The sun., 1919-03-26
GREAT AUDIENCE AT
WAR FUND BENEFIT
Festival Arranged by Mary
Garden for Devastated France
Packs Opera House.
AN ALL STAR PROGRAMME
Sailors Appear in Tableau and
Sing LA Marseillaise" as
Final Number.

Mary Gardens personally conducted
festival for the aid Of devastated France,
the Secours Franco-Americain pour la
France Devastee. to be exact was held
at the Metropolitan Opera House last
night before an audience which packed
the great house to the doors. The pur-
pose of the fund Ia to repair and pro-
vide homes for the peasants in the
Somme district so that they may have
shelter during the time they arc working
on the next harvest and waiting for the
iDdemnities which are to rebuild their
houses 81
The performance opened with the
Star spansied Banner" after which Ar
thur Rubenstein played LISTS Concerto
in e fiat, piano concerto by saint-Saens.
This was followed by Debussy's "Deux
Nocturnes." Andreas Pavley and Serge
oukralnsky. assisted by Miles. Ludmila.
Kowak, Kharkova. Pfeil. Keraili and Sac
chetti. gave the ballet from "Gismonda"
Miss Gardens contributions to the
performance were the last act Of Cleo
patre" and the first act OF LOUISE"
the prelude to "L'Apres-Midi Dun
Faune" and a tableau in which sailors
from the French battleship La Marseil-
laise sang the French battle song COM
pleted the programme. Capt Liable
Pericord addressed the audience after
the intermission. ..t'
In the Audience. -..
A brilliant audience was assembled
for the Mary Garden Festival.
Mrs, Edmund l.. Baylies was with Mr..
and Mrs. William H. Crocker.
Clarence H. Mackay's guests were Mr..
and Mrs. John Dyneley Prince, Miss
Katherine Mackay. Miss Florence Ellis
worth. A. Bradhurst Field, Jr.. and Dom
aid Blagden.
Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont's guests were
Dr. and Mrs Preston Pope Satterwhite,
Mrs J. Philip Bernhard and Ralph
Bloomer.
Mrs. John A. Logan's guests were Gen
and Mrs. Charles II. Sheriff. Mrs. Hora-
ito Nelson Slater, Miss Ray Slater and
Frank A. Munsey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley's guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Earle Stevens,
Mrs. Keats westcott and Cecil Landale.
With Mr.. and Mrs Ormond @. Smith
were Mr. and Mrs MoDougan Hawkes.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lowell Putnam
and Augustus d. Juilliard were with Mrs.
Burke Roche.
With Mrs. Hamilton Wilkes Carey
were Mrs Adolf I.adenburg, Miss Kath-'
erine Lawrence and CASTOR L'ebert.
Mrs Henry 8. Redmond, Mrs. Samuel
J. Wasetan and Franklin A. Plummer
were with Mr.. and Mrs. George Rose.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles F. Hoffman's
.t..A.
Tams and Miss Alice Preston.
Miss Diane Del Monte was with Lieut.
Commander and Mrs. Newbold lie Roy
Edgar. Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. George b.
Mcclellan were with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward 8. Hardness.
There were also in the audience Mrs.
Alexander s. Clarke, Mrs. Elisha Dyer,
Mrs. Charles A Childs, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Brown Potter, Mrs. Charles
Phelps. Mrs. James A. Wright, Mrs.
Ethelbert Nevin. Mr.. and Mra l. Chaun-
cey McKeever. Mr.. and Mrs Walter Jen-
nings. Mrs. w. Miller Graham, Mrs. De
Forest Danielson. Capt. Gianni Bettini,
Thomas @. Patten, Mr.. and Mrs Durant
Cheever and Mr.. and Mrs. George A.
HUM, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry J. whigham, Mr.
and Mrs Irving Brokaw, Mrs. Gouver-
neur Kartright, Mrs. Moses Taylor
Campbell. Mr.. and Mrs. George b.
Widener Mrs Richard Gambrill. the
Duke and Duchess de Richelieu. Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, Mr.. and Mrs.
Oliver Hartman, Mr.. and Mra w.
Bourke Cochran and Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Graves.
Programmes were sold by number of
young women under the direction Of Mrs.
B. Benjamin Pratt, and among them
were Mrs McCook Knox, Mrs Charles
Fl Greenough, Mrs. Charles De Loosely
Oslrichs, MIRA Philip Rhinelander I'd.
Mrs. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Mrs.
Dave Hennen Coddington, Mrs. Park
Benjamin. Jr.. Mrs. l. Mitchell Henry.
the Misses Genevieve Clendenin. Marion
Tiffany. Madeleine Liebert, Katherine
Porter, Geraldine Adee. Margaret Kahn.
Carolina Knann and Elisa EYaratt.