Evening star., 1931-12-20
WASHINGTON BALL
FEATURE INTERESTS
New York Beaux Arts Affair
Number to Attract Wash
ington Patrons.

Much interest has been aroused In
Washington architectural and social
circles by plans for the annual BeauX
Arts ball in New York the night of
February %, the feature event this
year being reproduction of the first
inaugural ball of President George
Washington, which took place in New
York City in 1889.
The BeauX Arts ball Is usually at
tended by a number of Washngtonians
but the affair this season, in honor of
the 200th anniversary of the birth of
George Washington, is expected to
draw an even larger number of patrons
from the National Capital The Wash
ington representation on the ball COM
mittee consists of j. Henri de Sibour
Frederick V. Murphy and Nathan c.
Wyeth.
The proceeds of the ball are devoted
to the educational work of the Beaux
Arts Institute of Design in Architec-
ture, Mural Painting and Sculpture at
the society's institute, 304 East Forty
fourth street, New York; to the Paris
Prize and to the American School at
Fontainbleau. With members of the
institute and students who will be ben
Gifted in many parts of the country,
the forthcoming benefit ball is of gen.
eral interest.
New York Pageant"
Vieing in interest with the inaugural
feature of the ball will be colorful
Pageant of Old New York" in which
many historical societies are COOP
Grating in the casting of important
characters. This pageant will precede
the inaugural ball and more than 500
prominent people will take part in it,
according to Kenneth M. Murchison,
the executive chairman.
AS far as 1t is possible to do so,
all the well known historical char
acters of the Dutch an6 English Co
lonial and Revolutionary periods will
be portrayed by direct descendants of
these old families whose names are as
sociated with early New York.
George Washington will take the part
OF Col. Israel Putnam, Lewis GouVeneur
Morris as Lewis Morris, Roger Sherman
as Roger Sherman, Phillip Van Rensse-
laer Schuyler as Gen. Phillip Schuyler,
Pierre Jay as John Jay, to mention a
few. John Clark Udall, as Gen. Clark
Udall, will wear the uniform of his
neutrality-suspicious..
$50 in Finale Cast.
In the American Revolutionary epi-
sode staged by Ben Ali Haggin, which
comes to a grand finale with the inau-
guration of Gen. Washington, the sew
eral scenes call for a cast of about $50.
An inspiring scene will be the tearing
down of the statue of George III on
Bowling Green and the Colonial troops
marching off to war, led by the famous
Putnam Phalanx and a fife and drum
corps of 40 pieces.
The list of patronesses, made up of
more than $50 prominent people in So
ciety and the fine arts, is the most dis
tinguished that has ever sponsored a
Beaux Arts ball. Invitations will be is
sued December 20. The price of ticket
includes a souvenir program and year
book of the society. The ball will be
given at the Waldorf Astoria
Additional interest is being taken In
the Washington inaugural feature of
the ball, in view of the ball to be given
in the National Capital under the au-
spices of the Bicentennial Commission
on February %. Washington's birthday
anniversary. Many of the persons de-
picting the historical characters in the
New York affair are expected to partici-
pate in the ball here on that date.