The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-26
- CRTNG the las. ten days society
j has been more like Itself in


has been more like Itself in
the way of entertainments
such as were dispensed with last year
when the war was at its height. Ow-
{ Ing to the uncertainty of matters last
spring and during the early autumn It
was not possible to arrange long in
advance for balls, dances. coming out
parties and important dinners. While
last winter the opera was the chief
form OF entertainment, without any
large dinners. this season it reflects to
greater degree the present attitude
OF society, and during the week Just
ended the audiences at the Metropoli-
tan Opera House have been most brill
liant and representative.
The largest dance OF the winter since
those given at Christmas time by Mrs.
John Sanford and Mrs. William X.
Vanderbilt, Jr., was that of week ago
last night by Mrs. Lewis s. Thompson
for her daughter. Miss Elizabeth
Thompson, and her niece, Miss Evelyn
Preston, daughter OF Ralph J. Pres
ton. Her guests assembled at Sherry's,
some of them coming from dinners at
the homes of Mrs. William Payne
Thompson. Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs.
George F. Baker, Jr.. Mrs. Lydig Hoyt,
and also from one given by the hostess.
While not on the same extensive
scale as dances Of former years, the
smaller suite at Sherrys being used, II
was the largest thus far OF the season,
and the guests numbered about 300
who are identified with the summer
colonies in Newport, Long Island and
along the Hudson. The debutantes OF
this season and last were much in evil
dence and the dance marked new de-
parture, being given on a Saturday
night
5 There have been Of late some dinners
Of note, the largest having been given
by Mr.. and Mrs. John Sanford at their
new home in East Seventy-second
street, which they recently leased for
. long term from the family of the late
James Stillman. The dinner guests
numbered nearly 100, and afterward
Josef Hofmann gave n piano recital
Mrs. Pulitzer's dinner of Tuesday was
for the Hon. and Mrs. Alfred Anson.
Last week Mr.. and Mrs. Henry a. G.
! Taylor gave a dinner to celebrate their
birthdays, which fall on the same date,
and they will give another on Tuesday
night
There is no cessation in the efforts
to raise money for different avenues of
war relief and with the hope of gain
ing funds for the Auxiliary Board of
the American Women's Hospitals, for
the American Committee for Dew
astated France and the American Free
Milk Fund for Italy.
Henry j. Dawson will give a series
OF illustrated talks on the Psychology
Of Color" as applied to household dec
Grafton, in the ballroom OF the Ritz
Carlton tomorrow and Tuesday after
moons and Wednesday morning.
Among the many patronesses are
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee. Miss Anne
Morgan, Mrs. John A. Drake, Mrs.
Lewis B. Stillwell. Mrs. Henry d.
Wilton. Miss Maude Wetmore. Miss
Mary l.. Aldrich, Miss Elizabeth Per-
kins, Miss May Moulton. Mrs. Henry
p. de Forest, Mrs. Louis Butler Nc
Cagg. Mrs. Dexter Blagden, Mrs. Louis
Livingston Seaman. Mrs. Henry A.
Wise Wood, Mrs. Algernon s. Sulli-
van, Mrs. Edward n. Breitung, Mrs.
Theodore T. Shonts, Mrs. Romolo Tri-
toni, Mrs. Alfonso Villa, Mrs. Albert
H. Ely. Mrs. George r. Place, Mrs.
.Trnesto G. Fabbri. Mrs. Joseph II.
Sears. Mrs. Edward McVickar, Mrs.