The New York herald., 1921-03-06


Strangers to society sat amid doting
parents IN the three audiences that
crowded the ballroom of the waldorf
Astoria. last Wednesday. Thursday and
Friday nights and added their hun
dreds to the thousands that were sent
into the treasury of the Junior League
70 extend the philanthropic ramitica-
tions OF that organization into new
day nursery and a boarding home for
working girls.
They san debutantes dance with the
proficient abandon OF professional act
resscs: 10 what is necessary % conf
plete dramatic action. even to the snlok-
ing of cigarettes. and sing much better
than some other choruses in the pro-
Sessional realm OF high lights few
blocks northward.
Such is modern life in New York So
ciey.
Debutsptes 10 Aid Uoys' Club.
some OF the debutsntcs who rollcked
through the two acts and twelve scenes
o. "MusIcal Chairs" are in rehearsal for
A performance In the H.ppodrome on the
night OF March 8 under the direction
Of Mr.. Sen .Ali Haggin for the benefit
OF the Boys Club OF New York. The
professional stage will col,aborate. as il
has frequently done in the past. and
Mrs E. Henry Hartman, Mrs. Charles
H. Sabin, Mrs Robert Bacon. Mrs. G.
Herbert Kinnicutt Mrs. Henry l..
Brooks, Mrs. William Sh!llibcr. Jr.;
Mrs. Grayson NJ. P. Murphy. Mrs. Will
lam L. Benedict. Mrs. George II. Vim
cent and other women who have be-
come modern forces in expanded society
VIII be patronesses.
"1'he Frolic OF Youth is the very apt
name given 20 the part Of the pro-
grarnne In which the debutantes win
participate side by side with q number
Of the leading men and women from
present Broadway plays. a fence. once
very tall and very substantial. has been
demolished to make such a collaboration
possible. The programme also is TO In
clude a number OF tableaux representing
famous boys OF history anu literature,
such as Oliver Twist, Hans Brinker,
lin from Treasure Island" Huck
Finn, the young Daniel Boone, and
Robin Hood the boys from Kipiings
"The Drums Of the Fore and AIT and.
as e matter Of course. Tom Sawyer.
Miss Ruth Chattorton will recite pro-
logue which Mr.. Charles Hanson Towne
mas written. and there are to be some
other things about the programme that
will make the benefit for the Boys
club one OF the most unusual incidents
of lie kind a Sunday night audience
In a New York theatre ever saw.
Amateurs In Ccpcert.
Next wednesday afternoon society
again will take significant exception "
! strict corstructionist past Mhen Two
amateurs. whose abilities have forced
tten1 forward. will appear on the con-
rsri stage in conjunction With popular
professional singer In the ballroom o.
the home Of Mrs. John Sanford, = East
Seventy-second street, for the Denett
of the Belgian Missionary Sisters, whose
convent AT a3T West Forty-seventh street
was dedicated by Cardinal Mercicr dur
ing that beloved prelate's Visit 10 New
York In 1912 The amateur artists VIII
be the Duchess dc Richelieu, soprano,
ard Mrs. Drexe Dahlgreu. harpist and
one OF the most proficient Of amateur
musicians in society. Their professional
collaborator. who has given his services.
win be Rafaclo Diaz, one OF the tenors
of the Metropolitan opera
The matinee concert will be under tho
patronage Of the Belgian Ambassador
and Baroness de Cartier dc Marchienne
and a number OF women OF society In
Guiding Mrs. A. Leo Everett Countess
as Laugier-villare. and Mines. John @.
Agar. De Lancey Astor Kane. Henry J.
Jamarche, Hamilton Fish Armstrong,
Pierre Mali Nicholas r. Brady. Robert
Grier Monroe, James Byrne. Frederic
Nelson. John w MaciSay. Grenvtlle
Temple Emmet, Lyttleton Fox. Abbot
Low Dow Thomas r RYAN Harold Hen
sorscn. William r. shoeher, Ernest Tse-
I'm, Paul Gilbert Thenaud. Cornelius
vanderbilt Schuyler ~ Warren, John