The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-02

model type; with them were a couple of
 long haired furturistic looking young men, an American naval officer and
 an American military officer. Cham pagne was flowing rather freely and the
 whole group was in the best of spirits.
 But disturbing element arrived on the
 scene in the person of a rather smart looking elderly man who took exceptions to the attentions bestowed upon one of the girls by the American military off cer A discreet sort of row ensued and the elderly man was observed taking
 hold of the champagne glass and try
 ing to turn it over. He was prevented
 however, by one of the American off cers in his first effort. Some more talk took place, however, and this time the
 unwelcome visitor took his stick and simply leaned across the table and with a quick push over turned the glass onto the floor. A slight scuffle followed, one of the girls began to cry, the elderly man took out his card, flung 1t In the face of the American officer and de- parted. The advertisement that l quote
 is evidently the follow up of this curious little scene.
 Just one more excerpt from this (to me) curiously fascinating column of ad- vertisements:
 CONCRETE FURNITURE-Wil any
 one who has experimented in the use
 of concrete furniture please communi-
 cate with the Times"
 Whether this last "agony" heralds the approach of a new fad in furnish ing I do not know, but in my humble opinion the idea of concrete furniture has no charm. Imagine a "cosy flat with concrete suite of drawing room chairs! Or couch composed of blocks of this unrelenting, if useful substance! It might, as the old comic song has it. Be all right in the summertime" but l can conjure up no winter joys that would include the use of concrete fur niture
 I am reminded of just a year ago al most to the day when New York was startled by an entertainment called "The Gnu Chin Chow Ball. which was given at the Hotel Des Rrsteo in West Sixty-seventh street. The enter tainment reused a storm of disapprov- al from vast number of people who realized the importance and gravity of the situation in war-ridden Europe. Now l see that still another ball of exactly the same kind but with much more joyous excuse has taken place at this same hotel and I am also inter- ested in noting that the Russian mu sician, Sascha Votichenko, is responsi- ble for the pageantry of 8 certain por tion of the great procession which was one of the features of the reve1. Over here in London Votichenko's name is well known in many artistic circles. He was much applauded and favored by Mrs. Asquith and her set while the in evitable Lady Diana Manners was more than especially interested in his per formances on a weird instrument called | the Tympanon, of which he is, so it is said, the only living exponent. But | Sascha came to London at the wrong | time. It was at the beginning of the l war and society was not taking up too , strenuously those various "arty" fads, | that are now permissible once more. And so he drifted away from London with his wife. a very pretty American, to New York, where apparently he is rapidly ascending the ladder of so- cial fame. The young Russian, by the | way, was much feted at one time by the Grand Duchess George, whose late husband was an uncle of the late tragic | Czar. Of one thing I am quite certain, the poetic and elegant Votichenko has been and always will be a royalist of ] the most extreme kind. I cannot inn agine the horrors of bolshevism hay ing any attraction to his ultra sensi- ! tive soul!