The Washington times., 1922-10-01
AUTUMNAL FETE
SEASONS FIRST
GALA INCIDENT
Women's Welfare AS
ISOLATION to Be
Beneficiary.

big get.together party OF the
season will be the fete on
October at Pembroke Park,
Mrs. Alfred Pembroke Thom's
home. for the benefit of the
Women's Welfare Association.
This Is heralded as an autumn
fete and moonlight carnival" and
all sorts of original and delightful
features are being arranged to
wind up with dancing-under the
trees. hope, for the towering
forest trees are the glory Of Penn
broke Park. The grounds are to
be illuminated with a myriad of
wee lights, and the effect should
be one of fairy loveliness.
One of the spectacular features
OF the carnival will be the original
ballet, THE Pipes OF Pan" which
is to be put on by Paul Gardner
Tchernikoff and Miss Elizabeth
Gardiner. The ballet was con.
ceived by Mrs. Edouard Albion,
and it's worth noting that she got
her inspiration from an engaging
Pan in porcelain, the work Of Mrs.
George Oakley Totten. jr.. for.
merly Vicken Won Post.
Mr.. Tchernikoff and Miss Gardi.
ner are dancing the principal
parts. Pan and an old Witch who
Is transformed into Wood
Nymph. Twenty Of his pupils are
taking the parts OF villagers and
dryiads in the ballet. among them
Miss Nina Lynch. Miss Janet Jus.
tice and little Carmen Diaz, daugh.
ter Of Senior Diaz. OF the Hon.
duran legation.
Mr.. Tchernikoff spent part Of the
summer in New York, studying
and perfecting plans for several
programs he plans to give in
Washington during the winter.
With Margaret Walch, one of the
sOloists OF the coming season with
the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
he is to give a matinee OF Chopin
and Debussy. This is almost the
first instance OF a joint recital by II
concert pianist and a dancer and
promises to be an interesting event
in musical circles. With Miss Gar.
diner he is arranging a suite OF
dances TO music OF Debussy and
a suite OF Venetian dances Of Col.
doni's period to music by Pales.
trina.
While in New York, Mr.. TchernI.
koff became interested in the Ital.
ian Narionettes OF Reno Bufano,
and with Mr.. Bufano's assistance,
he plans a Children's matinee OF
dancing and Marionettes during
the Christmas holidays. In addi.
ton to these activities. he is al.
ready rehearsing the ballets of the
operas to be given by the Wash
ington Opera Company during the
season.
Mr.. Tchernikoff has but recently
returned to Washington for the
winter and is opening his studio at
lI0S s street tomorrow. The for.
NAL opening will take place later
in the month. The studio is the
ballroom of the former Marshall
home, a beautiful spacious room
with a frieze OF Della Robla dane.
ing cupids. Miss Elizabeth Gardi.
ner, former resident of Washing.
ton and recently a member of the
Pavlowa and the Fokine ballets,
will be associated with him this
winter.
CLEVER Miss Genevieve Pyle
is also opening a studio for the
dance. which will contribute it's
bit 10 the development OF the
artistic side OF life in Washington.
She had the formal opening yes.
terday afternoon of her salon de
dance" at the Fairmont Inn, Four
teenth and Falrmont streets, AMI
a good many fashionable folk as.
sembled for the occasion. She
plans to have studio classes on
Tuesdays and Saturdays.
A PRoPoS Of dancing. lie Para
dis. the supper club which
Meyer Davis. OF the Meyer Davis