The Washington times., 1922-05-30
PAJAMA PARTY
HOST IS ANGRY
WITH MAR|LYN

| WILT NlhnlLIW
CONTINUED from First Pase)
girls who were SO brutally beaten by
men at the famous party In the
apartment OF Miss Geneva Mitchell.
at 246 Commonwealth avenue, that
they had to go to the hospital, were
drugged, according to an eyewitness
story given the Boston American
today.
Knockout Drops.
They were given knockout drops
in orange Juice and then attacked
by the men present. One WAS
dragged to the cellar and beaten
until unconscious. The other attack
was made In the attic Of the apart.
ment. The girls were Misses Marie
Leyon and Eleanor Lazon. chums,
Living at the Hotel Brewster. '.
The details were revealed by
chorus girl who attended the party.
Her charges are backed up by
the following letter, which reached
the Hearst newspapers today:
Describes Attacks.
Here Is some real truth about
the party apd the girls who were
injured in Miss Mitchelrs apart.
ment. Eleanor said the party was
going on when she got there with
Marie. They took one drink. MARI
seldom drinks. They insisted (thosc
present), so to be sociable. she took
one.
The next thing they knew
Eleanor was up in the attic, two
men assaulting her. She fought
until she was all black and blue.
She kicked one Of the men and got
away.
She was about to run out OF
the house, when she heard Marie
screaming in the basement. She
| found a door to the cellar in the
kitchen and went down. She saw
three men beating Marie. one sit.
ting on her chest punching her.
She tried to help her chum and
Then she heard Geneva Mitchell
say: Get those girls out OF here
| They threw them out the back door.
Marie was unconscious. They lay
there some time, when someone
picked them up and took them to the
hotel.
Terrible Beating.
Eleven dollars was taken out OF
Marie's pocket. Their clothes were
later sent to the hotel by someone
in the hospital, where they were vent
from the hotel Some Of the Last
Waltz girls went to see Marie.
"One Of them said that she was
L A,.h l.
unable to quiet her. Her face was
30 beaten up they did not recognize
her when they entered the room
The doctors thought her collar bone
was broken. also a finger. They took
x-rays. She got such a blow be-
hind the ear Il In still swollen Her
face 10 still such = sight she cannot
60 out on the street.
Two OF the men who beat Marie
were professional men. one a doc
tor. the other a dentist. The navy
officers present did not touch the
girls. Only the men in civilian
clothes laid hands on them.
Eleanor went to work the next
day, but tainted. When she came
to she was hysterical. scratching
and fighting and screaming in a
delirium: Let me 60"
Mlbb mllCnel y l.IO(neT Was not
at the party. She went to New
II would be all right to go to a
house party. They didn't know
Mrs. Mitchell was away"
Other details OF the party were
given today by a girl who was
| there.
THE party wasn't staged by Miss
Mitchell. II just happened there.
We started II in a hotel. but we
couldn't raise hell there, so went to
Genevas place"
Miss Mitchell rented the rooms
covering three floors from Benjamin
Kabatznick, Back Bay art dealer.
who has rug showrooms on the first
floor of the Commonwealth avenue
address and an art store at No. 468
Boylston street.
when we got there" the girl con
tinued, some of the girls were
was plenty of drink. Everything
might have gone along all right IL II
hadn't been a mixed party girls
from Sally and girls from the Last
Waltz
"Soon an argument started ~ to
which was the better show. Well.
II was a hot argument, and ended
in a fist fight, the girls stacking
each other and some Of their clothes
| being torn from their bodies.
I'm some manner Miss Levon md
Miss Lazon became separated. Miss
Lazon wandered into the attic. Miss
Levon objected to overtures Of some
Of the boys and was beaten up. Then
they dragged Miss Lazon from the
attic. and when she came back from
the basement she was terrible sight
wild Party.
Somebody suggested that the
girls be thrown out. and they were
dragged to the front door and sent
reeling down the steps.
THE party was terribly wild by
this time. No one cared whet they
did"
The girls managed to get a taxi.
cab to the Hotel Brewster, where
the house physician called an am.
bulance and rushed them to the
Relief Hospital.
/ Miss Levon was transferred to