Evening star., 1920-01-12

New York for the occasion. AS Mrs.
Barney is taking n keen interest in
the Actors Memorial Fund day, Janu-
ary ~, sne Will have some prominent
member of the profession auction
boxes and seats for the gala matinee
performance in the principal thea
ters on January % at her tea on Fri
day. Mrs. Barney is not sending out
cards for Friday afternoon. but is
extending q general invitation to the
public as well as to the diplomatic
corps residential and official society,
all of whom are taking a great in
tereSt in the Actors Memorial day.
Mrs. Barney will be assisted at
her reception by Mrs Henry Price
Wright, who is chairman of the young
matronS' committee, and the mem
bers of her committee. including Nine.
Slavko y. Grouitch, wife of the min
lister of the Serbs. Croats and SLOW
eneS; Nine. Salvador Sol, wife of the
minister of Salvador; Mrs, Henry
Getty Chiffon. wife of the secretary
of the British embassy; Mrs. George
barnett. wife of Mai. Gen. Barnett,
commandant of the Marine Corps: Mrs
II. H. Rousseau, Mrs. David Porter,
Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman, Mrs.
Claude Mayo Mrs. Richard Olney,
Mrs Charles B. Henderson, Mrs Vic
tor CuShman. Mrs. Charles S. Brom-
well, Mrs. Catherine Rush Porter and
Mrs. Effingham Lawrence Townsend.
The special matinee committee is
headed by John Barrett, chairman,
and Mrs. Newton d. Baker, vice chair
man. This is the first time Mrs
Baker has ever consented to serve on
such committee, but she is intensely
interested in the Actors Memorial
Fund, as she feels the public is
greatly indebted to members of that
profession who gave SO generously of
their talents. time and money, and
often their lives, during the great
war
The solicitor general and Mrs. King
entertained al dinner on Saturday
evening, in compliment to the former
minister to Switzerland and Mrs.
Pleasant A. Stovall. a party of their
mutual friends.
Mrs. William III. Allen, jr. of Chi
cago arrived this morning for a visit
Mrs. G.. r. Cecil, at the st. Nicholas
apartments.
Brilliant Audience at Concert.
The amba ssador of Peru and Nine.
Pezet and Nine. Paulo de Godoy were
among the guests in Mrs John b.
Henderson's box at the concert diplo-
matique last evening, the second of
the delightful series being given on
Sunday evenings. The audience was
a large and brilliant one, and among
those in the boxes were the minister
of Cuba and Nine. Cespedes and their
piece, Miss de Lima; the Secretary of
War and Mrs. Baker who entertained
number of guests; Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas +. Logan, whose guests were
Nine. Sol, wife of the minister of
Salvador, and their guest Miss Bow
mann. and Commander and Mrs.
Claude B. Mayo. Princess Chika with
several guests, and Mrs. F. B. Moran,
Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm McConihe and
Mrs. Horace G.. Macfarland occupied
another box. Senator and Mrs. Will
liam NJ. Calder and Representative
and Mrs. Charles B. Ward, Miss
Gladys Hinckley and Mr.. Arthur
Bradley Campbell were among those
! in the other boxes. Others present in
| cluded Nine. Hauge. the secretary of
| the Peruvian embassy and Sonora de
| Gibson, Mrs. Robert L. Owen, Mrs.
| stephen Z. Elkins, Mrs. Matthew T.
| Scott, Mrs. Joseph Hampson. the mil
itary attache of the Rumanian lega-
| ton and Nine. Levius Teiusanu, Mr..
| and Mrs. Joseph Thropp, Mr.. and Mrs.
William A. Burton of London, Miss
| Laurie Smith of New York, Miss
| Keane, Mrs. Frank B. Freyer, Rep
| resentative and Mrs. James r. Mann,
Mrs Roscoe c. Bulmer Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl Goodwin, Mrs. E. NJ. Hood, Miss
| Gretchen Hood, Gen. and Mrs. T. O.