Bliss de Acosta, Writer, To Be Artist's Bride Redding of Young Woman, Who Wrote the Lyrics in "What Next," and Abram Poolc Is Set for May Miss? Edna Hoyt Engaged 0er Marriage to William John Warburton Probably Will Be Summer Event One of the most interesting engage? ments of the season was made known ?/ftrrday, when Mrs. Ricardo de Acx>st3. of 830 Park Avenue, announced L :\ of hor daughter) Miss Mercedes f de Acosta, to Abram Poolc, artist. t this city and Chicago. Miss de /costa, who is one of the most at factive young v.omon in society, of the decide- Spanish type, Is a talented m; :. She is a niece of Mrs. George Quintard Palmer. Mr. Warburton was graduated in 1918 from Princeton and is con? tacted with some of the prominent families of this city and Philadelphia. He served abroad with the United States Naval Aviation forces. Al? though no date has been set for the wedding this may be one of the fash? ionable events of the summer season. Mis ? Hoy: lives with her mother at I'M seventh Street. .Miss Audrey Neilson Osborn has chosen .May ? tor her marriage to John Elliot, son of Mr. and Mrs. William ...aa. Miss Osborn is the daughter of ??e late Mrs. Jay Neilson Osborn. Another May bride will be Miss Diana Eimendurf Richards, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Lamb Richards. sue will be married May 1 to Eugene Willett Van Court Lucas jr., of Staten Island. One of the first weddings of the sea? son on Long Island will be Miss Made? leine Cochratio's to Philip S. P. Ran? dolph jr., of Philadelphia. It will take place April 28 at Hewlett. ?Miss Coch rane is a daughter of Mr. and ?Mrs. Henry Cochrane, Mr. Randolph is the brother of Mrs. Philip Stevenson, Mrs. John it. Fell and Mrs. Robert S. Hud ion, whose husband is attached to the British Embassy in Washington. He ?i a soi i E Pluiip ?S. P. Randolph, o?' Philadelpl a Misa Marjorie Ewing La Vie, daugh? ter of George A. La Vie, of 24 West Eighty-eighth Street, will be married to Warren Trusdell Stewart, son of Mr. and ?lrs. William E. Stewart, of South Orange, N. J., April 17 in All Angels' Churc i. The ceremony will be followed by a reception at the Hotel St. Regis. Miss Edith La Vie will be her sister's maid of honor, and the bridesmaids will be Mis3 Hilda Baird, ? a- Dorothy White and Florianne Tr__b. Edwin Stewart 3d will serve as tas brother's best man, and the ushers will be Richard La Vie, Bleecker Pride of Linen The capable housewife's just indulgence?finds full expression in the charac? ter of work turned out by The WALLACH LAUNDRY Here is a spotless newness, an un? ruffled ??loss, a smooth efficiency be *p-*a_iriK right methods. Hie Wallach special system of SEMI READY DRY STARCH "ORK at 13 cents a pound has made a tremendous hit. Telephone Plata ISi for further particular* Wallach Laundry 330-332 East 59th Street "A ! ranch Store or Haute Man Always .Near Your Home." > I Gellatly, Malcolm Pierson, Charlea Jewett and Donald Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Ewell Stoat, of Short Hills, N. J., announce the en? gagement of their daughter, Miss Mar jorie Stout, to Lieutenant Charles L. Austin. U. S. N. Lieutenant Austin is stationed at the submarine base ?t Norfolk, Va. Pr. and Mrs. Burton J. Lee are re? ceiving congratulations on the birth of a son a few days a*go. Mm, Lee was Miss Louise Fiveman, daughter of the late General Frank Morgtuv Freeman. Mrs. James S. Cushman, Mrs. Henry P. Davison and Mrs. Lewis H. Lap ham have issued invitations for an overseas reunion tea to be given by the Young Women's Christian Associa? tion to-morrow, from 4 to 7 o'clock, at 600 Lexington Avenue. The guests of honor will be Rear Admiral James H. Glennon, Major General David C. Shanks anfl Major General John F. O'Ryan. Members of the overseas units of the American Red Cross, Young Men's Christian Association, National Catholic War Council, Jewish Welfare Board, American Library Association, Salva? tion Army, American Women's Hos? pitals, Knights of Columbus, Smith College organization, Wellesley Col I lego organization Vassal* College ! organization, American Friends Service J Committee, American Fund for French ! Wounded and the Comit? Am?ricain pour les Regions D?vast?es are among i the guests. The second of the Colony dances will ; be given this evening in the ballroom | of the Ritz-Carlton. It will be under I the patronage of Mrs. Walter B. James, Mrs. John Matree Ellsworth. Mrs. H. : Casimir do Rhnm, Mrs. Robert L. Steven Mrs. Oliver Gould Jennings and Mr.. Winthrop Burr. These dances are for the junior set?girls not yet out and some of their young prepara? tory school and college friends. The second of the Senior Dances, ! formerly known as the "Thursday ; Seniors," will be given at the Plaza , to-night. Mrs. J. Ijams, Mrs. Bradish j Johnson Carroll jr., Mrs. Richard S. | Emmet, Mrs. Gerardus Herrick, Mrs. Henry Morgan Post. Mrs. Leonard J. Wyeth, Mrs. Irving H. Pardee and Mrs. ' J. Couper Lord belong to the committee in charge of the affair. Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt will give a dance. April 6, at her home, East , Eighty-sixth Street, for her daughter, ; Miss Cornelia Vanderbilt. Mrs. Samuel' Riker jr. will give a 1 dance to-morrow evening at her home, 206 Madison Avenu?, for her daughter, ; Miss Audrey Townsend. and Samuel ? Sloan Walker, who will be married I April 6. Mr. and Mrs. J. Horace Harding, who have been passing the month at Jekyl Island Club, Georgia, with their daughters, Miss Catharine and Miss Laura Harding, will return to their New York residence, 955 Fifth Avenue, to-day. Rufus L. Patterson, of 15 East Sixty fifth Street, has sailed for Europe to : pass several weeks abroad. Another series of supper dances for j the benefit of home charities will be j given after Easter, beginning April 9, I in the Delia Robbia room of the Hotel , Vanderbilt. The other dates are April | 16, 23 and 30. i Washington Society Folk Visit Amaryllis Shoiv ?T ife of Agriculture Secretary, Cabinet Members and Diplo? mats Present on Opening Day From The Tribune's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, March 25.--Mrs. Ed? win T. Meredith, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, who held her last "at home" of the season yesterday after? noon, passed some time earlier in the day in the propagating houses on the Mall, where the beautiful display of amaryllis was opened to the public to? day. Mrs. Meredith had a party of friends with her, and Cabinet, members, ; diplomats and society folk will be in evidence there all during the show, which will be open until Sunday even? ing. Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Noyes have returned to Washington after a stay of two months in Jamaica. The commandant of the navy yard and Mrs. A. W. Grant will be the prin? cipal guests at a dinner which Mrs. Francois Berger Moran will give Satur? day evening at the Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs. Graf ton M ?not entertained at luncheon yesterday at the Caf? St. Marks. Mrs. Victor Kauffmann, who pas-.ed n short time in New York with her son, Philip Kauffmann, returned to Wash? ington Wednesday. Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo, youngest daughter of the President, has sent her acceptance as patroness of the Dixie Ball, to be given in the New Willard Wednesday evening, April 7. Another New York woman who shows her an? nual interest in the ball is Mrs. Will? iam Randolph Hearst, who is also a patroness, and .;chers who have just added their names to the list are Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, Mrs. Carl Vrooman and Mrs. E. E. Vrooman. Captain Demetrio del Castillo jr., Cuban Army Engineers, who accom? panied General E. H. Crowder to this country as aide-de-camp on the hitter's return from Cuba last August, and who has -.?nee been in Washington and New York on a special mission for the Cuban government, hah left Washing? ton for New York, whence he will sail for Havana on March 20. Mrs. Richard Townsend will be hostess at dinner this evening. Representative and Mrs. Julius Kahn wilt entertain at dinner to-night, and their guests will include the Postmaster General and Mrs. Burleson. Brigadier General and Mrs. Charle. L. McCawley will entertain at dinner this evening in compliment to their guest, Mrs. Henry Clews, of New York. They will be hosts at dinner again on Friday evening. Prince Albert Radziwill, of the Pol? ish Legation staff, and Princess Radzi? will have gone to Palm Beach to re? main through April. Mrs. R. C. Marshall and Miss L. W. Marshall are at Atlantic City, at the Hotel Traymore. Miss Mary Copeland and Miss Jo? sephine Maguire have gone to Atlantic City, and will stay at the Hotel Edison. Mme. Cremer, wife of tho Minister of the Netherlands was' hostess at a luncheon to-day at the legation. Se?ora de Sol, wife of the Minister i of Salvador, entertained at luncheon to? day at the Shoreham. fiT ?