kohl, Mrs. Herbert Shipman and the
Misses Genevieve Clendenin. Dorothy
Fellowes Gordon, Dolly. Kimball, Doro-
thy Norris, Marion Tiffany and Mar
garet Warren.
Particular attention has been paid
70 the costumes, which will be very
artistic. Mrs. Benjamin Guinness,
who has been arranging the pageant,
has had the assistance of Richard
Ordynski OF the Metropolitan Opera,
aud there will be some artists of note
to assist among them Nine. Louise
Homer, Elsie Ferguson, Marcia Van
Dresser, Auriel Lee. Leon Rothier,
Pedro de Cordoba. Robert Mantell,
Nine. Aida, Yvette Guilbert, Julia
Arthur and Gabrielle ellis.
Among those who have secured
boxes and seats are Mrs. C. Ledyard
Blair, Mrs. Wesley Watson. Mrs. Wal
I ter p. Bliss, Mrs. Charles NJ. Brooks.
Mrs. Robert l.. Stevens, Mrs. Hugh
". Camp, Mrs. w. Watts Sherman,
Mrs. Charles Merrill Chaplin. Mrs.
Samuel 7. Peters. Mrs. John Claflin.
Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin. Mrs, Frederick.
~. Eaton Mrs. lido NJ. Fleischrnanii,-
Mrs. Frederick Gimbel, Miss Cafolihe
Morgan, Mrs. F. Gray Griswold, Clar-
ence ii. Mackay. Mrs. hurry Guggen-
helm, Mrs. Charles d. Hager. Mrs.
Edwin Olaf Hotter, Mrs. Harry *.
Knapp and Mrs, Alvin W. Krech.
There are included among the
patronesses Mrs. Henry Clews, Mrs.
frederic r. Coudert, Mrs. Henry Z.
Dawson, Mrs. A. Murray Young Mrs.
N. LIE Roy Edgar, Mrs. Il. Henry Har-
riman, Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mrs.
James Speyer. Mrs. John Sanford,
Mrs. Ogden II. Hammond. Mrs. II.
Van Rensselaer, Kennedy, Mrs. Fran
els K Pendleton, Miss Luisita Leland.
Mrs. Da0iel Guggenheim and Mrs.
John u. Rockefeller, Jr.
Among the girls who will sell pro-
srammes are the Misses Symphorosa
Bristed, Audrey Riker, Myra Fraser.
Frances Pearsall Field, Emma Pea
body, Margaret Throckmorton, Jean
nette Olyphant. Priscilla Peabody,
Grace Bristed. Priscilla Taylor. Kath-
airline Knapp and Mary Colt
A concert for the benefit of the
d. Y. N. T. Settlement House In
Leroy street will be given on Tues
room, and already several hundred
tickets have been disposed OF. The
artists will be Miss Lucille Collette,
violin; Paul Reimers, baritone, and
Stefan de Stetano, harp. In the Set
Element House there are clubrooms for
boys and girls and there is in con-
nection with II a, day nursery where
at present infants Of men IN service
are looked after.
Mrs. Ansei Phelps Is president OF
the D. Y. N. T. society, Mrs. McRa
Livingston treasurer, and Miss Emily
Norrie secretary. Among those who
have secured tickets are Mrs Wander
bilt, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Mrs. Will
lam D. Sloane. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,
Mrs. Henry C. Frick, Mrs. John C.
Wilmerding. Mrs. NJ. Orme Wilson,
Mrs. Oliver g. Jennings. Mrs. Edward
s. Hardness, Mrs. Paul D. Cravath.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet, Mrs. Drexel Dahl
gren, Mrs William A. Perry, Mrs.
Herbert Parsons, Mrs. Herman lie Roy
Edgar Mrs, Alfred Edey, Mrs. George
O. King. Mrs. II. Burial Hoffman,
Miss Eweretta Kernochan. Miss May
Moulton. Mrs. Charles Phe,ps, Mrs.
John n. Trevor Mrs. George II. Dyer,
Mrs. Philip A. S. Franklin, Mrs
Harry Hardness Flagler, Mrs. P. A.
Valentine. Mrs. Fairfax s. Landstreet
Charles T. Mathews, Mrs. Charles A.
Miller, Mrs Frederic Il. Lewis. August
, ID. Juilliard, Frederick Tanning Aver,
: Mrs. Oliver Iseln, Mrs. George
Brewster and Mrs. Edwin Gould.