New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
Dinner Dance
Is Arranged by
Criterion Club
Favors Include Fans and
Baskets of Flowers for
Women, Knives and Ci-
garette Cases for Men
Ball 10 Take Place Friday
Woman's Forum to Hear
Capt. H. S. Martin Speak
ON sBolshevism in Russia

The American Criterion Society,
Mrs. Leonard L. Hill. president, is TO
give q dinner dance in the large ball
room of the Hotel Commodore, Friday
evening. Between five and six hum
dred reservations have been made.
Mrs. Charles A. Bartholomae heads
the group in charge of the ball ar
arrangements. DR.. John Strother Gaines
jr. and Walter Moore head the floor
committee, which is composed Oh
twenty-six associate members of the
organization. Miss Marion Campion
has as her assistants on the committee
of juniors Miss Ida Braun and Miss
Lenna Powers
Painted fans and fiower-flled bas-
kets are the souvenirs William Fl.
Peck, chairman, has provided for the
women. The favors for the men Will
be silver knives and leather cigarette
cases. Mrs. Thomas Webster Edgar,
chairman of the card committee, is to
have bridge tables for the non-dancers
in the small drawing rooms leading
from the ballroom.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard l.. Hill will
entertain party Of twenty guests at
dinner on the night of the dance.
Among them will be Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward NJ. Timmins, Mr.. and Mrs Joseph
B. Reed, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Reiss, Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Tanning, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence Tillman and Mr.. and Mrs.
Newton Gilbert.
Others who have made reservations
for tables and will entertain with large
parties are Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Will
bur Robinson, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry A.
Conan, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney B. Whit
lock, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Marks, Mr..
and Mrs Francis E. Hadley, Mr.. and
Mrs Alvi living Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs.
John II. Judd, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Vincent Palermo, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Kavanaugh,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Strother Gaines jr.,
Mn. and Mrs. Alexis r. Besson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Pitnam Spencer, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Cage Mordecai, Mr.. and
Mrs. William j. Sloane, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Palermo, Mrs Florence Provost-Batter-
ton, Miss Hazel Crockett, Miss Ellen
Philbrick Lafhn, Miss Marion Campion,
Rose, William Brewster Chapman,
Louis c.. Naisawald and William H.
Gibbs.
The Woman's Forum, Miss Helen
Varck Boswell, president, will meet
Friday morning in the music room of
the Hotel Biltmore. Captain Hugh S.
Martin, who spent three and half
years in Russia in the diplomatic and
military service OF the United States
under the regimes of the Czar, Ke-
rensky and Bolshevism, will speak on
"Bolshevism in Russia and its Menace
to the United States" There will be
several out of town guests of promi~
nence in the club world who will be
heard from during the morning.
A nominating committee will be
elected to present a ticket to be voted
on at the April meeting.
The Society of Illinois Women, Mrs
Thomas Slack president, will meet
Thursday at the Waldorf
day and has musical and speaking
program arranged, to follow the nomi-
nation of officers for the ensuing year.
Mrs. Augusta Turpin, soprano, and
Miss Gladys Meehan, contralto, will
sing a group of songs.
"The Trend of Modern Clubdom" is
the subject of an address to be given
by Mrs. Parke Mathewson.
Women and Modern Drama," illus
trated by interpretative scenes from
plays now on Broadway, will be a
part Of the program. Presidents of
the theater clubs will be guests Of
honor.
The eighteenth birthday party Of the
Maine Women's Club. Of New York,
Mrs. Ada Shorey. president, was cele-
brated March at the Waldorf Astoria,
with Miss Elizabeth F. Reed as chair
man of the day. The program con-
sisted of greetings from these one
time presidents: Mrs. Albert H. Bick-
more, Miss Bertha L. Soule, Mrs. A. J.
Page and Mrs. John w Sargent.
! Miss Mary Thompson sang, Miss