^iamono \x>ar [Pins ^^ M THE FINER GRADES ONLY IN MODERN ^Mt p[ AND DISTINCT-VE DESIONS ?3l \ ?7feodo7ve?l^h M ^k JEWELLERS Jp l'halo by Charlotte Falrchlld Miss Mercedes H. de Acosta Her engagement to Abram Poolc, tho artist, i? formally announced by her mother, Mrs. Ricardo do Acosta. The wedding will take place in May. Palm Beach Visitors Remain Late This Year Hotels Plan to Keep Open Throughout April Next Season Special Pi.sjatrli to The Tribune PALM BEACH, March 25. ?The i Breakers, on account of the demand ?for late accommodations, will remain . open until April 7. More than 500 were i registered there to-day, the house be ; ing almost tilled to capacity, about three times as many as are customarily i registered at this date. Both Flagler houses may adopt an April seaso". next year. Many people I have left the hotels for cottages va cated by tenants who have gone North. Arrangements have been made to keep the golf courses and the country club open. To-day's arrivals include Mrs. L. Lee Barton, J. Clarence Davies, Miss Ann Festetics and Mr. and Mrs. Colgate Hoyt, of New York, who are accom ; panied by Malcolm Oakes. Mr. and Mrs. j William Betts and the Misses Betts, of : Wilmington. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Busch, of New York, who recently sold their place in Miami, to-day purchased a villa on ?Sea Spray Avenue, between the country road and the ocean. Charles B. Dillingham has returned to New York. Mrs. Dillingham will re? main here until April 15. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Geolet enter? tained informally at luncheon at the Beach Club to-day. Others entertaining included Mr. and Mrs. Frank Steams, W. L. Wood jr., Mr. and Mrs. Sergey Friede, Mr. and Mrs. Horace M Work and .Maxwell Norman. Kreisler Plays at Carnegie Violinist Heard Here With Phil? harmonic Society Fritz Kreirler played Brahms's Violin Concerto in D major with the Philhar j monic Society last evening at Carnegie Hall. Every seat in the house was sold, and nil the standing room occu? pied. Mr. Kreisler still wears the purple | No other violinist has quite so strong a combination of amorous, haunting tope, dazzling technic and eloquent vitality in expression. He will repeat his performance of this concerto this afternoon. The program last evening includec a Prelude, Chorale and Fugue o? Bach's arranged by Abert, Beethoven'. Symphony No. 5 in C minor r.nd tin Overture to Wagner's "Tannh?user." Bedtime Stories By Thornton W. Burgess The Gratefu'ness of Johnny Chuck Fie grateful for a favor dove; 'Tis thus your truest friends arc won. Johnny Chuck and Jimmy Skunk watched Old Man Coyote trot away across the Green Meadows and disap ; per.r among the bushes of the Old : Pasture. Then Johnny Chuck gave a i great sigh of relief. "Jimmy," said he, "but for you 1 would be on my i way up to the Old Pasture this very ! minute." "What do you want to go up to the | Old Pasture for?" demanded Jimmy Skunk rather gruffly. "I don't want to go up there," chuckled Johnny Chuck. "No, Jimmy, I don't want to go up there. It's the last place in the world I would think of going. But I know very well that but for you I would be on my way up there now with Old Man Coyote. You saved my life, Jimmy Skunk, and?and ! ?I wish I could do something for you." ' Johnny blurted this out rather hur ' riedly. Jimmy Skunk's eyes twinkled. "That was nothing to do for an old friend,1' ? said he. "All I had to do was to show myself. Isn't it funny how quickly some people can change their minds? I never have ;>oen any one lose an ap Chuck feels the same wav. We need a chango. Now I've found a place dov*n here that just suits me and I'm going to work on that homo right away. ; When it is finished Polly Chuck and I will move in and our old homo up there m the far corner of Cftft^ Old | Orchard will la- empty. 