New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-29
DRINKS DO REEL
AT ARTISTS BALL
Illustrators Show in Per
son All Kinds of
Liquid Joy.
MERRY SCENE OF
COLOR AT BREVOORT
Masqueraders, American and
Foreign, with Manhattan
Dash On Side.

Usually as YOU 20 In the front door OF
the old Hotel Breyoort you take the
change out Of your coat pocket, hand the
coat to a servitor and then find yourself
among a lot Of people I'm dress suits and
evening gowns Last night was different
because last night the Society Of Illustra-
tors ov ned the hotel.
I'm the main hallway, getting little
fresh air. were a gorgeous and ferocious
Italian bandit and a beautiful little Swiss
girl and an Indian prince In raiments OF
white silk.
I'm the sitting room. right near the main
dining room. was n swami whispering
sweet nothings 10 a Cleopatra girl, while
beside them sat little Bacchante girl
all dressed up in gauze and garlands and
with a flower I'm her hair
on the other side Of the room one
might have bumped into a Chinese manda-
rim sharing a cigarette with Turkish
houri and now ard then shouting across
the hall 10 a Roman charioteer sitting
with q Greek goddess on the first step
leading 10 a coakroom.
Inside the dance hall were even more
wonderful persons and sights. For in
stance. there was a girl with red ravens
all over her gown, and Benedictine. all
logged up like a monk. Dancing with
most wonderful Turkish girl was a po
liceman.
Charles Something Ebert. painter,
was dancing in a Scotch costume. And
then there was Clarence +. Underwood ali
logged up as Father Knickerbocker.
Johnny Walker. Herb Roth, came in
taxicab.
Performing a maxiXe with Greek
peasant girl was a Puritan soldier. He
later turned out TO be William Hurd Law
renee. Jake" Jacobs. who as an artist
is the finest little tangoist in the whole
city. was clothed as is DR.. Parkhurst.
James Merican Flagg. who said that
he. too. was an illustrator, appeared. he
said. as a gentleman. Downstairs. where
one puts foot on a polished rail. there
were many who declared that he con-
Quoted himself according TO his disguise.
Later that fact was officially confirmed.
"Old Grow" was OF course, a woman
who had more lines on her young face
than Nell Brinkley could draw. Nobody
would tell her what was her name.
c. Allen Gilbert. who, some declared,
was a darling old boy stood at the en-
trance Of the ballroom ard took cards.
money. promises and drinks. HIS port
side was white and his starbPard one was
black.
slim" Johnson. who used 10 reject
| drawings from newspaper illustrators,
merely put on evening clothes and APP
peared as stout" Then there was a
funny old gentleman all covered with
| shining tin spangles. or scales, who whis-
tied through mis- teeth and told everybody
that would listen that he was a Silver
| Fizz.
on TOP OF the counters OF most well
regulates cafes bottle OF Russian kuhn
mel. a bottle shaped like a pear. is 10
be found Well. one man-and il would
| be awfully unfair 10 mention his name
| paraded into the dance hall. while the
orchestra PLAYED, IT'S a Bear. It's a
| Bear" He was not forgiven by any
body. A girl wearing all the colors o;
the rainbow whispered TO Jim Merican
| Flagg the news that she was a Pousse
! cafe
! Nowhere. at any time. were more pretty
girls TO be seen than those that sat on the
steps. in the Railways. on the floor and
chairs and tables. than danced with the
artistic drinks" last night. As j. NJ
| Flaeg said
Gee. IL I was sketch artist and
could draw pictures. Id paint one OF
/ them women. Honest would"
! Had there been a prize-awardIng judge
J present there Is little doubt that every
body else in the room but \. T. Ewell and
Miss Ellis O'Neil would have been award
ed prize. lie vas a Spanish bandit and
she was a-something wonderful. anyway
Nobody seemed 10 know Just what.
There were COW punchers-one OF them
was Herbert Dunn. who paints them
Mexicans Turks. Greeks. Servians, Rus
SLAMS. Africans. Austriars. Swedes.. Ger
mans Dutches. Spanish. Italians. Hotten-
tots Fijians and Mericsns
Later on. some time after the newspa
pers go To press. all OF them went down
stairs and had supper j. 'Merican Flags
said that he expected there might be
a chance OF the crowd enjoying them
j selves.