New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
At the w Clubs
iNew York Mozart Society Begins Preliminary Work
for the Coming Season by Holding
Rehearsal of Choral

The New York Mozart Society. Mrs.
NOBLE Mcconnell, president, began It's
pseiiminary work yesterday for the
coming season by holding a rehearsal
oi the choral at the Hotel Astor, under
tne direction of Richard T. Percy, who
WIZ again conduct at the concerts this
winter. The choral rs larger than ever
TINS year and has about one hundred
members. The first musicale Of the sea-
son will be held at the Hotel Astor No
vember &, and others on the first Satur-
days of the months throughout the
winter. There will be as usual three
evening concerts, for which we'll known
artists have been engaged. The musi-
Gales, instead of taking place as in
former years in the afternoons, will be
held in the mornings and will be all
day affairs, beginning at 1850, fol-
lowed by luncheon, and this in turn by
dancing until o'clock.
Among the members Of the Mozart
Society are Miss Elsie Bickman, Miss
May c. Beasey, Mrs. W. R. Bassett,
Miss Dorothy Baldwin, Miss Mary c.
Barrett, Mrs. Louise NJ. Baxter, Mrs. J.
Van Wicklen Bergen, Miss Emily S.
Burn, Mrs. Florence Bullard, Miss
Elizabeth X. Coffin, Miss Adelaide
Childs, Mrs. Walter c. Cramp, Miss
Marjorie Cleaveland, Mrs. John Camp
bell, Mrs. Carl Duff, Miss Regina
Duff, Mrs: Louis C. Frese, Mrs. W. F.
Ashley K. Hammond, Miss Lillian
Homesley, Mrs. David B. Hill. Mrs.
Alexander R. Hamilton, Mrs. Gertrude
d. Holt, Mrs. Florence Foster Jenkins,
Mrs. Norman Jollif, Miss Nadia Kirbis,
Mrs. Carl Knudsen, Mrs. William E.
Kennedy, Mrs. Helen w. Lee, Miss
Mabel Ludwig, Mrs. Eugene V. Lam
bert, Mrs. Philip Meirowitz, Miss
Georgina McTernan, Miss Elsie l.. Nc
Frank Netschert, Mrs. Henry Weld
Newton, Miss Margaret Northrup, Mrs.
Harry Prutting. Miss X. Frances Pen
dergast, Miss Adele L. Prost, Miss V.
Dorothy Pitts, Mrs. Richard T. Percy,
Miss Harriet D. Proctor, Miss Marcia
M. Phillips, Mrs. Ferdinand c. Roll
mann, Mrs. Thomas Francis Reilly,
Miss Bessie Worthen Stevens, Miss
Angela Stapleton, Miss Kathryn
Scheerer, Miss Charlotte Southworth,
Miss Alma E. Schmidt. Mrs. F. G.
Schmelz, Mrs. Roy Williams Steele,
Miss Adrienne c. Soldin, Mrs. Chris
tine Sans, Miss Elizabeth S. Swallow,
Miss Edith NJ. Sullivan, Miss Lillian D.
Schwoerer, Miss Josephine Titus, Mrs.
D. K. Van Riper, Miss Grace B. Van
Riper Mrs w A. Winter, Miss Mar
garet Weaver, Mrs F. W. Riesberg and
Mrs. John L. Zaagg.
The New York Theater Club, Mrs.
Belle de Rivera president, will hold IT'S
first business meeting of the season at
the Hotel Astor on Tuesday. The board
Of directors meeting will be at 1
o'clock The chairman of program, Mrs.
Thomas Slack, will announce many in
novations for the coming year. and the
president will present an outline Of the
clubs various activities. Mrs. g.
Washbourne Smith, who has been the
clubs treasurer for ten years, is seri-
ously i'll and unable to attend to her
duties for the present, SO her once IS
being filled by Mrs. William j. de
Rivera.
Miss Edyth Totten, president Of the
Drama Comedy Club. entertained at a
luncheon in the yacht room of the
Hotel Astor Tuesday afternoon in honor
Of the officers of the club. They in
cluded Mrs. Sara Foster, Mrs. Mildred
Holland. Mrs. Amelia Schiff, Mrs. Flor
ence Hargrave, Mrs. A. U. Keedwell,
Mrs. Hermann Cohen and Mrs: May
Douglas, vice presidents; Mrs. n: NJ.
Tanning financial secretary; Mrs. Rod
ert G. Hargrave, recording secretary;
Mrs. Estelle B. Wagner, musical
director; Mrs Margaret Metcalf Voss,
chairman of reception; Miss Eliza Har-
ris, chairman of information; Mrs.
Imogene King, chairman of psychology;
Mrs Leonora Obendorfer chairman OF
women in literature; Mrs. Louis H.
Manley. chairman of green room, and
Mrs. Marie Clynn, chairman general OF
matinees. y,
Miss Totten personally arranges all
the social matinee programs for the
club. and this year some OF the pest
known theatrical stars are to appear.
The first social matinee will take place
Mt the Hotel Astor on the afternoon OF
November l2. The first Of the monthly
dances will take place at the same noIel
on the evening of October 10 ana the
third Friday Of every month therearTer I've
until the last one in June, 1921. The
Iii e,.I1 schadule of the social matinees,
80 .vaninc dances and the luncheons
~ +ba Drama Comedy Club will be
issued early in October. During tho
summer months many new mempers
Rave come into the club, which now
numbers 1,100 members.
rh.or,a Matinee Luncheon Club,
Mrs. Harold George Wood foupoer
and president, will open its season az at
mark the third season of the organiza-
tion and it is expected ID, that at p PFes- st.
tendance. Luncheon will be served In
tho ballroom, after which the mem
bers viii go to see ono of the popular
plays. On Wednesday next at 2
o'clock Mrs. G. l.. Lucas will enter
tain tho president and board Of coun-
cil at the Hotel Grsmatan, Bronx
Vile. The chairmen Of the day will
be Mrs. William II. H. zimmerman,
Mrs. Irma jayne Mrs: Francis M.
livingston, Mrs. Frederick A. Baggs,
Mrs. +. R. Taylor and Mrs. Jane Ran
dolph Vose.
Tho Business and Professional Wom-
ems League Of New York will hold
meeting on Wednesday night at the
Cafe Boulevard. Following the dinner
the program viii consist of an out
line Of the years plans and reports
from the chairmen Of committees, and
a report from tho delegates who at
tended the second annual convention