Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
BAL BOHEME PLANS
| NEAR FINAL STAGE.
RehearsaIs Today Are Last
for Arts Club Event
Tomorrow Evening.

With final rehearSals scheduled fol-
today, arrangements are practically
completed for the colorful Bal Boheme
the society carnival which the Arts
Club will give tomorrow evening at 10
o'clock in the Willard Hotel.
That the forthcoming event will be
one of the most successful ever given
by Washington's art colony is indicated
by the supper reservations, which now
number considerably over 1900.
William Ernest Chapman of New
Zealand, an artist who recently re-
turned from North Africa, where he has
made a speciality of painting Egyptian
scenes, will act as one of the judges
of costumes, as will also Mrs. Chapman.
They will take the places of Mr. and
Mrs. Duncan Phillips of this city, beth
Of whom are unable to serve on the
judges committee because of illness.
Mr.. Chapman is in the city tempo
rarily engaged in making some por-
traits. He and his wife, who is writer,
will appear with Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
PeiXotto of New York in the Carnival
Of the Caliph in Cairo" the big event
of the bal, taking part as the Grand
NlAlCl N1ulbI VI VIC 1dFOl
wives of the Caliph. This pageant
scene is being staged by the Arts Club
players, directed by Maud Howell Smith
and James Otis Porter.
Various Attractions.
L. M Leisenring will have charge of
the door stunt, assisted by Edward E.
Muth, Paul Bleyden, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Smith and other artists of the
club. Six university students will take
part in the opening scene arrayed as
royal runners, including Frank Kemon,
Harry Rider, Donald Imirie, Paul Jones,
E. F. Farley and H. T. Cole. Dancers
in the various advertisements include
the Tchernikoff Gardiner dancers,
Orme Libbey, Helen Stuart Griffith and
Wallace Wright. Singers will include
artists and students in the Paul Bleyden
Studios, assisted by members of the
Arts Club.
The settings will be completed today
and tonight at the final rehearsals at
the willard. Students in various art
schools, including the Abbott School of
Fine and Commercial Art. will help
Lynch Liquors. committee on decora-
tons.
Attention of guests is called to the
fact that this year fancy dress is oblig-
atory upon all attending the Bal. Co.'S
tunes may be rented at the Willard the
night of the ball, or, if desired, paper
costume accessories may be purchased
at the door. thus complying with the
ruling of the ball committee which is
headed by DR.. John Ryan Devreaux.
Henry Jay Staley is chairman of hotel
arrangements and Theodore F. Cannon
is chairman of music. The musicians,
as we'll as all hotel attendants in the
supper room, likewise will be in costume.
Spectacular Pageant.
The entrance of the floor committee
headed by Roy L. Neuhauser, is sci
for 1890 o'clock, half an hour after
the bal opens THE Caliph Comes tt
Cairo" one of the most spectacular Of
the pageants, is scheduled for IL o'clock
Then will come the grand march, fol
the selections of the most beautiful
Egyptian attire, for first prize; the mos
original costume of any kind, for sec.
tune for a third prize. The prizes vii
be announced Immediately following tht
decision of the judges.
The supper period is scheduled from
midnight to 2 am. in the main dining
rooms on the street floor of the hotel
The Bal Boheme will close at am.
Only three or four boxes remain
available, from which may be obtained
an exclusive view of the frolicking in
the Streets of Cairo" Bal ticket:
are on sale at the Arts Club, 20l7 Eye
street.