The New York herald., 1922-04-30
Toyland an added
Feature Arranged
for Street Fair
Illuminated Pirate Ship Load
ed With Toys to Be One of
the Novelties.
Photo Sy cA"H0skLL S'Oofos

UGH time is being devoted by
\H the many committees of the
forthcoming Street Fair for
the benefit of the Association for the
Aid Of Crippled Children. of which
Mrs. Edgar s. Auchincloss, Jr., is
president. Mrs. Arthur B. Claf1in. who
has had much experience in such en-
tertainments, is the acting chairman
of the fair. which will be held on three
plazas in the center of Park avenue,
between Forty-seventh and F'iftieth
streets. beginning May Is. The dura-
ton of the fair will depend on weather.
Children are to play an important
part, and for them there will be a
playground under the direction of Mrs.
Orson d. Mum, and this will be sort
Of an Arabian Nights toyland, sur
rounded by huge Jars, from each of
which there will be bobbing balloons
Of gay colors. Within there will be a
pirate ship of large dimensions, a re-
production OF Capt. Applejack's own,
and in this craft there will be hidden
toys for which the children will be
permitted to search at SO much per
capita. At night time this ship will
be strung with gay colored lights and
the children who board 1t will walk a
gangplank and slide down in the hold.
where the treasure. buried In sand
heaps, may be found.
At the gates of Toyland there will
be a life sized doll to greet the young
sters and later 1t will be sold at auc-
tlon. Mrs. Laura Shaw has presented
Father Knickerbocker, fully fifteen
feet in height in the top of whose hat
there will be a grab bag to be reached
by means of a ladder
Mrs. Henry b. Barnes has planned an
"Alice in Wonderland" cottage where
each day "A Mad Tea Party" will be
served and all the characters of Lewis
Carroll's classic for children will be on
hand, including the Rabbit and the Mad
Halter.
Mrs. Lydig Hoyt's theater is to be
called the Grand Giggle." Among the
attractions will be a Russian dance
by Miss Gilda Gray. Costumes have
been designed for the actors by Baron de
Meyer and the dances will be staged
by Fokine.
For the tombOla, under the direction
Of Mrs. Gustavus T. Kirby. there have
been received more than three hun
dred gifts ranging from n trip to Ber-
muda and return to cakes of automo-
bile soap. Miss Dorothy Collins VIII
muster n corps OF young women, fully
1876 OF them, to aid her as Mattresses
in the tea and refreshment booths. and
more than thirty-hve dolls are being
dressed for Mrs. III. Le Roy Whitney's
Dolls Fashion Show. Mrs. Frederick
L. Lutz. who Is at the head of the pro-
gram committee. will have many assist
ants who will be stationed at the eight
entrances to the fair TO sell the book
let's which will contain Information con-
cerning the various exhibits.
Among those who will aid Mrs Lutz
are Mines. Charles Smithers, J. Edward
Meyer. Frederick Richard. William r..
Simons, George Watson Frederick
Armstrong. John s. Browning, John S.
Ellsworth, Albert #. Jaeckcl, Charles
Il. Adams, Paul Forester. Louis Hag-
gerty. Robert Meyer. Henry w. Low
Daniel @. Tenney. Harry M. Engle. Miss
Helen Bacon. Miss Clara Richards.
Messrs. Russell Cowles, Robert McMul-
len and Guernsey Curran.
Mrs. Walter Sullivan has collected
works OF American artists which will be
arranged attractively and sold for the
benefit Of the fund.
Mrs. Lyttleton Fox. who so success
fully organized the circus last summer
at the Southampton fair will have
charge of the one In connection with the
forthcoming fair.