The New York herald., 1921-01-02
Ambassador and Lady Geddes
Invited to Dance Of British
Great War Veterans.

wELETH Night. with its usual
festivities, win be celebrated on
Thursday and practically end
the holiday season. Like Christmas
and New Years it's entertaining will
be more or less OF an informal nature,
and like the other holidays be a bit
elastic, its merrymaking extending
for several days. True to its name,
the Twelfth Night Club will have ono
Of its gatherings on that evening and
several other clubs will have dances.
concerts and other entertainments.
There also viii be many family dinner
parties
The Twelfth Night Club viii have
Its annual revel at the Hotel Astor.
and from all indications IL will be one
OF the most cnjoysble events oe the
week. ON this occasion the members
may invite guests. Miss Erma Froh-
man will have twenty-five wounded
soldiers with her. and q number of
prominent professional persons also
VIII be among the guests The pro-
grammc will include burlesque on
ghosts under the direction or Miss
Mary Shaw, monologues by Miss
Beatrice Herford and a musical sketch
by members Of the club.
Details have been completed for the
dance to be given at the Hotel renn-
sylvahia on Wednesday evening under
the auspices of the British Great Wsr
veterans OF America. Many boxes have
oeen reserved for representatives OF the
British Embassy. French War veter.
ans and the American Legion: also
prominent New York men and women.
The British Ambassador and Lady
Geddes are among the invited guests:
also Mr. Gloster Armstrong, British
Consul-General in New York, and Mrs.
Armstrong. AMI Mr.. Mark Sheldon. Aus
tralian High Commissioner The list OF
patrons and patronesses Is long ono
and includes DR. and Mrs Walter T..
Lambert. Mrs. Edward r. Darrell Mr..
and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt. Sir Ashley
and Lady Sparks. Mrs. Michael Gavin,
Mrs. Joseph Slevin, Jr: Mrs. T.. Walter
Wood. Mr.. AMI Mrs. j. Nelson Borland,
Miss May It. MouIton. Mrs Frederick
Watson. Mrs. Arthur Knowlton Mrs.
Alexander c. Humphreys, Mrs. Frcderie
Coudert Mrs. Frederick w. Whitridge
Mrs. Schuyler Warren. the Rev. .Iohn
Williams Mrs. W. Hugh Mcintyre. Miss
Teresa O. O'Donohue. Mrs. Lloyd B. SAN
derson. Mrs. Norrle Sellar and Major
Gen. John T. Organ.
The MacDowell Club is arranging q
concert for Thursday. and while not @
holiday celebration 1t promises to be
one Of the most interesting affairs OF
the week and will be a rneuoriai to
MAX Burch II will be given at tho
club house, lOs West Fifty-fifth street.
luncheon will be given By the
American Criterion Society, Mrs. Leon
ard l.. Hill president. at the Commo-
dore Hotel ON Friday. 1t will be the
society's New Years party. Several uf
the guests of honor will be stage celeb
rifles. Frank Es con has promised to
tell OF the incident that caused him TO
write "LiGhtnin' snd Earl Carroll VIII
discuss playwritn; and "The Lady OF
the Lamp in particular. Mrs. Helen
Davenport Gibbon will relate anecdotes
OF American soldiers who passed her
"Grey House" IN France on their way
to and from the trenches. Mrs. Bacon
will be among the guests. who will in
ssiude Miss Jessie Pringle and the Rev.
DR. Edgar Whitaker Work.
The luncheon will be served in the
east ballroom after a reception which
win begin at noon In the foyer. The
luncheon tables will he decorated with
red carnations and holly. DR.. Work, the
society's chaplain. will respond TO the
presidents call with New Years greet
ing. Following the luncheon there will
be addresses and music and the installa-
tion of ten new members. They are
Mines. Donald Woodman. John Cort, NJ.
Schinasi. George Walter Benhotel. Julian
Detmer. Frederick f. Fried, James u.
Allen, Charles C. Grlswold. Il. a dc
Lima and William A. Lindsey. Each
will be presented with an American
Beauty rose, the soeiety's emblem.
Mrs. Cora Trow is chairman Of the
programme committee and the luncheon
committee Is composed Of Mrs. George
w. Howes, chairman Mrs. Edmond Nor
ton Skinner and Mrs Adolphus T. Ra-
gan. vice-chairman, and Mines. Her
bert Walker, F. w. Sharp, A. w.
Meisei. Thomas Edward Conrad. Herr
bert Lincoln Aldrich, Arthur veel Rose,
Charles w. Baker, Walter NJ. Annette.
Benjamin Franklin Miller, j. B. puval,
William l.. Youngman, Charles A. Bar
stholomae. Carl cronemeyer. Junius ".
V4ove. James Madison Bstterton, Arthur
n Leary and Alexis F. Bcsson,
Gamut Club will have its usual Tues
day evening dinner at the clubhouse. ~
west Fifty-eighth street this week. Miss
Mary Shaw Is the president. The week.
~ gatherings always attract many stage
celebrities who contribute TO the infor-
NAL programmes OF the meetings. The
guests OF honor on Tuesday will be
Misses Lucille Watson and Doris Ken
yon and Eugene O'Brien.
sorosis. Mrs. John Lewis Childs presi-
dent. had it's annual New Years break
fast yesterday at the Waldorf-Astoria-
This is the big day for the club. as the
husbands OF the members are admitted.
This year there was a special programme
arranged by a committee under the d.
rection OF Miss Anna Maxwell Jones.
The speakers included Or. Emily Man
ming Smith. Mrs. John Kehm. Mrs. Philip
Carpenter Mrs. Charles 8. Noyes and
Miss Jones. Edith Hallett Frank sang
two groups Of songs.
One OF the features Of the breakfast
WAS young persons table for the sons
and daughters OF the members and their
friends. with Mrs. John Francis Schwie-
tors as hostr> There also was table
fAr children presided over BY Mrs. I'd
rSun7 =. Fowler The programme was
eeloYe by dancing
fhv Beethoven Society, Nine. Aida
-ansni-Tagliavia president, viii hold the
--an.aTy afternoon musicale next Satur-
1nr I'm tho Grand ballroom az the Plaza.