The New York herald., 1922-02-12
Franco-American Ball Nets
125, 900 Francs for the Poor
Reception in Palace of the Louvre, One of Most
Notable Social Events Held in Paris in Years. Opened
by Marshal Foch and Ambassador Herrick.

w llllain II. lsoSS, lfS. WltlldHl II,
Flanagan. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Perkins
and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Heidelbach.
Also Prince and Princesse Michel
Murat. Marquis and Marqulse de Char
ette. Mr.. Edward Montgomery, Mr.. L..
V. Twyeffort, Mr.. John r. Christie. vi
comtesse Benoist d'Azy. Duchesse de
Camastra, Comte and Comtesse Etienne
de Beaumont. Due and Duchesse de
Doudeauvillc. Nine. Philippe Berthelot
Nine. Boas de Jouvenel Comtesse de
Merlemont, Nine. Pecci Blunt. Marquise
d'Audigne. Comtesse Bertrand d'Ara-
mon Mrs. Ives Douglas. Mrs. Hubert
Adams, Miss Mnette Adams. Comte and
CCmtesse Cardelli, Mr.. Howard Wilcox.
Mr.. Clair Irish. Comtesse Helion de
Beaumont. Comtesse du Bourg de Bozas.
Duchesse de Bisaccia, Princesse Jacques
de Broglie, Vicomtesse de Bonneval.
Baronne de Beauverger, Comtesse Ad-
heaume de Chevigne. M. and Nine.
Loucher, Comtesse d'1aussonville. Mar
quise de Jaucourt, Princess de La Tour
d'Augergne and Comtesse Gabriel de la
Roche toucauld.
Also Princesse Lucien Murat, Duchesse
de Mouchy. Due and Duchessc de Mont
morency, Mr.. Walter Berry. Mr.. James
Hazen Hyde, Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Conner, Mr.. Herbert Rowland. Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Harper, Mr.. William J.
Thomas. DR.. Paul Van Dyke. Baron
and Baronne Robert dc Rothschild.
Baronne Andre de Neuflize. Princesse
Edmond de Polignac. Lady Patricia
Ramsay. Baronne Maurice de Roth
schild, Comtesse Peretti de la Roca.
Comtessc Jean de Pange. Comtesse de
Rohon -Chabot Princesse Ruspoli Pog-
gio Suasa, Comtesse de Saint-Sauveur,
Vicomtesse de Salignac- Fenelon, Du-
chesse de la te-Houdancourt. Lady
Townshend, Comtesse de Villefranche,
Marquise de Vista Bella, Comtesse de
Miel-Castel, Comte Marc de Beaumont,
Comtesse dc Jumilhac.
Draped Evening Gowns Popular.
The ball emphasized the prediction
that has already been made in regard
to draped evening gowns being the pop
ular mode of the day. There were any
number of hammered silver or gold
cloth dresses draped on very long lines
with one side Of the skirt touching the
floor and the other caught UP with an
ornament on one hip. Mrs. Tryphosa
Bates-Batcheller, who has recently ar
rived in Paris from Italy to give a
charity concert here, wore a gown of
this description. 1t was gold cloth with
a mauve tint and was caught up on one
hip with a huge bunch Of mauve ostrich
feathers and the bodice was an extern
sion Of the draped skirt held in place
by diamond shoulder strars. There
were dozens of silver lace dresses worn
over bright colored slips.
Next in popularity were the bright
colored velvet dresses, and a bright
red and fuchsi seemed the favored col
ors. Nine. Paul Dupuy. one Of the or
ganizers of the ball. wore a deep rose
velvet gown embroidered in pearls and
diamonds. A type of dress that was
frequently noted was velvet with a per-
fectly plain and fiat bodice with the
boat shaped neck and the skirt plain
and straight with loose panels hanging
longer on the sides, or else the whole
back of the skirt left detached at the
side seams, forming floating back
panel which was much longer than the
skirt proper. A gown of this sort was
smart in royal blue velvet. There was
no ornamentation whatever on 1t, and
the only jewels worn were several long
strings of superb pearls. There was
another gown on this order that was
exceedingly smart in the brightest green
velvet, and there was not even a string
of pearls to give some suggestion OF
ornamentation. The only jewels worn
with 1t were long earrings in emerald
drops, which reminds me to say that
huge earrings OF the most curious
shapes were a marked feature in the
matter of dress at the ball. Tassel
earrings which almost touched the
shoulders were frequently noticed. A
pair of tassels in old gold were smart
and tassels made of strings OF tiny
pearls with black enamel mountingx
were popular. Then there were jet, gold
or pearl and diamond hoops and half
moons. and glass balls attached to black
chains, long jade spkes--in fact ears
that did not have something hanging
to them, even though IL might be moth
ing more than a common, ordinary but
ton, were Immediately noted as being
much too demode for so smart ball.
The very colorful dresses added much
to the brilliant aspect Of the scene, and
black, which has had a prolonged
struggle in being definitely conquered,
seemed to be entirely out of place unless
II was loaded down with Jet or some
very sparkling ornamentation. or com
bined with some very vivid color. There
were more than a thousand women at
the ball. and IL was interesting to note
that there were not more than a half
dozen all black dresses to be seen.
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