The New York herald., 1920-01-18

Being Earnest in the Hudson Theatre
next month will be one Of the dramatic
novelties of the winter. Amateurs nave
trod the boards in Broadway on numerous
occasions, but not in such serious WORK
as that presented by Wilde's brilliant play.
Professionals of the stage also have col
Elaborated with amateurs, but not IN CIT
cumStanceS equal to this.
The amateurs in the cast of THE I'm
portance of Being Earnest" will be Mrs
Lydig Hoyt, MRS. James Lowell Putnam
Mrs Joseph B. Thomas and MISS Elsa
Maxwell. Playing opposite them VIII be
Messrs Ernest Glendinning, L. Wigney
Percyval and Reginald Mason. In the
curtain raiser Mrs. Herbert Shipman will
appear opposite Mr.. Norman Trevor
Mr.. J. Hartley Manners association
with this offering as general director
sends the memory back two years when
Mrs. Putnam appeared in the nome OF
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs in the cast OF
I"Happiness," a philosophical comedy by
Mr.. Manners. Her efficiency on that
Occasion was in keeping with her fine IN
ltelligence in an appreciation of the higher
drama Others in that earlier cast were
Mrs. Philip Kip Rhinelander, then Miss
Helen G. Alexander, and Mr.. E. Coster
Wilmerding.
Seats for the performance in the Hud.
son Theatre will be sold by Mrs. Edward
IN Breitung, of No. 16 East Seventy
sixth street. Cheques should be made
payable to Mr.. w. Forbes Morgan, treas
urer of the Fund for Milk for Children
of America.
Three Dances for Charity.
Within a week, just before Lent will
bring about the usual change in society
routine, three large dances will be given
for local charities. The first of these
will be the Midwinter Ball in the Ritz
Carlton hotel on January 80, under the
lauspices of the Womans Auxiliary Of the
Union Settlement. Mrs. Henry p. Dav-
lison is chairman of the directing COM
mittee and associated with her are ma
irons as well as debutantes. Miss Eu-
nice James will be chairman of large
committee of young women who were in
ltroduced to society this winter.
Boxes will be erected about the tall
room floor and those have been engaged
by Mines. Grosvenor Hyde Backus. Regi-
nald Barclay. Edwin NJ. BulkleS Thomas
Crimmins, Henry p. Dawson. David
Dows, Andrew Fletcher, William II. 5.
lGriswold. John Henry Hammond. j. Hor-
ace Harding. Edward s. Harkness. Robert
lJaffray. Arthur Curtiss James. Walter Il.
James, Walter Jennings, ID. Hunter Nc
Alpin, Herbert Lee Pratt, William A.
Read Charles III. Sabin. Herbert L. Sat
teree and Harry Payne Whitney.
Patronesses of the Midwinter Ball are
Mines William r. Barboyr. Philip ID.
Barthel, G. Vanderbilt Barton, Robert S.
Brewster. William Adams Brown, Jona-
than Bulkley, James Byrne. Lipcoln
Cromwell, Ira Davenport, William Butler
Duncan, J. Clifton Edgar. George c.
Fraser. Lewis b. Gawtry. Columbus O'D.
Iselin, Oliver G.. Jennings, Otto III. Kahn.
Alvin w. Krech, Frederick f. Lee. Fred
erick w. Lincoln. r Burnham Moffat,
William II, Moore, Dwight w. Morrow,
Rufus L. Patterson, Daniel Il. Pomeroy.
Henry H. Rogers, Dean Sage William
Jay Schieffelin. Arthur II. Scribner.
Charles Stewart Smith. Louis Morris
Starr. Edward Van Ingen. Albert Gala
tin Hugh ID. Auchincloss, William Hark-
ness, Il. Tlleston Wells, Cornelius n.
Bliss, Jr.: William Warner Hoppin.
Harold Irving Pratt, John 5. Rogers
Waiter Phelps Bliss. George f. Brewster.
Henry Il. Coe. Ernest Flagg and Arthur
McGiffert, Miss Eleanor de Graft Cuyler
and Miss Clara II. Spence.
The second of the charity dances will
be the annual ball OF the New York City
Visiting Committee at the Colony Club on
January 81, at which Mrs Herbert l.. SAT-
terlec will be the hostess. In the re-
Iceivng line with Mrs. Satterlee will be
Mines. William ID. Morgan. c. Grant La
Farge, j. Horace Harding, HoWlanu
Davis, Walter b. James. Richard G. Colt,
Henry B. Barnes, Frederick l.. Crawford
~. ]. Moorhead and Charles Williams,
who, with other women equally well
known In civic and charitable movements
are expanding the work OF helping men,
women and children in the public hos.
pitals that was started by the City Visit
ing Committee at the time of the civil
wa. Now the committee Is welcoming
the aid of the Red Cross hospital workers
who have returned from France. a mum
Der of large dinners have been arranged
to precede the ball.
| The patronesses include Mines. Justus
Rupert James Byrne. Frederick H. Ca.
bot. Walter Dsmrosch. William *
Draper. Cleveland ". Dodge T.. Henry
Hartman, Edward :. Hardness r. r.
Hewitt, Edward Ringwood, rcrrc JAY
lCadwalader Jones. Arthur Kavanauh
William Church Osborn, John r. Pratt
william ~ Osborn. Thomas Rianhard
James Roosevelt Charles T.. Tiffany
Cornelius Vanderbilt I.insec Blag agden, e..
Tampla Emmets Samuel laASrs AAillialil