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Society Play
1* Staged on
].anks of Avon
?v|?ja Ballroom Looks Like
' fit of Old England When
f??*?r Guild Presents
tgbakespeareGardenClub'
Mar*!?*1 White Married
geco0(>9 Bride of Daniel
Bacon at Ceremony in
Church at Key West, Fla.
mm of the Plaza ballroom last even
"' \here the charming little play,
?ffca Shakespeare Garden Club," by
' Mabel M. Moran, of Larchmont,
-, given under the auspices of the
fttfoa*] Plant, Flower and Fruit
-t'il?. R WM Stratford-on-Avon and
he fantasy was acted on the banks of
?i? river with Shakespeare's wife, Anna
? H?tk?way (Mrs. Lee Hill French jr.)
,b? l?verai characters from the plays
c.< the Bard o? Avon in the cast.
Tht pl*y brought together Mistress
r8rd and Mistress Pajre, Miss Sylvia
grown and Miss Marion Gilford, re
ijectiveiy; Lady Macbeth, imperson?
ated by Miss G?raldine Hall; Ophelia,
br Miss Mary Stichan: Cleopatra, by
liiss Ads Heiuc. and Jessica, by Miss
?iilah Thompson, and also Cordelia,
Pcrdite. Desdemona, Catherine, Portia,
?osa!ind, Juliet, Titania and Octavia,
who were portrayed by Miss Constance
DeLanov, Miss Virginia de Heven, Miss
Madeline Rees. M>ss Dorothy Height,
:'!rs. Connor Lawrence, Miss Louise
jongers, Miss Marian Whitman? Mrs.
Bradley Coley, Miss Elizabeth Haldane
?rid Miss Alice Macy Boers.
" The action centered around the re?
peat made by Shakespeare that the
b*nk3 of the Avon be beautified, and
Ibis heroines responded to the appeal.
1'nere were poetic and witty iines and
ruriy Eng ish ballads and dance3 inter?
polated the dialogue.
The p.?y was ;oi lowed by a fantasy
I'jtitied "The Banks of the Avon in
Spring,'1 arranged by Miss Janet Jack
..os, whieh showed th? lover and his
ais at work and play. In the cast
-ere M?3S Lilian Jackson, Miss Janet
Jack?on snd Miss Ruth Cramer. There
? u an old French song ana a Pavanne
LvEe by Miss Marian Whitman and
Harold Van Doran. Miss Ada Heinze ;
took par; in an Egyptian dance as Cleo?
patra, and the "Merry Wives oi' Wind?
sor," Miss Marion (iiiford and Miss
Sylvia Brown, gossiped and danced.
Mme. Anita Rio gave a group of old
tngiish songs, "Sigh Xo More, My
L.2??s," "She Never Told Her Love"
ud "It Was a Lover and His Lass."
Flowers mentioned by Shakespeare
were represcrted by a group of young
monier., tne Primrose by Miss Lentii
son Gilford, Sweet Peas by Miss Doro
iiy Battie and Miss Faith Hayden,
larkspur by Miss Aimy Gi.ford and
M:s.* Amy Sparks ur.d Ho.'yhock by
Miss Ruth Hayden and Miss Aiice Hall.
fes Pau.ine Bourne aiso took part in
'.?is flower fantasy.
Among those who h-d boxes were
Mrs. Jonn Henry Hammond, Mrs. Ar
?n Curtiss James, Mr.;. James Roose
itfc, M.-s. Oliver Parker. Mrs. Herbert
L Satterlee, Mrs. W. Seward Webb,
Urs. Russe 1 Benedict. Mrs. Daniel T.
H?7e, Mrs. George D. Piatt, Mrs. T.
Co ernin au Pont, Mrs. J. Victor Guinz
?>urg and Adolph Lewisohn.
The floor committee, of which R.
hgersoll Brown was chairman, was
made up of Littleton Fox, Eckford de
Kay H. Van Rensaelaer Fairfax, Leon?
ard Cox, Robertson Cleveland, Fairfax
Burger, Oii? de R. Brown, Robert L.
Bigtlow, Chandler Bates, Fiederick T.
F.eitmann, Leigh French, Frank M.
Oca d, C. Diuvj'ass Green, Edward
Simmon? Ha! , Donald W. Lamb, Era
erson MeMillin 3d. Theodore Roose
' ?" Pell. Henry Wise Miller, Stowe
Phelps, Henry Morgan Post, Charles
Morgan Post, James Sheldon, E. Vail
Stebbing, Morris McKim Prvor, James
M3rley Queen. Cornerina V. V. Se wall
The proceeds of tne entertainment
?nil be used in supplying seeds and
'arming implements to the shtll
ahocked soldiers under treatment at
tie hospital at Dannsville, N. Y. and
'?60 for garden supplies to be sent to
g* devastated town of St. Quentin, in
France, in rerponse to an appeal for
?"-eds and other things from the mayor
? that city.
Mr. and Mrs. Herma i Livingston, jr.,
who have been spending the winter
i; La Jolla, Flo., will make an ex
sided motor tour through California
?tior? returning to their home in New
;ork.
?Dr. and Mrs. Eric T. William Bo
Pwt, of Minnepolis, Minn., are re
?iving congratulations on the birth
'? ? daughter in that citv. Mrs. Bo?
gt was Mi33 Elizabeth Bacon,
?fghter. by a former marriage, of
???Edwin Sweeter Merrill, of 340
"?t Seventieth Street.
Jir. and Mrs. William Gage Brady,
*?* of this city and Scar^dale, will
*1 March 17 on the Vauban for an
'tended trip through South America.