1 kno J?f no i people Polly Chuck and I wbuhirSl like ', to have in that old home of ours equal i to yourself and Mrs. ?Skunk. You've | just saved my life. Now I want to give ! you my old home. I want, you to know \ that I am really grateful." "Pooh!" exclaimed Jimmy Skunk. ! "What I did was nothing at all. You don't need to be grateful. However, if you have really made up your mind that you are going to leave that old home, I will be very glad indeed to have it. About when will it bo ready for Mrs. Skunk and me to move in?" "That depends on how scon I can dig my new home," replied Johnny Chuck. "There's one thing more I wish vou would do for me, Jimmy Skunk."" "What's that?" asked Jimmy. "1 wish you would stay around here "What do yon want to go up to the Old Pasture for?" demanded Jirruniy Skunk petite quicker than Old Man Coyote lost his." Suddenly Jimmy became very severe. "Johnny Chuck," said he, "I told you that you shouldn't have left your home in the far corner of the Old Orchard. Now, you see, I was right. If it hadn't been that I was here when Old Man Coyote arrived that new home you are so anxious for would have been right inside Old Man Coyote by this time. Now take my advice and get back home as quick as you can und stay there. Why, if I had a home like that I would be perfectly hap?y. It's the finest home I know of anywhere." "Do you really think so?" inter? rupted Johnny Chuck eagerly. "How would you like to have it for your own ?" Jimmy Skunk turned to face Johnny Chuck. "Now what idea have you in that crazy head of yours?" ho de? manded. Johnny Chuck grinned. "Just this, Jimmy Skunk," said he. "I've got to have a new home. Something inside me tells me than I can never be con? tented until I have a n*w home. Polly until I get my new home started," re? plied Johnny wistfully. "Then I won't have anything to worry about. If I onee get it started, I won't be afraid of anybody. If Reddy Fox or Old ?Man Coyote should happen along and dis ! cover me at work they might make ; trouble for ma before 1 got my hole | well started. 1JJ.it once let me get it , well started us?t I will ha*??t nothing to I fear from them. I can ?,i_r faster than | they can. There is but one person ; who can beat me digging a hole." I "Who is that?" asked Jimmy looking ? interested. "Digger the Badg?ei'," replied Johnny ; Chuck. "He can beat me digging and ! I don't mind saying so. N'ow what do ? you say to staying around here a little I while and when 1 have finished my new I home taking my old one?" "It's a bargain," replied Jimmy j Skunk, who is lazy and never does any more work than he has to. (?Copyright. l-_0. try T. W. Burgea.'-1 ? The next story: "Joh-yiy Ch ek ' Plans His New Home." Delaware May Vote To-day On Suffragej Friends of the Amendment Plan to Call It Up in Senate and Its Enemies to Seek Test in Assembly Pleas Make No Converts Mrs. Call Threatens That the Connecticut Legisla? ture Will Convoke Itself From a Stuff Cnrresponde.nl DOVER, Del., March 25.?The fate of the suffrage amendment in the Dela? ware Legislature is still in doubt to? night after a day of hearings before a joint session of the two houses. The amendment may be called up in the Senate to-morrow by its friends, and in the Assembly its enemies are watching for a chance to spring it upon that body at an inopportune moment. Minority Leader McNabb threatens to call it up for a vote to-morrow, think? ing it will be defeated. As for the hearing to-day it was an old-fashioned day of oratory, with cheers from the rival sides and women standing for hours packed in the corri? dors, thankful to catch a few words floating through the transom. On the streets and in the state house perfect strangers became friends with no more introduction than a yellow jonquil or a rose, colors of the pros and antis, while in the hotel corridors the same slight provocation led to long and bitter arguments. Mrs. Cut's Plea Speakers for the suffrage side in thu hearing stressed the national im? portance of the issue. They told the men of Delaware that the eyes of the whole country were upon this little state, which was the first to ratify the Federal Constitution and was beinp given the "honor" of ratifying the woman suffrage amendment as the last and decisive state. