The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-24
Antics Of Society Of Bright Young People
 Assailed By Press

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 Assailed By Press
 LONDON, Aug. 24-The nocturnal "clue-chasing'' stunts of a coterie of the so-called smart young set, calling themselves ''The Society of Bright Yonng People," have formed a strange feature of the London. season, and the recent appearance of a sister of a peer of the realm in the police court on a charge of automobile speeding in connection with their proceedings, the Magistrates remarks on that occasion and finally the fact that the Prince of Wales took part in the last meet of the season few nights ago, have brought the society a great deal of press notoriety, plus a perhaps not l underserved chorus of more or less scathing editorial comment.
 The exploits of the society seem to centre in motoring about the London streets ill the middle of the night in what are dubbed hidden treasure hunts" Prizes for the hunts are sub scribed for at each meet" and the latter have been attended by many
 
 known in society. The hunts have gained such popularity that the sub scription at recent meet meant a prize of about E1Q0.
 All the hunts have been devised to embody the thrills of a detective mys- tery story. For example, on one oc- casion as the clock struck 2 80 a. m. each motoring party opened a. sealed envelope which was found to contain the following information" Irga Sigso: If Aequals 2 then 2 equals A.
 Leads To The Ritz
 The solution meant that by revers- ing the alphabet e becoming A, etc) Irga stood for Ritz. At the we'll known hotel another "clue" was pro vided, and thereafter till dawn, when sandwiches an dchampagne were con- stunned on a Mayfair lawn, many streets were reused by motorists wild ly dashing about One chase led to the following places:
 Buckingham Palace, Charing Cross, Cleopatra's Needle, Mansion House, Stock Exchange, Holburn, Cumber- land Place, Hammersmith and Brent ford, on the outskirts of London. On some occasions the "clue" has taken the bright young people 50 miles out into the country.
 According to the Daily Mail, the last meet, in reality two or three meets was held at 2 a. nl., the main assembly points being Claridge's hotel and St. Georges hospital. The Prince selected the former. It was undoubtedly the most largely attended hunt of the sea son. At the appointed hour a motley Al s-An nF cars and with barking exhausts that echoed through the stiffness of the streets, were on their way to the Ad- elphi Arches. These dark and sinister alleyways, unknown to the majority of the hunters, ill-lit, cobble-paved, formed a check in the pace of the hunt.
 Young women, middle-aged women and men of all ages, in every variety of costume, from the blue serge suit and derby hat of the Prince of Wales to the gossamer evening frocks of the English actress, Miss Gladys Cooper and the American actress, Miss Tallu- lah Bankhead, further varied here and there by those who had started out for journey that might finish up at Gretna Green and were leather-coated and heImeted to be on the safe side, came running and stumbling, all eager for the clue.
 Model Of Dead Baby Used
 The field was soon roaring on it's way hot-foot for the city and news paper office, where another clue had been laid. On again to St. Jame's s Scuare and to darkest Kensington to a news on the site on one of the plague pits where London buried its dead 25O years ago. At 8 80 a. n. smart London came running down On slow News crying, Bring out your dead" and received the model of a dead baby or which to find clue which took them to the Imperial in stitute.
 By this time cars had given place to speedier ones, and slow wits to faster wits, so that the field which had started some 50 cars strong, all closely packed, jostling and manoeu- vering for position, was struggled out, though still travelling we'll. Lovely cultures and beautiful dresses deftly arranged were no longer in that form. Shingled heads scored heavily, for long hair was in many cases stream ing in the breeze.
 Dressmakers should rejoice for the birth of the Bright Young People, for few of the frocks that went on this hunt will ever see the lights of a ballroom again. A crawl on all-fours in the none-too-clean neighborhood of Seven Dials, led by the Prince, pursued by Mrs. Viola Parsons (formerly Viola Tree, daughter of late Sir Beer bohm Tree) in search of an elusive clue chalked on the pavement, had soiled the majority beyond repair.
 At the Stock exchange a "clue' was provided by luminous painting on a dark wall, and some particularly exuberant "bloods" did their best to scale Cleopatra's Needle on the Elm bankment, and desisted only when the police interfered. It is recorded that one motor party went full-tilt into a steam roller, and doctors had to attend to casualties.
 The hunters found their final clue in Norfolk House, St. James (rented for the season by Mrs. Harry Brown