The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-24
|elBy DESLyS TICnED
BY RIOT or STUDENTS
Youths Arrested For Raising
Disturbance in Her Honor
Called Poor, Poor Boys"


NEW YORK, Nov. ls--Baby Deslys
believes the Yale students did exactiy
right when they tore up the Hyperion
thcater at New Haven the night OF
The, Princeton football game,
causing damage amounting TO $l,OO
and resulting in the arrest Of seven
Students.
"Gabrielle OF the Lilies" got out or
her golden bed al the st. Regis to-
day. hung 100000 worth OF pearls
around over her neck and threw a
few fuzzy things over her silken night
gown and told her maid chat she
would be glad 10 see reporter and
explain how shamefully the afle boys
had been treated.
Those poor. poor boys" pouted
Gaby. They pay three dollars for
a seat and then the police hake the
show cut TO hour and half. She
crossed her index fingers 10 Indicate
the half, then tucked one leg under
her. raised her pretty shoulders and
giggled merrily.
rIt was so yer. YER funny she
said,
.swhat, the show asked the re-
porter
mo. not the show. II was she
shrugged her shoulders-"no much.
/ do not have SO many songs as | had
before" she explained. But the boys,
oh, such YER funny boys. and so nice
they would be if not droonk
rThe curtain go down at 9:45 be-
cause the police had said you must
nut out all the--what is it-lines?
He said they were YER, YER naugh-
tee."
Were they?" the reporter asked
expectantly.
ssI don't know" Gaby admitted sad.
~, Il not understand enough An
glais. But when the curtain go down
on the Specialize the students stay
there and cry out, We want Ga-bee!
We want Ga-bee!'
She snuggled up in her chair and
clapped her hands. 1T was YER, yer
fine. You see they want me, ] said
TO the manager, 1 go out and say, i
am Gaby Deslys." Then they would
be quiet But he say | know nothing
about these rahskallions-hec call them
that-and he drop the fire curtain
Then he told me 20 go in my dressing
room. because there would be
trouble"
Were those his very words?" the
reporter asked.
mon" she admitted ''He said,
There's going to be h-n TO pay.
She said 1t simply, not understand
ingly.
Then" she continued, sit began.
aid not go to my dressing-room.
looked out for a minute. The students
began like this
Gabrielle of the Lilies leaped to
her little feet and behind her chair.
che seized the back of the piece OF
furniture and rocked it back and forth
savagely Then she laughed.
tEyerywhere." she said. waving her
hands like a yell leader, they cry,
.v-a want Ga-bee, We want Ga-bee!
They they throw the chairs on the
stage and run TO my dressing-room.
Students came on the stage. Many
women came running on the stage
from the boxes and into my dressing
room-it was the first one they could
reach We locked the door and heard
the students crying. Then they be-
gan TO search for my troonk' we
want a souvenir of Ga-bee!' they cry,
but could not go out for afraid they
tear my gown to pieces. They at,
tackled the musicians, too, and break
the too-ta-too and the i-de-i and the
boom ba- boom and the harp.
Gaby illustrated the musical instru-
ments she meant and there could be
no mistake.
And the poor harp" she lamented;
'they threw il. into box and broke
the box.
-'They at last got the boys on the
stage and / was dressed and hurried
ont a side way. They were waiting
AT the stage entrance for me, the man
ager said, so | escaped. But the poor
boys, they were fine. just smashed
everything"