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, presiden! of the American Woman Suffrage As sociation, declared the amendmem would surely In* rat ?tied, no mattei what action Delaware took. "You Ci'ti no more stop the passage of this amendment than you can maki the sun stand still in the heavens,' Mrs. Catt declared. "Thirty-five state; have ratified. You have the chanci to be the thirty-sixth. Will you tak< it'.' If you don't, well then who'! next? T believe Connecticut will bi next. The Governor of Connecticut ii an anti-suffragist. He refuses to ca! a special session. Very well. I asl you did you ever hear of a Legislature calling itself? It has been done twici in the last three years. It can h done again. Vote Nearly Precipitated "At the very worst, the most tha acin happen to this amendment in th way of delay is to prevent the wome: from voting until January, 1921, Whe: hall' a dozen states will' be ready t ratify in their regular sessions." "You talk about justice to th women who don't want to vote. I as you if it is justice to rob the womei of eighteen states of the right to vot in the coming Presidential election?" United States Senators McKollar o Tennessee, a Democrat, and Spencei of Missouri, Rej.^iblican, were th speakers at the morning session of th suffragists. Senator McKellar almos precipitated a call for a vote, for whic the enemies of suffrage have bee eagerly waiting. "Would you be offended,'' he nsked "all of you who wish to discrimin?t against the women of Delaware in.com parison with the women of the regt c the country?if 1 should ask you 1 stand up ?" "No, we'd stand up gladly," shoute McNabb. "hi that a dare'." came back th Senator. "All right, ail of you? who think th women of Delaware are less fitted t vote than those of other state stand up." 'Js this a voie?" cnied McNabb. Ir stantly a half-dozen friends of su frage were on their feet calling fc order, and with the pounding of th speaker's gavel the crisis passed. It appeared to-night that the argi men', about the certainty of? the amem ment's eventual ratification had mat the mi* impression upon the mine of the legislators who apparently h:. believed that in their hands, and thei: alone, it-; 'fate lay. When they hem from so many sources that it could n> be killed, they began to think aboi getting in the procession. There w; no official announcement, however, i any change o? heart. In answer to th argument of the suffragists, the wor th'* anti-suffragists could find to offi was the threat made by Miss Chariot Rowe that if women voted next fall tl result of the election would be cha lenged. The State Democratic Committee m this morning in the State House ai reaffirmed its indorsement of the ral ?ication bill. This was the greatest p litical train of the day, as a strong a temtp had been made by Mr. MeN'al to induce the Democrats to rescii their support. Ja this he failed. Mi George Pass, chairman of the Womer National Democratic Committee, w introduced to the cemmittee and ma* a short speech. Suffragists were d lighted to notice that after his eonfe ence with. Mrs. Bass Mr. McNabb di ci rled the red rose from his butto hole. "Got to obey the boss," he said, sm ing. However, the Delaware Legisl ture is overwhelmingly Republican ai the suPfV'gisl.s to-?ight were busi pointing c;:t to Republican membe that theirs was the responsibility. Answers Plea for Referendum Mr.--. Henrv Ridglv, president of t Delaware Equal Suffrage Associatic answered the appeal of the anti-si fagists for a state referendum by rea ing a statement issued by the lawye of the association thut the laws ?i t state do ?ot permit ?i referendum any question save liquor. Handbi quoting this opinion were distr.but to every member of the Legislature. "Why waste time discussing a ref( endum in Delaware?" the handbills s? "The greatest sons of Delaware a the greatest Delaware judtjes have si tied the referendum question complet iv and Anally. John M. Clayton a Jmes A. Bayard have said the peo? cannot make" a law, neither the wh< people nor a part of them. All t laws must be made by their Represe! atives in the General Assembly met 1 deliberation, consultation and jut mr-it. Mrs Ridgly also quoted Delawar favorrte statesmen upon the questi of a Legislator's obedience to his c( stituents, which has worried so members who believe their distri are opposed to suffrage. "A Representative owes to his c< stituents his judgment as well as ! industry," she said, "and., he betn instead of serving them if he sac fices his iudgment to their opinions Mrs. Ridgly announced that 20,( Mrs. Helen Hamilton irarcierte/ Seated at her desk in Washington. She succeeds Charles M. Galloway, of Columbia, S. C, on the commission. Mrs. Gardener was born in Winchester, Va., sixty-two