New-York tribune., 1920-02-23
Ritter Tablea11s
Grown Season
AT Palm Beach
Most Elaborate Entertain.
ment of Winter Attended
by 200 of Social Set in
the New Music Room
Washington Ball Tonight
Weeks Program Is Filled
With Series \of Dances,
Suppers and Like Affairs
speclo, Dispatch to The r,,,ur.

Special dispatch to The Tribune
PALM BEACH, Fla, Feb. 22.-Coin-
cident with the crest Of the season the
most elaborate entertainment of the
winter was held last night at AL Poni-
ente, Joseph Riter's place, formerly
the estate Of the late George B. Cluett.
A new music room. decorated by F.
Burial Hoffman and Robert Chandler
and said to be one of the handsomest
in the country, has just been added to
the hou> and invitations were extended
to all it would accommodate, about 200
persons, to the entertainment, which
was tableaux vivants, for an English
war charity, arranged by Lady Thomp
son. of London, who is spending the
winter here.
Mrs. Edward r. Thomas was espe-
cially active in preparing the tableaus.
In the posing she was assisted by
Thomas Shields Clarke. Florenz Zieg-
field, Nine. Blanche Yovin and Addison
Misener IN the costuminE. The
programs were sold by Mrs. Charles
Amory, Mrs. Quincy Shaw I'd. Mrs.
Joseph Speidel and Miss Eleanor
Carter, all in costume, as were Mrs.
Horace Chase and Mrs. Robert Nieman.
who ushered. During the program or
gan selections were played by Zoel
Parento
Among those attending were: Mich
ael P. Grace, who had with him Mr..
and Mrs. J. C. Phipps and the Hon.
Hubert Beaumont; Mr.. and Mrs.
George Andrew, Lord Queensborough,
Mrs. Alexander Biddle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Craig B,ddle. Mrs. Charles S. Choate,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter j. Mitchell, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank P: Frazier, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Webb, Mr.. and Mrs. Sher-
man Flint, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward T.
Stotesbury and their party, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harlan Kent Bolton, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Seton, Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre L.
Barley. General Fitzgerald, Captain
Cyril Hargreaves, Mrs J. Armour
Worden, Mrs. Eugene Philbin. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sherman Aldrich, Mrs Robert
Dunn Douglas, Mrs. Frederic Edey, Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Speidel, Mrs. Julian
Farchild Mrs. Delos Wickham and Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Mum.
Many Of the guests first attended
formal dinners at the Beach Club,
where there was particularly gay
tained large number at supper
dance following the tableaus, and
Frederick Humphreys and Thomas
Eastman took many others to the Coun-
try Club. where they had arranged to
have the clubhouse entirely to them
selves for late supper and ball that
lasted most of the night.
The famous Washington Birthday
ball of the Royal Poincana will be
given tomorrow night, and every
night this week will be crowded with
entertaining at the Beach. Country
and Everglades clubs. Hosts at some
OF the more conspicuous of these en-
tertainments, for which invitations
have been issued, include Captain and
Mrs. James H. Kidder, Mrs. Jerome N.
BonaParte, Mrs. Eugene N Pargny,
Horace H. Work and Mrs. Edward +.
Stotesbury. who on Thursday in honor
OF Mr.. Stotesbury's birthday, will give
a luncheon for 12O people at Ell Mira
sol, the magnificent Stotesbury estate
which has been building two years; and
Is just completed.
The program of tableaus follows:
Charky-M. F. Wood. Diana Guest, Peggy
Phipps. Samkin Thomas, after Thayer
Les Graces-Mrs Kaye. Mrs Pierre Bar