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30 Years Wed~
Moores Give
Dinner Dance
Majiy Attend Elaborate Af
fair in New Ballromu of
the Plaza Hotel, Which
U FUJed With Roses
Mrs. J. A. Burden Returns
Head of Women's Commit?
tee for Legion's Concert
Announces Patronesses
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moore cele
brated their thirtieth wedding anni
versary last evening by giving a dinner
and dance at the Plaza Hotel. The
new ballroom was used, nnd the deco
rations consisted of American Beauty
Roses. There was dancing between the
courses ard after tho dinner.
Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs.
tV. B. IV: ry. Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Sin
clair, Mr. and Mrs.'H. L. Hotchkiss. Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Johnson, Mr. and Mrs.
C. W. Band, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Band.
Mrs. Fames A. Burden, who has been
qua sh poting for the last week at the
Alamai ce Club, of Burlington, N. C
has returned and resumed her work as
the head of the women's committee for
thi Ai can Legion's benefit concert
next Sunday evening at the Hippo
crme. Mrs. burden announces that the
following women have consented to act
a? pal ronesses :
Mrs. Francis R. Appleton, Mrs F
McNei! Bacon, Mrs. Robert Bacon Mrs
:"':: ? ?', ? D- Barnes. Mrs. C. Ledyard
Blair Mrs. vvalter I'helps Bliss Mrs
Robert S. Brewster, Mrs. Nicholas F*
Brady, Mrs. \\ illiams.A. M. Burden, Mrs'
Jj ' o, Mrs W. Bourke CockranJ
Mrs - orbin, Mrs. Paul i). Cravath ;
Mrs ' ' '?'? Curtis, Mrs. w. Bayard
< t! ? ..-. Mrs. Henry P. Davison, Mrs ;
K- Draper, Mrs. John R ;
'?'?? ??' Ernesto (,. Fabbri, Mrs
? ? IV. ] ish, Mrs. Harry Harkness
I ? ig'i r Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, Mrs
Griswold. Mrs. Daniel Gug
genhi ? . Mrs. W. Pierson Hamilton,'
Mrs nry Hammond, Mrs Mont
gomm Hare, Mrs. E. H. Harriman. Mrs
01iv? 1: irriman, Mr.;. J. Borden Harri?
man, Mrs. Edward N. House. Mrs. Lvdijr
Ho;.:. Mrs. Charles E. Hughes, Mrs |
Adrian [s< in, Mrs. Arthur Iselin, Mrs. ,
* ' ' ? Mrs. Walter B. James,
" Gould Jennings, Mrs Wal?
ter Jennings, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn. Mrs
1 K< logg, Miss Ruth King,
Mrs. tt'ifliam C. Langley, Mrs. Lewis
rd, Mrs. Goodhtre Living
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TO Itl SOl.D WITHOX'T RESERVE
TO-DAY, Wed., Feb. 25,
Thursday, Feb. 2S,
at 2.30 P. M.
JOHN MOSKOW, Auctioneer
'MrTC' S*r8^J1,,a,M Fe?owe* Morgan
i Mrs. Richard Mortimer, Mrs. H. Fair
| held Osborn, Mrs. William Church Os
j born. Mrs. George B. Post. Mrs. Harold
' wuft*. lr*^' Mrs' John T- Pratt, Mrs.
I Aii aW ,Rrui' ,Mrs' ?Kc,cn R?W, Mrs.
Allan Apploton Robbins, Mrs. Charles
Hamilton Sabin, Mrs. Ralph Sanger
I S-6 Hir,fert L' Satterlee, Mrs. Charles
|J;.,?.enff? Mrs- Malcolm I). Sloane, Mrs.
William Douglas Sloane. Mrs. William
Sloane, Mrs. Charles Steele, Mrs. Archi
bald G. Thacher, Miss Eraily Trovor,
: Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Van
idcrb.lt Webh, Mrs. W. Seward Webb,
i Miss Mary Hoyt Wihorg, Mrs. Henry
: Rogers Winthrop and Mrs. Harrv
j Payne Whitney. General Pershing will
be the guest of honor and the artists
will be Mary Carden and John McCor
mack.
Mr and Mrs. E. Parmalec Prontice
are already making their summer plans,
and have arranged to close their town
house about the middle of April and go
to their country home at Williamstown,
Mass.<
. ,
j Mr. and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop have
been spcnding a few days at their
; country place at Westburv, L. I? and
I Mr- and Mrs. E. Roland N. Harriman
I at the Harriman estate at Arden, N. Y.
