New-York tribune., 1920-01-28
Amateur Cast
Wins Applause
In ~Coppelia %
Some of Best Known Young
Women in Society Take
Part in Performances
for Benefit of Home
Mid-Winter Ball FRIDAY
Railli Hornemans Fourth
Tuesday Afternoon Is
Held at the Astor Gallery

"Coppelis' was presented yesterday
sfsernoon and evening at the Plaza
.or the benefit Of the Spence Alumnm
Home for Babies. Some Of the best
known young women in society took
mar, in the performance, including
Mrs. B. Tappen Fairchild, who made
wonderful Coppelius; Miss Mar
gsret Burton. whose impersonation of
soppelis was equally clever; Miss
Dorothy F. Taylor. who did some
splendid work as Swanelda; Miss
Virginia Ten kych Rice. who took the
part OF Frantz; Miss Katharine Hoae-
and. who also was & male impersona-
TOR and took the part of the Burgo-
MASTER with great success, and Miss
Charlotte Demorest, Miss Edna Hoyt
and Miss Ada Heinze, who were Scotch.
Chinese and Indian dolls respectively,
There was q galaxy of talent and
beauty also in the chorus. and
villagers and gypsies were imperso-
ing Miss Beatrice Beard. Miss Vic
torine Kellogg. Miss Martha Ottlev.
Miss Dorothy Quinn, Miss Marion Car
pentsr Miss Betsy Flagg, Miss Geral-
dine Hall, Miss Dorothy Leary, Miss
Julia Shanley, Miss Adelaide Beddall.
Miss Lillian Remsen, Miss Helen
Wilmerd.ng, Miss Allen Gray, Miss Ma
rion Heller. Miss Carolyn Dorsett, Miss
Edith McCoon, Miss Helen Trevor,
Miss Carrie Rieck, Miss DOROTHY
Thompson, Miss Helen Johnson, Miss
Ethel Schmelzel, Miss Katharine Slay-
back, Miss Virginia Wright, Miss
Geraldine Gossler, Miss Helen Schnie
wind, Miss Aiine Tiedman, Miss Jane
Cleveland, Miss Grace Helen Talbot.
Miss Marie Yennsy. Miss Molly Ian
caster, Miss Virginia Sterry, Miss
Helena Ogden, Miss Margaret Reick,
Mss Helen Kerr, Miss Margaret War
rem, Miss Pauline Bourne, Miss Eliza
beth Remsen. Miss Alice Hall, Miss
Edna Strauch, Miss Edith Smedburg
and Miss Evelyn Walker.
There were Hungarian and Polish
dancers. and solo dances were given bv
Miss Charlotte Demorast, Miss Marie
Ogden, Miss Edna Hoyt, Miss BETSY
Flagg and Miss Adelaide Beddall
A number Of dinners were given be
iore the evening performance. which
was followed by dancing and supper.
There will be another performance Of
"Coppelia" this evening, and tickets
may be had from Miss Mabel Venner.
S0s West Seventy Street.
Some OF those who had tickets for
yesterdays performances included Mrs.
Willard D. Straight, Mrs. a. Graham
Miles, Mrs. Henry S. Steers. Mrs Will
IAN c. Demorest, Mrs. George Pyn-
chon. Mrs. Charles Remsen. Mrs. Henry
0. Havemeyer, Mrs. George r. D..
Schiefelin, Mrs William Lowe Rice,
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, jr., Mrs
R. Penn Smith ir Mrs. Frederick Os-
born, Mrs. John F. Russell jr.. Mrs.
jeremiah Miibark. Mrs. Orlando Met
calf, Mrs. Pierre Cartier, Mrs Roswell
Miller, Mrs. William +. Armstrong, Mrs
jeremiah Milbank. Mrs Ernest Flagg.
Miss Clare Spence, Miss Alice Davison'
Miss Alice De Lamar, Miss Caroline
Dorset, Miss Catherine Burton and B.
Tappen Fairchild.
The midwinter ball for .he benefit OF
he Union Settlement will be given on
Friday at the Ritz-Carlton, as ALREADY
announced. Although the recent fire
there interfered with several entertain
ments, the ballroom viii be made ready
IN time for the dance. aud the new dec
orations for the occasion viii make q
delightful setting for the affair. There
Will be much entertaining done in con-
nection with the ball, number Of
dinners being given. among the largest
cy Mrs. Henry P. Dawson, who will
naye fifty friends with her at her home,
$40 Park Avenue, and Mrs. William NJ
Bulkley, who VIII have forty al her
dinner a. her home, SO East Sixty
seventh Street Both Mrs. Dawson and
Mrs. Buikley will take their guests on
10 the bal. Mrs. Buikley and Mrs.
Frederick ". Moss are selling the
tickets, and boxes may be had from
Ars. James I. Sheffield, as East Sixty
seventh Street
Ba.lN Horn neman's fourth and las.
Tuesday afternoon, on account Of the
recent fire at the Ritz Carlton, was
held yesterday in the Astor Gallery OF
the Waldorf Astoria. The artists were
dme. Gabrielle Besanzoni, Arthur Ru-
nlnstein and Paul Leyssac. The audi
snce was large and fashionable one,