The Washington times., 1917-01-24
JUNIOR LEAGUES
BALL is BRILLIANT
Annual FroIic Surpasses All
Previous Affairs In Set
tingS and Attendance.
RIVALS BEAUX ARTS BALL
Miss Lena Hitchcock and Nor
timer Clark Share Honors
In Success.

The Junior Leagues annual froliC
has been promoted TO the front page
OF the morning papers. Which in it,
self speaks volumes for the brilliance.
the originality, the gorgeousness, the
spectacular quality-my vocabulary is
beggared of adjectives-of the ORR
entail Ball given at Rauscher's last
evening. The New York Junior
League. famous all over the country.
for the splendor of its entertainments,
Will have to look to its laurels-and
perhaps it's just as well that the
Beaux Arts Ball is not to be given
this year!
Credit Given Girls.
Credit for the success Of the ball.
with all its colorful Oriental trap
pings, its gay carnival spirit, must
be given to the girls, young girls all
of them. who belong to the league
and who worked like Trojans in prep
aration for the entertainment; to the
specially dancers" whose perform
ance showed rare originality and
charm; and, in particular. to two
people. Miss Lena Hitchcock, who ar
ranged the gorgeous Arabian Nights
Tableau. and Mortimer Clark. who
planned and designed and executed
the decorations.
Settings Were Wonderful
Dull black hangings, painted with
huge Arabic figures in gold, covered
the wallis of both ball rooms. Cloths
of blood red, done in golden figures
and balooning unanimously. yelled
the ceilings and lights; and great
Oriental lanterns cast a wierd but
becoming glamour over the gay
scene. Given the scent of burning
incense, the little stage. with Its
curtains of deep blue, its tiny bal
cony, and its hangipgs rich with the
colors of an Oriental rug, and the
ever shifting throng of men and
women in costumes brought from
every corner of the East, and the
scene suggested the tent of a power
full Arabian shiek on the occasion
of some storied Eastern carnival.
The Box Holders.
The large ballroom was ranged
about with boxes-Mrs. Richardson
Glover had guests, among them her
daughter, Miss Beatrice Glover, also
Gibson -Fahnestock, also Mrs. F. B.
Moran and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh and
many others. But for once nobody
had eyes on the boxes. all attention
was given to the picturesquely cos
TUNED throng on the floor.
And such gorgeous costumes. Miss
Frances Hoar, a prideful parsonage
ina peacock gown with a headdress
of outstanding peacock feathers, was
with Viscount and Viscountess de
Sibour; Miss Carolyn Ogden Jones, in
the most perfect of Japaese cos
tunes, had a coin spot of color on
each cheek in the approved Japanese
fashion; Miss Dorothy Dent wore the
gorgeous golden draperies, the veil
and jeweIed headdress of a dancer
of northern India, her costume COM
plete in every detail and copied from
a rare print.
Many Clever Costumes.
There was a/Burmese lady of high
degree, with the most marvellous Of
feathered headdresses, whose identity
1 could not penetrate; a lovely veil
ed lady in a spectacular Persian
costume of cloth of gold and Jewels
turned out to be Miss Lindsey, Of
Boston" and Miss Sessions of
Baltimore" was the FREELY person In
black velvet. about whose identity
everyone was inquiring. She had IN
a costume, doubtless reminiscent OF
Baltimore's Bal des Arts, which was
a bit like the one Baroness Lily Won
Winckler wore for her FREELY dance
at the Junior League ball last WIZ
ter-only this time there wasn't so
much of it.
1 could give you costumes to I'LL
a volume-Mrs. Frederic R. Harris,
a Turkish lady; Mrs. Victor Kau1-
mann, also in Oriental garb; Miss
Dorothy bennett, a gay japanese
costume, with flowers in her hair;
turbaned men and trousered ladies'
but l must tell something of the
program of the tableaux and dances.
Designed TabIeaux Settings.
Mr.. Clarke designed the settings
for the tableaux, after Dulac and
Aiaxfeld Parrish, and they were ar
ranged and costumed by Miss Lena
Hitchcock. assisted by her sister,
Miss Katherine Hitchcock. Miss
also fashioned the won
derfuI black panther, whose appear
ance in with THE Queen Of the
Ebony Isles" was greeted by much
applause. In understand three peo-
pie wanted to buy the great cat, and
another bit of gossip-that an offer
was made to purchase the decora-
tions in toto.
The tableauX, ever so artistic, with
their atmosphere of Oriental mystery,
were introduced by DIR. Alfred Hop
kins, and preceded by a group OF
songs by Miss Kitty Beale. Where
upon we were treated to an exhibition
Of how bad hammered a Washington
can be.
Balloons Are Blamed.
1t was the balloons which did il, /
very believe. They were everywhere,
quantities of them, and every now