EntertainmentFor YoungerSet Continues

Dinner Dance for Miss KingGiven by Mrs. J. P. Mor-gaii; Miss Silvia Seymourintroduced at Reception

)Iiss Kirlin Is Engaged)lany Home From College

Attend Season's FirstColonv Club Partv

Entertaining yesterday wag ajrain forhe younger set. for the debutantes of:e winter, and some of the girls who

trill not make their bows for a year or

:.vo. Mrs. J. T'ierpont Morgan gave a

dinner-dance last evening at her home.¡31 Madison Avenue. It was for Mis-Eleanor E. King, the debutant daugh¬ter of Mr. and Mrs. James Gore King.Some of the season's most prominentbuds were amone Mrs. Morgan's guest-»nd. of course, a number of the boyshome for the holidays from college andthe rrePf»rnio:"y school?. There was

general dancing during the evening,followed by supper,

A thé dansant was given by Mrs,Origen Seymour, of 1155 Park Avenue.in the Sherry apartment at the Wai»rf-Astoria, yesterday afternoon. Il

-as for her daughter, Miss Silvia Lord». ..-, one oí the winter's débu-

..<¦». Recen ng with Mrs. Seymou:- her wove Miss Mary D

h ristine Crane, Mi»Hiss Helen Hagen, Missington Francke, Mis

Dwight Porter, Miss Shei'nB ati ice L. Byrne, Mis:

'...- n 11 rt, Miss Elise Hugho-'.; :-.- Heb Johnson, Mi«s Alice God¬ard and M:-s Caroline Almy, the lat¬

ter of Boston.

Mrs. Walter S. Hoyt gave a dance.- evening at the Plaza for her daugh-ar, Miss Edna Hoyt. Mrs. Hoyt and

Ho; ad Mrs. Henry Steers re-

g them. The dancing was inlarge ballroom, and was followed

¦' et supp( r.

For s of the future débutantesfirst is winter of the Colony

last night at the Ritz-4 name suggests, the

las originally met in the Old ColonyClub wl was on lower Madison

later in the new clubhouse.s the (¡anees were held at

.»herry'i This season, however, theyare ¿- the Ritz, and last evening's was

rgelj attended by the young people¦.¦.¦". lays from school andcollege, fhe committee in charge of

up of Mrs. WinthropMrs. Oliver Gould Jennings, Mrs.

- Rham, Mrs. Robert L.Mrs. Walter B. James and Mrs.

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\ '«-s dance will be given this after-by Miss Maud Aguilar Leland at

home, 563 Park Avenue. It will«.. for her nephew, Charles H. Leland,

.«!. of Boston.

Mrs. Lawrence Spear, of New Lon-inn., will give a luncheon to-day

at the Kitz-Carlton for Miss Alice M.«laughter of Dr. ..nd Mrs.

".-. Nicoll jr. The luncheon willbe owed by a theiit». r party.

Vlot er of the popular débutantes.Miss Marion Carroll, will bave a dance

evening. It will be given at the.. Club by Mrs. Henry Lorillard

ami ann, and her daughter, Mrs. Wil-iam C. Browning. Mi<=s Carroll is thedaughter of Mr. and Mrs. BradishJohnson Carroll.

Mrs. Marion McMillin will give athé dansant at her home, '¿~0 ParkAvenue, this afternoon for Miss HelenIsabel McMillin, who is a grand¬daughter of Mr. and Mr«. EmersonMcMillin, of Darlington, Ramsey, X. J.

At the Colonv Club this evening,Mrs. Leo Everett, of 130 East Sixty-seventh Street, will give a dance forMiss Elise 1 rett, one of the winter'sdébutante ;.

Some of the younger girls who havr''ot yet been presented will attend thofirst of the Metropolitan Dances at theRitz-Carlton to-night. It will be an

..-.r.;. affa r and followed by a buffet»upper at midnight.Mrs. William H. Hays will give a re¬

ception this afternoon at her home, '270Park Avenue, to introduce her daught¬er, Miss Ethel Sanders Hays.

Miss F. Morrill will also make her'- this afternoon. She will bentroduced by her aunt, Miss Louise M.Mori I, who v,:'.l give a reception forher at the St. Regis. It will be fol-lowed by a dinner at Miss Morrill'shouse, 6 East Sixty-seventh Street.