! Miss Gertrude Theresa Planten,
! daughter of Mr. a;id Mrs. II. RolfT
? Planten, will be married at her par
| ents' home. 207 Carlton Avenue. Hrook
i lyn, this evening to Laird Curtis Dins
| more. The bride is a granddaugn
ter of the late .lohn Rutger Planten,
who for forty years was Consul Gen?
eral for the Netherlands in New York.
Mrs. Harold J. Babbidge will be her sis
ter's matron of honor and Miss Ger
' trude Estenche-id her maid of honor.
She will have four other attendants,
; Mrs. Herbert Wcsley Reid, Miss Marion
Bernard, Miss Fiorence Chase, of Brook?
lyn, and Mjss Schlesier, of Forest Hills.
Dr. Ward Kenfrew will serve as best
man and Lawrence K. Harper, Kemsen
Holbert, Harold J. Babbidge and EUs
worth Harris as ushcrs. The ceremony
will be, performed by the Rev. Dr.
Charles Carroll Albertson.
Mr. Dimsmoro, who is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas H. Dinsmore, was
in the naval reserve during the war. j
He was graduated in 1914 from Prince
ton. Miss Planten was graduated from
the Packard Institute in 1917 and did
active war work.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Whitelaw, of 47
Claremont Avenue, have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Norma Whitelaw, to Dr. Wallace A.
Pratt, of Walla Walla, Wash. Miss
Whitelaw served during the war with
the Y. M. C. A. in this country and
also in France and Germany. For sev?
eral years she was a member of the
Art Students League. Dr. Pratt was
graduated from the University of To
ronto and in 1917 entered the medical
corps of the A. E. F., with the rank
of captain. He returned from Germany
with the 1st Division last autumn and
has been taking post graduate work in
surgery in this city since demobiliza
tion. He is a son of Mrs. Alexander
Pratt, of Coburg, Can. The wedding
will take place. late in March.
At the residence of Mrs. Robert L.
Gerry, 69 East Seventv-ninth Street,
the Lenten Sewing Class, which works
for the Nursery and Child's Hospital,
will have its first mceting of the season
to-morrow morning at 11 o'cloek. Some
of the new members this year are Mrs.
Charles B. Alexander, Mrs. Edward J.
Peaslce, Mrs. J. Wray Cleveland, Mrs.
Chester Griswold, Mrs. Auerbach, Mrs.
Rubin W. Howes, Mrs. William Alex?
ander, Mrs. Stuart Duncan, Miss
Eleanor Le Roy, Mrs. E. J. Berwind,
Mrs. B. C. Porter, Mrs. Frederick Pear
son, Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Falls, Mrs.
.Irimes L. Barclay, Miss Martha S.
Bowers, Mrs. Eugenc Du Bois, Mrs. F.
.^shton <le Peyster, Miss Harriet Wells,
the Misises Fraser, Mrs. Morris L. Ul
man, Mrs. Malcolm Stuart and Mrs.
Fairfax S. Landstreet.
The other meetings of the class dur?
ing Lejit will Le on March 4 at the
home oa* Mrs. Hamilton Fish, 810 Fifth
Avt nue; March 11, at the house of Mrs.
Lawrence L. Gillespie, 11 Ea^t Eighty
ninth Street; at Mrs. Sirneon B.
Chapin's house, 930 Fifth Avenue,
March 18, and at Mrs. Frnnk S. Wither
bee's, 4 Fifth Avenue, March 25.
Mrs. Witherbee, who is the tre_nurei
of the class, is making a special l L*
quest to those who are unable to at
tend the meetings to send donations ot
money or ready-made sheets or pillow
cases.
George Roussos, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Pleninotentiary of Greece
to the United States, has issued invita
tions for a reception on Sunday after?
noon, at which a private view of the
Greek governmemt's exhibition of pic
tures by Fredej'ic Boissonnas will b?
held. The affajr will be at the Grand
Central Palacc, on the tenth floor, and
the exhibition will be under the
auspiccs of the American Hellenic
Society. The pictures attracted much
attention in Paris during the peace
conference.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Fox have re?
turned from England and are at the
Ritz Carlon. Mr. Fox represents the
Royal Commission on Sugar supply of
Great Britaiu, and before his departure
from the other side was appointed the
next Sheriff of the County of Lanca
shire. Mr. and Mrs. Fox expect to re?
main here for some time.
