New-York tribune., 1920-02-21
"Ports of World"
Scores Success at
First Performance
Society Maids and Matrons
Appear With Noted Actors
in Play for the Benefit of
$1,000 Navy Clubhouse

Sailors, whose knowledge OF New
fork's smart set is cleaned largely
from the pages Of Sunday supplements,
lalrly gasped yesterday afternoon when
they discovered how much the city's
youthful society," women know about
them
for the prepossessing young women
who staged Ports of the World" at
the Century Theater proved that they
knew lot about the likes and dislikea
OF Jack Tar. The skit, built upon the
generally approved theory that the
sailor has girl in every port, revealed
pretty girls OF tho city's exclusive cir
cIes IN the roles of animated ports
the ports the sailor loves to make.
The several hundred wounded sol
diers, sailors and marines who occu-
pled seats IN the theater shouted their
approval as, one after another, their
laVorltes appeared and beamed from
special point of vantage upon them.
Boxing Match Thrills
The skit was but one feature of the
crowded program staged for the benefit
of the Navy Clubs 500, 600 endowment
lund- The women who contributed to
yesterdays success are convinced that
new home for the club, which now
mas quarters at Is East Forty first
street, will be an accomplished fact
IN the near future if such interest as
was exhibited yesterday continues.
Actors and actresses whose names
stand high in the profession shared
honors with young women who never
before had viewed the stage except
from this side of the footlights. The
members Of the cast who staged the
Ports Of the World" skit the hit of
the afternoon, included: Miss Marie
Mamarche, Miss Margaret Hamilton,
Miss Helen Hoadley, Miss Catherine
Okie, Miss Elsie Everett, Miss Grace
Bristed, Miss Josephine Flood, Miss
Emily burchell, Miss Dorothy Clapp,
Miss Virginia Sterry Miss Agnes De
Nina Dearth, Miss Edythe McCoon.
Miss Rita Boxer, Miss Else Morrill,,
Miss Victoria Kellogg, Miss Isabel Nc
Milan and Miss Margaret Warren.
Sandwiched between the appearances
of social favorites were two favorites
of other circles, Joe yelling and Jack
Britton, who aroused the enthusiasm
of the most demure dcbutante by their
gentle imitation Of q real four round
bout
Every seat in the house was taken
when the curtain rose at 2:i5 O'clock.
ne actual returns as a result of the
performance were not known last night,
but it was agreed that the figures
would be we'll above $4,000
Some of the Tavorites
Among the favorites who contributed
to the entertainment of the audience
were Ethel Barrymore, Bessie Mccoy
Davis, Blanche Ring, Charles Win
ninger, Donald Brian and long list
of stars participating in the successes
now to be seen on Broadway
Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn is chairman
of the Women's Campaign Committee
for the Navy Club and Mrs. William
Fl. Hamilton, the founder, is aiding in
the campaign.
Mrs. George Barton French, Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson and Mrs. Charles
A. Childs were in charge OF the twenty
young women who sold programs and
acted as ushers. Among this mum Der
we're Mrs. John r. Drexel jr, Mrs
Philip Kip Rhnelander and the Misses
Marion Tiffany, Carlotta Havemeyer,
Helen Trevor. Caroline Prentice, Polly
Damrosch, Audrey Hoffman, Marguerite
Caperton, Helen Cameron, Eva McAdoo,
Olive Gawtry, Ella Mercer French, Bet
ty Barber, Katherine Hurd, Sylvia Hill
house, Geraldine McAlpin and Sophie
Dupr