Mrs. Wü'iam Douglas Sloane has sent°ut invitai for a dance on the eve¬

ning of January 4"> at her heme, 2 WestFifty-second Street. U will be for hergranddaughter, Miss Emily Sloane Ham¬mond, an«i her grandnieces, Miss LouiseVanderbilt Schieffelin and Miss LouiseMorris.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Parker Kirlin. of -400Park Avenue and Locust Valley, L. L,announce the engagement of theirdaughter, Miss Elizabeth Louise Kirlin,¡o Cletus Keating, son of the lateTaomaa F. Keating. Miss Kirlin. wasf&duated from the Spence School andduring the war served with the Redfross Motor Corps of Nassau Counts.Mr. Keating was graduatetd from St.Mary's College, Emmetsburg, Md., andhUer from the Harvard Law School.'"Jr'tt the war he was a major in theQuartermaster's Department and u

secretary and executive officer in the'hipping control department of theAr"iy and Shipping Board.The Tion. Mrs. Elidor Campbell has

mst returned from England to re-..uin her husband, the Hon. ElidorCampbelL who was attached to theBritish Embassy in Washington dur-lnR the war. Mr. Campbell (who is ason of the Earl of Cawdor) is now at'he British militarv control office inpew York. They have taken Longfel¬low House, Ladv Dutf Gordon's resi¬dence at Riverdale.Mra. Samuel H. Ordwav. of 123 East.

Seventy-first Street, will give a dinner°r young people at her residence on«onday evening. After dinner she will"ake her guests to see "Apple Blos->ome" at the Globe Theatre. LaterWe» will go on to several of the even-.r'Se dances.

Paris to Close Early AgainPARIS, Dec. l!t>. The rule forcingrestaurant and entertainments to close

*t 11:30 p. m., which was lifted forChristmas, will be enforced on NewfW ? Evo- The Polic»» explain thattoe shortage of coal, the waste of elec-"rtelty and the danger of quarrels ne-(«.SitftUt «nforceinent ©f the ml«.

The Baroness de Cartier de Marchienne

She will give a dinner this evening at the Ritz-Carlton for Mr. and Mra.Maurice Maeterlinck.

Toscanini to SucceedCampanini, Is Report

Former Metropolitan ConductorMay Take Charge of

Chicago OperaArturo Toscanini will take charge of

the Chicago Opera Association as sue-cessor of the late Cleofonte Campanini,,according to reports circulated hereyesterday.

Inquiry at the Eastern office of the]opera company here did not reveal anyofficial confirmation of the appointmentof the former chief conductor of theMetropolitan Opera Cbmpany. JohnBrown, head of the Chicago Opera As-sociation's local office, said he had re¬ceived no such information.

"I should be only too happy to tellyou about the appointment of SignoriToscanini if I knew anything about it,"he said. "I hope it's true," he added.From the opera season of 1908-'09

until near the end of the-*914-'15 sea-json, Signor Toscanini was the chiefconductor at the Metropolitan OperaHouse. Rumors that he would notrenew his contract, with the Metropoli¬tan Opera Company were heard in 1915,and in the spring of that year lie laiddown the baton and went to Italy onaccount of his health. Later in theyear, it was announced that he wouldnot return to the Metropolitan. Tt wassaid at the time that his decision toremain in Italy was prompted by thewar. His son had enlisted in the army!and he himself was busy with warwork.

The Stage DoorMorris Gest's "Midnight Whirl,"

scheduled to open on the Century Rooflast night, has been postponed un-,;!to-night.Lewis J. Selznick celebrated his ad¬

vent into the field of the spoken dramaand Christmas Day by presenting atthe Globe Theater, Atlant ic City, MayTully's "Bucking the Tiger," based onAchmed Abdullah's novel. The companyincludes Forrest Winant, Regina Wal-li ce, Fania Marinoff, Cyril Chadwick,William E. Meehan, Benjamin Kauser,Ben Hendricks, Nat Sax and TheodoreWestman jr. It will be presented on

Broadway early in tho year.

The Jewish Art Theater announcesthat the first performance of OssipDymow's comedy. "Bronx Express,"will take place New Year's Eve.

D. W. Griffith's "The Greatest Ques¬tion" will be shown at the Strand The¬ater next week.

Al Jolson will conclude his engage¬ment at the Shubert-Crescent, Brook¬lyn, in the Winter Garden's Orientaltravesty "Sinbad" next Saturday night.At the Bijou Theater to-morrow

evening Frank Carter, of "See-Saw,"will act as announcer of a programwhich includes Martha Atwood, Mil¬dred Holliday and other dancers andcomedians.