The sewing class formed for the
benefit of the fresh air fund of the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine met
yesterday morning at the home of Mrs.
Edward R. Stettinius. 1021 Park Ave?
nue. The noxt meeting will be March
2, at the home of Mrs. Price Post,
350 Park Avenue.
The first meeting of St. Luke's Hos?
pital Social Service Sewing Class was
held yesterday at the home of Mrs.
Nicholas Murray Butlcr, 60 Morning
side Drive. Next Tuesday tlie members
will meet at. the home of Mrs. Stuart
Duncan, 3 East 'Seventy-fifth Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Bid
dle jr. are receiving congratulations on
the birth ol" a. daufchter at their home,
2 East EiKhty-ninth Street. Mrs. Bid
$1 TO-NIGHT PROMPTLY AT 8:15
Concluding To-morrow (Thursday) Night at the Same Hour
In the Grand Bailroom of the Plaza
Fifth Avenue, 58th to 59th Street
(ADMISSH)N BV (ARD TO BE HAD FREE OF THE MANAGERS)
Valuable Paintings
INCLUDING THE PRIVATE COLLECTION
FORMED BY THE LATE
R. H. White of Boston
ON FREE VIEW TO-DAY, 9 A.M. UNTIL NOON
At the American Art Galleries
Madison Square South
The Sale will be conducted by Mr. THOMAS E. KJRB* or
AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers
Madison Sq. South. Entrance 6 E. 23d Street, New Vork.
Favorite in Palm Beach Dancing Set
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Miss Suzanna Pierson
As she appeared at the fancy dress ball given by the Cocoanuts at the
Palm Beach Country Club a few days ago. She is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Pierson jr? of this city.
dle was Miss Mary L. Duke, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin N. Duke.
Mrs. Charles Hendcrson Bradlcy jr.
will give a reception with music at her
home. in West, Seventy-ninth Street,
Saturday afternoon for her debutant
niece, Miss Beatrice Miller. Miss Miller
is the daughter of Nathaniel Miller, of
Cleveland.
The American Ambassador to Italy,
Robert Underwood Johnson, and Mrs.
Johnson, gave a luncheon yesterday at
their home, 327 Lexington Avenue, in
honor of the Italian Ambassador and
the Baroness Romano Avezzano.
Mr. and Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Ham?
ilton have postponed their trip to Eu?
rope until next month.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Livingston have
returned to the city from Miami.
Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly will
frive a luncheon to-day at her house in
Fifth Avenue.
Mrs. Charles B. Ward
Hostess at Capital Tea
W ives of Members of New York
Congressional Delegation As?
sist al Brilliant Function i
From The Tribune's Washinpton Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. ? Mrs.'
Charles B. Ward entortained at a large '
tea this afternoon at the Congressional
Club. The ballroom was decorated I
with roses and a profusion of spring
flowers, in which red predominated, and :
smilax fastooned the walls.
Those assisting at the tea table in
cluded Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Mrs. :
William M. Calder, Mrs. Medill Mc- :
Cormick, Mrs. Thomas B. Dunn, Mrs.
Jouette Shouse, .Mrs. William A. Roden- I
berg, Mrs. William Corcoran Hill nnd
Miss Alice Page, all of whom took
turns in presiding.
Others assisting in receiving inciuded I
the wives of the members of the New
York delegation in Congress, Mrs. How
ard S. Reeside and Mrs. Isahelle Gif
ford, of Newark, N. J., who is the house j
guest of the hostess.
Miss Amy Steiner, of Baltimore, will :
be the guest over the week end of Miss !
Charlotte Harding, daughter of the '
Right Rev. Alfred Harding, Bishop of i
Washington. Miss Steiner will be the '
guest of the Bryn Mawr Club, of Wash
ington, at its dinner Saturday evening. '
Miss Margaret Wilson has returned
to the White House from Grove Park
Inn, Asheville, N. C, where she spent '
several weeks.
Mme. Jusserand is unable to keep her
soeial engagements on account of her
illness.
Colonel William Eric Fowler enter
tained at dinner this evening in compli
ment to the United States diplomatic
agent to Ca^iro, Harnpton Gary, and
Mrs. Gary.
Mrs. James S. Parker was at home '
informally this afternoon. Mrs. Parker
has as house guests Mr. and Mrs. G. G. ,
Lansing, of Albany.