years ago, and has been long before the public as a writer, lecturer and a worker in the cause of equal suffrage. women of Delaware had signed a peti? tion asking, for ratification. This peti? tion, 200 feet long, was unrolled in the corridors of the State House before admiring groups of suffragists and the non-committal but diplomatic anti suffrage members of th. Legislature. Registration Laws May Deprive Women of Vote Books Close in Georgia May 1 and in Rhode Island June 30; Seven States Have Poll Tax WASHINGTON, March 25.?Women ' in several states may be denied a vote i in the coming Presidential election de ! spite ratification of the suffrage amend? ment before November, it is said at the headquarters of the National Woman's Party here, unless changes are made in registration laws. in order that women all over the United States may register for the coming November election under exist? ing laws, ratification must be com? pleted before May 1, 1920, on which i date Georgia closes its registration. I Registration in most other states does I not close until September or October ! by which time suffrage leaders are con ! fident the amendment will be ratified. Other requirements, however, besidef ' the element of time may nullify the ? women's vote next November in certain i of the states, especially in the ?South, | unless the Legislatures are willing to j make necessary changes in the laws. I Payment of a poll tax is required in j seven of the states; in Florida and Louisiana payment is required for the two years previous to the election. The Texas law calls for the payment of n poll tax on January 1, Alabama ano Mississippi on February 1 and North Carolina and South Carolina on May 1, - Conneeticut Republicans Urge Suffrage Adoption Declare Party Will Suffer if the Slate is Not the Thirty-sixth to Ratify the Amendment Sp?cial Dispatch to The Tribune HARTFORD, Conn., March 25.? Governor Ilolcomb's refusal yesterday : to call a special session of the Legis ; lature to ratify the Federal womar suffrage amendment raised protests bj leading Republicans here to-day that | the party would be irreparably dam aged unless, in the present emergency ? the state could bring about adoptioi o?' the amendment by ratifying as th? thirty-sixth state. They declared that if Delawar? ? failed to ratify and the Governor ot j Vermont adhered to his decision not tc j call a special session, only Connecticut ? would be left to assure ratification ir ! time to permit the women of th? j Union to vote in the coming Presiden tial elections. The leaders of the Republican stat< convention which yesterday callet upon the Governor to call a specia j session hove not given up hope that hi | will yield. There was no tendenev j among them or other state, officials ant ; legal authorities, however, to credi ? the statement made by Mrs. Carrie j Chapman Catt that the Connecticu ! Legis.ature could meet without a :-pe ciai call from the'Governor. m i Eastern Art Objects Sold - Miscellaneous art objects from Per siu, China and Japan, from the collec tion of E. Collona and other privat? owners and estates, were sold at auc tion yesterday afternoon at the Ander son Galleries, Park Avenue and Fifty | ninth Street. Two large sixteenth century paint ings from India were ?old to th' Park Avenue Antique Studio for $27' each; a porcelain jar from China wen \ to K. Oshima, for $260: a Chinea carved glass jar was sold to Miss H Counihan, an agent, for $150, an' Kouchakji Fr?res bought a Persia: manuscript of 1550 for $103. The tota : for yesterday's was $1,283. The sai will be concluded this afternoon. ?_-j. Mrs. Trow bridge Not Named To Direct Memorial Campaigi From The Tribune's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, March 25.?Th ' George Washington -Hemoriai Associs | tion expressed regret to-day tha through an error Mrs. Alexande ; Trowbridge, of New York, was name? i in an announcement published las ' Monday, as director of the Nation* Victory Memorial Building ??ampaig \ in New York. The association expect 1 to appoint the New York chairma ! within a few days. In general, the women who wei I chairman of the state committees ( | the National Council of Defense ai , representing the Victory' Memori. Building project in their respecti?. states. In some cases the directo. are selected through the Nation. Council of Women, which