The sun., 1919-02-02
RAJAH SLABS QUEEN
las ARTISTS CAYORT
mu-Chin-Chowers' Racket Is
IN Affair Of Beauty Color
and Motion.
EDITH HYDE Is WINNER
Magnums Called as First Aid
and Dancers Continue to
Vie for Golden Apple.

a young woman was stabbed in
SPOT where her costume left her I'M
protected at the annual ball OF the
artists of New York. which began on
Saturday night along about the time
BroAdway theatrical productions were
turning their all star casts out into the
cold, and was still zooming along as the
dawn made tho rest OF Manhattan all lit
up with no signs OF stopping even long
enough to take IN the morning milk
bottle.
Il must be said right ut the start that
the stabbing was the politest that has
BERN seen hereabcuts in many years, ana
that the young person. all tricked out
fntSniles, who was the victim took II IN
the best of good humor. passing II all OH
lust as nothing. Outside OF this, there
were no other casualties reported up 10
an early hour yesterday morning in the
Hotel des Artistes. where the arus's
dccided to hold the second grand annual
racket and blowout of the Chu Chm
Chow Association.
This absence of any other untowaro
incident is all the more remarkable IN
yiew of the fact that a good proportion
on the jewellers were logged out IN the
early morning dress OF Russian gypsies
al part of the Russian gypsy pageant
forming the leading feature OF the eve
Notwithstanding, and tnat NINE
Lubovska performed a gypsy dance ina
would have gypped even ~hlskeTeu
Bolshevik. And every one who mas aoIie
any posing az gypsies knows full well
how ready they are to grow careless with
thu cutlery, after they've been shaking
the shirnmy all night and the spotlight
has been getting into their blood.
Accident Precedes Tragedy.
As IT was the stabbing ARRAY that did
occur would never have been brought
about but for an unfortunate accident
tol the Rajah of Observation-Disclosures
siHery, shimmering attire. more re-
spiendent than a hotel doorrans. ana
his diamond incrusted turban gave
every reason to believe he was the
RaJah Of Poohwallawalla- The Rajah.
Il unjust be- stated. was undone by his
exSrttons while shaking the shimn1y.
He became undone in a very unpor-
tapt section OF his attire. just about
where the regal suspenders left OF First
aid was hastily administered with a
safety pin. and the Rajah went on dane
int amid the gaiIy bedight wtghts while
the damsel he vas later 70 wound went
on watching the throng at her table.
little dreaming of the nasty slap from
deftiny awaiting her.
Just as the bridge from CONSTANT
rople across the Bosporus is said to be
the place wherel Il YOU meet every one
yual know II you only walt long enough.
the young woman's table near the dane
fng lane on the ballroom floor was
psesed during tho night by virtually
every famous character in history that
ever happened. She could count Marc
Antony In at least three different in
carnations wearing a different copper
vest in each one. -....
Ind Of course Cleopatra, the other half
ofsthe vampire act, was there, looking
sos exquisite, in rlmy draperies wnicn
cling about her just as fog clings
Rbbut London. that one wondered why
Antony waited 50 long before resignlng
as, district leader IN Rome. Mary Pick
ford was there TOO N all her htty-seven
varieties.
One of the imposing gentlemen whom,
tha young woman at the table saw was
Charles I. OF England. rufied. bew!gged
with Marcel waves TO his shoulders.
booted as though on a duck hunt and
girt with an orange sash that gave him
ak the majesty of a grand marshal in an
opposition St Patricks Day parade.
Naturally, as II was Chu Chin chow
affair many OF the multitude had come
in 1.-THE habil!mentS OF the ancestors OF
many OF our most prominent laundrymen
They wore pigtails and string bean mus
taches and pagoda hats and dowery
robes designed by some opium eater
apparently.
The gaze of the young Innocent at the
fa nj
ancient Muscovy, such as Chu Chin
Chow and his band caught IN many a
Jolly ambuscade. who per5pired in
sumptuous brown furs and bell like hats
that made even the waters show signs
of human interest