The New York herald., 1922-04-23
ACADEMICIANSBEGIN
CELEBRATION TODAY
DR.. Butler to Entertain French
ENJOYS at Luncheon on
Moliere Program.

With the arrival of Maurice Donnay.
and Andre Chevrillon, representatives Of
the French Academy, in this country
yesterday, DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler.
president of Columbia. announced the
program of the. two day celebration of
the Moliere tercentenary under the aus
pices OF the American Academy of Arts
and Letters. DIR. Butler also announced
the American itinerary of the French
ENJOYS. who will visit Harvard. Prince
ton. Columbia, and probably Yale, and
be entertained in Washington and Phil
adelphia. s-
4 The visiting academicians will be
guests at an informal luncheon at 1
O'Clock this afternoon by DR.. and Mrs
Butler at the presidents house, GO Morn
ingside Drive.
The American Academy of Arts and
Letters will give a formal dinner to-
morrow at the Ritz-Carlton. DR.. Will
lam Milligan Sloane, president OF the
academy, and Seth Low, professor emer-
titus OF history at Columbia, will preside
and deliver an address. Other speak
ers will include M. Donnay, NJ. Chew
rillon and Owen Wister, author and
member of the academy. Guests will
include Marshal Joffre, who is MEM
ber OF the French Academy, and the
French Ambassador. J. j. Jusserand.
Molfere Ceremony Tuesday.
A public meeting to commemorate The
300th anniversary of the birth Of
Moliere will be held at the Ritz-Carltcn
Tuesday at p. NJ. Both of the French
representatives. Prof. Brander Matthews
of Columbia. chancellor of the academy,
and Augustus Thomas member of
-. NJ. .l-.l
Joffre and Ambassador Jusserand will
be guests.
Among those who will attend the
events arranged by the American
Academy are Mr.. and Mrs. Hamlin Gar
land, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas n. Rhine
lander, Arnold W. Drummer. Mr.. and
Mrs. Cass Gilbert, Mr.. and Mrs. George
w. Wickersham. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Underwood johnson, DR.. Henry Van
Dyke. CASTOR Liebert and Mile. Liebert,
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto ii. Kahn, DR.. and
Mrs. s. +. Mezes. Mr., and Mrs. Joseph
Pennell, DR.. and Mrs. Henry 5.
Pritchett, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Victor
Morawetz. Mr.. and Mrs. George l..
Armour, Mr.. and Mrs. Allan Marquand.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Roscoe Thayer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Thomas, Mr.. and
Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mr.. and Mrs. G..
Grant La Fargo. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Gray Barnard, Prof. and Mrs. Henri
Chamard. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Dam
rosch, Charles Dana Gibson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Childe Hassam. DR.. David Jayne
Hill and Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Melchers
DIR. sloane to Give Reception.
All the members of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters and the
National Institute of Arts and Letters
have been invited to attend a reception
following a dinner on Tuesday at 1880
p. M. at the house of Prof. Sloane at 10
West Eighth street.
On Thursday the French representa-
tives will go to Princeton and later TO
Philadelphia, to be met by Owen Wister
and be the guests over Friday Of private
citizens. On Saturday afternoon they
will go on TO Washington. to remain
until Wednesday, when they will leav.
for Boston. On Thursday the visitors
will be entertained at luncheon at CAM
bridge by DR.. Abbott Lawrence Lowell,
president of Harvard, and at dinner in
the evening at the Somerset Club.
The ENJOYS will return to New York
on Sunday, May z. and sail for Havre
by the steamship France.