Officials and employees of the Mun-on Steamship Company occupied 200

seats and all the bottes for the per¬formance of "Irene" at the VanderbiltTheater last night, and in complimentto Edith Day, who sings the catchysong' about an "Alice-Blue Gown ThatWore, and Wore, and Wore," all thewomen in the party wore frocks ofthat color.

The first shipment of scenery for"Mecca," the Oriental extravaganzawhich F. Ray Comstock and MorrisGest will present at the Century The-r.ter in February, arrived from Englandyesterday on the Mauretania.

Baker Calls ConferenceOf Department CommandersWASHINGTON, Dec. 26..A confer¬

ence of all departmental and divisionalcommanders January 12 was called to¬da;, by Secretary Baker. The purpose,it was announced, is a discussion ofarmy problems as viewed from a peacestatus.War Department plans and policies

for the training, distribution and ad¬ministration of personnel and otherimportant reorganization problems willbe taken ub.

Healer Hickson AssertsWork Is Big Success

Finds Country Much Interestedin the Restoration of

Spiritual CuresJames Moore Hickson, spiritual

healer of the Protestant EpiscopalChurch, returned to New York Cityyesterday pleased with the result ofhis efforts in various parts of thecountry to arouse Interest In the restor¬ation of spiritual healing along apos¬tolic lines, as part of the work of theChurch. Mr, Hickson will remain herea few days, when he will resume hi-1itinerary. The trip will keep him busyuntil June. Next October he expectsto leave for India, to take up mission¬ary work in the Far East. He expect?to complete his mission in the HolyLand, after visiting Egypt, Japan,China, Russia and other countries."The response to my mission was far

be_yond expectations," said Mr. Hick¬son. "I turned hundreds of personsaway because it was physically im¬possible to minister to them. At Buf¬falo, people began to assemble shortlyafter 6 o'clock in the morning for the10 o'clock service. At Albany, thecathedral was crowded. In BaltimoreI was given a particularly gratifyingreception.

"It was pathetic to see men of allclasses and degree come, with tearsstreaming down their faces, bringingloved ones who had been pronouncedincurable. I always took the childrenhrst, treating many who had sufferedfrom infantile paralysis.

"Besides obtaining good results, Ialso found doctors, nurses and othersmost sympathetic and friendly towardmy work. At Saranac Lake, I con¬ferred with a number of doctors andnurses with whom I have worked.They realize that what I do is entirelyin harmonv with their work, the dif¬ference being in the means used."Following my visit, many parisheshave formed circles to pray for the

sick and suffering. The faith that myaudiences showed makes me feel surethat this is a great movement of thespirit and not of man, and that re¬ligion is a fact and not a sentiment."

In the last two weeks, Mr. Hicksonwas in Pennsylvania and Maryland,spending four days in Baltimore; twoin Williamsport, Pa.; two in Harris-burg; two in Erie, and nearly a weekin Pittsburgh.

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Governor's Nephew to Wed-

Kxeeutive and His Staff to At¬tend Ceremony in BrooklynGovernor Smith and his military

staff will attend the wedding to-day ofhis nephew, John Glynn, of 9 MiddaghStreet, Brooklyn, to Miss MercedesMcGuire, of the Hotel Spencer Arms,Manhattan,The ceremony will be performed at

the Church of the Assumption, Middaghand Cranberry streets, Brooklvn, at9:30 a. m., by the Rev. William B. Far-it-11. the pastor.

Mr. Glynn is the son of a sister ofGovernor Smith, at .whose home the(¡ovefiior's mother has been seriouslyill for several weeks. He is a lawyer,with offices at 120 Broadway, Manhat¬tan. His law partner, Frank Coyle,will attend as best man. The matron ofhonor will be Mrs. E. Rubenstein.

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1,000 AcclaimMaeterlinck atBlue Bird Ball

Mr*. W. K. Vanderbilt Jr..Hostess, Introduces Fa¬mous Belgian Poet andW(fe to Guests at Waldorf

Costumes Are GorgeousMotif Carried Out in

Decorations and GownsProduces Brilliant Scene

A thousand or more New Yorkersgathered in the Grand Ball Room ofthe Waldorf-Astoria last night to dohonor to Maurice Maeterlinck at théRlue Bird Bnll given for him by Mrs.W. K. Vanderbilt jr. The operaL'Oiseau Bleu, taken from the Belgianpoet's "The Blue Bird," will have itsworld première hero to-night.The proceeds from last night's ball,

which was preceded by a ballet andtableaux, will go to four charitiesthe Millerand Fund for French Chil¬dren, the Big Sisters' Organization,the Free Milk Fund of America andthe Queen of Belgium's Fund. .

