The New York herald., 1921-02-19
Plea Fails to Control Ladies'.

/ Lee Morrison, a theatrical man, who
was helping the judges. fought his way
/ TO side door and, mounting a chair,
roared:
Ladies, ladies, for Gods sake stand
back and be ladies !"
a middle aged woman pulled him off
the chair
II want my daughter" she de-
manded. i've lost my daughter. She's
the most beautiful girl in America"
Lady" moaned Morrison. I'D give
year Of my life if your daughter and
1000 other daughters were out of here"
And then some one opened the door
to the solarium again.
This time the man who did the open
/ ing was wise. He opened and fled A
hundred women were at his heels. They
came catapulting through the opening
| like kids shooting out of the trick pier
tubes at Coney Island to land upon the
sand. Only these women landed on no
sand. They landed among the fir trees
the rubber plants. the lockwood bushes
and the rest of the pretty scenery. a
| photographer had set up his camera
| to shoot a picture as they passed
Camera, photographer and all suffered
] the fate of Talbot.
| And then one of the girls collapsed
as she was being forced through the
/ door and the affair threatened to be-
come serious She tainted on the
| Threshold, and so furious was the
| crush behind her that 1t couldn't be
stopped. Talbot, by this time suffici-
emily recovered to reenter the melee,
! took his life between his thumb and
forefinger by plunglng into the mael-
strom and dragging the unconscious
girl out. She had not been trampled.
| Another hundred came through this
| time and still the ballroom was
thronged. The rejected ones were re-
peatng. They'd be ushered out, get
| a free pass to the show, thanked for
! coming and told to take the freight
elevators out They took the passes,
! but not the elevators. They promptly
/ reioined the crowd in the ballroom TO
| have another go at the judges. who by
| this time were begging the hotel people
TO put out the lights and assist them
| in calling it night.
! To add TO the furore in the ballroom
the applicants, successful and rejected,
insisted upon going back to find'property
they had lest in the fracas. Some
sought vanity cases, others muffs. others
hats. others furs, others sleeves, gloves,
sisters. daughters, mothers and Jewelry
Loses s14O, BESIDES Getting tho Air
'CaII the cops, uONlcu N u'lti
woman who was no calmer because she
had been rejected. call lot OF cops
First | am frisked by them DANES IN
there for $40 and then l get the air.
whats the world beating idea?
screamed another TO Towel as he showed
her out "What's the idea? Are you
collecting telephone numbers? Here
you call a bunch Of danes in, take their
names. addresses and telephone numbers
and then we meet the breeze. Serves
me right for falling for a mug game Ike
! this"
Came a majestic female in leopard
skin coat and jet earrings.
"Pm n princess" she announced In
deem contralto, "the last of my Byzan-
tine line. ! wear n belt which has becn
I'm nv family since the fourteenth CEN
tury and / speak six languages.
| 'Rejected," yelled Bernard. we want
walkers not takers"
There was a crash OF glass Mt the
/ flood gate. A girl had thrust her heel
/ through She was lying on the 1loor
! screaming at the top of her lungs.
/ Get tho key. Unlock the DOORS the
/ women in the ballroom Yelled My God'
| she's biting her finger off. Call COP.
/ Get the Sey. Amt there man in the
place."
willie Dooley was sent 10 find Talbot
who had the only key. Talbot was miss
/ ing. For fifteen minutes they hunted
| for him. and the girls foughs like long
/ shoremen meanwhile. Finally Talbot