The New York herald., 1922-10-08
Americas Making
Committee Plans
Dance October 27
Affair at Hotel Astor to Raise
Funds for Organization
Clubhouse.

THE nermanent committee of Ameri-
cas- Making has announced that It Will
hold a carnival and dance at the Hotel
! Astor Friday evening. October ~. to
which members of the thirty-six racial
groups comprising this organisation
will be invited. 1t Is expected that sew
eral thousand men and women, many
in native costume. VIII attend.
Following the exposition given at the
Seventv-first Regiment Armory last
fall. when thirty-two groups worked In
harmony to show what their people had
done TO help make America, the cor
poration. headed by the president, John
II Finley. decided to make the organi-
zation permanent. To that end DIR.
Finley appointed committee or SIX,
with Gustav Neumann. chairman.
The committee decided on the carni-
val and dance as one means for further
welding the groups and for obtaining
the nucleus of fund with which to
omen a permanent clubhouse. which will
ultimately shelter a national fraternity
in which every racial group in the city
will be represented. The get together
movement Is already on a firm founda-
ton.
DR. Finley. who is deeply interested
in the project, has been made honorary
president of the carnival and dance, and
the members of the original executive
| committee have been named as hon
orary vice-presidents The committee
In cha.ae of the affair is headed by
william Taylor. prominent In Scottish
circles. The other members include DR..
Johannes Hoving, Swedish, finance
chairman; william Mayer, Hungarian
floor committee chairman; Alice NJ
dickson, French, chairman Of the pro-
gram committee. and Matilda Spence.
chairman of the reception committee
Miss Spence was director of the Ameri-
cas- Making exposition.
The committee has engaged the Grand
Ball Room, the roof garden and the
east ball room of the hotel and will
utilize most of these floors. There will
be dancing in all the reserved space
| from o'clock on, but this will be in
terspersed with carnival features. Four
orchestras and gypsy band will fur
nish the music. For the occasion
George de Martonfaldy has written an
Americas Making" overture. which Is
| a combination of the airs of score OF
countries to be represented.
During the night each group will give
a short entertainment, typical of its
country. These will include Indian,
Swedish and Bavarian dances, the latter
by 100 sons of Bavaria. One of the
features will be the appearance of Scot
tish Highlanders, who will play bag
pipes, while other Highlanders dance.
Admittance will be by Invitation only.
Each group has sent out $50 invitations
and 1000 cards have been sent to promi-
nent yankees" as the committee calls
Americans by birth and heredity. The
groups include Greek, Spanish, Ice
iandie, Norwegian, Portuguese, italian,
Russian, English. Lithuanian. Dutch,
German, Esthonian. Finnish. Welsh,
Irish, Czecho-Slovak, Polish and Lettish
sons and daughters.
The members Of the committee OF six
| working with Mr.. Neumann are Col
r. J. Moynohan, head of America S
Making Irish Section; Prof. Leon Fe-
raru, Rumanian Section; Major Louis
| Livingston Seaman, English Section;
Mrs. Thomas Capek, Czecho-Slovak Sec
| ton, and DR.. Hoving. Swedish Section.