Evening star., 1927-05-01
New York Society to Depict
Five Periods of History
Colorful Pageant to Be Staged May IL in Madison
Square Garden-Betrothals and We'd
dings Announced

NEW YORK, April S0.--Colorful
pictures of five periods OF history.
from the DAYS oi the Arabian Nights
unui the present time. viii be de-
picted bv members of society here.
who will take part in the "One
Thousand and one knights and
Ladies'" pageant at Madison Square
Garden on May II. The pageant Will
1p> one Of the features of the huge
charity carnival for the benefit Of the
ludson Health Center. More than
600 viii take part i'm the affair. Mrs
Arthur Clatfiin, chairman Of the COM
mittee on arrangements, recently an
nounced the program.
In part one of the program. which
Visualizes Arabian knights and ladies.
the audience will .be shown Bagdad in
nh its Oriental spleudor. There will
be whirling derNlSheS Ort g II q J
dancers. Persian princes and beautiful
slaves Of the market. Iubeide. the
Lady of Beauty viii be portrayed by
AIRS. Julia Hoyt; kishmiri the Mystic,
by Mrs. Herbert Lowell Dillon. and
Fatima the Cheerful. by Miss Gene
We've Fox This will be mounted on
Eayly caparisoned elephants.
Accompanying them on litters viii
he Scherbera zad the Favorite tAlrs.
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte( Gulnare'
Queen Of the sea Miss Ciarissa Steml,
and Dana ajanti OF Tehernan Mrs.
J. Richard, lrl.
Among others who have accepted
roles in this part Of the program are
Miss Harriet C~mac, Mrs. Charles j..
Van Week. ir. and Mrs. William S.
Fairchild. The roles of ''Deryhar of
Arabia. 'Mynha of the Nile" and
''Thya of Persia have been assigned
- Miss Lucy Han. Miss Dollie Kim
bah and Mrs. Samuel F. Se'eit.
Part two of the progralR viii be
staged Mt the Court Of Louis XIV A
ninuet. in which 81 couples will par
ticipate. and Il Vatican pantomime
win be featured. Mrs. Edward f.
George BrokaW, Madame Pompa-
Antoinette,' and Mrs. Leonard Cox,
MADAME du Barry"
Two hundred debutantes will lend
color TO the Spanish wedding. which
Will be the feature of part three on
the knights and Ladies of
Old Madrid" !"
The pageant will conclude with the
most popular debutante of the season
holding court as Miss 1927" All
of the popular modern dances will be
portrayed by picked choruses and solo
dancers.
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Tribute to the oldest families of
New York will be paid at an unusual
memorial meeting at Town Hall on
May /. Members of prominent New
York families whose forbears took a
Il lfc4s .ieshn in ho txr'c
opment viii be invited to attend the
gathering.
BY means of permanent gallery of
portraits, which is rapidly growing,
and by means of orchestra chairs and
loges, the memory of prominent New
York citizens is being perpetuated in
the Town Hall. In many instances
the families concerned in the affair
have co-operated with the memoirs
committee, of which Mrs. Schuyler
y. Warren is chairman, in furnish
ing material of general interest re-
garding their forefathers. AS a result
a great wealth of historical material,
rare documents, old photographs,
daguerreOtypes. newspapers once read
IN every New York household, now
yellowed with time and no longer in
print, and autograph albums have
been brought to light.
The historical committee of the
Town Hall, of which Mrs. Henry A.
alexander is chairman, is working to
give conference and continuity to this
historical material. Selection from
the material will be shown by means
of slides on the stage of Town Hall,
and there will be a descriptive mar
ration representing research among
privately printed editions as well as
from other sources. Representative
New Workers of the present day win
take part in the commemorative ex-
ercises. to which the public win be in
yited following provision for members
Of the interested families.
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Announcement has been made by
Mr.. and Mrs. John Clarkson Jay of
131 East Fiftyfourth street, of the
enga cement of their daughter, Miss
Marguerite Montgomery Jay, to the
Rev. William Dudley Foulke Hughes.
son of the Rev. Stanley Carnaghan
Hughes, rector of Trinity Church,
Newport. r. l., and the late Mrs.
Hughes.
Miss jay is a graduate of Brearley
School and attended Bryn Mawr Col
lege. She is a member of the Junior
League.
Mr.. Hughes was graduated from
Princeton and Hertford College, Ok
ford. He recently was elected pre-
centor of the Cathedral of st. John
the Divine, and is headmaster of the
Cathedral Choir School. Mr. Hughes