New-York tribune., 1920-02-08

Charities will play a conspicuou,
part in eociety's Lenten program. anc
to the already long list Of brilliant
events which will brighten the peni
tential days will be added several mu.
sical affairs Of moro thsn usual In
terest. Under the auspices of ths
Wesley House Settlement and St
Christopher's Home holiday song re-
cital be given at Carnegie Hall by
the American soprano, Miss Mabe
Garrison. Of the Metropolitan Opers
Company, on the afternoon Of Feb
ruary 2S. The affair is being arranged
by the joint committee Of the two
charities. which will share in the pro-
eeeds.
Seats and boxes may be had from
Mrs. Nj. P. Valentine, treasurer, q
East Sixty-second Street. Mrs. Anna
Taylor Jones is the chairman and Mrs,
members Of the committee are Mrs.
Valentine, Mrs. H. H. Gordon, Miss E,
Betty. Mrs. NJ. F. Gareissen and Miss
Alma Adams.
The patronesses include Mrs. AM
brose r. Adams, Mrs. Samuel w.
Browne, Mrs. Charles Douglass, Mrs.
Charles W. Erskine. Mrs. Robert H.
Fowler. Mrs. George B. Hodgman, Mrs.
Stephen Kelly, Miss Lydia Longacre,
Mrs. Frank ". Otheman. Mrs. Edgar
Park, Mrs. Ralph Sockman, Mrs. Paul
Sturtevant, Mrs. William II. Van Ben
schoten, Miss Nellie Archer, Mrs. John
G. Clark, Mrs. Charles w. Dustin, Mrs.
Anderson Fowler. Mrs. Edwin Gould,
Laird, Miss Ellen Mclean. Mrs. T. w.
Ormiston, Mrs. Rastus R. Ransom. Mrs.
Finley J. Shepard, Mrs. William j.
Thompson and Mrs. Luther B. Wilson.
John Mccormack will give q testi-
monial concert at the Hippodrome on
the evening of February 20 for the
benefit of building fund for the New
York County organization of the Amer
ican Legion. Mary Garden will assist
him, and they will be accompanied by
the orchestra of the Chicago Opera
Company. Theodore Douglas Robin
son is the executive chairman of the
testimonial concert and Mrs. James A.
Burden is the chairman of the women's
executive committee. Associated with
her are Mrs. Robert Lee Bullard, Mrs
George Whitney, Mrs. Theodore Roose-
velt jr., Mrs. Henry P. Dawson, Mrs.
". De Lancey Kountze, Mrs. w. B.
Osgood Field, Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney, Mrs. Forsyth Wickes, Mrs. Fran
cis L. Robbins jr., Mrs. Edward c.
Delaticld, Mrs. Willard Straight, Mrs.
Michael Gavin, Mrs. Vincent Astor,
Mrs. Robert L. Bacon, Mrs. Louis M.
J,Osephthal, Mrs. Cornelius Wicker
Sham, Mrs. Sidney Borg, Mrs. T. Doug
las Robinson and Mrs. John McCor-
mack.
The ushers and program girls will
be recruited from among the seasons
debutantes, under the Craftsmanship of
the Junior League. General Pershin9
is expected to be present and make a
speech. He and his staff will occupy a
box near the stage. The women's com
mittee is selling boxes and arranging
the list of patronesses, which will be
announced later.
An auction bridge, the first money
making affair given by the book COM
mittee of the Art War Relief, will be
held in the small ballroom of the Plaza
tomorrow. The committee is raising
$4,000 with which to furnish and equip
children's libraries in France and Bel
9ium. according to Mrs. Adelaide B.
are being sold at $40, and tickets for
the tea and dancing from until z
o'clock at 81. They may be' had from
Miss L. E. Woodward. Hotel Devon, 70
West Fifty-ff.h Street. Mrs. John
Lewis Gritfths is chairman of the book
committee, on which are Mrs. John w.
Alexander, Mrs. James Robert Mckee,
Mrs. Benjamin Morton, Mrs. Frederick
L. Eldridge, Melville Stone, George
Barr McCutcheon, Frank A. Munsey,
the Rev. DR.. William T. Manning, Mrs.
John Henry Hammond, Miss Anne Nor
gan and Miss Anna Carroll Morse.
Distinguished patronesses will sponaor
the seventeenth annual concert for the
benefit Of the New York Diet Kitchen
Association, to be held in the large
ballroom OF the Waldorf Astoria on the
morning of February 16. Among others
who have signihed their intention of
serving are Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs
Alfred Duane Pell, Mrs. William Church
Osborn, Mrs. Paul Morton, Mira. Wil-
liam Douglas Sloane. Mrs. John Henry
Hammond, Mrs. John r. Drexel, Mrs
Edward NJ. House. Mrs. John Henry
Iowns, Mrs. Finley J. Sheppard, Mrs.
Mrs. Seth Low, Mrs. Charles L. Hughes,
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Oliver
Hartman. Mrs. z. Henry Hartman,
Mrs. Ogden Mills, Mrs. Ogden Reid,
Mira. Paul D. Cravath, Mrs. Andrew T.
White aud Mrs. Paul NJ. Warburg.
Edward johnson, tenor; Albert Spald-
Ing. violinist, and Miss Harriet Van
Emden, soprano, will appear in an at
tractive program.
The proceeds Of the affair will be de-
voted to the baby welfare work which
the association is carrying on In eight
milk and health stations in this city.
Tickets and boxes may be obtained
from Mrs. Henry Willard. 62s Park
Avenue.
Elaborats preparations ara being
made to make the sixth annual Mardi
Gras ball, to be given at the Ritz-Ca
ton February II. one Of the most spec
tacular affairs OF the winter, and many
prominent young women will take part
In the court pageant Miss Muriel
Oakes has bsen selected jas grand
duchess. Others who will APPEAR are
Miss Harriet McKim, Miss Marie Leary,
Miss Margaret French, Miss Zillah T.
Thompson, Miss Marion Tiffany. Miss
Mary Lincoln, Miss Ada Hsinxe, Miss
Margaret French, Miss Marie La
Narchs, Miss Gensvieve Clendenin,
Miss Marie Carter, Miss Grace Cross
man, Miss Edna Hoyt, Miss Virginia
Stsrry, Miss Adelaide Beddall, Miss
Polly Brooks, Miss Mary Jay Schief-
felin, Miss Florence Carter and Miss
Grace Hendricks.
Fairfax Burger will be the jester.
There will be the usual minuet with
dAbutantss az the participants and
many speciality numbers.
The proceeds will 60 to the Southern