New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-18
Soc1ety Affairs For Charity-News of Resorts
Charity Ball Is Next
Large Social Event
Governor Smith and Mrs. C.. b. Alexander
to Lead Grand March of Annual Affair at
Waldorf-Astoria on Evening of Feb. 3

Although the Charity Ball is the old
est affair Of its kind in the history o.
New York society, its popularity onl,
increases with time, and not in years
I'm fact, since the days when the late
MRS. William Aston was the recognized
leader Of the "4O0"-has it aroused as
much interest among the members Of
the fashionable set as it Is doing this
winter. 1t will be given, as usual, at
the Waldorf-Astoria, on the night OF
February 8.
BY right Of priority and by right, too,
of the people of Importance who have
always attended and given it their spe-
cIal patronage, the Charity Ball, even
from its inception in 1867, has always
held position of prominence among
the public social functions of the sea-
son, and Tor many years there was an
unVrltten law in New York society that
10 other important social gathering be
held on the night of the ball. In fact,
no debutante in the old days felt that
she was properly launched in society
until she had attended the Charity
Ball, and the "buds" of the present
day, judging from their interest in it,
have the same idea. This year, with an
almost entirely new committee, num-
bering among it's members some of the
most prominent and popular of the
younger patrons and the mothers of
many of the seasons girls among the
list of patronesses, the cooperation
OF the younger set is assured.
The members of the committee are
Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, president:
Mrs. Frank S. Witherbee, treasurer;
Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, secretary. Vice
presidents, Mrs. George F. Baker jr.,
Mrs: Francis Carolan, Mrs. Clifford
Cochran, Mrs. Newbold Leroy Edgar,
Mrs. James w. Gerard, Mrs. Sumner
Gerard, Mrs. Lawrence L. Gillespie,
Hartman, Mrs. Oliver Hartman. Mrs.
Adolph Ladenburg. Mrs. Henry W.
Munroe, Mrs. Frederick Pearson, Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, Mrs. John Sanford,
Princess Cantacuzene- Speranskey and
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt jr. Ball
committee, Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich, Mrs.
Daniel C. Adams, Mrs. Charles D.
Miller, Mrs. Robert Olyphant, William
Hoffman, Francis L. V. Hoppin, Fred
erick A. Juilliard, Edward de P. Liv-
ngston, George Ledlie, T. j. Oakley
Harry Pelham Robbins.
Charles NJ. Sampson and E. Coster
committee will be Lawrence L. Butler.
So great has been the demand for
boxes that Oscar, who always gives
he Charity Ball his special attention,
las been obliged to change the usual
so as to make room for
more boxes on the floor of the ballroom.
So many applications for these, as we'll ,
Is for the first and second tier boxes.
lave been received that, according to
Hiss Florence v. Doane, executive
secretary of the ball committee, those
o send in their applications for boxes
nd tickets are likely to be disap- !
ointed. The Charity Ball tickets have 1
he unusual distinction of being about q
he only things that have not doubled
/ price in the last few years, the
barge of SIS ticket being the same as 2
as made at the first ball in 1857. APP l.
locations for tickets may be made at y
ne more prominent hotels or may be n
emit to Miss Florence V. Doane. 10 v
Vest Thirty-fourth Street. =
The dance music has always been one n
the attractive features of the Char i
y Ball, and this year three orchestras
ave been engaged to play. They are !;
.enri Conrad's, julius Rosenberg's and
larry Bennet's. While the ball will :
pen, as usual, with a grand march in =
ne main ballroom at 10 o'clock, there =
robably will be the usual number of :,
eople from out of town who will come :
arly because they are obliged to leave y
arly, and for their benefit it has been
roposed that informal dancing be held 7
, the other bathrooms before the for 1
,al opening of the ball. However, this
ONT has not been definitely settled as
ct. !
Governor Smith and Mrs. Alexander =
will lead the grand march. l
Some Of society's cleverest amateur t
actresses will appear at the Hudson :
rheater on Sunday evening, February l, I
n Oscar Wilde's play, "The Importance
# Being Earnest" They will include {
Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, Mrs. Joseph B. q
Thomas, Mrs. James Lowell Putnam i
and Miss Elsa Maxwell, while the men q
"a the cast will be professionals, in 9
.luding Ernest Glendenning, T. Winey :
Percyval and Reginald Mason. The
play will be preceded by a curtain
raiser, "The Ninth Waltz" with Mrs.
Herbert Shipman, supported by Nor
man Trevor. The Wilde comedy will
ooe under the direction Of j. Hartley
Manners. The proceeds will be divided
American Fund (Miss Elizabeth, Mar-
bury, chairman, and Mrs. Oliver Harri-
man, chairman Of the distribution com
mittee) and the American Central Com
nittee for Russian Relief, of which
the Princess Cantacuzene Is head
mrs: r. N. Breitung, Is East Seventy
sixth street, Is selling the tickets, and
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