The New York herald., 1920-11-21

their dssuises at the entrance. No
modish ball dress or conventional claw
hammer will be permitted to give 1920
note to the picture.
Most OF those who have planned to at
tend will 60 to costume dinners in 7ati-'
vance. 1t will be eleven o'clock before
the animated scene of Venice of the
Renaissance will be complete. Break
| fast will be served at four o'clock the
next morning, and when Dante, Colum-
bus. Boccaccio, Don Juan and the others
start for home the work-a-day world
of New York will be getting ready for
mother business day.
There is an incentive for women to
dress appropriately for the Venetian
Ball. Prizes are to be awarded for the
costumes that will best express the his
toric idea of the night. Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney. Prince Rospigliosi and
Mr. Robert w. Chanler will form the
court of last resort in awarding the
prizes.
To Give Costume Dinners.
Hosts and hostesses of the costume
dinners at the Ritz-Carlton or in prl-
vate homes include Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney. Mrs. Belmont Tiffany. who will
| entertain for her niece, Miss Mary Cam
has just returned from abroad Miss
wanden Mathews and Miss Genevieve
Clendenin. Mrs. John Magee, Mrs. John
Sanford, Mrs Clifford A. Cochran, Mrs.
william X. Vanderbilt I'd. Mr.. Conde
Mast, Mrs. william Post. Mr.. Crownin
shield. Mrs. Duncan Ellsworth. Mrs.
William Goadby Loew. Mrs. william
Astor Chanler, Miss Mary Hoyt Wiborg.
Mrs. George Boiling Lee. Mrs. Conde
Mast Mrs. Orestes Ferrara. Mrs. Fred
erick Lewlsohn, Mrs. William F. Shee-
ham, whitney Warren and Mrs. Edison
Bradley.
Some other persons who will attend
the ball are Mrs. Monroe Douglas
Robinson, Mrs. Walter Il. Maynard,
hr. John Moffat. Mrs william Payne
Thompson, Mrs. John Barrymore, Mrs.
Sidney w. Fish. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Clapp Smith. Mr.. Austin Strong, Mrs
| Otto II. Kahn. Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt.
Mrs. Marshall Field. Mrs. Willard
Straight, Mrs. William G. Rockefeller
Mrs. Thomas Hastings. Mrs. Frederick
w Vanderbilt. Mrs. Cass Gilbert. Mrs.
Douglas Robinson, Mrs. John w. Gar
rett. Mr.. and Mrs. Abram Pool, Mrs
August Belmont, Mrs. Henry p. Davi-
son. Mrs A. Murray Young. Mrs. James
s. Cushman. Mrs. Frederick "A. Eaton
Madame Iswolsky. Mrs. Frederick Levi
sohn, Mr. Philip L. Goodwin, Mr.. Royal
| Cortissoz Mrs Frederick c. Havemeyer.
Mrs. James w. Corrigan. Mr.. James
Reynolds and Miss Alice Dawson.
| Also Mrs. j. Kennedy Tod. Mrs. Will
\ lam Adams Delano, Mrs Robert Graves,
I Mrs. +. Morgan Grinnell. Mrs. Edward
Van Ingen. Miss Lucille Thornton. Mrs.
| Orestes Ferrara. Mrs. William Salomon.
| Mrs. Edward Spencer, Mrs. $. j. Auer-
bacher. Mrs Giovanni Girardon. Mrs.
I Richard =. Lydon. Mrs. Peter Larson.
| Mrs Charles Mather MacNeill, Mrs.
Sanford White, Count de Periguy and
| Mrs. wslbrldge s. Taft.
Boxing Bouts in Society.
( Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill. younger
son OF the Duchess Of Marlborough. has
become an honorary patron OF the Mar
/ shall Stillman Movement OF New York,
which through the organization Of ath-
| letic and boxing clubs for boys and
| young men with few chances In life
| aims to set gangsters right. Thus n
parallel between the "gangster move
! rnents" In London and in New York has
been struck.
The head and shoulders Of the local
get-together idea 10 help get the gang
ater out of bad habits and make use
ful man OF him Is Mr.. Alpheus Geer.
His son. Mr.. Alpheus NJ. Geer. has just
returned from England where he took
n postgraduate course at oxford. with
the news that Lord Ivor Is anxious TO
get behind the Marshall Stillman clubs
here and extend a movement that has
met with excellent results among down
and outs, of the British metropolis.
on the night OF December IA New
York society also will get behind this
movement. In the ballroom OF the Com
.4rrf.N
boxing bouts will be pulled Off" The
boxers will include we'll known profess
eional fighters and some % Iho best ~