Representative and Mrs. Thomas B. |
Dunn, of New York, cntertained at I
dinner in the Presidential suite at the
Willard.
Representative William B. McKinley
and Miss Julia Mattis cntertained at
dinner this evening.
Mrs. Al red McGrath, of Passaic, N.
J., is the guest of Mrs. Rudolph Kauff
man at Airlie and will be at home
with Mrs. Kauffman to-morrow after?
noon.
Mrs. T. W. Stubblefield was hostess
at a beautiful Colonial luncheon to-day
at her residence on Sixteenth Street.
Her guests, numbering twelve, were
seated at one large table adorned with
a tricorn hat lilled with spring flowers
and the place cards had Colonial ladies
in bouffant gowns and white wigs
painted on them.
Mrs. Stubblefield will be hostess at
a luncheon again Tuesday, March 2
when Mrs. Forbes, who is the house
guest of Mrs. G. A. Nugent, will be
the honor guest.
Mrs. Meredith. wife of the Secretary
of Agrieulture, will be at home Thurs?
day, March 4, and the following Wednes?
day from 4 to 6, at 1785 Massa
: chusetts Avenue, when she will be as
; sisted in receiving bv her daughter
; Mrs. Frederick 0. Bohen, of New York
Miss Naney Lane and her fiance,
Philip C. Kauffmann, were the lunch?
eon guests yesterday of Isador Dock
weiler, of Culifornia, at the Shoreham.
The Spanish Ambassador and Sehora
de Riauo entertained at luncheon to?
day at the embassy in honor of the
noted Spanish author Seiior Vicente
Blasco Ibanez, who is being brilliantly
; entertained during his visit here. Tho*'e
i present included the members of the I
embassy stafT and a few other guests i
To-night Senor Ibanez dined wit> Mr i
and Mrs. John Hays Hammond, who S
had a party of twenty-four to meet
him.
Werrenrath Gives Annual
Recital at New York University
Reinald Werrenrath, barytone of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, gave his
annual song recital last evening in
the Gould Memorial Chapel at the New
York University.
The concert was given under the
auspices of the Campus Concert Course,
established nine years ago by Mr. Wer?
renrath, who is a graduate of the uni?
versity.
His program included:
Itocltative?Oh, AVhen on That Great
Day; aria, Blessed Iteaurrectlon Day
\\ atch Ye. I'ray Ye. .John Sebastlan liach
May Day Carol (Essex folksong) ar
ranged by Deems Taylor.
Over tho Illlls and Far Away (old
Irlsh), arranged by William Aims
risher.
Occhiettl Amati.Andrea Falconlori
Invocazlone dl Orfeo.Jacopo Perl
; Attento. Poldowskl
Fromenade a .Mulr-.Felix Fourdraln
!T;ur;;'.Maurlce Ravel
Jlaudlto. a lat-ais solt la race ("Sam-'
son ot Dalila").Saint Sar-ns
Ibree salt water ballads (John Mase
flcld): Port ot .Many Ships, Trade
.... Vl 1?d?-1 Mother Carej.Frederlo Keel
.'? :" 0"ld 1""1.Hamilton llarty
lho Wrecli ot tlie Jutle Plante (Wil?
liam H Drummond).. . .Geoffrey O'Hara
JThe Bllnd Ploughman-Robert C. Clarko
Yu!Vl-V-.Josephino McGill
A Hymn for America.Harry Spler
-e.
Democrat Wins in Mi-souri
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Feb. 24.?
Complete official returns received from
the 3d Missouri Congressional District
show that Captain Jacob L. Milligan,
Democrat, was elected to Congress over
John E. Frost, Republican, by a major?
ity of 1,859. Milligan's vote was 13,919,
and Frost's 12,000.
"Jane Clegg" I8
Highest Mark of
Theater Guikl
Fine Performance of New
Play by Ervdne atGarriok,
With Margaret Wycherly
nnd With Dudley Digges
THE CAST
Venry,,?,eKK.Dudley Difsgea
Jane Cletrn.MnrKuret. Wycherly
Jolmnic.Russell Hewttt
irnn,pf;,.Jcan Ba-iey
Mrs. C legg.Holpn We8?ey
Mr. Morrmon.Erakine Sanford
Mr- Munco.Henry Travers
By Heywood Broun
The production of St. John Ervine'a
"Jane Clegg" i3 the finest achievement
of the Theater Guild. It is a better
play than "John Ferguson," and a bet?
