New-York tribune., 1922-02-07
niplomais and Arms Parlcy
Envoys, Who Sail To-day,
Arrive for Affair by Spe-
cial Trains From Capital
Early Breakfast Served
Throng Dances i'f Powdered
WigsandC dCoiii',prcs: Dinner
for 200 Prectcdcs Affair

NJ. and Mrs. cornelius Vanderbilt
entertained nearly 1900 guests last
scb. a. bal poutrc" given at their
residence. $40 Fif3 Avenue, in honor
c. the Hon. Ar7h"r James Balfour,
so-r,er Prime Minister of England
With Lord and f.ady Icc and former
Ambassador Hjsa Wallace and Mrs.
Wallace. Nr >'Balfour has been the
house guest gf Nh. and Mrs Wander
bill. since his carnival from Washington.
And at the ball IN his honor last night
vas assemb I'D tho most brilliant and
distinguishy,d ID company, as well as the
lsrres: n5lmbcr OF guests, that has
beer prescnt at any private function
N New York this winter. Preceding
tne baII goo friends OF Mr. ard Mrs.
vandg rbilt w~rc entertained at dinner.
Al Of the guests, both at the dinner
Ind At the dance which followed, wore
nhi.e wigs or elaborate powdered
Z ~o,;od coitTurcs. which We're the dis
ti,guishine feature of the ball. Mill
ts-v and diplomatic uniforms added
smother note Of color TO the brilliant
ensemble.
Arms Delegates Attend
Several hundred members OF the for
.,cn missions who arc sailing to-day on
.se AGuitaria came 10 New York on
.necial trains last night to be present
Il the bal before their departure for
Europe.
~ the dinner were the New ork and
Washington friends OF the host and
hostess. the assembiaee of DIS
t;nguished fore 'gnors. who have been
in attendance ut the arms conference
IN this country and . group of the
youncer set from among the intimateS
~ the dehutarte members Of the
Vanderbilt family
After tho dinner. while the 100 in
v;-ed for the bail were assembling. an
o-chest-a from the Metropol tan Opera
House played and IN the interim DC
fore general dancing began Nine.
Rosina Call. Of the Metropolitan
Opera. entertained the guests with
number Of dances, executed on
a small stage erected in the ball
room. The music for tho ball WAS
PLAYED by two orchestras. here
vas q buffet supper at midnight. aNo.
at the Close OF the ball in the early
hours OF the morning breakfast was
served
The Dinner Guests
Among the two hundred guests were
the Hon. Arthur James Balfour, Lord
Lady Lee, the Hon. Hugh Wallace and
Mrs Wallace. Prince and Princess
Ylbesco. Nice-Admiral de Bon. OF the
French delegation al the Arms Confer
ence; Major General Hugh X. Bcthcll
Of the British delegations; JonAhecr
Van Drep lain. chief Of the Netncr-
lands election, Arthur Ycnkcn. Of
the British Embassy: honorable
Captain James Stuart, eQucrry 20 the
Duke Of York; Lord Francis Dounc
Lieutenant BoVlo OF the Italian dele
cation; Maurice Peterson. secretary to
Mr. Balfour: Lord Richard sNevill
Colonel and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
Mr. and Mrs James Gera-l, Nh
and Mrs. Vincent Astor MIR
and Mrs Joseph Widoner of Phila
dephia. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Warren
Mr. and Mrs. Williams Burden, Mr.
and Mrs. Leroy King jr., Mr.. and Mrs
Seymour Johnson. Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin
Derby. Mr. and Mrs. George +. Baker
jr., Mr. and Mrs. Orme Wilson, Mr
and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt ir Mr.
and Mrs James Lloyd Derby, Mrs. Her
hort Asou'th, Mrs Vanderbilt, Mrs
Truxtun Beale, Of Washington; Mrs
Harry Payne Whitney. Mrs. W. X.
Vanderbilt, Mrs. Nicholas Lonsworth
Mrs Howard Cushing. Mrs. Sherwood
Aldrich, Mrs Belmont Tiffany, Mrs
John ?. Mitchell, Mrs. William K Van
derbilt ID. Miss Ruth Twomblv, Miss
Flenora Sears, Miss Anna Sands, Miss
Helen Moran. Miss Aiuricl Vanderbilt
Mr. and Mrs. August Belmont. Mr.. anc
Mrs. Frank Pendleton. MIR. and Mrs
Robert Gerry, MIR. and Mrs. Walter
Maynard. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard T. "
son, General and Mrs. Charles H. Shcr-
rlu, Colonel and Mrs. Francis Hop
pin, Mr.. and Mrs Goadby Loew
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman de Il. White
house, MI and Mrs. Francis NJ
Whitehouse, MIR. and Mrs. Oliver
lselin. Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Doubleday. MIR. ant
Mrs. Ogden Reid, Mr.. and Mrs Franz
Harrison, Ny. and Mrs. George
Ridgway, Of Philadelphia; Mr.. ant
Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, Colo
mel and Mrs. Arthur Wood
M. and Mrs. George Post il.
Miss Barbara Whitney, Miss Joar