Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1931, Page 12

SUGETYT0THRONG BEALX ARTS BAL *Sleepers ope p.m. espers apen 10:00 0. m Be Colorful, but Will ‘The Double-Track Sea-Level Route cost Less Atlantie Coast Line The Standard Railroad of the South Tickets, reservations, informeation from. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, January 23.—Soclety's | big fling of the year, the annual Beaux | Arts ball, will crowd the Hotel Astor to- night with flame-colored pajamas and architects impersonating skyscrapers. | Once a year Park avenue revels pub- |licly in & bal masque similar to Paris’ Bohemifan Quartres Arts ball, and this year the party’s a “fete moderne—a fantasie in flame and silver.” | Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt will | party of 12 will be dressed alike, in red | wigs and modernistic overalls, with one red leg and one black. Expenditures Reduced. Always & lavish party, the ball this year will be less costly than formerly. Thousands of dollars heretofore have been spent on a single dress. This year | the simplicity of the ball, as contrasted | with former period fetes, allows lately | depressed Wall Street families to get |gay for a night in costumes costing ! hundreds of dollars. The main ball room is to be turned |into a great White Way, another will |be a modernistic version of ‘Main | street” and a third, called “the Speak- | easy Galleries,” will contain a collection | of modernistic paintings and sculpture. C ObTiVE= Will Represent Skyscrapers. Start thorough bowel actionandridyour | Beaux Arts architects, who sponsor Syssem of polscopue maste sasosmns o8 | the ball will come as skyscrappers R e o (owstital | they have designed. Whitney Warren NATURE'S REMEDY—N? Tablets—and | )| be dressed like the Grand Central be sure of prompt, easy and pleasant re= | e - b sgults, It is more thorough in action and | terminal, William Van en as ] Retter than ordinary jaxatives. 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OPEN A ACCOUNT CHARGE Pay in convenient weekly or monthly amounts at no extra cost to you. THE EVENING STAR, HUNDREDS WATCH Marine Corps Orders ‘The following changes are announced: Col. Douglas C. McDougal—Detach- ed Nicaraguan National Guard Detach- {ment, to headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C., via first available conveyance after February 1. Pirst Lieut. Robert S. Pendleton— Detached San Diego, Calif,, to Quan- tico, Va. Chief Marine Gunner Eli J. Lloyd— Detached 2d Brigade, Nicaragua, to New York, N. Y, for duty and to| N-vn!l Hospital, New York, for treat- ment. w;Observed Darting Across Sky From Points in Jersey to Vermont. - - = By the Assoclated Press. Alfaro Retains Rebel Cabinet. NEW YORK, January 23.—The at- PANAMA CITY, January 23 () —Dr. | tention of astronomers was called today Ricardo Alfaro, who was Panama’s Min- to a meteor of remarkable size and ister to the United States before he be- brilliance which was observed darting came President, following a revolution- |across the skies last night at various ary movement January, 2, decided Tues- | points from New Jersey to Vermont. day to retain members of the revo-| Hundreds of persons in Elmira, N. lutionary cabinet permanently. | Y., saw what they described as a ball MARIE WASHINGTON, " FLASH OF METEOR D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 23 1931 of fire with two lines of light behind 1t, | type seldom hit the earth but are con- sweep across the heavens from south to | Sumed before they reach it. A T also was seen over New north shortly atter 6 pm. Mary Clegg | york, witnesses describing it as a red Suffa, professor of astronomy at Elmsn)m of fife With & {aBShADeT. volioe College, said the object was a meteor. = |and red tail which resembled an_ air At Syracuse, N. Y., the meteor "‘“‘plane falling in flames. visible for nearly a minute. Observers . i there said its direction was northeast | and that flashes of light shot out from | it as though it were disintegrating. | lGHT COUGHS John E. Morse of South Newfane, Vt., and his wife sald it _appeared to be Positivelystoppedal 'y stopped almost in- 36 stantly with one swallow of 80¢ about the size of a large automobile headlight. It disappeared with an ex- | / ¥ Guaranteed Remedy visible for about 15 seconds. It was bright red, with a tail of dark red and yellow. He estimated the length of the tail as about 20 times the diameter of the body of the meteor. Prof. Caroline Furness of the Astro- nomical Department of Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, said the meteor prob- ably was of the type known as a fire ball, similar to the one observed No- vember 19. She said meteors of that plosion far to the north. Charles Earle, 14. an amateur astron- omer of Atlantic City, N. J. said the meteor appeared to him about half the size of the moon. He said it was @ i ety omein e N y# )7 it convenient and easy toapply. M SRR i L e S (Itching, Blind. Bleeding or Protrud: ing)." Just sak for & Tse tube of PAZO OINTMENT More laughs than “Caught Short” More heart throbs than “Min and Bill” You'll Laugh Yourself Fat! Those screaming “Caught Short” gals are in a new racket now! They make fat women thin—and thin women fat! They’ll make you laugh louder than is normally considered polite! But leave it to Marie Dressler to tug at your heart- strings. It’s really the funniest and most hu- man film of the year! with ANITA PAGE LUCIEN LITTLEFIELD WILLIAM COLLIER, JR. 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