Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-29
TRAVESTY FEATURES
FINE ARTS BALL
Impressionistic Stuff and Weird
Dancing Enjoyed in FroIic Called
"A Night on Mars"

Just then something apparently female,
with a pair of tin tubes stuck out sidewisc,
supposedly to serve as ears. and with other
appurtances slightly more familiar, but
most awfully unreal to look upon, gIided
past.
'Well, yes, old top. I should rather say
this ends it. One night on Mars like this,
you know-well, he simply ca a ant stay in
form eh. what?'
Several hundred who attended the Penn
sylvania Academy of the Fine Arts frolic
last night will agree with the Aussies. There
is nothing to do but agree. In the first
place those academy balls are always good,
and art-wcl, art is art that's all.
A Night on Mars it was, and. be-
leve the janitor and the gatcmen and every
body else, though the affair was a most dec
orous one as such things go, if Mars wasn't
hobnobbing in the general celestial latitude
of Edith Marjory Venus, last night, then
the Zodiac is bust and nothing is what it
seems.
The dance was in charge of the following
COnlUlltetS MI l. bouh'l' 'huh
man; Mrs Gideon Boerickc. Mrs. Mary
Townsend Mason. Mrs. Frederick d. Mount,
Mrs Ethel Hcrrick Warwick, Miss NJ.
Theodore Burt. Miss +. Corinne PAUL.. Mr..
Ralph Boyer. Mr.. Horace W. Hardy. Mr..
s. Walter Norris, Mr.. Henry Troth repre-
senting the Fellowship, and for the students,
Mr.. Otto ]. Cater. chairman: Mrs. Sarah
Langley, Miss Margaret Connor Miss Edith
Dallas, Miss Beatrice Edgerly, Miss Dorothy
Fulton, Miss Lucy Holt, Miss Virginia
Parker, Miss Mary p. Reeves, Miss Gertrude
Schell Miss Anna Katherine Stimson, Mr..
Harold Harvey. Mr.. Walter Josephs, Mr..
Julian Levi Mr. Isadorc Levy, Mr.. Eugene
McNerncy, Mr.. Austin Purces, Mr.. Abra-
ham Rather Mr.. Raphael Sabatini.
In between dances there were some clever
stunts, presided over by Austin Purves
as the chief guy on Mars. Raphael Sabatini,
dropping the mister and also his ballast shot
into a very Martan scene from a moving
picture airplanr, and musscd up the hearts
! of the foreigners generally. Virginia Parker,
as Martian princess, drew n pale blue
parahola on the public consciousness, with
| Miss Peggy Shoemaker and Miss Frances
III. earns as retainers. The chief guy had
| Arthur Metzer and Conrad Dickel. for SINH :
| lar duties, while Harry Kidd and Harriet
~
A think that looked like huge woggle
bug and acted like an II. G. Wells hero OF
the widest and agedest vintage, proved to
! be Alfred Hayward, alias Marian, and al
most equal to a very bad dream. He danced
and pursued Corinne PAUL., who, in dainty
| pink. looked much too mundane to be wasted
| on Martian appreciation. Mr. Hayward
| does pictures about a stenographer for the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER, but nobody
knows how he ever gets that close to nature,
after seeing his antics last night
| In Shaky Moon
Helena Holt, as Diana in moon that was
| deliciously shaky trembled and supplicated
| and finally danced-oh, so very much So
| to lure Bert Hilman, believed to have been
| Saturn or maybe Jupiter. The grace of this
number was remarked by all present and
Miss Holt's special training, plus instructive
! rhythmic expression, was just a little bit too
| poignantly successful for the earthbound,
Other interesting stunts were put on by
| Miss Pauline Reid and Mr.. Sabatipi.
| Stephanie Balderston and Miss Dorothy Full :
| ton. and forest idyl of naive, youthful
/ charm was depicted by Miss Rose Rosenberg
| Mr.. Rather, Paul Froelich and Isadore
Levy.
| 1t was not easy to pick out faces well
| known to Academy circles, but now and
| again, from maze of color and cleaning
| white shoulders and bizarre, although quite
masculine Martian uniforms, few identi
| ties were learned despite the make up and
| the masks. Captain George Harding. who
made many pictures in the war zone was
1 there with his wife. Captain Horace HARDY