is c< operating with the personnel of whi formerly was the Women's Division < the National Council of Defence. Going On To-day D.W American Museum of Natural History; admission free. Metropolitan Museum of ?.rt : admission free. American Museum of Safety; admission free, fan C'ortlandt Park Museum; admission free. The Aquarium: ad '?sion free. Zoological Park: admission free. Convention, .Medical Society of the State of New York, Waldorf-Astoria and Penn? sylvania hotels, 9:30 a. m. Address bv Rev. Robert A. Hume on "Non Chi'istian Saints in India." at the Union Theological Seminary Chapel. Claremont Avenue, between 1.0th and l22d streets, : 1 a. in. Conference of the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial , Association, 1 East Fifty seventh Street, 11 a. m. Address by Dr. William T. Manning. Lecture by Miss Janet Richard.?- on "Problems of the DaV under the aus? pices >>f Uie U. S. Daughters of 181-, Waldorf-Astoria, 2:30 p. m. Meeting of the Hoover women's campaign committee at the home of Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, 5 West Seventy-sixth Street. 4 p. m. Lecture bv J. Duncan Spaeth on "The Reality of Evil: Macbeth. Othello." Lec? ture Jlall, Academy of Music. Brooklyn, 4 p. m. NIGHT Dinner of the Democratic women of the 17th Ki'iiatorial District. Hotel Commo? dore, 7:30 p. in. Governor Smith, Frank? lin 1). Ro.isevelt and others to address the women. Lecture by (?rover A. Whalen nn "What the Buses Mean to New York City," before the New Era Club, at 274 East Broadway, 8 ]>. m. Everett Dean Martin will speak on "Nietzsche" under the auspices of the People's Institute. Cooper Union Hall. 8 p. m. People's Liberty Chorus. Carnegie Hall. Fifty-seventh Street and Seventh Ave? nue, 8:30 p. m. Annual bail of, the Fakirs of -*imerica, Blltmore, 8 *.. in. Lecture by D. McFarlan Moore on "Gase? ous Conduction Light from Low Volt? age Circuit," under the auspices of the American Institute of Electrical En? gineers, 33 West Thirty-ninth Street, 8:20 p. m. Reading of his own plays by David Pinski, at the Recreation Rooms and Settlement, is?; Chryetle Street. Sato p. m. Review of th? 7th Regiment, N'0w York Guard, by Major General John F. O'Ryan, Sixty-sixth Street and Pari-? Avenue. 8:3? i P, ill Tenth annual birthday dinner of til? Boy Scouts of America, Pennsylvania Hotel, 7:30 p. in. Lecture by Rev. Dr. Nathan Krass on "Do Ghosts ?Spealc to Us?" Temple Israel of Harlem, 120th Street and Lenox Avenue. 8:15 p. m. ? Lecture by Professor Henry K. Cramplon, of Columbia University, on his travels In the South Sen Islands, before the Chemsts' Club. 50 East Forty-first Street, 8:30 p. in. ; 1920 Columbia 'Varsity Show, Hotel A st or, 8 :1 ."> p. m. Lecture on "Currant History" by Dr. William Starr Myers, ?Music Hall. Acad? emy ut ?Music, Brooklyn. 8:15 p. in. Board of Education Lecture* "Shakespeare and the Democratic Spirit," by ? Professor J. Duncan ?Spaeth. Ph.D.; at Wadlelgh High School. 115th Street, west of Seventh Avenue. "Who Are the Czecho-Siovaks?" bv Pro? fessor J'aul R. Radosavljevlch, Ph.D.. Pd.D. ; at Public School 5?. 228 East Fifty-seventh Street. "Thais."' by Clement B. Shaw, Mus D. ; at Public School CC, Eighty-eighth Street, east of First Avenue. "Socialism in America," by Professor .lames Walter Crool<. Ph.D. ; at Public school 132, 182d Street and Wadsworth Avenue. "Russia To-day and To-morrow." bv Robert RoBenbluth; at J3ubllc School 17. Fordham ?Street, near City Island Avenue. "Venice, Queen of the Adriatic.'' by Mrs. Eva E. A. Adams; at Public School 28. Anthony and Tremont Avenues; Illus? trated by Btereoptleoti views. "Purpose of Government," by Charles B. Ackley; at Publi?-. School 157, St Nich? olas Avenue and 122d Street. ?Two Stars Pack Metropolitan i Farrar Sings in Afternoon and Caruso in the Evening Two big houses were present yester | day at the Metropolitan, to see Mme. Farrar in "Zaza" in the afternoon and ? to hear Mr. Caruso in "Marta" in the ? evening. The casts were as usual, except that j Mme. Barrientos was singing Lady ; Harriet in the Flotow opera for the | first time this season.. Mr. Moranzoni | conducted in the afternoon and Mr. I Bodanzky in the evening. Miss Ver Kerk Gives Wide Variety of Songs at R?citai Miss Celine Ver Kerk, a young ; fiinjref '??'ho possess .-. pretty voice .