New-York tribune., 1921-02-23
Carmen Nets
Hoover Relief
Fund S45,3OO
Audience at Gala Per.
for1nance in Metropolitan
Contributes $4,000 TO
the European Council
Mrs. Robinson Speaks
Harry Payne Whitney Pays
900 for Box, Turns
Ii Back To Be Resold

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The Metropolitan Opera House, ablaze
with decorations, was jammed last night
| for the gala performance of Carmen" :"
given for the benefit of the child-feeding
fund Of the European Relief Council.
Last nights performance brought the
reiet campaign to close. 1t was esti-
mated that the sale Of seats and boxes
netted approximately $45,300, including
$4,000 collected from the audience.
Boxes sold for from $500 to $4,000.
The American Friends Service Commit
tee paid $4,000 for box and Harry
Payne Whitney paid $4,000 These sums
were not included in the $45300. Mr..
whitney turned his box back to the
Relief Council and it was resold
The huge audience, fully aware of
the significance of the occasion, was
generous in its applause. 1t gave the
various Metropolitan artists vocifer
| Gus reception and warmly applauded
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister Of Theo-
doNe Roosevelt. who delivered an ad-
dress between the first and second
acts. Many eyes we're turned toward
the parterre box of ]. P. Morgan, which
was occupied for the performance by
Herbert Hoover, chairman of the Re-
lief Councils campaign; Mrs. Hoover
and others.
| Following Mrs. Robinson's address
society girls, picturesquely clad.
( swarmed through the house with
baskets and boxes taking a collection.
Spectacle Is Brilliant
/ The Metropolitan Opera House present.
ed brilliant appearance. Mrs. Willard
D. Straight, chairman of the New York
Women's Emergency Committee. under
the auspices of which the perform
ance was given, was assisted by Mrs,
Harry Payne Whitney. chairman of the
executive committee; Mrs. Charles
+ Dana Gibson, Mrs. James A. Burden
jr., Mrs. Charles B. Alexander. Mrs.
] Walter Maynard, Mrs. j. Borden Harri-
man, Mrs. Lydig Hoyt and many others
/ geraldine Farrar sang her popular
role of Carmen, and she was support
/ ed by Martinelli, Mardones, Rothier.
Ingram and Miriam. The corps dc
ballet appeared with Rosina CALI and
/ Giuseppe Bonhglio in Spanish dances.
The opera was followed by sym
bolic tableau, in which prominent
women of society posed depicting the
part America has played in feeding the
starving children of Europe. 1t was
arranged and rehearsed under the di-
rection of Wladyslaw T. Benda. Mrs.
Lydig Hoyt was the central figure, and
she was assisted by twenty young
women and twelve men. They included
Miss Rita Boxer, Miss Martha Ottley,
Thompson, Miss Symphorosa Bristed,
Miss Amy Hughes, Miss Genevieve
Clendenin, Miss Mary Field, Miss
/ Madelaine Lynch, Miss Helen Trevor,
Miss Marion Tiffany, Miss Vida Shield,
/ Miss Audrey Hoffman, Miss Louise
/ Hardness, Walter Maynard, John Har-
/ rlson, Peter Grieg, Juan Ceballos, Her
bert Adams and Emerson McMillin 3D.
Four Groups in Costume
There were four groups, attired in
/ the costumes of European peasants.
1 The first group was dressed in bright
howered skirts with tight bodces,
beaded and cut straight to the figure
A handkerchief on the head and long
The next group appeared in full skirts
! Ct dark magenta, jackets Of dark vel
vet and aprons of green embroidered
| with bright colors, and they also wore
! handkerchiefs on their heads. The
members of Group were in narrow
skirts of cream colored cloth, with
blue and red embroidery, and aprons
of black with fancy decorative bands.
The last group appeared in trailing
skirts of dark lowered material, with
bodices of blue and white and sashes
Of crimson. Thinking sequins around
the throat and forehead completed the
/ costuming of this group. The men in
the tableau were in costumes CORE
spending to those worn by the women
and characteristic Of certain racial
types.
Girls Sell Programs
Souvenir programs were sold by a
number of young women, headed by
Mrs. George B. Post jr. and Miss Anne
Wilde. They included Miss Mary
Wood Miss Louise Barber, Miss Kath-
crime Post, Miss Mary Stevens, Miss
Rosalie Bloodgood, Miss Nancy Yuille,
Miss Beatrice Sorchan, Miss Constance
Delaney, Miss Kate Prentice, Miss
Margaret Tucker, Miss Evelyn Preston,
Miss Edythe Names, Miss Louie
Reick. Miss Geraldine Hall, Miss
Frances Isham and Miss Constance
Poor.
Among those who had boxes in the
parterre and grand tier room were Mr.
and Mrs. Edward r. Stettinius, Mrs.
Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi, Mrs
| Willard ID. Straight, Mrs. Harry PAYNE