Among the youn? women who will
9*9 in the tea room at the Flower
i*?* in Grand Central Palace on
^?sian Day. Fridav, March 19, will
? Miss Katherine Field, Miss
?thanne Post, Miss Janet Robb,
r?':,s Rosalie Blood'rood, Mrs. Amos
^ermerhom and Mrs. Bigelow Til
f1 Mrs. John Prince wili be in
*"fg? and all will be dressed in Rus
;'''?', costume. Princess Cantacuzeno
'P'ransky, chairman of the Amen
BJ1. ??ntral Committee for Russian
Wl?f, will speak.
Yen <i has been received in New
?? of the marriage in St. Paul's
^tonal Church, Key West. Fia., on
anesHay evening of Miss Margaret
5? -a. te' daughter of Mr. and
?"J. Wellington Mavo W7hit*\ to Dan
? ?aeon, of this* ciLv. Mr. Bacon
|| """"ber of the Union and other
,%?? Hamilton McK. T^ombly gave
HW? last night at her home in
"ith Avenue.
*!n n<,JIr8- Peter H- B- Frelinghuy
Bi?**.Morristown, N. J., yesterday
??he South.
??'- and Mrs. John J. Watson jr.,
?J*?-* at Palm Beach for a few
g* Bate gone to Miami for a short
!? i'"* Mrs. Herbert S. Houston, of
Be"** Tenth Street, are sailing for
?n next Tuesday on board the
^?Ptc. Trom Madrid they will
V!s and thence to London.
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Ul ?iy??th*?op. Chanler, Mrs. Adrian
CJ?' *ln. Ben?t>n B. Sloan, Mrs. Sey
*?, ?'ro?'?*ll. Mrs. John J. Chamnan.
grgW?y Gray and Mies Frelinghuy
?!>l Vrani"',n!!' ? "option to be
i "y** Tuiisday at th? studio of
?'^rore. 608 rjfth A*v?*a??, la
? FrBneots Verfeeydrn, Belgian
Miss Ada Heinze *
She took the part of Cleopatra in the benefit performance of the "Shake?
speare Garden Club," given last evening at the Hotel Plaza.
First of Outdoor Dances
Is Heldat Palm Beach
Harold Whitney, of Boston,
Wins First Prise; Several
Dinners Precede Affair
Spertal Dispatch to The Tribune
PALM BEACH, Fla., March 12.?The
first outdoor dance of the 3eason was
he'.d in the Royal Poinciana cocoanut
grove last night. The affair was foi
the benefit of a local hospital.
In the dancing contests Harold Whit?
ney, of Boston, was easily first choice.
? He received first prize in the waltz
? contest, a gold flask, and his partner,
Miss Emily Pierson, of Newport, re?
ceived a diamond and platinum hatpin.
; In the fox trot contest the winners
: were James Cromwell, o? Philadelphia,
: and Mrs. H. P. Bingham, of New York.
| Miss Laura Maverick and Charles
; Rhinehard, of New York, won an
; ostrich feather fan and a camel's hair
sweater as first prizes in the one
step competition.
The ball had been preceded by many
dinners, the ho3ts at which brought
their guests along and occupied tables
: reserved about the dancing space.
i These hosts included Mr. and Mrs.
i William L. Kenan, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Payne Bingham, Mrs. Robert C. Black.
? Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Spitzer. Mr. and
' Mrs. Henry H. Rogers, Caleb Bragg,
Mrs. Andrew Laugh lin, Mrs. J. Lorimer
? Worden, Mrs. Nettie Livermore, Mr.
; and Mrs. Josiah S- Corden, Mrs. Fred
j erick Havemeyer, P. S. Smith, Harry
i P.osenfeld, Miss Alice Delamer, Mrs.
Jamo3 W. Corrigan, Mr. and Mrs.
? Charles Pillsbury, Mr. and Mrs. H. S.
? Friede, Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Salmon,
j Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury.
j Mr. and Mrs. Charles Amory, Mr. and
i Mrs. Douglas Paige, Mrs. Ernest R,y
I field. Miss Elaine Rosenthal. Harold S.
j Vandcrbilt, Mrs. Louis M. Stumer, Mr.
'and Mrs. Walter Witherbec, Mr. and
| Mrs. Frank Decker, Mr. and Mrs.
Jerome N. Bonaparte. Mr. and Mrs.
; Otis Ralston and Conde Nast. The
' benefit was arranged by a committee
'. comprising Mrs. Irving H. Chase, Mrs.
Louis M. Stumer, Mrs. Harry Payne
j Bingham, Mrs. Frederick Edey and
I Mrs. Douglas Paige.
Mr. and Mr**. Charles Rus?ell Pope
I and party arrived to-day from New
York, end have gone aboard their
houseboat. Morton and Charles
Schwartz and Fred Johnston left for
I Now York this morning.
Southern Society to Give
Reception for Pershing
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 12.?Senator
and Mrs. Medill McCormick have left
Washington for a visit in the South.
j Mrs. Frank L. Polk, wife of the
Acting Secretary of State, accompanied
I bv her mother, Mrs. James Potter, of
? Philadelphia, is at the Traymore, in
Atlantic City. Mrs. Edgar T. Scott, a
cousin of Mrs. Polk, who was with her
j for a few days in Atlantic City, has re
! turned to her home in Lnnsdowne, Pa.
Former Secretary of State and Mrs.
j Robert Lansing returned to Washing
I ton to-day from Sea Breeze, Fla.
Miss Margaret Wilson will be in the
! receiving line at the reception which
' the Southern Society of Washington
will give at the Willard in honor of
General Pershing.
Mrs. F. Louis Slade, of New York,
chairman of the Bryn Mawr College
endowment, and Miss Eilen Kilpatrick,
of Baltimore, have arrived in Washing?
ton to be the gue.?ts of Mrs. Herron.
wife of Colonel C. D, Herron.
Mrs. Joseph I. France, wi e of Sen?
ator France, of Maryland, was a hostess
at a small luncheon to-day at the New
Willard. ?
