The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-03

campaign, and their decision to start
the season With a ball that Is to be
sidelight on the greatest day of the
year in the fancy Of a great public
is characteristic of women who have
learned the worth of making capital
for charity out of their experience and
Influence.
From the opening of the ball Mt 8
o'clock until 2 o'clock the next morning
Presidential and State returns will be
flashed upon large screen. There will
be fifteen flashes an hour, with inter-
walls for moving pictures and portraits of
the candidates. Tables seating six will
be In each OF forty-eight boxes in the
ballroom. and there supper will be
served. An orchestra of twenty-eight
pieces will play.
The idea has taken hold on the young
set because of the absolute novelty of the
occasion. for. the committee astutely
asks. who has yet been able to dance to
the music of a Presidential election?
THE ball will be an appropriate successor
OF such novel entertainments as the
rainbow ball and the ball Of the har-
vest moon of past seasons, for the same
beneficiary.
Mrs. DE Coursey Sales. president of st.
Timothy's Alumn@, heads the ball COM
mittee. Among her aids will be Mrs,
Frederick A Cooley. Miss Isabel Shotter,
Mrs. +. Trubee Dawson, Mrs William
Clark and Mrs. John Kerr. Among the
patronesses will be Mrs. c. Ledyard
Blair. Mrs. Charles Merrill Chaplin.
Mrs. Joseph Larocque, Mrs. Clarence
Blair Mitchell. Mrs. J. J. Hlgginson, Jr.,
Mrs. II. Rivington Pyne and Mrs George
b. Post, Jr. In addition there is to be a
Junior committee of debutantes and
younger women, which will include Miss
Barbara Kissel and Miss Genevieve Glen
denim.
The philanthropfc prospect includes
100 teas for the Serbian Child Welfare
Association, headquarters of which is at
West Eighth street. This cycle OF 100
matinee diversions over the tea cups
has been arranged by the women's
committee of one hundred Of the as
sociation, being. therefore, ut the rate
OF one tea per member. The scheme
VIII be under the direction OF Mrs. Min
turn Pinchot chairman, and Miss Alice
carpenter. vice-chairman. Announce
ments or the dates and places of the
tcaC viii be made from time to time.
Among the members OF the committee
VINO VIII give teas are Mrs. Gordon
Nnox Bell. Mrs. George Barton French.
Aes 1OuutIls MTHs james
M. Beck, Mrs. John B. StanchfIeld.
Mrs. !. y. Phelps Stokes. Mrs Nelson
Vanderbilt. Mrs. De witt Cuyler. Mrs
George II. -. Schieffelin. Mrs. Charles
Gilmore Kerley. Mrs. Francis Burial
Hoffman. Mrs. James Cummings Barr
Mrs. Daniel Bacon. Miss Kathryn
Bache. Mrs. Henry James. Mrs Fred
erick Fdey. Mrs. George Marshall Allen,
Mrs. William H. Moore, Mrs. Eurene
". Pool. Mrs. William r. Sheehan. Mrs
Henry c. Trevor. Mrs. Theodore l.. Van
Nordcn, and Mrs William Hochster.
Recent activities OF the womens
committee have been reception by
Mrs. Claude e. pinney at the Ritz
Carlton last Tuesday meeting at the
residence of Mrs. Don Hooker In Balti-
more on Friday and reception by
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman In Washington
yesterday. Next Thursday Mrs. Will
liam Eidlitz will give a reception Mt
Eriarcliff Lodge for Mrs. Ruth Far
nam. an American woman who served
as a sergeant with tho Serbian army
during the war.