The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-02-25
$500 WOMEN RIOT
TO GET MODEL JOBS
Hats, Hair, Fur Fly-Even the Fire
Escape Is Filled With Willing
Wearers of Gowns or Bath
ing Suits
New York Herald

fashion show at the Pennsylvania
Hotel in the near future, advertised
a day or so ago their desire for a
few ladylike models who could wear
anything from gowns to bathing
suits in a manner warranted to sell.
The selection took place last night.
In addition to an assortment OF
models they accumulated the know
ledge that a lady can remain lady
up to a certain point, when she be-
comes battalion of Cossacks.
The stage was set on the roof of
the hotel. The selecting was to be
done in the solarium and the ladies,
as they arrived, were to be parked
in the big ballroom. The solariun is
connected with the ballroom by a
wide runway down the centre of
which palms and rubber plants, box.
wood bushes and nice trim fir trees
had been placed to lend additional
elan to the scene. The judges-Al-
bert Towel, Stella X. Talbot and
Willie Dooley-sat around table in
the centre of the solarium. The re-
porters and photographers were
given a nice mahogany table and red
white and blue pencils near by. The
advertisements besought the appli-
cants to present : themselves at z
o'clock.
At least $500 women appeared.
To dispense with an attempt to de-
scribe them it shall be said that no
manner, shape, size nor age of fe-
male. was unrepresented. Nor was
the inundation limited to one race.
Several huge negro women appeared
announcing that they had come to
get Jobs as maids to the ladies. The
advertisements had it that those
models chosen would be paid SIS a
promenade and that they'd have
three promenades a day.
Painting Begins Quite Early
At z o'clock the ball room was so
jammed that the fainting began. At
7:15 o'clock the corridors leading to
the ballroom were choked with fe-
males. Downstairs the hotel manage
ment had roped off passage way to
the freight elevators and as the wo-
men appeared they were herded by
strong bell hops into the wide,
screen lists. Every freight elevator
arriving at the roof until 8 o'clock
was loaded to capacity. Finally,
there being no more room on the
roof, the management called a halt
and refused to elevate any more.
1t was just about 8 o'clock that
Talbot, with look of apprehension
darkening his erstwhile confident
face, told everybody in the solarium
to get set, inasmuch as he was about
to open the narrow doors through
which the applicants We're to enter
the judgment place. He advanced to
the doors (they were glass panelled
and padlocked on the solarum side)
and unfastened them.
If one could picture the chance
one human being would have were
he to stand in front of the sixty inch
outlet pipe at the Kensico reservoir
at the moment it was opened as
wide as possible he can visualize the
fate of Talbot. He simpl y disap-
peared. No fewer than hundred
wild Amazons used him for rug.
They came through that one door as
though shot out of guns. They came
hurtling through with all the force
$500 strong women could put be-
hind them.
Some lost sleeves, others coats.
None got through intact. Some came
into that approach to the judges
table with the remains of the chic
hats grotesquely dangling from the
sides of their heads. At least a
dozen came through without their
pumps and several came with their
skirts gone.
Furs, vanity cases, pocketbooks,
wrist bags, necklaces, lavalliers and
sashes had no chance at all, and as
for false hair-it would be quite as
easy to pass safely along Eleventh
avenue with quart of whiskey in
each. hand at midnight as it was for
a woman to arrive in the solarium
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