The New York herald., 1921-12-04
December Ball On
Thursday First of
Three for Charity
1t Will Be Held for Benefit Of
the Grosvenor Neigh
bOrhOOd House.

w THILE music, the drama and
NJ the cinema form appealing
means of drawing the pub
lies attention to charitable needs. dam
cling remains the most popular medium.
Some Of the dances have become fix
lures in the outline of the season. and
OF such are three balls named ap-
propriately in the order of their Sc
quence-the December ball on Decem-
Der for Grosvenor Neighborhood
House, the winter ball on December 10
For the Loomis Sanatorium, and the
Christmas ball on December 22 for the
Lisa Day Nursery.
The first in the order of these dances
for charity, on next Thursday night is
to be held in the Ritz Carlton. and for
ii tickets may be obtained from Miss
Phyllis Batcheller at 12s East Sixty
fifth street. There will be bridge tables
for those who may not care to dance.
The directing committee for the dance
includes Mrs. Huntington Lyman. tho
Misses Martha Lambert Lucy Lord
Gertrude Pardee. Eleanor Towne. Chris
tina Nichols. Alouise Boxer and PHYLLIS
Batcneller. Mrs. Samuel Sloan Walker
and Mrs. William 3. Olmsted, while
among the patronesscs are Mines. Hugh
d. Auchincloss. Philip G. Bartlett. Wal
ter Phelps Bliss. Jonathan Bulkley.
Howard Carroll. William Fahnestock.
Lawrence Gourlay. John Henry Ham
mond, Walter b. James. George l..
Nichols. John T. Pratt, Melville -.
Truesdale. Joseph Walker Sd. Wander
bilt Webb and Albert II. Wikgin.
Associated with them is junior
dance committee that includes Misses
Annie Burr Auchincloss, Maud Cabot.
Janet Croll. Anita Damrosch, Margaret
Dawson, Emily Fordyce Dodge. Vir-
ginia Fox. Emily and Adele Hammond
Laura Harding, Betty Jackson. Helen
Lee, Florence Lockwood. Elizabeth
Meeker. Eliza Parish, Harriet Pratt,
Julia Quaintance. Isabel Rockefeller.
Sarah Sage. Mary Jay Schieffelin,
Sarah Sturgis and Marie Thayer.
The winter ball on the following
Thursday night is TO be held in the
Plaza Hotel and the proceeds will be
used in establishing additional free
beds for patients at the LOOMS Sana-
torium suffering from tuberculosis
The junior committee Is under the
chairrnanship OF Miss Marie r. La
marche. Associated with her arc Misses
Dorothy Brown. Nina Chatillon, Doro-
thy Clemens Grace Cuyler. Alice Emo
Felicia Fiske. Julie Fincke, Virginia
Fox, Carlotta Havemeyer. Katherine
Hurd. Grace Hendrick. Sylvia Hillhouse
Nathalie Hanna. Susan Gibney, Doro-
hx4 a.-df Inc H.
crime Kent, Isabelle MacMillin, Edith
McCoon. Frances McCoon, Catherine
Okie. Virginia Reiland. Ellen Semple,
Helene Shearer. Geraldine Thompson
Louise Trippe, Mildred Taylor, Melissa
Yuille and Dorothy Schlff.
Mrs. Joel Ellis Fisher. Jr.. Is chair
man Of the ball committee. Working
with her are Mines. James LenoX
Banks, Jr.. Clermont Barnwell and J. T.
Johnston Mali and Misses Genevieve
Clendennn. Adrienne Iselin, Cornelia
Landon. Christina Nichols, Mary NJ.
Ostrander and Sylvia Van Rensselaer,
Miss Mary M. Ostrander Is president
of the Loomis Sanatorium Guild, Mrs
Edward B. Boles vice president. Miss
Elizabeth " Cockcroft treasurer Mrs
Gilbert Darlington secretary and Miss
May Moulton chairman OF the pur-
chasing committee.
The Christmas Bali on. December %
is TO be in the Plaza and is TO figure
I'm the festivities OF the holidays Ia
bles for bridge have been arranged,
reservations for which may be had
from Miss Beth Evans. 3 West Fortieth
street. Mrs. Charles II. Scott Is chair
man OF the committee and has as her
associates Misses J. Stewart Barney.
Edward J. Berwind. w. Storrs Wells.
william X. Vanderbilt 2d. Leroy w.
Baldwin. stuart Duncan, James W.
Gerard, Stuyvesent Fish, Jr.. and
Charles y. Alexander.