The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-06
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The Bachelors ball continues to be
talked about wherever society folk
congrcgatc. 1t was rare wonderful
picture, rich in color, brilliant in COM
position, so infinite in it's variety that
II must haunt the memory long after
dancing days are done. That 1t was
given at but a small loss to the COM
mittee Is proof that Scranton APP
preciates such an elegant annual
event. TO have the Bachelors bail
abandoned would be a social calamity
and as the subscriptions from invited
guests are the only methods of paying
expenses 1t is pity that so many
we'll known society people are absent
from year to year. The members OF
the committee are receiving congratu-
lations on all sides and the fact that
the most expensive ball of the series
was given with only slight deficit
as a result is pleasant information for
everybody.
The committee has not yet met for
organiZa tion for the coming year. but
n meeting will soon be held and 1t Is
now certain that another elaborate
event of the same kind will mark the
closing of 1900.
Only one thing more remains for the
Bachelors to do in order to surpass the
last beautiful success recorded to their
everlasting credit and that Is bal
masque. When again the year Is old
they should achieve such a miracle
of picturesque effect that not an in
vited guest would be absent unless by
reason of some dire afliction. With
the Lyceum theater for "a back ground
a costume ball could be given which
would dazzle this portion Of the world.
We have the material right here in
Scranton in intelligence. beauty and
wealth which could achieve maEniii-
cent results if the opportunity wer"
given. There are those who could
spend a large amount of money on
costumes and there are others who
with narrower means could still devise
something historically correct and pic
turesquo. For it should be historical,
or at least distinctive in character. not
a nondescrlpt rabble of shepherdesses,
peasant maids and Dolly Vardens, but
careful. painstaking reproductions of
famous characters in history. fiction or
great portraits 1t need in no sense
he an imitation of the Bradley Martin
ball with the roles confined to two
centuries. but it should be definitely
required that each person in the grand
march or the succeeding dances rep
resent some parsonage in history or
fiction
The arrangements for such great
affair should he made early. invita-
tions being sent a month previous to
the ball. so that time enough could be
allowed for as elaborate preparations
as possible. One can see in imagna =
tion certain society leader who would
be real Marie Stuart another who
would bear close resemblance 10
Ada Rehan's "Katherinc"' fair girl
who might pose as "t,laine. the lily
maid of Astolat': another beautiful
young matron we all know, who coui
appear in royal robes as the lovely
Inflated Blanche of CASTLE: while still
another might personate the Mary Tu-
dor. as pictured in when knight
hood was in Flower" There are Mar
Guerite dAlencon and that other fair
Marguerite of Navarro. Francis l.,
Louise de Lafayette, Cinq Mars and
frail lovely Louise de la Valliere
Richelieu. Mary de Medici. the Prince
of Condc. the Duke dc Nemours, and
many other illustrious figures of
French history. whose personnel could
be well represented by some of our
modern day friends, and now that cer-
tain books have become So popular
David Harum, Richard Carvel, Sister
Do!orosa, Colonel Carter. Rassendyl
Lady Babbie, Glory Quayle, and a
myriad of familiar personalities fit
past the thought window in a swift
procession. BY all means let us have