Evening star., 1924-12-21
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Lyon
To Receive Guests
At the Bal Boheme
With Corps of Assistants,
Arts Club President to
Chciiate as Host Evening
OF January 5.

Mr.. Gideon 4. Lyon. president of
the Arts Club of Washington. and
Mrs. Lyon. ass sted by the three for
nlcr presidents of the club and their
wives. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry K. Bush
Brown. Mr.. and Mrs. George Julian
Zolnay and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Franklin Musgrave, Will receive the
guests at the Bal Boheme Monday
evening. January 5, in the bathrooms
of the New willard Hotel.
Under the direction OF Mr. Cameron
Burnside and a committee of artists
the rooms VIII be decorated and
lighted TO represent the Golden Age
Of Pericles. which is the setting for
the pageant of the year, The Second
Judgment of Paris" arranged by
Carlton Van Falkenburg, chairman of
the hail committee, and to be pre-
sented by seven groups of artists in
the city with Marie Moore Forrest as
pageant master.
Mr.. Warren Akers chairman of
the floor committee. will be assisted
by group of men who. dressed as
foresters. will precede the pageant
procession. clearing a wide aisle the
entire length Of the ballroom; and
-Irs. Forrest is arranging that each
9f these scenes be enacted three times
along this pathway.
Seye? episodes will be presented in
the pageant including. in addition TO
those already announced. the story
Of Arachne and Minerva representing
Painting and To be given by the Cor
"oran School of Art. under the direc-
fioni of MIR. Burtiss Baker. Mrs. l..
NJ 1eisenring and Mrs. Frederic Far
-ington. The episode OF Drama is to
be given by the Shakespeare Society.
presenting the story OF Pyramus and
Thisbe. taken from Shakespeare "A
Midsummer Nights Dream" Mem
bers of the Rubinstein Club. con-
Quoted by Claude Robson. will pre-
sent the episode of Music. a chorus
rom OTpheus end Eurydice, Mrs. Emma
Prall Knorr - music chairman for
the committee.
Claiming Smith. a student Of the
Coreorsn School OF Art, has designed
most attractive. poster fer the Bal
Boheme in the distribution OF which
Alfred + Lewis. jr. is in charge.
Mrs NinnigeroGe Andrews with
Mrs. harrington. f5--ns the advisory
commi1Iee on ball costumes
Mrs William Wolff Smith IS chair
man Of boxes for the ball. M. Edward
H Watson IS chairman OF finance and
Mr.. Il 4 Lyon Of programs and
printing. Miss Rosamund Porter Is in
charge Of tickets which are now on
sale at the Arts Club and after Christ
mas may also be found at the New
willard
The patronesses for this brilliant
event as announced by Miss Mary A
Trader OF the ball committee are:
MRS. Aarles Evans Hughes. Miss
Mellon, Mrs. John w. Weeks, Mrs
William Howard Taft Mime. Riano
Nine wallenberg. Mrs James W.
Wadsworth. jr.; Mrs. George Wharton
Pepper. Nine. Heilmann, Nine.
Prochnik. Mrs. Louis Brandeis, Mrs.
Walter F. Mccoy, Mrs. Minnegerode
Andrews Mrs. Henry Lloyd AspinwaH
Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Mrs ". Sinclair
Bowen. Mrs. Theodore V. Boynton,
Mrs J. Davis Brodhead, Mrs Graham
Charlton. Mrs. Reuben Clark, Mrs
r. w. Cole of Tennessee, Mrs. James
Couzens, Mrs. William Crozier, Mrs
a. Gordon Cumming, Mrs. James Car
roll Frazer. Mrs. Charles C. Glover
Mrs. Raymond Gorges, Mrs. Pearl
Moore Gray. Mrs. E. st. John Greble
Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin. Mrs John
Hays Hammond, Mrs. ]. Borden Har-
riman, Mrs. John B. Henderson, Mrs
Frazier D. Head, Mrs. Frank P. Hight
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Mrs F. b
Moran, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs
George Hewitt Myers, Mrs. Duncan
Phillips, Mrs Samuel Reber, Mrs
William Barrett Ridgely, Mrs. Joseph
NJ Stoddard, Mrs. Joseph Strauss,
Mrs. Corcoran Thorn, Mrs. Joseph z.
Thropp, Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Mrs.
George w. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Frank
Weedsn, Mrs. Norman Williams, Mrs.
Charles Boughton Wood and Mrs
Charles Woodruff.