Homer S. Cummings will entertain at
dinner at the Shoreham to-morrow
evening.
The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Daniels will spend the week-end at An?
napolis, where they will be the guests
of the superintendent of the Naval
Academy, Admiral Scales and Mrs.
Scales.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Caspar Miller
entertained at dinner this evening. The
Italian Ambassador and Baroness Ro?
mano Avezzana were among their
guests.
Mrs. William C. Penn and her daugh?
ter. Miss Gladys Penn, have returned
to Washington after spending the win?
ter in Florida.
Princeton Seniors Vote
Tribune the Best Paper
Brain Placed Above Brawn in
Annual Confessions of
Near-Graduates
Special Dii,patch to The Tribune
PRINCETON, N. J., March 12.?The
: New Y?rk Tribune was voted the best
metropolitan newspaper by the senior
I class of Princeton University, whose
concessions were made public to-day.
Kipling was chosen the best poet and
the editor of "The Nassau Literary
Magazine" the worst, with Amy Lowell
his nearest competitor for the title.
Brain was placed above brawn by the
seniors, and the winning of Phi Beta
? Kappa key was cited as the greatest
: achievement possible for an under?
graduate. The winning of the varsity
'. lette*- comes second.
Maury Trimble, star athlete, was
; voted the man who had done most for
? Princeton. Jack Strubing, all-Ameri
! can quarter, was chosen the most popu?
lar man in the university. John Har?
lan, class president, was named the
most respected senior.
Harvey Firestone jr. is the senior
most likely to succeed, and Jim O'Gor
man, son of the former Senator, was
elected best politician. Twenty-seven
seniors admitted they never had kissed
j a girl, twenty of them because they bp
i lieved it to be immoral.
Miss Cottlow Gives
Second Piano Recital
Displays Serviceable Technic,
Vigor and Directness in
Her Playing
Miss Augusta Cottlow gave her Bec
ond piano recital of the season last
evening at Aeolian Hall. Her pro?
gram was top-heavy, and by beginning
? with Brahms's formidable Variations
i end Fugue on a Theme by Handel, she
! made the mistake of immediately show
j ing her whole bag of tricks. This
I piece provides an opportunity for the
j display of various forms of technic. It
also includes emotional episodes. So
I that once brought to a triumphant or
j merely a successful close little remains
! to be satisfied as to the merits of the
! pianist o.r the manner in which the re?
maining pieces on the program will be
I played.
j Prodigious technic or the spell of
| a mighty personality would perhaps
j compensate- for the Variations as an
i opening number and sustain interest
in the pieces to come. But Miss Cott
I low's virtuosity is not of a eonsum
j mate order, nor is her musical person
| ality titanic. She has a serviceable
| technic, and to display this effectively
i seems to be her chief preoccupation,
| for she is emotionally cool. Vigor and
i directness are other qualities of her
; playing.
After a crisp performance of the
l Variations she turned her attention
| to Chopin and MacDowell, while the
i program ended ?with a final pyrotech
! nical flourish in Liszt's Polonaise in
I E major with a cadenza by Ferruccio
Busoni.
| $14.093 Received at Second
Day of Italian Art Sale
The second session of the three-day
auction of the Ilario Neri collection of
Italian art, conducted?yesterday at the
Augustus W. Clarke Art Galleries, 5
Wist Forty-fourth Street, brought in
S14.0P3.
Among the sales were a sixteenth
century Venetian walnut armchair to
Mrs. Grayson Murphy for $350, two
Italian wrought iron and bronze fald?
stools to John Baxter for $330, a pair
of seventeenth century Venetian ivory
lacquered armchairs to Mrs. L. F.Hyde
for $420, a sixteenth century Floren?
tine walnut table to Leun Ricci for
" $?70 and a sixteenth century Venetian
inlaid walnut cassone, sold to Mrs. H.
Hirsch for $165. The total for the two
days is $28,190. The sale will close
to-day.
a i,
$1,436,782 for Armenians
The campaign of the Near East Re?
lief to raise money for Armenians has
brought in $1,436,782.61 in the New
York district, it was announced yes?
terday at a meeting of the women's
committee at the Rits-Carlton Hotel.
, It is believed that the quota of the
district, $2.500,000, will be reached be?
fare the campaign ends Monday night.
Governor Appeals
To People for His
Welfare Measures
Reconstruction, Labor and
Food Plans Are Subjects
of 3 Addresses Made at
Syracuse on Upstate Trip
SYRACUSE, March 12.?Governor Al?
fred E. Smith to-day made a direct ap?
peal to the people for the support of
his program for the reconstruction of
the state government, which has en?
countered onposition in the Legisla?
ture, and for the other measures which
he believes make for the betterment of
conditions in New York State. It was
his first upstate trip in his campaign
to crystallize public sentiment behind
the things he believes are necessary.
The Governor addressed an audience
of women Democrats late to-day; was
a guest at a dinner given by the re?
construction committee of the Chamber
of Commerce, which was non-partisan
in character, and to-night addressed a
gathering of business men, at which he
outlined changes he advocates in the
state government.
One effect of these chantres would be
to centralize authority in the Governor,
making him responsible for the proper
| conduct of state government; make the
Governor's t?rm four years, and reduce
the number of elective officers. An?
other would permit him to establish a
budget system. Governor Smith claimed
that under the present system a Gov
crnor is handicapped by division of au?
thority and restrictions.
In his address to the women Demo?
crats the Governor advocated the fol
! lowing measures:
Legislation to make school teaching
; more attractive financially, completion
i of the Bar?re Canal and terminals, de?
velopment of water power for state
! benefit, minimum wage law for women
i and minors, eight-hour day for women,
1 state-subsidized community health cen?
ters, better care of the insane, compen
j nation for industrial diseases, imme
j diate relief of the housine situation.
j state control of the production and dis
; tribution of milk and abolition of the
I Council of Farms and Markeis.
