New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
St. Patrick's Dance
Is To BE Given by
Criterion Society
Affair Will Be Held Friday
at Commodore; Dinner
for 800 Members and
Guests Part of Program

The American Criterion Society, Mrs.
Leonard l.. Hill president, will give a
large dinner next Friday evening at the
Hotel Commodore.
The walls of the big ballroom, where
| dinner Is to be served, and where the
dancing later takes place, will be
decorated with early spring greens,
On the round dining tables, seating
twelve and sixteen members and their
guests, will be tall vases filed with
trailing smilax and ferns. Gay
streamers of green ribbon confetti will
be tossed among the dancers and the
men will don green tissue paper
"plug" hats provided for them by VIII
liam II. Peck, chairman of the sou
venir committee, The festive favors
promised the women are long green
tulle scarfs.
Five hundred members Of the Amer
lean Criterion Society and their guests
will participate. Three hundred reser-
vations have been made for the dinner
and two hundred Of the juniors will
come in afterwerd for the dancing. For
these a midnight supper will be served.
Mrs: Hill and the officers Of the ag-
sociation will receive the club members
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ballroom. Mrs. Charles A. Bartholo-
mao ls chairman of the arrangements
aud Mrs, D. George Derry heads the
fnatrons of the dance. The junior com
nlttee is jointly led by Miss Marion
Campoin, Miss Marjorie Cushman, Miss
Ida Braun and Miss Lenna Powers
Thirty men compose the floor commit
tee 1t is headed by DR.. John Strofher
Gaines jr. His vice chairman is James
Yer Plank Ritchey. These will be re-
lnforced by twenty eight other dane
ing men.
Many of the club members are plan
ming large parties for Friday evening
Mrs. l.. A. Cushman will have a table
for sixteen and among her guests will
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Merrill and Mr.
and Mrs. William Dillon. Others who
have reserved tables with covers for
twelve are Mrs. Bedell Parker, Mrs
Hubert Templeton Parson, Mrs. Joseph
Purcell, Mrs. ". Edgar Pruden and Mrs.
Henry K. Adams
Mrs. Hill has chosen her thirty
guests from the junior members of the
society. They will include her niece.
Miss Milfred Freeman; Miss Gertrude
Collins, Miss June Love, Miss Marjorie
Cushman, Miss Barbara Lusius, Miss
Helen Collins, Miss Dorothy Bowman,
Miss Hazel Crockett, Miss Alice Braun,
Miss Marcella Verran, Miss Gladys De
| Cordova. Miss Helen York, Miss Ida
Braun, Miss Charlotte Osgood, Miss
Arlyne {. Creighton and Ridley Enslow
Harrison B. Moore. Gordon Cushman,
Carl Braun and Dr. Robert X. Snedaker
The American Society Of Reconstruc-
tion will give a May Day dance at the
Army and Navy Club on Monday seve-
ming, May l. Mrs. William H. Selden
is chairman. A meeting of the society
was held at the Hotel Plaza on Mon
day afternoon. Mrs Robert Wylie
Lyle, president and founder, opened
the meeting and was hostess for the
social hour that followed. Guy Empey
spoke Among those present were
Brown, Mrs. Minnie T. Pearson,
Mrs. Myron 7. Scudder, Mrs. w. R.
Boyd. Mrs Charles II. Dressed. Mrs.
NJ. Donnazumma, Mrs Harry Lee
Ziegler, Mrs. David Lopez Cardoza
Mrs. Richard T. Lynch, Miss Lonise
Dobson. Mrs. Sherman Woodward, Mrs.
John W. Quay, Mrs. Ira Duane Hough
! Mrs. Arthur Y. Dearden. Miss Helena
ziegler and Miss Virginia Lynch.
The Theater Club Inc, Mrs. George
NJ Clyde president, held directors.
! meeting at the Hotel Astor Tuesday,
arranging for the many activities for
the month On next Tuesday the club
viii discuss the play "He Who Gets
! Slepped.'' Mrs. Albert A. Snowden is
chairman. As chairman of the
; Drama" Mrs. Eva French Phipps will
! talk on Back to Methuselah' Mrs.
Laura r. Bardwell, chairman Of the
Silent Drama" committee, will tell
the club OF her recent activities on the
subject.
The annual spring club luncheon will
De held at the Hotel Astor March 81
fifth Street, will be in charge of ar
rangements. On March 2s Mrs. John
II. Parker, honorary president of the
club, will be chairman Of the pro-
gram.
The Womans Forum, Miss Helen
Varick Boswell president, will hold a
meeting in the music room Of the Hotel
Fillmore on Friday morning. Lewis
Il. Pounds will speak on Port Author
lty, and a. Parker Nevin will present
the topic OF the national budget Mrs.
Charles s. Whitman, vice president OF
the Wonan's Forum, will entertain the
executive board at tea tomorrow.
Mrs. Ray D. Henkle Will be chair
man at the meeting of the Daughters
OF Ohio in New York, Edmund ".
kingsland, president, at the Waldorf
Astoria tomorrow. The guests of hon
or will be Mary Garrett Hay, Miss Rose
Pearson Norton, Mrs Wallace Hamil--
ton, Miss Adeline Craig, Miss Ruth
Bingham, Mrs. Oliver Hartman and
Miss Mabel Crafty. The third card
party for the fund for the blind will
be held at the studio of Caroline Lowe
iiorey, 50 West Si%ty-seventh Street,
Thursday afternoon.
Tie Clio Club of New York City,
Mrs. Wills P. Miner, president, will
hold its meeting tomorrow at the
Hotel Astor. There Will be a business
meeting at O'Clock, and fifteen
minute talk on Port of New York
Authority" by Mrs. Henry Markowitz,
and musical program will be given
by Howard J. Gee, who will sing 8
group of songs. A talk on Gathering
the News" will be given by DR.. Tai
cot Williams. Mrs. Mary A. Kyle will
be the program chairman. The club
will give card party at the home OF
Mrs. Frank Simmons, 3077 Fifth Ave.