The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
DAWN INTERRUPTS
REVEL OF FAKERS
And What q Motley Crowd
Was Turned Loose in Per-
shing Square!
MIME HOURS OF DANCING
Costumes as Abbreviated as
the Kick In Cocktails or
Inspected Beer.

Sober oitisens psunsing head down
ssainst the gale that drove through East
Fcrty-second street ut the absolutely
ron-existent hour Of z O'Clock yesterday
morning biinked In anna xement as they
struck the tablesu vivant which had the
two blocks from Lexington avenue to
Madison avenue a. q stage and tho tow
ering front Of the Hotel Commodore for
q hack drop. For this spectacle was as
wildly unreal a. the Authorizations of an
opium eater; q picture as fanciful and
singular as Manhattan, even in her mad
dest moments. possibly could produce.
No wonder that the honest toilers
hurrying to punch the time clock tarried
TO stare and to grin. for unrolling be-
fore their astonished eyes was q comedy
drama OF folly such 60 New York had
not seen since the untroubled days be-
fcre the war. A soldier jazz band, an
even half dozen fresh faced lads whose
left shoulders bore tho Orion symbol Of
the Twenty-seventh Division, swept west
ward IN the middle Of the street,
squarely In the centre Of the car tracks,
and assaulted the young morning with
the say fury OF their jazxery. And as
they whanged banjo, footed saxaphone
and lambasted drum they flung these
Instruments high in the air and caught
them again so surely and deftly that
the rollicking tune.
Came Then q Convict's Guard.
At the heels OF these and swinging in
serpentine formation was a convict.
striped like a zebra, and foxtrotting with
a baby vamp in six inch pink skirt :;
clowns in black and white. in red and
blue and in yellow: George Washington
In powdered wig. his arm circlng the
accommodating waist of a lady nut from
Grove street; n tall Folly defying wind
and weather with her fluffy costume OF
lavender tulle and dancing with a fool
In crimson and masked like a baboon {;
q slim lad in canary colored union
suit oelted with patent leather and wear
ing patent leather sandals, who whirled
with the wind as he spun a plump houri
enticingly arrayed in green and gold and
a wonderful head ornament OF stranded
pearls an elderly prankster whose thin
shanks were exposed perilously but who
girded at Time as he kept step with n
model whose pert face stares from many
q magazine cover and among or behind
these scores more OF strange creatures
fed with the spirit of revelry, to whom
the biting wind meant nothing and
whose gayety no cold could chill
For half an hour the street was
tumultuous with them. Surface cars
looked on. A few policemen regarded
the spectacle from street corners with
the attitude Of fathers excuslng the
pranks of children. Tax!cabs flirted
along the sides OF. the crazy procession
or darted through II as the drivers
picked UP fares, gradually reducing the
size OF the crowd. Then some disap-
osared into the subway like gnomes and
elfs returning to their caverns. or broke
a. 60 nh rd Nnr a
or buses or turned into Child's for
scrambled eggs and bacon. and presently
the street resumed its customary nor
mality.
ousted by Dawn tho Ogre.
These jewellers Of the morning had been
evicted from the Hotel Commodore by
the sunrise itself after dancing the night
through at the best and biggest ball ever
given by The Fakers--a costume party
which expressed as nothing had better
done the lifting OF war depression. the
return of oldtime 5ollity. Perhaps some
of them would be dancing yet had not the
walters In the two dining rooms at either
end Of the vast ballroom of the Comrno-
dore snapped UP the window shades
little before 6 o'clock to admit the
streaming sunlight, hint that could not
be ignored.
Nearly s,Voo pei sohs, a. 'iSto a-io "
lists models writer's. Fifth avenue and
Greenwich Village. Wall street and the
Stock Exchange the Army and the Navy
motion picture stars, city officials and
Tammany, made UP the colorful picture
which spread itself under spotlight rib
bons of blue and red and orange for eight
hours or so over an entire floor OF the
new Commodore. drinking bad cess TO
prohibition and letting fly spirit OF fun
that had been bottled UP for two years
Nobody talked about the war or the