! 11th Ward Reunion Planned
Marcus Loew and Gen. Goethals
Will Attend Astor Banquet
Many prominent New Yorkers who
were born in the Eleventh Ward will
attend the "Get-Together" dinner and
dance of the Old Eleventh Warders,
which will be held in the Grand Ball?
room of the Hotel Astor Wednesday
evening, April 54.
Marcus Loew, who was born in Ave?
nue C, has taken a large table. A
table has been engaged by twenty
priests and rabbis. The chairman of i
| the dinner committee is Judge Leonard j
! A. Giegerich, of the Supreme Court. ;
! General Georgo W. Goethals, builder !
! of the Panama Canal, is vice-chairman ?J
.'John H. Rogan, treasurer, and Mitchell;
I E. Friend, secretary.
i Arrangements have been made for
the old Harrigan & Hart quartet to
3ing old-ti- ie melodies.
Explorers Eulogize Peary
Triumph Over Arctic Winter is ?
Extolled at Club
A meetirj in memory of Rear Ad?
miral Robert E. Peary, dicvoverer of
! the North Pole, who died February 23,
; took place last night at the Explorers';
; "luh. 345 Amsterdam Avenue. Vilhjal-j
I mur Stefansson, president of the club, 1
?who presided, declared that the most1
I notable achievement of Peary, who was
a former*president of the club, was his
triumph over the Arctic winter which
permitted him to travel during the
months that previously had sealed the
North against explorers.
Other speakers were Captain Robert
A. Bartlett, who commanded Peary's
ship, the Roosevelt, and Herbert L.
Bridgman, who commanded the supply
ships Diana and Erik.
? i
Maine Celebrates lOO?h
Birthday; To Enter Films
Fifty Episodes in State's History
To Be Portrayed, Governor
Says at Dinner
Maine celebrated its one hundredth
birthday at the Hotel Astor last night
by announcing that it was to become a
movie star. This stately acquisition to
the film world will play the r?le of a
reformer, carrying the message of bet?
ter modes of dressing, living, handling
its industries and industrial workers.
The Maine Society of New York, com?
posed of the sons and daughters of the
state who are making their .temporary
homes in New York, took part in the
celebration, and Governor Carl E. Mil
liken made known the plans for the
film.
"A picture of about fifty periods in
the history of the state will be pre?
pared to educate those who are not
familiar with the history of our state
and such of the other states as want
to hear about us," said the Governor.
"In it will be shown the state's great
institutions, the improved manner of
handling our wards, our workers and
our industries."
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, author
of many stories that have their setting
in Maine, read a composite chapter
from one of her books which was
called "The Maine Girl." Miss Emma
A. Fountaine offered a song composed
especially for the occasion, which was I
sung by the 500 banqueters to the
refrain of "The Battle Hymn of the i
Republic." !
Hudson Maxim, the Rev. Dr. Nehemiah :
Boynton, Mr. and Mis. Walter Dam-1
rosch and Mrs. Ada S. Shorey were !
among those at the speakers' table. !
William E. Pulsifer was toastmaster.
Buy Flowers for Window
at
Sills, Says Commissioner
Plants Will Brighten the City,
Gallatin Believes; Easter
Lilies for Snow Piles /
Bny flowers this spring. Park Com?
missioner Francis D. Gallatin urged
the public in a special ukase issued I
yesterday. Buy them and if you are !
lucky enough to have an apartment ?
set them on the window si-Is.
They will "brighten the corner
where you are," and beside, if th?.y are
in pots, profane persons suggest they'll
be handy to push ont on the landlord
when he comes to collect the rent.
"There is nothing," carolo Park
Commissioner Gallatin, "se beautiful
es flowers, and the influence they will
have on the people will make this the
most cheerful city in the world to
live in."
New York was thrilled from the Bat
tery to the Bronx yesterday by Park
Commissioner Gallatin's spring song.
Energetic and flower lo\*ing citizens ;
have been fired by his plea. Not only
do they intend to decorate their win?
dow sills and make New York the most
cheerful city in the world, but some
of them are going further.
The unremove-i snow piles, they say,
should be crowned with pots of Easter
lilies. Smllax i_ to be encouraged to
climb about the fire eseapes and
orchids will hang from the kitchen
stove which will furnish the requisite
temperature for their burgeoning.
Bedtime Stories
By Thornton W. Burgess
Reddy Fox Finds Out How Peter Got Away
The thing you've puzzled most about
Is aimpls once you've found it out.
Chatterer the Red Squirrel is quick?
tempered. There is no one in all the
Green Forest who loses his temper so
easily as Chatterer. Reddy Fox knows
this. In fact, everybody knows it.
When Reddy Fox told Chatterer that
the latter must have bee-n mistaken in
thinking that he had seen Peter Rab?
bit and Mrs. Peter Rabbit come out of
that hole of Grandfather Chuck the
day before, Reddy had expected that
Chatterer would at once become in?
dignant and lose his temper. That was
exactly what Reddy wanted. You see,
Reddy is very smart and sly and he
long ago learned that when a person
loses his temper he often will say
things which otherwise he would have
kept to himself. In this way Reddy
had learned many secrets.
Chatterer did lose his temper. His
tongue fairly flew, und when Chat?
terer's tongue once starts there is no
Before Reddy could even guess what
Chatterer was going to do, that little
red-coated scamp had run down the
trunk of the tree and darted across
almost uader Reddy's nose. Reddy
made a wild jump, but he was too
late. Chatterer disappeared in that
hole of Gi*andfather Chuck's. Reddy
listened. He could hear Chatterer
scrambling along that tunnel that led
down from the hole under the stump.