ter performance. Indeed, it seems to
us that no play of the year has in
spired so deft a cooperation throughout
the entire east. To be sure, "Jane
Clegg" has no sudden fiash of violcnt
and tumultous emotion such as served
to animate the best act of "John Fer?
guson." It is more even, more sus
tnincd and less theatrical. One is not
even tempted to think of it in terms
of acts, for more than anything else
it succeeds in achieving a sense of
close-knit unity
The play tells the story of Jane
Uegg. who did her best to make a go
of marriage with a vulgar, philandering,
gambling, lying husband. Not all of
her best was voluntary. She would have
left him once. but for the fact that
she was absolutely dependent upon
him. Later she inherited a bit of
money from her uncle, but she took
no advantage then of her opportunity
ior freedom. She was willing to give
Henry another chance. When Henry
stole she was willing to save him from
jail by paying back the money
and going away to Canada with him.
But when she found out even the rea
sons which hc gave for his theft were
lies and that he stole in order to run
away with another woman, she finally
had the courage to make the decision
to break with him at once. It
was a calm, cloan break. Jane was
not rebel enough to exult at once in
the freedom which had been forced
upon her. She could not forget that
for twelve years she had been mar?
ried to an abaolute rotter, but at the
very end of the play, when Henry shut
the door for the last time, there was
perhaps just a suggestion of a new
lift to the shoulders of Jane Clegg as
she went up the stairs of her home.
This brief account may carry the
suggestion that the play is'onc of those
dull, drab things in which realism is
interpreted to mean the painstakingly
coinmonplace. Such an impression
would be entirely falsc. No play of the
season has been more richly e-ndowed
with stirring humor. ln fact, the
irony of the play is sometimes pushed
so far, for all its logic, that the play
assumes the form of a farce-tragedy,
if there is such a thing.
Though the play must be instantlv
acquitted of being either dull or drab
it is a little marred, as "John Fergu?
son" was, by moments of pretentious
and self-conscious realism. In the
Irish play, as we rcmember it, tho
hero on his way to jail remarked that
it looked like rain; while in Jane
Clegg the news that Henry had stokn
money from his employer inspired the
observation that things were getting
a little colder. Wre might also have
wished for a diminution in the num
ber of times the children were put to
bed and in the dishes which Jane
Clegg had to cloar away in one scene.
Nor are we moved to exclaim, "How
true!" when Ervine provides that two
out cf three acts should end with some
body turning out the gas. However,
these are incidental matters, for dur?
ing the greater part of tho evening
thu dramatist has not only been able
to make his people do and say en
edtime Stories
By Thornton W. Burgcss
Reddy Fox Plans to Get Even
Said Reddy Fox, "There'II. come a day
When those who laugh loill have to pay."
Reddy Fox was in anything but a
good tempcr. The truth is he was in
very bad tempcr, very bad tempcr, in
deed. You see. Sammy Jay had spread
all through the Green Forest and over
the Green Meadows the story of how
Peter Rabbit had fooled Reddy. Wher?
ever Reddy Fox went he was twitted
and tsased about it. As you know,
Reddy Fox had the name of being very,
very smart. Reddy is very proud of his
smartness, so it hurt his pride dread
fully to be laughed at and told he
wasn't as smart as Peter Rabbit.
At first Reddy had thought that
Samrr.y Jay had made up that story just
to make him uncomfortable. He hadn't
beheved a word of it. But just to make
sure Reddy had gone over to the dear
Old Briar-patch where Peter Rabbit
and little Mrs. Peter had their home.
Peenng through the hrambles he had
diseovered Peter squatting comfortably
under a thick bramble bush, where. he.
was quite safe and knew it.
"Where did Sammy Jay get that story
there he lay down to think and plan.
"I'll get even with that long-legged,
long-eared, wabbly-nosed, short-tailed
hunch of impudence," muttered Reddy.
"I ccrtainly will get even with him.
He can't set everybody to laughing at
and poking fun at me without paying
for it. I know Peter Rabbit from' the
soles of his feet to the tins of his ears.
For a few days he'll stick to the Old
Briar-patch; then he'll forget all about
my warning. His curiosity will be
greater than his sense of cati'tion. He'll
visit the Green Forest and the Old
Orch*rd to find out what is going on.
The thing for me to do is to keep out.
of sight for a while. I'll give Peter
Rabbit just about three days in the Old
P.riar-patch. By that time he will have
stayed at home just as long as he can.