Blue Birds EverywhereThe Grand Ball Room, the halls andthe smaller bull rooms in which theoverflow crowds danced, were deco¬rated with evergreens and palms. Inthe midst of these glowed blue birdspicked out in blue electric lights.Most of tiie costumes also carried

out the bluebird motif. When the poetand his wife arrived he was escortedby Mrs. Vanderbilt to the receptionroom, where he was introduced to theguests. From there he was led to abox, where he remained for the majorpart of the evening.The members of the ballet, all of

whom wore bluebird costumes, in-eluded Mrs. Monroe Douglas Robinson,premiere danseuse; Miss Audrey Hoff¬man, Miss Marion Tiffany, Miss Cor¬nelia Vanderbilt, Miss Lucille Baldwin,Miss Polly Brooks, Miss Margaret deForest, Miss Isabel Pell, Miss Con¬stance Jennings, Misa Betty Jacksonand Miss Eunice James.The tableaus, in which many mem¬

bers of society also took part, depictedscenes from "The Blue Bird" and otherMaeterlinck plays.

The GuestsAmong those present were: Mrs.

George W. Vanderbilt, Mrs. FrederickPearson, Mrs. George J. Gould, Mr?.Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. W. K.Yandermbilt. Mrs. Harry PayneWhitney, Mrs. Frederick W. Van¬derbilt, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn. Mrs.Francis K. Pendleton, Mrs. Charles B.Alexander, Mrs. Frank Gray Griswold,Mrs. Frederick Lewisohn, Mrs. GeorgeF. Baker jr.. Mrs. J. Nelson Borland,Mrs. F. Burrall Hoffman, Mrs. Elbert H.Gary, Mrs. Sidney Borg, Mrs. Mortimer¦L. Schiff, Mrs. Leonard Replogle, Mrs.George Blumenthal, Adolph Lewi?ohnand Charles Hayden.The Hon. Mrs. Alfred Anson, Mrs.

Henry Clews, Mrs. Harry H. Durypa,Mrs. James W. Gerard, Mrs. OgdenGoelet, Mrs. Work Hewitt, Mrs. M.Lawrence Keene. Mrs. Reginald DeKoven, Mrs. Pierre Mali, Mrs. WalterE. Maynard. Mrs. W. Starr Miller, Mrs.Oliver Gould Jennings. Mrs. W. GoadbyLoew. Mrs. Goodhue Livingston, Mrs.Lewis Cass Ledyard, Mrs. James H.Kidder, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James.Mrs. William Jay, Mrs. Frederick C.Havemeyer, Mrs. Edward M. House,Mrs. Adrian Iselin, Mrs. Edward S.Harkness, Mme. Gatti-Casazza, Mrs. R.T. Coleman du Pont, Mrs. Paul D.Cravath, Mrs. James A. Burden, Mrs.Cornelius X. Bliss, Mrs. August Bel-mont, Mrs. Frederic R. Coudert, Mrs.Winthrop Chanler, Miss Juiia Arthur,Miss Ethel Barrymore.Mrs. Henry Mar-tyn Alexander, Mrs. Joseph II. Choateand Mrs. Elbert H. Gary.

Mile. Garrick SeoresIn Rostand's Classic

Success of Liten PresentationsDue Largely to Vivacity

of French ActressRostand's "Les Deux Pierrots," and

de Musset's "Nuit de Mai" and"Caprice" were given at. the LenoxLittle Theater last evening. They con¬

stituted the second bill in a series ofsix performances under the directionof Carlo Liten Belgian tragedian, andMile. Yvonne Garrick, formerly of theComedie Francnise, but more recentlya member of various visiting com¬panies of French players. The series¡s a praiseworthy attempt to bring theclassics of the French stag«' to theupper East Side.

Rostand's little comedy in verse haslong been a favorite of similar under¬takings. It is easily staged and pre-sents no insurmountable difficulties to

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Miss Eunice James and Miss, Betty Jackson are shown sitting. Thosestanding are Miss Isabel Pell and Poly Brooks.

