The New York herald., 1921-03-03

Members Of the Junior League, the
the debutantes. produced their annual
musical review at the WaldorfAstoria
last night and maintained the enviabie
reputation of the league players as anna
teur actresses OF ability and paved the
way to new day nursery and q boarding
home for working girls. Not cortent
with conducting with success dozen
philanthropic projects, members of the
league are branching out in logical chan
nels and they see more than $4,000 IN
sight as the result of last nights per-
fornance. The Offering. Musical
Chairs" will be repeated tonight and
tomorrow night.
An impressive bit OF architecture once
inspired n symphony and songs to por-
traits have been written, but It remained
for Miss Grace r. Henry. managing d.
rector Of this years Junior League show,
and Messrs. Gerald Warburg and Emer-
son Macmillan Sd her musical collabora-
tors. to build UP musical review about
some interior decorations. They had
wide field to work in and have done
exceedingly well.
Musical Chairs" is in two acts and
numerous scenes. and one of its many
attractions lies in the fact that 1t Is
episode with a series OF beautifully
staged ensembles, songs and dances sug-
gested by art furniture OF twelve con-
trasting eras. Each chair period has
it's chairman, and that ars committee OF
twelve is composed OF Mrs. John Murray
Mitchell. Mrs. l.. Stuart Wing. Mrs.
Lewis Gouverneur Morris. Mrs. Edmund
S. Twining, Jr.. and the Misses Marie J.
Leary, Ruth afanlerre Dorothy Collins,
Eleanor Landon, Virginia Sterry. Glory
Thomas. Helen Trevor and Mary Hurd.
The cast, made UP almost entirely OF this
seasons debutantes, is one Of the largest
that has appeared in a Junior League
show in recent years
Even without its Puritan Jazz and an
amateur George NJ. Cohan. the first act
of Musical Chairs" would have stood
out as quite the best bit OF musical
nonsense and parody mixed up In color
full charm tho Junior League has yet
put on the amateur boards, but the real
hits came with the Colonial furniture
Puritan Blues"
Those charming Puritan maids and
solemn blue law advocates OF the mid
seventeenth century period Of Massa-
chusetts werc the Misses Marie J. Lcary,
Dorothy Battle, Helen Johnson. Dorothy
Leary. Helen schniewind, Kathryn Slay-
back. Louise Trippe and Muriel Wander
bilt and Messrs. John w. Snowden Sd.
Robert Ingersoll Brown. Harold NJ.
Harvey. Jacob Berry Underhill. Jr.
Lionel T. Bonner. Herbert Maynard,
Jr.; Leon Albeit Post. Leon Haven
Stone and l. B. Heemskerk.
There stepped into that early picture
Mr.. Emerson MacMillIn 81, who won
the status OF the amateur George NJ.
Cohan. His song, You Know You
Can't Ante Under the Anti-Joy Laws"
and the way he sang II was worthy
Of Broadway in its best professional
spirit.
When Miss Grace Hendriclc danced
smoking cigarette the audience real
tined to be ultra modern. The sep
ulchrsi jazz chorus Mr.. MacMillin
wrote 10 so with the scene was a clever
musical conceit.
There also was cleverness In the pro-
logue "That Chairs Are Like Their
Owners Ia a Fact Without Doubt"
written by Miss Henry and set 20 music
by Mr.. MacMlllin. that gave the show
snappy start with the Misses Edith
McCoon, Janet Brewer. Dorothy Brown,
Elizabeth Clarke. Molly Coyswcll, Mary
Field, Junie Fincke, Grace Hendrick
Adeline Kelly. Martha Ottley. Marie
Thayer and Glory Thomas forming the
chorus.
There was a rich Chinese interlude.
with Miss Suzanne du Vivier and Mr..