Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-12
Fills Auditorium at the Naval Acad-
DENY With Motley Mixture Of
Fancy Dress Funmakers
Who Cavort and Cut
CaperS.
MANY STRIKING COSTUMES.
Orient and Occident, Fact and Fiction,
Uncle Sam and FIJI Islander, Men
delssOhn's Spring and Bowery
Tough, Bird Cage and Bubbles,
Join Hands in All-Night
Festival.

Festival.
Strikingly bizarre was the floor OF
the Auditorium at the Naval Academy
last night, for the nearly alI-night OF
ficer's masQue ball, the annual fancy
dress affair which was in progress.
The dance was scheduled to begin at
10 o'clock, but at midnight the merry
makers were still arriving. This was
probably due to the fact that numer-
GUS supper and dinner parties were
given before the ball. The largest Of
these was at Carvel Hail. where one
hundred and fifty maskers in fancy
dress enjoyed a cabaret dinner.
Music was furnished by Fishers or
chestra, of Baltimore, and was OF that
clap-stick, tin-pan. sleighbells. horn
variety 50 popular for the up-to-date
dancing OF today. At the Auditorium
no one was admitted without fancy
dress and mask, and the result was
like fairyland
At the Carvel Hall cabaret dinner.
the guests were invited although it
was a subscription party There were
twenty-five tables. and dinner was
served i'll courses dancing between
each course being the proper caper.
The table de resistance was in black
and white and the host was Lieutenant
Kaufman, whose wife. assisted by Mrs
Curtin, widow of Lieutenant Curtin 4.
s. ~, had decorated the table in most
attractive fashion
The cloth was striped in black and
white, the flowers were black and
white carnations. the place cards were
in black, the candles were shaded in
black and white, and the costumes of
the diners was black and white The
men wore black, trimmed with white.
the women wore white. trimmed in
black, and the effect was stunning.
Among the guests at this table the
costum of Pierret and Pierrette pre-
dominated. although there were goIf
girls and jockey girls. The table was
set apart for the debutantes and bach
elor officers At table were Miss Edith
Mccormick. Miss Sarah McGill, Of Bal
timore; Miss Katherine Knight, daugh-
ter of Admiral knight, of Newport. r.
J., and Mr.. and Mrs Tom Vickery, of
Baltimore
Supper, or rather the cabaret dinner
at Carvel Hall lasted until 1920. and
some of the participants did not arrive
at the Auditorium until midnight and
after. Here the merry maskers had
gathered i'm large numbers and the
motley mixture was received by Super
intendent and Mrs Eberle. who were
not masked. Capt Eberle wore evening
full dress uniform, and Mrs. Eberle
was costumed as green and whiteFolly
with cap of green and her costume dec
GRATED with silver bells She carried an
armful of pink Killarney roses. The
receiving stand was directly opposite
the stage where the Naval Acadmy or
chestra furnished music for the dance
Dancing began about 10 o'clock, al
though the number of maskers present
at that earely hour was quite few II
continued until almost time for the
milkman to start his rounds At mid
night the signal for unmasking sound
ed. and there were many surprises and
some startling revelations. as few had
| guessed who was who or what was
what Shortly after midnight supper
was served. and there was a rush for
the supper room. Throughout the
evening Apolonaris lemonade was dis
pensed from a huge punch bowl which
was filled and reflled many times and
I furnished refreshment for the party
which numbered all sorts and kinds OF
/ people in all conditions Of life and ser
vitude, if one is 10 be judged by the
/ dress he or she wears.
There were natives of the Orient and
Occident. Fact and Fiction Joined
hands, Freak and Fiji Islanders. Uncle
/ sam was there too so was Miss Co
lumbia. The Frog croaked a little. but
/ it was no place for croaking. A Span
I ish damsel led an itinerary bear
| by rope. There was a bird in a
gilded cage, and many balloon girls.
also Bubbles, dainty and sweet from
| The Follies.
/ There were cowboys and COW girls.
Russians, Cossacks French chefs
Bowery tough, Burglar with his dark
/ lantern. Nydia, the blind girl and
Miss Springtime, dainty little French
/ ballet dancers. Persian women. Turk
ish men and women ladies of the
Z AeAA ~AA AA'BpSa hCA Z anu AHEfE over the
| dance floor accompanied by Pierrots in
costume of black and white. red and
white or orange and black
Z Fat caliphs strobe proudly. bowing
now and then TO the girls in Oriental
+ pantaloons. who might have stepped
] from the page of the Arabian Nights"
| There We're lords and ladies, colonial
I DANES and d. A. D's. men in pink"
/ coats of the limiting field. lads and las
| sizes from Scotland and some also from
/ Holland. wearing wooden shoes. and
there were monks and priests, Sisters
of Charity, and Nuns TO give the touch
/ of the religious side 10 the affair.
To give nautical flavor Dick Dead