The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-18
Belgian AmbasSa-
dor in New York
for Benefit.
BY JEAN ELIOT.

TIME Belgian Ambassadors and
Baroness de Cartier are in
- New York for q few days,
having gone over to attend the
special performance in aid Of the
reconstruction Of the Louvain
Library which took place last eve
ming in the Shubert Theater and
Tor which an exceptionally bril-
liant audience assembled. The
benefit was under the patronage
OF the ambassador and Cardinal
Mercier.
The most interesting feature Of
the program which included bal
let and group of songs by John
Charles Thomas was the presenta-
ton Of Miss Mary Cass Canfield's
delightful one act play, :Lackeys
OF the Moon" by a professional
cast which included such we'll
known actors and actresses as
Beverly Sitgreaves, Katharine Cor
nell, Helen Robbins and Tom
Powers.
Miss Canfield's play is a rococo
bit of Venetian life Of the mid.
eighteenth century and lends itself
readily to the setting of that
period. The opportunities for the
display Of the picturesque cos.
tunes Of the time fill out COM
pletely the demands Of a poetic
fantasie. Its literary worth was
established when it received the
Rward Of first prize in the 1923
play contest of the San Diego
Players in California. 1t gained
the second prize in Santa Barbara
and its first presentation was
given on the Western coast.
The playlet was produced by
Guthrie McClintic and other well
known personages implicated in
the presentation were Miss Elsie
DeWolfe, Miss Helen Dryden,
Frederick w. Jones Ill and Wal.
ter Golde.
After Mr.. Thomas had sung the
numbers listed on the program he
sang the Belgian national hymn.
Before the play Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia Uni
versity, gave an address in be-
half of the fund being raised for
the Louvian Library.
X u
VdE coupling Of Cardinal Mer-
4 cier and Baron de Cartier
Is patrons for the benefit recalls
the fact that Baroness de Car
tiers debut as an ambassadors
was made at reception given
by the ambassador on the occa-
sion of Cardinal Mercier's visit to
washington not long after the
close of the war. This was with
. in a few months Of Baron de
Carriers marriage to Mrs. Ham
I. ilton Wilkes Cary, which took
place in Paris The late Car
dinal Gibbons was also a guest
at the reception, which was at
tended by notably brilliant
company.
VIII return to Washington in a
few days.
ONE Of the most picturesque
~ events Of the campaign to
raise a fund for the purchase of
Monticello, home of Thomas JEFF
ferSon, will be the Washington
tea which Mrs. Robert E. Lee is
arranging at her residence, 1888
Riggs street for Washington's
Birthday-Friday afternoon-and
at which many of the historic
and beautiful things which have
come down from the Washington
family as heirlooms will be used.
Proceeds from the tea will go to
swell the Washington quota of
the Thomas jefferson Memorial
Foundation fund, which is to be
used to purchase Monticello and
make of it a national shrine.
Mrs. Lee will have as her
house guests Mrs. Francis I. Du-
Pont, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Tracy
Rogers, of New York. and Miss
Matte P. Harris, Of Roanoke,
Va.
Mrs. Minnegerode Andrews
and Mrs. Gouverneur Hoes will
assist Mrs. Lee in receiving.
Presiding alternately at the
tables will be Mrs. Randolph
McKim, Mrs. Henry Wilder
Keyes, Mrs Stephen B. EIkins,
Mrs. John Lejeune, Mrs. Horace
mcfarland, Mrs. Leland Stan
ford CONFESS, Mrs. Hanson Ely,
Mrs. w. L. Crounse, Mrs. John
Ryan Devereux, Mrs. r. Parker
Crenshaw.
A group of girls in colonial
costume will assist, including
Misses Eugenia Lejeune, Anne
Devereux, Eleanor Northrup.
Claudia Read, Eleanor and Anna
Abbott.
A musical program will include
Mrs. John Freeman, of South
Carolina, in old English ballads
OF the colonial period, accompanied
by the hostess. Mrs. Lee, who is
her cousin. Roland Williamson.
OF Louisiana, barytone, also will
sing, and Mrs. Andrews will
make u brief address. Fortune
telling by an English lady of
rank, travelling incognito in this
country, will be of special inter-
est, because a long residence in
the Orient and much study have
given her great abilities in this
line.
Miss Lucy B. Lewis, of Mar.
mion, a descendant of Washing
tons sister, Betty Washington
Lewis, who will attend the tea,
is the guest of Mrs Carl Thomp.
son Shoemaker, at 1918 @ street.
Mrs. MinE1gerode Andrews en-.
tertained 1t luncheon today for
a delegation from the Parent
Teacher Association who are in.
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