Then for a minute or two all was
quiet. But it was only for a minuto
or two. Then the stillness was broken
by Chatterer's sharp, jeering voice,
and it came from a tree over beyond
the fallen tree-trunk. Reddy grinned.
He had found out what he wanted to
know. Chatterer had quite uninten?
tionally given away Peter Rabbit's
secret.
Reddy turned and trotted away with?
out even so much as another look at
Chatterer. And as he trotted toward
Chatterer disappeared in that
stopping it. "Peter Rabbit came right
I out of that hole yesterday afternoon,
! and Mrs. Peter was right at his heels.
i I not only saw them, hut I talked with
! them after they left here," sputtered
Chatterer "1 don't care whether you
believe it or not, it is so."
Reddy did believe it. but he pre?
tended not to. "I still think you must
j have been mistaken," said he, "because
i I happen to know that Peter and Mrtr.
! Peter were in that fallen hollow tree
' over yonder yesterday afternoon. I
know, because I chased them in there.
j They couldn't have been in there and
over here in this hole of Grandfather
Chuck's at the same time. You'll have
to admit that, Chatterer."
"Of course they eouldn't have been
there and here at the same time,"
sputtered Chatterer. "Who said they
were?"
"And they couldn't have come out of
that hollow tree and over here to this
hole without me knowing it, because I
kept watch," went on Reddy quite as
if there had been no interruption.
"Oh, they couldn't, couldn't they?"
sputtered Chatterer dancing up and
down in excitement. "That's as much
as you know about it, Reddy Fox. 1*11
show you whether they could or not.**
the Old Pasture he grinned more than
hole of Grandfather Chuck's
The next story: Peter Welcomes an
Old Friend.
ever. "I understand it now," he mut?
tered. "It is all as plain as day. There j
is a back door to that old house of L
Grandfather Chuck's and it opens right
under that big pile of brush. That !
fallen hollow tree is hollow for its j
whole length. Peter and Mrs. Peter j
simply crept througn that tree-trunk i
and down into Grandfather Chuck's j
old house through that back door. Then j
while Mrs. Reddy or I watched for ?
them to come out where they had gone '
in , they stole out of that doorway |
under the old stump and went home.
They fooled us all right. I'll have to I
admit that they fooled us, but now that
IVe learned how they did it they won't
be able to do it again. Peter doesn't
know that I know the secret of that
old house of Grandfather Chuck's and
some day "he'll try that trick again.
Then 111 catch him."
Meanwhile Chatterer the Red Squir?
rel had recovered his temper and be?
gun to think. It suddenly came to him
what he had done and he began to
regret that he had so easily lost his
temper. "I'll have to warn Peter ?
Rabbit. That's the least I can do," {
thought Chatterer.
(Copyright, 1920. by T. W. Burgess)
.Thomas's Postponed
Recital Presented
At Aeolian Hall
Barytone Has Made Prom?
ising Beginning in the
World of Song; Voice i
Full of Color and Flexible
.?___-?________ i
John Charles Thomas, whose post?
poned recital took place yesterday
?ftemoon at Aeolian Hall, possesses
me of the warmest and most brilliant
?arytone voices now to be heard in
lubllc. His limited experience in the
world of song recital has not as yet
seen sufficient to make him a com?
pleto master of the art, but he has
nade a most encouraging beginning.
Sis voice is a high barytone, uniform
n timbre, fall of color, uexible and
?uently produced. He has, too, an ad?
mirable command of mezzo-voce, but !
lis overdoing of pianissimo was at
:imes unfortunate.
Mr. Thomas sang especially well the
'Pagliacci" Prologue and the "Vision
fugitive" from Massenet's "Herodiade,"
and, as far as tone went, Mendelssohn's
'It Is Enough," though he lacked full
assurance in the oratorio style. It.was
i pity that he should have thought fit
:o incorporate Mana Zucca's group of
children's songs, which might have
been very well in their place, which
place is not on the program of a seri?
ous song recital. Mr. Thomas's ac?
companiments were finely played by
Romaine Simmons, while William
Tanaushek was at the organ. The audi
enee was large, and a portion of it was
forced to find seats ?pon the stage.
The Stage Door J
"Musk," Dodge and Pogany's first
production in New York, will open at
the Punch and Judy Theater to-night.
Marjorie Rambeau will replace Mary
Ryan in the cast of "The Sign on the
Door" at the Republic this evening.
"What's in a Name?" scheduled to
open next Tuesday evening at the Max
ine Elliott Theater, will be first _een
Wednesday evening instead.
Muriel DeForest and Ruth Hervey
have been added to the cast of "Floro
dora," which the ShuT>ert's will present
at the Century Theater on April 5.
The last< performance of Morris
Gest's Midnight Whirl, atop the Cen?
tury Theater, will be given to-night.
The company will be sent on tour, be?
ginning in Boston on March 23.
"Aphrodite" will continue at the Cen?
tury Theater for three more weeks,
terminating its engagement on April 3.
Edward Vroom and his company of
players will open in "Cyrano de Ber?
gerac" for a series of special matinees
at. the Selwyn Theater on Friday,
M_rch 19.
Morris Gest sails next Saturday for
Europe in search of material for pro?
duction heae. In Paris he will see "Phi
Phi" and "The Be-ir of the Bal Tab
arin," two successes on which he has
already secured options.
Australian rights of "Shavings" have
been released by Henry W. Savage, Inc.,
and at the beginning of next season a
special company will open in Mel?
bourne, in the comedy now playing at
the Knickerbocker Theater.
William G. McAdoo gave a box party
at the performance last night of "My
Golden Girl," at the Nora Bayes The?
ater.
The third play in the New York
Drama League's series of Young
People's Performances will be Jos?
ephine Preston Peabody's "The Piper,"
to be revived by the Shakespeare Play?
house on March 18. The Drama League
has taken over the Friday afternoon
and Saturday morning performances,
March 19 and 20.
