The New York herald., 1922-01-07
ART MODELS BALL
ATTACKED BY FROST
Promise of 200, Plus Only
Eight Beautiful Women,
Spoils the Plans.

Adele Kennedy and her annual Art
Models Ball, having deserted Tammany
Hall. came to the surface in Yorkville
Casino last night and. to quote Gladys
Feeble, the Roll Your Own Girl (stock-
ings and cigarettes), you can't leave
Tammany Hall flat and get away
with it,
1t was a nice derby hat ball that
Adele pulled off, and in no way related
to some of its predecessors. 1t was a
little too far north for any but the har-
diest Of the Greenwich Village crowd
and-well, there was something lacking.
Adele, bit frosty herself. declined to
leave the box office long enough to
analyze it, but Miss Feeble, who started
out by saying that she made bright
young men smoke eranulated breakfast
food and like it, because she posed for
the advertisements, insisted that most
of the girls she talked to before the
ball said that they weren't coming be-
cause they never did find 1t easy to go
to Harlem even back in the days when
YOU could quaff yourself into forget
fulness within an hour or so after ar
riving.
ut isn't that there Is so much missing
about this ball of Adele's." explained
Miss Feeble, but rather that nothing
is quite the same as it used to be- and
every year it's getting to be more so.
The posters Adele paid for to advertise
this ball G was going to say racket.
but this will never be a racket II they
keep it going a week)--the posters said
that two hundred art models plus New
Ycrk's eight most beautiful women would
be here.
"That queered II to begin with. Lower
down, IL you notice. it says that all of
the Greenwich Village Follies Models
would appear Now ] ask you, amt 1t
reasonable to suppose that you're bound
to get in bad II you talk like that? Two
hundred art models can't all be the eight
most beautiful women. and to add to
that, how about the Fo!lies girls? No.
somebody frosted this affair to start off
with, and II looks to me as though there
was no thaw due In this Casino to-
night
Sam Schwartz OF the r. n. T. shop In
Macdougal street, managed to arrive
about midnight and so did Bobbie Amer
lean, who could advertise scrapple and
make it popular in New York; Emil
Perelli. Marie Voorhees,. Bill Randolph,
Marie Elizabeth Stuart Barker Baird.
creator Of the Niszha twins Mahu and
Schluke, Max BodenheIm, who gets all
his physical exercise listening to jazz
music: Morris Strunsisy. the Russian
press agent Helen Strunsky, Steve
Simkovitch, Billie Rush. Lena Tissolli.
who looks more like Audrey Munson
than Audrey does sometimes, and Ta-ta
Nachc, the least known man In the
Mexican consular service.
"And that" said Miss Feeble. who
made a success of the colapsible sock
after Edna Stuyvesant, Marguerite F'itz
Roy and the Sunset Sisters failed. seems
to be all of the village crowd here. The
others are very nice people. ! don't
know one of them. The Stuyvesant.
Fitz Roy and Sunset girls ducked the
dance the minute I announced my de-
cision to come. They're telephone book
models and their names may be Cohen
or Pinsky for all l know, but they're
known by their exchanges.
'"rhe tip off to this ball Is that there
isn't girl here who couldn't go to
church the way she stands. It's getting
SO that well be dancing to pipe organ
music in a year or so. Coming up to
Yorkville did 1t. i give you my word
that when started out tonight to give
the place a tumble ! had to depend
upon two members of the Police Depart
ment to get me here. l never heard of
Yorkville before and how can you ex-
pect those radiator hounds down in
Sheridan square to take chances like
that.
mo. il can't be done. Anybody who
ever belonged in Tammany Hall and
decided to cut loose fell on his or her
face and stayed there