Future Social Events

Tickets to the following events may be obtained from the beneficiaries unless otherwise indicated:

March 5 — The production of Leonard Bernstein's “Candide” by Harold Prince and the Chelsea Theater Center of the Brooklyn Academy of Music will leave the 180‐seat auditorium at the Academy and open at the Broadway Theater, which normally has 2,000 seats. But to retain the intimacy and close contact between audience and actors the seating has been reduced to 900 and rearranged. Do you think they were inspired by the old woman in “Candide” who needed only half of the saddle of a steed? You may attend the opening Broadway performance and the champagne party on the stage for guests and cast and aid the general‐maintenance fund of the Dalton School. The school has taken over half of the theater and is offering tickets at $50 and $100.

Cutting Seats by Half

An Urbane Benefit

March 6—The National Urban League party at the Plaza will have so many underwriters — Avon Products, Bristol Myers, Philip Morris, Seagrams and several modest no‐names—that there'll be no red figures on the books and the proceeds will pop into the benefit pot just the way it should. Revillon will donate the mink jacket door prize, Wamsutta Mills the napery. After all that, you want to know about the action, right? Well, first lubricating cocktails, then dinner at 8, and afterward that great Roberta Flack will contribute her special brand of soul jazz, backed up by Billy Taylor and his, orchestra. Lady Keith and Mrs. Edward M. M. Warburg are the chairmen. Tickets are $100 by invitation of the benefit committee, 100 of the prominent in civic, social and corporate circles.

An Eye Of a Whale On Your Wall?

March 7—That doesn't mean that Big Brother will be watching you. The orb referred to is a meticulous glass replica, the unseeing eye of that famous sulfurbottomed, blue whale you've probably looked up at in wonder at the American Museum of Natural History before it was removed. Maybe you'll come home from the museum with an antiquated manhole cover that could turn into an indestructible coffee table. These are only two of the items you can bid for at “Auction 74,” the second such fund‐raising roue and romp the museum has held there. At 6:30 P.M. guests will start getting in vocal and signal shape with cocktails and a picnic supper. It's a demand repeat, so spend $35 for ticket and Whiz Kids and a Whiz Bang Time

March 7 — There'll be some extremely talented celebrities to entertain you at a dinner dance in the Pierre's Grand Ballroom, and maybe their names—Beverly Sills, Leonard Bernstein, Dick Cavett are not entirely unfamiliar to you. They're going to help the scholarship fund of the Professional Children's School, where children already earning a living with their talents bone up on prescribed academic subjects. The evening will begin the celebration of P.C.S.'s 60th anniversary and will give its new Richard Rodgers (he's a charter trustee) award to Goddard Lieberson, senior vice president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, among other distinctions. Mrs. Stanley H. Weintraub is chairman. Tickets, $100, from Projects Plus, Inc.

From Apse to Starlight

March 9 — Cardinal Cooke will celebrate mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral for what will probably be the most festively dressed throng ever to assemble before him on such an occasion. More than 500 persons in formal evening gowns and in black or white tie will attend the Mass of Thanksgiving (beginning at 6:15 P.M.), marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of St. Clare's Hospital and Medical Center. After the mass there will be a sedate scramble to the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf‐Astoria for dinner and dancing—Duke Ellington and his men entertaining and setting the rhythms for the second half of the evening. Attending the Waldorf event will be Cardinal Cooke, Governor Wilson, Secretary of Labor Peter A. Brennan, James A. Farley and Mayor Beame, if his schedule allows. Tickets are $100 a person, and funds will help the improvement and development of St. Clare's, West 51st Street, founded by the Allegany Franciscan Sisters in the area thenknown as “Hell's Kitchen.”

Finlandia Foundation Comes of Age

March 9 — The metropolitan chapter marks the 21st anniversary of the Finlandia Foundation at its annual dinner dance in the Hilton Room of the WaldorfAstoria. Proceeds go to the scholarship fund aiding interchange of music students between Finland and the United States. Guests of honor include the Finnish Ambassador, the Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the Finnish Consul General here and their wives. Reservations, $50 a couple, from the chairman, Mrs. Jacob E. Lampe, 45 West 94th Street.

When Friends Need You

March 9—The Plaza's Grand Ballroom will be the background for a benefit bridge party and fashion show held by the Friends of the Little Sisters of the Assumption. The Friends' assumption is that it should be one of the year's most beautiful parties and it is general knowledge that the Little Sisters nurse the needy gratis and efficiently. Tickets, $5, from Mrs. Stratford C. Wallace, 1195 Lexington Avenue.

Hands for the Aged

March 9 — Whist, rummy, canasta, auction, contract or slap jack. Well, it's the annual harbinger of spring at the Mary Manning Walsh Home on York Avenue and furthers care for the 350 elderly residents. Tickets to the annual card party are $2.50 in advance or at the door. The beneficiary is staffed by the Carmelite Sisters. Mrs. Rosemary E. Donahue is chairman.

Pont des Arts

March 10 — At the end of World War I, Walter Damrosch began to work with the French Government (there wasn't any oil problem to gum the works then) to build a bridge of music and art between France and the United States. The effort successfully evolved into the Schools of Music and Fine Arts in Francis I's exquisite Renaissance chateau at Fontainebleau. The fondly reminiscent Americans who studied there — the Fontainebleau Alumni — will hold their 22d annual benefit concert at the Carnegie Recital Hall, and then there'll be a reception, by invitation only, at La Maison Frangaise in Washington Mews. Concert tickets, $5 for subscribers, $25 for donors, $50 for patrons. Allen Townsend Terrell is chairman.

Children's Aid

March 10, 11 — The Infants Home of Brooklyn for the third year is setting a goal of $50,000 for the annual bazaar in its auditorium at 1358 56th Street. Nine auxiliaries of the institution have been collecting tempting vendibles to raise funds for the home's vital program—a day treatment center for emotionally disturbed children from 3 to 8 years old. The benefit runs from 10 A.M. to 10 P.M.

Dinner, Then Be Wisked to ‘French Dressing’

March 12 —Your $30 ticket ($50 and $75 for a couple) includes French food and wines at the home of a committee member, transportation by an American bus and seats at the new revue at the Top of the Gate on Bleecker Street. It is called a gala French evening by the New York chapter of WAIF, the organization founded by Jane Russell in 1953 to find homes for abandoned children around the world.