Mabel Garrison HI
Metropolitan Soprano Stricken
Before St. Louis Concert
Special Correspondence to The Tribune
ST. LOUIS, March 12.?Miss Mabel
Garrison, soprano of the Metropolitan
Opera Companv, who was to give a con?
cert here to-day, was taken suddenly
ill a few hours before she wag to make
her appearance and taken to a hospital
in the care of a physician.
The diagnosis was not made public,
but it was said that Miss Garrison was
suffering from throat trouble. The
singer's secretary to-night said that the
complaint was not serious and that
she might be able to sing within a
few days. Miss Garrison was unable
to seo any one, her condition demand?
ing absolute quiet.
Farrar Heard in "Carmen"
Rein aid Werrenrath Makes De?
but as ?scamillo
"Carmen" was sung last night at the
Metropolitan, with Mme. Farrar in the
title part, Mr. Martineili as Don Jos?
and Mme. Sundeiius as Micaela. The
Escamillo was' Reinald Werrenrath,
who was appearing in the part for the
first time. Mr. Werrenrath sang the
music of his big air effectively, but he
stalled about the stage like a high
priest on stilts. Mr. Wolff conducted
with his usual effectiveness.
Sale of French and English
Literature Brings $5,716
The sale of early French literature,
early English literature and Americana
from the library of Henry E. Huntington
was concluded yesterday afternoon at
the .A.nd??rson Galleries, 489 Park Ave?
nue. Some of the higher prices for yes?
terday's sale were a copy of "Les Pr??
cieuses Ridicules" and "L-_~cole de
Maris," by MoVi?re, sold to M. Wolff,
an agent, for $1,125 and $1.085 respec?
tively; "Sgnarelle ou le Cocu Imagi?
naire," by Moli?re, sold to the Resen
bach company for $300, and Mather's
"Brief History of the War with tf!e
Indians in New Eng'and from June
24, 1675, to August 12, 1676," sold to
C. A. Gordon for $365.
The total for yesterday's sale was
$4,923.10. The total for the entire sale
was $5,716.10.
Three Lincoln Letters Bring
Big Prices at Benton Sale
The sale of autographs from the
collection of the late Josiah Henry
Benton, at one time president of the
board of trustees of the Boston Pub?
lic Library, was resumed last evening
at the American Art Association, Madi?
son Square South.
A letter ?f Abraham Lincoln to Wil?
liam A. Carfts was sold to W. W. Nolen
for $180, two Lincoln letters were sold
to James F. Drake Tor $170 and $200,
respectively. The total for to-day'a
sale was $2,863.50. The grand total
for t&e sale was $8,604.75.
Cornell Drops 298 Students,
Record Number, in "Exams"
ITHACA, N. Y., March 12.?Cornell
University dropped 298 students as a
result of the mid-year examinations,
the largest number of "casualties" m
the history of the institution, accord?
ing to figures made public to-day.
?"The Cornell Sun" places'the blame
largely on undergraduates, particular?
ly the freshman class, and advocates a
revival of former underclass dis?
cipline. ?
'Food Cost Soars in Chicago
;Few Fish on Sale as Result of
Express Clerks* Strike
Special Dispatch to Ths Tribuns
CHICAGO, March 12.?Friday proved
a poor fish day in Chicago to-day. In
many of the markets fish could not be
bought, while in others it was at a
premium. The reason for the shortage
of fish, SB well as the soaring prices
of other foods, was the ?mbargo on ex?
press shipments brought on by the ex?
press clerks' strike.
Live chickens in South Water Street
were quoted at 45 eents a pound whole- j
sale. The retail price was 60 cents. |
This is an increase of from six to ;
eight cents a pound in a week.
A still sharper increase prevaled in j
the potato market. Potatoes sold at ?
from $5.75 to $5.85 a hundred pounds, j
This is a $1 increase.
Fresh eggs sold at retail for 63 to 58
cents a dozen, an unusually high price ?
for this season.
Suffrage Bill in Ontario
Measure Offe?ed in Commons
Provides Enfranchisement
of Women
OTTAWA, March 12.?The bill con?
ferring on the women of Canada the
right to vote in Federal elections, de- !
signed to replace the war-time election
act, was presented to the House to-day '
by Hugh Guthrie, Solicitor General.
The bill provides that any British citi- ,
zon over twenty-one, male or female,
may vote.
This is the first measure to provide :
for the general enfranchisement of
women in the Federal elections of the !
Dominion, although various provinces
have conferred the franchise, and dur- '
? ing the war the women next of kin to
soldiers and war nurses were enfran- i
chised by the war-time election act.
Under the bill no woman ean vote by !
reason of marital relations, but must j
personally be naturalized if not native
born.
Citizens to Build School
Bonds Limited, Public Starts to
Raise $350,000 by Donations
Special Dispatch, to The Tribune
CHICAGO, March 12.?All other
sources having failed, the citizens of i
Winnetka, a suburb, to-day started .
raising money by private subscription
to erect a school. The bonding power
of the school board being limited, the '
citizens had to take this step as the
only way to relieve the congestion in i
their schools and provide for a 23 per j
cent increase in enrollment.
Louis B. Kuppenheimer, clothing
manufacturer, and wife started the
subscription by a gift of 560,000 in
memory of their daughter, Jane, who '
died last year and whe was a student
in the public schools. A total of $350,
000 will be needed.
Yvonne Gall, Operatic Star,
Badly Shaken in Taxi Crash
Yvonne Gall, operatic star, wa3 se?
verely shaken yesterday when the taxi
cab in which she was riding in Central
Park West was hit by another car
and wrecked.