I know where he usually jumps over the i
old stone wall on the edge of the Old
Orchard. I'll just hide behind that old I
wall and one of these fine nights Peter
will jump over for the last time. A
Rabbit dinner certainly will taste good."
Reddy licked his lips hungrily.
////'.
"He got it right ovt
that you fooled me by keeping perfectly
still right in plain sight?" demanded
Reddy.
Peter chuckied. "He got it right over
here," said Peter, and then once more
wished he had kept his tongue still, for
into Reddy's eyes had blnzed a sudden
look of anger which made Peter feel j
most uncomfortable.
"So you have been boasting that you I
are smarter than I?" snarled Reddy.!
'J haven't bothered you for a long time,
Peter Rabbit, but now watch out! You i
may have fooled me, as you sav you did,
but you won't fool me again. " It would '
have been better for you had you kept
your tongue still. Just let me catch you ,
outside this miserable Old Briar-pa"tch
and you'll never hmgh at me again or
boast of how smart you are."
"It isn't a miserable Old Briar-patch,
it's a dear Old Briar-patch," retorted
Peter, indignantly.
"Grrrrr!" snanled Reddy Fox, and
turned away. He headed straight for
the Old Pasture, where his home is, and
r here," said Peter
As for Peter Rabbit, he was once more
v.ishing he had kept his tongue still.
Timid little Mrs. Peter gave him the
scolding he richly deserved, and it made
Peter fee! most urcomfortablc. It
made him feel uncomfortable because he
knew he richly deserved it.
"I hope now, Peter Rabbit, that you
will have sense enough to stay at home
the rest of the winter," declared little
Mrs. Peter. "I never have a minute of
peace when you are away, but worry,
worry, worry. I never know what
foolish thing you may be doing. Here
in the dee.r Old Briar-patch you are
safe, and y.iu know that safety is the
rirst law of life for us little people.
There may be better things to eat over
in the Green Forest or up in Farmer
Brown's orchard, but what does a full
siomach amount to if you lose your life
to get it?';
(Copyrigkt, 1920, by T. W. Burgess)
The next story: Reddy Lies in
Wait.
Do You Know
THAT
4% of all the babies
born alive in the
U. S. A. die before
they are one month old?
Maternity Center Association
18 West 31th .Street
Mins Mary I,. Davison
Clinirninn Eiecutlve Committee
I grossing things, but to provide furthcr
i that these things shall seem just as
1 true as they seem humorous and poig
j nant.
j The part of Jane Clegg falls to Miss
j Margaret Wycherly, who gives a bcau
I tiful performance. She plays without
whip and without spurs, and yet she
makes the portrait of an imprisoned
woman, vaguely and vainly sceking
escape from a life which presses in
'? upon her from every side, more truiy
thrilling than any scene of bare hands
hammering upon the panels of a locked
door. At the end she gives with fine
understanding and expression the min
gled emotions of Jane in her linal break
with Henry. Of Jane, as much as of
any character in drama whom we can
remember, it may be said, in tho words
of Shaw, "When your heart is broken,
your b,oats are burned; nothing mat
ters any more. It is the end of happi
nes.s and the bcginning of peace."
Equally good is Dudlev Digges as
I[C"",r,y' AU the unc?n?cious humor of
ihe blatantly vulgar man whom he plays
is telling in his interpretation. As the
coward in "John Ferguson" Digges was
extraordinarily successful in putting
over a mixed impression of things
laughable and things beyond that. Just
so he humanizes Henry to an excusable
degree. Without sentimentalizing over
the poor rogue, he makes us realize
that even in his basest deeds there is
an understandable and a logical seek
ing for joy. He was perhaps the Jrue
'. on of his father, concerning whom one
character reported that "he said it al
i most broke his heart to be a Chris
i tian."
There also was delightfully telling
work by Henry Travers as a bookmaker
His scene with Digges in the first act
is one of the most convincing and one
of the most amusinpr that have been
brought to the stacre this year.
Helen Westley was decidedly inter
esting in the role of Clegfr's "mother,
s.nd there was a r;ood performance by
Erskine Sanford as a virtuous em?
ployee. The two children were good
enough, though we have never yet seen
a stage child in anv play who did not
| make us think that there should be
, more knowledge of birth control in the
rcalm of a dramatist's fancy.
