The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-27
Joffre acclaimed
as Russians Play
in Aid of French
Attends Reception and Thea
ter Party Arranged by Miss
Anne Morgan.

Marshal Joffre was cheered at per-
Torrance by Nikita Balieff's Russian
"Chauve Souris'' Company at the Forty
ninth Street Theater last night, given
as a benefit for the fund OF the Amer
lean Committee. for Devastated France,
Of which Miss Anne Morgan is executive
head.
| Marshal Joffre was received by Miss
Morgan. the members OF the executive
COMMITTEES and board Of directors of the
organization. among them Mrs. Gilbert
Montague, Miss Maude Wetmore. Miss
Elizabeth Perkins. Mr.. Philip Ashton
Rollins. Miss May Taylor Moulton. Miss
Elizabeth Scarborough. Mrs. ii. Blaine
Beale. Miss Gabrielle Gourd. DR.. Alex
ander c. Humphreys Miss Miriam T.
Blagden. Mrs. Elihu Chauncey and Miss
Margaret Parsons.
Tho Marshal was accompanied by
Nine. Joffre. the members OF his suite.
Mr.. jules J. Jusserand. the French Am
bassa.ior, and tho French Consul-Gen.
erai, ar. CASTOR Liebert.
The audience rose from their seats to
greet Marshal Joffre when he arrived
at $50, after having dined v:..sn MIR.
! Liebert and Miss Madeleine Licbert at
their home. The Marshal, accompanied
by the members Of the dinner party and
his suite went at once to the end of
| the balcony at the right of the house,
which had been decorated with Ameri-
nr
Finley put the audience in good humor
with q few cheerful remarks and after
| that the entire "Chauve Souris'' COM
pany assembled on the stage and sang
the ,"Marseillaise," in which many in
the audience Joined. Then the regular
program began.
Just after the Katipka number Miss
Morgan made short address telling OF
the work OF the American committee,
and later Marshal Joffre said a few
words, thanking the American people,
and Miss Morgan particularly. for all
the committee had done to aid France
in her great emergency.
Owing to his engagement to attend
the diner of the American publishers
in the Hotel Commodore. Marshal Joffre
left the theater at u 10 o'clock, before
| the close OF the performance.
Among the incidents OF the evening
| was the presentation to Marshal Joffre
by Mr.. Finley Of a gold medal given to
the city Of Boston by France in honor
| OF George Washington. 1t was mounted
on a pieae of wood brought from Mount
| Vernon.
| All the quaint remarks of Mr.. Ba-
lief. producer. of the plays, between the
different acts were made In French in
compliment to the guest OF honor. Just
as the wooden soldiers came on the
scene he said in French, Marshal. may
ask you to pass in review Of my
army?' which was greeted with much
applause. There was wild enthusiasm
when the Boy Scouts appeared on the
stage bearing an American flag, 1t being
the one that was flung from the Eiffel
Tower in Paris when the United States
entered the war.
In the audience were Mr. and Mrs.
Eugene s. Reynal. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
d. Halsey, Mrs. Edward r. Thomas, Mr..
Mifflin Wharton. Mr.. and Mrs. Roland
Hinton Perry, Mr.. and Mrs Casimir de
| Rham, Mrs. Charles w. Trippe, Miss
Louise Trippe. Mr.. Juan Trippe. Major G..
| Creighton Webb, Mrs. Laurent Open
helm, Mr.. and Mrs. +. b. Burial Hoff-
man, Mr.. and Mrs. Mortimer L. Schiff.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald B. Rives. Col.
and Mrs. George w. Burleigh, Miss Maud
A. Leland, Mrs. William Greenough, Mrs.
Jose Aymar. Mr.. and Mrs Tompains Nc
Ilvaine. Mrs. William A. Jamison. Mr..
and Mrs. J. Harsen Rhoades, Mrs. Ar
thur Ryle. Mrs. T.. Clarkson Potter. Mrs.
Francis K Pendleton, Mrs. j. Fred Pier
son. Miss Suzanne Pierson. Mr.. and Mrs.
e. de Forest Simmons, Mr.. Austen Gray.
Mr.. Alfonso de Navarro. Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Ogden Bacon. Mrs. Bradish John
son. Mrs. p. Aymar Sands, Mr. and Mrs.
lie Roy King. Mrs. Charles d. Dickey.
Miss Katherine Candy, Mrs. Finley p.
Dunno. Miss Wheelwright, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Brown Mrs. Joseph r. Blanchard.
Miss Anderson. Mrs. Brayton Ivese. Mr..
and Mrs. Walter L. Maynard. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Livingston Delafield, Mrs.
Frank s. Witherbee, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles d. Miller. Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
A. Weldon. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hunter
Potter. Miss Pauline Riggs, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Archibald Murray and Mr.. and Mrs.
Julius @. Lay.