Maeterlinck NotA Spiritualist

Maurice Maeterlinck, poet andmystic, denied yesterday that hewas a Spiritualist.The Belgian poet said he was

extremely interested in the sub¬ject of Spiritualism, and liad an

open mind on the subject, but hadnot yet been convinced of the pos¬sibility of communicating withthose who have died.He also said he was an admirer

of Sir Oliver Lodge and interestedin his work, but that this had notyet been able to dispel doubt fromhis own mind.

players of ordinary intelligence andimagination. ft is the oM story ofColumbine courted by two Pierrots, onesad the other gay. She decides infavor of the laughing suitor. Of thethree persons on the stage Mile, liar-rick, Mlle, de Monvil and YvelineYvelinovna. Aille. Garrick. who playedthe laughing Pierrot, was easily themost experienced. It was largely dueto her vivacity and assurance that thelittle piece went smoothly.De Musset's "Nuit de Mai" is for

the library rather than the theater.but it served to display M. Liten's artin declamation. In the same poet's"Caprice" it. was again Mile. Garrickwho shone above the mediocrity ofher associates. Beginning next Thurs¬day the plays will be Albert Samain's"Polypheme" and Halevy's "L'Eté dela Saint Martin."

Performance in YiddishOf "A Night's Lodging"

Within a week, and that, the mostfestive of the year. New York hasbeen offered two productions of Gorki'stragedy of the underworld, "A Night'sLodging".the one by Arthur Hopkinsin special matinees at the PlymouthTheater, nnd the other in Yiddish at

the Irving Place Theater.There is occasional confirmation of

the fact that artistic intelligence isnot a thing of nativity, or these Yid¬dish players would seem to be nearer-the source of inspiration for this playthan is Arthur Hopkins. Hopkins may-have proceeded to his production withno authentic inspiration from the re¬

vered Moscow Art Theater, but he hasseized all the universal emotionswhich the play holds-the imprisoned

hopes, the ironic rages of baffled men,the unendurable ennui of defeat.andgiven them unforgettable groupingsand rhythms. He has recreated withsure feeling and deep emotional intel¬ligence the lust and longings andhopes of a group of outcasts.These Yiddish players have affected

a faint copy of the settings ¿f theMoscow Art Theater production. Butthey have grotesquely misconceivedthe whole mood of the play. Theamazing result is that "A Night's Lodg¬ing" is presented in the spirit of lowcomedy. Maurice Schwartz, the pro¬ducer, himself plays the mystical fig¬ure of Luka, the old tramp, in a low-comedy hump and a low-comedy fal¬setto voice. There is a good deal ofrobust knockabout ami much shrewishshrilling and an entire good-humoredwillingness to slight over anything un¬pleasant in the play. Those who de¬plore the gloominess of Russian playscan see the gloom considerably light¬ened here. The production has, curi¬ously, the unseemly effect of a pieceof classical music jazzed.But-.and this is the noteworthy

thing about the whole production.there was an audience that filled thehouse from pit to dome and overflowedinto the standing room. There wasconfirmation in the numbers in whichthe audience turned out that "ANight's Lodging" is one of the mostpopular plays in any European reper¬tories and an indication that a seriesof evening performances of the Eng¬lish version would meet with a heartyresponse.

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D. A. Poling to Share PulpitOf Marble Collegiate iJiurchThe Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth

Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street, hasinvited Daniel A. Poling to share itspulpit with Dr. David J. Burrell, pas-

tor, for the winter. He will preach forthe first time January 4.He is associate president of the

United Society of Christian Endeavorat Boston. He was released recently tobecome associate general secretary ofthe Interchurch World Movement inNew York.

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Tribune Family DinnerTo Be Record Event

| -Several Hundred of Past andPresent Employees Will At¬tend Affair on January 17Former Tribune employees, now

members of practically every profes-sion and many walks in life, will par-ticipate for the first time in the Trih-une Family Dinner, to be given on

Saturday, January 17. at the Hotel Bllt-more.A preliminary canvass by a commit¬

tee representing the Tribune Familyrevealed the fact the men who. inyears past, have converted New Yorklife into Tribune copy have becomefinanciers, lawyers, corporation headsand figures otherwise active in the af-fairs of the city and nation.Acceptances received thus far indi¬

cate that the homecoming of the oldmembers of the Tribune Family willcompel the Biltmore chef to provide alarger banquet board than has beenused in that institution since its open-ing. But the varied activities of for¬mer Tribunites has made it impossibleto communicate with more than asmall percentage of their number bymail. Because of this, such of themas are not reached by the committeeare being called upon to communicatewith the family secretary. Fred B.Pitney, at The Tribune office.One of the important pieces of busi¬

ness to be transacted at the banquetwill be the organization of the TribuneFamily into a permanent body. It isexpected that the total of charter mem¬bers will approach five hundred.

