New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Fleet Officers
To Attend Ball
For Navy Club
Benefit Affair Tomorrow
Night at the Commodore
TO Be One of the Most
Brilliant Events of Season
Clowns Act for Charity
Partial List of the Patron
esses for Italy America
Celebration Is Announced


One of the most brilliant affairs of
the waning social season in town will
be the Navy Ball, to be given to-mor
row night at the Hotel Commodore. This
affair, which is for the benefit of the
new navy club for enlisted men, at 13
East Forty-frst Street, will be attended
by large number of naval officers of
the visiting fleet, including Admiral
Wilson and his staff and officers Of the
Allied navics now in New York.
An entertainment, arranged by
George Sphinx, will precede general
dancing. In addition to Kavanaugh and
Everett, the "whrlwind dancers" Har-
mon Cheshire and other professionals,
who will present interpretative dances,
and number Of young women of the
fashionable set, wearing white satin,
patch and powder of Colonial days,
will present the "Minuet Moderne."
This number includes Miss Marie La
Marche, Miss Grace Hendrick, Miss
Emily Burchell, Miss Dorothy Clapp,
Francke, Miss Elsie Parsons, Miss
Kathryn Kimball, Miss Virginia Kim
ball, Miss Olivia Erdmann and Miss
| Sarah Sturgis.
Heading the list of patrons and pa
tronesses are President Wilson and
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, the Secretary
of the Navy and Mrs. Daniels, Cover
nor and Mrs. Smith and Major General
George H. Barnett, commandant Of the
United States Marine Corps, and Mrs.
Barnett.
Mrs. Julian W. Robbins is chairman
Of the committee on arrangements for
the ball and assisting her are Mrs.
! James Roosevelt, Mrs. William Douglas
Sloane, Mrs. E. H. Hartman, Mrs.
James Speyer. Mrs. Arthur Curtiss
James, Mrs. Charles A. Childs, Rear Ad-
miral John H. Glennon, Captain O. P.
jackson, Captain G. L. P. Stone, Com
modore Louis M. Josephthal, Rodman
Wanamaker, r. A. c. Smith and Mott
B. Schmidt
Among those who have taken boxes
are Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, Mrs. Hill
borne L. Roosevelt, Mrs Edwin Could.
Mrs. Duncan Harris, Mrs James Speyer,
Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn, Mrs. John Ross
Delafield, Mrs. William A. Taylor,
Francis H. Holmes, Mrs. f. H. York,
Mrs. Arthur b. Twombly, Mrs. Gregory
Sutton, Captain O. P. jackson, Mrs.
James Lowell Putnam, Mrs. Ormond
Smith, Mrs. William H. Hamilton, Mrs.
A. NJ. Pentz, Colonel Helen Bastedo, R.
A. c. Smith, Mrs. Charles A. Childs
and Commander L. NJ. Josephthal.
Mrs. Julian w. Robbins, Mrs. Nc
Dougall Hawkes., Mrs Lydig Hoyt and
Mrs John K. Delaficld are among those
| Interested in the affair who are giving
dinners tomorrow evening, taking their
guests later to the ball.
Widely known members of society are
acting as patronesses Of the ball. Among
them are Mrs. Frederick w. Wander
! bit, Mrs. George +. Baker jr., Mrs.
Daniel Guggenheim, Mrs. Wilber A.
Bloodgood, Mrs. Frederick C. Have
meyer, Mrs. Oliver Hartman, Mrs.
Harry Hardness Flagler, Mrs. Charles
I. Barney, Mrs. Sumner Gerard, Mrs.
John Wanamaker jr., Mrs. Leland E.
Cofer, Mrs. George w. Wickersham,
Mrs. Peter Cooper Bryce, Mrs. HUGH D
Auchincloss, Mrs. William Fahnestock,
Mrs: John Henry Hammond, Mrs. Ogden
Reld, Mrs. Walter Phelps Bliss, Mrs.
barton l.. Keen, Mrs. Edward J Ber-
wind, Mrs. Douglas Robinson. Mrs.
| William II. Hamilton, Mrs. Edmund l..
Baylies, Mrs. William Barclay Parsons,
Mrs: Henry Parish, Mrs. William NJ. V.
Hoffman, Mrs. Beekman Winthrop, Mrs.
Edward S. Harkness, Mrs. NJ. Taylor
Pyne, Mrs. Lee Finney, Mrs. Mortimer
l.: Schlf. Mrs. Charles B. Alexander.
Mrs. E. c. Potter and Mrs. William G.
McAdoo.
Tickets for the ball may be obtained
at the Navy Club, 13 East Forty-frst
Street.
company of professional clowns
and eccentric acrobats, who donated
thelr services, entertained a large audi
ehce OF children at the third morn
ing matinee given at the Vanderbilt
hotel yesterday under the auspices of
the American Free Milk and Relief
ior lta y, of which Mrs. John A. Drake
Is president. Of equal interest to the
older spectators was the barefoot toe
dancing OF Baby Anita, pupil of Alexis
koslotf, who s only seven years old.
Others on the program were Miss Sallic
l1amlln, who told Eugene Field stories,
and Miss Virginia Powell, who told
stories with piano accompaniment.
The last in the series o.; entertain
ments Will be given at the Vanderbilt
next Saturday morning az II O'clock
A dance of the fairies" by company
of children will be one of the prin.
cipal numbers Among the patronesses
will be Mrs. Edward n. Breitung. Mrs.
Edwin R. Campbell, the Duchesse de
Ghaulnes, Mrs. George j. Gould, Mrs.
Benjamin Guinness, Mrs John r. Har
rls, Mrs. Peter Larson, Mrs. Henry NJ.
Rae, Mrs, Herbert l.. Satteree, Mrs.
John n. WHY'S, Princess Francesca
Rospiglosi and Others
The Marquette Club will hold it's
May dance at the Plaza Friday eve
nlng A special orchestra of Columbia
University students will Aprovde the
music. Among the hostesses for the oc
easion are Mrs. +. Bennett Adams, Mrs.
Charles p Conway, Mrs. James 0.
Horne, Mrs James McHugh, Mrs. Am
brose O'Connell Mrs. Raymond Riker,
Mrs. Myron W. Robinson, Mrs. Howard
Stevens Stevens Mrs. FELTON, Viney and Mrs.
William B. Weston.
Catskills Hotel to Open