Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
New Year Ball Masque.

| enthusiastic welcome by the Motor
Transport Corps. which had gathered
| in full force to greet and to commend
| to his keeping Uncle Sans best gift
| to civilization-world peace, which
| gift the Motor Transport Corps had
| not failed in doing it's bit to obtain.
The spacious wing in building f
presented a brilliant spectacle. There
were flags and foliage everywhere
while the immense Motor Transport
/; insignia with its splash of purple and
| silver, gave the distinctive and rep
| resentative touch to the decorations.
! Princes hob-nobbed with peasants.
The medieval east in barbaric SPLEEN
dor paid homage to the virile, breezy
west. Ireland. Scotland. Holland,
| Turkey, India and Egypt were as one
! happy family. Beautiful as a dream
| walked Columbia. serenely the queen
| among the nations gathered there.
All paid court to Liberty. resplendant,
| glorious and at last triumphant.
| Just at the mystic moment the
lights went out, with the last breath
| of the old year. that old year so full
of misery. Then Mrs. Charles B.
Drake. wife of Gen. Drake. with a
searchlight playing upon her. struck
whose solemn sounds proclaimed the
death of the old and the birth of the
new year. She then touched button
which flooded the hall with light and
set myriads of horns blowing. which
was the signal for bedlam to turn
loose in it's pandemonium of joy.
Miss Barrine Drake looked very
picturesque as an Italian peasant.
Miss Helen Kelly was Pocahontas,
Miss Virginia McKenny an Egyptian
maid. Miss Fredrica McKenny was
Liberty. Miss Phyllis Pullian was
bewitching as a Chinese mandarin,
Mrs. Robert c. kilmartin was an
Egyptian princess. the jewel head
dress. stomacher and sandals making
rich and becoming setting to her
type of beauty; Mrs. Otto H. Sylver-
Marion White wore an imported
Turkish costume and was complete in
attire as a lady of the harem. Lieut..
and Mrs. L. " Heating attracted
much attention as a wounded soldier
and Red Cross nurse. Miss Baden
was conspicuous as the motor trans
port girl strikingly arrayed in her
winged service hat. her purple gown
and silver wheel. Mary l.. Geary ap-
peared as Lady We're de We're, and
Mr.. w. McCullum as Charley Chaplin.
Miss Susie DUNCAN wore her grand
mothers wedding gown of brocaded
crepe brought from Canton, China, by
| her grandfather in his sailing vessel.
| Miss Louise ROBBERS was a girl of the
flfties, Miss N. Kies a clown. Miss
Misses Anna Masterson and Ruth
Smith Billie Burke stars, Miss Elsie
Schimmel an Indian princess, Miss
Mary DAILY Red Cross nurse. Miss
Helen Tucker an Indian girl, Miss
Gelfoyle Turkish lady. Alma Frank
| lin lady of the harem. Marie San
terre a highland lassie. Dorothy Glib
son. Pierette; Lucy S. Wyath an Ital-
! ian lady. Maud Metheny. Yama Yama;
Irene Massey a gypsy. Miss Walling
maid, Lieut. Yearling a Mexican,
Corporal Niederer. Yama Yama; Miss
| Chubbie Turkish lady and Miss
| Rogers q girl of rs.
Among the guests were Gen. and
| Mrs. Charles p. Drake, Col. Seaman,
Lieut.. Col. Ahearn, Mai. Otto Engle-
Mai. and Mrs. T. II. Coart. Capt and
Mrs. Gore, Capt. Ryan, Lieut. s. Ii.
Wardwell, Lieut.. and Mrs. Thomas
A. Scully and Sergt. Joseph Ramsey
Maxwell. Eight hundred guests re-
| sponded to the invitations.
Members of the Alpha Gamma Delta
Fraternity for College Women will
meet at o'clock Monday evening.
January 6. at the home of Miss Miriam
F. Clarke. the Parker. 10th street and
Park road northwest. A special in
vitation is extended to war workers
from the various chapters of the fra
ternity who have not already af-
| filiated with the Washington Grad
uate Chapter.
A pleasing event Of New Year eve
was the dance given at the home of
| Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Meegan. 5205 Colo
| RADIO avenue northwest, by the six
| members of the III Club Members
| of the club present and invited guests
| were: Mrs. Erma Cain Meegan, Miss
! Mercedes Phelan. Miss Mary Rhodes,
| Miss Catherine Cowles. Miss Gladys
! Va1u II
! Laura Cain, Miss Lillian Clarke Miss
| Rose Marie Norman, Miss Miriam
Loughran, Miss Mary Hilsabeck, Miss
/ Ruth Hilsabeck. Miss Isabel Cain.
| Miss Margaret Hill. Miss Mary Haiti
| gan Miss Emily Haltigan and Messrs
| entine Hess, r. c. Fitzgerald, Leo H.
| Cleary. Louis B. Hamilton, John Nee
| gan. r. F. Clarke. c. B, Gass, F. J.
! Rooney. Lyman Patterson. William J.
| Mealy, Donald Donahue, John Renoe
Charles Darnell. r. Hayes Hamilton
! and James Schriber.
The Washington AIurnnae Club of
| the Ri Beta Phi Fraternity will have
| a social meeting at 1910 @ street. on
| Tuesday evening. January Z.
! The Signal Corps Emergency Com
! rnittee will have its first annual
\ meeting at the TeSlueHCe OF the re-
| cording secretary, Mrs. Clayton Emig.
| 1855 z street, at o'clock on Mon
day afternoon.
i More than sixty guests enjoyed the
hospitality of Mr.. and Mrs. w 7.
4 Queen, jr., at their residence, 1913
Sd street northwest, at a watch night
party, given in honor of the U. S. N.
construction unit. stationed at 18th
and B streets northwest Music was
furnished by Mr.. E. Preston and N
dancing. vocal selections were render
ed by Andy Slight, U. S. N Supper
was served at midnight and the new
year ushered in with toasts and an
exchange of greetings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erlebacher returned
from Atlantic City yesterday, after
spending the holidays there.
Miss Virginia H. Hall, the little
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Hall of II Grafton street. Chevy
chase. gave a birthday anniversary
entertained a number of her friends
4 Among those present were Elizabeth
Bisselie. Cole Mcfarland, Mary A.
Mcfarland. George Hobson. Charles
1 Drayton, Barbara Dyson. Alton Dyson,
EdIin Parks, Virginia F. Hall, Ida B.
Lyons, Ruth Greenwich, Francis Jones
and Helen Jones.
Miss Ethel Roberts and her sister,
Mrs. Olive Keysey, entertained a
party at their home. 2544 14th street
northwest. Monday evening, among
their guests being a group of Navy
girls" Instrumental and vocal selec-