The automobile which was in col?
lision with Miss Gall's cab is owned
by Max Kalta, of 3557 Broadway, and
was driven by Otto Beeler, of 525 West
125th Street. Miss Gall was taken to
the Flower Hospital and treated fox
shock, after which she was able to
return to the Hotel Majestic. On the
complaint o? William Beyer, of Wood
side, L. I., the driver of the taxi,
Beeler was arrested and held by Mag?
istrate George W. Simpson, in the West
Side Court, in $1,000 bail for examina?
tion to-day, Beyer was cut and had
to go to the hospital for further
treatment.
Going On To-day
DAY
American Museum of Natural History;!
admission free.
Metropolitan Museum of Art; admission]
free.
American Museum of Safety; admission |
free.
Van Cortlandt Park Museum; admission j
free. *
The Aquarium; admission fre?
Zoological Park; admission free.
Address bv Abbe Ernest Dimnet on
??France and America in the Future.''
I Carnegie Hall, il a. m.
Lecture by Gis? la M. A. Richter on "How
We Know What We Know in Archeol?
ogy." Metropolitan Museum of An, 4
p. rn.
Ta!k by Frances Morris on "Mediaeval ,
Musical Instruments." Metropolitan Mu- <
scum nf Art, 6 p. m.
Lecture by Gertruds Ogden Tubby on "The
Field of Psychical Research; What Is
It.?" Carnegie Hall, 11 a. m.
Meeting of the National Republican Club,
54 West Fortieth Street, 2 p. m. Lunch
tun 1 p. m.
Meeting of the New York Classical Club, j
i Barnard College, 10:30 a. m.
Launching of the Chappaqua at the Shoot
ers Island shipyards.
Luncheon of the League of Fre? Nations, |
Hotel Commodore.
Luncheon of the Sophie Welfare Society,
Hotel McAlpin, I p. m.
Meeting of the Grejcg Shorthand Teachers,
Hotel McAlpin, 2:30 p. m.
Illustrated lecture by Professor H. W.
Wiles op "Modern Farm Machinery:
The Tractor an 1 Gas Engines on Eastern
Farms." Academy of Music, Brooklyn.
3 p. m.
Luncheon of the Women's Republican As
BOclation of New York, Hotel Astor, 1
p. m.
' Reception of the New York Chapter
i U. D. C. Hotel Astor, 4 p. m.
i Presentation of "Peggy's Secret" for the
aid of the blind and crippled children,
Hotel Plaza, 8 p. m.
! Luncheon of the Brooklyn Chamber of
Commerce, Court and Remsen street?. 1 ;
p. m. Irving T. Bush will speak at 2 |
p. m.
i Luncheon of New York Association of
Upper Canada College Old Boys to Prin?
cipal Grant, Fraunces' Tavern, Pearl and
Broad street?, 1 p. in.
Mrs. L. W. L. Scales will relate "Chrts
tophe and the GoTtlen Fleece." Metro?
politan Museum of Art, 10f30 a m.
Meeting of the Women's Press Club, Wal?
dorf-Astoria. 2 p. m.
Display of paintings by the Society of In?
dependent Artists, Waldorf-Astoria, 10
a. m. to 10 p. m.
Meeting of the Washington Heights Chap?
ter, D. A. R-, Waldorf-Astoria, 2 p. rn.
NIGHT
Dinner of the West Point Alumni, Hotel
Astor, 7:30 p. m.
Dinner and dance of the Soci?t? Culinaire
Philanthropique, Hotel Astor. 8:30 p.m.
| Dinner of the Camp Fire Club, Hotel Penn?
sylvania, 7 p. i:i.
j Dinner Of the Stationery Board of Trade,
Hotel Pennsylvania, 7 p. ni.
j Dinner and dance of the Vermont Society,
Hotel Pennsylvania, 7 p. rn.
i Dance of the Beavers of the Beth-David
Hospital. Waldorf-Astoria, 8 p. m.*
i Senior hop. New York University. Wal?
dorf-Astoria, 8 p. rn.
Dance of thy Zata Beta Tau Fraternity,
Hotel Blltmore.
Lecture by Dr. C. E. Clewell on "Industrial
Lighting"; Academy of Music, Brooklyn.
S:15 p. m.
! Dance of the Young Folks' League, Hotel
McAlpin. S p. m.
Dance of Phi Sigma Gamma, Hotel Mc?
Alpin, 8 p. m.
Dance of the Jewish Forum Teachers'
College. Hotel McAlpin, 8 p, m.
Dinner of the Harlem Board of Commerce.
Hotel Commodore.
Presentation, of "Zing-Boom-Ah," a musi?
cal comedy, at the Kiamet Tample,
BrookTyn.
Review of the 69th Infantry. New York
Guard, by Brigadier Genera! George R.
Dyer, commanding First Brigade, New
York Guard. 60th Regiment Armorv. 08
Lexington Avenue, S:40 p. n*i.
Twemy-rt?th anniversary dinner of Hud?
son Gutld, Metropolitan Life Bu"ding
7:30 p. m.
Dinner of the Lotos Club, 110 West Fifty
seventh Street. 7 p. m.
BOARD OF KDl CATION UECTCBES
Manhattan
"The Smile of Beauty" (Greek art) by
Arthur J Westermayr. American Mus?
eum, Seventy-seventh Street and Cen?
tral Park West. Illustrated.
"Trade Union Policies," by Professor
.ramea Waltet Crook, Cooper Institute
Eiguth Street and Fourth Avenue.
"Current History." by Professor Nelson P.
Mead; New York Library. 505 West
145th Street.
"Guatemala," by Dr. Thomas E. Potterton;
Y. M. C. A.. S West 125th Street. Illus
i ? trated
"The Merchant of Venice." by Richard A
Purdy; New York Library, 759 East
| 160th Street. Bronx. Illustrated.