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Solution Is Found
For Elgar Enigma
After Many Years
Riddle Concealed in 'Theme
and VariatioIl8, of Com
poser Believed to Be Mei
ody of Motto in 'ParsifaF
By H. E. Krehbiel
There were only three composition3
on the program of the New Symphony
Orchestra in Carnegie Hall yesterday
afternoon, but they were all master
pieces,and though strongly contrasted in
character, were arranged and plaved in
a manner that captured fancy and feel
ing at once and held them in thrall to
the end. The pieces were Wagner's
Preiude to "Die Meistersinger von
Niiurnberg," Mozart's Concerto in D
minor for pianoforte (the solo part
played by Miss Guiomar Novaes), and
the "Variations on an Original Theme,"
by Sir Edward Elgar. Nothing new in
this scheme, and yet it provided not
only a great pleasure but also food
for reflection; how much we shall pro
ceed to explain at once.
Tho eomposition by Elgar has been
in. local concert lists for neariy if not
fully twenty years. It has been played
often. though not as frequently as it
deserves, foi-. in our opinion, it mark?
the high tide of its author's creative
imagination, in the instrument?l field at
least. Whencver it has been nlayed the
program annotator has called attention
to the fact that it btars a sub-title,
"Enigma," and that Sir Edward has
attached to it a comment to the effect
that though in it he had sought to
sketch for their amusement and his
, own tho idiosvnerasies of fourteen of
j his friends, he attached no particular
signifiennce to that fact, and wished the
j music to stand as music simply. He
, did, however, call attention to the fact
'. (indicated in the sub-title) that he had
i buried an enigma in the eomposition,
; whose "dark saying" must be "left un
; gucssed."
Further to pique the curiosity of the
: listeners, possibly also the critics, he ;
added: "Through and over the whole
! set tof variations) another and larger
I theme 'goes,' but is not played. So the
j principal theme never appears, even as
1 :n some late dramas?e. g., Maeter
! linck's 'L'Intruse' and 'Des Sept Prin
cesses'?the chief character is new on
| the stage." The enigmatic theme was
I thus made to appear as itself a varia
tion or an outgrowth of one of those
unheard melodies, those "spirit ditties
of no ton?," which to the illogical fan
i tasy of Keats seem sweeter than those
which appeal to the sensual ear.
Much brain cudgeling has been
caused by the cryptical utterance, and
r.o doubt many musicians in listening
to th? bcautifiil work i for it is pro
foundly and loftily beautiful) have
tried to solve the riddle of the un
sung theme. Mr. K. J. Buckley, one of
Sir Edward's biographers, as Mr.
Gilman's program note informed us
yesterday, ventured the assertion that
: "the theme is a counterpoint in some
| well-known melody which is never
: heard." Mr. Buckley also said that
; the coda to the piecc was added by
; the composer at the suggestion of Dr.
j Hans Richter, who had received the
: score in Vienna before he knew Elgar
personally. He took the work on tour,
; and with it won England for Elgar. as
thirty years before he had won Eng?
land for Wagner with the "Tann
hauser" overture.
We confess that we have often tried
! to solve the ridd'e of this musical
: Sphinx, but we're always balked by the
bclicf that the heard theme was in some
, way related to a melody of a national
British character. Yesterday while lis?
tening to the music there came a? sus
picion, for which we believe we ound
confirmation after a iook at the theme
in print. For us at least the mystery
is dispelled. The enigmatic subject of
1 the eomposition is the melody of the
, oracular motto in "Parsifal."
"Through pity. knowing,
The blameless fool;
Wait for him
My chosen tool."
The theme as varied is a counter?
point on or parody of this melody.
Arid now we wonder that the discovery
was not made long ago. It may have
been; but we never saw or heard of a
record of the fact. ,
Mr. Bodanzky had evidently thrown
himself heart and soul into the prep
aration of the eomposition, and the
performance, despite the handicap of
a somewhat crude and ill-balanced
band, was amazingly lucid and bril?
liant. He gave a pompous, albeit a
somewhat rapid, reading to Wagner's
Preiude, and an exquisitely sym
pathetic accompaniment to the piano?
forte concerto, which Miss Novaes
played with crystalline purity through?
out and with particularly ravishing
'oveliness of tone in the Romanfca.
The music will be repeated at this
evening's concert.
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Englishman Rejerts Offer to
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"It is quite true the offer of ?1.000,
000 to paint portraits came to me from
America." Sir William said to-day in
confirming the report, according to "The
Daily Mirror." "To complete such a
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