The New York herald., 1920-01-18
what Next?" importance of Being
Earnest and Junior League
Show Announced.

With the energy and resource that
has marked various previous success
ful business ventures of the matrons
{ and young women of society for char
ftable projects at home and abroad,
that enterprising group is applying it's
abilities in new direction that holds
out the promise of amusement for the
general public and substantial incomes
tor needy philanthropies. 1t has en-
tered upon a period of amateur dra-
matte productions on a scale which it
has not hitherto approached.
This vogue, for such it has become
ct present, had its start in the signally
successful revival of "The Runaway
Girl" in the Plaza Hotel on last Mon
day and Tuesday nights for the Gros-
venor Neighborhood House and is to
be continued in four amateur produc-
tions and possibly fifth before the
season shall have advanced far into
Lent. Musical and dramatic produc-
lions already in rehearsal are What
Nextw an original musical comedy.
with book and score Ly Mr.. Deems Tay-
Tor and lyrics by Miss Mercedes de
Acosta, Mrs. Antoinette Frueauff and
Messrs. Charles Shaw and It. Gaillard
Thomas, I'd, in the Princess Theatre
, for two weeks beginning January rs,
tor the New York Protective Associa-
t1on and Girls Protective League.
''The Importance OF Being Earnest
+! a revival OF comedy by the late Oscar
Wilde. in the Hudson Theatre, with
curtain raiser called 1.-THE Ninth Waltz"
, for Milk for Children Of America and
tho American Central Committee for
Russian Relief.
The Junior Leagues annual ~show"
in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on March
, 2, 8 and under the direction Of Miss
Mary Jay Schieffelin.
The prospective fifth production is an
outcome of the revival of "rhe Runaway
Girl the patronesses Of which have re-
uuested Mr.. Charles B. Dillingham; to per-
NIT an amateur performance of apple
Blossoms" now in the Globe Theatre.
Whether not the same company that
delighted two large audiences last week
fin the charming musical comedy, which
the late Augustin DAILY brought to New
. y ork from England more than two decades
ago, is to be seen in apple Blossoms"
has not been announced. Mr.. Dillingham;
f. is taking personal interest in this pro-
Sposal and should the suggestion ripen he
! will find an able aid in Miss Grace r.
) Henry. who occupies unique position as
an amateur playwright and producer.
RaI~f foy Hama Fnr Rah1ns
In keeping in scope with other amateur
I projects IN music and drama will be three
performances of the ballet "Coppelia' in
the ball room of the Plaza Hotel under the
auspices of the Spence Alumnae Society
/, for that organizations Home for Babies.
There will be an opening matinee per-
formance on January q and others that
night and the night Of January 2S Mrs.
Lorenzo Armstrong is chairman of the
Entertainment Committee. The charm
ing ballet by Delibes will be given under
, the direction OF Otokar Bartik. of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, and the cast
will include a large group of the best
dancers among the debutantes and other
young women of society.
Leading parts will be taken by Mrs. B.
Tappen Fairchild, Misses Virginia Rice.
Katharine Hoagland. Margaret Burton and
dorothy Taylor. Others in the ballet will
be Misses Lillian Remsen. Betsy Flagg,
Helena Ogden, Dorothy Thompson, jean
nette Chappell, Carrie Reick, Beatrice
Beard. Helen Trevor. Grace Talbot, Helen
johnson. Marie Jenney, Dorothy Quinn,
Marion Carpenter. Adelaide Beddall. Ka-h-
ryn Slaybaci. Ethel Schmezel, Evelyn
Walker. Jane Cleveland. Helen Schne-
wind, Martha Oppley, Katherine Gosscr.
Dorothy Leary, Victorne Kellogg, Char
1otte Demorest and Julia Stanley.
Also Misses Charlotte Guye. Geraldine
Hall, Allen Gray, Virginia Wright, Aline
Tiedeman, Edna Strauch. Lily Lancaster,
Elizabeth Remsen. Margaret r. Warren.
Edith Smedberg. Alice Beers. Edna Hoyt,
Helen Kerr, Gretchen Schoen. Marie ].
. Iseary, Ada IIeinze. Virginia Sterry. Mar
saret Reck Alice Hall. Rita Boxer, Paul
inc Bourne. Dorothy Clapp, Edith McCoon
4 and Marion Heller Mrs. Robert r. NJ
.liminet. Mrs. Milton Newton, Mrs. Nelson
r. Shields and Mrs. James Squires.
Tickets and boxes for 'Coppelia" may
he obtained from Mrs. Armstrong, at No.
81 East tffty-first street.
Players for "what Next.-
Miss De Costa. Mrs. Frutauff and
Nfessrs. Shaw and Thomas have provided
, some sparkling music for the book by Mr..
Taylor in What Next!" which is TO fol-
low ''Nightie Night" at the Princess
Several OF the most competent amateur
players of society will be in the company
and among them will be Miss Hope Will
Jams and Mrs. Frederick Y. Dalziel.
Miss Williams is one of thee Sharks"
which Is the feminine side OF society what
the Amateur Comedy Club is to the mas
culine side. She has appeared in numerous
plays OF the Amateur Comedy Club, par
! ticulary when the organization brigaded
itself into the amusement side OF welfare
work during the war. She is an amateur
D actress OF the first order.
AS dancer Mrs. Dazel holds a similar
place. or. at least. once did. AS Miss
Emily Hoffman, she was the premiere
danseuse of society, and while she has
, appeared rarely in public since her mar
riage, slo has lost none of the grace and
fascinating piquancy of her art. In what
Next" Mrs. Dalziel will appear in a
Spanish dancing number with Messrs.
Caro- Delvaille and Luis Mora.
The principals with Miss Williams will
he Miss Elise Everett, debutante; Miss
Beth Martin. Mr. Paul Dougherty. Mr..
Frank Pollock. a singer of note: Mr.
/. Henry Clapp Smith, another of the best