The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-03
CROKER ORIENTAL BALL.

CROKER ORIENTAL BALL.
s. f. Examiner, January 27:-The
modern Aladdin rubbed his magic
lamp last night and straightway out
of the dingy blackness of the city
there grew a wonderful palace, all
glowing with light, rich with colors,
throbbing with sweet music, filled
with wines and delicacies and treas
ures.
Great genii jumped out of the pave
ment and at the command Of the mas
ter spread carpets of golden weave be
fore the jeweled feet of 200 of the
city's most favored society men and
women and whisked them to this pal
ace of enchaHtment.
Most Gorgeous Known Here.
The Charles Tcmpleton Crockers'
Oriental ball, at the Hotel st. Francis,
last night, was the most gorgeous and
costly affair ever given in San Fran
cisco. 1t not only rivaled the London
and New York efforts along this line,
but in reality seemed to bring back
the story book time when the most
dazzling wish was gratified by magic.
The magic was money.
The Crockers alone know what it
cost for they have been a year pre-
> pairing for it, and many of the tapes
; tries and decorations were brought
from the Orient for this occasion.
One wandering by mistake into this
ballroom last night surely would have
rubbed his eyes and thought he was
dreaming The soulful and musical
person who dreamt he dwelt in mar
BILE halls had feeble imagination be-
side the reality of the Crocker ball.
The lucky two hundred! What they
saw in the way of costumes and
jewels and Cleopatras and princesses
and houris and settings must have
made the most jaded of them gasp.
Many Dinners Are Given.
They had three meals before it was
over. They began with dinner at s
o'clock-Many dinners in fact. Then
came the costume ball, with supper at
midnight out of real ancient bronze
dishes of Turkish and Arabian make
with brilliant peacocks looking down
from their perches over the tables
z and canaries in the garden of flowers
that the room had been decked in.
They then danced until the break
< fast scheduled for 8 o'clock this morn
r ing. Could our old Aladdin, whom We
read in our quiet of the garnet years
!. ago with head resting on pile o.
/. dusty old magazines, have wished fol
. night of greater entertainment?
, Was Projected Last Year.
S The Oriental ball was first projected
e when Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Templetol
d Croker went on their honeymoon tril
to Europe last year, touring through
Southern Europe, with its Moorisl
= and Saracen suggestions in classicf
e Spain, and ending in the ride in
3 dahabiyah down the Nile, past ancien
Alexandria. Cairo and the pyramids
the land where all the nations of Asia
0 Africa and modern Europe congr'
, gate.
~ The ball ended this morning wit
- sausages, toasted mullins, scramble
: eggs, coffee and limousines homewar
. breakfast being served to the 200, NJ
-. one of whom went home mome'
. earlier than sunrise. In the interv
., between the visit to Egypt and Il
mornings toast, many wondro'
as things were brought to pass.
n The BALLROOM was as truly sectiC
II. from the Alhambra as if it had bee
wisked from Spain to the st. Franc
ST Not vestige of the convention
ballroom was to be seen, nothing
the old being used or even in eviden
III except the floor. 1t was a Moori
RS palace interior, exquisitely moder
on lied. A lattice work of white hid &
lily walls
ng The Irwin Dinner
zee Mr.. and Mrs. William G. Irwin pl
hi sided over dinner of Oriental sple
he dor, rivaling in magnificence the 81
Try tings of the ball. The drawing-roc
and dining salon of their handsor
ity Washington-stree home was conve
III ed into a pergola A lattice of ba