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"Manon Lescaut" WellSung at Metropolitan

Mme. Alba and Pasquale AmatoAid in Making Perform¬

ance EnjoyableIt was Puccini's "Manon Lescaut"

which was given last night at the Met¬ropolitan Opera House. Later in theseason we are to have Massenet's workon the same theme, a work infinitelymore French and truer to the storyand the epoch. Yet the Puccini oper?.in often melodically inspired and i-3always spontaneous and sincere. Init is in embryo and at times in full

.bloom all the inspiration of "Bo¬hème," "Tosca" and "Butterfly." IiPuccini has ever touched the heightof genius he touched it in "ManorLescaut." It is deserving of a perfectrepresentation.

It would be idle to state that it re¬ceived such a representation last nightMme. Frances Alda is always excellentas Manon, and she sings the musicwell; Pasquale Amato gives an artisticimpersonation of Lescaut; Mr. Segu-rola, Mr. Bada and Mr. D'Angeicare admirable in their small parts, antMiss Frances Ingram sang the meastires of the musician with legato ant'.'.arm tone.

But, after all, a "Manon Lescaut'without a Des Grieux can scarcely becalled successful. Guilio Crimi diehis best, but his best was not ver\good, despite the splendid voice thanature gave him.

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Bodanzkv PresentsRussian Music inSymphony Concert

One of Three Numbers IsNovelty; Variations forOrchestra by Stein¬berg Are Well Like*!

Arturo Bodanzy chose an all-Ru-sian program for yesterday afternoon'sconcert of the New Symphony Or¬chestra. There were only three num¬bers, but on.-» <>f them was a novelty.Maximilian Ossisevich Steinberg is a

young Russian who a? late as 1918 wa»

professor of instrumentation at thePetrograd Conservatory. A footnot ¦

in Mr. Lawrence Gilman's program:notes makes the announcement that itis understood Steinberg lias sincedied, but that there has been no con¬firmation of the report. It is to bhoped that there never will be any.for his Variations for Orchestra showhim to he a musician of roal promisThe theme :s graceful, the variation*are filled with color and variety ofmood. The composition was written usfar back as 1905, when Steinberg v.«s

only seventeen, and, though there is Föit nothing revolutionary either in miter or manner, it is so fresh and spo:taneous in spirit that it is altogetherdelightful. Mr. Bodanzky conducted inconamore. s

The -oio artist of the afternoon wasSergei Rachmaninoff, who played hisown Piano i'oncerto Xo. 1 with the re¬vised version which ho ;ir3t gave inXew York last .January with the Rus¬sian Symphony Orchestra. While theconcerto, even in its revised version, isby no means the equal of his laterwork, it is spontaneous in its spiritand possesses not a little charm. Mr.Rachmaninoff gave it a brilliant per¬formance and Mr. Bodar.zky provideda most sympathetic accompaniment.The concluding number was Rimsky-Korsakoff's "The Tale of the Tsar Sul¬tán." which suffered somewhat from a

certain crudity of tone on the part ofthe band, but which Mr. Bodonzlaygave none the less with spirit.

Jewish Chantauqiia OpensAmericanization Will Have BigPart in Baltimore ConventionBALTIMORE, Dec. 2rt.- The twenty-

eighth assembly of the Jewish Chau-tauqua Society opened here to-nightwith religious services at Eutaw Place¡Temple. Rabbi Louis L. Mann, of NewHaven, Conn., preached the sermon.Among the 138 delegates from all

parts of the United States are re¬

ligious school teachers, club leaders,rabbit, social workers and representa¬tives of every phase of religious andsocial activity among the Jews. Thoughreligious education is the chief for¬cera of the society, Americanizationwill ''ave a big part in the program.The speakers in tho convention,

(which will continue into next week,include Abram 1. Elkus, of Xew Yuri.;Philander P. Claxton, United StatesCommissioner of Education, and Dr.George E. Vincent, president of theRockefeller Foundation, and a numberof prominent Hebrew clergymen and

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