Science Church
Schism Blamed
On Director*
General Welfare Committee
Report Declares Boavd
Wholly Responsible for
Factional Difficulties
Local Laity Surprised
Findings Being Printed
for Distribution Among
the 1,800 Congregations
What is regarded as the most im?
portant development thns far in the
schism between factions of the Chris?
tian Science Church are the findings,
the nature of which became known
yesterday, of the committee on general
welfare, appointed by authority of the
board of directors at the Church's an?
nual meeting in Boston last year, to
inquire into alleged abuses in the
Church government.
These' findings, it was disclosed,
place practically all responsibility?for
the present situation in the Church at
the door of the board of directors. The
results of the committee's study and
investigation, extending over several
months, constitute a report which has
already been turned in to the board
of directors and is now in the hands
of printers for distribution within the
Church at an early date.
The nature of the report was a com
lete surprise to members of the faith
ere, who got their first information
of it from a representative of The _
Tribune yesterday. It was said with?
out qualification that the situation thus
engendered will have a far-reaching
effect upon the future of the Church
and its present form of government.
Message Tells of Report
News that this report had been- form?
ulated came with the receipt of the
following message from a prominent
member, of the church in Chicago by
one who is in intimate touch with af?
fairs of the denomination affected by
th-2 litigation centering around the di?
rectors of the Mother Chun.h in ?oa
tcn:
"C?ieago. March 11.
"As result of meeting of First,
Second and Seventh churches here
Tuesday night and Fifth Church to?
night, sentiment has turned com?
pletely against any participation in
the delegates' plan of New York
State. Almost unanimous refusal on
part of joint conference of Tuesday
to call convention of churches in Illi?
nois to participate in plan similar
to that of New York, and total de?
termination pot to support Hulin
sujt. Jacob Shields, a member of the
committee on general welfare, invited
to address Tuesday night meeting,,
spoke at length, advising aeainst
contemplated action and fores-ad
owed forthcoming report welfare
committee, which he says in printers'
hands and to be distributed within
week, indicates findings of commit?
tee majority report p'ace responsi?
bility for present conditions, includ?
ing those in nublishing house, upon
directors. Strongly advised against
? discontinuing literature, and as re
i. suit his talk churches voted to stand
| by publications."
? Richard P. Verrai!, of this city,
chairman of the committee, which is
composed of himseir and six oth^r
members, including Mr. Shields 01
Chicago, did not deny last night that
the report was against the board of
directors. Neither did ha say the find?
ings were in favor of the directors.
Bound to Secrecy
When asked over the telephone, after
the foregoing telegram had been read
to him, if the facts wonld justify pub?
lication of the information cor.tnined
in the message, he said the members
of the committee were bound by the
injunction granted the trustees of the
publishing' soeiety against the direc?
tors, not to divulge the contenus of
the report to discuss them.
Asked if the report included a des?
ignation of the trustees' functions ir
their relations with the directors and
if it was found that the directors
should no longer endeavor to exercise
control over affairs of the publishing
society, Mr. Verrall said he did not
f'hink the report was "quit?j that dras?
tic."
It would probably be three week??,
r# said, before the report would be
ready for distribution. The report will
be sent to each of the denomination's
1.800 churches throughout the world.
The. faith has its most notable follow?
ing in this country and in Kngland.
When the committee on general wel
ware was elected last summer to go
into the troubled affair? of the church,
Christian Scientists who warned to see
immediate reforms effected in the
church's administration were sur?
prised to learn of thu directors' posi?
tion that it would be unwise to con?
duct the investigation, in view of tne
legal proceedings and resultant injunc?
tion against themselves, since the di?
rectors had themselves authorized the
committee's formation. It was known,
however, that the membership of the
committee as a whole was not satis?
factory to the board.
Members of Committee
The committee met in Boston last fall
for the first time, and ha- been in ses?
sion regularly since. The work was
completed several days ago. The mem
hers and the cities they represent are
Richard P. Verrai!, New York City
Jacob S. Shields. Chicago; Mrs. Mabel
S. Thomson, London; Edward W.
Dickey, Los Angeles; Mrs. Martha Wil
cox, Kansas City; Henry Deutsch, Min?
neapolis, and Edward Everett Norwood,
Washington.
What is said to have aroused more
criticism of the directors than any?
thing else on the part of the members
o? the church was the directors" al?
leged policy of secrecy in relation to
the church government.
-1... ?-f?
Art Sale Totals $32,625
Beecliey Painting of Mrs. Nor?
ton Brings SI, too
The sale of old paintings by E
and continental masters, with
early American portraits, wa?
ned yesterday at the Ander
leries, Park Avenue and Fi
Street. The highest price oai
terday's sale was for a portrait f
William Fletcher Norton, by ?v,
iam Beechey, R. A., sold to
; Abbott for $1,400. Mr. Abbott
? also a "Portrait of a Lady," a ).
; tion of the Flemish schoof fron, I
; Town8hend collection, for whic.:
: paid $1.250.
A portrait of Mrs. Blackall, by John
' Hoppner, R. A., was sold to 1". B. Y?'?
? ton for $1,250. Among' the others wer. m
[-A. Portrait of a Lady," t>y Thorn-.
! Philips, R. A., sold to A. Rougeron l
! $750; "A Portrait of a Gentleman," r ?
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, R. A., sold to E
?Stone for $600; "A Portrait of a Man,'
?by Sir William Beechey, sold to F. W.
jSnow for $625; "Feeding the Sheep."
' by George Moriand, bought by M. De
! Brozih for $-550; "A Landscape with
! Figures," by John Constable, R. A., und
? "A Portrait of a Lady," by Sir Joshua
i Reynolds, sold to Dr. G. F. M?ller for
| $500, and $600, respectively.
The total for the day's sale was
$18,180. The total *or the entire sale
(is $32,625.10.
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