-'hie}: she u.es badly, gave ??jB-cita.? ! last night at Aeolian Hall. Il^Fvoice, ; through faulty production, was un ? steady, though the quality was ex? cellent. .She sang a wide variety of I .-?org?, including a Russian group and ? a group of Debussy. Richard Hage man furnished her accompaniment. The Stage Door Ethel Barrymore reappeared last night in "D?class?e" at the Emplr? Theater completely recovered from th? attack of laryngitis, which presented her from playing since last Saturday night. F. Ziegfeld jr. yesterday arranged for Edward Royce to stage the "Zieg feld FolH?s of 1920," which will open at the New Amsterdam Theater about June 1. On Easter Monday, April 5, the Sbu berts will make three new production*. The revival of "Florodora" will occur at the Century Theater; in Hartford the first performance of "The Man Out? side," by Kilbourn Gordon and We**! Howe, will take place, and in Atlantic City, at the Globe Theater, the sani' evening "A Week-End Marriage," by Owen Dav's, will be produced. Glenn Anders, last seen in "Civilian Clothes," opened Monday night in Philadelphia in Victor Herbert's musi? cal comedy "Oui, Madame," as leading man for Georgia O'Ramey. During Holy Week there will be spe? cial performances of "The Piper" at the Fulton Theater on Thursday afternoon and Saturday morning oniy. No per? formance of Josephine Preston Pea body's fantastic comedy will be given on Good Friday, but beginning Easter Week the schedule.1 three perform? ances will be given e?ch week. Rachel Barton Butler, author of "Mamma's Affair," has selected "Alice in Wonderland" as the first play to be produced by her at her children's thea? ter. She has made the rtage adaptation herself, and the play will be produced soon after Easter. Silvio Hein is writing the score for the musical play "My Vampire Girl." which Max Spiegel, producer of "Loo* Wrho's Here." now playing at the Forty-fourth Street Theater, will pre? sent next fall. A. II. Woods has closed his option on the English rights of "The Sign on the Door" and will produce the play in London under his own management early next season. The first performance of "The Ouija Board," by Crane Wilbur, will be given at Paterson, N. J., to-night. It will open at the Bijou Theater Monday eve? ning, March 29. The Stuyvesant Players will repeat their program of three one-act plays at the Washington Irving Municipal Theater, 40 Irving Place, this evening. "Dawn," by Percival WTilde; "The Sor? row of Han," selected from the One Hundred PlayB of Yuen, and "Five Minutes Alone with a Lady," by Lester Margon, will be presented. The Kanellos Ballet Hell?nique, with Vassos Kanellos and Mile. Thalia Zanon, will give a performaii'' of ancient and modern Greek dance? at the Greenwich Village Theater Sunday evening. Helen MacKellar and Edward Arnold, of the "Storm" company, are geting into trim for an eighteen-hole game of golf. The winner will meet Gene Ouigley, the fat Chicago expert, who is the "Storm" company's business man? ager, in the final match. Basil Broad hurst, son of the producer of the play, has put up a silver cup to go to the winner. As her donation to the Y. W. C. A. "For the Girl" campaign, little Lillisn Roth, the eight-year-old actress in "Shavings," sent Chrystal Herne, head of the Professional Women's Division of the collections committee, an order to collect her full salary this week. When the order reached the company manager of "Shavings" it was brought to the attention of Colonel Henry W. Savage, who made Lillian's gift hi.* own and recommended her to the Pro? fessional Women's Division for full membership in that unit. Loretta Sheridan, who was last seen here in "Good Morning, Judge," has been engaged by Harry Wardell for ! "My Golden Girl," at the Nora Bayes 1 Theater. On Tuesday afternoon. April fi. i Clotilde and Alexander Sakharoff will : dance at the Globe Theater, the entire : proceeds of the matinee to be devoted j to the Fund for Milk for American Babies. Vernon Archibald Heard in Recital at Aeolian Hall Vernon Archibald, a barytone with an infinitesimal volume of voice but who possesses taste and intelligence, gave a recital yesterday afternoon a1. Aeolian Hall. Mr. Archibald is distinctly a parlor singer. and it would be impossible t<> give any just consideration of his ar? id an auditorium where he could scarcely be heard. 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