New-York tribune., 1921-04-10
Brilliant Chinese
Costume Ball to
Swell Famine Fund
Special Dinner Will Be
Served at Benefit Affair
To Be Given at Ritz-Carl-
ton Hotel Saturday Night

One of the most brilliant affairs of
the week will be the Chinese Costume
Rail in aid of the famine fund, to be
held on Saturday night at the Ritz
Carlton. Thomas w. Lamont is chair
man of the China Famine Fund and
Mrs. Richard T. Wilson is chairman
the committee on arrangements for the
ball. She is assisted by Mrs James
Lowell Putnam, Mrs. Edward \.
Breitung, Mrs. Oliver Hartman, Mrs
Harry II. Duryea, Mrs. Lyttleton Fox.
Mrs. Joseph Rowland Hunt and Mrs.
lrnla Hopper. This committee is CO.
operating with the New York City Com
mittee for the China Famine Fund of
which Joseph Howland Hunt is chair
man.
Both the ballroom and the crystal
room at the Ritz will be used, and a
special dinner will be served. The Chi
nese Minister, Alfred S. SEE, will be the
guest of honor, and will be entertained
at dinner before the dance
The marshals for the dance will be
Captain Theodore Crane, Major Luke
Doyle, A. Leo Everett. Lyttleton Fox,
Oliver Hartman. Joseph Howland
Hunt, Robert Title Mckee, Joseph
Larocque, Stowe Phelps, Harrison Car
field Rhodes, Alexander S. Webb and
Richard I. Wilson
A tea will be given by the commit
tee on Thursday at the Ritz Carlton.
The patronesses include Mrs. Jorge
Andre, Mrs. Dom Barber, Mrs. Alfred
n. Beadleston, Mrs. Gordon Knox Bell,
Mrs. Edison Bradley, Mrs. John E. Cow
din, Mrs. Dudley Davis, Mrs. Norman
f. Ditman, Mrs. Stuart Duncan Mrs.
Harry H. Duryea, Mrs. Newbold LIE Roy
Edgar. Mrs. A. Leo Everett, Mrs. Lyttle-
ton Fox, Mrs. Joseph Grace, Miss Mabel
Gerry, Mrs. james B. Haggin, Mrs.
Oliver HarrimaA, Mrs. G. Maurice
Heckscher, Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Mrs.
Charles Hopper, Mrs. Francis L. v.
Hoppin, Mrs. Edward F. Hutton, Mrs
Augustus F. Kountze, Mrs. Thomas w
Lamont, Mrs. James Parrish Lee, Mrs.
Hunter S. Marston, Mrs. Jeremiah Mil
bank, Mrs. Charles E. MITCHELL Mrs.
Andrews Moreland, Mrs Newbold Nor
ris, Mrs. Conde Mast, Mrs. Frederic
Nelson, Mrs. Minturn Pinchot. Mrs.
William Chapman Potter, Mrs. John T.
Pratt, Mrs. Bernon S. Prentice, Mrs. T.
j. Oakley Rhinelander, Mrs. John D.
II.
feller, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, Mrs. John
Sanford, Mrs. James Russell Solely, Mrs.
Joseph Earle Stevens, Mrs. George II.
Storm, Mrs. Theron R. Strong Mrs.
Henry w. Taft, Mrs. Joseph B. Thomas.
Mrs. Belmont Tiffany, Mrs. George w.
Vanderbilt and Mrs. Charles A. Van
Rensselaer,.
: Among those taking tables for the
y, RI l. - ~
Plaza on Tuesday for the benefit of
the Free Industrial School for Crippled
Children, All West Fifty Street,
and the Lulu Thorley Home for Grip
pied and Delicate Children, Claverack,
N. Y, of which Walter Scott is presi-
dent, are Mr. Scott, Mrs. Nicholas NJ.
Pond, chairman; Mrs. Leonard Ames. S.
B. MacAdam, Mrs. B. P. Sherwood, Mrs.
Adolphus Regan, Mrs. T. F. Garrish,
Mrs. John Williams, Mrs. F. l.. Chip
man, Mrs. Christine B. NJ. Hawley, Mrs.
Mozart NJ: Lesser, Mrs. William Maclay.
Mrs. r. G. Collins, Mrs. G. W. Jarman,
Mrs. Frank X. Taylor, Miss A. D. Camp
bell and Miss Fessenden. Members and
friends of the society are taking great
interest in the memorial trees which
are to be planted at the home in CLAW
crack. Five dollars pays for one tree,
and it will bear name plate with the
name Of the person in whose memory it
was given. About thirty trees are
needed. One OF these will be in. mem
ory of Mrs. Lillian Gilbert Fish, founder
of the society.
A rummage sale for the benefit of
the building fund of the Sisters of the
Holy Child will be conducted by the
Sharon Alumna Association Thursday
and Friday, at 122 East Fifty-ninth
Street.
Among the patronesses are Mrs. Lo-
renzo Semple, Mrs. l.. F. Loree, Miss
Louise Loree, Mrs. Henry Wiggles-
worth, Mrs. W. D. DePeyster. Miss
Monica Doyle. Mrs. Henry James, Mrs
Robert Louis Hoguet, Mrs. Arthur An
derson and Mrs. c. j. Tyson.