Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

NEW YORK. January D lteneii
sails are being held daily for the annua
play of the Spence Alumnae Societ!
for the benefit of the Spence Babies
Home The play will be presented II
the ballroom of the Hotel Plaza or
Thursday and Friday evenings. Febru
airy and T. at $50 O'Clock. It is t
be musical revue in two acts and is
called why Not?' Claude Warfofo
of New York and Paris is staging the
entire production, and the dancing Is
under the direction of Miss Rosstte
O'Neil Willard Sektberg will conduct
the orchestra
Among those who Will take pari
are Misses Frances AcCOon. whose
ability as a dancer is well known;
Adele Kelley. Betty Baldwin Mary
Brannon, Margaret Abel Miriam
Bradley. Alice Bowker. Rita Baker,
Sara Chisholm. Virginia chaplin. Ger
trude tinnucane. Hester Ann Fisher
Cecile Fuller. Marian Gould. Margaret
Green. Dorothy Havemeyer, Mildred
Heye. June Jess Jean Ickelheimer.
Kathryn Jordan Janice Jefferson.
Constance kinney. Margaret Knott,
Jean Lehman, JeaNnette MackelVie,
Frances Masury. Lois Mccall, Faus-
tina Munroe. Constance Nash, Janet
and Helen O'Ryan, Marjorie Sperry.
Betty Terry, Ella Cppercu. katherine
Ward and Louise Watts.
The executive committee is headed
by Mrs j. r. Johnston Mali. assisted
by Adele Kelley. Eva Taylor, Lois
Mccall Dorothy Warren. Jeanette
MacKelvie. Constance Kinney. Marie
.Ienney. Frances Drury and Mines. ID.
Chester Noyes jeremiah Milbank, :,
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The officers of The Spence Alumnae
are Mrs. Irwin II. Cornell, president:
Mrs ]. 7. Johnston Mali. vice presi-
dent: Mrs Blodt Miles. treasurer: Miss
Barbara Whitmore, secretary. Mrs.
Frank Sheppard. Mrs. +. Lloyd San
derson. Mrs Henry Rawle, Miss May
Wells, Miss Josephine Bedle, Miss Eliz.
abeth Lamont and Miss Lois Mccall
are on the board of directors.
Society plans another invasion into
the tenements bordering the East
River. Properties facing Carl Schurz
Park. in the vicinity of Eighty-third.
Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth streets.
are being acquired by persons now
living in or near Fifth avenue a the
site for a residential community
which will be comparable TO or greater
than Sutton Square. created several
' ears dSO by MIS- w ~ tdnQ6E-
bilt, Miss Anne Morgan, Miss Eliza
beth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe and
other well known women.
The new social center will be built
around the new building of Miss
Chapin's school, which is to replace
tenements at the northwest corner Of
East End avenue and Eightfourth
street. The property has already
been acquired. and the building is
planned to cost about 81 900 900. The
Chaplin School has been at 81 and 81
East Fifty-seventh street, just east
of Madison avenue. for q years, and
has been sold to an operator said to
be Robert E. Simon, for $500 900.
Those who have bought in the yicin-
ity are Of such prominence, it is said,
that their removal to the Carl SchurZ
section will influence many others to
follow, making the colony probably
much larger than the Sutton Square
development.
An entire block front on East End
avenue, just to the south of this
neighDorhood. was taken recently for
Improvement with a $500, 900 hos
pital, in which leading surgeons, ply
sicians and bankers are interested
Miss Margaret Louise Metcalf,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Orlando P.
Metcalf of 157 East Seventy-second
street, will be married in the small
ballroom of the Plaza January Is to
Francis A. Shelton of Boston. The
ceremony will be performed by the
Rev. Frank Warfield Crowder Of ST.
James Church, New York. The
brides sister. Mrs. Macneil of Barra.
will be matron of honor. and the
bridesmaids will be Miss Martha Macy
and Miss Althea Ward.
The hest man will he Iarnld n
Whitney and the ushers H. Martyr
Baker and William b. Miller. Mr..
Shelton is "a graduate of Harvard
and Miss Metcalf is a graduate of
Spence. Mrs. Metcah and her daugh-
tiers, as well as the bridesmaids, are
all graduates of Spence.
One Of the smartest Of recent af-
fairs was the Inauguration of the
Skating Club by q reception to the
members. who gathered in the new
quarters Just completed. on the top
of the building adjoining Madison
Square Garden on the east
The entire roof OF the building
running from Forty ninth TO Fiftieth
streets, with the entrance at 304 West
Eiftieth street, and fronting on Eighth
avenue, erected by the Phipps inter
ests. has been turned into a modern
ice rink, glass inclosed. The interior
has been attractively decorated in
high colors. The spectators gallery,
where tea will be served, has it's own
glass Enclosure and will be heated.
The organization committee Of the
club is composed Of Mrs. Russell Dou-
bleday, Paul Hammond, Harold Harris
horne, David ]. Layman, jr.: Mrs.
Clarence G. Pell and Henry G. Phipps.
Mr.. Pell is president of the club, Mr..
Hartshorne the secretary and David
T. Layman, jr.. who has been most
active in its initiation. is the treas
urer
OF the charter members about 100
are former members of the New York
Skating Club and include Mr.. and
Mrs. Grosvenor Atterbury. Irving Bro
kaw, Mr.. and Mrs w. S. Bird. Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Belden, Mrs. Lewis
NJ. Borden and Gail Borden, I'd;
George Brokaw. William NJ. Chad
bourne, Mr.. and Mrs Charles T.
Church, Frederic r. Coudert, Mrs. K
Gerry Chadwick, Mr.. and Mrs. Rus
sell Doubleday, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Henry w. Howe, Mrs. L. s. Knapp,
Miss Rosalie Knapp, Miss Beatrice
Laughran, Mrs. Bradley Martin,
Condo Mast. Stowe Phelps. who is
chairman OF the house committee:
Mrs. John s. Phipps, Mrs. Frank l..
Polk, John r. Pratt. Mrs. Kermit
Roosevelt. w. A. Sands and Willard
G.. Van Name
There will be morning, afternoon
and evening club sessions until 7:30
O'Clock.
The Christodora ball will be given
January % in the main ballroom of
the RitZ-Carlton. The guests will be
entertained by a professional cabaret
during supper, which will be served,
at midnight in the restaurant and