Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-03

Fourteen hundred gorgeously costum-
ed guests attended the Arts Club Bal
Boheme at the Willard Hotel last night,
the event being one of the most bril-
| liant of the eight Arts Club balls which
have been held.
1t would be difficult to picture a
more beautiful sight than the ball
room itself, which was turned into a
playground, while a brilliant pageant
of the heavenly bodies brought to earth
| for night passed before them. Star
| light and moonlight, blending with the
opalascent tints of the artistic and
conventional decorations on either side
of the ball room, led the vision to the
magic stairway of stars with the moon,
planets and satellites in all their
nightly glory forming background for
King Loony the Thirteenth, on the
moon, and his silver queen to held their
court while they reviewed the gorgeous
pageant of votaries beneath them.
Pageant Is COlorful.
Long time before the hour set for
the arrival of King Looney and his
court, the Floor Committee, attired in
with tall silver hats, had arranged
everything for the comfort of the guests
and the entrance of the pageant. The
boxes were filled with wonderfully cos
TUNED men and women and restless
guests on the ball room floor had begun
to tread a measure when the program
opened.
Heralds stood forth on the magic
stairway Of stars and announced with
Royal Court Guard, which after many
maneuvers made way for the Silver
Queen, Louise Rochon Hoover, and her
ladies in waiting, Hester Walker Beall,
Helen Griffith, Elizabeth Grill and
Minna Niemann. The queenly robes Of
silver caught the reflected lights, and
her ascent to the throne was gracefully
executed. Following closely were the
snow maidens, group well skilled in
the daintiest of dances and clad in snow
white. In this group were Katheryn
Mullawney, Peggy Becker, Jane Dun
scombe, Christine Steuart, Alice Louise
Hunter, Faye Rogers, Maureen .Mulliver,
Anne Vucinovich, Helen Clark and
Katherine Vaughn.
Charles T. Tittmann, as Minister of
Atmosphere, made the announcements
from the starry heights of the throne,
while three lunar magicianS appeared,
Maurice Jarvis, Harold Allen and Arthur
White, and close upon them came the
High Priestess of Flame, Genevieve Hen
bricks, and the veStals of the flame,
Donna Taggart, Bertha Denison, Mar
guerite Wolfe, Ethel Ginberg, Ida Lar
kin and Virginia Cooper.
King Loony Struts.
King Loony, like his Silver Queen,
was a being of particular splendor but
with a comical touch which blended
with the merry spirit of the ball, Harry
Welker strutting the boards as his ma
jesty.
Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, wife of the
president of the National Geographic
Society, was awarded first prize for the
most beautiful and authentic costume
She portrayed a Russian lady, the gown
kakoshnik studded with jewels, with
many ropes of pearls falling at the
front. Mrs. GroSvenor obtained the cos
tune in Harbin Manchuria.
Mr.. A. Robert Hill as a lunar bat
with a green face and green bat wings,
took of the most original honors, and
the prize for the most amusing went to
Mr.. Thomas Hoover, who was Mickey
Mouse"
Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, Mr.. Robert
Downing and Mr.. M. r. Haider.
Get Honorable Mention.
Honorable mention for the most
beautiful costumes, went to Sonora
Dona Maria LuiSa Boysen de Aguilar,
wife of the military attache of the Mex
lean embassy, as a Mexican lady; Miss
Katherine Davis, Venetian lady of the
eighteenth century; pair representing
France in the eighteenth century por-
trayed by Margaret Froyd and Roy G.
Hoffman; Katherine Mulvane in a cos
sack costume, Miss Papiana Gnoocheff,
Russian costume, and honorable men,
ton for the most amusing went to
Harry Angelica, as Hot Dog; Doro-
thy Doniphan and Anne Kondrup, as
an unemployed artist and his model,
and Sylvia Gutman as a balloon girl.