The Washington times., 1922-04-09

Miss Mae Devereaux Enlivs
Club by ChallenSins Pea
monde and Jessie Reed for ,
pionship Bout, and When I
clined, Miss Devereaux I
Them Out, Anyhow
TT is nice to sic In an orches
and watch the leading man
leading lady in a great
theatre. And we love to buy
zines and take them home and
pretty girls on the colored cover
the stories Of the great novelisti
What interesting people the
stars and Foilies ladies and WI
artists who draw these pretty gil
cover must be. What q great
would be to get them all TO.
gether and have them form
social club where they could
feel at ease and say and do and
wear Tor unwesr) and drink
things without any of the re-
straints which might embarrsss
them in public.
II was a great Idea. And the
Fifty-Fifty Club grew into being.
All the great stars of the Bo-
hemisn world Of art, music, cur.
rent literature and the stage
Joined. Was there ever q better
prospect for q merry, interesting
and unique ciubf The Fifty
Fifty, of course, meant that
everybody met on equal terms.
and II you had O bottle Of cham
payne or q broiied lobster you
paid your own check.
But the Fifty-Fifty Club was
too good to last very long. And
the membership was not just
right-somethins that had not
been foreseen. II comprised too
many men and women accus.
toned to changing wives and
husbands with almost as little
conjunction as they put of an
old suit of clothes. Some Of
them had tasted the fruits of
matrimony several times. and
whenever It turned out bitter
the tried again. ..
Under such circumstances the
idea of the club TO unite painter
and writer, artist and stage cs-
lebrity on a Fifty-rifty basis Of
good fellowship did not work out
quite as IL ought to. So the
other day the clubs debts. fur.
niture, goodwill and somewhat
uhUlhkru ENHut&ttoh woo huthou
over to a new owner.
But the club did last long
enough to acquire a reputation
for doing things so unusual that
II had no other competition. il
certainly was an interesting club
while II lasted.
Take, for instance, the night
Bee Palmer met Jack Dempsey,
the heavyweight champion. Jack
breezed into the club with a
retinue Of hangers-on. He spot
ted Bee. They became very well
acquainted that night, and when
the big bruiser first attempted
to display his ability as an actor
Bee assisted him, and a divorce
from her husband followed.
Here, too, Harrison Fisher,
the well-known artist, proved
himself a brave man. Between
Edna Wheaton, the so-called
figure girl" of the Foiiies, and
Edna French, who also possessed
q figure of not little beauty, ar,
intense rivalry existed. Mr..
Fisher was given the Job of de-
Gliding who was the most beau.
tiful. He did so. Right at the
club the young ladies unhesitat.
ingly displayed their beauty,
and those present will never for
get the scene, As for the judg-
ment-Mr. Fisher II stiil trying to
explain to the adherents OF each y,
The coming-out party of Mae ID
Who thought It was about time
her claim to the female pugilis
pionship of the world, took pla,
Fifty-Fifty Club. Jessie Reed,
known Broadway star, and p
monde, whose beauty had graced
ter Garden stage, fell before Mi
eaux's pile-driving left hooks, but
considerable damage bad been
more than one lsdy's face and
apparel.
Such scenes as these spread
of the F1ftv-Ffffy Ctuh throug