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; :<?;-. and published a book of poems
^^ '. ti "V. ?" last fall. She also has
?on her inure'." as a playwright, and
?ach of tl .u.ass of "What Next?"
fifhich was given for two weeks on
"Broadway by members of society for
?the benefit of charity, was due to her
charming iyrics. Miss do Acosta, who
made her d?but several years ago, is a
sister of Mrs. Oren Root, Mrs. Rita
Lydisr, Mrs. Andrew Robeson Sargent
and Mrs. William Gilman Sewall, whose
home is Naitai Enuin Farm, Njoro.
British East Africa.
Mr. Poole, who is a painter, was
graduated from Princeton in 1904 and
studied art in Paris, and also in
Munich and Italy. He won the Grand
Prix in Rome in 1911, and two years
earlier a similar honor at the Royal
Academy in Munich. In Paris h?^
studied under Lucian Simon. He is a
trustee of the Chicago Art Institute
?nd a director of the Chicago Art Club
and Art .Museum. He is a brother of
Ernes: Poole, writer, and of Mrs. Wal?
ler Wyle, whose husband, who died last
winter, was one of the'editors of "The
Ne** Republic."
Mr. Pooh? ?.vent overseas as a captain
in the 343d Infantry, and later was
transferred to the 102d Infantry of
the 26th Division. The wedding will
take place in May.
Waiter S. Hoyt, of this city and
: amford Ci i ? announces the engage?
ment i daughter, Miss Edna Hoyt,
to VV'illiam John Warburton. son of
Mrs. E. Carson Pennal, of 122 East
Seventy-sixth Street. Miss Hoyt was
ore of thi winter's debutantes and was
presented at a dance given by her fa?
ther ..: the Plaza December 2>. 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. It is enough to
state that he sang a large variety of
ongs extending from ( arrisimi and
Handel to Massenet, Chausson, De?
bussy and Cyril Scott.
He* was accompanied at the piano b\
Frank Bibb.
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