New Britain herald., 1930-04-19
NEW YORK SOCIETY
 GOES ID COUNTRY
Easter Parties on Suburban
 Estates
BY ADELAIDE KERR


 New York, April 19 P) - The greater part of the fashionable ranks will hunt it's colored Easter eggs this year in the depth of Long Island and Westchester country es- tates, dotted with gay-colored tulip beds and sprouting the first green buds.
 Beginning with Palm Sunday, so- ciety started its pilgrimage into the country, and Good Friday found a great many others on the way Most of them will attend Easter services in the little brick country churches near their estates, far from the taper-lighted. flower per- fumed cathedrals of Fifth avenue.
 Those who remained in town spent holy week with "a hand as open as day for melting charity" Flower sales, rummage sales, thea ter benefits-all were devoted to gathering funds for the smart worlds favorite philanthropies. and its members worked carly and late to make the affairs successful.
 The early days of the week found a number of fashionable women, cnveloped in smocks, working in a , ,Fifth-avenue street florist shop, where percentage of the proceeds were turned over to tho New York child labor committee.
 Roses and lilies, violet corsages and sweet peas were selected and wrapped by their unaccustomed fin gers and dispatched on their way | o their buyers, who in many cases were some of their best friends Among those who labored for char itys sake were tho Misses Alice Vanderbilt Morris. Eff Laimbcer Alice De Peyster and June Blossom Wednesday found others of the fashionables wading through heaps of books and ornaments, old cloth. Ing and discarded furniture at the Opportunity Shop of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, where Rudy Vallee, using a grand piano as a desk, autographed his photographs in exchange for the | rummage. The entire proceeds of that exchange were devoted to tu- berculosis relief work in the city.
 The same evening society cut its ofter-dinncr coffee short and hur. | ried to the Metropolitan Opera house for a special performance oi "Parsifal,' which began at 7:15 ant was given as a. benefit of Bryr MaWr and Barnard summer schools
 Most of it's members made up fol ] the shortened dinner, however, a the first intermission when tn, Metropolitan Opera house catcrc served supper. Among those " ht reserved boxes for the performance, -one ofsthe Metropolitan's last thi. season-wcre Mrs. Henry Goddard Leach. Mrs. Howard Whitney, ant Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt.
 In the midst of the charity activi ties of holy week the smart foll laborcd over plans for boneyolen festivities 10 come. Foremost among them were designs for the charit, carnival to be given at Madison | Square Garden on the c9th, whcr the famous loves of history and at | tcndant trappings will be depicted in aid of the Judson Health Center It seems as though nearly all O society's members will be there anc half of them will take part in tho pageant.
 Miss katrinla Suydam, arrayed il a Dutch costume and lace cap vii portray katrinka Van Tassel, elud ing the headless horseman with hel schoolmaster admirer, Ichabo( Crane. Mrs. Daniel Webster Whit more, Jr., will be there as Cinderella in her gilded coach with Majo, William Remedy as the prince.
 Mrs. Philip Kip Rhinelander vii portray Helen of Troy, who threw the Trojans into such a state, Mrs William Barber will be Mumta: Mahal, for whom Sha Jehan bull the Tai Mahal. and Mrs. Fredericl ZieGlcr is to represent the resplend ant Queen of Sheba. Even the nintl and newest planet is included a! part of the pageant in the "Ro nance of Light
 Ten thousand rose bushes. thous ands of peach and cherry blossoms a pool of crystal water and pris matic lights playing over the flower decked bower will form the scttins for the love scenes.
 Another charitable affair which i holding societys interest is the fet, tricolore to be given on the St. Re sis roof during Easter week in aic of the French Institute in the Unit