Evening star., 1935-01-27
Bal Boheme Plans
Promise Brilliant
Event This Year
Demand for Boxes May Set
Record for Arts Club
Affair.

With Mrs. Franklin Delano Roose-
welt heading the list of distinguished
patronesses, and with the demand for
boxes greater than ever before in It's
recent history, a brilliant event is
promised in the forthcoming Bal
Boheme of the Arts Club Of Wash
ington, to be attended by the Wash
ington public generally on Monday
night, February 4, at the Willard
Hotel.
Replete with an Oriental atmosphere,
the ball is entitled In the Orient"
and the pageant professional is named
marco Polo Revisits the Orient; the
public is asked to appear in costumes,
largely Oriental, and two of the three
costume awards will be for original
or authentic native Oriental costumes.
The decorations will be dominated by
one of the many armed deitieS OF the
Orient, "a feet high, flanked by two
huge gates of Tibetan design, and
fantastic hanging ornaments decorat-
ing the ceiling. while four tall towers
of Eastern design, color and line Will
mask huge spotlights near the center
of the ball room for use in the process
sional and the floor committee en-
trance and for the floor show generally.
It will indeed be an Oriental ball. and
many diplomats from the Orient are
expected to be present.
Mrs. Fulton Lewis, chairman OF
patronesses and boxes for the Bal
Boheme, announces an additional list
of prominent patronesses for the ball.
including Nine de Espil, Nine. Munir,
Mrs. Harlan FiSke Stone, Nine. Proch-
mix. Mrs. Henry Mormenthau. Mrs.
William E. Borah, Mrs. William Henry
King, Sonora de Gonzales-Fernandez,
Sonora de Gonzales, Nine. Skvirsky,
Nine Sokolowska. Nine. Lombard,
Mrs. Robert Brennon, Nine. Miura,
Nine. Won Numers. Sonora de Valdes-
Rodriguez, Miss Mabel Boardman, Mrs.
Beale R. Howard. Mrs. Archibald
Hopkins, Mrs. Newbold Noyes, Mrs.
William Corcoran Eustis, Mrs. Melvin
c. Hazen, Mrs. John N. Speel, Mrs.
Edward S. BraShearS.
Mr.. Charles Bittinger. president of
the Arts Club. will appear as Kublal
Kahn, and the chairman of the ball,
one of the barons of the court. Mrs.
Charles Bittinger, Mrs. Marie Moore
Forrest and Miss Sibyl Baker will
appear as barons likewise, and Mrs.
Maud Howell Smith will be the Rising
Sun of the East Mr.. Hugo linden, de-
signer of the ball again this season.
will be Marco Polo, in person, with
Comdr. Albert w Stahl and Mr.. Will
liam j. Peters as Niccolo Polo ana
Maffeo Polo, respectively. Comdr.
Lewis P. Clephane will be a Persian
nobleman; DR.. Frederick v. Coville,
a former president of the Arts Club,
will appear with Mrs. Coville as lamas'
and the distinguished portrait painter
Henry Salem Hubbell, will be falcon
bearer.
These and many others will play an
important part in the 1885 Bal bo-
hene to the total number OF approx
inatelv 200 persons in the pageant
professional alone.
The Floor Committee, headed by
Mr.. Fulton Lewis. will be made up OF
three and thirty members. all OF whom
are members of the Arts Club. ana
whose impressive first entrance and
splendid costumes are one OF the
thrilling features of the Bal Boheme.
So great has become the interest IN
the Floor Committee that 1t has De-
come a time -honored custom never 10
announce the character OF costumes
of the famous "33" preceding the oall.
Mrs. Lewis, chairman Of boxes, and
Mrs. w. Ridgeley Chapline, chairman
of tickets, desire to announce that De-
ginning this week the public may OBJ
tain tickets at all leading hotels, the
American Automobile Association. and
the Arts Club, in the Bal Boheme Of
fee. 2O15 I street. where reservations
may also be given for boxes, subject to
the o. K. of Mrs. Lewis. The brilliant
set of posters that have been on eX-
hibition at the club house have been
distributed around the city and in the
shops will be fascinating window
shows, depicting scenes in the pageant
OF the Bal Boheme.
The Committee on Costumes for the
Floor Committee which is headed by
Mrs. Charles Bittinger. comprises
Mrs. George Girty, Mrs Charles STRAIT
ton. Mrs Frank Steele. Mrs. Charles
Piggot, Mrs. Oliver Owen Kuhn. Mrs.
L. M. Leisenring, Mrs. Ralph Rich
ards and other prominent members of
the club. The costumes for the pag-
cant professional are being evolved by
the directors of the pageant, and will
be correct in every detail. both his
torically and histrionically.
The Bal Boheme of 1885 will be
one of the most lureful in the history
of the Arts Club.