The New York herald., 1920-01-18
SOCIETY TURNS TO THEATRICAL PRODUCTION FOR CHARITY

Cora p. Van Wyck, DR.. Henry L. Shively,
Messrs. Arthur o. Choate and Waldron p
Belknap.
The annual concert for the New York
Diet Kitchen Association will be held in
the Waldorf-A Astoria Hotel on the forenoon
of February 10, at eleven O'clock Prom
inent soloists WIFI appear. The proceeds
will be devoted to the baby welfare work
which the ASSOCIATION IS carrying on in
eight milk stations. The officers of the
association are Mrs. Henry Willard, Mrs.
William Curtis Demorest, Mrs Henry p.
Davisson, Mrs. George Reese Satterlee,
Mrs. Joseph w. Tilton and Mrs Elias NJ
Johnson. Tickets. at S6 for reserved seats.
So for admission and S35 and $50 for boxes,
may be obtained from Mrs Henry Vii
lard, at No. 525 Park avenue.
An attractive feature of a concert in the
Waldorf-Astoria on the night of February
IS for the monastery of the Visitation Nuns
at Riverdale, n. Y, will be the singing of
the F'ordllam Chorus, consisting of fifty
trained singers, under the direction of
Mr.. Charles j. Smith. The soloists will be
Mr. Ernest Davis and Professor Charles
Corcoran, of the City College, pianist.
Dancing is to follow the concert. Mrs.
Joseph /. Berry is chairman of the di-
recting committee, which also includes
Miss Mary Daily and Mr.. Michael j. Cor
coran. Mgr. Lavelle heads long list of
patrons.
Mr. John Drinkwafer, English dramatic
critic ana author of abraham Lincoln"
will speak at luncheon tomorrow in the
Biltmore Hotel under the auspices of the
National and Manhattan Executive Coun-
ellis of the Girl Scouts. Mrs. Selden Bacon.
a member of the Girl Scout National
Executive Board, also will speak. The
purpose of the luncheon is to make known
the recent peace time work of the Girl
Scouts and to explain the present pro-
gramme of social service and arrange
ment for the expansion OF the organiZa-
ton Tables have been reserved by Mrs.
Arthur Ryle, Mrs. Percy II. Williams.
Mrs. Richard c. Colt, Mrs. Charles Swords.
Mrs. George Biggs. Mrs Nicholas 4.
Brady and Mrs. Robert Franks
Simple exercises will mark the OPENING q
tomorrow Of the McMahon Memorial Tenn.
porary Shelter for Children at No 917
East Fffty-seventh street. The shelter al
ready is caring for thirty small children.
but tomorrow's exercises will be the Off
c1al opening to the public Archbishon
Patrick j. Hayes will be present in the
afternoon to bless the house. In the morn
ing Mgr M. J. Laveie, rector of st. Pat
ticks Cathedral. will say mass Mem
bers of the executive board who will have
charge OF the reception include Mrs
Thomas Hughes Kelly, chairman: Mrs
Nicholas r.. Brady. vice chairman; Mrs.
William Howard Taft. Second; Mrs. Ro-
land Redmond, chairman of the house
committee; Mrs. John D. Ryan, Miss Te-
resa r O'Donahue, and Miss Alice g.
Grow, the superintendent
The shelter is a memorial to the late
Right Rev Denis J. Mcmahon, founder
of the Association Of Catholic Charities
Its purpose is to take care for a period
of several weeks of children from the ages
OF two weeks to seven years whose
mothers have been hurried to hospitals in
emergency cases. The institution takes
children without regard to color, race, or
creed and is the first Of it's kind in the
city, combining the purposes of the day
nursery and the regulation children's In
stitution.
Miss Anna Fitziu, soprano; Mr.. Albert
Spalding, violinist and Mr.. Alfredo Os-
wald. Brazilian pianist have offered their
services and Mr.. Adolph Lewisohn has
lent his house at No SS1 Fifth avenue for
a concert for the Greenwich House Music
School on next Wednesday afternoon at
half-past three o'clock. The proceeds will
go directly to the maintenance of the
school. The patronesses include Mrs. H.
%. Havemeyer, Miss Annie Burr Jennings
Mrs. Henry Willard, Miss Gertrude Par
sons, Miss Amelia ]. burlington, Mrs
Paul M. Warburg. Mrs. James f. D.
Lanier, Mrs. John Randall Mum. Mrs.
w after Is. James, MIS-. george IL. NICHOLS
Mrs. Charles d. oNrton, Mrs. Isaac N.
Seligman, Mrs Ralph Marsh and Mrs
John Peele.
This Week In Society.
This afternoon Mrs. Lucien Hamilton
Tying will have another of her series OF
Sunday musicales in her home, No. 13S
East Sixty-fifth street She will continue
them through this month Another Incl
dent of this afternoon will be a reception
by Mr.. and Mrs. Wright Barclay, of No.
1852 West Fifty-fourth street.
Most of society's activity will be confined
to the last days of the week. On Wednes-
day Mrs. Livingston Carroll will be mar
ried to Mr.. w. Sackett Duel1, OF Phiadel-
phia, in her apartment in the Lorraine. A
few relatives and friends have been in
vited to the ceremony. There will be two
hundred more at a reception afterward
Mrs Carroll Will be given away by her
cousin. Mr.. Whitney Warren, and will be
otherwise unattended. Mr.. Duelrs best
man will be his brother. Mr.. Charles III.
Duell Jr.,
on Thursday Mrs Joseph Pulitzer will
give a dinner and dance in her home for
her son, Mr.. Herbert Pulitzer. On Satur-
day she will have a dinner party.
A dinner which Mr.. and Mrs. James
Blackstone Taylor will give on Friday for
Miss Emily Sloane Hammond and Miss
AC elafde Rcuth Oguen Will De one or
several. On the same night Mrs. III. Fair
field Osborn will entertain at dinner at
the Colony Club.
Invitations have gone through the mails
for several weddings next month. Miss
Fanny Taliaferro Ford. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Richards Ford. Of No. %
wost Tenth street, will be married on Feb
r,arv IL in the Church OF the Trans
fir1,ration 10 Mr. Thomas Shipley Thomas
of PHILADELPHIA. On the same day Miss
Anna Sherman will be married to Mr.
William Rensen in Christ Church, Rye.
In Y Three days later Miss Helen A.
Carrere and Mr.. Frederick X. Barbour
will he married in st. James, Church.
Tvpical OF the latter half T the winter
season will be the mid-year dance in the
lRitz-Carlton Hotel on the night OF St
Valentines Day for the girls who pre-
coded the present set of debutantes into
societv II will be under the patronage
Of Mines. Jonathan Bulkley Richard c.
Colt Rowland Davis. George G. Fraser.
F,lIyood Hondriclt, Richard M. Hurd. r.
Rurnharr Moffat. a. Henry Mcsle. Will
tam a. Road and Wilfred j.. Worcester.
arrangements Announced.
Two Of last weeks engagements served
stfl furtbor TO accentuate the broadening
yeIations between American and British
fa n,iIies The engagements were those OF
Nise Katharine c. Miller to Captain the
tIonorable Andrew Nicholas Armstrong
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