The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-19
Were Brave and Reckless Until Wa
ter Began to Ruin Their
Precious College
Clothes,
GABY BEAT 1T PROMPTLY
Actress Friend of Ex-kins of Portu-
gal Took to the Wings and
the Free Fight
Started.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servicel
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Nov. 1S.-Af-
ter several hundred Yale students
put Gaby Deslys and her company to
flight and wrecked the interior of the
Hyperion theatre tonight police re-
serves dispersed the mob and arrest.
ed nine persons, seven of them stu
dents EXpulsions are expected to
follow this outbreak.
After the students were forced out
of the theatre by water from the fire
hose they demolished the electric
sign board in front of the place. At
this point the police reserves charged
ticking nine prisoners. Gaby Deslys
and one hundred members of her
company had not left the theatre up
to midnight, fearing the rioters.
Football night, always dangerous
time for actresses, WAS particularly
SO, tonight on account of the i'll hui
NOR over Yale's defeat. The house
had been sold out to Yale students.
not few OF whom were sore over
their defeat. The climax came earlier
than usual The star had hardly
made her first appearance on the
stage than the college humoristg
opened up on her.
'Gaby of the lillies,'' beat it," The
curtain was rung down. Before the
! police were aware of their intention
the students In the boxes jumped on
i TO tie stage and started to give per-
formance. The rest of the audience
4 variously shouted that the curtain be
raised and the real show proceed
Property men in the rear OF the
stage dumped the would-be actors in
1 to the orchestra pit This act seem
ed to fire the students. They smashed
electric lights, ripped up orchestra
and box seats and left the interior a
total wreck. In the ba'cony and gall
lery the same performance was re.
peated with the same fatal effect.
The police force was no match for
;. the hundreds of students The water
ruse, however, quickly emptied the
!. theatre
The crowd were slow to leave the
: vicinity of the theatre as they want
ed to catch sight of Gaby and her
pretty chorus girls. Shortly after
> > midnight the entire company under po-
:, lice protection was escorted to theft
: hotel
AT ghe police station a large crowd
. of students outside awaited word OF
: the prisoners within. Strenuous eff
: forts were made by the arrested men
:, to keep their names from the report
!. ers. Newspaper men leaving the build.
: ing were held up by the students
= who tore up every note found on the
: scribes. Not few bribes were offer
;, ed reporters to keep the matter quiet
Shortly after midnight, Lieutenant
- Governor Blakeslee furnished bono
!. for several prisoners and it seemed
certain none would spend the rest o.
; the night in Jail.
James A, Hawes, claiming to be {
v deacon of the Fifth Avenue Presby
n terian church, New York. one of thu
men arrested. made strenuous protes
tation of innocence and was release,
by the police shortly after midnight
= His name was erased from the blot
a ter.
Dean Jones of the academic depart
= ment was routed out of bed by tn
!, arrested students friends and wa
/, closeted with the police and with til
=, bondless prisoners in secret confab.
a The arrested students stand in
fair way of escape from their dilemma
according to lawyers They were nc
arrested inside the theatre, wher
70 thousands of dollars worth of prope
- ty We're destroyed, but on the ou
V. side. They are technically charge
q with breach of peace and interfe
70 ence.
The last batch of prisoners weI
released on $150 bond each at on
o'clock Sunday morning.
Il The other theatre in the city wit
rs. Robert Edeson playing in '"Tl
he Arab ESCAPED the storm.
re Bread 5ombardment.
I'd WASHINGTON, Nov. lS.-Over e
Id uberant football enthusiasts, cel
Id brating Georgetown's victory over Vi
ginia, broke up Lulu Glaser's pc
formance of Miss Dudlesack,"
the Columbia theatre here tonigf
e. Armed with loayes of bread. box
m. of crackers and other edibles, th,
ay crowded into the aisles and anus